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 11 January 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 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 113 112
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +65
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 8 7 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.44% 0.37% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 0.93% 0.84% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 17
10th Percentile £242 £386 £367
25th Percentile £334 £572 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £700 £385
Median % change year-on-year -27.14% +81.82% +18.46%
75th Percentile £881 £742 £544
90th Percentile £975 £772 £685
Central London median daily rate £510 £700 £400
% change year-on-year -27.14% +75.00% +23.08%

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 859 829 1,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 47.70% 43.36% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 504 739
10th Percentile £338 £313 £318
25th Percentile £416 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £757 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 7
10th Percentile £19.98 £32.25 -
25th Percentile £20.34 £50.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £98.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.14% +337.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £41.89 £118.38 £36.25
90th Percentile £44.72 £137.50 £60.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £85.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -70.04% +347.37% -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

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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 January 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Aladdin
1 1 (12.50%) Eikon
1 1 (12.50%) Fidessa
1 1 (12.50%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Lucidchart
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Banking
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (25.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Lead
1 1 (12.50%) Market Data Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
1 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
1 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Systems Support Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Derivative
2 3 (37.50%) Fixed Income
2 3 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (12.50%) DTCC
3 1 (12.50%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) Low Latency
1 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Change Control
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Release Management
2 2 (25.00%) Resilience Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Tech Ops
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) EMIR
1 1 (12.50%) MiFID
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Tradeweb
2 2 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (25.00%) MarketAxess
2 2 (25.00%) Reuters
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) ION Trading
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Murex
3 1 (12.50%) Refinitiv
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Snow
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