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 5 December 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
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 125 124
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 +56
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 10 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.55% 0.23% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 1.12% 0.53% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 14
10th Percentile £252 £687 £354
25th Percentile £405 £704 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £746 £623
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% +19.84% +66.00%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £827
90th Percentile £975 £785 £975
Central London median daily rate £625 £746 £623
% change year-on-year -16.22% +19.84% +77.86%

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 893 949 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.31% 43.91% 43.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 601 802
10th Percentile £331 £313 £321
25th Percentile £414 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -0.54%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £799
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -2.27% +1.38% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 6
10th Percentile £20.06 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £34.48 £23.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £57.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.41% +177.11% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.50 £112.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £63.13
Central London median hourly rate £32.99 £42.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.39% +123.68% -7.32%

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

Bloomberg
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 5 December 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

Bloomberg
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 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Aladdin
1 1 (10.00%) Eikon
1 1 (10.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
3 4 (40.00%) Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (10.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Market Data Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Vendor Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
1 3 (30.00%) Flask
1 3 (30.00%) HTML
1 3 (30.00%) Pandas
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Derivative
1 3 (30.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (10.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) AI
2 3 (30.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (30.00%) Kanban
2 3 (30.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Change Control
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Resilience Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cloudera
1 3 (30.00%) Tradeweb
2 2 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (20.00%) MarketAxess
2 2 (20.00%) Reuters
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) ION Trading
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Refinitiv
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Snow