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 16 October 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
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 280 284
Rank change year-on-year -29 +4 +63
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 62 113 152
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.70% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 1.00% 1.61% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 102 110
10th Percentile £225 £500 £261
25th Percentile £376 £638 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +5.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £775 £875 £759
90th Percentile £868 £888 £844
England median daily rate £625 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -7.14%

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 6,212 6,997 8,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.40% 43.59% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,035 4,416 5,948
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £421 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £747 £750 £775
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 73 114
10th Percentile £17.40 £18.20 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -13.04% +61.00%
75th Percentile £37.81 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £90.15 £76.18
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.36% -21.35% +85.42%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +11 9 £625 -21.09% 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 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) ION MarketView
2 3 (4.84%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (3.23%) Aladdin
3 2 (3.23%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (3.23%) BondVision
3 2 (3.23%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (3.23%) Eikon
4 1 (1.61%) Eze OMS
4 1 (1.61%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.61%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (9.68%) AWS
2 6 (9.68%) Azure
3 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.06%) Snowflake
4 4 (6.45%) GitHub
4 4 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.61%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.61%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Firewall
1 4 (6.45%) Multicast
1 4 (6.45%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.84%) DHCP
2 3 (4.84%) DNS
3 2 (3.23%) VPN
4 1 (1.61%) LAN
4 1 (1.61%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) Power BI
2 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.45%) Tableau
3 3 (4.84%) KDB
4 2 (3.23%) Big Data
4 2 (3.23%) Power Query
4 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.61%) Parquet
5 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Git
1 3 (4.84%) Maven
2 2 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) HP UFT
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (1.61%) Selenium
3 1 (1.61%) TestComplete
3 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (59.68%) Finance
2 30 (48.39%) Social Skills
3 24 (38.71%) Front Office
4 18 (29.03%) Banking
5 12 (19.35%) Investment Banking
6 11 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (8.06%) Financial Institution
8 4 (6.45%) Back Office
9 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.61%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.61%) Games
10 1 (1.61%) Law
10 1 (1.61%) Legal
10 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (32.26%) Analyst
2 11 (17.74%) Developer
3 10 (16.13%) Support Analyst
4 8 (12.90%) Desktop Support
5 7 (11.29%) Senior
6 6 (9.68%) Support Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Business Analyst
7 5 (8.06%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Python Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 4 (6.45%) IT Support
8 4 (6.45%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.84%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (4.84%) IT Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) IT Support Analyst
10 2 (3.23%) Lead
10 2 (3.23%) Lead Architect
10 2 (3.23%) Power BI Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (8.06%) Flask
2 5 (8.06%) Pandas
3 3 (4.84%) CSS
3 3 (4.84%) HTML
3 3 (4.84%) MyBatis
3 3 (4.84%) NumPy
3 3 (4.84%) Rendezvous
4 2 (3.23%) .NET
4 2 (3.23%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.61%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.61%) Kafka
5 1 (1.61%) Middleware
5 1 (1.61%) Playwright
5 1 (1.61%) REST
5 1 (1.61%) XML
5 1 (1.61%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.97%) Fixed Income
2 9 (14.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (12.90%) Derivative
4 6 (9.68%) Equities
5 4 (6.45%) Clustering
5 4 (6.45%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.84%) Hedge funds
6 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.23%) Blackberry
7 2 (3.23%) BYOD
7 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.23%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.23%) Market Risk
7 2 (3.23%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (33.87%) Windows
2 9 (14.52%) Linux
3 6 (9.68%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.84%) Unix
5 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.61%) Android
6 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (16.13%) Electronic Trading
1 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (14.52%) Agile
2 9 (14.52%) Asset Management
2 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (12.90%) DevOps
4 7 (11.29%) AI
4 7 (11.29%) Data Modelling
4 7 (11.29%) Low Latency
5 6 (9.68%) Customer Service
5 6 (9.68%) Data Management
5 6 (9.68%) ITIL
5 6 (9.68%) Validation
6 5 (8.06%) Analytics
6 5 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (8.06%) CI/CD
6 5 (8.06%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (8.06%) Contract Management
6 5 (8.06%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (8.06%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.10%) SQL
2 19 (30.65%) Python
3 9 (14.52%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.06%) C#
4 5 (8.06%) Java
4 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.23%) R
6 1 (1.61%) Bash
6 1 (1.61%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) CBAP
2 1 (1.61%) CFA
2 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.06%) EMIR
1 5 (8.06%) MiFID
2 2 (3.23%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) SLA
3 1 (1.61%) Basel III
3 1 (1.61%) IFRS
3 1 (1.61%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
1 5 (8.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.45%) Ansible
3 4 (6.45%) Prometheus
3 4 (6.45%) SCCM
3 4 (6.45%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 3 (4.84%) BladeLogic
5 1 (1.61%) Grafana
5 1 (1.61%) Terraform
5 1 (1.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Refinitiv
2 17 (27.42%) Reuters
3 12 (19.35%) Microsoft
4 8 (12.90%) ION Trading
4 8 (12.90%) Tradeweb
5 7 (11.29%) ServiceNow
6 6 (9.68%) Oracle
7 5 (8.06%) Citrix
7 5 (8.06%) Murex
8 4 (6.45%) Cisco
8 4 (6.45%) Dynatrace
8 4 (6.45%) Solace
9 3 (4.84%) Cloudera
9 3 (4.84%) Databricks
9 3 (4.84%) NYFIX
9 3 (4.84%) TIBCO
10 2 (3.23%) Charles River
10 2 (3.23%) FactSet
10 2 (3.23%) FIS
10 2 (3.23%) VMware