Bloomberg AIM Contract Job Trends in London

Bloomberg Asset Investment Manager (AIM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Bloomberg AIM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 355 388
Rank change year-on-year -17 +33 +145
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg AIM 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.007% 0.011%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.40% 0.096% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £669 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £950 - -
75th Percentile £988 - -
90th Percentile £995 - -
England median daily rate £950 - -

All Business Application Skills
London

Bloomberg AIM falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 1,245 1,041 1,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.71% 7.50% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 746 604 841
10th Percentile £358 £391 £400
25th Percentile £450 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £566 £592
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -4.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £686 £700 £713
90th Percentile £825 £820 £800
England median daily rate £550 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -0.45% +0.45% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 19
10th Percentile £22.50 - £16.09
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.27 £19.13
Median hourly rate £40.49 £33.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -61.18% +159.54%
75th Percentile £57.75 £80.75 £86.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £88.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £56.49
% change year-on-year +19.10% -18.25% +51.45%

Bloomberg AIM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bloomberg AIM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Bloomberg AIM job vacancy trend in London

Bloomberg AIM
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Bloomberg AIM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Bloomberg AIM

Bloomberg AIM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg AIM in London over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg AIM in London

Bloomberg AIM
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bloomberg AIM within the London region over the 6 months to 19 January 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
Central London - 1 - -
Bloomberg AIM
England

Bloomberg AIM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (20.00%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Front Office
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Electronics Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (40.00%) JMS
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Equities
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Order Management
2 2 (40.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
2 2 (40.00%) Smart Order Routing
3 1 (20.00%) Traceability Matrix
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 5 (100.00%) Charles River
2 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Portware