Hedge funds Jobs

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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 363 421
Rank change year-on-year +126 +58 -56
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 1,035 716 1,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 0.89% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.44% 2.16% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 960 644 1,196
10th Percentile £77,500 £50,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £86,875 £78,438 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £143,750 £142,813 £132,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £180,000 £162,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 30,081 33,205 84,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 41.15% 48.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 20,787 36,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,416 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,013 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Top 9 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 26 July 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 +110 1,026 £115,000 +9.52% 56
London +84 1,002 £115,000 +4.55% 46
Work from Home +218 679 £115,000 +9.52% 9
UK excluding London -40 33 £75,000 +20.00% 24
South West +2 19 £62,500 +38.89% 1
Scotland -41 9 £80,000 +14.29%
North of England - 5 £100,000 - 4
North East - 4 £100,000 - 1
North West - 1 £82,500 - 3

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
1 639 (61.74%) Apache Airflow
2 612 (59.13%) Apache
3 2 (0.19%) Confluence
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.097%) nginx
4 1 (0.097%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.29%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 41 (3.96%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.39%) Eagle PACE
2 4 (0.39%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.19%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.097%) Eikon
4 1 (0.097%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 856 (82.71%) AWS
2 576 (55.65%) dbt
3 517 (49.95%) Snowflake
4 400 (38.65%) GCP
5 194 (18.74%) Azure
6 78 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
7 77 (7.44%) Amazon ECS
8 72 (6.96%) Amazon EC2
9 36 (3.48%) Power Platform
10 16 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.55%) Serverless
11 15 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (1.45%) AWS Step Functions
12 12 (1.16%) Amazon S3
13 11 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (0.68%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (0.19%) SaaS
16 1 (0.097%) Entra ID
16 1 (0.097%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.58%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.48%) FTP
3 4 (0.39%) Firewall
4 3 (0.29%) DHCP
4 3 (0.29%) DNS
4 3 (0.29%) WAN
5 2 (0.19%) LAN
5 2 (0.19%) SNMP
6 1 (0.097%) BGP
6 1 (0.097%) Internet
6 1 (0.097%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.097%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.097%) NAS
6 1 (0.097%) OSPF
6 1 (0.097%) SAN
6 1 (0.097%) VPLS
6 1 (0.097%) VPN
6 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (55.65%) Apache Arrow
1 576 (55.65%) Apache Ignite
1 576 (55.65%) Dremio
2 549 (53.04%) Data Lake
3 540 (52.17%) Amazon Athena
4 120 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
5 85 (8.21%) Big Data
6 36 (3.48%) Power BI
6 36 (3.48%) Tableau
7 34 (3.29%) SQL Server
8 20 (1.93%) NoSQL
8 20 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.77%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.48%) Tick Data
11 4 (0.39%) Redis
12 3 (0.29%) Hazelcast
13 2 (0.19%) Event Store
13 2 (0.19%) Spark SQL
13 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 63 (6.09%) Cypress.io
2 14 (1.35%) Git
3 5 (0.48%) JIRA
4 4 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.39%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.29%) GitLab
5 3 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.19%) InstallShield
6 2 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.19%) Postman
6 2 (0.19%) Wise Package Studio
7 1 (0.097%) Burp Suite
General
1 948 (91.59%) Finance
2 827 (79.90%) Front Office
3 681 (65.80%) Banking
4 567 (54.78%) Investment Banking
5 49 (4.73%) Social Skills
6 30 (2.90%) Back Office
7 13 (1.26%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (1.26%) Law
8 10 (0.97%) Games
9 7 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.58%) Publishing
11 5 (0.48%) Legal
11 5 (0.48%) Marketing
12 4 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.19%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.097%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.097%) Retail
Job Titles
1 444 (42.90%) Software Engineer
2 374 (36.14%) Developer
3 282 (27.25%) Python Engineer
4 277 (26.76%) Python Software Engineer
5 265 (25.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 254 (24.54%) AWS Engineer
7 223 (21.55%) Senior
8 212 (20.48%) Lead
9 193 (18.65%) AWS Software Engineer
10 183 (17.68%) Python Developer
11 182 (17.58%) Senior Software Engineer
12 181 (17.49%) Java Engineer
13 179 (17.29%) Java Software Engineer
14 124 (11.98%) Analyst
15 115 (11.11%) Software Developer
16 110 (10.63%) Team Leader
17 109 (10.53%) Architect
17 109 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
18 108 (10.43%) Lead Developer
19 106 (10.24%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 637 (61.55%) gRPC
1 637 (61.55%) Protocol Buffers
2 489 (47.25%) NumPy
2 489 (47.25%) Pandas
3 477 (46.09%) SciPy
4 186 (17.97%) React
5 160 (15.46%) Redux
6 116 (11.21%) .NET
7 99 (9.57%) Material-UI
8 93 (8.99%) AngularJS
9 80 (7.73%) .NET Core
10 72 (6.96%) PySpark
11 55 (5.31%) Vue
12 23 (2.22%) ASP.NET
13 22 (2.13%) ASP.NET Core
14 19 (1.84%) Kafka
15 16 (1.55%) .NET Framework
16 11 (1.06%) Unity DI Container
17 9 (0.87%) REST
18 8 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 781 (75.46%) Fixed Income
2 711 (68.70%) Equities
3 664 (64.15%) Derivative
4 641 (61.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 119 (11.50%) Product Ownership
6 72 (6.96%) Pricing Data
7 54 (5.22%) Clustering
8 11 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.06%) Blog
8 11 (1.06%) Client/Server
8 11 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
8 11 (1.06%) Private Cloud
9 9 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 8 (0.77%) Data Centre
10 8 (0.77%) Reference Data
11 7 (0.68%) N-Tier
12 5 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.48%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.39%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.90%) Linux
2 23 (2.22%) Windows
3 11 (1.06%) Unix
4 5 (0.48%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.29%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.097%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 855 (82.61%) Asset Management
2 786 (75.94%) Agile
3 683 (65.99%) Investment Management
4 676 (65.31%) Software Engineering
5 207 (20.00%) Line Management
6 175 (16.91%) Greeks
7 163 (15.75%) Full Stack Development
7 163 (15.75%) Machine Learning
8 162 (15.65%) Artificial Intelligence
9 136 (13.14%) Analytics
10 111 (10.72%) Automated Trading
11 105 (10.14%) DevOps
12 81 (7.83%) Fintech
13 80 (7.73%) Migration
13 80 (7.73%) Roadmaps
14 61 (5.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 60 (5.80%) TDD
16 54 (5.22%) Business Analysis
16 54 (5.22%) Portfolio Management
17 38 (3.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 874 (84.44%) Python
2 660 (63.77%) TypeScript
3 615 (59.42%) JavaScript
4 580 (56.04%) Java
5 333 (32.17%) SQL
6 125 (12.08%) C#
7 60 (5.80%) Go
8 25 (2.42%) C++
9 17 (1.64%) Scala
10 13 (1.26%) Ruby
11 9 (0.87%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.87%) R
12 5 (0.48%) Bash
12 5 (0.48%) Clojure
12 5 (0.48%) Groovy
13 4 (0.39%) Rust
13 4 (0.39%) VBA
14 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.29%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (4.25%) Degree
2 10 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (0.97%) Master's Degree
3 6 (0.58%) PhD
4 3 (0.29%) ISEB
5 1 (0.097%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.097%) CBAP
5 1 (0.097%) CCIE
5 1 (0.097%) CEH
5 1 (0.097%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.097%) CISSP
5 1 (0.097%) IIBA
5 1 (0.097%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.097%) MCP
5 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.097%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.097%) OSCP
5 1 (0.097%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (19.90%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.15%) QA
3 13 (1.26%) MiFID
4 3 (0.29%) SOC 1
4 3 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.097%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (1.06%) Docker
2 5 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.29%) vSphere
4 1 (0.097%) Firmware
4 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.097%) KVM
4 1 (0.097%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.097%) Xen
Systems Management
1 71 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 63 (6.09%) Terraform
3 55 (5.31%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.58%) Ansible
5 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.29%) SCCM
6 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.097%) Control-M
7 1 (0.097%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.097%) Grafana
7 1 (0.097%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.097%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.097%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.097%) Nmap
7 1 (0.097%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.097%) Salt
7 1 (0.097%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 1 (0.097%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.097%) WSUS
Vendors
1 154 (14.88%) Bloomberg
2 99 (9.57%) Google
3 71 (6.86%) Reuters
4 35 (3.38%) BISAM
5 12 (1.16%) VMware
6 11 (1.06%) Microsoft
7 10 (0.97%) Oracle
8 6 (0.58%) Citrix
9 5 (0.48%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.39%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.29%) Cisco
12 2 (0.19%) BMC
12 2 (0.19%) Charles River
12 2 (0.19%) F5
12 2 (0.19%) NetApp
12 2 (0.19%) Sun
13 1 (0.097%) 3PAR
13 1 (0.097%) Altiris
13 1 (0.097%) McAfee
13 1 (0.097%) Symantec