Hybrid/Remote Hedge funds Contract Job Trends

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 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 177 257
Rank change year-on-year -94 +80 +84
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 42 142 109
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 1.29% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 4.16% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 139 101
10th Percentile £650 £613 £475
25th Percentile £675 £638 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £825 £725
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.79% +20.83%
75th Percentile £825 £938 £850
90th Percentile - - £938
UK median daily rate £700 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +12.00%

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 3,464 3,416 4,714
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.16% 31.09% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,173 2,191 3,249
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £664
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.15% -2.25% -1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 51 124
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.50 £17.37
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.34 £21.81
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.50 £42.40
Median % change year-on-year +21.23% -11.56% -32.69%
75th Percentile £65.06 £64.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.05 £68.75 £71.42
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £34.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.55% -8.67% +56.25%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hedge funds and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Hedge funds job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hedge funds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Hedge funds daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Hedge funds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 21 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (40.48%) Apache
3 2 (4.76%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.38%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.38%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 35 (83.33%) AWS
2 17 (40.48%) dbt
2 17 (40.48%) Snowflake
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (9.52%) Azure
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (40.48%) Amazon Athena
1 17 (40.48%) Apache Arrow
1 17 (40.48%) Apache Iceberg
1 17 (40.48%) Apache Ignite
1 17 (40.48%) Data Lake
1 17 (40.48%) Dremio
2 2 (4.76%) Power BI
2 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) GitLab
2 2 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 33 (78.57%) Finance
2 19 (45.24%) Banking
2 19 (45.24%) Front Office
2 19 (45.24%) Investment Banking
3 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 33 (78.57%) Python Engineer
2 32 (76.19%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (40.48%) AWS Software Engineer
3 17 (40.48%) Java Engineer
3 17 (40.48%) Java Software Engineer
3 17 (40.48%) Python Software Engineer
3 17 (40.48%) Senior
3 17 (40.48%) Software Engineer
4 16 (38.10%) Senior Java Engineer
4 16 (38.10%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 16 (38.10%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (26.19%) Automation Engineer
5 11 (26.19%) IP Network Engineer
5 11 (26.19%) Network Engineer
5 11 (26.19%) Switch Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (45.24%) NumPy
1 19 (45.24%) Pandas
1 19 (45.24%) SciPy
2 17 (40.48%) gRPC
2 17 (40.48%) Protocol Buffers
3 3 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (4.76%) .NET
4 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.76%) Plotly
4 2 (4.76%) scikit-learn
4 2 (4.76%) Statsmodels
4 2 (4.76%) Web Services
5 1 (2.38%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (47.62%) Derivative
2 19 (45.24%) Equities
2 19 (45.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 18 (42.86%) Fixed Income
4 17 (40.48%) Pricing Data
5 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.38%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Agile
2 19 (45.24%) Software Engineering
3 18 (42.86%) Investment Management
4 17 (40.48%) Asset Management
5 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.90%) DevOps
6 4 (9.52%) Cost Reduction
6 4 (9.52%) Monorepo
7 3 (7.14%) Design Patterns
7 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (4.76%) Analytics
8 2 (4.76%) Data Analytics
8 2 (4.76%) Data Science
8 2 (4.76%) Data Visualisation
8 2 (4.76%) Decision-Making
8 2 (4.76%) IT Strategy
8 2 (4.76%) Mentoring
8 2 (4.76%) Proprietary Trading
8 2 (4.76%) Time Series Forecasting
8 2 (4.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 35 (83.33%) Python
2 17 (40.48%) Java
2 17 (40.48%) JavaScript
2 17 (40.48%) TypeScript
3 3 (7.14%) SQL
4 2 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) MiFID
2 1 (2.38%) AIFMD
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) UCITS
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Ansible
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (2.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Arista
2 2 (4.76%) Dataiku
3 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) Portware
3 1 (2.38%) VMware