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 28 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
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 422 427
Rank change year-on-year -37 +5 +116
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 80 83 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.54% 0.63% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 72 110
10th Percentile £266 £500 £313
25th Percentile £381 £596 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £733 £750
90th Percentile £875 £838 £838
UK median daily rate £625 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 14,911 13,092 16,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.22% 46.04% 44.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,695 7,965 10,546
10th Percentile £294 £293 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 374 614
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.34 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.54 £30.20 £45.55
Median % change year-on-year -22.06% -33.69% +75.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £64.01 £64.24
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.70 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £27.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -13.50% -38.89% +74.76%

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 28 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 28 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 -13 76 £650 -5.45% 40
North of England - 4 £318 - 1
North West - 3 £313 -
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 1
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%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.75%) Confluence
3 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.25%) Apache
4 1 (1.25%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Fidessa
2 4 (5.00%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (5.00%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 3 (3.75%) Kondor
4 2 (2.50%) Actimize
4 2 (2.50%) Aladdin
4 2 (2.50%) BondVision
4 2 (2.50%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (2.50%) Eikon
5 1 (1.25%) Eze OMS
5 1 (1.25%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (1.25%) ION MarketView
5 1 (1.25%) Markit EDM
5 1 (1.25%) Summit
5 1 (1.25%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (11.25%) AWS
3 8 (10.00%) Azure
4 5 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.75%) GCP
5 3 (3.75%) GitHub
5 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.50%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.50%) Slack
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.25%) Collibra
7 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.25%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.25%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.25%) DHCP
2 5 (6.25%) DNS
3 4 (5.00%) VPN
4 3 (3.75%) Firewall
4 3 (3.75%) Multicast
4 3 (3.75%) Softphone
5 2 (2.50%) DMZ
6 1 (1.25%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (1.25%) LAN
6 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) Tableau
2 4 (5.00%) KDB
2 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.75%) Metadata
3 3 (3.75%) Power BI
4 2 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (1.25%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.25%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.25%) Parquet
5 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.25%) Power Query
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Git
1 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.00%) JIRA
3 2 (2.50%) GitLab
3 2 (2.50%) Maven
4 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.25%) Selenium
General
1 52 (65.00%) Finance
2 35 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 31 (38.75%) Front Office
4 27 (33.75%) Banking
5 19 (23.75%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (18.75%) Investment Banking
7 7 (8.75%) Financial Institution
8 6 (7.50%) Back Office
9 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.25%) Agriculture
12 1 (1.25%) Games
12 1 (1.25%) Legal
12 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.25%) Retail
12 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (31.25%) Analyst
2 15 (18.75%) Business Analyst
3 13 (16.25%) Developer
4 12 (15.00%) Support Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) Senior
6 8 (10.00%) Desktop Support
6 8 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 7 (8.75%) Desktop Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) IT Support
9 5 (6.25%) IT Analyst
9 5 (6.25%) Support Analyst
10 4 (5.00%) Applications Support
10 4 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
10 4 (5.00%) Python Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (3.75%) Lead
11 3 (3.75%) Market Data Analyst
11 3 (3.75%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (7.50%) Pandas
3 5 (6.25%) Flask
3 5 (6.25%) Kafka
4 4 (5.00%) HTML
4 4 (5.00%) REST
5 3 (3.75%) CSS
5 3 (3.75%) RESTful
5 3 (3.75%) Spring
5 3 (3.75%) XML
6 2 (2.50%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.50%) Middleware
6 2 (2.50%) MyBatis
6 2 (2.50%) NumPy
7 1 (1.25%) .NET
7 1 (1.25%) Apache Avro
7 1 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.25%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.25%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.00%) Derivative
2 13 (16.25%) Fixed Income
3 8 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (7.50%) Equities
4 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (3.75%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.50%) Clustering
7 2 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.50%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.25%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.25%) DTCC
8 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.25%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.75%) Windows
2 9 (11.25%) Linux
3 6 (7.50%) Unix
4 5 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.25%) Android
5 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (25.00%) Agile
3 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (15.00%) Asset Management
4 12 (15.00%) Validation
5 11 (13.75%) Electronic Trading
5 11 (13.75%) Low Latency
6 10 (12.50%) DevOps
6 10 (12.50%) ITIL
7 9 (11.25%) AI
7 9 (11.25%) Data Management
7 9 (11.25%) Data Modelling
8 7 (8.75%) Data Analysis
8 7 (8.75%) Risk Management
8 7 (8.75%) Visualisation
9 6 (7.50%) CI/CD
9 6 (7.50%) Customer Service
9 6 (7.50%) Data Governance
9 6 (7.50%) Multithreading
9 6 (7.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.00%) SQL
2 22 (27.50%) Python
3 11 (13.75%) PowerShell
4 10 (12.50%) Java
5 4 (5.00%) C#
5 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.50%) Perl
6 2 (2.50%) R
7 1 (1.25%) Bash
7 1 (1.25%) C
7 1 (1.25%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) Degree
2 2 (2.50%) CBAP
3 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.25%) CFA
3 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) MiFID
2 6 (7.50%) EMIR
2 6 (7.50%) QA
3 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.50%) SLA
5 1 (1.25%) Basel III
5 1 (1.25%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) IFRS
5 1 (1.25%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (7.50%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) SCCM
2 5 (6.25%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (5.00%) Ansible
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.00%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (2.50%) Grafana
4 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.50%) Terraform
4 2 (2.50%) WSUS
5 1 (1.25%) BladeLogic
5 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (26.25%) Refinitiv
2 14 (17.50%) ION Trading
3 13 (16.25%) Tradeweb
4 12 (15.00%) Reuters
5 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
6 7 (8.75%) Murex
7 6 (7.50%) ServiceNow
8 5 (6.25%) Charles River
8 5 (6.25%) Citrix
8 5 (6.25%) MarketAxess
9 4 (5.00%) Oracle
9 4 (5.00%) Splunk
10 3 (3.75%) AppDynamics
10 3 (3.75%) Cisco
10 3 (3.75%) Cloudera
10 3 (3.75%) Databricks
10 3 (3.75%) NYFIX
11 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
11 2 (2.50%) FIS
11 2 (2.50%) Solace