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 13 September 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
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 113 139
Rank change year-on-year +6 +26 +37
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 11 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.61% 0.53% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 1.25% 1.19% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 13
10th Percentile £259 £320 £340
25th Percentile £369 £588 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £792 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.09% +21.85% +79.31%
75th Percentile £653 £850 £869
90th Percentile £726 £875 £985
Central London median daily rate £625 £792 £650
% change year-on-year -21.09% +21.85% +85.71%

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 881 924 1,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.19% 44.25% 41.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 604 899
10th Percentile £325 £350 £312
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £555
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -0.59% +0.91%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £750 £757 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 6
10th Percentile £20.23 £16.00 £14.43
25th Percentile £23.75 £19.50 £17.77
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -25.52% +37.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £65.21 £137.50 £65.25
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +7.67% -25.52% +37.21%

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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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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 13 September 2025.

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 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Lucidchart
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Front Office
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) International Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Law
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Support Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Web Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Innovation Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Market Data Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Vendor Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) Flask
1 3 (27.27%) HTML
1 3 (27.27%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Equities
2 3 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (9.09%) Fixed Income
3 1 (9.09%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
1 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Asset Management
2 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
2 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
2 3 (27.27%) Kanban
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum
2 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) Budget Management
4 1 (9.09%) Contract Management
4 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Data Science
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (9.09%) Order Management
4 1 (9.09%) People Management
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Refinitiv
1 4 (36.36%) Reuters
2 3 (27.27%) Citrix
2 3 (27.27%) Cloudera
3 1 (9.09%) LexisNexis
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Snow