Bloomberg Contracts 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 17 May 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 407 504
Rank change year-on-year -13 +97 +86
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 55 130 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.85% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 125 115
10th Percentile £251 £313 £322
25th Percentile £361 £385 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £726 £763 £739
90th Percentile £749 £820 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% -7.41%

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 11,652 15,274 20,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.61% 41.98% 41.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,503 9,716 13,875
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -3.40% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 1,016 578
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £14.41 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.39 £22.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.97% -38.89% +67.44%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.70 £63.23
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.40 £21.50 £41.80
% change year-on-year +18.14% -48.56% +94.42%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Bloomberg as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bloomberg in England.

Daily rate trend for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bloomberg in England.

Hourly rate trend for Bloomberg in England

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 17 May 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 -40 47 £638 +10.87% 120
North of England +23 7 £414 +107.00% 7
North West +21 7 £414 +107.00% 7
Midlands +17 1 - -
West Midlands +7 1 - -
Bloomberg
UK

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (3.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Kondor
2 4 (7.27%) Fidessa
3 3 (5.45%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.82%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (1.82%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (1.82%) ION MarketView
4 1 (1.82%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.55%) AWS
1 8 (14.55%) Azure
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) DNS
2 4 (7.27%) Wireshark
3 3 (5.45%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (5.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.64%) DHCP
5 1 (1.82%) BGP
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.82%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.82%) Network Security
5 1 (1.82%) OSPF
5 1 (1.82%) SSL
5 1 (1.82%) VPN
5 1 (1.82%) WebEx
5 1 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.45%) Power BI
3 2 (3.64%) Data Mart
3 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) JIRA
2 4 (7.27%) Cypress.io
2 4 (7.27%) HP UFT
2 4 (7.27%) Selenium
2 4 (7.27%) TestComplete
3 3 (5.45%) Git
4 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.82%) Crucible
5 1 (1.82%) Maven
5 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (52.73%) Finance
2 13 (23.64%) Banking
2 13 (23.64%) Front Office
3 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
4 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.73%) Back Office
6 5 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.45%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.45%) Law
8 2 (3.64%) Legal
9 1 (1.82%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.82%) International Banking
9 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (38.18%) Analyst
2 13 (23.64%) Applications Support
3 12 (21.82%) Support Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) Support Analyst
5 8 (14.55%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (14.55%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (10.91%) Developer
7 6 (10.91%) Systems Support
7 6 (10.91%) Systems Support Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) Applications Support Analyst
8 5 (9.09%) Business Analyst
9 4 (7.27%) Automation Test Analyst
9 4 (7.27%) Automation Tester
9 4 (7.27%) Java Automation Tester
9 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
9 4 (7.27%) Senior
9 4 (7.27%) Test Analyst
9 4 (7.27%) Tester
10 3 (5.45%) FIX Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) .NET
2 5 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (7.27%) Playwright
3 4 (7.27%) XML
4 3 (5.45%) Murex MxML
5 2 (3.64%) NumPy
5 2 (3.64%) Pandas
5 2 (3.64%) PySpark
6 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.82%) JSON
6 1 (1.82%) Kafka
6 1 (1.82%) REST
6 1 (1.82%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 9 (16.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (12.73%) Fixed Income
3 6 (10.91%) Equities
4 5 (9.09%) Derivative
5 3 (5.45%) Eurex
5 3 (5.45%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 3 (5.45%) Smartphone
6 2 (3.64%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.64%) Hedge funds
6 2 (3.64%) Pricing Data
7 1 (1.82%) Clustering
7 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.82%) Hackathon
7 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.82%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.82%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (32.73%) Windows
2 11 (20.00%) Unix
3 5 (9.09%) Linux
4 4 (7.27%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.45%) CentOS
5 3 (5.45%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.64%) Rocky
7 1 (1.82%) Debian
7 1 (1.82%) Fedora
7 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.82%) Solaris
7 1 (1.82%) SUSE
7 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.82%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (16.36%) ITIL
2 9 (16.36%) Migration
2 9 (16.36%) Service Delivery
3 8 (14.55%) Cash Management
3 8 (14.55%) Incident Management
3 8 (14.55%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (10.91%) Agile
5 5 (9.09%) Electronic Trading
5 5 (9.09%) Investment Management
5 5 (9.09%) Project Management
5 5 (9.09%) System Testing
5 5 (9.09%) Test Automation
5 5 (9.09%) Workflow
6 4 (7.27%) Client Onboarding
6 4 (7.27%) Integration Testing
6 4 (7.27%) Open Source
6 4 (7.27%) Risk Management
6 4 (7.27%) Software Testing
6 4 (7.27%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) SQL
2 14 (25.45%) Python
3 7 (12.73%) Java
4 6 (10.91%) C#
5 4 (7.27%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.27%) Perl
6 3 (5.45%) Bash
6 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.64%) VBA
8 1 (1.82%) Groovy
8 1 (1.82%) Ruby
8 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
2 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.82%) CFA
3 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.82%) MCP
3 1 (1.82%) MCSA
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) SLA
2 4 (7.27%) MiFID
3 3 (5.45%) EMIR
4 1 (1.82%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) UCITS
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) XenApp
2 1 (1.82%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) SCCM
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (5.45%) Rundeck
3 3 (5.45%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.82%) Control-M
Vendors
1 20 (36.36%) Reuters
2 15 (27.27%) Refinitiv
3 14 (25.45%) Microsoft
4 10 (18.18%) Sybase
5 6 (10.91%) ION Trading
6 5 (9.09%) Citrix
6 5 (9.09%) Murex
6 5 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 5 (9.09%) Tradeweb
6 5 (9.09%) Trayport
7 4 (7.27%) CQG
8 3 (5.45%) Oracle
8 3 (5.45%) Patsystems
9 2 (3.64%) Cisco
9 2 (3.64%) FactSet
10 1 (1.82%) LexisNexis
10 1 (1.82%) Meraki
10 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.82%) Snow