Hedge funds Jobs in London

Hedge fund
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in permanent job vacancies in 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 105 71 161
Rank change year-on-year -34 +90 +82
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 387 895 744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.03% 3.72% 2.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.81% 9.26% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 307 826 671
10th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £85,625 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -6.67%
75th Percentile £138,125 £142,500 £150,000
90th Percentile £160,000 £165,000 £200,000
England median annual salary £115,000 £112,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year +2.22% +7.14% -4.55%

All Generic Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,681 9,669 14,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.45% 40.24% 46.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,047 6,782 10,232
10th Percentile £41,550 £37,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £76,446
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.89% +1.93%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hedge funds within the London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Central London +27 17 £175,000 +70.73% 25
East London - 2 - -
Hedge funds
England

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 83 (21.45%) Apache
1 83 (21.45%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.26%) IIS
4 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 58 (14.99%) Aladdin
2 39 (10.08%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 114 (29.46%) AWS
2 83 (21.45%) dbt
2 83 (21.45%) Snowflake
3 31 (8.01%) Azure
4 28 (7.24%) GCP
5 14 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (2.84%) Dagster
7 11 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.33%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.55%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.52%) Nutanix
13 1 (0.26%) Azure Machine Learning
13 1 (0.26%) Serverless
13 1 (0.26%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.88%) Firewall
2 10 (2.58%) SAN
3 4 (1.03%) DNS
3 4 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.78%) DHCP
4 3 (0.78%) LAN
4 3 (0.78%) WAN
5 2 (0.52%) VPN
6 1 (0.26%) BGP
6 1 (0.26%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.26%) FTP
6 1 (0.26%) HSRP
6 1 (0.26%) IPsec
6 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.26%) Multicast
6 1 (0.26%) NAS
6 1 (0.26%) OSPF
6 1 (0.26%) SNMP
6 1 (0.26%) VRRP
6 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (33.59%) Data Lake
2 83 (21.45%) Amazon Athena
2 83 (21.45%) Apache Arrow
2 83 (21.45%) Apache Iceberg
2 83 (21.45%) Dremio
3 51 (13.18%) Apache Ignite
4 13 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.03%) Tick Data
6 3 (0.78%) Redis
7 2 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.26%) Big Data
8 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.26%) Git
3 1 (0.26%) GitLab
General
1 336 (86.82%) Finance
2 276 (71.32%) Front Office
3 97 (25.06%) Banking
4 93 (24.03%) Investment Banking
5 41 (10.59%) Social Skills
6 10 (2.58%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.29%) Legal
8 3 (0.78%) Back Office
8 3 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.26%) Law
9 1 (0.26%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 118 (30.49%) Developer
2 100 (25.84%) Software Engineer
3 95 (24.55%) Analyst
4 86 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
5 83 (21.45%) AWS Software Engineer
5 83 (21.45%) Senior
6 67 (17.31%) Java Engineer
6 67 (17.31%) Java Software Engineer
7 57 (14.73%) Python Engineer
8 56 (14.47%) Python Software Engineer
9 54 (13.95%) Business Analyst
9 54 (13.95%) Business Manager
10 52 (13.44%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 47 (12.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 46 (11.89%) Senior Java Engineer
12 46 (11.89%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 46 (11.89%) Senior Software Engineer
13 43 (11.11%) C++ Developer
14 40 (10.34%) Lead
15 38 (9.82%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (13.95%) NumPy
1 54 (13.95%) Pandas
2 51 (13.18%) gRPC
2 51 (13.18%) Protocol Buffers
2 51 (13.18%) SciPy
3 43 (11.11%) PySpark
4 31 (8.01%) React
5 27 (6.98%) AngularJS
6 15 (3.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 15 (3.88%) Redux
6 15 (3.88%) Vue
7 12 (3.10%) CSS
8 9 (2.33%) .NET
9 7 (1.81%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (1.55%) HTML
10 6 (1.55%) Next.js
10 6 (1.55%) React Native
10 6 (1.55%) Spring
11 5 (1.29%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 242 (62.53%) Fixed Income
2 231 (59.69%) Derivative
3 212 (54.78%) Equities
4 177 (45.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 45 (11.63%) Onboarding
6 40 (10.34%) Pricing Data
7 20 (5.17%) Algorithms
8 18 (4.65%) Data Structures
9 15 (3.88%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.33%) Podcast
11 8 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.03%) Clustering
12 4 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.78%) Blockchain
13 3 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.52%) Reference Data
14 2 (0.52%) Web3
15 1 (0.26%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 59 (15.25%) Linux
2 21 (5.43%) Windows
3 11 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.29%) CentOS
5 5 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.03%) Android
6 4 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.78%) Unix
8 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (65.12%) Agile
2 203 (52.45%) Investment Management
3 166 (42.89%) Asset Management
4 115 (29.72%) Data Management
5 102 (26.36%) Software Engineering
6 96 (24.81%) Migration
7 81 (20.93%) Regulatory Compliance
8 80 (20.67%) Data Governance
8 80 (20.67%) Roadmaps
9 58 (14.99%) Business Intelligence
9 58 (14.99%) Portfolio Management
10 53 (13.70%) Business Analysis
11 49 (12.66%) Analytics
12 48 (12.40%) Low Latency
13 45 (11.63%) Data Mapping
14 28 (7.24%) Multithreading
15 27 (6.98%) Full-Stack Development
16 22 (5.68%) OO
17 20 (5.17%) Computer Science
17 20 (5.17%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 249 (64.34%) Python
2 114 (29.46%) SQL
3 91 (23.51%) Java
4 78 (20.16%) TypeScript
5 73 (18.86%) JavaScript
6 52 (13.44%) C++
7 37 (9.56%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.36%) C#
9 6 (1.55%) Bash
10 1 (0.26%) Clojure
10 1 (0.26%) Groovy
10 1 (0.26%) Scala
10 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (8.01%) Degree
2 21 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.91%) CEH
3 19 (4.91%) CISSP
3 19 (4.91%) CompTIA Security+
3 19 (4.91%) GCIA
3 19 (4.91%) GCIH
3 19 (4.91%) OSCP
4 9 (2.33%) SANS
5 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.26%) CCNA
6 1 (0.26%) CCNP
6 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.26%) MCSE
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.26%) VCAP
6 1 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.30%) MiFID
2 5 (1.29%) GDPR
3 3 (0.78%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.26%) QA
4 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.29%) Docker
3 4 (1.03%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.03%) vSphere
4 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.36%) Ansible
2 10 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.58%) Terraform
3 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.81%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.55%) Grafana
4 6 (1.55%) SCCM
5 4 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.03%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.52%) Puppet
7 1 (0.26%) Argo
7 1 (0.26%) Packer
7 1 (0.26%) vRealize
7 1 (0.26%) WMI
Vendors
1 58 (14.99%) BISAM
2 45 (11.63%) Charles River
3 39 (10.08%) Calypso
3 39 (10.08%) SimCorp
4 12 (3.10%) CrowdStrike
5 9 (2.33%) Microsoft
6 7 (1.81%) VMware
7 4 (1.03%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.03%) NetApp
7 4 (1.03%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.78%) Reuters
9 2 (0.52%) Okta
10 1 (0.26%) Arista
10 1 (0.26%) Centrify
10 1 (0.26%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.26%) Cisco
10 1 (0.26%) Citrix
10 1 (0.26%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.26%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.26%) Varonis