Bloomberg Contracts 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 1 July 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
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 428 465
Rank change year-on-year -8 +37 +87
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 58 126 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.48% 0.80% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 118 125
10th Percentile £250 £309 £293
25th Percentile £319 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £734 £825 £763
90th Percentile £775 £879 £863
UK median daily rate £425 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -37.04% +8.00% -7.41%

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 12,125 15,798 20,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.28% 42.55% 42.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,684 10,006 13,821
10th Percentile £278 £275 £268
25th Percentile £400 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 1,065 551
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.49 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.71 £18.56
Median hourly rate £26.02 £24.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -23.44% +46.92%
75th Percentile £51.98 £59.95 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +81.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bloomberg in England.

Daily rate trend for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bloomberg in England.

Hourly rate trend for Bloomberg in England

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 1 July 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 -23 50 £563 -16.67% 424
North of England +15 7 £414 +107.00% 31
North West +14 7 £414 +107.00% 27
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 3 (5.17%) Confluence
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Kondor
2 3 (5.17%) Aladdin
2 3 (5.17%) ION MarketView
3 1 (1.72%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.72%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (1.72%) Eikon
3 1 (1.72%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.72%) RMDS
3 1 (1.72%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.07%) AWS
1 7 (12.07%) Azure
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.45%) GitHub
4 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) DNS
2 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.72%) BGP
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.72%) DHCP
3 1 (1.72%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.72%) Multicast
3 1 (1.72%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.72%) Network Security
3 1 (1.72%) OSPF
3 1 (1.72%) SSL
3 1 (1.72%) VPN
3 1 (1.72%) WebEx
3 1 (1.72%) Wireless
3 1 (1.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Power BI
2 2 (3.45%) Data Mart
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (3.45%) Tableau
3 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) Cypress.io
2 4 (6.90%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) HP UFT
2 4 (6.90%) Selenium
2 4 (6.90%) TestComplete
3 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.45%) Maven
3 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.72%) Crucible
4 1 (1.72%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 29 (50.00%) Finance
2 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 13 (22.41%) Banking
3 13 (22.41%) Front Office
4 10 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.07%) Back Office
6 6 (10.34%) Investment Banking
7 5 (8.62%) Financial Institution
7 5 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.45%) Law
9 1 (1.72%) International Banking
9 1 (1.72%) Legal
9 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Analyst
2 13 (22.41%) Support Engineer
3 10 (17.24%) Applications Support
3 10 (17.24%) Developer
4 9 (15.52%) Support Analyst
5 8 (13.79%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Systems Support
7 6 (10.34%) Systems Support Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Automation Tester
8 4 (6.90%) Java Automation Tester
8 4 (6.90%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Test Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Tester
9 3 (5.17%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) .NET
2 5 (8.62%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (6.90%) Playwright
3 4 (6.90%) XML
4 3 (5.17%) Murex MxML
5 2 (3.45%) NumPy
5 2 (3.45%) Pandas
5 2 (3.45%) Rendezvous
6 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.72%) CSS
6 1 (1.72%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.72%) Flask
6 1 (1.72%) HTML
6 1 (1.72%) Kafka
6 1 (1.72%) MyBatis
6 1 (1.72%) REST
6 1 (1.72%) SciPy
6 1 (1.72%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (17.24%) Fixed Income
3 9 (15.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 6 (10.34%) Derivative
4 6 (10.34%) Equities
5 3 (5.17%) Clustering
5 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.17%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (5.17%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 3 (5.17%) Smartphone
6 2 (3.45%) BYOD
6 2 (3.45%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.45%) Hedge funds
6 2 (3.45%) Market Risk
6 2 (3.45%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.72%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (37.93%) Windows
2 11 (18.97%) Unix
3 5 (8.62%) Linux
4 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (17.24%) Migration
3 9 (15.52%) Service Delivery
4 8 (13.79%) Cash Management
4 8 (13.79%) Incident Management
4 8 (13.79%) ITIL
4 8 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (12.07%) Agile
5 7 (12.07%) Electronic Trading
6 6 (10.34%) Project Management
7 5 (8.62%) CI/CD
7 5 (8.62%) DevOps
7 5 (8.62%) Investment Management
7 5 (8.62%) Low Latency
7 5 (8.62%) Risk Management
7 5 (8.62%) System Testing
7 5 (8.62%) Test Automation
8 4 (6.90%) Break/Fix
8 4 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (6.90%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) SQL
2 13 (22.41%) Python
3 9 (15.52%) Java
4 7 (12.07%) C#
5 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.72%) Groovy
7 1 (1.72%) Perl
7 1 (1.72%) Ruby
7 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.90%) Degree
1 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) CFA
2 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.72%) MCP
2 1 (1.72%) MCSA
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) SLA
2 4 (6.90%) MiFID
3 3 (5.17%) EMIR
4 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.72%) QA
5 1 (1.72%) UCITS
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Xen
2 1 (1.72%) XenApp
2 1 (1.72%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) SCCM
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.90%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) BladeLogic
4 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.72%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) Reuters
2 17 (29.31%) Refinitiv
3 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
4 10 (17.24%) Sybase
5 9 (15.52%) Tradeweb
6 6 (10.34%) ServiceNow
7 5 (8.62%) Citrix
7 5 (8.62%) ION Trading
7 5 (8.62%) Murex
8 4 (6.90%) Cisco
8 4 (6.90%) FactSet
9 3 (5.17%) Oracle
10 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
10 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
10 2 (3.45%) Solace
10 2 (3.45%) TIBCO
11 1 (1.72%) LexisNexis
11 1 (1.72%) Okta
11 1 (1.72%) Palo Alto
11 1 (1.72%) Snow