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 12 July 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
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 443 427
Rank change year-on-year -92 -16 +47
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 80 63 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 0.43% 0.49% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 35 114
10th Percentile £225 £250 £300
25th Percentile £354 £343 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -25.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £574 £734 £850
90th Percentile £738 £798 £888
UK median daily rate £450 £538 £675
% change year-on-year -16.28% -20.37% +8.00%

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 18,477 12,946 15,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.98% 47.46% 43.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,719 8,203 10,067
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 993 601 1,025
10th Percentile £16.03 £14.84 £12.51
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.61 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% +0.60% -32.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £83.65 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.12 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.65% +0.60% -38.27%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -32 78 £450 -28.00% 39
North West -51 2 - -
North of England -84 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 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 4 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.50%) IIS
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.25%) MTS
Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Aladdin
1 6 (7.50%) Fidessa
2 5 (6.25%) Loan IQ
3 4 (5.00%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (3.75%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (2.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (2.50%) Findur
5 2 (2.50%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (2.50%) Summit
6 1 (1.25%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.75%) Azure
2 20 (25.00%) AWS
3 18 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.75%) Google Workspace
6 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.00%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.75%) SaaS
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.50%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.25%) Collibra
9 1 (1.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.25%) VPN
2 12 (15.00%) Firewall
2 12 (15.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.50%) DMZ
3 6 (7.50%) DNS
4 5 (6.25%) DHCP
5 3 (3.75%) Internet
6 2 (2.50%) LAN
6 2 (2.50%) WAN
6 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.25%) BGP
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.25%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (1.25%) IP Telephony
7 1 (1.25%) Multicast
7 1 (1.25%) OSPF
7 1 (1.25%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.75%) Power BI
4 2 (2.50%) Tableau
5 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.25%) KDB
5 1 (1.25%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.25%) Metadata
5 1 (1.25%) Power Query
5 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.25%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Toad
3 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.25%) Git
4 1 (1.25%) Postman
General
1 55 (68.75%) Finance
2 32 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 31 (38.75%) Front Office
4 25 (31.25%) Banking
5 15 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (12.50%) Investment Banking
7 8 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (6.25%) Legal
9 3 (3.75%) Back Office
9 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.25%) German Language
10 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (42.50%) Analyst
2 17 (21.25%) Business Analyst
3 9 (11.25%) Data Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) IT Analyst
4 8 (10.00%) Help Desk Analyst
5 7 (8.75%) Support Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Senior
7 5 (6.25%) Data Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) IT Support
8 4 (5.00%) Migration Specialist
8 4 (5.00%) Python Data Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Cassandra Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Compliance Business Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Data Governance Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Data Migration Lead
9 3 (3.75%) Lead
9 3 (3.75%) Pricing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) Middleware
2 5 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (6.25%) Kafka
3 3 (3.75%) JMS
3 3 (3.75%) JSON
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (3.75%) REST
4 2 (2.50%) NumPy
4 2 (2.50%) Pandas
4 2 (2.50%) Software Packaging
4 2 (2.50%) XML
5 1 (1.25%) .NET
5 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.25%) PySpark
5 1 (1.25%) React
5 1 (1.25%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Derivative
2 14 (17.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (15.00%) Onboarding
4 8 (10.00%) Fixed Income
5 7 (8.75%) Cloud Native
5 7 (8.75%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (7.50%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (6.25%) Equities
8 4 (5.00%) Client/Server
8 4 (5.00%) OTC Derivatives
9 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
9 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (3.75%) iPhone
9 3 (3.75%) Replication
10 2 (2.50%) Credit Risk
10 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (2.50%) DTCC
10 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
10 2 (2.50%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.50%) Windows
2 8 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 5 (6.25%) Linux
3 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.75%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.25%) Agile
2 24 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
4 14 (17.50%) ITIL
5 13 (16.25%) Data Modelling
5 13 (16.25%) DevOps
6 12 (15.00%) Analytics
6 12 (15.00%) Data Analysis
6 12 (15.00%) Data Management
7 11 (13.75%) Migration
8 10 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
8 10 (12.50%) Validation
9 8 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
9 8 (10.00%) Data Governance
9 8 (10.00%) Decision-Making
9 8 (10.00%) ETL
9 8 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 41 (51.25%) SQL
2 22 (27.50%) Python
3 20 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 13 (16.25%) Java
5 2 (2.50%) C++
5 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.50%) VBA
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) Korn
6 1 (1.25%) Scala
6 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (17.50%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (3.75%) MCSA
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.50%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.00%) MiFID
2 4 (5.00%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) SLA
3 3 (3.75%) EMIR
3 3 (3.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.50%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) AIFMD
5 1 (1.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.50%) Docker
4 2 (2.50%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (17.50%) SCCM
2 6 (7.50%) WSUS
3 4 (5.00%) Grafana
4 2 (2.50%) AirWatch
4 2 (2.50%) Ansible
4 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.50%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (2.50%) WMI
5 1 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.25%) Kibana
5 1 (1.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 19 (23.75%) Murex
2 19 (23.75%) Reuters
3 16 (20.00%) Citrix
3 16 (20.00%) Refinitiv
4 11 (13.75%) ION Trading
5 8 (10.00%) Charles River
6 6 (7.50%) VMware
7 5 (6.25%) Cisco
7 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.00%) FactSet
8 4 (5.00%) SimCorp
8 4 (5.00%) Splunk
9 3 (3.75%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.75%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (3.75%) Eze Software Group
10 2 (2.50%) Databricks
10 2 (2.50%) Google
10 2 (2.50%) HP
10 2 (2.50%) OpenLink