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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 407 425
Rank change year-on-year +44 +18 -102
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 758 816 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.78% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 1.81% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 687 709 1,035
10th Percentile £70,750 £47,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £71,250 £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 £71,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% +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 34,794 45,109 72,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 42.89% 47.14%
Number of salaries quoted 22,980 24,192 33,986
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,500
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 £84,250
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 25 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 25 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 +75 746 £112,500 +7.14% 321
London +84 727 £112,500 +7.14% 299
Work from Home +145 429 £115,000 +15.00% 77
UK excluding London -32 30 £71,250 +14.00% 24
South West -29 12 £67,500 +28.57% 8
Scotland -56 11 £80,000 +14.29% 6
South East +1 5 £22,500 -64.00% 8
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 (33.64%) Apache Airflow
2 215 (28.36%) Apache
3 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.40%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.40%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (1.45%) 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 5 (0.66%) Adaptiv
4 3 (0.40%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 474 (62.53%) AWS
2 285 (37.60%) GCP
3 227 (29.95%) Azure
4 185 (24.41%) dbt
5 162 (21.37%) Snowflake
6 9 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (0.79%) Amazon S3
7 6 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (0.79%) GitHub
8 5 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
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%) OpenShift
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 (28.36%) Apache Ignite
2 186 (24.54%) Dremio
3 185 (24.41%) Amazon Athena
3 185 (24.41%) Apache Arrow
4 162 (21.37%) Data Lake
5 80 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (4.62%) Big Data
7 32 (4.22%) SQL Server
8 18 (2.37%) 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 (5.41%) Cypress.io
2 14 (1.85%) 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 (82.59%) Finance
2 508 (67.02%) Front Office
3 324 (42.74%) Banking
4 188 (24.80%) Investment Banking
5 112 (14.78%) Back Office
6 88 (11.61%) Social Skills
7 34 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (2.90%) Financial Institution
9 14 (1.85%) Billing
10 11 (1.45%) Marketing
11 10 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.19%) Legal
13 8 (1.06%) Games
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
1 357 (47.10%) Developer
2 246 (32.45%) Software Engineer
3 197 (25.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 158 (20.84%) Python Developer
5 146 (19.26%) Senior
6 121 (15.96%) Python Engineer
7 117 (15.44%) Python Software Engineer
8 116 (15.30%) Analyst
9 108 (14.25%) Lead
10 102 (13.46%) .NET Developer
11 94 (12.40%) Finance Manager
12 89 (11.74%) .NET Software Engineer
13 88 (11.61%) .NET Software Developer
14 82 (10.82%) Senior Software Engineer
15 81 (10.69%) AWS Engineer
16 73 (9.63%) Quantitative Developer
17 70 (9.23%) React Developer
18 66 (8.71%) Financial Analyst
19 63 (8.31%) Lead Developer
19 63 (8.31%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (33.25%) gRPC
1 252 (33.25%) Protocol Buffers
2 188 (24.80%) React
3 166 (21.90%) Redux
4 157 (20.71%) Pandas
5 154 (20.32%) NumPy
6 147 (19.39%) .NET
7 145 (19.13%) SciPy
8 115 (15.17%) AngularJS
9 93 (12.27%) Vue
10 69 (9.10%) .NET Core
10 69 (9.10%) Material-UI
11 53 (6.99%) ASP.NET
12 52 (6.86%) ASP.NET Core
13 15 (1.98%) HTML
14 14 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
15 12 (1.58%) Kafka
16 8 (1.06%) .NET Framework
16 8 (1.06%) CSS
17 6 (0.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 460 (60.69%) Fixed Income
2 408 (53.83%) Derivative
3 377 (49.74%) Equities
4 320 (42.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 46 (6.07%) Product Ownership
6 35 (4.62%) Client/Server
7 30 (3.96%) Clustering
8 17 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (2.24%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.58%) Credit Derivative
10 12 (1.58%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.58%) 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 40 (5.28%) Linux
2 23 (3.03%) Windows
3 11 (1.45%) Unix
4 8 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.40%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.26%) Solaris
7 2 (0.26%) VMS
7 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (69.92%) Asset Management
2 499 (65.83%) Investment Management
3 438 (57.78%) Agile
4 389 (51.32%) Software Engineering
5 141 (18.60%) Full Stack Development
6 119 (15.70%) Machine Learning
7 118 (15.57%) Artificial Intelligence
8 111 (14.64%) DevOps
9 87 (11.48%) Automated Trading
10 85 (11.21%) Fintech
11 77 (10.16%) Mentoring
12 71 (9.37%) Line Management
13 70 (9.23%) TDD
14 66 (8.71%) Analytics
15 65 (8.58%) Quantitative Research
16 56 (7.39%) Greeks
17 54 (7.12%) Portfolio Management
17 54 (7.12%) Problem-Solving
18 51 (6.73%) Computer Science
19 42 (5.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 530 (69.92%) Python
2 331 (43.67%) TypeScript
3 302 (39.84%) JavaScript
4 233 (30.74%) SQL
5 227 (29.95%) Java
6 209 (27.57%) C#
7 53 (6.99%) C++
8 44 (5.80%) R
9 34 (4.49%) Go
10 17 (2.24%) 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 64 (8.44%) Degree
2 27 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (2.64%) 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 (7.65%) Data Quality
2 55 (7.26%) QA
3 7 (0.92%) SOC 1
4 5 (0.66%) SLA
5 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.40%) MiFID
6 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.72%) Docker
3 12 (1.58%) 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 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 44 (5.80%) Terraform
3 35 (4.62%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.32%) Ansible
5 7 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
5 7 (0.92%) Stealthwatch
6 6 (0.79%) Control-M
7 5 (0.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (0.66%) SafeCom
8 4 (0.53%) Grafana
8 4 (0.53%) Rancher
9 3 (0.40%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.26%) BMC PATROL
10 2 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.13%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.13%) Podman
11 1 (0.13%) SCCM
11 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (9.10%) Google
2 63 (8.31%) Bloomberg
3 19 (2.51%) Charles River
3 19 (2.51%) VMware
4 18 (2.37%) Oracle
5 16 (2.11%) 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
9 5 (0.66%) SolarWinds
9 5 (0.66%) Veritas
10 3 (0.40%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.40%) Juniper
10 3 (0.40%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.40%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.26%) Calypso
11 2 (0.26%) NetApp
11 2 (0.26%) Red Hat