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 3 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
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 419 406
Rank change year-on-year -91 -13 +100
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 77 56 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.45% 0.48% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 33 125
10th Percentile £330 £253 £313
25th Percentile £423 £361 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £763
90th Percentile £780 £768 £800
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.05% - -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 16,947 11,572 15,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.87% 47.47% 42.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,050 7,462 9,925
10th Percentile £313 £288 £259
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.99%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 885 464 1,002
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.69 £17.75 £14.27
Median hourly rate £30.75 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% +20.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.88 £26.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.24% +17.04% -48.86%

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 3 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 3 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 -33 75 £510 -21.54% 13
North West -42 2 - - 1
North of England -66 2 - - 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 4 (5.19%) Confluence
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.60%) IIS
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.30%) MTS
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.90%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Fidessa
2 5 (6.49%) Bloomberg AIM
2 5 (6.49%) Loan IQ
3 4 (5.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 3 (3.90%) Aladdin
4 3 (3.90%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (2.60%) Actimize
5 2 (2.60%) Findur
6 1 (1.30%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (1.30%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (1.30%) Markit EDM
6 1 (1.30%) Summit
6 1 (1.30%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) Azure
2 17 (22.08%) AWS
3 14 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (10.39%) Google Workspace
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.90%) GitHub
6 3 (3.90%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.60%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.60%) Slack
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.30%) Collibra
8 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.30%) GCP
8 1 (1.30%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.88%) TCP/IP
2 12 (15.58%) Firewall
3 9 (11.69%) VPN
4 7 (9.09%) DMZ
5 6 (7.79%) DNS
6 5 (6.49%) DHCP
7 3 (3.90%) Softphone
8 2 (2.60%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (2.60%) LAN
8 2 (2.60%) WAN
8 2 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.30%) BGP
9 1 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (1.30%) IP Telephony
9 1 (1.30%) Multicast
9 1 (1.30%) OSPF
9 1 (1.30%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.19%) Metadata
2 4 (5.19%) Tableau
3 2 (2.60%) Power BI
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.30%) Ataccama
4 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Power Query
4 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) JIRA
2 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.90%) Git
3 3 (3.90%) Toad
4 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) Postman
General
1 49 (63.64%) Finance
2 36 (46.75%) Social Skills
3 32 (41.56%) Front Office
4 28 (36.36%) Banking
5 21 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (19.48%) Investment Banking
7 7 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (6.49%) Back Office
9 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.60%) Legal
10 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.60%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (40.26%) Analyst
2 21 (27.27%) Business Analyst
3 11 (14.29%) Senior
3 11 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 9 (11.69%) IT Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Help Desk Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (7.79%) IT Support
6 6 (7.79%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Data Business Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Electronics Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Lead
8 4 (5.19%) Migration Specialist
9 3 (3.90%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Data Migration Specialist
9 3 (3.90%) Help Desk Support
9 3 (3.90%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (7.79%) Kafka
3 5 (6.49%) REST
3 5 (6.49%) XML
4 4 (5.19%) JMS
4 4 (5.19%) JSON
4 4 (5.19%) Middleware
5 3 (3.90%) Pandas
6 2 (2.60%) NumPy
6 2 (2.60%) Software Packaging
7 1 (1.30%) .NET
7 1 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.30%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.30%) HTML
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.30%) RESTful
7 1 (1.30%) SciPy
7 1 (1.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.78%) Derivative
2 11 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 11 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (11.69%) Onboarding
4 7 (9.09%) Equities
5 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
5 5 (6.49%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (5.19%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.19%) Client/Server
6 4 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.19%) OTC Derivatives
7 3 (3.90%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.90%) iPhone
7 3 (3.90%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (2.60%) Hedge funds
8 2 (2.60%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.30%) Eurex
9 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (31.17%) Windows
2 8 (10.39%) Linux
3 7 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 5 (6.49%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.60%) Unix
5 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (32.47%) Agile
3 14 (18.18%) DevOps
3 14 (18.18%) ITIL
4 12 (15.58%) Validation
5 11 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 11 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 11 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (12.99%) Electronic Trading
7 9 (11.69%) Data Management
8 8 (10.39%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (9.09%) Asset Management
9 7 (9.09%) ETL
9 7 (9.09%) Order Management
9 7 (9.09%) Risk Management
9 7 (9.09%) Service Delivery
9 7 (9.09%) Service Management
10 6 (7.79%) Migration
10 6 (7.79%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.16%) SQL
2 18 (23.38%) Python
3 16 (20.78%) PowerShell
4 12 (15.58%) Java
5 2 (2.60%) C++
5 2 (2.60%) Perl
5 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (15.58%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (5.19%) MCSA
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.60%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.60%) PMP
4 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) CBAP
5 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) QA
2 5 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.49%) MiFID
3 3 (3.90%) GDPR
3 3 (3.90%) SLA
4 2 (2.60%) EMIR
5 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (6.49%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.60%) Docker
3 2 (2.60%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (19.48%) SCCM
2 6 (7.79%) WSUS
3 5 (6.49%) Grafana
4 4 (5.19%) Ansible
5 3 (3.90%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (2.60%) AirWatch
6 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.60%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (2.60%) WMI
7 1 (1.30%) Kibana
7 1 (1.30%) Terraform
7 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (24.68%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.78%) Refinitiv
2 16 (20.78%) Reuters
3 13 (16.88%) Murex
4 12 (15.58%) ION Trading
5 11 (14.29%) Charles River
5 11 (14.29%) Citrix
6 7 (9.09%) Splunk
7 6 (7.79%) AppDynamics
8 5 (6.49%) Cisco
8 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
8 5 (6.49%) VMware
9 4 (5.19%) Tradeweb
10 3 (3.90%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (3.90%) Eze Software Group
10 3 (3.90%) FactSet
10 3 (3.90%) MarketAxess
10 3 (3.90%) SimCorp
11 2 (2.60%) HP
11 2 (2.60%) Proofpoint