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 21 October 2025, 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
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 409 436
Rank change year-on-year -45 +27 +102
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 66 113 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.36% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.49% 0.80% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 102 111
10th Percentile £225 £500 £263
25th Percentile £325 £638 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £775 £866 £750
90th Percentile £875 £888 £844
UK median daily rate £613 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -10.91% +5.77% -7.14%

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 13,565 14,159 18,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.78% 44.85% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,629 8,481 12,000
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £405 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £626 £644
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 665 475 622
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £15.99 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.20
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -20.81% +76.80%
75th Percentile £41.45 £65.00 £63.22
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -26.15% -25.86% +82.65%

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 -41 61 £650 -5.45% 46
North of England -25 4 £318 +58.75%
North West -17 3 £313 +56.50%
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) ION MarketView
2 3 (4.55%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 3 (4.55%) Kondor
3 2 (3.03%) Aladdin
3 2 (3.03%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (3.03%) BondVision
3 2 (3.03%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (3.03%) Eikon
4 1 (1.52%) Eze OMS
4 1 (1.52%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.52%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (10.61%) AWS
2 7 (10.61%) Azure
3 5 (7.58%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.58%) Snowflake
4 4 (6.06%) GitHub
4 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.03%) GCP
6 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.52%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.52%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Firewall
1 4 (6.06%) Multicast
1 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.55%) DHCP
2 3 (4.55%) DNS
3 2 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (1.52%) LAN
4 1 (1.52%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.58%) Power BI
2 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.06%) Tableau
3 3 (4.55%) KDB
4 2 (3.03%) Big Data
4 2 (3.03%) Power Query
4 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.52%) Parquet
5 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Git
1 3 (4.55%) Maven
2 2 (3.03%) JIRA
3 1 (1.52%) GitLab
3 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.52%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (57.58%) Finance
2 31 (46.97%) Social Skills
3 25 (37.88%) Front Office
4 19 (28.79%) Banking
5 12 (18.18%) Investment Banking
6 11 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (7.58%) Financial Institution
8 4 (6.06%) Back Office
9 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.52%) Agriculture
11 1 (1.52%) Games
11 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Analyst
2 13 (19.70%) Developer
3 10 (15.15%) Support Analyst
4 8 (12.12%) Desktop Support
5 7 (10.61%) Senior
6 6 (9.09%) Python Developer
6 6 (9.09%) Support Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Business Analyst
7 5 (7.58%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) IT Support
7 5 (7.58%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Applications Support
8 4 (6.06%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (4.55%) IT Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) IT Support Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) Project Manager
10 2 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.15%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (7.58%) Flask
2 5 (7.58%) Pandas
3 3 (4.55%) CSS
3 3 (4.55%) HTML
3 3 (4.55%) MyBatis
3 3 (4.55%) NumPy
3 3 (4.55%) Rendezvous
4 2 (3.03%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.52%) .NET
5 1 (1.52%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.52%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.52%) Kafka
5 1 (1.52%) Middleware
5 1 (1.52%) REST
5 1 (1.52%) SciPy
5 1 (1.52%) WPF
5 1 (1.52%) XML
5 1 (1.52%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.21%) Fixed Income
2 9 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (12.12%) Derivative
4 6 (9.09%) Equities
5 4 (6.06%) Clustering
5 4 (6.06%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (4.55%) Hedge funds
6 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.03%) Blackberry
7 2 (3.03%) BYOD
7 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.03%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.03%) Market Risk
7 2 (3.03%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (30.30%) Windows
2 9 (13.64%) Linux
3 6 (9.09%) Unix
3 6 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.52%) Android
5 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (16.67%) Agile
2 11 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
2 11 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (13.64%) Asset Management
3 9 (13.64%) DevOps
3 9 (13.64%) ITIL
4 8 (12.12%) Low Latency
5 7 (10.61%) Data Modelling
6 6 (9.09%) AI
6 6 (9.09%) Analytics
6 6 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 6 (9.09%) Data Management
6 6 (9.09%) Validation
7 5 (7.58%) CI/CD
7 5 (7.58%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (7.58%) Contract Management
7 5 (7.58%) Investment Management
7 5 (7.58%) Mentoring
7 5 (7.58%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.85%) SQL
2 19 (28.79%) Python
3 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.58%) Java
5 4 (6.06%) C#
5 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.03%) R
7 1 (1.52%) Bash
7 1 (1.52%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (7.58%) Degree
2 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.52%) CBAP
2 1 (1.52%) CFA
2 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) Data Quality
1 5 (7.58%) EMIR
1 5 (7.58%) MiFID
2 2 (3.03%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) SLA
3 1 (1.52%) Basel III
3 1 (1.52%) IFRS
3 1 (1.52%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Active Directory
1 5 (7.58%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.06%) Ansible
3 4 (6.06%) Prometheus
3 4 (6.06%) SCCM
3 4 (6.06%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 3 (4.55%) BladeLogic
5 1 (1.52%) Grafana
5 1 (1.52%) Terraform
5 1 (1.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (30.30%) Refinitiv
2 16 (24.24%) Reuters
3 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 9 (13.64%) Tradeweb
5 8 (12.12%) ION Trading
6 7 (10.61%) ServiceNow
7 6 (9.09%) Oracle
8 5 (7.58%) Citrix
8 5 (7.58%) Murex
9 4 (6.06%) Cisco
9 4 (6.06%) Dynatrace
9 4 (6.06%) Solace
10 3 (4.55%) Cloudera
10 3 (4.55%) Databricks
10 3 (4.55%) NYFIX
10 3 (4.55%) TIBCO
11 2 (3.03%) Calypso
11 2 (3.03%) Charles River
11 2 (3.03%) FactSet
11 2 (3.03%) VMware