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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 406 439
Rank change year-on-year -45 +33 +82
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 63 122 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.38% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.49% 0.85% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 112 111
10th Percentile £225 £401 £243
25th Percentile £321 £500 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -32.73% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £769 £875 £750
90th Percentile £824 £888 £844
UK median daily rate £575 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -16.36% +5.77% -5.45%

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 12,963 14,377 18,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.08% 44.22% 43.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,222 8,762 12,414
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £615 £630 £650
90th Percentile £702 £732 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 597 587
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.26 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.62 £18.97
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £43.79
% change year-on-year -16.74% -31.03% +83.16%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Bloomberg as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -28 59 £525 -23.64% 38
North of England -13 3 £373 +86.25% 2
North West -12 2 £343 +71.38% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
Bloomberg
UK

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) ION MarketView
2 3 (4.76%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (3.17%) Aladdin
3 2 (3.17%) BondVision
3 2 (3.17%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (3.17%) Eikon
3 2 (3.17%) Kondor
4 1 (1.59%) Eze OMS
4 1 (1.59%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.59%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (12.70%) Azure
3 6 (9.52%) AWS
4 5 (7.94%) Snowflake
5 4 (6.35%) GitHub
5 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.59%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.52%) Firewall
2 4 (6.35%) DNS
2 4 (6.35%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.76%) DHCP
3 3 (4.76%) VPN
4 1 (1.59%) BGP
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.59%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.59%) Multicast
4 1 (1.59%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.59%) Network Security
4 1 (1.59%) OSPF
4 1 (1.59%) SSL
4 1 (1.59%) Wireless
4 1 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Power BI
1 3 (4.76%) Tableau
2 2 (3.17%) Big Data
2 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.17%) Power Query
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Cypress.io
1 4 (6.35%) HP UFT
1 4 (6.35%) Selenium
1 4 (6.35%) TestComplete
2 3 (4.76%) Git
2 3 (4.76%) Maven
3 2 (3.17%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) GitLab
4 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.59%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (53.97%) Finance
2 28 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 21 (33.33%) Front Office
4 18 (28.57%) Banking
5 12 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (14.29%) Investment Banking
7 6 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (7.94%) Financial Institution
9 4 (6.35%) Back Office
10 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.59%) Games
11 1 (1.59%) International Banking
11 1 (1.59%) Law
11 1 (1.59%) Legal
11 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (34.92%) Analyst
2 12 (19.05%) Support Analyst
3 10 (15.87%) Developer
4 8 (12.70%) Desktop Support
5 7 (11.11%) Support Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) IT Support
7 4 (6.35%) Automation Test Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Automation Tester
7 4 (6.35%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Java Automation Tester
7 4 (6.35%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Test Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Tester
8 3 (4.76%) Applications Support
8 3 (4.76%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (7.94%) .NET
3 4 (6.35%) Playwright
4 3 (4.76%) CSS
4 3 (4.76%) Flask
4 3 (4.76%) HTML
4 3 (4.76%) MyBatis
4 3 (4.76%) Pandas
4 3 (4.76%) Rendezvous
5 2 (3.17%) XML
6 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.59%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.59%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.59%) JSON
6 1 (1.59%) Kafka
6 1 (1.59%) Middleware
6 1 (1.59%) Murex MxML
6 1 (1.59%) NumPy
6 1 (1.59%) SciPy
6 1 (1.59%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Fixed Income
2 11 (17.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (11.11%) Equities
4 6 (9.52%) Derivative
5 4 (6.35%) Clustering
5 4 (6.35%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.76%) Hedge funds
6 3 (4.76%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.17%) Blackberry
7 2 (3.17%) BYOD
7 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.17%) Market Risk
7 2 (3.17%) Reference Data
7 2 (3.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.59%) Hackathon
8 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (41.27%) Windows
2 8 (12.70%) Linux
3 6 (9.52%) Windows 10
4 5 (7.94%) Unix
5 4 (6.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.59%) Android
6 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (15.87%) Agile
2 10 (15.87%) Electronic Trading
3 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (12.70%) Asset Management
5 7 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 7 (11.11%) ITIL
5 7 (11.11%) Low Latency
6 6 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (9.52%) Customer Service
6 6 (9.52%) DevOps
6 6 (9.52%) Risk Management
7 5 (7.94%) CI/CD
7 5 (7.94%) Data Management
7 5 (7.94%) Investment Management
7 5 (7.94%) Migration
7 5 (7.94%) Mobile Device Management
7 5 (7.94%) Software Testing
7 5 (7.94%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.16%) Python
2 17 (26.98%) SQL
3 8 (12.70%) Java
3 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.94%) C#
6 2 (3.17%) R
7 1 (1.59%) Bash
7 1 (1.59%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 4 (6.35%) Degree
1 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.76%) SLA
3 2 (3.17%) EMIR
4 1 (1.59%) Basel III
4 1 (1.59%) IFRS
4 1 (1.59%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.59%) MiFID
4 1 (1.59%) QA
4 1 (1.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (1.59%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (7.94%) SCCM
4 4 (6.35%) Ansible
4 4 (6.35%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.76%) BladeLogic
6 1 (1.59%) Grafana
6 1 (1.59%) Terraform
6 1 (1.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (34.92%) Reuters
2 17 (26.98%) Refinitiv
3 13 (20.63%) Microsoft
4 8 (12.70%) ION Trading
4 8 (12.70%) ServiceNow
4 8 (12.70%) Tradeweb
5 6 (9.52%) Citrix
6 5 (7.94%) Cisco
6 5 (7.94%) Murex
6 5 (7.94%) Oracle
7 4 (6.35%) Dynatrace
7 4 (6.35%) Solace
8 3 (4.76%) Cloudera
8 3 (4.76%) Databricks
8 3 (4.76%) Sybase
8 3 (4.76%) TIBCO
9 2 (3.17%) FactSet
9 2 (3.17%) MarketAxess
10 1 (1.59%) LexisNexis
10 1 (1.59%) Meraki