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 12 October 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
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 442 412
Rank change year-on-year -108 -30 +30
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 86 69 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.25% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.45% 0.52% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 49 106
10th Percentile £225 £225 £363
25th Percentile £364 £325 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £688
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £778 £750 £866
90th Percentile £850 £855 £888
UK median daily rate £613 £613 £688
% change year-on-year - -10.91% +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 19,274 13,354 14,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.67% 47.85% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,773 8,502 8,597
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £627
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,273 647 513
10th Percentile £13.98 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -28.16% -21.35%
75th Percentile £60.81 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.10 £69.79 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -25.87%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -69 85 £613 -5.77% 149
North West -47 1 - -
North of England -67 1 - - 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 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.98%) MTS
3 4 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.65%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.49%) Confluence
5 1 (1.16%) Apache
5 1 (1.16%) IIS
5 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Aladdin
2 4 (4.65%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 3 (3.49%) Eikon
4 2 (2.33%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (2.33%) Summit
5 1 (1.16%) Actimize
5 1 (1.16%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (1.16%) Monis
5 1 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (1.16%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 26 (30.23%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (22.09%) Azure
3 18 (20.93%) AWS
4 9 (10.47%) GCP
4 9 (10.47%) SaaS
5 7 (8.14%) Snowflake
6 6 (6.98%) Entra ID
6 6 (6.98%) OCI
7 4 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.49%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (3.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (3.49%) dbt
8 3 (3.49%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.33%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.16%) Azure Databricks
10 1 (1.16%) Collibra
10 1 (1.16%) Dagster
10 1 (1.16%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.28%) VPN
2 12 (13.95%) TCP/IP
3 11 (12.79%) DNS
4 10 (11.63%) Internet
5 9 (10.47%) Multicast
6 8 (9.30%) DHCP
6 8 (9.30%) Firewall
7 6 (6.98%) BGP
7 6 (6.98%) DMZ
8 5 (5.81%) OSPF
9 3 (3.49%) Unicast
10 2 (2.33%) Network Security
11 1 (1.16%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (1.16%) FIX Connectivity
11 1 (1.16%) LAN
11 1 (1.16%) VoIP
11 1 (1.16%) WAN
11 1 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (1.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.98%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.65%) Power BI
3 3 (3.49%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.49%) KDB
4 2 (2.33%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.16%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.16%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.16%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (16.28%) JIRA
2 4 (4.65%) Git
3 2 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
General
1 62 (72.09%) Finance
2 48 (55.81%) Front Office
3 34 (39.53%) Banking
4 31 (36.05%) Social Skills
5 16 (18.60%) Investment Banking
6 9 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (8.14%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.65%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.65%) Legal
9 3 (3.49%) Back Office
10 1 (1.16%) German Language
10 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (33.72%) Analyst
2 16 (18.60%) Support Engineer
3 13 (15.12%) Business Analyst
4 9 (10.47%) Data Engineer
4 9 (10.47%) Lead
5 7 (8.14%) IT Analyst
6 6 (6.98%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Support Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.81%) Applications Support Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Compliance Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) Compliance Business Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) Desktop Support
7 5 (5.81%) Help Desk Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) Senior
8 4 (4.65%) IT Support
8 4 (4.65%) Python Data Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (4.65%) Middleware
2 4 (4.65%) React
3 3 (3.49%) Kafka
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.33%) JSON
4 2 (2.33%) Next.js
4 2 (2.33%) Redux
4 2 (2.33%) WebSockets
4 2 (2.33%) XML
5 1 (1.16%) .NET
5 1 (1.16%) Django
5 1 (1.16%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.16%) Flask
5 1 (1.16%) FpML
5 1 (1.16%) HTML
5 1 (1.16%) PySpark
5 1 (1.16%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (19.77%) Derivative
3 12 (13.95%) Fixed Income
4 11 (12.79%) Onboarding
5 7 (8.14%) Reference Data
6 5 (5.81%) Data Centre
7 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
7 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.65%) Equities
7 4 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (4.65%) Hedge funds
7 4 (4.65%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (3.49%) Replication
9 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
9 2 (2.33%) Client/Server
9 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 2 (2.33%) DTCC
9 2 (2.33%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (2.33%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 24 (27.91%) Windows
2 9 (10.47%) Linux
3 8 (9.30%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.65%) macOS
5 2 (2.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (20.93%) Migration
4 17 (19.77%) Agile
5 16 (18.60%) Investment Management
5 16 (18.60%) Project Delivery
5 16 (18.60%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (16.28%) Asset Management
7 13 (15.12%) Analytics
7 13 (15.12%) Business Analysis
7 13 (15.12%) Data Analysis
7 13 (15.12%) High Availability
8 12 (13.95%) Data Modelling
8 12 (13.95%) Low Latency
9 11 (12.79%) Change Management
9 11 (12.79%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (12.79%) Risk Management
9 11 (12.79%) System Integration Testing
10 10 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (11.63%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 39 (45.35%) SQL
2 29 (33.72%) Python
3 14 (16.28%) PowerShell
4 11 (12.79%) Java
5 5 (5.81%) C#
5 5 (5.81%) Tcl
6 3 (3.49%) C++
6 3 (3.49%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.49%) VBA
7 1 (1.16%) Bicep
7 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.16%) Korn
7 1 (1.16%) R
7 1 (1.16%) Scala
7 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (9.30%) Degree
2 2 (2.33%) ISTQB
2 2 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.16%) CFA
3 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.16%) MCSA
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.16%) PMP
3 1 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.65%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.33%) EMIR
3 2 (2.33%) MiFID
3 2 (2.33%) SLA
4 1 (1.16%) AIFMD
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (15.12%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.49%) Docker
4 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (13.95%) SCCM
2 7 (8.14%) Ansible
3 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.49%) WSUS
5 2 (2.33%) Podman
5 2 (2.33%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (1.16%) AirWatch
6 1 (1.16%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (33.72%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.77%) Reuters
3 16 (18.60%) Refinitiv
4 14 (16.28%) Citrix
4 14 (16.28%) Murex
5 11 (12.79%) ION Trading
6 9 (10.47%) Tradeweb
7 7 (8.14%) MarketAxess
8 6 (6.98%) Databricks
8 6 (6.98%) FactSet
8 6 (6.98%) Oracle
9 5 (5.81%) Charles River
9 5 (5.81%) ServiceNow
9 5 (5.81%) Sybase
10 3 (3.49%) Cisco
11 2 (2.33%) FXall
11 2 (2.33%) Google
11 2 (2.33%) NYFIX
11 2 (2.33%) SimCorp
11 2 (2.33%) VMware