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 15 November 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
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 412 426
Rank change year-on-year -58 +14 +84
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 76 104 148
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.53% 0.74% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 93 109
10th Percentile £225 £500 £263
25th Percentile £353 £638 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +5.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £747 £875 £750
90th Percentile £873 £888 £844
UK median daily rate £625 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 14,408 14,070 17,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.69% 45.13% 44.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,271 8,467 11,767
10th Percentile £285 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 715 443 620
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.74
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.96 £20.45
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.78 £76.28
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £43.88
% change year-on-year -17.90% -30.61% +75.52%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 -30 71 £650 -5.45% 41
North of England - 4 £318 -
North West - 3 £313 -
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 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.63%) Confluence
3 1 (1.32%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Aladdin
1 3 (3.95%) Eikon
1 3 (3.95%) ION MarketView
1 3 (3.95%) Kondor
2 2 (2.63%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (2.63%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 2 (2.63%) BondVision
2 2 (2.63%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (2.63%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.32%) Eze OMS
3 1 (1.32%) Markit EDM
3 1 (1.32%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (9.21%) AWS
2 7 (9.21%) Azure
3 5 (6.58%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.58%) Snowflake
4 4 (5.26%) GitHub
4 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.63%) GCP
5 2 (2.63%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.32%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.32%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.58%) Firewall
3 4 (5.26%) Multicast
3 4 (5.26%) VPN
4 3 (3.95%) DHCP
4 3 (3.95%) DNS
5 2 (2.63%) DMZ
6 1 (1.32%) LAN
6 1 (1.32%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Power BI
2 4 (5.26%) KDB
2 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.26%) Tableau
3 2 (2.63%) Big Data
3 2 (2.63%) Power Query
3 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.32%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.32%) Metadata
4 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.32%) Parquet
4 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Git
1 3 (3.95%) JIRA
1 3 (3.95%) Maven
2 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.32%) GitLab
3 1 (1.32%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (1.32%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.32%) Selenium
3 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (60.53%) Finance
2 35 (46.05%) Social Skills
3 29 (38.16%) Front Office
4 24 (31.58%) Banking
5 17 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (21.05%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.89%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.26%) Back Office
9 3 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.32%) Agriculture
11 1 (1.32%) Games
11 1 (1.32%) Legal
11 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Analyst
2 18 (23.68%) Developer
3 10 (13.16%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Support Analyst
4 9 (11.84%) Support Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 8 (10.53%) Desktop Support
6 7 (9.21%) IT Support
6 7 (9.21%) Senior
7 6 (7.89%) Python Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) IT Analyst
8 5 (6.58%) IT Support Analyst
9 4 (5.26%) Applications Support
9 4 (5.26%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.95%) Front Office Developer
11 2 (2.63%) Architect
11 2 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.16%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (6.58%) Flask
2 5 (6.58%) Pandas
3 3 (3.95%) CSS
3 3 (3.95%) HTML
3 3 (3.95%) MyBatis
3 3 (3.95%) NumPy
3 3 (3.95%) Rendezvous
3 3 (3.95%) RESTful
3 3 (3.95%) Spring
4 2 (2.63%) .NET
4 2 (2.63%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.63%) Kafka
4 2 (2.63%) REST
5 1 (1.32%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.32%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.32%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.32%) SciPy
5 1 (1.32%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) Fixed Income
2 12 (15.79%) Derivative
3 8 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.58%) Equities
6 4 (5.26%) Clustering
6 4 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.26%) Reference Data
6 4 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (3.95%) Hedge funds
7 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.63%) Blackberry
8 2 (2.63%) BYOD
8 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.63%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.63%) Market Risk
9 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.95%) Windows
2 9 (11.84%) Linux
3 6 (7.89%) Unix
3 6 (7.89%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.32%) Android
4 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.68%) Agile
1 18 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (15.79%) Electronic Trading
3 12 (15.79%) Low Latency
4 11 (14.47%) Asset Management
4 11 (14.47%) ITIL
5 9 (11.84%) Data Management
5 9 (11.84%) Data Modelling
5 9 (11.84%) DevOps
6 8 (10.53%) AI
6 8 (10.53%) Multithreading
6 8 (10.53%) Validation
7 7 (9.21%) CI/CD
8 6 (7.89%) Analytics
8 6 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (7.89%) Customer Service
8 6 (7.89%) Investment Management
9 5 (6.58%) Mentoring
9 5 (6.58%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.89%) SQL
2 21 (27.63%) Python
3 11 (14.47%) Java
3 11 (14.47%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.58%) C#
5 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.63%) R
7 1 (1.32%) Bash
7 1 (1.32%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (6.58%) Degree
2 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.32%) CBAP
2 1 (1.32%) CFA
2 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) Data Quality
1 5 (6.58%) EMIR
1 5 (6.58%) MiFID
2 4 (5.26%) QA
3 2 (2.63%) SLA
4 1 (1.32%) Basel III
4 1 (1.32%) IFRS
4 1 (1.32%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
1 5 (6.58%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (7.89%) SCCM
3 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.26%) Ansible
4 4 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.26%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 3 (3.95%) BladeLogic
6 2 (2.63%) WSUS
7 1 (1.32%) Grafana
7 1 (1.32%) Terraform
7 1 (1.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (27.63%) Refinitiv
2 18 (23.68%) Reuters
3 15 (19.74%) ION Trading
3 15 (19.74%) Tradeweb
4 14 (18.42%) Microsoft
5 7 (9.21%) ServiceNow
6 6 (7.89%) Citrix
6 6 (7.89%) Oracle
7 5 (6.58%) Murex
8 4 (5.26%) Cisco
8 4 (5.26%) Dynatrace
8 4 (5.26%) Solace
9 3 (3.95%) Cloudera
9 3 (3.95%) Databricks
9 3 (3.95%) MarketAxess
9 3 (3.95%) NYFIX
9 3 (3.95%) TIBCO
10 2 (2.63%) Calypso
10 2 (2.63%) Charles River
10 2 (2.63%) VMware