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 20 August 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
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 306 270
Rank change year-on-year -62 -36 +34
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 75 63 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.47% 0.76%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 1.02% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 114
10th Percentile £225 £225 -
25th Percentile £355 £306 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £420 £688
Median % change year-on-year +20.54% -38.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £775 £869
90th Percentile £773 £831 £888
England median daily rate £506 £414 £688
% change year-on-year +22.28% -39.78% +10.00%

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 8,550 6,188 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.62% 46.07% 43.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,579 4,012 4,721
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 127 87
10th Percentile £18.68 £16.24 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.85 £22.95 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £59.94 £38.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.63 £63.45 £75.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 8 £270 -56.80% 4
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 (5.33%) Apache Spark
1 4 (5.33%) MTS
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Aladdin
2 3 (4.00%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (2.67%) Findur
3 2 (2.67%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (2.67%) Loan IQ
3 2 (2.67%) Summit
4 1 (1.33%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (1.33%) Eikon
4 1 (1.33%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 20 (26.67%) Azure
2 17 (22.67%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (20.00%) AWS
4 9 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (8.00%) Google Workspace
6 4 (5.33%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.33%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.00%) SaaS
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.67%) GitHub
8 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.67%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.33%) Collibra
9 1 (1.33%) Dagster
9 1 (1.33%) dbt
9 1 (1.33%) GCP
9 1 (1.33%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.33%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.33%) VPN
2 11 (14.67%) TCP/IP
3 10 (13.33%) Firewall
4 5 (6.67%) DMZ
4 5 (6.67%) DNS
5 4 (5.33%) DHCP
6 3 (4.00%) Internet
6 3 (4.00%) Multicast
7 1 (1.33%) BGP
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.33%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (1.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.33%) Power BI
3 3 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (4.00%) KDB
4 2 (2.67%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.33%) Metadata
5 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.33%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) JIRA
2 3 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.33%) Artifactory
General
1 49 (65.33%) Finance
2 39 (52.00%) Front Office
3 25 (33.33%) Banking
4 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
5 12 (16.00%) Investment Banking
6 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (6.67%) Legal
9 3 (4.00%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.67%) Back Office
11 1 (1.33%) German Language
11 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (38.67%) Analyst
2 11 (14.67%) Business Analyst
3 9 (12.00%) Data Engineer
3 9 (12.00%) Support Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) Help Desk Analyst
4 8 (10.67%) IT Analyst
5 6 (8.00%) Support Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Compliance Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Compliance Business Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Lead
7 4 (5.33%) Migration Specialist
7 4 (5.33%) Python Data Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Applications Support
8 3 (4.00%) Banking Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) IT Procurement Manager
8 3 (4.00%) Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (5.33%) Middleware
3 3 (4.00%) Kafka
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (4.00%) React
4 2 (2.67%) JSON
4 2 (2.67%) Next.js
4 2 (2.67%) Redux
4 2 (2.67%) WebSockets
4 2 (2.67%) XML
5 1 (1.33%) .NET
5 1 (1.33%) FpML
5 1 (1.33%) NumPy
5 1 (1.33%) Pandas
5 1 (1.33%) PySpark
5 1 (1.33%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (22.67%) Derivative
3 11 (14.67%) Onboarding
4 10 (13.33%) Fixed Income
5 7 (9.33%) Cloud Native
5 7 (9.33%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (5.33%) Hedge funds
6 4 (5.33%) Reference Data
6 4 (5.33%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (4.00%) Client/Server
7 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.00%) Equities
7 3 (4.00%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (4.00%) Replication
8 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.67%) DTCC
8 2 (2.67%) Eurex
8 2 (2.67%) OTC Derivatives
8 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.00%) Windows
2 6 (8.00%) Linux
2 6 (8.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.00%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.33%) Agile
1 22 (29.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 14 (18.67%) Migration
5 13 (17.33%) DevOps
6 12 (16.00%) Analytics
6 12 (16.00%) Data Modelling
7 11 (14.67%) Investment Management
7 11 (14.67%) System Integration Testing
8 10 (13.33%) Data Analysis
8 10 (13.33%) Data Management
8 10 (13.33%) ETL
8 10 (13.33%) Project Delivery
8 10 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (12.00%) Asset Management
9 9 (12.00%) Business Analysis
9 9 (12.00%) Data Governance
9 9 (12.00%) ITIL
9 9 (12.00%) KYC
Programming Languages
1 38 (50.67%) SQL
2 23 (30.67%) Python
3 18 (24.00%) PowerShell
4 12 (16.00%) Java
5 4 (5.33%) C#
6 3 (4.00%) Tcl
6 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.00%) VBA
7 2 (2.67%) C++
7 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.33%) Korn
8 1 (1.33%) Scala
8 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Degree
2 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (4.00%) MCSA
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.67%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.33%) PMP
5 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.33%) QA
3 3 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.67%) EMIR
4 2 (2.67%) MiFID
4 2 (2.67%) SLA
5 1 (1.33%) AIFMD
5 1 (1.33%) GDPR
5 1 (1.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.67%) Docker
4 1 (1.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (16.00%) SCCM
2 5 (6.67%) WSUS
3 4 (5.33%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.67%) WMI
5 1 (1.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (22.67%) Refinitiv
3 15 (20.00%) Murex
4 14 (18.67%) Citrix
4 14 (18.67%) Reuters
5 11 (14.67%) ION Trading
6 7 (9.33%) Tradeweb
7 5 (6.67%) Charles River
7 5 (6.67%) Databricks
7 5 (6.67%) MarketAxess
8 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
9 3 (4.00%) Sybase
9 3 (4.00%) VMware
10 2 (2.67%) Cisco
10 2 (2.67%) FactSet
10 2 (2.67%) Google
10 2 (2.67%) NYFIX
10 2 (2.67%) OpenLink
10 2 (2.67%) SimCorp
11 1 (1.33%) Talend