Hedge fund
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 286 303
Rank change year-on-year -255 +17 +69
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 191 468 896
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 1.09% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.78% 2.54% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 132 368 820
10th Percentile £53,750 £80,000 £75,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £85,000
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 - £160,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -17.65% +19.30% +14.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,533 18,403 34,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.55% 42.87% 35.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,924 8,679 22,985
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,800 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -9.09%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Hedge funds job vacancy trend in the UK

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hedge funds.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hedge funds

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Hedge funds in the UK

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Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hedge funds within the UK over the 6 months to 22 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
England -242 190 £100,000 -13.04% 120
London -185 138 £100,000 -13.04% 98
UK excluding London -24 53 £70,000 -17.65% 29
Work from Home -167 50 £95,000 -17.39% 34
North of England -9 46 £90,000 +5.88% 12
North East -3 44 £100,000 +17.65% 8
South East -33 5 £70,000 - 11
Yorkshire -47 2 £33,000 - 2
South West -59 1 £45,000 - 5
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (2.09%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.57%) AWS
2 20 (10.47%) Azure
3 17 (8.90%) SaaS
4 11 (5.76%) GCP
5 10 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.71%) IaaS
6 9 (4.71%) PaaS
6 9 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.52%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.52%) Serverless
8 1 (0.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) IP Telephony
1 2 (1.05%) WebEx
2 1 (0.52%) Internet
2 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.19%) Tableau
2 5 (2.62%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Git
2 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
General
1 113 (59.16%) Finance
2 41 (21.47%) Front Office
3 21 (10.99%) Social Skills
4 16 (8.38%) Banking
5 13 (6.81%) Legal
6 10 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.24%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.09%) Marketing
7 4 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.09%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.05%) Advertising
8 2 (1.05%) Back Office
8 2 (1.05%) Billing
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 88 (46.07%) Developer
2 46 (24.08%) Senior
3 33 (17.28%) Python Developer
4 27 (14.14%) Software Engineer
5 26 (13.61%) Senior Developer
6 25 (13.09%) Python Engineer
7 24 (12.57%) C# Developer
7 24 (12.57%) Quantitative Developer
8 20 (10.47%) C++ Developer
8 20 (10.47%) Senior Quantitative Developer
9 19 (9.95%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 19 (9.95%) Linux Developer
9 19 (9.95%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 19 (9.95%) Senior C++ Developer
9 19 (9.95%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
9 19 (9.95%) Senior Python Developer
10 17 (8.90%) Security Engineer
11 14 (7.33%) .NET Developer
11 14 (7.33%) C# .NET Developer
11 14 (7.33%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.32%) .NET
2 20 (10.47%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 12 (6.28%) .NET Core
3 12 (6.28%) React
4 4 (2.09%) Smart Contracts
4 4 (2.09%) web3js
5 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.52%) Akka
5 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.52%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.52%) gRPC
5 1 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (0.52%) Node.js
5 1 (0.52%) NumPy
5 1 (0.52%) Pandas
5 1 (0.52%) PySpark
5 1 (0.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.85%) Management Information System
2 23 (12.04%) Algorithms
2 23 (12.04%) Data Structures
2 23 (12.04%) Equities
3 15 (7.85%) Fixed Income
4 9 (4.71%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.09%) Blockchain
6 4 (2.09%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.09%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.09%) Web3
7 3 (1.57%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.05%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.52%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 47 (24.61%) Linux
2 11 (5.76%) Unix
2 11 (5.76%) Windows
3 8 (4.19%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (27.23%) Fintech
2 50 (26.18%) Software Engineering
3 32 (16.75%) Low Latency
4 23 (12.04%) OOP
4 23 (12.04%) Test Automation
5 22 (11.52%) Computer Science
6 19 (9.95%) OO
6 19 (9.95%) Order Management
7 17 (8.90%) Information Security
8 16 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (7.85%) Risk Management
10 13 (6.81%) Investment Management
11 12 (6.28%) AI
11 12 (6.28%) High Availability
11 12 (6.28%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (6.28%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (5.24%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (4.71%) Agile
13 9 (4.71%) Configuration Management
13 9 (4.71%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 79 (41.36%) Python
2 54 (28.27%) C#
3 39 (20.42%) SQL
4 24 (12.57%) C++
5 16 (8.38%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.24%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.71%) Bash
8 8 (4.19%) VBA
9 5 (2.62%) Rust
10 4 (2.09%) Go
10 4 (2.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 26 (13.61%) Degree
2 17 (8.90%) CISSP
2 17 (8.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.71%) CCSK
4 8 (4.19%) CISA
4 8 (4.19%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.19%) Actionable Recommendations
1 8 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (4.19%) NIST
2 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (1.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.05%) vSphere
2 2 (1.05%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.52%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 10 (5.24%) Terraform
2 3 (1.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.90%) Google
3 6 (3.14%) Databricks
4 4 (2.09%) SAP
5 3 (1.57%) Citrix
6 2 (1.05%) Apple
6 2 (1.05%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.05%) Cisco
6 2 (1.05%) Oracle
6 2 (1.05%) Reuters
6 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.05%) VMware
7 1 (0.52%) Sybase