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 1 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 262 112
Rank change year-on-year -142 -150 +218
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 52 188 680
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.23% 1.14% 2.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% 2.64% 7.59%
Number of salaries quoted 36 175 671
10th Percentile £55,000 £87,500 £85,000
25th Percentile £96,875 £105,000 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £174,375 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £208,750 £136,250 £165,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%

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 8,400 7,121 8,955
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.81% 43.06% 34.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,201 3,674 6,517
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,000 £33,930
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,000 £85,188 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £58,000 £56,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.65% +0.89% -12.50%

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

Hedge funds
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

Hedge funds
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

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

Hedge funds
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 4 (7.69%) Ethereum
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) AWS
2 13 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 12 (23.08%) Amazon Bedrock
3 12 (23.08%) Snowflake
4 9 (17.31%) Azure
5 2 (3.85%) GCP
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Claude Code
General
1 37 (71.15%) Finance
2 19 (36.54%) Banking
3 12 (23.08%) Front Office
4 7 (13.46%) Investment Banking
5 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Developer
2 12 (23.08%) Architect
2 12 (23.08%) Enterprise Architect
2 12 (23.08%) Finance Manager
3 10 (19.23%) C# Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Front Office Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Senior
6 5 (9.62%) Data Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Market Data Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Junior
8 3 (5.77%) Junior Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Rust Developer
9 2 (3.85%) C# Software Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) LangChain
1 12 (23.08%) LangGraph
2 4 (7.69%) Smart Contracts
2 4 (7.69%) web3js
3 3 (5.77%) .NET
4 1 (1.92%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (1.92%) Pandas
4 1 (1.92%) PySpark
4 1 (1.92%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) AI Agents
2 5 (9.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (7.69%) Blockchain
3 4 (7.69%) Derivative
3 4 (7.69%) Reference Data
3 4 (7.69%) Web3
4 3 (5.77%) Client/Server
4 3 (5.77%) Equities
4 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.92%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) Investment Management
2 14 (26.92%) Asset Management
3 13 (25.00%) AI
4 12 (23.08%) Data Science
4 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (23.08%) Machine Learning
4 12 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 11 (21.15%) Software Engineering
6 9 (17.31%) Fintech
6 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (15.38%) Low Latency
8 7 (13.46%) Computer Science
9 6 (11.54%) Design Patterns
10 5 (9.62%) Data Modelling
10 5 (9.62%) High Availability
10 5 (9.62%) Market Making
10 5 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (9.62%) Proprietary Trading
10 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (9.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) Python
2 13 (25.00%) C#
3 11 (21.15%) SQL
4 5 (9.62%) C++
4 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.69%) Go
5 4 (7.69%) Rust
6 2 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft