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 1 April 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
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 423 418
Rank change year-on-year -81 -5 +104
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 81 54 132
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.22% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.49% 0.47% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 38 123
10th Percentile £351 £289 £313
25th Percentile £425 £374 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £725 £736 £763
90th Percentile £818 £827 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -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 16,626 11,444 15,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.56% 47.21% 42.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,873 7,427 10,225
10th Percentile £310 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £514
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.29% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 866 416 958
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.29
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% +21.13% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.88 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £28.75 £23.22
% change year-on-year -7.83% +23.84% -41.96%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -32 80 £575 -11.54% 11
North West -47 1 - -
North of England -75 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 5 (6.17%) Confluence
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) IIS
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.70%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (13.58%) Fidessa
2 5 (6.17%) Bloomberg AIM
2 5 (6.17%) Loan IQ
3 4 (4.94%) Aladdin
3 4 (4.94%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 3 (3.70%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (2.47%) Actimize
5 2 (2.47%) Findur
6 1 (1.23%) Eikon
6 1 (1.23%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (1.23%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (1.23%) Markit EDM
6 1 (1.23%) Summit
6 1 (1.23%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.28%) Azure
2 13 (16.05%) AWS
3 12 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (8.64%) Google Workspace
5 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.70%) GitHub
7 3 (3.70%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.47%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.47%) Slack
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.23%) Collibra
9 1 (1.23%) GCP
9 1 (1.23%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.23%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.58%) TCP/IP
2 9 (11.11%) Firewall
3 8 (9.88%) VPN
4 6 (7.41%) DMZ
5 5 (6.17%) DNS
6 4 (4.94%) DHCP
7 3 (3.70%) Multicast
7 3 (3.70%) Softphone
8 2 (2.47%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (1.23%) BGP
9 1 (1.23%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (1.23%) IP Telephony
9 1 (1.23%) LAN
9 1 (1.23%) OSPF
9 1 (1.23%) WAN
9 1 (1.23%) WebEx
9 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) Tableau
2 4 (4.94%) KDB
2 4 (4.94%) Power BI
3 3 (3.70%) Metadata
3 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.23%) Ataccama
4 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.23%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.23%) Power Query
4 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) JIRA
2 5 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.70%) Git
3 3 (3.70%) Toad
4 1 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.23%) GitLab
4 1 (1.23%) Postman
4 1 (1.23%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.23%) Selenium
General
1 52 (64.20%) Finance
2 38 (46.91%) Social Skills
3 33 (40.74%) Front Office
4 31 (38.27%) Banking
5 26 (32.10%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (23.46%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.41%) Back Office
7 6 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.94%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.47%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.23%) Legal
11 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (39.51%) Analyst
2 23 (28.40%) Business Analyst
3 13 (16.05%) Senior
4 10 (12.35%) Support Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) IT Analyst
6 7 (8.64%) Developer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (7.41%) Data Business Analyst
7 6 (7.41%) Help Desk Analyst
7 6 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.41%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (6.17%) IT Support
9 4 (4.94%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Electronics Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Market Data Analyst
10 3 (3.70%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
10 3 (3.70%) Desktop Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (3.70%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.81%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (8.64%) Kafka
2 7 (8.64%) REST
3 6 (7.41%) XML
4 4 (4.94%) JMS
4 4 (4.94%) JSON
4 4 (4.94%) Middleware
5 3 (3.70%) Pandas
5 3 (3.70%) RESTful
5 3 (3.70%) Spring
6 2 (2.47%) NumPy
7 1 (1.23%) .NET
7 1 (1.23%) Apache Avro
7 1 (1.23%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.23%) HTML
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.23%) SciPy
7 1 (1.23%) Software Packaging
7 1 (1.23%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.69%) Derivative
2 14 (17.28%) Fixed Income
3 10 (12.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (9.88%) Equities
5 7 (8.64%) Onboarding
6 5 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (4.94%) Algorithms
7 4 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (4.94%) OTC Derivatives
8 3 (3.70%) Client/Server
8 3 (3.70%) Credit Risk
8 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
8 3 (3.70%) Reference Data
9 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.47%) Hedge funds
9 2 (2.47%) iPhone
9 2 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (2.47%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.93%) Windows
2 8 (9.88%) Linux
3 5 (6.17%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.47%) Unix
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.80%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (29.63%) Agile
3 14 (17.28%) DevOps
4 13 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (16.05%) Validation
5 11 (13.58%) Electronic Trading
5 11 (13.58%) ITIL
6 10 (12.35%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 9 (11.11%) Data Management
7 9 (11.11%) Low Latency
8 8 (9.88%) Data Modelling
9 7 (8.64%) Algorithmic Trading
9 7 (8.64%) Data Validation
9 7 (8.64%) Order Management
9 7 (8.64%) Visualisation
10 6 (7.41%) CI/CD
10 6 (7.41%) Risk Management
10 6 (7.41%) Roadmaps
10 6 (7.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (41.98%) SQL
2 19 (23.46%) Python
3 17 (20.99%) PowerShell
4 14 (17.28%) Java
5 4 (4.94%) C#
6 2 (2.47%) Perl
6 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.23%) Bash
7 1 (1.23%) C
7 1 (1.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (14.81%) Degree
2 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (3.70%) MCSA
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.47%) CBAP
4 2 (2.47%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.47%) PMP
4 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.47%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) CFA
5 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) MiFID
1 8 (9.88%) QA
2 5 (6.17%) EMIR
3 3 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.47%) GDPR
4 2 (2.47%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.47%) Docker
3 2 (2.47%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (16.05%) SCCM
2 6 (7.41%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 5 (6.17%) Grafana
3 5 (6.17%) WSUS
4 3 (3.70%) Ansible
5 2 (2.47%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.47%) WMI
6 1 (1.23%) AirWatch
6 1 (1.23%) Kibana
6 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Refinitiv
2 16 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 16 (19.75%) Reuters
3 15 (18.52%) ION Trading
4 13 (16.05%) Murex
5 10 (12.35%) Charles River
5 10 (12.35%) Citrix
6 9 (11.11%) Tradeweb
7 6 (7.41%) AppDynamics
7 6 (7.41%) Splunk
8 5 (6.17%) Cisco
8 5 (6.17%) VMware
9 4 (4.94%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.70%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (3.70%) Eze Software Group
10 3 (3.70%) FactSet
10 3 (3.70%) MarketAxess
10 3 (3.70%) NYFIX
10 3 (3.70%) SimCorp
11 2 (2.47%) Veritas