Hedge funds Contracts in London

Hedge fund
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hedge funds over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 300 191
Rank change year-on-year +208 -109 +54
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 445 197 588
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.55% 0.77% 1.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.69% 2.14% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 168 463
10th Percentile £538 £450 £438
25th Percentile £613 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £850 £763 £750
90th Percentile £888 £850 £850
England median daily rate £750 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% +8.33%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,789 9,225 14,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.23% 36.07% 36.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,078 6,706 10,377
10th Percentile £315 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £719
90th Percentile £850 £838 £801
England median daily rate £550 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -3.25% +3.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 106 204
10th Percentile £15.47 £17.88 £17.04
25th Percentile £18.02 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.81 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.44% -18.09% +21.64%
75th Percentile £50.50 £62.81 £51.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £86.65 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.27 £22.49 £26.39
% change year-on-year +61.32% -14.78% +3.47%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds in London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hedge funds in London

Hedge funds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Hedge funds in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Central London +38 25 £638 -5.56% 11
Hedge funds
England

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 201 (45.17%) Apache Airflow
2 185 (41.57%) Apache
3 9 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (4.72%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.57%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.67%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.22%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 301 (67.64%) AWS
2 164 (36.85%) GCP
3 141 (31.69%) dbt
4 126 (28.31%) Snowflake
5 119 (26.74%) Azure
6 13 (2.92%) Power Platform
7 7 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.35%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.67%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.45%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.45%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.22%) Figma
11 1 (0.22%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
1 6 (1.35%) Firewall
1 6 (1.35%) Internet
1 6 (1.35%) VPN
1 6 (1.35%) Wireless
2 1 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.22%) FTP
2 1 (0.22%) Skype
2 1 (0.22%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (40.22%) Apache Ignite
2 141 (31.69%) Apache Arrow
2 141 (31.69%) Dremio
3 135 (30.34%) Amazon Athena
4 132 (29.66%) Data Lake
5 70 (15.73%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (7.64%) Big Data
7 22 (4.94%) SQL Server
8 13 (2.92%) Power BI
8 13 (2.92%) Tableau
9 10 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.57%) Crystal Reports
10 7 (1.57%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.45%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.45%) MySQL
15 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (10.56%) Cypress.io
2 10 (2.25%) JIRA
3 6 (1.35%) Git
3 6 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.67%) GitLab
4 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.67%) SpecFlow
4 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.45%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 383 (86.07%) Finance
2 309 (69.44%) Front Office
3 258 (57.98%) Banking
4 142 (31.91%) Investment Banking
5 32 (7.19%) Social Skills
6 31 (6.97%) Back Office
7 25 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (4.27%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.35%) Retail
10 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.45%) Law
11 2 (0.45%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.45%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.22%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 196 (44.04%) Developer
2 153 (34.38%) Software Engineer
3 117 (26.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 109 (24.49%) Python Engineer
5 106 (23.82%) Python Software Engineer
6 97 (21.80%) Python Developer
7 70 (15.73%) React Developer
8 68 (15.28%) Analyst
9 67 (15.06%) Senior
10 56 (12.58%) AWS Engineer
11 53 (11.91%) Finance Manager
12 51 (11.46%) Lead
13 47 (10.56%) Financial Analyst
14 46 (10.34%) Java Engineer
15 43 (9.66%) Full Stack Developer
16 41 (9.21%) Java Software Engineer
17 38 (8.54%) Business Analyst
17 38 (8.54%) Senior Software Engineer
18 36 (8.09%) AWS Software Engineer
19 33 (7.42%) Full Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (44.72%) gRPC
1 199 (44.72%) Protocol Buffers
2 116 (26.07%) Pandas
3 115 (25.84%) NumPy
4 114 (25.62%) SciPy
5 107 (24.04%) React
6 89 (20.00%) Redux
7 65 (14.61%) Material-UI
8 38 (8.54%) .NET
9 22 (4.94%) AngularJS
10 19 (4.27%) .NET Core
11 14 (3.15%) Kafka
12 12 (2.70%) CSS
12 12 (2.70%) HTML
13 8 (1.80%) ASP.NET
13 8 (1.80%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (1.57%) SailPoint
14 7 (1.57%) Spark Streaming
15 6 (1.35%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 263 (59.10%) Fixed Income
2 233 (52.36%) Equities
3 229 (51.46%) Derivative
4 173 (38.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 40 (8.99%) Product Ownership
6 18 (4.04%) Clustering
7 14 (3.15%) Algorithms
7 14 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.15%) Pricing Data
8 7 (1.57%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.90%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (0.90%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.90%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.22%) Animation
12 1 (0.22%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.22%) Market Risk
12 1 (0.22%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.60%) Windows
2 15 (3.37%) Linux
3 8 (1.80%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.35%) Unix
4 6 (1.35%) Windows 7
5 5 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.45%) CentOS
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (69.89%) Asset Management
2 283 (63.60%) Agile
3 271 (60.90%) Investment Management
4 221 (49.66%) Software Engineering
5 104 (23.37%) Full Stack Development
6 102 (22.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 95 (21.35%) Machine Learning
8 67 (15.06%) Automated Trading
9 56 (12.58%) Line Management
10 54 (12.13%) DevOps
11 40 (8.99%) Analytics
12 37 (8.31%) Greeks
12 37 (8.31%) Mentoring
13 33 (7.42%) Fintech
14 28 (6.29%) TDD
15 25 (5.62%) Roadmaps
16 22 (4.94%) Business Intelligence
17 21 (4.72%) Product Management
17 21 (4.72%) Scrum
18 20 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 314 (70.56%) Python
2 203 (45.62%) TypeScript
3 165 (37.08%) JavaScript
4 160 (35.96%) Java
5 111 (24.94%) SQL
6 84 (18.88%) C#
7 26 (5.84%) C++
8 24 (5.39%) Scala
9 19 (4.27%) Go
10 16 (3.60%) R
11 14 (3.15%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.35%) Ruby
13 2 (0.45%) Bash
13 2 (0.45%) PHP
13 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) Clojure
14 1 (0.22%) Perl
14 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (3.37%) Degree
2 7 (1.57%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (1.35%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.90%) CISSP
6 2 (0.45%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.45%) PMP
7 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.97%) QA
3 8 (1.80%) MiFID
4 6 (1.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.22%) EMIR
5 1 (0.22%) FATCA
5 1 (0.22%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.27%) Prometheus
2 19 (4.27%) Terraform
3 6 (1.35%) Ansible
3 6 (1.35%) Puppet
4 3 (0.67%) PingFederate
4 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.22%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 66 (14.83%) Google
2 34 (7.64%) Bloomberg
3 18 (4.04%) Microsoft
4 16 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.70%) BISAM
6 7 (1.57%) SimCorp
7 6 (1.35%) Cisco
7 6 (1.35%) F5
7 6 (1.35%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.35%) Juniper
7 6 (1.35%) Oracle
7 6 (1.35%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.67%) Altiris
8 3 (0.67%) CyberArk
8 3 (0.67%) ForgeRock
8 3 (0.67%) Okta
8 3 (0.67%) Reuters
9 2 (0.45%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.45%) Charles River
9 2 (0.45%) Red Hat