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 17 May 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
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 425 407
Rank change year-on-year -91 -18 +97
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 79 55 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.22% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.47% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 32 125
10th Percentile £288 £251 £313
25th Percentile £411 £361 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £725 £726 £763
90th Percentile £773 £749 £820
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%

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 16,929 11,649 15,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.18% 47.62% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,957 7,504 9,714
10th Percentile £313 £276 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.99%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £635
90th Percentile £710 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 465 1,004
10th Percentile £15.37 £14.84 £12.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.91% -48.24%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -30 77 £500 -21.57% 13
North West -42 2 - - 1
North of England -72 2 - - 1
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 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.53%) IIS
4 1 (1.27%) Apache
4 1 (1.27%) MTS
4 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.80%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (12.66%) Fidessa
2 5 (6.33%) Bloomberg AIM
2 5 (6.33%) Loan IQ
3 4 (5.06%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 3 (3.80%) Aladdin
4 3 (3.80%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (2.53%) Actimize
5 2 (2.53%) Findur
6 1 (1.27%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (1.27%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (1.27%) Summit
6 1 (1.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.32%) AWS
1 20 (25.32%) Azure
2 14 (17.72%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.59%) Google Workspace
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.80%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.80%) GitHub
6 3 (3.80%) SaaS
6 3 (3.80%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.53%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.53%) Slack
8 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.27%) Collibra
8 1 (1.27%) GCP
8 1 (1.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.46%) TCP/IP
2 10 (12.66%) Firewall
3 9 (11.39%) VPN
4 8 (10.13%) DNS
5 7 (8.86%) DHCP
6 5 (6.33%) DMZ
7 3 (3.80%) Softphone
8 2 (2.53%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (2.53%) LAN
8 2 (2.53%) WAN
8 2 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.27%) BGP
9 1 (1.27%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (1.27%) IP Telephony
9 1 (1.27%) Multicast
9 1 (1.27%) OSPF
9 1 (1.27%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.06%) Tableau
3 3 (3.80%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.80%) Metadata
3 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.53%) Power BI
5 1 (1.27%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.27%) Power Query
5 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (11.39%) JIRA
2 5 (6.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.80%) Git
3 3 (3.80%) Toad
4 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.27%) GitLab
4 1 (1.27%) Postman
General
1 52 (65.82%) Finance
2 32 (40.51%) Social Skills
3 30 (37.97%) Front Office
4 25 (31.65%) Banking
5 19 (24.05%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (15.19%) Investment Banking
7 7 (8.86%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (6.33%) Back Office
9 4 (5.06%) Legal
10 3 (3.80%) Financial Institution
10 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.53%) Spanish Language
12 1 (1.27%) German Language
12 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (37.97%) Analyst
2 19 (24.05%) Business Analyst
3 11 (13.92%) Senior
4 9 (11.39%) Support Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Data Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) IT Analyst
5 7 (8.86%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (7.59%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) Data Business Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) Desktop Support
7 5 (6.33%) Help Desk Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) Support Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Electronics Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) IT Support
8 4 (5.06%) Lead
8 4 (5.06%) Migration Specialist
9 3 (3.80%) Market Data Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Market Data Manager
9 3 (3.80%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (7.59%) Kafka
3 5 (6.33%) REST
3 5 (6.33%) XML
4 4 (5.06%) JMS
4 4 (5.06%) JSON
4 4 (5.06%) Middleware
5 3 (3.80%) Pandas
6 2 (2.53%) NumPy
6 2 (2.53%) Software Packaging
7 1 (1.27%) .NET
7 1 (1.27%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.27%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.27%) HTML
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.27%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.72%) Derivative
2 11 (13.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (13.92%) Onboarding
3 10 (12.66%) Fixed Income
4 7 (8.86%) Cloud Native
4 7 (8.86%) Equities
4 7 (8.86%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (6.33%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (5.06%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.06%) Client/Server
6 4 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.06%) OTC Derivatives
7 3 (3.80%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.80%) iPhone
7 3 (3.80%) Replication
8 2 (2.53%) Hedge funds
8 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.27%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.38%) Windows
2 8 (10.13%) Linux
3 7 (8.86%) Windows 10
4 5 (6.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.53%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.53%) Unix
5 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.18%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (27.85%) Agile
3 16 (20.25%) DevOps
4 12 (15.19%) ITIL
4 12 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (13.92%) Data Modelling
5 11 (13.92%) Validation
6 10 (12.66%) Data Analysis
6 10 (12.66%) Data Management
6 10 (12.66%) Electronic Trading
6 10 (12.66%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (12.66%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (11.39%) ETL
8 8 (10.13%) Analytics
8 8 (10.13%) Migration
9 7 (8.86%) Kanban
9 7 (8.86%) Order Management
9 7 (8.86%) Risk Management
9 7 (8.86%) Scrum
9 7 (8.86%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.57%) SQL
2 21 (26.58%) Python
3 14 (17.72%) PowerShell
4 13 (16.46%) Java
5 2 (2.53%) C++
5 2 (2.53%) Perl
5 2 (2.53%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.27%) Bash
6 1 (1.27%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (16.46%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (5.06%) MCSA
3 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.53%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.53%) PMP
4 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) CBAP
5 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) Data Quality
1 6 (7.59%) QA
2 5 (6.33%) MiFID
3 3 (3.80%) GDPR
3 3 (3.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (3.80%) SLA
4 2 (2.53%) EMIR
System Software
1 7 (8.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.53%) Docker
3 2 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.53%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (16.46%) SCCM
2 5 (6.33%) Grafana
3 4 (5.06%) Ansible
3 4 (5.06%) WSUS
4 3 (3.80%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (2.53%) AirWatch
5 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.53%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (2.53%) WMI
6 1 (1.27%) Kibana
6 1 (1.27%) Terraform
6 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (24.05%) Microsoft
1 19 (24.05%) Refinitiv
2 14 (17.72%) Reuters
3 13 (16.46%) Murex
4 11 (13.92%) Charles River
4 11 (13.92%) Citrix
5 9 (11.39%) ION Trading
6 7 (8.86%) Splunk
7 6 (7.59%) AppDynamics
8 5 (6.33%) Cisco
8 5 (6.33%) ServiceNow
8 5 (6.33%) VMware
9 3 (3.80%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (3.80%) Eze Software Group
9 3 (3.80%) FactSet
9 3 (3.80%) MarketAxess
9 3 (3.80%) SimCorp
9 3 (3.80%) Tradeweb
10 2 (2.53%) HP
10 2 (2.53%) Proofpoint