Bloomberg Contract Job Trends in England

Bloomberg
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 19 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
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 422 406
Rank change year-on-year -43 -16 +124
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 79 66 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.54% 0.54% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 54 126
10th Percentile £293 £500 £313
25th Percentile £390 £506 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +5.77% -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £731 £759
90th Percentile £875 £824 £825
UK median daily rate £600 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -12.73% +5.77% -3.70%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,657 12,244 16,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.27% 45.94% 43.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,628 7,384 10,379
10th Percentile £300 £292 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 691 355 710
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £13.24
25th Percentile £17.96 £18.17 £16.74
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -17.81% +14.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.43 £60.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £72.63
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -13.36% -24.14% +27.19%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bloomberg relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Bloomberg job vacancy trend in England

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bloomberg.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bloomberg

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg in England over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bloomberg.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bloomberg

Bloomberg
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bloomberg within the England region over the 6 months to 19 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -9 76 £650 -5.45% 7
North of England - 3 £313 - 9
North West - 3 £313 - 4
Bloomberg
UK

Bloomberg
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (5.06%) Confluence
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.27%) Apache
2 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Fidessa
2 6 (7.59%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 5 (6.33%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (3.80%) Aladdin
4 3 (3.80%) Kondor
5 2 (2.53%) Actimize
5 2 (2.53%) BondVision
6 1 (1.27%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (1.27%) Eikon
6 1 (1.27%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (1.27%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (1.27%) ION MarketView
6 1 (1.27%) Markit EDM
6 1 (1.27%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (1.27%) Summit
6 1 (1.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (10.13%) AWS
3 6 (7.59%) Azure
4 4 (5.06%) Google Workspace
5 3 (3.80%) GCP
5 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.53%) GitHub
6 2 (2.53%) Slack
6 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.27%) Collibra
7 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.27%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.27%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.13%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.33%) Firewall
2 5 (6.33%) VPN
3 4 (5.06%) DHCP
3 4 (5.06%) DMZ
3 4 (5.06%) DNS
4 3 (3.80%) Multicast
4 3 (3.80%) Softphone
5 2 (2.53%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (1.27%) LAN
6 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.06%) KDB
2 3 (3.80%) Metadata
2 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.80%) Power BI
2 3 (3.80%) Tableau
3 1 (1.27%) Ataccama
3 1 (1.27%) Big Data
3 1 (1.27%) Kdb+
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.27%) Parquet
3 1 (1.27%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) JIRA
2 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.53%) Git
4 1 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.27%) GitLab
4 1 (1.27%) Maven
4 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.27%) Selenium
4 1 (1.27%) Toad
General
1 54 (68.35%) Finance
2 36 (45.57%) Social Skills
3 34 (43.04%) Front Office
4 28 (35.44%) Banking
5 23 (29.11%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (22.78%) Investment Banking
7 7 (8.86%) Financial Institution
8 6 (7.59%) Back Office
9 5 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.27%) Agriculture
12 1 (1.27%) Games
12 1 (1.27%) Legal
12 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.27%) Retail
12 1 (1.27%) Retail Banking
12 1 (1.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (35.44%) Analyst
2 19 (24.05%) Business Analyst
3 12 (15.19%) Senior
4 10 (12.66%) Support Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) Developer
6 7 (8.86%) IT Support
6 7 (8.86%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Desktop Support
7 6 (7.59%) IT Analyst
8 5 (6.33%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (6.33%) Support Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) IT Support Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (3.80%) Applications Support
10 3 (3.80%) Help Desk Analyst
10 3 (3.80%) Help Desk Support
10 3 (3.80%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.66%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (6.33%) Kafka
2 5 (6.33%) REST
3 4 (5.06%) Pandas
3 4 (5.06%) XML
4 3 (3.80%) NumPy
4 3 (3.80%) RESTful
4 3 (3.80%) Spring
5 2 (2.53%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.53%) Flask
5 2 (2.53%) JMS
5 2 (2.53%) Middleware
6 1 (1.27%) .NET
6 1 (1.27%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.27%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (1.27%) HTML
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.27%) MyBatis
6 1 (1.27%) Rendezvous
6 1 (1.27%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.25%) Derivative
2 13 (16.46%) Fixed Income
3 7 (8.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (6.33%) Equities
4 5 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.80%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.53%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.53%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.53%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.53%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (1.27%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.27%) Clustering
8 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.27%) DTCC
8 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.27%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.78%) Windows
2 7 (8.86%) Linux
3 6 (7.59%) Unix
4 4 (5.06%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.27%) Android
5 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (24.05%) Agile
3 16 (20.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (18.99%) Validation
5 12 (15.19%) Electronic Trading
6 11 (13.92%) Data Management
6 11 (13.92%) ITIL
7 9 (11.39%) Low Latency
8 8 (10.13%) Asset Management
8 8 (10.13%) Data Analysis
8 8 (10.13%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (8.86%) Data Validation
9 7 (8.86%) DevOps
10 6 (7.59%) AI
10 6 (7.59%) Algorithmic Trading
10 6 (7.59%) Customer Service
10 6 (7.59%) Risk Management
11 5 (6.33%) Contract Management
11 5 (6.33%) Regression Testing
11 5 (6.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (34.18%) SQL
2 17 (21.52%) Python
3 11 (13.92%) PowerShell
4 10 (12.66%) Java
5 4 (5.06%) C#
6 2 (2.53%) Perl
7 1 (1.27%) C
7 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.27%) R
7 1 (1.27%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Degree
2 2 (2.53%) CBAP
2 2 (2.53%) PMI Certification
2 2 (2.53%) PMP
3 1 (1.27%) CFA
3 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.27%) MCSA
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) MiFID
2 8 (10.13%) QA
3 6 (7.59%) EMIR
4 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.27%) Basel III
5 1 (1.27%) GDPR
5 1 (1.27%) IFRS
5 1 (1.27%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.27%) SLA
5 1 (1.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) SCCM
2 4 (5.06%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (5.06%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 3 (3.80%) Ansible
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.80%) WSUS
4 2 (2.53%) Grafana
5 1 (1.27%) BladeLogic
5 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (24.05%) Refinitiv
2 17 (21.52%) ION Trading
3 13 (16.46%) Tradeweb
4 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
4 12 (15.19%) Reuters
5 8 (10.13%) Murex
6 7 (8.86%) Charles River
6 7 (8.86%) Citrix
7 5 (6.33%) MarketAxess
7 5 (6.33%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.06%) AppDynamics
8 4 (5.06%) Splunk
9 3 (3.80%) Cisco
9 3 (3.80%) FIS
9 3 (3.80%) NYFIX
9 3 (3.80%) Oracle
10 2 (2.53%) Proofpoint
10 2 (2.53%) Veritas
10 2 (2.53%) VMware
11 1 (1.27%) Trayport