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 5 October 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
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 451 413
Rank change year-on-year -110 -38 +29
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 79 66 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.41% 0.50% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 44 106
10th Percentile £225 £225 £363
25th Percentile £350 £322 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £538 £688
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% -21.82% +5.77%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £875
90th Percentile £855 £868 £888
UK median daily rate £560 £600 £688
% change year-on-year -6.67% -12.73% +5.77%

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 19,104 13,325 14,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.43% 47.71% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,707 8,471 8,656
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £620 £630
90th Percentile £713 £700 £727
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,228 646 539
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.92 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.70 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £62.13 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £71.65
UK median hourly rate £25.26 £25.15 £32.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -22.63% -24.42%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -67 78 £560 -10.40% 242
North West -46 1 - - 2
North of England -73 1 - - 4
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 6 (7.59%) MTS
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.06%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.80%) Confluence
5 1 (1.27%) Apache
5 1 (1.27%) IIS
5 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Aladdin
2 4 (5.06%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (2.53%) Eikon
3 2 (2.53%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (2.53%) Summit
4 1 (1.27%) Actimize
4 1 (1.27%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (1.27%) Monis
4 1 (1.27%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.32%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (20.25%) Azure
3 13 (16.46%) AWS
4 7 (8.86%) Snowflake
5 6 (7.59%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.06%) SaaS
8 3 (3.80%) dbt
8 3 (3.80%) GCP
8 3 (3.80%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.53%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.27%) Azure Databricks
10 1 (1.27%) Collibra
10 1 (1.27%) Dagster
10 1 (1.27%) OCI
10 1 (1.27%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.72%) VPN
2 12 (15.19%) TCP/IP
3 8 (10.13%) DHCP
3 8 (10.13%) DNS
3 8 (10.13%) Firewall
4 5 (6.33%) Internet
5 4 (5.06%) Multicast
6 3 (3.80%) DMZ
7 1 (1.27%) BGP
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.27%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (1.27%) LAN
7 1 (1.27%) Network Security
7 1 (1.27%) VoIP
7 1 (1.27%) WAN
7 1 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.06%) Power BI
3 3 (3.80%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.80%) KDB
4 2 (2.53%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.27%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.27%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.27%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (17.72%) JIRA
2 4 (5.06%) Git
3 2 (2.53%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 56 (70.89%) Finance
2 47 (59.49%) Front Office
3 31 (39.24%) Banking
4 29 (36.71%) Social Skills
5 16 (20.25%) Investment Banking
6 7 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (5.06%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.06%) Legal
9 3 (3.80%) Back Office
10 1 (1.27%) German Language
10 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (35.44%) Analyst
2 15 (18.99%) Support Engineer
3 13 (16.46%) Business Analyst
4 9 (11.39%) Data Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) IT Analyst
6 6 (7.59%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) Applications Support
7 5 (6.33%) Applications Support Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Compliance Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) Compliance Business Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) Help Desk Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) Lead
8 4 (5.06%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Desktop Support
8 4 (5.06%) IT Support
8 4 (5.06%) Python Data Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Senior
9 3 (3.80%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (5.06%) Middleware
2 4 (5.06%) React
3 3 (3.80%) Kafka
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.53%) Next.js
4 2 (2.53%) Redux
4 2 (2.53%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.27%) .NET
5 1 (1.27%) Django
5 1 (1.27%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.27%) Flask
5 1 (1.27%) FpML
5 1 (1.27%) JSON
5 1 (1.27%) PySpark
5 1 (1.27%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.27%) Terraform
5 1 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (20.25%) Derivative
3 12 (15.19%) Fixed Income
4 10 (12.66%) Onboarding
5 6 (7.59%) Reference Data
6 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
6 5 (6.33%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (5.06%) Equities
7 4 (5.06%) Hedge funds
7 4 (5.06%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.80%) Replication
9 2 (2.53%) Client/Server
9 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
9 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.53%) DTCC
9 2 (2.53%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (2.53%) Eurex
10 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.27%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (29.11%) Windows
2 8 (10.13%) Linux
3 7 (8.86%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.80%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.24%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (24.05%) Migration
2 19 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (22.78%) Agile
4 15 (18.99%) Investment Management
4 15 (18.99%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (17.72%) Asset Management
6 13 (16.46%) Business Analysis
6 13 (16.46%) Data Modelling
6 13 (16.46%) Project Delivery
7 12 (15.19%) Analytics
7 12 (15.19%) Data Analysis
8 11 (13.92%) Change Management
8 11 (13.92%) Requirements Gathering
8 11 (13.92%) System Integration Testing
9 10 (12.66%) Data Governance
9 10 (12.66%) Data Management
9 10 (12.66%) ETL
9 10 (12.66%) ITIL
10 9 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 39 (49.37%) SQL
2 24 (30.38%) Python
3 14 (17.72%) PowerShell
4 11 (13.92%) Java
5 5 (6.33%) C#
5 5 (6.33%) Tcl
6 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.80%) VBA
7 2 (2.53%) C++
8 1 (1.27%) Bicep
8 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.27%) Korn
8 1 (1.27%) R
8 1 (1.27%) Scala
8 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Degree
2 2 (2.53%) ISTQB
2 2 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.27%) CFA
3 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.27%) MCSA
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.27%) PMP
3 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.19%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.06%) QA
2 4 (5.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.53%) EMIR
3 2 (2.53%) MiFID
3 2 (2.53%) SLA
4 1 (1.27%) AIFMD
4 1 (1.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (16.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.53%) Docker
3 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (15.19%) SCCM
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.80%) WSUS
4 2 (2.53%) Ansible
4 2 (2.53%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (1.27%) AirWatch
5 1 (1.27%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.27%) Podman
5 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (29.11%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.25%) Refinitiv
3 14 (17.72%) Murex
4 13 (16.46%) Citrix
5 11 (13.92%) ION Trading
5 11 (13.92%) Reuters
6 9 (11.39%) Tradeweb
7 7 (8.86%) MarketAxess
8 6 (7.59%) Databricks
9 5 (6.33%) Charles River
9 5 (6.33%) FactSet
9 5 (6.33%) ServiceNow
9 5 (6.33%) Sybase
10 3 (3.80%) Cisco
11 2 (2.53%) FXall
11 2 (2.53%) NYFIX
11 2 (2.53%) SimCorp
11 2 (2.53%) VMware
12 1 (1.27%) Avaloq
12 1 (1.27%) Google