Hedge funds Job Trends in England

Hedge fund
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 247 331
Rank change year-on-year -250 +84 +49
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 188 473 661
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 1.29% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 3.35% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 119 394 591
10th Percentile £52,500 £76,625 £65,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £148,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £123,500 £157,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21,956 14,135 28,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.66% 38.68% 35.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,418 8,189 20,566
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £58,099 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.17% +9.09% -15.38%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Hedge funds relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in England

Hedge funds
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hedge funds.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Hedge funds in England

Hedge funds
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hedge funds within the England region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -163 153 £100,000 -13.04% 107
North of England -52 30 £70,000 - 6
North East -16 28 £70,000 - 5
South East -25 5 £70,000 - 11
Yorkshire - 2 £33,000 -
Hedge funds
UK

Hedge funds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.13%) Apache
4 2 (1.06%) Ethereum
Applications
1 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.96%) AWS
2 23 (12.23%) Azure
3 19 (10.11%) SaaS
4 15 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (7.45%) GCP
6 11 (5.85%) IaaS
6 11 (5.85%) PaaS
6 11 (5.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (3.19%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.66%) dbt
9 4 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.06%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.53%) GitHub
12 1 (0.53%) Matillion
12 1 (0.53%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) IP Telephony
1 2 (1.06%) WebEx
2 1 (0.53%) Internet
2 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.32%) Tableau
2 7 (3.72%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.66%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.66%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.13%) Apache Arrow
4 4 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
4 4 (2.13%) Apache Ignite
4 4 (2.13%) Dremio
4 4 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.60%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.53%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.53%) Power BI
6 1 (0.53%) Power Query
6 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.53%) Git
General
1 121 (64.36%) Finance
2 42 (22.34%) Front Office
3 29 (15.43%) Social Skills
4 21 (11.17%) Banking
5 16 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.98%) Legal
7 13 (6.91%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.13%) Marketing
9 4 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.13%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.60%) Advertising
11 2 (1.06%) Back Office
11 2 (1.06%) Billing
12 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 70 (37.23%) Developer
2 47 (25.00%) Senior
3 35 (18.62%) Python Developer
4 31 (16.49%) Software Engineer
5 28 (14.89%) Python Engineer
6 25 (13.30%) Quantitative Developer
6 25 (13.30%) Senior Developer
7 21 (11.17%) Security Engineer
7 21 (11.17%) Senior Quantitative Developer
8 20 (10.64%) C++ Developer
8 20 (10.64%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 20 (10.64%) Linux Developer
8 20 (10.64%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 20 (10.64%) Senior C++ Developer
8 20 (10.64%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
8 20 (10.64%) Senior Python Developer
9 18 (9.57%) AWS Engineer
10 16 (8.51%) C# Developer
11 13 (6.91%) .NET Software Engineer
11 13 (6.91%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.96%) .NET
2 21 (11.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 10 (5.32%) .NET Core
4 7 (3.72%) React
5 5 (2.66%) gRPC
5 5 (2.66%) NumPy
5 5 (2.66%) Pandas
6 4 (2.13%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.13%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (2.13%) SciPy
7 3 (1.60%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.60%) Kafka
7 3 (1.60%) Spring
8 2 (1.06%) Smart Contracts
8 2 (1.06%) web3js
9 1 (0.53%) Akka
9 1 (0.53%) LlamaIndex
9 1 (0.53%) Node.js
9 1 (0.53%) PySpark
9 1 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 44 (23.40%) Management Information System
2 28 (14.89%) Equities
3 22 (11.70%) Algorithms
3 22 (11.70%) Data Structures
4 16 (8.51%) Fixed Income
5 11 (5.85%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.66%) Derivative
8 5 (2.66%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.13%) Pricing Data
9 4 (2.13%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.60%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.60%) Sports Betting
11 2 (1.06%) Blackberry
11 2 (1.06%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (1.06%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 49 (26.06%) Linux
2 14 (7.45%) Windows
3 13 (6.91%) Unix
4 10 (5.32%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (27.13%) Software Engineering
2 35 (18.62%) Fintech
3 29 (15.43%) Low Latency
4 27 (14.36%) Test Automation
5 22 (11.70%) OO
5 22 (11.70%) OOP
6 21 (11.17%) Computer Science
6 21 (11.17%) Information Security
7 20 (10.64%) Order Management
8 18 (9.57%) Agile
8 18 (9.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (9.04%) Risk Management
10 14 (7.45%) AI
11 13 (6.91%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (6.91%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (6.38%) High Availability
12 12 (6.38%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (5.85%) Analytics
13 11 (5.85%) Process Improvement
13 11 (5.85%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 82 (43.62%) Python
2 44 (23.40%) SQL
3 40 (21.28%) C#
4 24 (12.77%) C++
5 15 (7.98%) PowerShell
6 13 (6.91%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.85%) Bash
8 9 (4.79%) Java
9 5 (2.66%) VBA
10 4 (2.13%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.60%) Rust
12 2 (1.06%) Go
13 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 27 (14.36%) Degree
2 23 (12.23%) CISSP
3 18 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (6.38%) CISA
5 11 (5.85%) CCSK
6 10 (5.32%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.38%) NIST
2 10 (5.32%) Actionable Recommendations
2 10 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (1.60%) Postfix
2 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.06%) vSphere
2 2 (1.06%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.53%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 12 (6.38%) Terraform
2 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (11.17%) Google
1 21 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.13%) SAP
3 3 (1.60%) Bloomberg
3 3 (1.60%) Citrix
3 3 (1.60%) Databricks
4 2 (1.06%) Apple
4 2 (1.06%) Cisco
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle
4 2 (1.06%) Reuters
4 2 (1.06%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.06%) VMware
5 1 (0.53%) Informatica
5 1 (0.53%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.53%) SimCorp
5 1 (0.53%) Sybase