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 2 November 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
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 274 271
Rank change year-on-year -30 -3 +82
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 67 106 151
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.68% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 1.06% 1.55% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 96 109
10th Percentile £225 £500 £263
25th Percentile £381 £638 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% -3.57%
75th Percentile £775 £875 £763
90th Percentile £875 £888 £848
England median daily rate £638 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -7.27% +1.85% -3.57%

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 6,309 6,827 8,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.42% 43.66% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,065 4,283 5,823
10th Percentile £325 £313 £307
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £643 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 63 110
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.12 £16.99
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.38 £23.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +62.00%
75th Percentile £37.12 £65.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £98.50 £83.55
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.51% -20.94% +76.24%

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 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 +7 8 £625 +26.01% 22
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 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.99%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) ION MarketView
2 3 (4.48%) Aladdin
2 3 (4.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 3 (4.48%) Eikon
3 2 (2.99%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (2.99%) BondVision
3 2 (2.99%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (2.99%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.49%) Eze OMS
4 1 (1.49%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (8.96%) AWS
2 6 (8.96%) Azure
3 5 (7.46%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.46%) Snowflake
4 4 (5.97%) GitHub
4 4 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.99%) GCP
6 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.49%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.49%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) Multicast
1 4 (5.97%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.48%) DHCP
2 3 (4.48%) DNS
2 3 (4.48%) Firewall
3 2 (2.99%) VPN
4 1 (1.49%) LAN
4 1 (1.49%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Power BI
2 4 (5.97%) KDB
2 4 (5.97%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.97%) Tableau
3 2 (2.99%) Big Data
3 2 (2.99%) Power Query
3 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.49%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.49%) Parquet
4 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Git
1 3 (4.48%) JIRA
1 3 (4.48%) Maven
2 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.49%) GitLab
3 1 (1.49%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.49%) Selenium
3 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (62.69%) Finance
2 31 (46.27%) Social Skills
3 27 (40.30%) Front Office
4 21 (31.34%) Banking
5 15 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (20.90%) Investment Banking
7 6 (8.96%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.97%) Back Office
9 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.49%) Agriculture
11 1 (1.49%) Games
11 1 (1.49%) Legal
11 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (28.36%) Analyst
2 16 (23.88%) Developer
3 9 (13.43%) Java Developer
3 9 (13.43%) Support Analyst
4 8 (11.94%) Desktop Support
5 7 (10.45%) Senior
5 7 (10.45%) Support Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Business Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 4 (5.97%) IT Support
9 3 (4.48%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (4.48%) IT Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) IT Support Analyst
10 2 (2.99%) Architect
10 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (2.99%) Project Manager
10 2 (2.99%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (7.46%) Flask
2 5 (7.46%) Pandas
3 3 (4.48%) CSS
3 3 (4.48%) HTML
3 3 (4.48%) MyBatis
3 3 (4.48%) NumPy
3 3 (4.48%) Rendezvous
4 2 (2.99%) .NET
4 2 (2.99%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.99%) Kafka
4 2 (2.99%) REST
4 2 (2.99%) RESTful
4 2 (2.99%) Spring
5 1 (1.49%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.49%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.49%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.49%) SciPy
5 1 (1.49%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.39%) Fixed Income
2 10 (14.93%) Derivative
3 8 (11.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (7.46%) Equities
4 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.97%) Clustering
5 4 (5.97%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.48%) Hedge funds
6 3 (4.48%) Reference Data
6 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.99%) Blackberry
7 2 (2.99%) BYOD
7 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.99%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.99%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (29.85%) Windows
2 9 (13.43%) Linux
3 6 (8.96%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.48%) Unix
5 1 (1.49%) Android
5 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.91%) Electronic Trading
1 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (16.42%) Agile
2 11 (16.42%) Low Latency
2 11 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (14.93%) Asset Management
4 8 (11.94%) DevOps
5 7 (10.45%) AI
5 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
5 7 (10.45%) Data Management
5 7 (10.45%) Data Modelling
5 7 (10.45%) Multithreading
5 7 (10.45%) Validation
6 6 (8.96%) Customer Service
6 6 (8.96%) ITIL
7 5 (7.46%) Algorithmic Trading
7 5 (7.46%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (7.46%) Investment Management
7 5 (7.46%) Risk Management
7 5 (7.46%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.82%) SQL
2 20 (29.85%) Python
3 10 (14.93%) Java
4 9 (13.43%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.46%) C#
6 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.99%) R
8 1 (1.49%) Bash
8 1 (1.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (7.46%) Degree
2 1 (1.49%) CBAP
2 1 (1.49%) CFA
2 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) Data Quality
1 5 (7.46%) EMIR
1 5 (7.46%) MiFID
2 3 (4.48%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) SLA
4 1 (1.49%) Basel III
4 1 (1.49%) IFRS
4 1 (1.49%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (7.46%) Active Directory
1 5 (7.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (10.45%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.97%) Ansible
3 4 (5.97%) Prometheus
3 4 (5.97%) SCCM
3 4 (5.97%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 3 (4.48%) BladeLogic
5 1 (1.49%) Grafana
5 1 (1.49%) Terraform
5 1 (1.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (28.36%) Refinitiv
2 16 (23.88%) Reuters
3 14 (20.90%) Tradeweb
4 13 (19.40%) ION Trading
5 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
6 7 (10.45%) ServiceNow
7 6 (8.96%) Oracle
8 5 (7.46%) Murex
9 4 (5.97%) Cisco
9 4 (5.97%) Citrix
9 4 (5.97%) Dynatrace
9 4 (5.97%) Solace
10 3 (4.48%) Cloudera
10 3 (4.48%) Databricks
10 3 (4.48%) MarketAxess
10 3 (4.48%) NYFIX
10 3 (4.48%) TIBCO
11 2 (2.99%) Calypso
11 2 (2.99%) Charles River
11 2 (2.99%) FactSet