Hedge funds Jobs in the City of London

Hedge fund
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 169 192
Rank change year-on-year +42 +23 +2
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 12 9 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.61% 0.27% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 0.78% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 36
10th Percentile £118,000 £74,500 £51,875
25th Percentile £145,625 £75,000 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £180,000 £105,000 £122,500
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -14.29% +81.48%
75th Percentile £216,250 £130,000 £144,063
90th Percentile £217,500 £164,000 £211,875
Central London median annual salary £175,000 £102,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year +70.73% +2.50% +42.86%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Hedge funds falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 804 1,159 1,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 41.10% 34.64% 41.11%
Number of salaries quoted 602 881 1,535
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,397
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £117,500 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% +3.33%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in the City of London.

Salary trend for Hedge funds in the City of London

Hedge funds
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Hedge funds in the City of London

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 5 (41.67%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Back Office
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) C++ Team Leader
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Derivative
1 2 (16.67%) Equities
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Risk Management
2 4 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 3 (25.00%) Logistics
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Concurrent Programming
5 1 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (8.33%) Fintech
5 1 (8.33%) High Availability
5 1 (8.33%) Mathematics
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Multithreading
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Quantitative Research
5 1 (8.33%) Quantitative Trading
5 1 (8.33%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) C++
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA