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 10 May 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
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 415 409
Rank change year-on-year -97 -6 +101
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 77 57 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.23% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.45% 0.49% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 34 126
10th Percentile £325 £254 £313
25th Percentile £422 £374 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £725 £729 £763
90th Percentile £788 £768 £813
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -12.00%

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 16,946 11,627 15,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.53% 47.51% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,004 7,499 9,829
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.39%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £636
90th Percentile £711 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £515
% change year-on-year -2.72% -0.19% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 893 463 1,004
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.84 £12.04
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.56 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +20.00% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.23 £25.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +26.37% +14.35% -48.89%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -28 75 £505 -22.31% 12
North West -43 2 - - 1
North of England -65 2 - - 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 (5.19%) Confluence
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.60%) IIS
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) MTS
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.90%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Fidessa
2 5 (6.49%) Bloomberg AIM
2 5 (6.49%) Loan IQ
3 4 (5.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 3 (3.90%) Aladdin
4 3 (3.90%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (2.60%) Actimize
5 2 (2.60%) Findur
6 1 (1.30%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (1.30%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (1.30%) Summit
6 1 (1.30%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.68%) AWS
1 19 (24.68%) Azure
2 14 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (10.39%) Google Workspace
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.90%) GitHub
6 3 (3.90%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.60%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.60%) SaaS
7 2 (2.60%) Slack
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.30%) GCP
8 1 (1.30%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.88%) TCP/IP
2 12 (15.58%) Firewall
3 9 (11.69%) VPN
4 7 (9.09%) DMZ
5 6 (7.79%) DNS
6 5 (6.49%) DHCP
7 3 (3.90%) Softphone
8 2 (2.60%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (2.60%) LAN
8 2 (2.60%) WAN
8 2 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.30%) BGP
9 1 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (1.30%) IP Telephony
9 1 (1.30%) Multicast
9 1 (1.30%) OSPF
9 1 (1.30%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.19%) Tableau
3 3 (3.90%) Metadata
4 2 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.60%) Power BI
5 1 (1.30%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.30%) Power Query
5 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) JIRA
2 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.90%) Git
3 3 (3.90%) Toad
4 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) Postman
General
1 50 (64.94%) Finance
2 34 (44.16%) Social Skills
3 32 (41.56%) Front Office
4 27 (35.06%) Banking
5 19 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (18.18%) Investment Banking
7 7 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (6.49%) Back Office
9 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.90%) Legal
9 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.60%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.30%) German Language
11 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (38.96%) Analyst
2 19 (24.68%) Business Analyst
3 11 (14.29%) Senior
3 11 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 9 (11.69%) IT Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Help Desk Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (7.79%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) IT Support
6 6 (7.79%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Electronics Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Lead
8 4 (5.19%) Migration Specialist
9 3 (3.90%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Data Migration Specialist
9 3 (3.90%) Desktop Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (7.79%) Kafka
3 5 (6.49%) REST
3 5 (6.49%) XML
4 4 (5.19%) JMS
4 4 (5.19%) JSON
4 4 (5.19%) Middleware
5 3 (3.90%) Pandas
6 2 (2.60%) NumPy
6 2 (2.60%) Software Packaging
7 1 (1.30%) .NET
7 1 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.30%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.30%) HTML
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.30%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Derivative
2 11 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (12.99%) Fixed Income
4 9 (11.69%) Onboarding
5 7 (9.09%) Equities
6 6 (7.79%) Cloud Native
6 6 (7.79%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (5.19%) Algorithms
7 4 (5.19%) Client/Server
7 4 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (5.19%) OTC Derivatives
8 3 (3.90%) Credit Risk
8 3 (3.90%) iPhone
8 3 (3.90%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.60%) Hedge funds
9 2 (2.60%) Replication
9 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
10 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 24 (31.17%) Windows
2 8 (10.39%) Linux
3 7 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 5 (6.49%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.60%) Unix
5 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.06%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (29.87%) Agile
3 15 (19.48%) DevOps
4 14 (18.18%) ITIL
5 11 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.29%) Validation
6 10 (12.99%) Data Analysis
6 10 (12.99%) Data Modelling
6 10 (12.99%) Electronic Trading
6 10 (12.99%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (11.69%) Data Management
7 9 (11.69%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (10.39%) ETL
9 7 (9.09%) Analytics
9 7 (9.09%) Migration
9 7 (9.09%) Order Management
9 7 (9.09%) Risk Management
9 7 (9.09%) Service Delivery
9 7 (9.09%) Service Management
10 6 (7.79%) Curve Construction
Programming Languages
1 35 (45.45%) SQL
2 20 (25.97%) Python
3 16 (20.78%) PowerShell
4 12 (15.58%) Java
5 2 (2.60%) C++
5 2 (2.60%) Perl
5 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (5.19%) MCSA
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.60%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.60%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.60%) PMP
4 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) CBAP
5 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) Data Quality
1 6 (7.79%) QA
2 5 (6.49%) MiFID
3 3 (3.90%) GDPR
3 3 (3.90%) SLA
4 2 (2.60%) EMIR
4 2 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (6.49%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.60%) Docker
3 2 (2.60%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (19.48%) SCCM
2 6 (7.79%) WSUS
3 5 (6.49%) Grafana
4 4 (5.19%) Ansible
5 3 (3.90%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (2.60%) AirWatch
6 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.60%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (2.60%) WMI
7 1 (1.30%) Kibana
7 1 (1.30%) Terraform
7 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (24.68%) Microsoft
2 17 (22.08%) Refinitiv
3 16 (20.78%) Reuters
4 13 (16.88%) Murex
5 11 (14.29%) Charles River
5 11 (14.29%) Citrix
5 11 (14.29%) ION Trading
6 7 (9.09%) Splunk
7 6 (7.79%) AppDynamics
8 5 (6.49%) Cisco
8 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
8 5 (6.49%) VMware
9 3 (3.90%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (3.90%) Eze Software Group
9 3 (3.90%) FactSet
9 3 (3.90%) MarketAxess
9 3 (3.90%) SimCorp
9 3 (3.90%) Tradeweb
10 2 (2.60%) HP
10 2 (2.60%) Proofpoint