Bloomberg Contracts in Central London

Bloomberg
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of Bloomberg products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bloomberg over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 108 164
Rank change year-on-year -4 +56 +10
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 17 25 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.85% 1.02% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 1.89% 2.41% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 8
10th Percentile £261 - £391
25th Percentile £338 £385 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £465 £662
Median % change year-on-year +20.97% -29.71% +26.02%
75th Percentile £719 £548 £883
90th Percentile £730 £822 £943
London median daily rate £650 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -7.41%

All Vendors
Central London

Bloomberg falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 900 1,037 1,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 45.07% 42.40% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 763 1,020
10th Percentile £312 £310 £250
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £750 £775 £791
London median daily rate £550 £549 £563
% change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 8
10th Percentile £26.45 £12.75 £19.14
25th Percentile £28.23 £14.38 £20.81
Median hourly rate £31.00 £18.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.76% -11.95% +2.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.75 £31.94
90th Percentile £100.00 £25.05 £53.05
London median hourly rate £29.00 £23.99 £30.75
% change year-on-year +20.88% -21.98% -12.14%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in Central London

Bloomberg
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Bloomberg in Central London

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in Central London

Bloomberg
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Bloomberg in Central London

Bloomberg
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bloomberg within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +2 17 £563 +5.88% 11
Bloomberg
London

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.76%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Aladdin
1 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (5.88%) Fidessa
1 1 (5.88%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) Crucible
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Front Office
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Back Office
4 1 (5.88%) International Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Support Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Support
4 2 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Desktop Rollout Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Rollout Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Rollout Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Fund Accounting Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Innovation Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Equities
2 4 (23.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.88%) Derivative
3 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.88%) Hackathon
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
3 1 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) Agile
1 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
1 3 (17.65%) Migration
1 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
2 2 (11.76%) Data Extraction
2 2 (11.76%) ETRM
2 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (11.76%) Workflow
3 1 (5.88%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (5.88%) Cash Management
3 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (5.88%) Fund Accounting
3 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
3 1 (5.88%) Investment Management
3 1 (5.88%) Kanban
3 1 (5.88%) Process Improvement
3 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (5.88%) System Testing
3 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) VBA
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Ruby
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) CFA
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) MiFID
2 1 (5.88%) EMIR
2 1 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) XenApp
2 1 (5.88%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Control-M
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
1 5 (29.41%) Reuters
2 4 (23.53%) Citrix
2 4 (23.53%) Refinitiv
3 3 (17.65%) Tradeweb
4 2 (11.76%) Trayport
5 1 (5.88%) Advent
5 1 (5.88%) CQG
5 1 (5.88%) FactSet
5 1 (5.88%) IBM
5 1 (5.88%) ION Trading
5 1 (5.88%) LexisNexis
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.88%) SimCorp
5 1 (5.88%) Sybase