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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 206 395
Rank change year-on-year -168 +189 -51
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 185 459 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 1.20% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 3.97% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 414 239
10th Percentile £431 £550 £450
25th Percentile £600 £644 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -2.80%
75th Percentile £825 £875 £788
90th Percentile £838 £888 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £525

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 11,494 11,554 16,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.41% 30.29% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,018 7,112 11,171
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -1.32% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £813 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 480 450
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.41 £16.66
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +12.36% +67.92%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £46.96
% change year-on-year -47.69% +22.14% +115.59%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds 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 September 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 September 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 -155 180 £750 -6.25% 265
London -112 179 £750 -6.25% 183
Work from Home -83 115 £750 -6.25% 46
UK excluding London - 1 - - 161
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
North of England - 1 - - 13

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 47 (25.41%) Apache
1 47 (25.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (16.76%) Aladdin
2 19 (10.27%) thinkFolio
3 4 (2.16%) Fidessa
4 3 (1.62%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.54%) Eikon
5 1 (0.54%) Eze OMS
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 104 (56.22%) AWS
2 48 (25.95%) Snowflake
3 47 (25.41%) dbt
4 33 (17.84%) Azure
5 20 (10.81%) GCP
6 6 (3.24%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.16%) GitHub
7 4 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.62%) Serverless
9 2 (1.08%) SAP Fieldglass
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.54%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.54%) OCI
10 1 (0.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.62%) WAN
1 3 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.08%) BGP
2 2 (1.08%) DHCP
2 2 (1.08%) DNS
2 2 (1.08%) HTTP
2 2 (1.08%) Network Security
2 2 (1.08%) SSL
2 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.08%) VPN
3 1 (0.54%) NAS
3 1 (0.54%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.54%) SAN
3 1 (0.54%) VLAN
3 1 (0.54%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (25.95%) Amazon Athena
2 47 (25.41%) Apache Arrow
2 47 (25.41%) Apache Iceberg
2 47 (25.41%) Apache Ignite
2 47 (25.41%) Data Lake
2 47 (25.41%) Dremio
3 13 (7.03%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.70%) Power BI
5 4 (2.16%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.16%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.62%) Tableau
7 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.54%) Big Data
8 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.54%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 24 (12.97%) Git
2 4 (2.16%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.62%) JIRA
3 3 (1.62%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.54%) GitLab
General
1 165 (89.19%) Finance
2 100 (54.05%) Front Office
3 75 (40.54%) Banking
4 70 (37.84%) Investment Banking
5 40 (21.62%) Social Skills
6 17 (9.19%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.16%) Back Office
9 3 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Law
11 1 (0.54%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.54%) Legal
11 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (35.68%) Software Engineer
2 63 (34.05%) Python Engineer
3 60 (32.43%) AWS Engineer
4 57 (30.81%) Developer
5 55 (29.73%) Senior
6 48 (25.95%) Python Software Engineer
6 48 (25.95%) Senior Software Engineer
7 47 (25.41%) AWS Software Engineer
7 47 (25.41%) Java Engineer
7 47 (25.41%) Java Software Engineer
7 47 (25.41%) Senior Java Engineer
7 47 (25.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 34 (18.38%) Analyst
9 30 (16.22%) Business Analyst
10 27 (14.59%) Business Manager
11 25 (13.51%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
12 24 (12.97%) Python Developer
13 19 (10.27%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (8.65%) AWS Developer
14 16 (8.65%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (35.14%) NumPy
1 65 (35.14%) Pandas
2 63 (34.05%) SciPy
3 48 (25.95%) gRPC
4 47 (25.41%) Protocol Buffers
5 34 (18.38%) React
6 32 (17.30%) AngularJS
7 30 (16.22%) Vue
8 17 (9.19%) .NET
8 17 (9.19%) Polars
9 16 (8.65%) FastAPI
9 16 (8.65%) Flask
10 14 (7.57%) Redux
11 8 (4.32%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.78%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (3.24%) .NET Framework
13 6 (3.24%) ASP.NET
14 4 (2.16%) Kafka
14 4 (2.16%) REST
14 4 (2.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 95 (51.35%) Fixed Income
2 86 (46.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 75 (40.54%) Derivative
4 64 (34.59%) Equities
5 47 (25.41%) Pricing Data
6 20 (10.81%) Onboarding
7 8 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.70%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.70%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.16%) Data Fabric
9 4 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.62%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.62%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.54%) iPad
12 1 (0.54%) iPhone
12 1 (0.54%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.68%) Linux
2 9 (4.86%) Windows
3 5 (2.70%) CentOS
3 5 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.70%) Unix
4 4 (2.16%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.08%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.08%) Solaris
5 2 (1.08%) VMS
6 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (55.14%) Agile
2 95 (51.35%) Asset Management
3 93 (50.27%) Investment Management
4 90 (48.65%) Software Engineering
5 34 (18.38%) Analytics
6 32 (17.30%) CI/CD
7 31 (16.76%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (16.22%) Business Analysis
9 29 (15.68%) Portfolio Management
10 22 (11.89%) Fintech
11 20 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (10.81%) Mathematics
12 19 (10.27%) Clean Code
13 18 (9.73%) Data Mapping
14 17 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (8.65%) Data Engineering
15 16 (8.65%) Structured Programming
15 16 (8.65%) Systematic Trading
16 14 (7.57%) TDD
17 13 (7.03%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 147 (79.46%) Python
2 79 (42.70%) JavaScript
3 71 (38.38%) Java
4 61 (32.97%) TypeScript
5 41 (22.16%) SQL
6 36 (19.46%) C#
7 21 (11.35%) C++
8 16 (8.65%) Rust
9 6 (3.24%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.70%) Bash
11 4 (2.16%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.62%) C
12 3 (1.62%) Perl
13 1 (0.54%) Go
13 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (7.03%) Degree
2 11 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.86%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.62%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.08%) RHCE
5 2 (1.08%) RHCSA
6 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.24%) MiFID
2 5 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.16%) GDPR
4 2 (1.08%) AIFMD
4 2 (1.08%) Solvency II
4 2 (1.08%) UCITS
5 1 (0.54%) EMIR
5 1 (0.54%) GRC
5 1 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (11.35%) Docker
2 8 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.62%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (1.08%) KVM
Systems Management
1 21 (11.35%) Ansible
2 20 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.70%) SCCM
4 3 (1.62%) Terraform
5 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.08%) Puppet
5 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 25 (13.51%) BISAM
2 16 (8.65%) Arista
2 16 (8.65%) Calypso
2 16 (8.65%) Charles River
2 16 (8.65%) SimCorp
3 9 (4.86%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.86%) Oracle
4 8 (4.32%) VMware
5 7 (3.78%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.24%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.16%) Cisco
7 4 (2.16%) Citrix
8 3 (1.62%) FactSet
8 3 (1.62%) Portware
9 2 (1.08%) DevExpress
9 2 (1.08%) Meraki
9 2 (1.08%) Reuters
9 2 (1.08%) SAP
10 1 (0.54%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.54%) Eze Software Group