Bloomberg Contract Job Trends in London

Bloomberg
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 19 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
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 304 275
Rank change year-on-year -31 -29 +74
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 76 47 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 0.38% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 1.01% 0.83% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 26 117
10th Percentile £280 £250 £338
25th Percentile £408 £338 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £736 £763
90th Percentile £787 £763 £805
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,554 5,677 7,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.99% 45.70% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,988 3,718 4,899
10th Percentile £350 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -3.63%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 94 127
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +29.04% -13.46%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.38
90th Percentile £78.55 £66.75 £59.00
England median hourly rate £32.11 £26.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +21.94% +17.04% -40.00%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Bloomberg job vacancy trend in London

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Bloomberg

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in London

Bloomberg
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Bloomberg.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Bloomberg

Bloomberg
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Central London -19 10 £510 -9.33% 2
Bloomberg
England

Bloomberg
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.26%) Confluence
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.32%) MTS
3 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.95%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (13.16%) Fidessa
2 5 (6.58%) Bloomberg AIM
2 5 (6.58%) Loan IQ
3 4 (5.26%) Aladdin
3 4 (5.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 3 (3.95%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (2.63%) Findur
6 1 (1.32%) Actimize
6 1 (1.32%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (1.32%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (1.32%) Summit
6 1 (1.32%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.00%) AWS
1 19 (25.00%) Azure
2 14 (18.42%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.89%) Google Workspace
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.95%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.95%) GitHub
6 3 (3.95%) SaaS
6 3 (3.95%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.63%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.32%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.32%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.47%) TCP/IP
2 10 (13.16%) Firewall
3 9 (11.84%) VPN
4 6 (7.89%) DNS
5 5 (6.58%) DHCP
5 5 (6.58%) DMZ
6 3 (3.95%) Softphone
7 2 (2.63%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (1.32%) BGP
8 1 (1.32%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (1.32%) IP Telephony
8 1 (1.32%) Multicast
8 1 (1.32%) OSPF
8 1 (1.32%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.26%) Tableau
3 3 (3.95%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.63%) Metadata
4 2 (2.63%) Power BI
5 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.32%) Power Query
5 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) JIRA
2 5 (6.58%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.95%) Git
3 3 (3.95%) Toad
4 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.32%) GitLab
4 1 (1.32%) Postman
General
1 48 (63.16%) Finance
2 30 (39.47%) Front Office
3 29 (38.16%) Social Skills
4 23 (30.26%) Banking
5 18 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (15.79%) Investment Banking
7 7 (9.21%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (6.58%) Legal
9 4 (5.26%) Back Office
10 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.63%) Financial Institution
11 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.63%) Spanish Language
12 1 (1.32%) German Language
12 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (38.16%) Analyst
2 18 (23.68%) Business Analyst
3 11 (14.47%) Senior
4 7 (9.21%) Data Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) IT Analyst
4 7 (9.21%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (9.21%) Support Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Senior Business Analyst
6 5 (6.58%) Data Business Analyst
6 5 (6.58%) Desktop Support
6 5 (6.58%) Help Desk Analyst
6 5 (6.58%) Support Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Electronics Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) IT Support
7 4 (5.26%) Lead
7 4 (5.26%) Migration Specialist
8 3 (3.95%) Market Data Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Market Data Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (6.58%) Kafka
3 4 (5.26%) JMS
3 4 (5.26%) JSON
3 4 (5.26%) Middleware
3 4 (5.26%) REST
3 4 (5.26%) XML
4 3 (3.95%) Pandas
5 2 (2.63%) NumPy
6 1 (1.32%) .NET
6 1 (1.32%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.32%) HTML
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.32%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Derivative
2 11 (14.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (13.16%) Fixed Income
3 10 (13.16%) Onboarding
4 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.21%) Equities
4 7 (9.21%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (6.58%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (5.26%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.26%) Client/Server
6 4 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.26%) OTC Derivatives
7 3 (3.95%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.95%) Replication
8 2 (2.63%) Hedge funds
8 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.95%) Windows
2 7 (9.21%) Linux
3 5 (6.58%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.95%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.63%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (27.63%) Agile
3 16 (21.05%) DevOps
4 12 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (13.16%) Data Analysis
5 10 (13.16%) Data Management
5 10 (13.16%) Data Modelling
5 10 (13.16%) Electronic Trading
5 10 (13.16%) ITIL
5 10 (13.16%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (13.16%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (13.16%) Validation
6 9 (11.84%) Analytics
6 9 (11.84%) Migration
7 8 (10.53%) ETL
8 7 (9.21%) Curve Construction
8 7 (9.21%) Kanban
8 7 (9.21%) Order Management
8 7 (9.21%) Scrum
8 7 (9.21%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.11%) SQL
2 20 (26.32%) Python
3 13 (17.11%) Java
3 13 (17.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.63%) C++
4 2 (2.63%) Perl
4 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.32%) Bash
5 1 (1.32%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (17.11%) Degree
2 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (5.26%) MCSA
3 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.63%) PMP
4 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) CBAP
5 1 (1.32%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.58%) QA
3 4 (5.26%) MiFID
4 3 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.63%) EMIR
5 2 (2.63%) GDPR
6 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.63%) Docker
3 2 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.63%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (14.47%) SCCM
2 5 (6.58%) Grafana
3 4 (5.26%) Ansible
3 4 (5.26%) WSUS
4 3 (3.95%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.63%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (2.63%) WMI
6 1 (1.32%) Kibana
6 1 (1.32%) Terraform
6 1 (1.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (25.00%) Refinitiv
2 17 (22.37%) Microsoft
3 14 (18.42%) Reuters
4 13 (17.11%) Murex
5 11 (14.47%) Charles River
5 11 (14.47%) Citrix
6 9 (11.84%) ION Trading
7 7 (9.21%) Splunk
8 6 (7.89%) AppDynamics
9 5 (6.58%) Cisco
9 5 (6.58%) ServiceNow
9 5 (6.58%) VMware
10 3 (3.95%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (3.95%) Eze Software Group
10 3 (3.95%) FactSet
10 3 (3.95%) MarketAxess
10 3 (3.95%) SimCorp
10 3 (3.95%) Tradeweb
11 2 (2.63%) OpenLink
11 2 (2.63%) Oracle