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 24 December 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
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 423 437
Rank change year-on-year -34 +14 +101
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 82 90 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.55% 0.68% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 79 108
10th Percentile £266 £500 £309
25th Percentile £381 £638 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £738 £806 £750
90th Percentile £875 £875 £838
UK median daily rate £625 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -3.70%

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 14,990 13,240 16,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.44% 45.99% 44.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,721 8,058 10,582
10th Percentile £293 £299 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 726 382 600
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.51 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.08 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.69 £30.52 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% -33.48% +74.02%
75th Percentile £47.38 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.01 £80.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £45.21
% change year-on-year -14.14% -38.62% +75.85%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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 -21 78 £650 -5.45% 13
North of England - 4 £318 - 2
North West - 3 £313 -
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 2
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 (6.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.66%) Confluence
3 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.22%) Apache
4 1 (1.22%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Fidessa
2 4 (4.88%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (4.88%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 3 (3.66%) Kondor
4 2 (2.44%) Actimize
4 2 (2.44%) Aladdin
4 2 (2.44%) BondVision
4 2 (2.44%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (2.44%) Eikon
4 2 (2.44%) ION MarketView
5 1 (1.22%) Eze OMS
5 1 (1.22%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (1.22%) Markit EDM
5 1 (1.22%) Summit
5 1 (1.22%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.41%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (10.98%) AWS
3 8 (9.76%) Azure
4 5 (6.10%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.66%) GCP
5 3 (3.66%) GitHub
5 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.44%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.44%) Slack
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.22%) Collibra
7 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.22%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.22%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.22%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.10%) DHCP
2 5 (6.10%) DNS
3 4 (4.88%) Firewall
3 4 (4.88%) VPN
4 3 (3.66%) Multicast
4 3 (3.66%) Softphone
5 2 (2.44%) DMZ
6 1 (1.22%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (1.22%) LAN
6 1 (1.22%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) Tableau
2 4 (4.88%) KDB
2 4 (4.88%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.66%) Metadata
3 3 (3.66%) Power BI
4 2 (2.44%) Big Data
5 1 (1.22%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.22%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.22%) Parquet
5 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.22%) Power Query
5 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Git
1 5 (6.10%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.88%) JIRA
3 2 (2.44%) GitLab
3 2 (2.44%) Maven
4 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.22%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.22%) Selenium
General
1 54 (65.85%) Finance
2 36 (43.90%) Social Skills
3 32 (39.02%) Front Office
4 27 (32.93%) Banking
5 20 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (18.29%) Investment Banking
7 8 (9.76%) Financial Institution
8 6 (7.32%) Back Office
9 4 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.22%) Agriculture
12 1 (1.22%) Games
12 1 (1.22%) Legal
12 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.22%) Retail
12 1 (1.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (31.71%) Analyst
2 15 (18.29%) Business Analyst
3 13 (15.85%) Developer
4 12 (14.63%) Support Engineer
5 10 (12.20%) Senior
6 9 (10.98%) Desktop Support
7 8 (9.76%) Java Developer
8 7 (8.54%) Desktop Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) IT Support
9 6 (7.32%) Support Analyst
10 5 (6.10%) IT Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) Applications Support
11 4 (4.88%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) IT Support Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) Python Developer
11 4 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
12 3 (3.66%) Lead
12 3 (3.66%) Market Data Analyst
12 3 (3.66%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.20%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (7.32%) Pandas
3 5 (6.10%) Flask
3 5 (6.10%) Kafka
4 4 (4.88%) HTML
4 4 (4.88%) REST
5 3 (3.66%) CSS
5 3 (3.66%) RESTful
5 3 (3.66%) Spring
5 3 (3.66%) XML
6 2 (2.44%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.44%) Middleware
6 2 (2.44%) MyBatis
6 2 (2.44%) NumPy
6 2 (2.44%) Rendezvous
7 1 (1.22%) .NET
7 1 (1.22%) Apache Avro
7 1 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.22%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Derivative
2 14 (17.07%) Fixed Income
3 9 (10.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (7.32%) Equities
4 6 (7.32%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (3.66%) Hedge funds
6 3 (3.66%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.44%) Clustering
7 2 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.44%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.22%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.22%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.22%) DTCC
8 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.22%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.61%) Windows
2 9 (10.98%) Linux
3 7 (8.54%) Unix
4 5 (6.10%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.22%) Android
5 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (24.39%) Agile
3 15 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (14.63%) Asset Management
4 12 (14.63%) Electronic Trading
4 12 (14.63%) Validation
5 11 (13.41%) Low Latency
6 10 (12.20%) DevOps
6 10 (12.20%) ITIL
7 9 (10.98%) AI
7 9 (10.98%) Data Management
7 9 (10.98%) Data Modelling
8 7 (8.54%) Data Analysis
8 7 (8.54%) Risk Management
8 7 (8.54%) Visualisation
9 6 (7.32%) CI/CD
9 6 (7.32%) Customer Service
9 6 (7.32%) Data Governance
9 6 (7.32%) Multithreading
9 6 (7.32%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (35.37%) SQL
2 22 (26.83%) Python
3 11 (13.41%) PowerShell
4 10 (12.20%) Java
5 4 (4.88%) C#
5 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.44%) Perl
6 2 (2.44%) R
7 1 (1.22%) Bash
7 1 (1.22%) C
7 1 (1.22%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (7.32%) Degree
2 2 (2.44%) CBAP
3 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.22%) CFA
3 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.22%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) MiFID
2 6 (7.32%) EMIR
2 6 (7.32%) QA
3 5 (6.10%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.44%) SLA
5 1 (1.22%) Basel III
5 1 (1.22%) GDPR
5 1 (1.22%) IFRS
5 1 (1.22%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (7.32%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (9.76%) SCCM
2 6 (7.32%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (6.10%) Ansible
4 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.88%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (2.44%) BladeLogic
5 2 (2.44%) Grafana
5 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.44%) Terraform
5 2 (2.44%) WSUS
6 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (25.61%) Refinitiv
2 15 (18.29%) ION Trading
2 15 (18.29%) Tradeweb
3 13 (15.85%) Reuters
4 11 (13.41%) Microsoft
5 7 (8.54%) Murex
6 6 (7.32%) ServiceNow
7 5 (6.10%) Charles River
7 5 (6.10%) Citrix
7 5 (6.10%) MarketAxess
7 5 (6.10%) Oracle
8 4 (4.88%) Splunk
9 3 (3.66%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.66%) Cisco
9 3 (3.66%) Cloudera
9 3 (3.66%) Databricks
9 3 (3.66%) Dynatrace
9 3 (3.66%) NYFIX
10 2 (2.44%) FIS
10 2 (2.44%) Solace