Hybrid/Remote Hedge funds Job Trends

Hedge fund
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 211 364
Rank change year-on-year -94 +153 +24
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 70 262 130
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.46% 1.55% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% 3.95% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 56 252 117
10th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £93,438 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,500 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £230,000 £152,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £112,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,283 6,630 7,933
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.97% 39.21% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,374 3,687 6,188
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,795 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,188 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Hedge funds and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Hedge funds job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hedge funds.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hedge funds

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Hedge funds salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 33 (47.14%) Apache
1 33 (47.14%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (10.00%) Ethereum
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 42 (60.00%) AWS
2 33 (47.14%) dbt
2 33 (47.14%) Snowflake
3 12 (17.14%) Azure
4 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (48.57%) Data Lake
2 33 (47.14%) Amazon Athena
2 33 (47.14%) Apache Arrow
2 33 (47.14%) Apache Iceberg
2 33 (47.14%) Apache Ignite
2 33 (47.14%) Dremio
3 2 (2.86%) Tick Data
4 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) NUnit
2 1 (1.43%) Postman
2 1 (1.43%) Selenium
General
1 52 (74.29%) Finance
2 45 (64.29%) Banking
3 36 (51.43%) Front Office
4 33 (47.14%) Investment Banking
5 7 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (8.57%) Back Office
7 3 (4.29%) Social Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 37 (52.86%) Python Engineer
2 36 (51.43%) Senior
3 33 (47.14%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (47.14%) AWS Software Engineer
3 33 (47.14%) Java Engineer
3 33 (47.14%) Java Software Engineer
3 33 (47.14%) Python Software Engineer
3 33 (47.14%) Software Engineer
4 31 (44.29%) Senior Java Engineer
4 31 (44.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 31 (44.29%) Senior Software Engineer
5 13 (18.57%) Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Python Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Rust Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Applications Manager
9 3 (4.29%) Applications Support
9 3 (4.29%) Applications Support Manager
9 3 (4.29%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (48.57%) NumPy
1 34 (48.57%) Pandas
2 33 (47.14%) gRPC
2 33 (47.14%) Protocol Buffers
2 33 (47.14%) SciPy
3 7 (10.00%) Smart Contracts
3 7 (10.00%) web3js
4 4 (5.71%) React
5 1 (1.43%) Kafka
5 1 (1.43%) PySpark
5 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 33 (47.14%) Derivative
1 33 (47.14%) Equities
1 33 (47.14%) Fixed Income
1 33 (47.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 33 (47.14%) Pricing Data
2 7 (10.00%) Blockchain
2 7 (10.00%) Web3
3 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.29%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.43%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (68.57%) Software Engineering
2 40 (57.14%) Agile
3 38 (54.29%) Asset Management
4 33 (47.14%) Investment Management
5 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (12.86%) Low Latency
7 8 (11.43%) Computer Science
7 8 (11.43%) DeFi
7 8 (11.43%) Ultra-Low Latency
8 7 (10.00%) Design Patterns
8 7 (10.00%) DevOps
8 7 (10.00%) Workflow
9 6 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (5.71%) High Availability
10 4 (5.71%) Platform Engineering
11 3 (4.29%) CI/CD
11 3 (4.29%) Containerisation
11 3 (4.29%) ETL
11 3 (4.29%) Fund Management
11 3 (4.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (65.71%) Python
2 44 (62.86%) TypeScript
3 33 (47.14%) Java
3 33 (47.14%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.43%) Rust
5 7 (10.00%) Go
6 3 (4.29%) SQL
7 2 (2.86%) C#
8 1 (1.43%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (17.14%) Degree
2 8 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Postfix
2 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.43%) Databricks