Hedge fund
UK

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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 404 435
Rank change year-on-year +52 +31 -114
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 798 818 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 0.79% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 1.85% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 725 713 1,038
10th Percentile £72,500 £47,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £105,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £150,000 £136,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £200,000 £171,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -4.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Hedge funds
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Hedge funds.

Salary trend for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hedge funds over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hedge funds within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +78 786 £112,500 +7.14% 294
London +85 765 £112,500 +7.14% 276
Work from Home +160 460 £115,000 +15.00% 75
UK excluding London -17 33 £67,500 +8.00% 19
South West -25 16 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Scotland -61 11 £80,000 +14.29% 6
South East -10 4 £22,500 -64.00% 4
North West - 1 £82,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £120,000 -
North of England - 1 £82,500 - 2

Hedge funds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 298 (37.34%) Apache Airflow
2 252 (31.58%) Apache
3 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.63%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.25%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.63%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.88%) thinkFolio
3 4 (0.50%) Adaptiv
4 3 (0.38%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 517 (64.79%) AWS
2 300 (37.59%) GCP
3 234 (29.32%) Azure
4 217 (27.19%) dbt
5 194 (24.31%) Snowflake
6 9 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.00%) Amazon S3
8 7 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (0.88%) Serverless
9 6 (0.75%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (0.75%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (0.63%) GitHub
11 4 (0.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (0.50%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.50%) SaaS
11 4 (0.50%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.13%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.38%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.25%) WAN
3 9 (1.13%) VPN
4 7 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
4 7 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
4 7 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (0.88%) Network Security
4 7 (0.88%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.63%) Firewall
6 3 (0.38%) BGP
6 3 (0.38%) FTP
6 3 (0.38%) OSPF
7 2 (0.25%) DHCP
7 2 (0.25%) DNS
8 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.13%) LAN
8 1 (0.13%) SAN
8 1 (0.13%) SNMP
8 1 (0.13%) VRRP
8 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (31.58%) Apache Ignite
2 218 (27.32%) Dremio
3 217 (27.19%) Amazon Athena
3 217 (27.19%) Apache Arrow
4 194 (24.31%) Data Lake
5 92 (11.53%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (5.01%) Big Data
7 32 (4.01%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.13%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.50%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.50%) Tick Data
12 3 (0.38%) Event Store
13 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.25%) SQLPlus
14 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (6.02%) Cypress.io
2 14 (1.75%) Git
3 7 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.50%) GitLab
5 4 (0.50%) JIRA
5 4 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (0.50%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.25%) Postman
6 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 670 (83.96%) Finance
2 546 (68.42%) Front Office
3 363 (45.49%) Banking
4 216 (27.07%) Investment Banking
5 111 (13.91%) Back Office
6 91 (11.40%) Social Skills
7 31 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (2.51%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.63%) Billing
10 12 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.50%) Law
11 10 (1.25%) Marketing
11 10 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.13%) Games
12 9 (1.13%) Legal
13 2 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.25%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 365 (45.74%) Developer
2 269 (33.71%) Software Engineer
3 208 (26.07%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 171 (21.43%) Python Developer
5 155 (19.42%) Senior
6 143 (17.92%) Python Engineer
7 139 (17.42%) Python Software Engineer
8 119 (14.91%) Analyst
9 113 (14.16%) Lead
10 99 (12.41%) AWS Engineer
11 98 (12.28%) .NET Developer
12 95 (11.90%) Finance Manager
13 93 (11.65%) Senior Software Engineer
14 85 (10.65%) .NET Software Engineer
15 84 (10.53%) .NET Software Developer
16 81 (10.15%) React Developer
17 73 (9.15%) Quantitative Developer
18 70 (8.77%) Financial Analyst
19 63 (7.89%) Lead Developer
20 62 (7.77%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (36.97%) gRPC
1 295 (36.97%) Protocol Buffers
2 197 (24.69%) React
3 183 (22.93%) Pandas
4 181 (22.68%) NumPy
5 173 (21.68%) Redux
6 171 (21.43%) SciPy
7 144 (18.05%) .NET
8 110 (13.78%) AngularJS
9 89 (11.15%) Vue
10 80 (10.03%) Material-UI
11 72 (9.02%) .NET Core
12 49 (6.14%) ASP.NET
13 48 (6.02%) ASP.NET Core
14 15 (1.88%) HTML
15 14 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
16 12 (1.50%) Kafka
17 10 (1.25%) .NET Framework
18 8 (1.00%) CSS
19 6 (0.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 489 (61.28%) Fixed Income
2 433 (54.26%) Derivative
3 410 (51.38%) Equities
4 341 (42.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 50 (6.27%) Product Ownership
6 36 (4.51%) Clustering
7 35 (4.39%) Client/Server
8 18 (2.26%) Pricing Data
9 15 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.88%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.63%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.50%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.38%) Credit Derivative
13 9 (1.13%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.13%) Reference Data
14 8 (1.00%) Algorithms
14 8 (1.00%) PKI
15 7 (0.88%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.01%) Linux
2 22 (2.76%) Windows
3 10 (1.25%) Unix
4 8 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.25%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (71.93%) Asset Management
2 536 (67.17%) Investment Management
3 478 (59.90%) Agile
4 423 (53.01%) Software Engineering
5 149 (18.67%) Full Stack Development
6 134 (16.79%) Machine Learning
7 133 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 113 (14.16%) DevOps
9 95 (11.90%) Automated Trading
10 82 (10.28%) Fintech
11 79 (9.90%) Line Management
12 75 (9.40%) Mentoring
13 68 (8.52%) Analytics
13 68 (8.52%) Greeks
14 67 (8.40%) TDD
15 64 (8.02%) Quantitative Research
16 54 (6.77%) Portfolio Management
17 52 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
18 48 (6.02%) Computer Science
19 44 (5.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 575 (72.06%) Python
2 366 (45.86%) TypeScript
3 331 (41.48%) JavaScript
4 258 (32.33%) Java
5 245 (30.70%) SQL
6 207 (25.94%) C#
7 47 (5.89%) C++
8 43 (5.39%) R
9 40 (5.01%) Go
10 17 (2.13%) Scala
11 15 (1.88%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.88%) Rust
12 14 (1.75%) Ruby
13 6 (0.75%) Bash
14 3 (0.38%) Clojure
14 3 (0.38%) F#
14 3 (0.38%) Groovy
14 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (7.52%) Degree
2 23 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 11 (1.38%) PhD
5 7 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (0.75%) CCIE
7 1 (0.13%) CCNP
7 1 (0.13%) ISEB
7 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.52%) QA
3 7 (0.88%) SOC 1
4 4 (0.50%) SLA
5 3 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.38%) MiFID
6 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.50%) Docker
2 12 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.25%) vSphere
5 1 (0.13%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 50 (6.27%) Terraform
3 41 (5.14%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.25%) Ansible
5 7 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
5 7 (0.88%) Stealthwatch
6 5 (0.63%) Control-M
7 4 (0.50%) Grafana
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (0.50%) Rancher
7 4 (0.50%) SafeCom
8 2 (0.25%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.13%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.13%) Nmap
9 1 (0.13%) Puppet
9 1 (0.13%) SCCM
9 1 (0.13%) WSUS
9 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 80 (10.03%) Google
2 66 (8.27%) Bloomberg
3 19 (2.38%) VMware
4 18 (2.26%) Charles River
5 17 (2.13%) Oracle
6 15 (1.88%) Microsoft
7 14 (1.75%) BISAM
8 13 (1.63%) Cisco
9 7 (0.88%) Splunk
10 6 (0.75%) Citrix
11 5 (0.63%) Reuters
12 4 (0.50%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.50%) Veritas
13 3 (0.38%) Juniper
13 3 (0.38%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.25%) HubSpot
14 2 (0.25%) NetApp
14 2 (0.25%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.25%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.25%) Sun