Hedge funds Job Trends 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 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 85 81
Rank change year-on-year -189 -4 +89
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 142 463 809
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.70% 3.66% 3.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 8.25% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 78 385 745
10th Percentile £75,000 £80,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £147,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £106,000 £156,500 £165,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +7.14%

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 6,956 5,613 9,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.30% 44.39% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,247 3,264 6,795
10th Percentile £40,625 £42,075 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,401
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £137,500 £128,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in London

Hedge funds
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hedge funds.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hedge funds

Hedge funds
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 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
Central London 0 22 £100,000 -13.04% 36
Hedge funds
England

Hedge funds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (2.82%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 23 (16.20%) AWS
2 20 (14.08%) Azure
3 18 (12.68%) SaaS
4 12 (8.45%) GCP
5 11 (7.75%) IaaS
5 11 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.75%) PaaS
5 11 (7.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.41%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.41%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.70%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.70%) dbt
7 1 (0.70%) GitHub
7 1 (0.70%) Matillion
7 1 (0.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) IP Telephony
1 2 (1.41%) WebEx
2 1 (0.70%) Internet
2 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.34%) Tableau
2 4 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.41%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.70%) Power BI
4 1 (0.70%) Power Query
4 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
General
1 88 (61.97%) Finance
2 43 (30.28%) Front Office
3 20 (14.08%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.86%) Banking
5 12 (8.45%) Legal
6 11 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.34%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.41%) Back Office
9 2 (1.41%) Marketing
9 2 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 71 (50.00%) Developer
2 36 (25.35%) Senior
3 33 (23.24%) Python Developer
4 24 (16.90%) Python Engineer
4 24 (16.90%) Quantitative Developer
5 21 (14.79%) Senior Developer
6 20 (14.08%) C++ Developer
6 20 (14.08%) Security Engineer
6 20 (14.08%) Senior Quantitative Developer
7 19 (13.38%) C# Developer
7 19 (13.38%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 19 (13.38%) Linux Developer
7 19 (13.38%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 19 (13.38%) Senior C++ Developer
7 19 (13.38%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
7 19 (13.38%) Senior Python Developer
8 14 (9.86%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (8.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (8.45%) Linux Engineer
9 12 (8.45%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.08%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 19 (13.38%) .NET
3 7 (4.93%) React
4 4 (2.82%) Smart Contracts
4 4 (2.82%) web3js
5 1 (0.70%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.70%) Akka
5 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.70%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.70%) gRPC
5 1 (0.70%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (0.70%) Node.js
5 1 (0.70%) NumPy
5 1 (0.70%) Pandas
5 1 (0.70%) PySpark
5 1 (0.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.46%) Management Information System
2 23 (16.20%) Equities
3 19 (13.38%) Algorithms
3 19 (13.38%) Data Structures
4 15 (10.56%) Fixed Income
5 11 (7.75%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.82%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.82%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.82%) Web3
8 3 (2.11%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.41%) Blackberry
9 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.70%) Derivative
10 1 (0.70%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 48 (33.80%) Linux
2 13 (9.15%) Unix
3 11 (7.75%) Windows
4 9 (6.34%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (21.83%) Low Latency
2 24 (16.90%) Software Engineering
3 23 (16.20%) Test Automation
4 20 (14.08%) Information Security
4 20 (14.08%) OO
5 19 (13.38%) OOP
5 19 (13.38%) Order Management
6 18 (12.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (11.97%) Computer Science
8 16 (11.27%) Risk Management
9 14 (9.86%) AI
10 12 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (8.45%) High Availability
10 12 (8.45%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (7.75%) Cloud Security
11 11 (7.75%) Configuration Management
11 11 (7.75%) Identity Access Management
11 11 (7.75%) Process Improvement
11 11 (7.75%) Red Team
11 11 (7.75%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 70 (49.30%) Python
2 38 (26.76%) C#
3 34 (23.94%) SQL
4 22 (15.49%) C++
5 12 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 11 (7.75%) Bash
6 11 (7.75%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.63%) VBA
8 5 (3.52%) Rust
9 4 (2.82%) Go
10 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 23 (16.20%) Degree
2 21 (14.79%) CISSP
3 17 (11.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (7.75%) CCSK
5 10 (7.04%) CISA
6 9 (6.34%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.04%) NIST
2 9 (6.34%) Actionable Recommendations
2 9 (6.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (2.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.41%) vSphere
2 2 (1.41%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.70%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 12 (8.45%) Terraform
2 3 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (14.08%) Google
2 13 (9.15%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.11%) Bloomberg
3 3 (2.11%) Citrix
4 2 (1.41%) Apple
4 2 (1.41%) Cisco
4 2 (1.41%) Databricks
4 2 (1.41%) Oracle
4 2 (1.41%) Reuters
4 2 (1.41%) SAP
4 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.41%) VMware
5 1 (0.70%) Informatica
5 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.70%) SimCorp
5 1 (0.70%) Sybase