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 6 September 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
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 455 392
Rank change year-on-year -99 -63 +72
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 77 66 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.24% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 0.51% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 41 116
10th Percentile £225 £225 £381
25th Percentile £375 £320 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £688
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -38.18% +5.77%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £856
90th Percentile £860 £813 £888
UK median daily rate £532 £538 £688
% change year-on-year -1.02% -21.82% +5.77%

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 19,115 12,988 14,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.59% 47.15% 44.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,955 8,235 8,949
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -4.19% -
75th Percentile £619 £619 £631
90th Percentile £706 £713 £732
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,056 612 633
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.73 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.96 £25.15 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.09% -23.79% -22.35%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.22 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.31% -16.17% -29.82%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -56 75 £525 - 242
North West -57 2 - -
North of England -74 2 - -
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 6 (7.79%) MTS
2 4 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.60%) Confluence
3 2 (2.60%) IIS
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.30%) Apache
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Aladdin
2 4 (5.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (2.60%) Eikon
3 2 (2.60%) Findur
3 2 (2.60%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (2.60%) Summit
4 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (1.30%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) Azure
1 18 (23.38%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (16.88%) AWS
3 7 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.79%) Google Workspace
4 6 (7.79%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.19%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.19%) SaaS
6 3 (3.90%) dbt
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.60%) GCP
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (1.30%) Collibra
8 1 (1.30%) Dagster
8 1 (1.30%) OCI
8 1 (1.30%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.30%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 14 (18.18%) VPN
2 11 (14.29%) Firewall
3 8 (10.39%) DNS
4 7 (9.09%) DHCP
5 5 (6.49%) DMZ
5 5 (6.49%) Internet
6 4 (5.19%) Multicast
7 2 (2.60%) BGP
7 2 (2.60%) LAN
7 2 (2.60%) WAN
7 2 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (1.30%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (1.30%) Network Security
8 1 (1.30%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.19%) Power BI
3 3 (3.90%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.90%) KDB
4 2 (2.60%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.30%) Metadata
5 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.30%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (15.58%) JIRA
2 4 (5.19%) Git
3 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
General
1 55 (71.43%) Finance
2 41 (53.25%) Front Office
3 28 (36.36%) Banking
4 26 (33.77%) Social Skills
5 14 (18.18%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.79%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (6.49%) Legal
8 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.60%) Back Office
10 1 (1.30%) German Language
10 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (36.36%) Analyst
2 13 (16.88%) Support Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 10 (12.99%) Data Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) Help Desk Analyst
5 8 (10.39%) IT Analyst
6 6 (7.79%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Applications Support
7 5 (6.49%) Applications Support Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Compliance Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Compliance Business Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Lead
8 4 (5.19%) Python Data Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Support Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Desktop Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Desktop Support
9 3 (3.90%) Desktop Support Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (5.19%) Middleware
2 4 (5.19%) React
3 3 (3.90%) Kafka
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.60%) JSON
4 2 (2.60%) Next.js
4 2 (2.60%) Redux
4 2 (2.60%) Software Packaging
4 2 (2.60%) WebSockets
4 2 (2.60%) XML
5 1 (1.30%) .NET
5 1 (1.30%) Django
5 1 (1.30%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.30%) Flask
5 1 (1.30%) FpML
5 1 (1.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (18.18%) Derivative
3 10 (12.99%) Fixed Income
3 10 (12.99%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.49%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (5.19%) Reference Data
5 4 (5.19%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (3.90%) Client/Server
6 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.90%) Hedge funds
6 3 (3.90%) Replication
7 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.60%) DTCC
7 2 (2.60%) Equities
7 2 (2.60%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (2.60%) Eurex
7 2 (2.60%) iPhone
8 1 (1.30%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (27.27%) Windows
2 7 (9.09%) Linux
2 7 (9.09%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.90%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (25.97%) Agile
3 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (19.48%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (18.18%) Migration
6 13 (16.88%) Asset Management
6 13 (16.88%) Investment Management
7 12 (15.58%) Analytics
7 12 (15.58%) Data Modelling
8 11 (14.29%) Data Analysis
8 11 (14.29%) ITIL
8 11 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 11 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
9 10 (12.99%) Data Management
9 10 (12.99%) DevOps
9 10 (12.99%) Requirements Gathering
10 9 (11.69%) Business Analysis
10 9 (11.69%) Data Governance
10 9 (11.69%) KYC
11 8 (10.39%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 41 (53.25%) SQL
2 23 (29.87%) Python
3 15 (19.48%) PowerShell
4 9 (11.69%) Java
5 5 (6.49%) Tcl
6 4 (5.19%) C#
7 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.90%) VBA
8 1 (1.30%) C++
8 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.30%) Korn
8 1 (1.30%) Scala
8 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Degree
2 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 3 (3.90%) MCSA
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.30%) PMP
4 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.19%) QA
3 3 (3.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (3.90%) SLA
4 2 (2.60%) EMIR
4 2 (2.60%) MiFID
5 1 (1.30%) AIFMD
5 1 (1.30%) GDPR
5 1 (1.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.30%) Docker
3 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (18.18%) SCCM
2 5 (6.49%) WSUS
3 3 (3.90%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (2.60%) AirWatch
4 2 (2.60%) Ansible
5 1 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.78%) Refinitiv
3 13 (16.88%) Citrix
3 13 (16.88%) ION Trading
3 13 (16.88%) Murex
4 11 (14.29%) Reuters
5 9 (11.69%) Tradeweb
6 7 (9.09%) MarketAxess
7 5 (6.49%) Charles River
7 5 (6.49%) Databricks
7 5 (6.49%) Sybase
8 3 (3.90%) Cisco
8 3 (3.90%) FactSet
8 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.60%) FXall
9 2 (2.60%) Google
9 2 (2.60%) HP
9 2 (2.60%) NYFIX
9 2 (2.60%) OpenLink
9 2 (2.60%) SimCorp