Hedge funds Jobs

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 cited Hedge funds over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 312 390
Rank change year-on-year -47 +78 +61
Permanent jobs citing Hedge funds 419 964 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.89% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.99% 2.62% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 316 881 701
10th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £150,000
90th Percentile £160,000 £165,000 £187,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £71,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +40.35% +18.75% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21,039 36,806 40,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.41% 33.94% 43.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,687 23,367 22,228
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Hedge funds in the UK

Hedge funds
Top 14 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 10 June 2025. 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 -76 413 £115,000 - 655
London -47 377 £115,000 - 563
Work from Home -74 241 £115,000 - 145
UK excluding London +195 32 £100,000 +40.35% 176
North of England +78 18 £100,000 +21.21% 6
North East - 11 £100,000 - 5
Midlands - 7 - - 2
Yorkshire - 5 - -
West Midlands - 4 - -
South East - 3 - - 164
East Midlands - 3 - - 2
Scotland +105 2 - -
South West +93 2 - -
North West +10 2 - - 1

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 87 (20.76%) Apache
1 87 (20.76%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 58 (13.84%) Aladdin
2 39 (9.31%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 127 (30.31%) AWS
2 87 (20.76%) dbt
2 87 (20.76%) Snowflake
3 38 (9.07%) Azure
4 30 (7.16%) GCP
5 14 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (2.63%) Dagster
8 11 (2.63%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.67%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.48%) Nutanix
12 2 (0.48%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.24%) Azure Machine Learning
13 1 (0.24%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.34%) Firewall
2 12 (2.86%) SAN
3 5 (1.19%) DNS
3 5 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.95%) DHCP
4 4 (0.95%) LAN
4 4 (0.95%) WAN
5 2 (0.48%) FTP
5 2 (0.48%) VPN
6 1 (0.24%) BGP
6 1 (0.24%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.24%) HSRP
6 1 (0.24%) IPsec
6 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.24%) Multicast
6 1 (0.24%) NAS
6 1 (0.24%) OSPF
6 1 (0.24%) SNMP
6 1 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (30.31%) Data Lake
2 87 (20.76%) Amazon Athena
2 87 (20.76%) Apache Arrow
2 87 (20.76%) Apache Iceberg
2 87 (20.76%) Dremio
3 55 (13.13%) Apache Ignite
4 19 (4.53%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.95%) Tick Data
6 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.72%) Redis
7 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.24%) Big Data
8 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.24%) Power BI
8 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
2 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.24%) Git
3 1 (0.24%) GitLab
3 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 363 (86.63%) Finance
2 274 (65.39%) Front Office
3 100 (23.87%) Banking
4 96 (22.91%) Investment Banking
5 68 (16.23%) Social Skills
6 33 (7.88%) Financial Institution
7 29 (6.92%) Legal
8 25 (5.97%) Law
8 25 (5.97%) Prime Brokerage
9 6 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Advertising
12 3 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 123 (29.36%) Developer
2 105 (25.06%) Software Engineer
3 91 (21.72%) Analyst
4 90 (21.48%) AWS Engineer
5 88 (21.00%) Senior
6 87 (20.76%) AWS Software Engineer
7 71 (16.95%) Java Engineer
7 71 (16.95%) Java Software Engineer
8 60 (14.32%) Python Engineer
8 60 (14.32%) Python Software Engineer
9 55 (13.13%) Business Analyst
9 55 (13.13%) Business Manager
10 52 (12.41%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 50 (11.93%) Senior Java Engineer
11 50 (11.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 50 (11.93%) Senior Software Engineer
12 48 (11.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 40 (9.55%) C++ Developer
14 38 (9.07%) Quantitative Developer
15 36 (8.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (13.84%) NumPy
1 58 (13.84%) Pandas
2 55 (13.13%) gRPC
2 55 (13.13%) Protocol Buffers
2 55 (13.13%) SciPy
3 43 (10.26%) PySpark
4 33 (7.88%) React
5 28 (6.68%) AngularJS
6 16 (3.82%) Redux
6 16 (3.82%) Vue
7 15 (3.58%) .NET
7 15 (3.58%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 12 (2.86%) CSS
9 8 (1.91%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (1.43%) HTML
10 6 (1.43%) Next.js
10 6 (1.43%) React Native
10 6 (1.43%) Spring
11 5 (1.19%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 249 (59.43%) Derivative
2 236 (56.32%) Fixed Income
3 206 (49.16%) Equities
4 173 (41.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 46 (10.98%) Onboarding
6 44 (10.50%) Pricing Data
7 33 (7.88%) Blockchain
8 22 (5.25%) Algorithms
9 20 (4.77%) Data Structures
10 15 (3.58%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.67%) Podcast
14 5 (1.19%) Clustering
15 4 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
16 3 (0.72%) Client/Server
16 3 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
16 3 (0.72%) Reference Data
17 2 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
17 2 (0.48%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 59 (14.08%) Linux
2 21 (5.01%) Windows
3 11 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.19%) Android
6 5 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.19%) CentOS
7 3 (0.72%) Unix
8 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (58.95%) Agile
2 198 (47.26%) Investment Management
3 171 (40.81%) Asset Management
4 118 (28.16%) Software Engineering
5 107 (25.54%) Data Management
6 88 (21.00%) Migration
7 71 (16.95%) Regulatory Compliance
8 70 (16.71%) Data Governance
8 70 (16.71%) Roadmaps
9 59 (14.08%) Portfolio Management
10 58 (13.84%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (12.65%) Business Analysis
12 52 (12.41%) Low Latency
13 50 (11.93%) Analytics
14 45 (10.74%) Data Mapping
15 34 (8.11%) Computer Science
15 34 (8.11%) Risk Management
16 28 (6.68%) Full-Stack Development
17 26 (6.21%) Multithreading
18 25 (5.97%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 254 (60.62%) Python
2 121 (28.88%) SQL
3 101 (24.11%) Java
4 84 (20.05%) TypeScript
5 78 (18.62%) JavaScript
6 49 (11.69%) C++
7 40 (9.55%) PowerShell
8 19 (4.53%) C#
9 6 (1.43%) Bash
10 1 (0.24%) Clojure
10 1 (0.24%) Groovy
10 1 (0.24%) Scala
10 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (8.83%) Degree
2 24 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (3.82%) CEH
3 16 (3.82%) CISSP
3 16 (3.82%) CompTIA Security+
3 16 (3.82%) GCIA
3 16 (3.82%) GCIH
3 16 (3.82%) OSCP
4 7 (1.67%) SANS
5 4 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.24%) CCNA
6 1 (0.24%) CCNP
6 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.24%) MCSE
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.24%) VCAP
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.92%) GDPR
1 29 (6.92%) MiFID
2 25 (5.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (0.72%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.72%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.24%) QA
4 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.43%) Docker
3 5 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.95%) vSphere
5 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 14 (3.34%) Ansible
2 12 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.86%) Terraform
3 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.67%) Grafana
4 7 (1.67%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.67%) SCCM
5 5 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (1.19%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.48%) Puppet
7 1 (0.24%) Argo
7 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.24%) Packer
7 1 (0.24%) vRealize
7 1 (0.24%) WMI
Vendors
1 57 (13.60%) BISAM
2 45 (10.74%) Charles River
3 39 (9.31%) Calypso
3 39 (9.31%) SimCorp
4 18 (4.30%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.39%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (1.91%) VMware
7 6 (1.43%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.19%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.95%) NetApp
9 4 (0.95%) Reuters
10 3 (0.72%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (0.48%) Okta
12 1 (0.24%) Arista
12 1 (0.24%) Centrify
12 1 (0.24%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.24%) Citrix
12 1 (0.24%) FactSet
12 1 (0.24%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.24%) Varonis
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