Hedge funds Contracts with Work from Home Options

Hedge fund
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 381 380
Rank change year-on-year +237 -1 -14
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 210 86 252
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.39% 0.34% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.86% 1.07% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 81 148
10th Percentile £588 £438 £434
25th Percentile £675 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £888 £810 £688
90th Percentile - £825 £813
UK median daily rate £725 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +26.09% -8.00% +4.17%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Hedge funds is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,323 8,043 13,993
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.54% 31.45% 31.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,947 5,652 9,983
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £644
90th Percentile £800 £794 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 153 224
10th Percentile £15.44 £19.00 £12.37
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.56
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +23.60% +29.93%
75th Percentile £65.03 £70.00 £57.81
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.18
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%

Hedge funds
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hedge funds trend for jobs with a WFH option

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Hedge funds.

Hedge funds daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hedge funds daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 80 (38.10%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (30.48%) Apache
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.48%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 116 (55.24%) AWS
2 79 (37.62%) dbt
3 72 (34.29%) Snowflake
4 52 (24.76%) GCP
5 25 (11.90%) Azure
6 2 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.95%) Entra ID
6 2 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.48%) Figma
7 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.48%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (0.48%) Skype
1 1 (0.48%) SSL
1 1 (0.48%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (37.62%) Amazon Athena
1 79 (37.62%) Apache Arrow
1 79 (37.62%) Dremio
2 70 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 64 (30.48%) Apache Ignite
4 14 (6.67%) Big Data
5 3 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.43%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.95%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.48%) MySQL
7 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Git
1 1 (0.48%) JIRA
General
1 173 (82.38%) Finance
2 142 (67.62%) Front Office
3 110 (52.38%) Banking
4 68 (32.38%) Investment Banking
5 38 (18.10%) Back Office
6 9 (4.29%) Social Skills
7 6 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 73 (34.76%) Developer
2 50 (23.81%) Senior
3 43 (20.48%) Analyst
4 42 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 38 (18.10%) Lead
6 33 (15.71%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (15.71%) Finance Manager
7 32 (15.24%) Financial Analyst
8 28 (13.33%) Python Developer
9 26 (12.38%) Java Engineer
9 26 (12.38%) Python Engineer
10 24 (11.43%) Java Software Engineer
10 24 (11.43%) Python Software Engineer
11 22 (10.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 22 (10.48%) Quantitative Developer
11 22 (10.48%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (10.48%) Software Developer
12 21 (10.00%) Lead Developer
12 21 (10.00%) Team Leader
12 21 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (37.62%) gRPC
1 79 (37.62%) Protocol Buffers
2 65 (30.95%) Pandas
3 64 (30.48%) NumPy
3 64 (30.48%) SciPy
4 14 (6.67%) React
5 9 (4.29%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.81%) .NET
7 5 (2.38%) CSS
7 5 (2.38%) Redux
8 4 (1.90%) HTML
9 3 (1.43%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.43%) Kafka
9 3 (1.43%) Web Services
10 2 (0.95%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.95%) Jest
10 2 (0.95%) NgRx
10 2 (0.95%) RxJS
10 2 (0.95%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 148 (70.48%) Derivative
2 106 (50.48%) Equities
3 101 (48.10%) Fixed Income
4 77 (36.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (5.71%) Clustering
5 12 (5.71%) Product Ownership
6 11 (5.24%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (4.29%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (2.86%) Credit Derivative
9 6 (2.86%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.90%) Windows
2 2 (0.95%) Linux
2 2 (0.95%) Windows 10
2 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (71.43%) Asset Management
2 138 (65.71%) Investment Management
3 96 (45.71%) Agile
4 87 (41.43%) Software Engineering
5 40 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 28 (13.33%) Analytics
7 27 (12.86%) Line Management
8 25 (11.90%) Greeks
9 18 (8.57%) Product Management
10 16 (7.62%) DevOps
10 16 (7.62%) Quantitative Research
11 13 (6.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (5.71%) Machine Learning
13 11 (5.24%) Algorithmic Trading
13 11 (5.24%) Systematic Trading
14 10 (4.76%) Full Stack Development
15 9 (4.29%) Low Latency
16 7 (3.33%) Test Strategy
17 6 (2.86%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 159 (75.71%) Python
2 87 (41.43%) Java
3 84 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 72 (34.29%) TypeScript
5 57 (27.14%) SQL
6 52 (24.76%) C#
7 21 (10.00%) C++
8 20 (9.52%) R
9 13 (6.19%) Go
10 9 (4.29%) Scala
11 6 (2.86%) Ruby
12 5 (2.38%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.95%) F#
14 1 (0.48%) Bash
14 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.48%) Perl
14 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (2.86%) Degree
2 4 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.33%) QA
3 4 (1.90%) MiFID
4 1 (0.48%) EMIR
4 1 (0.48%) FATCA
System Software
1 4 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.19%) Kubernetes
1 13 (6.19%) Terraform
2 12 (5.71%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (7.62%) Bloomberg
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.95%) Murex
3 2 (0.95%) Reuters
4 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.48%) Citrix
4 1 (0.48%) OpenLink
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle
4 1 (0.48%) Sybase