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 10 July 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
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 109 115
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +28
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 9 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.37% 0.97% 0.61%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 2.08% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 10
10th Percentile £171 £306 £380
25th Percentile £185 £436 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £625 £535
Median % change year-on-year -64.80% +16.82% -23.57%
75th Percentile £376 £638 £817
90th Percentile £664 £708 £875
Central London median daily rate £220 £625 £535
% change year-on-year -64.80% +16.82% -23.57%

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 1,020 867 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.55% 46.71% 44.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 544 686
10th Percentile £362 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -0.05% -2.18%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £779
Central London median daily rate £539 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 8
10th Percentile - £22.53 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £15.19
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +92.88% -44.83%
75th Percentile £25.77 £63.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £41.95 £89.67 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.45% +56.31% -16.00%

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 10 July 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (33.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (44.44%) Front Office
4 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Desktop Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Desktop Support
3 2 (22.22%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Help Desk Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Middleware
2 3 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (33.33%) JMS
2 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 3 (33.33%) Equities
1 3 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) Derivative
3 1 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Mac OS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Order Management
3 3 (33.33%) Runbook
3 3 (33.33%) Smart Order Routing
4 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
4 2 (22.22%) Change Control
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
5 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Korn
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Charles River
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 3 (33.33%) Citrix
2 3 (33.33%) Splunk
3 2 (22.22%) ION Trading
3 2 (22.22%) Reuters
4 1 (11.11%) Murex
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow