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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 339 399
Rank change year-on-year +16 +60 +42
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 504 840 816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.85% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.56% 2.39% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 403 766 715
10th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £112,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £147,500 £142,500 £150,000
90th Percentile £160,000 £165,000 £200,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% +4.17%

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 19,704 35,199 43,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.74% 35.47% 43.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,996 23,075 23,477
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £108,133
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Top 14 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 12 May 2025. 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 -11 500 £115,000 +2.22% 559
London -7 462 £115,000 +2.22% 529
Work from Home +23 307 £115,000 - 145
UK excluding London +167 36 £70,000 +3.70% 201
North of England +83 22 £70,000 -15.15% 20
North East - 15 £70,000 - 16
Midlands - 7 - - 2
Yorkshire - 5 - -
West Midlands - 4 - -
South East +99 3 - - 174
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
Scotland +103 2 - -
South West +91 2 - - 5
North West +3 2 - - 4

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
1 107 (21.23%) Apache
1 107 (21.23%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 57 (11.31%) Aladdin
2 36 (7.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 141 (27.98%) AWS
2 107 (21.23%) dbt
2 107 (21.23%) Snowflake
3 51 (10.12%) GCP
4 37 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
5 34 (6.75%) Amazon EKS
5 34 (6.75%) Azure
5 34 (6.75%) Dagster
6 11 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (1.79%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.19%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.40%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.20%) Serverless
11 1 (0.20%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.17%) Firewall
2 14 (2.78%) SAN
3 3 (0.60%) DNS
4 2 (0.40%) DHCP
4 2 (0.40%) LAN
4 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.40%) VPN
4 2 (0.40%) WAN
5 1 (0.20%) BGP
5 1 (0.20%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.20%) HSRP
5 1 (0.20%) IPsec
5 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.20%) Multicast
5 1 (0.20%) NAS
5 1 (0.20%) OSPF
5 1 (0.20%) SNMP
5 1 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.20%) VRRP
5 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (37.70%) Data Lake
2 107 (21.23%) Amazon Athena
2 107 (21.23%) Apache Arrow
2 107 (21.23%) Apache Iceberg
2 107 (21.23%) Dremio
3 75 (14.88%) Apache Ignite
4 16 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.79%) Redis
5 4 (0.79%) Tick Data
6 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.20%) Big Data
7 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
2 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.20%) Git
3 1 (0.20%) GitLab
3 1 (0.20%) Maven
3 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 445 (88.29%) Finance
2 346 (68.65%) Front Office
3 121 (24.01%) Banking
4 118 (23.41%) Investment Banking
5 68 (13.49%) Social Skills
6 35 (6.94%) Financial Institution
7 27 (5.36%) Legal
8 24 (4.76%) Law
8 24 (4.76%) Prime Brokerage
9 5 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (0.79%) Advertising
11 3 (0.60%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 125 (24.80%) Analyst
1 125 (24.80%) Software Engineer
2 123 (24.40%) Developer
3 110 (21.83%) AWS Engineer
4 107 (21.23%) AWS Software Engineer
5 99 (19.64%) Senior
6 80 (15.87%) Java Engineer
6 80 (15.87%) Java Software Engineer
7 77 (15.28%) Business Analyst
8 71 (14.09%) Python Engineer
9 68 (13.49%) Python Software Engineer
10 67 (13.29%) Business Manager
11 59 (11.71%) Senior Software Engineer
12 53 (10.52%) Senior Java Engineer
12 53 (10.52%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 49 (9.72%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
14 44 (8.73%) C++ Developer
14 44 (8.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 42 (8.33%) Lead
16 41 (8.13%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.08%) NumPy
1 76 (15.08%) Pandas
2 75 (14.88%) gRPC
2 75 (14.88%) Protocol Buffers
2 75 (14.88%) SciPy
3 66 (13.10%) PySpark
4 28 (5.56%) React
5 24 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 16 (3.17%) .NET
7 14 (2.78%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 12 (2.38%) CSS
8 12 (2.38%) Redux
8 12 (2.38%) Vue
9 8 (1.59%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.39%) Spring
11 6 (1.19%) Angular 2
11 6 (1.19%) HTML
11 6 (1.19%) jQuery
11 6 (1.19%) Next.js
11 6 (1.19%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 327 (64.88%) Derivative
2 313 (62.10%) Fixed Income
3 282 (55.95%) Equities
4 248 (49.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 52 (10.32%) Product Ownership
6 42 (8.33%) Onboarding
7 41 (8.13%) Pricing Data
8 30 (5.95%) Blockchain
9 25 (4.96%) Algorithms
10 23 (4.56%) Data Structures
11 14 (2.78%) Management Information System
12 13 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.79%) Podcast
14 7 (1.39%) Client/Server
14 7 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (0.99%) Clustering
16 4 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
17 3 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
18 2 (0.40%) Cloud Native
18 2 (0.40%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 59 (11.71%) Linux
2 24 (4.76%) Windows
3 23 (4.56%) Apple iOS
4 11 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.99%) Android
6 5 (0.99%) CentOS
7 4 (0.79%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.60%) Unix
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (63.69%) Agile
2 254 (50.40%) Investment Management
3 203 (40.28%) Asset Management
4 152 (30.16%) Migration
5 137 (27.18%) Software Engineering
6 130 (25.79%) Roadmaps
7 117 (23.21%) Data Management
8 114 (22.62%) Data Governance
8 114 (22.62%) Regulatory Compliance
9 74 (14.68%) Portfolio Management
10 63 (12.50%) Analytics
11 57 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
12 53 (10.52%) Low Latency
13 50 (9.92%) Business Analysis
14 42 (8.33%) Data Mapping
15 38 (7.54%) Computer Science
16 33 (6.55%) Order Management
17 32 (6.35%) Risk Management
18 31 (6.15%) Multithreading
19 24 (4.76%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 278 (55.16%) Python
2 124 (24.60%) Java
3 119 (23.61%) SQL
4 102 (20.24%) TypeScript
5 94 (18.65%) JavaScript
6 53 (10.52%) C++
7 40 (7.94%) PowerShell
8 24 (4.76%) C#
9 6 (1.19%) Bash
10 1 (0.20%) Scala
10 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (11.90%) Degree
2 28 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (3.77%) CEH
3 19 (3.77%) CISSP
3 19 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
3 19 (3.77%) GCIA
3 19 (3.77%) GCIH
3 19 (3.77%) OSCP
4 9 (1.79%) SANS
5 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.20%) CCNA
6 1 (0.20%) CCNP
6 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.20%) MCSE
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.20%) VCAP
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.11%) MiFID
2 28 (5.56%) GDPR
3 24 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.20%) QA
5 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.19%) Docker
3 5 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.79%) vSphere
5 3 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (2.58%) Ansible
1 13 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.18%) Terraform
3 7 (1.39%) Grafana
3 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.39%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.39%) SCCM
4 5 (0.99%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.20%) Packer
7 1 (0.20%) vRealize
7 1 (0.20%) WMI
Vendors
1 57 (11.31%) BISAM
2 42 (8.33%) Charles River
3 36 (7.14%) Calypso
3 36 (7.14%) SimCorp
4 19 (3.77%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (1.59%) VMware
7 5 (0.99%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.79%) NetApp
9 3 (0.60%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (0.40%) Okta
11 1 (0.20%) Arista
11 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.20%) Centrify
11 1 (0.20%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.20%) Cisco
11 1 (0.20%) Google
11 1 (0.20%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.20%) Reuters
11 1 (0.20%) Varonis