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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 113 142
Rank change year-on-year +8 +29 +22
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 17 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.94% 0.61% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 2.02% 1.36% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 16
10th Percentile £260 £380 £415
25th Percentile £313 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -23.57% +37.25%
75th Percentile £638 £817 £908
90th Percentile £715 £875 £988
Central London median daily rate £500 £533 £700
% change year-on-year -6.10% -23.93% +79.49%

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 843 953 1,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.37% 44.68% 40.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 692 952
10th Percentile £313 £339 £263
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -1.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £787 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 8
10th Percentile £22.53 £12.75 £15.30
25th Percentile £26.91 £15.19 £19.32
Median hourly rate £38.58 £20.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +92.88% -44.83% +36.79%
75th Percentile £63.75 £27.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £89.67 £63.53 £53.23
Central London median hourly rate £32.83 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +64.13% -20.00% -24.24%

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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 6 July 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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Aladdin
2 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (5.88%) Fidessa
2 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
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (11.76%) Tableau
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) Crucible
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Maven
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Front Office
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Back Office
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
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 4 (23.53%) 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%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Rollout Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Fund Accounting Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Innovation Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
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%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) Flask
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Pandas
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 4 (23.53%) Agile
1 4 (23.53%) Migration
2 3 (17.65%) Asset Management
2 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
3 2 (11.76%) Investment Management
3 2 (11.76%) Kanban
3 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
3 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.88%) Cash Management
4 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.88%) Data Integration
4 1 (5.88%) Data Mapping
4 1 (5.88%) Data Migration
4 1 (5.88%) Fund Accounting
4 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Ruby
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) MiFID
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
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%) Docker
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 1 (5.88%) Advent
4 1 (5.88%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.88%) CQG
4 1 (5.88%) FactSet
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) ION Trading
4 1 (5.88%) LexisNexis
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) SimCorp
4 1 (5.88%) Sybase