Hedge funds Contracts in Central London

Hedge fund
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 155 79
Rank change year-on-year +48 -76 +70
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 27 19 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.12% 0.50% 2.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.54% 1.41% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 28
10th Percentile £370 £495 £400
25th Percentile £475 £556 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £713 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +21.28% -6.00%
75th Percentile £798 £850 £638
90th Percentile £900 £906 £844
London median daily rate £750 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +25.00% -4.00% +4.17%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 762 1,345 1,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.53% 35.52% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 922 1,172
10th Percentile £263 £326 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £616 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% +7.13% +2.22%
75th Percentile £695 £750 £700
90th Percentile £838 £850 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 28
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.78 £18.50
25th Percentile £16.00 - £37.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -24.73% +158.69%
75th Percentile £27.00 £83.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £32.05 £88.30 £63.48
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -25.71% -19.54% +33.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Hedge funds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in Central London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hedge funds within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of Westminster +3 19 £625 -10.71%
City of London +35 6 £838 +17.54% 2
Hedge funds
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.70%) Sentry
4 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Skype
1 1 (3.70%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) Big Data
3 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (25.93%) Front Office
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Quantitative Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Angular Developer
4 2 (7.41%) ETL Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (7.41%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
4 2 (7.41%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Hardware Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Scala Developer
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Reporting Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) UI Developer
4 2 (7.41%) UX Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) AngularJS
2 6 (22.22%) React
3 5 (18.52%) .NET
4 4 (14.81%) Kafka
5 3 (11.11%) .NET Core
6 2 (7.41%) CSS
6 2 (7.41%) CSS3
6 2 (7.41%) HTML
6 2 (7.41%) HTML5
6 2 (7.41%) Pandas
6 2 (7.41%) Web Services
7 1 (3.70%) NumPy
7 1 (3.70%) PySpark
7 1 (3.70%) REST
7 1 (3.70%) SciPy
7 1 (3.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.41%) Equities
2 2 (7.41%) Fixed Income
2 2 (7.41%) Market Risk
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Microservices
2 4 (14.81%) Re-Platforming
3 3 (11.11%) ETL
3 3 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
3 3 (11.11%) Systematic Trading
4 2 (7.41%) Backtesting
4 2 (7.41%) CI/CD
4 2 (7.41%) Computer Science
4 2 (7.41%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (7.41%) DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Front End Development
4 2 (7.41%) Open Source
4 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (7.41%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (7.41%) User Experience
4 2 (7.41%) UX Design
4 2 (7.41%) Visualisation
4 2 (7.41%) Wealth Management
4 2 (7.41%) Web Development
5 1 (3.70%) Regtech
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) C#
1 7 (25.93%) Python
1 7 (25.93%) SQL
2 6 (22.22%) Java
2 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.11%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.70%) Perl
5 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) MiFID
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) EMIR
3 1 (3.70%) FATCA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Grafana
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Nagios
1 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Altiris
1 2 (7.41%) Bloomberg
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.41%) Reuters
1 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.70%) Citrix
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Splunk
2 1 (3.70%) Sybase