Bloomberg Contracts in England

Bloomberg
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Bloomberg products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Bloomberg over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Bloomberg.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 403 522 595
Rank change year-on-year +119 +73 -68
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 132 141 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Vendors category 0.85% 0.67% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 117 157
10th Percentile £313 £340 £265
25th Percentile £362 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £763 £738 £763
90th Percentile £800 £850 £815
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -12.00% -7.41% +17.39%

All Vendors
England

Bloomberg is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,613 21,186 27,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.24% 41.91% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,913 14,600 19,083
10th Percentile £256 £265 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 609 793
10th Percentile £12.01 £15.19 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.50 £43.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Bloomberg as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bloomberg in England.

Daily rate trend for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bloomberg in England.

Hourly rate trend for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bloomberg within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +87 127 £550 -12.00% 44
Midlands - 2 £800 -
South East - 2 £288 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £800 -
South West - 1 £200 - 1
North West - 1 £200 -
West Midlands - 1 £800 -
North of England - 1 £200 -
Bloomberg
UK

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (9.85%) Confluence
2 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) SAS
4 1 (0.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 27 (20.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (9.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (9.85%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (12.88%) Aladdin
2 10 (7.58%) ION MarketView
3 4 (3.03%) Eikon
4 3 (2.27%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (2.27%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (2.27%) ION Anvil
5 2 (1.52%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.52%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (1.52%) RMDS
5 2 (1.52%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.76%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.21%) AWS
2 20 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (12.12%) Azure
4 14 (10.61%) GCP
5 2 (1.52%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.76%) dbt
6 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.61%) FIX Connectivity
2 11 (8.33%) Firewall
3 6 (4.55%) VPN
4 4 (3.03%) LAN
4 4 (3.03%) WAN
5 3 (2.27%) WebEx
6 1 (0.76%) FTP
6 1 (0.76%) Multicast
6 1 (0.76%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.27%) Data Mart
2 3 (2.27%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.52%) KDB
4 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Arrow
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Ignite
4 1 (0.76%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.76%) Dremio
4 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (13.64%) JIRA
2 14 (10.61%) TeamCity
3 4 (3.03%) Git
4 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
General
1 66 (50.00%) Finance
2 57 (43.18%) Front Office
3 47 (35.61%) Banking
4 29 (21.97%) Investment Banking
5 22 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 20 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.52%) Publishing
8 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.76%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 49 (37.12%) Analyst
2 39 (29.55%) Business Analyst
3 23 (17.42%) Support Engineer
4 17 (12.88%) Developer
5 16 (12.12%) Data Business Analyst
6 15 (11.36%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 14 (10.61%) Finance Business Analyst
7 14 (10.61%) Finance Manager
7 14 (10.61%) Financial Analyst
7 14 (10.61%) Python Developer
7 14 (10.61%) Quantitative Developer
8 12 (9.09%) Data Analyst
8 12 (9.09%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
8 12 (9.09%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
9 11 (8.33%) Front Office Business Analyst
9 11 (8.33%) Market Analyst
9 11 (8.33%) Market Data Analyst
10 10 (7.58%) Desktop Support
11 8 (6.06%) Applications Support
11 8 (6.06%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.88%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (9.85%) XML
3 3 (2.27%) Middleware
3 3 (2.27%) Murex MxML
3 3 (2.27%) Rendezvous
4 2 (1.52%) Kafka
4 2 (1.52%) React
4 2 (1.52%) Spring
5 1 (0.76%) .NET
5 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.76%) CSS
5 1 (0.76%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.76%) HTML
5 1 (0.76%) NumPy
5 1 (0.76%) Pandas
5 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.76%) REST
5 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.76%) XSD
5 1 (0.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 44 (33.33%) Derivative
2 42 (31.82%) Fixed Income
3 32 (24.24%) Hedge funds
4 31 (23.48%) Equities
5 20 (15.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (9.09%) Product Ownership
7 8 (6.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 6 (4.55%) Data Centre
9 4 (3.03%) Blackberry
10 3 (2.27%) Eurex
11 2 (1.52%) iPad
11 2 (1.52%) iPhone
11 2 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
12 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.76%) EFT
12 1 (0.76%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 37 (28.03%) Windows
2 18 (13.64%) Unix
3 11 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.55%) Linux
6 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.76%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.27%) Asset Management
2 35 (26.52%) Investment Management
3 31 (23.48%) Agile
4 18 (13.64%) Electronic Trading
5 16 (12.12%) Risk Management
5 16 (12.12%) Software Engineering
6 14 (10.61%) Quantitative Research
6 14 (10.61%) Roadmaps
7 12 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 12 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (9.09%) Data Modelling
7 12 (9.09%) Fintech
7 12 (9.09%) Machine Learning
7 12 (9.09%) Portfolio Management
7 12 (9.09%) Project Management
8 11 (8.33%) SDLC
8 11 (8.33%) UML
9 10 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (6.82%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (6.06%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.00%) Python
2 32 (24.24%) SQL
3 14 (10.61%) R
4 10 (7.58%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.82%) Java
6 8 (6.06%) VBA
7 3 (2.27%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.52%) VBScript
9 1 (0.76%) Clojure
9 1 (0.76%) Groovy
9 1 (0.76%) Scala
9 1 (0.76%) XPath
Qualifications
1 20 (15.15%) Degree
2 5 (3.79%) MCSE
2 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.27%) CFA
4 2 (1.52%) CCNA
4 2 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.52%) MCP
4 2 (1.52%) MCSA
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.15%) QA
2 12 (9.09%) MiFID
3 11 (8.33%) EMIR
4 8 (6.06%) Dodd-Frank
5 5 (3.79%) SEPA
6 3 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.52%) Docker
4 1 (0.76%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 2 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.76%) BladeLogic
2 1 (0.76%) Control-M
2 1 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.76%) SCCM
2 1 (0.76%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 39 (29.55%) Refinitiv
2 22 (16.67%) Reuters
3 21 (15.91%) Citrix
4 17 (12.88%) ION Trading
5 15 (11.36%) Microsoft
6 13 (9.85%) MarketAxess
6 13 (9.85%) Tradeweb
7 11 (8.33%) BISAM
8 8 (6.06%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.79%) Charles River
10 4 (3.03%) Murex
10 4 (3.03%) Oracle
10 4 (3.03%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.27%) Cisco
11 3 (2.27%) GoldenSource
11 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
11 3 (2.27%) SAP
11 3 (2.27%) TIBCO
11 3 (2.27%) VMware
12 2 (1.52%) BT