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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 104 327
Rank change year-on-year -177 +223 +47
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 150 683 189
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.92% 2.93% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 8.67% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 138 674 184
10th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £54,125
25th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £80,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +9.52% -2.33%
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £140,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £165,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +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 6,814 7,881 10,401
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.95% 33.77% 41.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,515 4,771 8,405
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £39,294
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £106,274
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Hedge funds
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hedge funds trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Hedge funds
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

Hedge funds
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Hedge funds salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 89 (59.33%) Apache
1 89 (59.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.33%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 33 (22.00%) Aladdin
1 33 (22.00%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 104 (69.33%) AWS
2 89 (59.33%) dbt
2 89 (59.33%) Snowflake
3 16 (10.67%) Azure
4 10 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (59.33%) Amazon Athena
1 89 (59.33%) Apache Arrow
1 89 (59.33%) Apache Iceberg
1 89 (59.33%) Apache Ignite
1 89 (59.33%) Data Lake
1 89 (59.33%) Dremio
2 4 (2.67%) Tick Data
3 2 (1.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Git
General
1 145 (96.67%) Finance
2 139 (92.67%) Front Office
3 94 (62.67%) Banking
4 89 (59.33%) Investment Banking
5 12 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.67%) Back Office
6 4 (2.67%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (66.00%) Software Engineer
2 92 (61.33%) Senior
3 89 (59.33%) AWS Engineer
3 89 (59.33%) AWS Software Engineer
3 89 (59.33%) Java Engineer
3 89 (59.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 89 (59.33%) Python Engineer
3 89 (59.33%) Python Software Engineer
3 89 (59.33%) Senior Java Engineer
3 89 (59.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 89 (59.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 33 (22.00%) Analyst
4 33 (22.00%) Business Analyst
4 33 (22.00%) Business Manager
4 33 (22.00%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
5 25 (16.67%) Developer
6 10 (6.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 10 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 10 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (60.67%) NumPy
1 91 (60.67%) Pandas
2 89 (59.33%) gRPC
2 89 (59.33%) Protocol Buffers
2 89 (59.33%) SciPy
3 13 (8.67%) AngularJS
4 12 (8.00%) React
5 10 (6.67%) Redux
5 10 (6.67%) Vue
6 3 (2.00%) CSS
6 3 (2.00%) HTML
6 3 (2.00%) Kafka
6 3 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.00%) REST
7 2 (1.33%) .NET
7 2 (1.33%) Angular 2
7 2 (1.33%) jQuery
7 2 (1.33%) Smart Contracts
7 2 (1.33%) web3js
8 1 (0.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 132 (88.00%) Fixed Income
2 122 (81.33%) Derivative
3 101 (67.33%) Equities
3 101 (67.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 89 (59.33%) Pricing Data
5 33 (22.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.33%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.33%) Web3
7 1 (0.67%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (92.67%) Agile
2 137 (91.33%) Asset Management
3 132 (88.00%) Investment Management
4 104 (69.33%) Software Engineering
5 35 (23.33%) Portfolio Management
6 33 (22.00%) Business Analysis
6 33 (22.00%) Business Intelligence
6 33 (22.00%) Data Mapping
7 13 (8.67%) Analytics
7 13 (8.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (7.33%) TDD
9 10 (6.67%) Fintech
10 7 (4.67%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (4.00%) OO
11 6 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (3.33%) Computer Science
13 4 (2.67%) Data Analysis
13 4 (2.67%) Econometrics
13 4 (2.67%) ETL
13 4 (2.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 145 (96.67%) Python
2 103 (68.67%) TypeScript
3 102 (68.00%) JavaScript
4 89 (59.33%) Java
5 41 (27.33%) SQL
6 7 (4.67%) C#
7 3 (2.00%) Rust
8 2 (1.33%) C++
8 2 (1.33%) Go
9 1 (0.67%) Clojure
9 1 (0.67%) Groovy
9 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (6.67%) Degree
2 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.67%) MiFID
Vendors
1 33 (22.00%) BISAM
1 33 (22.00%) Calypso
1 33 (22.00%) Charles River
1 33 (22.00%) SimCorp
2 1 (0.67%) Bloomberg
2 1 (0.67%) Reuters