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 9 August 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
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 438 399
Rank change year-on-year -114 -39 +51
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 76 70 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.25% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 0.53% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 42 116
10th Percentile £225 £250 £300
25th Percentile £350 £334 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £688
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -38.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £769 £856
90th Percentile £688 £813 £888
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £688
% change year-on-year -10.00% -27.27% +10.00%

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 18,951 13,133 14,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.42% 47.22% 43.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,904 8,307 9,254
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £621 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £737
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,040 632 758
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.24 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -16.17% -18.92%
75th Percentile £66.75 £50.00 £63.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.56 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +35.11% -13.28% -28.47%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -78 74 £450 -14.29% 95
North West -49 2 - -
North of England -70 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 4 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.63%) IIS
4 1 (1.32%) MTS
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Aladdin
1 5 (6.58%) Loan IQ
2 2 (2.63%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.63%) Findur
2 2 (2.63%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (2.63%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (2.63%) Summit
3 1 (1.32%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.32%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (1.32%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.95%) Azure
2 17 (22.37%) AWS
2 17 (22.37%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.89%) Google Workspace
5 5 (6.58%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.58%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.95%) SaaS
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.63%) GitHub
8 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.63%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.32%) Collibra
9 1 (1.32%) Dagster
9 1 (1.32%) dbt
9 1 (1.32%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.32%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) VPN
2 12 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 10 (13.16%) Firewall
4 7 (9.21%) DNS
5 6 (7.89%) DHCP
6 5 (6.58%) DMZ
7 3 (3.95%) Internet
8 2 (2.63%) LAN
8 2 (2.63%) Multicast
8 2 (2.63%) WAN
8 2 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.32%) BGP
9 1 (1.32%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (1.32%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (1.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.58%) Power BI
3 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.95%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.63%) KDB
5 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.32%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.32%) Metadata
6 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.32%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Git
2 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.32%) Postman
3 1 (1.32%) Toad
General
1 50 (65.79%) Finance
2 34 (44.74%) Front Office
3 28 (36.84%) Social Skills
4 23 (30.26%) Banking
5 10 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (9.21%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (6.58%) Legal
9 3 (3.95%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.63%) Back Office
10 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.32%) German Language
11 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.32%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (40.79%) Analyst
2 12 (15.79%) Business Analyst
3 9 (11.84%) Data Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Help Desk Analyst
4 8 (10.53%) IT Analyst
5 7 (9.21%) Support Analyst
5 7 (9.21%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Compliance Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Compliance Business Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Migration Specialist
7 4 (5.26%) Python Data Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Python Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Cassandra Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Data Governance Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Data Migration Lead
8 3 (3.95%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Lead
8 3 (3.95%) Pricing Specialist
8 3 (3.95%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) Middleware
2 4 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (5.26%) Kafka
3 3 (3.95%) JSON
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.63%) Software Packaging
4 2 (2.63%) XML
5 1 (1.32%) .NET
5 1 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.32%) JMS
5 1 (1.32%) NumPy
5 1 (1.32%) Pandas
5 1 (1.32%) PySpark
5 1 (1.32%) React
5 1 (1.32%) REST
5 1 (1.32%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (18.42%) Derivative
3 11 (14.47%) Onboarding
4 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.21%) Fixed Income
4 7 (9.21%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (5.26%) OTC Derivatives
5 4 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (3.95%) Client/Server
6 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.95%) iPhone
6 3 (3.95%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.95%) Replication
7 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.63%) DTCC
7 2 (2.63%) Equities
7 2 (2.63%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (32.89%) Windows
2 8 (10.53%) Windows 10
3 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.26%) Linux
5 3 (3.95%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.26%) Agile
2 19 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (18.42%) DevOps
5 13 (17.11%) Analytics
5 13 (17.11%) Data Modelling
5 13 (17.11%) Migration
5 13 (17.11%) User Acceptance Testing
6 12 (15.79%) Data Analysis
6 12 (15.79%) Data Management
7 11 (14.47%) ITIL
8 10 (13.16%) Data Governance
8 10 (13.16%) ETL
9 9 (11.84%) Asset Management
9 9 (11.84%) Investment Management
9 9 (11.84%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (11.84%) System Integration Testing
10 8 (10.53%) Curve Construction
10 8 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (10.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (50.00%) SQL
2 21 (27.63%) Python
3 19 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 11 (14.47%) Java
5 2 (2.63%) C++
5 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.63%) VBA
6 1 (1.32%) Bash
6 1 (1.32%) C#
6 1 (1.32%) Korn
6 1 (1.32%) Scala
6 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) Degree
2 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (3.95%) MCSA
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.63%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.32%) PMP
5 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.26%) QA
2 4 (5.26%) SLA
3 3 (3.95%) EMIR
3 3 (3.95%) MiFID
3 3 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.32%) AIFMD
4 1 (1.32%) GDPR
4 1 (1.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (14.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.95%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.63%) Docker
4 1 (1.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (18.42%) SCCM
2 5 (6.58%) WSUS
3 3 (3.95%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (2.63%) AirWatch
4 2 (2.63%) Ansible
4 2 (2.63%) Grafana
4 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.63%) WMI
5 1 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.32%) Kibana
5 1 (1.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 18 (23.68%) Murex
2 18 (23.68%) Refinitiv
3 15 (19.74%) Reuters
4 14 (18.42%) Citrix
5 8 (10.53%) ION Trading
6 6 (7.89%) Charles River
7 5 (6.58%) Databricks
7 5 (6.58%) VMware
8 4 (5.26%) Cisco
8 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.63%) FactSet
9 2 (2.63%) Google
9 2 (2.63%) HP
9 2 (2.63%) MarketAxess
9 2 (2.63%) OpenLink
9 2 (2.63%) SimCorp
9 2 (2.63%) Splunk
9 2 (2.63%) Tradeweb
10 1 (1.32%) AppDynamics