Hedge funds Contract Job Trends

Hedge fund
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 267 393
Rank change year-on-year -155 +126 -46
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 165 326 248
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.89% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 2.89% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 280 213
10th Percentile £419 £550 £450
25th Percentile £556 £638 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -
75th Percentile £825 £875 £788
90th Percentile £838 £888 £938
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Generic Skills
UK

Hedge funds falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,501 11,296 15,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 30.75% 32.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,714 6,683 10,126
10th Percentile £278 £275 £280
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £672
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -4.71% -0.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 680 349 498
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.82 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.22 £22.22 £21.05
Median hourly rate £27.00 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% -10.11% +64.94%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £41.88 £46.18
% change year-on-year -37.91% -9.32% +100.78%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hedge funds relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in the UK

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hedge funds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hedge funds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hedge funds within the UK over the 6 months to 7 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -144 160 £750 -6.25% 568
London -101 159 £750 -6.25% 444
Work from Home -69 81 £750 -6.25% 96
UK excluding London - 1 - - 320
North of England - 1 - - 20
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

Hedge funds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 38 (23.03%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (21.82%) Apache
3 6 (3.64%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.21%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (6.67%) Aladdin
2 6 (3.64%) thinkFolio
3 4 (2.42%) Fidessa
4 3 (1.82%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.61%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.61%) Eikon
5 1 (0.61%) Eze OMS
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 94 (56.97%) AWS
2 38 (23.03%) Snowflake
3 36 (21.82%) dbt
4 28 (16.97%) Azure
5 14 (8.48%) GCP
6 7 (4.24%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.42%) GitHub
7 4 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.82%) Serverless
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.21%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) DHCP
1 3 (1.82%) DNS
1 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.82%) VPN
1 3 (1.82%) WebEx
2 1 (0.61%) NAS
2 1 (0.61%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.61%) Network Security
2 1 (0.61%) SAN
2 1 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (22.42%) Amazon Athena
2 36 (21.82%) Apache Arrow
2 36 (21.82%) Apache Iceberg
2 36 (21.82%) Apache Ignite
2 36 (21.82%) Data Lake
2 36 (21.82%) Dremio
3 14 (8.48%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.24%) Power BI
5 4 (2.42%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.42%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.21%) Big Data
7 2 (1.21%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.21%) Tableau
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.61%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 24 (14.55%) Git
2 4 (2.42%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.82%) GitLab
3 3 (1.82%) JIRA
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
General
1 146 (88.48%) Finance
2 81 (49.09%) Banking
3 71 (43.03%) Front Office
4 70 (42.42%) Investment Banking
5 47 (28.48%) Social Skills
6 26 (15.76%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.82%) Advertising
8 3 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Back Office
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Law
9 1 (0.61%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (36.36%) Python Engineer
2 57 (34.55%) AWS Engineer
3 51 (30.91%) Developer
4 44 (26.67%) Senior
5 43 (26.06%) Software Engineer
6 37 (22.42%) Python Software Engineer
7 36 (21.82%) AWS Software Engineer
7 36 (21.82%) Java Engineer
7 36 (21.82%) Java Software Engineer
7 36 (21.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 35 (21.21%) Senior Java Engineer
8 35 (21.21%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 27 (16.36%) Python Developer
10 18 (10.91%) Automation Engineer
10 18 (10.91%) AWS Developer
10 18 (10.91%) IP Network Engineer
10 18 (10.91%) JavaScript Developer
10 18 (10.91%) Network Engineer
10 18 (10.91%) Switch Engineer
11 13 (7.88%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (37.58%) NumPy
1 62 (37.58%) Pandas
2 56 (33.94%) SciPy
3 36 (21.82%) gRPC
3 36 (21.82%) Protocol Buffers
4 28 (16.97%) React
5 27 (16.36%) AngularJS
6 24 (14.55%) Vue
7 18 (10.91%) FastAPI
7 18 (10.91%) Flask
7 18 (10.91%) Polars
8 16 (9.70%) .NET
9 12 (7.27%) REST
10 7 (4.24%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (3.64%) .NET Framework
11 6 (3.64%) ASP.NET
11 6 (3.64%) COM
11 6 (3.64%) Redux
12 5 (3.03%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 79 (47.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 58 (35.15%) Fixed Income
3 55 (33.33%) Equities
4 49 (29.70%) Derivative
5 36 (21.82%) Pricing Data
6 8 (4.85%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.85%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.42%) Data Fabric
8 4 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.42%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.61%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.61%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.61%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.58%) Linux
2 12 (7.27%) Windows
3 7 (4.24%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.64%) CentOS
4 6 (3.64%) Unix
5 5 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.82%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.21%) Solaris
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (44.24%) Software Engineering
2 60 (36.36%) Agile
3 56 (33.94%) Asset Management
4 50 (30.30%) Investment Management
5 32 (19.39%) CI/CD
6 29 (17.58%) Mathematics
7 26 (15.76%) Analytics
8 22 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (12.73%) Clean Code
10 20 (12.12%) Data Engineering
11 19 (11.52%) Systematic Trading
12 18 (10.91%) Structured Programming
13 14 (8.48%) Computer Science
14 13 (7.88%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (7.88%) Risk Management
15 12 (7.27%) Business Analysis
16 10 (6.06%) Design Patterns
16 10 (6.06%) DevOps
16 10 (6.06%) Fintech
16 10 (6.06%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 117 (70.91%) Python
2 63 (38.18%) JavaScript
3 60 (36.36%) Java
4 42 (25.45%) TypeScript
5 38 (23.03%) C#
6 32 (19.39%) SQL
7 20 (12.12%) C++
8 18 (10.91%) Rust
9 9 (5.45%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.64%) VBA
11 5 (3.03%) Bash
12 4 (2.42%) C
12 4 (2.42%) Perl
12 4 (2.42%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.61%) Go
13 1 (0.61%) Groovy
13 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (9.09%) Degree
2 10 (6.06%) Master's Degree
3 7 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.03%) PhD
5 3 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.21%) RHCE
6 2 (1.21%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.24%) Data Quality
1 7 (4.24%) MiFID
2 4 (2.42%) GDPR
3 3 (1.82%) EMIR
3 3 (1.82%) GRC
4 2 (1.21%) AIFMD
4 2 (1.21%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.21%) Solvency II
4 2 (1.21%) UCITS
5 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (15.15%) Docker
2 8 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.42%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.82%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.21%) KVM
6 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (13.33%) Ansible
1 22 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.85%) SCCM
3 3 (1.82%) Terraform
4 2 (1.21%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.21%) Puppet
4 2 (1.21%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.61%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 18 (10.91%) Arista
2 10 (6.06%) Oracle
2 10 (6.06%) VMware
3 9 (5.45%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.85%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.64%) Bloomberg
6 5 (3.03%) BISAM
7 4 (2.42%) Citrix
8 3 (1.82%) Calypso
8 3 (1.82%) Charles River
8 3 (1.82%) FactSet
8 3 (1.82%) Portware
8 3 (1.82%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.21%) Dataiku
9 2 (1.21%) DevExpress
9 2 (1.21%) Reuters
10 1 (0.61%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.61%) Concur
10 1 (0.61%) Eze Software Group
10 1 (0.61%) Vertica