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 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 232 393
Rank change year-on-year -163 +161 -48
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 169 400 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.06% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 3.47% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 348 224
10th Percentile £429 £550 £450
25th Percentile £600 £638 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% +1.89%
75th Percentile £825 £875 £788
90th Percentile £838 £888 £938
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £513
% change year-on-year - - -2.38%

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 11,959 11,527 15,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.02% 30.61% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,355 6,875 10,474
10th Percentile £293 £280 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 627 402 467
10th Percentile £14.33 £16.30 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.33 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £51.25 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £52.50 £51.24
% change year-on-year -49.52% +2.46% +127.72%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -151 164 £750 -6.25% 93
London -112 163 £750 -6.25% 69
Work from Home -74 95 £750 -6.25% 36
UK excluding London - 1 - - 48
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 8

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 42 (24.85%) Apache
1 42 (24.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (11.83%) Aladdin
2 12 (7.10%) thinkFolio
3 4 (2.37%) Fidessa
4 3 (1.78%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.59%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.59%) Eikon
5 1 (0.59%) Eze OMS
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 99 (58.58%) AWS
2 44 (26.04%) Snowflake
3 42 (24.85%) dbt
4 30 (17.75%) Azure
5 18 (10.65%) GCP
6 5 (2.96%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.37%) GitHub
7 4 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.78%) Serverless
9 2 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.18%) SAP Fieldglass
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.59%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) DHCP
1 3 (1.78%) DNS
1 3 (1.78%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.78%) VPN
1 3 (1.78%) WebEx
2 2 (1.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.59%) BGP
3 1 (0.59%) HTTP
3 1 (0.59%) NAS
3 1 (0.59%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.59%) SAN
3 1 (0.59%) SSL
3 1 (0.59%) VLAN
3 1 (0.59%) WAN
3 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (25.44%) Amazon Athena
2 42 (24.85%) Apache Arrow
2 42 (24.85%) Apache Iceberg
2 42 (24.85%) Apache Ignite
2 42 (24.85%) Data Lake
2 42 (24.85%) Dremio
3 14 (8.28%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.96%) Power BI
5 4 (2.37%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.37%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.18%) Big Data
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.18%) Tableau
8 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.59%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 22 (13.02%) Git
2 4 (2.37%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.78%) JIRA
4 1 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
General
1 154 (91.12%) Finance
2 81 (47.93%) Front Office
3 77 (45.56%) Banking
4 71 (42.01%) Investment Banking
5 44 (26.04%) Social Skills
6 23 (13.61%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.78%) Advertising
8 3 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Back Office
9 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.59%) Law
9 1 (0.59%) Legal
9 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (36.69%) Python Engineer
2 59 (34.91%) AWS Engineer
3 53 (31.36%) Software Engineer
4 50 (29.59%) Senior
5 49 (28.99%) Developer
6 43 (25.44%) Python Software Engineer
7 42 (24.85%) AWS Software Engineer
7 42 (24.85%) Java Engineer
7 42 (24.85%) Java Software Engineer
7 42 (24.85%) Senior Software Engineer
8 41 (24.26%) Senior Java Engineer
8 41 (24.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 21 (12.43%) Analyst
9 21 (12.43%) Python Developer
10 18 (10.65%) AWS Developer
10 18 (10.65%) Business Analyst
10 18 (10.65%) JavaScript Developer
10 18 (10.65%) Network Engineer
11 17 (10.06%) IP Network Engineer
11 17 (10.06%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (36.09%) NumPy
1 61 (36.09%) Pandas
2 60 (35.50%) SciPy
3 42 (24.85%) gRPC
3 42 (24.85%) Protocol Buffers
4 32 (18.93%) React
5 31 (18.34%) AngularJS
6 28 (16.57%) Vue
7 18 (10.65%) FastAPI
7 18 (10.65%) Flask
7 18 (10.65%) Polars
8 16 (9.47%) .NET
9 10 (5.92%) Redux
10 7 (4.14%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.14%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (3.55%) .NET Framework
11 6 (3.55%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.96%) Kafka
12 5 (2.96%) REST
13 4 (2.37%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 80 (47.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 74 (43.79%) Fixed Income
3 60 (35.50%) Derivative
4 56 (33.14%) Equities
5 42 (24.85%) Pricing Data
6 14 (8.28%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.37%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.78%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.59%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.59%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.59%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.98%) Linux
2 11 (6.51%) Windows
3 7 (4.14%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.55%) CentOS
4 6 (3.55%) Unix
5 5 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.78%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.18%) Solaris
7 2 (1.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (47.34%) Agile
2 79 (46.75%) Software Engineering
3 75 (44.38%) Asset Management
4 69 (40.83%) Investment Management
5 29 (17.16%) CI/CD
6 26 (15.38%) Analytics
7 23 (13.61%) Mathematics
8 21 (12.43%) Clean Code
9 20 (11.83%) Business Analysis
9 20 (11.83%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (11.83%) Data Engineering
10 18 (10.65%) Portfolio Management
10 18 (10.65%) Structured Programming
10 18 (10.65%) Systematic Trading
11 15 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (8.28%) Fintech
12 14 (8.28%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (6.51%) AOP
13 11 (6.51%) Data Mapping
14 10 (5.92%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 124 (73.37%) Python
2 73 (43.20%) JavaScript
3 65 (38.46%) Java
4 52 (30.77%) TypeScript
5 38 (22.49%) C#
6 35 (20.71%) SQL
7 20 (11.83%) C++
8 18 (10.65%) Rust
9 8 (4.73%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.96%) Bash
11 4 (2.37%) C
11 4 (2.37%) Perl
11 4 (2.37%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.59%) Go
12 1 (0.59%) Groovy
12 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (5.92%) Degree
2 7 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.55%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.78%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.18%) RHCE
5 2 (1.18%) RHCSA
6 1 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.96%) MiFID
3 4 (2.37%) GDPR
4 3 (1.78%) EMIR
5 2 (1.18%) AIFMD
5 2 (1.18%) Dodd-Frank
5 2 (1.18%) GRC
5 2 (1.18%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.18%) UCITS
6 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.59%) PMO
6 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (13.02%) Docker
2 8 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.37%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.78%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (13.02%) Ansible
1 22 (13.02%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.73%) SCCM
3 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.18%) Puppet
3 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (10.65%) Arista
2 14 (8.28%) BISAM
3 12 (7.10%) Oracle
4 10 (5.92%) VMware
5 9 (5.33%) Calypso
5 9 (5.33%) Charles River
5 9 (5.33%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.33%) SimCorp
6 8 (4.73%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.55%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.37%) Citrix
9 3 (1.78%) FactSet
9 3 (1.78%) Portware
10 2 (1.18%) Cisco
10 2 (1.18%) DevExpress
10 2 (1.18%) Reuters
10 2 (1.18%) SAP
11 1 (0.59%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.59%) Tradeweb
11 1 (0.59%) Trayport