Bloomberg Contracts in the City of London

Bloomberg
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 104 167
Rank change year-on-year -2 +63 +5
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 17 23 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.97% 1.05% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 2.18% 2.44% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 9
10th Percentile £261 - £375
25th Percentile £338 £385 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £531 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -7.61% +6.98%
75th Percentile £719 £590 £868
90th Percentile £730 £830 £939
Central London median daily rate £563 £465 £575
% change year-on-year +20.97% -19.13% +9.52%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 780 942 1,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.42% 42.97% 39.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 691 940
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £450 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
10th Percentile £25.77 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £30.10 £13.56 £20.42
Median hourly rate £38.58 £19.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.32% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £72.81 £23.75 £44.86
90th Percentile £126.25 £25.38 £53.25
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £18.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year +63.76% -11.95% +2.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bloomberg in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Bloomberg in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bloomberg in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Bloomberg in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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%) Software Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Support
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%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (5.88%) Business Analysis
3 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (5.88%) Data Modelling
3 1 (5.88%) Economics
3 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
3 1 (5.88%) Project Management
3 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.88%) Service Management
3 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
3 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
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