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 23 February 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
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 433 418
Rank change year-on-year -54 -15 +121
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 75 52 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.20% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.48% 0.43% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 36 130
10th Percentile £316 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £481 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £735 £738 £763
90th Percentile £875 £828 £825
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +4.00%

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 15,562 11,969 16,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.86% 46.64% 43.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,162 7,359 10,484
10th Percentile £303 £282 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £702 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £521
% change year-on-year -4.31% +0.24% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 804 351 877
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -23.15% +16.28% -19.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £55.50
90th Percentile £74.11 £82.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.54 £26.50
% change year-on-year -18.74% +11.45% -23.37%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -11 73 £650 -7.14% 7
North West -31 2 £318 -25.03%
North of England -52 2 £318 -25.03%
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 5 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.33%) Apache
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (14.67%) Fidessa
2 7 (9.33%) Bloomberg AIM
3 5 (6.67%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 4 (5.33%) Aladdin
5 3 (4.00%) Loan IQ
5 3 (4.00%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (2.67%) Actimize
6 2 (2.67%) Kondor
7 1 (1.33%) Eikon
7 1 (1.33%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (1.33%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (1.33%) Markit EDM
7 1 (1.33%) Summit
7 1 (1.33%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.67%) AWS
2 8 (10.67%) Azure
2 8 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (5.33%) Google Workspace
3 4 (5.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.00%) GCP
4 3 (4.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.67%) Slack
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.33%) Collibra
6 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.33%) GitHub
6 1 (1.33%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.33%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.67%) Firewall
3 4 (5.33%) DMZ
3 4 (5.33%) VPN
4 3 (4.00%) DHCP
4 3 (4.00%) DNS
4 3 (4.00%) Multicast
4 3 (4.00%) Softphone
5 2 (2.67%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (1.33%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.33%) LAN
6 1 (1.33%) WAN
6 1 (1.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) Tableau
2 4 (5.33%) KDB
2 4 (5.33%) Power BI
3 3 (4.00%) Metadata
4 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.33%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.33%) Parquet
5 1 (1.33%) Power Query
5 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) JIRA
2 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.00%) Toad
4 2 (2.67%) Git
5 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.33%) GitLab
5 1 (1.33%) Postman
5 1 (1.33%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.33%) Selenium
General
1 51 (68.00%) Finance
2 36 (48.00%) Social Skills
3 32 (42.67%) Front Office
4 26 (34.67%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (34.67%) Banking
5 17 (22.67%) Investment Banking
6 8 (10.67%) Back Office
7 7 (9.33%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (8.00%) Financial Institution
9 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.33%) Agriculture
11 1 (1.33%) Legal
11 1 (1.33%) Retail
11 1 (1.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (38.67%) Analyst
2 24 (32.00%) Business Analyst
3 14 (18.67%) Senior
4 8 (10.67%) Developer
4 8 (10.67%) Support Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (8.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 6 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) IT Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) IT Support
8 4 (5.33%) Electronics Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Market Data Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Data Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Help Desk Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Help Desk Support
9 3 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (9.33%) Kafka
2 7 (9.33%) REST
3 4 (5.33%) JMS
3 4 (5.33%) Middleware
3 4 (5.33%) Pandas
3 4 (5.33%) XML
4 3 (4.00%) NumPy
4 3 (4.00%) RESTful
4 3 (4.00%) Spring
5 2 (2.67%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.67%) Flask
5 2 (2.67%) JSON
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.33%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.33%) HTML
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.33%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.00%) Derivative
2 13 (17.33%) Fixed Income
3 8 (10.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (9.33%) Equities
5 4 (5.33%) Algorithms
5 4 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (4.00%) Credit Risk
6 3 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.00%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.67%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.67%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (2.67%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.33%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.33%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.33%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.67%) Windows
2 8 (10.67%) Linux
3 4 (5.33%) Unix
4 2 (2.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (26.67%) Agile
3 14 (18.67%) Validation
4 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (16.00%) Electronic Trading
6 10 (13.33%) Data Management
6 10 (13.33%) ITIL
7 9 (12.00%) Data Analysis
7 9 (12.00%) Data Validation
7 9 (12.00%) Low Latency
7 9 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (10.67%) Algorithmic Trading
8 8 (10.67%) DevOps
9 6 (8.00%) Analytics
9 6 (8.00%) Asset Management
9 6 (8.00%) Data Modelling
9 6 (8.00%) Order Management
9 6 (8.00%) Risk Management
9 6 (8.00%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.33%) SQL
2 19 (25.33%) Python
3 11 (14.67%) Java
3 11 (14.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.33%) C#
5 2 (2.67%) Perl
6 1 (1.33%) Bash
6 1 (1.33%) C
6 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (2.67%) CBAP
2 2 (2.67%) PMI Certification
2 2 (2.67%) PMP
3 1 (1.33%) CFA
3 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.33%) MCSA
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) MiFID
1 9 (12.00%) QA
2 6 (8.00%) EMIR
3 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.67%) GDPR
5 1 (1.33%) Basel III
5 1 (1.33%) IFRS
5 1 (1.33%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.33%) vSphere
2 1 (1.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) SCCM
2 5 (6.67%) Grafana
3 4 (5.33%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 3 (4.00%) Ansible
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.00%) WSUS
5 2 (2.67%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.33%) Kibana
6 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Refinitiv
2 14 (18.67%) ION Trading
3 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
4 12 (16.00%) Charles River
5 11 (14.67%) Murex
6 10 (13.33%) Reuters
6 10 (13.33%) Tradeweb
7 6 (8.00%) AppDynamics
7 6 (8.00%) Citrix
7 6 (8.00%) Splunk
8 4 (5.33%) Cisco
8 4 (5.33%) VMware
9 3 (4.00%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (4.00%) Eze Software Group
9 3 (4.00%) FactSet
9 3 (4.00%) MarketAxess
9 3 (4.00%) NYFIX
9 3 (4.00%) Oracle
9 3 (4.00%) ServiceNow
9 3 (4.00%) SimCorp