Bloomberg Contract Job Trends 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 11 May 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
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 100 107
Rank change year-on-year -27 +7 +49
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 8 17 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.35% 0.97% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 0.84% 2.17% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 20
10th Percentile £297 £261 -
25th Percentile £505 £338 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £913 £563 £531
Median % change year-on-year +62.22% +5.88% -4.67%
75th Percentile £975 £719 £590
90th Percentile - £730 £830
Central London median daily rate £913 £563 £465
% change year-on-year +62.22% +20.97% -16.55%

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 955 782 945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.56% 44.51% 43.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 486 695
10th Percentile £370 £313 £313
25th Percentile £439 £450 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £751 £789
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 6
10th Percentile - £25.77 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £30.10 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +95.32% -5.95%
75th Percentile £25.77 £72.81 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.65 £126.25 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £31.00 £19.75
% change year-on-year -28.18% +56.96% -5.95%

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 11 May 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (37.50%) Fidessa
2 1 (12.50%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Front Office
4 3 (37.50%) Banking
5 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) FIX Protocol
1 3 (37.50%) JMS
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) Middleware
1 3 (37.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
1 3 (37.50%) Derivative
1 3 (37.50%) Equities
1 3 (37.50%) Fixed Income
1 3 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) DTCC
2 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Electronic Trading
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Order Management
4 3 (37.50%) Runbook
4 3 (37.50%) Smart Order Routing
5 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (25.00%) Change Control
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Release Management
5 2 (25.00%) Resilience Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) EMIR
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) AppDynamics
1 5 (62.50%) Splunk
2 4 (50.00%) Charles River
3 2 (25.00%) MarketAxess
3 2 (25.00%) Tradeweb
4 1 (12.50%) ION Trading
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Murex
4 1 (12.50%) Reuters
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow