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 have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 402 442
Rank change year-on-year +47 +40 -124
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 757 820 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.78% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 1.83% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 686 714 1,034
10th Percentile £70,625 £47,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £105,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £150,000 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £200,000 £171,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -4.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Hedge funds is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
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 27 April 2024. 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 +63 745 £112,500 +7.14% 292
London +77 725 £112,500 +7.14% 274
Work from Home +147 430 £115,000 +15.00% 74
UK excluding London -22 31 £67,500 +8.00% 20
South West -8 13 £66,250 +26.19% 8
Scotland -59 11 £80,000 +14.29% 6
South East +11 5 £22,500 -64.00% 4
North West - 1 £82,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £120,000 -
North of England - 1 £82,500 - 2

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 255 (33.69%) Apache Airflow
2 215 (28.40%) Apache
3 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.40%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.40%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 20 (2.64%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.92%) thinkFolio
3 4 (0.53%) Adaptiv
4 3 (0.40%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 474 (62.62%) AWS
2 284 (37.52%) GCP
3 226 (29.85%) Azure
4 185 (24.44%) dbt
5 162 (21.40%) Snowflake
6 9 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (0.79%) Amazon S3
7 6 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (0.66%) GitHub
8 5 (0.66%) Serverless
9 4 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (0.53%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (0.53%) SaaS
9 4 (0.53%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.26%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.32%) WAN
3 9 (1.19%) VPN
4 7 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
4 7 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
4 7 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (0.92%) Network Security
4 7 (0.92%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.66%) Firewall
6 3 (0.40%) BGP
6 3 (0.40%) FTP
6 3 (0.40%) OSPF
7 2 (0.26%) DHCP
7 2 (0.26%) DNS
8 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.13%) LAN
8 1 (0.13%) SAN
8 1 (0.13%) SNMP
8 1 (0.13%) VRRP
8 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (28.40%) Apache Ignite
2 186 (24.57%) Dremio
3 185 (24.44%) Amazon Athena
3 185 (24.44%) Apache Arrow
4 162 (21.40%) Data Lake
5 81 (10.70%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (4.62%) Big Data
7 33 (4.36%) SQL Server
8 18 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 16 (2.11%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.53%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.40%) Event Store
12 3 (0.40%) Tick Data
13 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.26%) SQLPlus
14 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 41 (5.42%) Cypress.io
2 13 (1.72%) Git
3 7 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.53%) GitLab
5 4 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (0.53%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.40%) JIRA
7 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.26%) Postman
7 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Gatling
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 626 (82.69%) Finance
2 508 (67.11%) Front Office
3 323 (42.67%) Banking
4 187 (24.70%) Investment Banking
5 112 (14.80%) Back Office
6 89 (11.76%) Social Skills
7 35 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (2.77%) Financial Institution
9 14 (1.85%) Billing
10 11 (1.45%) Marketing
11 10 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.19%) Games
12 9 (1.19%) Legal
13 8 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.06%) Law
14 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 355 (46.90%) Developer
2 245 (32.36%) Software Engineer
3 196 (25.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 157 (20.74%) Python Developer
5 146 (19.29%) Senior
6 121 (15.98%) Python Engineer
7 117 (15.46%) Python Software Engineer
8 116 (15.32%) Analyst
9 106 (14.00%) Lead
10 101 (13.34%) .NET Developer
11 95 (12.55%) Finance Manager
12 88 (11.62%) .NET Software Engineer
13 87 (11.49%) .NET Software Developer
14 82 (10.83%) Senior Software Engineer
15 81 (10.70%) AWS Engineer
16 73 (9.64%) Quantitative Developer
17 70 (9.25%) React Developer
18 67 (8.85%) Financial Analyst
19 63 (8.32%) Senior Developer
20 61 (8.06%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (33.29%) gRPC
1 252 (33.29%) Protocol Buffers
2 187 (24.70%) React
3 165 (21.80%) Redux
4 157 (20.74%) Pandas
5 154 (20.34%) NumPy
6 146 (19.29%) .NET
7 145 (19.15%) SciPy
8 114 (15.06%) AngularJS
9 92 (12.15%) Vue
10 69 (9.11%) .NET Core
10 69 (9.11%) Material-UI
11 52 (6.87%) ASP.NET
12 51 (6.74%) ASP.NET Core
13 15 (1.98%) HTML
14 14 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
15 12 (1.59%) Kafka
16 8 (1.06%) .NET Framework
16 8 (1.06%) CSS
17 6 (0.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 459 (60.63%) Fixed Income
2 408 (53.90%) Derivative
3 377 (49.80%) Equities
4 320 (42.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 47 (6.21%) Product Ownership
6 35 (4.62%) Client/Server
7 30 (3.96%) Clustering
8 17 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (2.25%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.59%) Credit Derivative
10 12 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.59%) Pricing Data
11 9 (1.19%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.19%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.06%) PKI
13 7 (0.92%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.42%) Linux
2 22 (2.91%) Windows
3 10 (1.32%) Unix
4 8 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.26%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (70.01%) Asset Management
2 499 (65.92%) Investment Management
3 438 (57.86%) Agile
4 388 (51.25%) Software Engineering
5 140 (18.49%) Full Stack Development
6 120 (15.85%) Machine Learning
7 119 (15.72%) Artificial Intelligence
8 110 (14.53%) DevOps
9 87 (11.49%) Automated Trading
10 84 (11.10%) Fintech
11 76 (10.04%) Mentoring
12 71 (9.38%) Line Management
13 69 (9.11%) TDD
14 66 (8.72%) Analytics
15 65 (8.59%) Quantitative Research
16 56 (7.40%) Greeks
17 55 (7.27%) Problem-Solving
18 54 (7.13%) Portfolio Management
19 51 (6.74%) Computer Science
20 42 (5.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 531 (70.15%) Python
2 330 (43.59%) TypeScript
3 301 (39.76%) JavaScript
4 235 (31.04%) SQL
5 227 (29.99%) Java
6 208 (27.48%) C#
7 53 (7.00%) C++
8 44 (5.81%) R
9 34 (4.49%) Go
10 17 (2.25%) Scala
11 15 (1.98%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.98%) Rust
12 14 (1.85%) Ruby
13 6 (0.79%) Bash
14 3 (0.40%) Clojure
14 3 (0.40%) F#
14 3 (0.40%) Groovy
14 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (8.32%) Degree
2 27 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (2.51%) Master's Degree
4 11 (1.45%) PhD
5 7 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (0.79%) CCIE
7 1 (0.13%) CCNP
7 1 (0.13%) ISEB
7 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 54 (7.13%) QA
3 7 (0.92%) SOC 1
4 4 (0.53%) SLA
5 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.40%) MiFID
6 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (1.98%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.72%) Docker
3 12 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.26%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 60 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 44 (5.81%) Terraform
3 35 (4.62%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.32%) Ansible
5 7 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
5 7 (0.92%) Stealthwatch
6 5 (0.66%) Control-M
7 4 (0.53%) Grafana
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (0.53%) Rancher
7 4 (0.53%) SafeCom
8 2 (0.26%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.13%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.13%) Nmap
9 1 (0.13%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (0.13%) Puppet
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.13%) Salt
9 1 (0.13%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 69 (9.11%) Google
2 63 (8.32%) Bloomberg
3 19 (2.51%) Charles River
3 19 (2.51%) VMware
4 17 (2.25%) Oracle
5 15 (1.98%) Microsoft
6 13 (1.72%) BISAM
6 13 (1.72%) Cisco
7 7 (0.92%) Splunk
8 6 (0.79%) Citrix
9 5 (0.66%) Reuters
10 4 (0.53%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.53%) Veritas
11 3 (0.40%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.40%) Juniper
11 3 (0.40%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.40%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.26%) Calypso
12 2 (0.26%) NetApp
12 2 (0.26%) Red Hat