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 2 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
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 416 404
Rank change year-on-year -61 -12 +129
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 71 61 148
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.23% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.50% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 46 133
10th Percentile £300 £367 £315
25th Percentile £413 £500 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £763
90th Percentile £875 £823 £840
UK median daily rate £650 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -5.45% +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 15,059 12,146 16,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.89% 46.29% 43.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,886 7,299 10,775
10th Percentile £300 £285 £250
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £707 £717 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 724 349 849
10th Percentile £15.08 £15.59 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.51 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £51.08 £63.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £28.21 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.80% -5.98% -3.69%

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 2 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 2 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 -15 68 £650 -5.45% 14
North West -26 3 £313 -26.09%
North of England -48 3 £313 -26.09%
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 (5.63%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.82%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Fidessa
2 5 (7.04%) Bloomberg AIM
2 5 (7.04%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 3 (4.23%) Aladdin
3 3 (4.23%) Kondor
4 2 (2.82%) Actimize
4 2 (2.82%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (1.41%) Eikon
5 1 (1.41%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (1.41%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (1.41%) Markit EDM
5 1 (1.41%) Summit
5 1 (1.41%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.08%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (12.68%) AWS
3 7 (9.86%) Azure
4 4 (5.63%) Google Workspace
5 3 (4.23%) GCP
5 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.23%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub
6 2 (2.82%) Slack
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.41%) Collibra
7 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.41%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.41%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.86%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.63%) DMZ
2 4 (5.63%) Firewall
2 4 (5.63%) VPN
3 3 (4.23%) DHCP
3 3 (4.23%) DNS
3 3 (4.23%) Multicast
3 3 (4.23%) Softphone
4 2 (2.82%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (1.41%) IP Telephony
5 1 (1.41%) LAN
5 1 (1.41%) WAN
5 1 (1.41%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) KDB
1 4 (5.63%) Tableau
2 3 (4.23%) Metadata
2 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.23%) Power BI
3 1 (1.41%) Ataccama
3 1 (1.41%) Big Data
3 1 (1.41%) Kdb+
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.41%) Parquet
3 1 (1.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) JIRA
2 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.82%) Git
3 2 (2.82%) Toad
4 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.41%) GitLab
4 1 (1.41%) Maven
4 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.41%) Selenium
General
1 49 (69.01%) Finance
2 34 (47.89%) Social Skills
3 30 (42.25%) Front Office
4 25 (35.21%) Banking
5 21 (29.58%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (25.35%) Investment Banking
7 6 (8.45%) Back Office
7 6 (8.45%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.41%) Agriculture
11 1 (1.41%) Legal
11 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.41%) Retail
11 1 (1.41%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 25 (35.21%) Analyst
2 21 (29.58%) Business Analyst
3 12 (16.90%) Senior
4 10 (14.08%) Support Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Developer
6 7 (9.86%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.04%) Data Business Analyst
7 5 (7.04%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Desktop Support
7 5 (7.04%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) IT Analyst
7 5 (7.04%) IT Support
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (4.23%) Applications Support
9 3 (4.23%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
9 3 (4.23%) Help Desk Analyst
9 3 (4.23%) Help Desk Support
9 3 (4.23%) Risk Business Analyst
9 3 (4.23%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.08%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (7.04%) Kafka
2 5 (7.04%) REST
3 4 (5.63%) Pandas
3 4 (5.63%) XML
4 3 (4.23%) NumPy
4 3 (4.23%) RESTful
4 3 (4.23%) Spring
5 2 (2.82%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.82%) Flask
5 2 (2.82%) JMS
5 2 (2.82%) Middleware
6 1 (1.41%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.41%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.41%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (1.41%) HTML
6 1 (1.41%) JSON
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.41%) MyBatis
6 1 (1.41%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Derivative
2 10 (14.08%) Fixed Income
3 6 (8.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (7.04%) Equities
4 5 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (4.23%) Credit Risk
5 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.23%) Reference Data
5 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.82%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.41%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.41%) DTCC
7 1 (1.41%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.41%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (1.41%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Windows
2 8 (11.27%) Linux
3 5 (7.04%) Unix
4 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.62%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (28.17%) Agile
3 13 (18.31%) Validation
4 12 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (14.08%) Electronic Trading
5 10 (14.08%) ITIL
6 9 (12.68%) Low Latency
7 8 (11.27%) Data Management
7 8 (11.27%) Data Validation
7 8 (11.27%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (9.86%) DevOps
8 7 (9.86%) Risk Management
9 6 (8.45%) AI
9 6 (8.45%) Algorithmic Trading
9 6 (8.45%) Asset Management
9 6 (8.45%) Customer Service
9 6 (8.45%) Data Modelling
10 5 (7.04%) Business Analysis
10 5 (7.04%) Roadmaps
10 5 (7.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (39.44%) SQL
2 18 (25.35%) Python
3 11 (15.49%) PowerShell
4 10 (14.08%) Java
5 4 (5.63%) C#
6 2 (2.82%) Perl
7 1 (1.41%) C
7 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.41%) R
7 1 (1.41%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 8 (11.27%) Degree
2 2 (2.82%) CBAP
2 2 (2.82%) PMI Certification
2 2 (2.82%) PMP
3 1 (1.41%) CFA
3 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.41%) MCSA
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) MiFID
2 8 (11.27%) QA
3 6 (8.45%) EMIR
4 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.41%) Basel III
5 1 (1.41%) GDPR
5 1 (1.41%) IFRS
5 1 (1.41%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.41%) SLA
5 1 (1.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.41%) vSphere
2 1 (1.41%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) SCCM
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.63%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 3 (4.23%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (4.23%) WSUS
4 2 (2.82%) Ansible
4 2 (2.82%) Grafana
5 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (22.54%) Refinitiv
2 13 (18.31%) ION Trading
2 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.08%) Tradeweb
4 9 (12.68%) Reuters
5 8 (11.27%) Charles River
6 7 (9.86%) Murex
7 6 (8.45%) Citrix
8 5 (7.04%) ServiceNow
9 4 (5.63%) AppDynamics
9 4 (5.63%) Splunk
10 3 (4.23%) Cisco
10 3 (4.23%) FIS
10 3 (4.23%) MarketAxess
10 3 (4.23%) NYFIX
10 3 (4.23%) VMware
11 2 (2.82%) Oracle
11 2 (2.82%) Proofpoint
11 2 (2.82%) SimCorp
11 2 (2.82%) Veritas