Hedge funds Contracts in the City of London

Hedge fund
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 157 85
Rank change year-on-year +34 -72 +65
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 4 10 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.19% 0.29% 2.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% 0.82% 8.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 15
10th Percentile £790 £570 £433
25th Percentile £831 £625 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £863 £638
90th Percentile - £968 £645
Central London median daily rate £638 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -4.00%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 669 1,213 1,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.02% 34.78% 35.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 826 1,065
10th Percentile £264 £350 £406
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -1.71%
75th Percentile £690 £750 £700
90th Percentile £838 £850 £813
Central London median daily rate £563 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 28
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.06 £18.50
25th Percentile £13.56 £35.00 £32.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £51.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.17% +10.75% +158.69%
75th Percentile £26.25 £86.02 £59.50
90th Percentile £38.63 £88.30 £65.28
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £37.42 £46.50
% change year-on-year -38.53% -19.54% +132.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Front Office
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Scala Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Report Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Reporting Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Equities
2 1 (25.00%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree