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 24 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
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 418 408
Rank change year-on-year -101 -10 +72
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 73 55 129
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.43% 0.48% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 32 124
10th Percentile £264 £251 £313
25th Percentile £415 £361 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £634 £732 £763
90th Percentile £748 £773 £821
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -8.00%

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 17,041 11,439 15,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.00% 47.68% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,006 7,347 9,722
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +2.14% -4.37%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 467 1,013
10th Percentile £15.37 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -41.56%
75th Percentile £58.75 £55.13 £57.33
90th Percentile £76.68 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.12% -47.88%

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 24 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 24 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 -37 71 £500 -21.57% 34
North West -45 2 - -
North of England -82 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 4 (5.48%) Confluence
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.74%) IIS
4 1 (1.37%) MTS
4 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Fidessa
2 5 (6.85%) Loan IQ
3 4 (5.48%) Aladdin
3 4 (5.48%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (5.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 3 (4.11%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (2.74%) Findur
6 1 (1.37%) Actimize
6 1 (1.37%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (1.37%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (1.37%) Summit
6 1 (1.37%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.03%) Azure
2 18 (24.66%) AWS
3 14 (19.18%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (8.22%) Google Workspace
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.11%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.11%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.11%) GitHub
6 3 (4.11%) SaaS
6 3 (4.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.74%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.37%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.37%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.07%) TCP/IP
2 10 (13.70%) Firewall
3 9 (12.33%) VPN
4 6 (8.22%) DNS
5 5 (6.85%) DHCP
5 5 (6.85%) DMZ
6 2 (2.74%) FIX Connectivity
6 2 (2.74%) LAN
6 2 (2.74%) WAN
6 2 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.37%) BGP
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.37%) IP Telephony
7 1 (1.37%) Multicast
7 1 (1.37%) OSPF
7 1 (1.37%) Softphone
7 1 (1.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.11%) Tableau
3 2 (2.74%) Metadata
3 2 (2.74%) Power BI
4 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.37%) Power Query
4 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) JIRA
2 4 (5.48%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.11%) Toad
4 2 (2.74%) Git
5 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.37%) GitLab
5 1 (1.37%) Postman
General
1 48 (65.75%) Finance
2 29 (39.73%) Front Office
2 29 (39.73%) Social Skills
3 24 (32.88%) Banking
4 17 (23.29%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (16.44%) Investment Banking
6 6 (8.22%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (6.85%) Legal
8 4 (5.48%) Back Office
9 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.74%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.37%) German Language
10 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.37%) Retail
10 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (38.36%) Analyst
2 17 (23.29%) Business Analyst
3 10 (13.70%) Senior
4 7 (9.59%) Data Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) IT Analyst
4 7 (9.59%) Support Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) Help Desk Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) Senior Business Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) Support Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) IT Support
7 4 (5.48%) Lead
7 4 (5.48%) Migration Specialist
8 3 (4.11%) Cassandra Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Data Governance Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) Data Migration Lead
8 3 (4.11%) Pricing Specialist
8 3 (4.11%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (5.48%) JSON
2 4 (5.48%) Kafka
2 4 (5.48%) XML
3 3 (4.11%) JMS
3 3 (4.11%) Middleware
3 3 (4.11%) Pandas
3 3 (4.11%) REST
4 2 (2.74%) NumPy
4 2 (2.74%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.37%) .NET
5 1 (1.37%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.37%) HTML
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.37%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.81%) Derivative
2 10 (13.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (13.70%) Onboarding
3 9 (12.33%) Fixed Income
4 7 (9.59%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.59%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (8.22%) Equities
6 5 (6.85%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (5.48%) Client/Server
7 4 (5.48%) OTC Derivatives
8 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
8 3 (4.11%) Credit Risk
8 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (4.11%) iPhone
8 3 (4.11%) Replication
9 2 (2.74%) Hedge funds
9 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (30.14%) Windows
2 7 (9.59%) Windows 10
3 6 (8.22%) Linux
4 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.25%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (28.77%) Agile
3 15 (20.55%) DevOps
4 12 (16.44%) ITIL
4 12 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (13.70%) Data Management
5 10 (13.70%) Data Modelling
5 10 (13.70%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (13.70%) Validation
6 9 (12.33%) Analytics
6 9 (12.33%) Data Analysis
6 9 (12.33%) Migration
6 9 (12.33%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (10.96%) Electronic Trading
7 8 (10.96%) ETL
8 7 (9.59%) Asset Management
8 7 (9.59%) Curve Construction
8 7 (9.59%) Kanban
8 7 (9.59%) Scrum
8 7 (9.59%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (42.47%) SQL
2 18 (24.66%) Python
3 13 (17.81%) PowerShell
4 12 (16.44%) Java
5 2 (2.74%) C++
5 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.37%) Bash
6 1 (1.37%) C
6 1 (1.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (17.81%) Degree
2 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (5.48%) MCSA
3 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.74%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.74%) PMP
4 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) CBAP
5 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.85%) QA
3 4 (5.48%) MiFID
4 3 (4.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (4.11%) SLA
5 2 (2.74%) EMIR
5 2 (2.74%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.74%) Docker
3 2 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.74%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (15.07%) SCCM
2 4 (5.48%) Grafana
2 4 (5.48%) WSUS
3 3 (4.11%) Ansible
4 2 (2.74%) AirWatch
4 2 (2.74%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.74%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (2.74%) WMI
5 1 (1.37%) Kibana
5 1 (1.37%) Terraform
5 1 (1.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 18 (24.66%) Refinitiv
3 14 (19.18%) Reuters
4 13 (17.81%) Murex
5 11 (15.07%) Citrix
6 10 (13.70%) Charles River
7 9 (12.33%) ION Trading
8 5 (6.85%) Cisco
8 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
8 5 (6.85%) Splunk
8 5 (6.85%) VMware
9 4 (5.48%) AppDynamics
10 3 (4.11%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (4.11%) Eze Software Group
10 3 (4.11%) FactSet
10 3 (4.11%) SimCorp
11 2 (2.74%) HP
11 2 (2.74%) MarketAxess
11 2 (2.74%) OpenLink
11 2 (2.74%) Tradeweb