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 26 January 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
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 302 268
Rank change year-on-year -3 -34 +101
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 67 61 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.44% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.00% 1.01% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 50 126
10th Percentile £266 £481 £313
25th Percentile £422 £500 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £663
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +3.77% -1.85%
75th Percentile £738 £736 £759
90th Percentile £875 £821 £834
England median daily rate £650 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% -

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 6,700 6,040 7,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.14% 43.79% 40.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,400 3,725 5,088
10th Percentile £343 £313 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 69 144
10th Percentile £17.69 £21.45 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £17.95
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.87% +3.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £42.75 £55.75 £46.85
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -21.67% -7.69% +1.56%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -3 7 £510 -15.00% 2
East London - 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 (5.97%) Confluence
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Fidessa
2 5 (7.46%) Bloomberg AIM
2 5 (7.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (2.99%) Actimize
3 2 (2.99%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.49%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (1.49%) Eikon
4 1 (1.49%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.49%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (1.49%) Markit EDM
4 1 (1.49%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (1.49%) Summit
4 1 (1.49%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (11.94%) AWS
3 5 (7.46%) Azure
4 4 (5.97%) Google Workspace
5 3 (4.48%) GCP
5 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub
6 2 (2.99%) Slack
6 2 (2.99%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.49%) Collibra
7 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.49%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.49%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.94%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.46%) VPN
3 4 (5.97%) DHCP
3 4 (5.97%) DMZ
3 4 (5.97%) DNS
3 4 (5.97%) Firewall
4 3 (4.48%) Multicast
4 3 (4.48%) Softphone
5 2 (2.99%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (1.49%) LAN
6 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) KDB
1 4 (5.97%) Tableau
2 3 (4.48%) Metadata
2 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.48%) Power BI
3 1 (1.49%) Ataccama
3 1 (1.49%) Big Data
3 1 (1.49%) Kdb+
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.49%) Parquet
3 1 (1.49%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) JIRA
2 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.99%) Git
4 1 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.49%) GitLab
4 1 (1.49%) Maven
4 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.49%) Selenium
4 1 (1.49%) Toad
General
1 47 (70.15%) Finance
2 33 (49.25%) Social Skills
3 30 (44.78%) Front Office
4 25 (37.31%) Banking
5 18 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (26.87%) Investment Banking
6 6 (8.96%) Back Office
6 6 (8.96%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.49%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.49%) Games
10 1 (1.49%) Legal
10 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.49%) Retail
10 1 (1.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (35.82%) Analyst
2 19 (28.36%) Business Analyst
3 12 (17.91%) Senior
4 10 (14.93%) Support Engineer
5 9 (13.43%) Developer
6 7 (10.45%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.46%) Data Business Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Desktop Support
7 5 (7.46%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) IT Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) IT Support
7 5 (7.46%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Help Desk Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Help Desk Support
9 3 (4.48%) IT Support Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Market Data Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (7.46%) Kafka
2 5 (7.46%) REST
3 4 (5.97%) Pandas
3 4 (5.97%) XML
4 3 (4.48%) NumPy
4 3 (4.48%) RESTful
4 3 (4.48%) Spring
5 2 (2.99%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.99%) Flask
5 2 (2.99%) JMS
5 2 (2.99%) Middleware
6 1 (1.49%) .NET
6 1 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.49%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (1.49%) HTML
6 1 (1.49%) JSON
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.49%) MyBatis
6 1 (1.49%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.39%) Derivative
2 10 (14.93%) Fixed Income
3 6 (8.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (7.46%) Equities
4 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.48%) Reference Data
6 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.99%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.99%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.49%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.49%) BYOD
8 1 (1.49%) Clustering
8 1 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.88%) Windows
2 7 (10.45%) Linux
3 3 (4.48%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.99%) Unix
5 1 (1.49%) Android
5 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (28.36%) Agile
3 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (16.42%) Validation
5 10 (14.93%) Electronic Trading
6 9 (13.43%) Low Latency
7 8 (11.94%) ITIL
8 7 (10.45%) Data Management
8 7 (10.45%) Data Validation
8 7 (10.45%) DevOps
8 7 (10.45%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (8.96%) AI
9 6 (8.96%) Algorithmic Trading
9 6 (8.96%) Asset Management
9 6 (8.96%) Risk Management
10 5 (7.46%) Business Analysis
10 5 (7.46%) Data Modelling
10 5 (7.46%) Multithreading
10 5 (7.46%) Test Automation
10 5 (7.46%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (40.30%) SQL
2 17 (25.37%) Python
3 11 (16.42%) PowerShell
4 10 (14.93%) Java
5 4 (5.97%) C#
6 2 (2.99%) Perl
7 1 (1.49%) C
7 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.49%) R
7 1 (1.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) Degree
2 2 (2.99%) CBAP
2 2 (2.99%) PMI Certification
2 2 (2.99%) PMP
3 1 (1.49%) CFA
3 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.49%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.49%) MCSA
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) MiFID
2 8 (11.94%) QA
3 6 (8.96%) EMIR
4 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.49%) Basel III
5 1 (1.49%) GDPR
5 1 (1.49%) IFRS
5 1 (1.49%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.49%) SLA
5 1 (1.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) SCCM
2 4 (5.97%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 3 (4.48%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.48%) WSUS
4 2 (2.99%) Ansible
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
5 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (23.88%) Refinitiv
2 13 (19.40%) ION Trading
3 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
4 10 (14.93%) Reuters
4 10 (14.93%) Tradeweb
5 7 (10.45%) Charles River
6 6 (8.96%) Citrix
6 6 (8.96%) Murex
7 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.97%) AppDynamics
8 4 (5.97%) Splunk
9 3 (4.48%) Cisco
9 3 (4.48%) FIS
9 3 (4.48%) MarketAxess
9 3 (4.48%) NYFIX
10 2 (2.99%) Oracle
10 2 (2.99%) Proofpoint
10 2 (2.99%) Veritas
10 2 (2.99%) VMware
11 1 (1.49%) FactSet