Hedge funds Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Hedge fund
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 158 389
Rank change year-on-year +28 +231 +1
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 199 204 88
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.01% 1.33% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.08% 4.63% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 195 82
10th Percentile £538 £588 £439
25th Percentile £638 £675 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £938 £888 £810
90th Percentile - - £836
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £575
% change year-on-year - +26.09% -8.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Hedge funds
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hedge funds trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 37 (18.59%) Apache
1 37 (18.59%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 37 (18.59%) Aladdin
2 14 (7.04%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 58 (29.15%) AWS
2 37 (18.59%) dbt
2 37 (18.59%) Snowflake
3 33 (16.58%) GCP
4 18 (9.05%) Azure
5 17 (8.54%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (8.54%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (8.54%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (60.30%) Data Lake
2 37 (18.59%) Amazon Athena
2 37 (18.59%) Apache Arrow
2 37 (18.59%) Apache Iceberg
2 37 (18.59%) Dremio
3 29 (14.57%) Apache Ignite
4 4 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Git
General
1 190 (95.48%) Finance
2 187 (93.97%) Front Office
3 41 (20.60%) Banking
3 41 (20.60%) Investment Banking
4 8 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.01%) Social Skills
6 3 (1.51%) Back Office
7 1 (0.50%) Advertising
7 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 58 (29.15%) Software Engineer
2 52 (26.13%) Analyst
3 42 (21.11%) Business Analyst
4 37 (18.59%) AWS Engineer
4 37 (18.59%) AWS Software Engineer
4 37 (18.59%) Head of Finance
5 34 (17.09%) Business Manager
5 34 (17.09%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 27 (13.57%) Developer
6 27 (13.57%) Java Engineer
6 27 (13.57%) Java Software Engineer
7 25 (12.56%) Lead
7 25 (12.56%) Python Engineer
8 24 (12.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 23 (11.56%) Senior
10 22 (11.06%) Data Governance Analyst
10 22 (11.06%) Data Governance Manager
10 22 (11.06%) Governance Manager
10 22 (11.06%) Python Software Engineer
11 21 (10.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.58%) NumPy
1 31 (15.58%) Pandas
2 29 (14.57%) gRPC
2 29 (14.57%) Protocol Buffers
2 29 (14.57%) SciPy
3 25 (12.56%) PySpark
4 16 (8.04%) AngularJS
4 16 (8.04%) React
4 16 (8.04%) Redux
4 16 (8.04%) Vue
5 1 (0.50%) .NET
5 1 (0.50%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 185 (92.96%) Fixed Income
2 168 (84.42%) Derivative
3 138 (69.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 136 (68.34%) Equities
5 32 (16.08%) Product Ownership
6 17 (8.54%) Onboarding
7 12 (6.03%) Pricing Data
8 4 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.01%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (94.97%) Agile
2 159 (79.90%) Investment Management
3 112 (56.28%) Migration
4 93 (46.73%) Asset Management
5 91 (45.73%) Data Governance
5 91 (45.73%) Regulatory Compliance
5 91 (45.73%) Roadmaps
6 69 (34.67%) Data Management
7 61 (30.65%) Software Engineering
8 41 (20.60%) Analytics
9 37 (18.59%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (17.09%) Business Analysis
10 34 (17.09%) Portfolio Management
11 20 (10.05%) Fintech
12 18 (9.05%) Quantitative Research
13 17 (8.54%) Data Mapping
13 17 (8.54%) Performance Attribution
13 17 (8.54%) User Acceptance Testing
14 16 (8.04%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (8.04%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 104 (52.26%) Python
2 52 (26.13%) SQL
3 45 (22.61%) JavaScript
3 45 (22.61%) TypeScript
4 43 (21.61%) Java
5 5 (2.51%) C++
6 1 (0.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (2.51%) Degree
1 5 (2.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.06%) MiFID
2 1 (0.50%) QA
Vendors
1 37 (18.59%) BISAM
2 17 (8.54%) Charles River
3 14 (7.04%) Calypso
3 14 (7.04%) SimCorp
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle