Bloomberg Contracts 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 265 354
Rank change year-on-year -41 +89 +68
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 47 127 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.71% 0.53%
As % of the Vendors category 0.83% 1.76% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 119 118
10th Percentile £250 £335 £325
25th Percentile £363 £380 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £734 £763 £734
90th Percentile £800 £800 £850
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -7.41%

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 5,695 7,227 10,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.39% 40.53% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,736 4,950 7,441
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £653 £663 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 138 127
10th Percentile £15.91 £13.86 £16.28
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.99 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -21.98% -12.14%
75th Percentile £51.20 £36.56 £57.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £64.13 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in London

Bloomberg
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Bloomberg in London

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in London

Bloomberg
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Bloomberg in London

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 1 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
Central London -4 17 £563 +20.97% 11
Bloomberg
England

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (10.64%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (4.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Fidessa
2 2 (4.26%) Aladdin
3 1 (2.13%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (2.13%) Kondor
3 1 (2.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) AWS
1 8 (17.02%) Azure
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.38%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) Firewall
2 4 (8.51%) DNS
2 4 (8.51%) Wireshark
3 3 (6.38%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.26%) DHCP
5 1 (2.13%) BGP
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.13%) EIGRP
5 1 (2.13%) Network Security
5 1 (2.13%) OSPF
5 1 (2.13%) SSL
5 1 (2.13%) VPN
5 1 (2.13%) WebEx
5 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Power BI
1 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) Data Mart
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) JIRA
2 4 (8.51%) Cypress.io
2 4 (8.51%) HP UFT
2 4 (8.51%) Selenium
2 4 (8.51%) TestComplete
3 3 (6.38%) Git
4 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.13%) Crucible
5 1 (2.13%) Maven
5 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (53.19%) Finance
2 12 (25.53%) Banking
2 12 (25.53%) Front Office
3 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.89%) Back Office
5 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.51%) Law
6 3 (6.38%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.26%) Legal
8 1 (2.13%) International Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (44.68%) Analyst
2 10 (21.28%) Support Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Applications Support
4 6 (12.77%) Business Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Applications Support Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Support Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Automation Test Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Automation Tester
6 4 (8.51%) Data Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Java Automation Tester
6 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Test Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Tester
7 3 (6.38%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) FIX Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) FIX Support Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Quantitative Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior
7 3 (6.38%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) .NET
2 5 (10.64%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (8.51%) Playwright
3 4 (8.51%) XML
4 3 (6.38%) Murex MxML
4 3 (6.38%) NumPy
4 3 (6.38%) Pandas
4 3 (6.38%) PySpark
5 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.13%) JSON
5 1 (2.13%) Kafka
5 1 (2.13%) REST
5 1 (2.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (12.77%) Equities
2 6 (12.77%) Fixed Income
3 5 (10.64%) Derivative
4 3 (6.38%) Eurex
4 3 (6.38%) Hedge funds
4 3 (6.38%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 3 (6.38%) Pricing Data
4 3 (6.38%) Smartphone
5 2 (4.26%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.13%) Bitcoin
6 1 (2.13%) BYOD
6 1 (2.13%) Clustering
6 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.13%) Hackathon
6 1 (2.13%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.13%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (38.30%) Windows
2 5 (10.64%) Linux
3 4 (8.51%) Unix
3 4 (8.51%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.38%) CentOS
4 3 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.26%) Rocky
6 1 (2.13%) Debian
6 1 (2.13%) Fedora
6 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.13%) Solaris
6 1 (2.13%) SUSE
6 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.13%) Windows 8
6 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.15%) ITIL
1 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (14.89%) Migration
3 5 (10.64%) Agile
3 5 (10.64%) Electronic Trading
3 5 (10.64%) Investment Management
3 5 (10.64%) Project Management
3 5 (10.64%) System Testing
3 5 (10.64%) Test Automation
3 5 (10.64%) Workflow
4 4 (8.51%) Analytics
4 4 (8.51%) Client Onboarding
4 4 (8.51%) Data Analysis
4 4 (8.51%) Integration Testing
4 4 (8.51%) OO
4 4 (8.51%) OOP
4 4 (8.51%) Open Source
4 4 (8.51%) Risk Management
4 4 (8.51%) Software Testing
4 4 (8.51%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) Python
2 12 (25.53%) SQL
3 7 (14.89%) Java
4 6 (12.77%) C#
5 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.51%) Perl
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.26%) VBA
8 1 (2.13%) Groovy
8 1 (2.13%) Ruby
8 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) CFA
3 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.13%) MCP
3 1 (2.13%) MCSA
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) SLA
2 4 (8.51%) MiFID
3 3 (6.38%) EMIR
4 1 (2.13%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) UCITS
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) XenApp
2 1 (2.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) SCCM
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.38%) Rundeck
3 3 (6.38%) ZABBIX
4 1 (2.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (44.68%) Reuters
2 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
3 9 (19.15%) Refinitiv
4 5 (10.64%) Citrix
4 5 (10.64%) ION Trading
4 5 (10.64%) Murex
4 5 (10.64%) Red Hat
4 5 (10.64%) ServiceNow
4 5 (10.64%) Tradeweb
4 5 (10.64%) Trayport
5 4 (8.51%) CQG
6 3 (6.38%) Patsystems
6 3 (6.38%) Sybase
7 2 (4.26%) Cisco
7 2 (4.26%) FactSet
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle
8 1 (2.13%) F5
8 1 (2.13%) LexisNexis
8 1 (2.13%) Meraki
8 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto