Bloomberg Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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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 8 September 2026, 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
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 112 115
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +31
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 10 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.44% 0.73% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 1.01% 1.50% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 8
10th Percentile £182 £260 £340
25th Percentile £195 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £291 £625 £792
Median % change year-on-year -53.40% -21.09% +21.85%
75th Percentile £409 £700 £838
90th Percentile £760 £778 £875
Central London median daily rate £291 £625 £792
% change year-on-year -53.40% -21.09% +21.85%

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 990 868 907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.57% 48.98% 44.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 573 604
10th Percentile £338 £316 £350
25th Percentile £445 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -0.05% -0.41%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £671
90th Percentile £750 £750 £751
Central London median daily rate £538 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -25.52%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bloomberg relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Bloomberg job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Bloomberg.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Bloomberg

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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 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Bloomberg.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Bloomberg

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Dagster
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) Prefect
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) VPN
2 4 (40.00%) DHCP
2 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) Internet
4 1 (10.00%) BGP
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall
4 1 (10.00%) Multicast
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Front Office
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Support
2 2 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Help Desk Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Validation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Derivative
3 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
3 1 (10.00%) Pricing Data
3 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (20.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (20.00%) Change Control
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Break/Fix
5 1 (10.00%) Fintech
5 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (10.00%) Low Latency
5 1 (10.00%) Quantitative Research
5 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Korn
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Citrix
2 3 (30.00%) Refinitiv
2 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (20.00%) Reuters
4 1 (10.00%) Charles River
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) ION Trading
4 1 (10.00%) Murex
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle