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 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 281 317
Rank change year-on-year -23 +36 +61
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 50 121 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.69% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 0.86% 1.66% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 113 125
10th Percentile £250 £338 £293
25th Percentile £291 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £741 £838 £763
90th Percentile £801 £885 £863
England median daily rate £425 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -37.04% +8.00% -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 5,840 7,298 10,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.29% 41.76% 40.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,003 7,246
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £535 £554
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -3.39% +0.32%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £688
90th Percentile £765 £775 £798
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 129 121
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.87 £16.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.78 £21.24
Median hourly rate £27.78 £23.80 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.70% -21.32% -13.57%
75th Percentile £48.44 £38.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £26.02 £24.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +6.20% -23.44% +46.92%

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 July 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 July 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 +5 17 £500 -6.10% 42
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 3 (6.00%) Confluence
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Aladdin
1 3 (6.00%) ION MarketView
2 1 (2.00%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (2.00%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (2.00%) Eikon
2 1 (2.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.00%) Kondor
2 1 (2.00%) RMDS
2 1 (2.00%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) AWS
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.00%) GitHub
4 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (4.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) Firewall
2 3 (6.00%) DNS
2 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.00%) BGP
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.00%) DHCP
3 1 (2.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (2.00%) Multicast
3 1 (2.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.00%) Network Security
3 1 (2.00%) OSPF
3 1 (2.00%) SSL
3 1 (2.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.00%) WebEx
3 1 (2.00%) Wireless
3 1 (2.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) Data Mart
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (4.00%) Tableau
3 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) JIRA
2 4 (8.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (8.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) HP UFT
2 4 (8.00%) Selenium
2 4 (8.00%) TestComplete
3 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) Maven
3 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.00%) Crucible
4 1 (2.00%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 27 (54.00%) Finance
2 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (26.00%) Banking
3 13 (26.00%) Front Office
4 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (14.00%) Back Office
6 6 (12.00%) Investment Banking
7 5 (10.00%) Financial Institution
7 5 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.00%) Law
9 1 (2.00%) International Banking
9 1 (2.00%) Legal
9 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Analyst
2 10 (20.00%) Developer
3 9 (18.00%) Support Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Automation Test Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Automation Tester
5 4 (8.00%) Java Automation Tester
5 4 (8.00%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Test Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Tester
6 3 (6.00%) Applications Support
6 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Desktop Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Desktop Support
6 3 (6.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) .NET
2 5 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (8.00%) Playwright
3 4 (8.00%) XML
4 3 (6.00%) Murex MxML
5 2 (4.00%) NumPy
5 2 (4.00%) Pandas
5 2 (4.00%) Rendezvous
6 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.00%) CSS
6 1 (2.00%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.00%) Flask
6 1 (2.00%) HTML
6 1 (2.00%) Kafka
6 1 (2.00%) MyBatis
6 1 (2.00%) REST
6 1 (2.00%) SciPy
6 1 (2.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (20.00%) Fixed Income
3 6 (12.00%) Derivative
3 6 (12.00%) Equities
4 3 (6.00%) Clustering
4 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.00%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (6.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 3 (6.00%) Smartphone
5 2 (4.00%) BYOD
5 2 (4.00%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.00%) Hedge funds
5 2 (4.00%) Market Risk
5 2 (4.00%) Reference Data
5 2 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (44.00%) Windows
2 5 (10.00%) Linux
3 4 (8.00%) Unix
4 3 (6.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (18.00%) Migration
3 8 (16.00%) ITIL
4 7 (14.00%) Electronic Trading
5 6 (12.00%) Agile
5 6 (12.00%) Project Management
6 5 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.00%) DevOps
6 5 (10.00%) Investment Management
6 5 (10.00%) Low Latency
6 5 (10.00%) Risk Management
6 5 (10.00%) System Testing
6 5 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (8.00%) Break/Fix
7 4 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (8.00%) Integration Testing
7 4 (8.00%) OOP
7 4 (8.00%) Open Source
7 4 (8.00%) Software Testing
7 4 (8.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) Python
2 12 (24.00%) SQL
3 9 (18.00%) Java
4 7 (14.00%) C#
5 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.00%) Groovy
7 1 (2.00%) Perl
7 1 (2.00%) Ruby
7 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
1 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) CFA
2 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.00%) MCP
2 1 (2.00%) MCSA
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) SLA
2 4 (8.00%) MiFID
3 3 (6.00%) EMIR
4 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.00%) QA
5 1 (2.00%) UCITS
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Xen
2 1 (2.00%) XenApp
2 1 (2.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) SCCM
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (8.00%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (4.00%) Ansible
4 2 (4.00%) BladeLogic
4 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (42.00%) Reuters
2 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (18.00%) Refinitiv
3 9 (18.00%) Tradeweb
4 6 (12.00%) ServiceNow
5 5 (10.00%) Citrix
5 5 (10.00%) ION Trading
5 5 (10.00%) Murex
6 4 (8.00%) Cisco
6 4 (8.00%) FactSet
7 3 (6.00%) Oracle
7 3 (6.00%) Sybase
8 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
8 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.00%) Solace
8 2 (4.00%) TIBCO
9 1 (2.00%) LexisNexis
9 1 (2.00%) Okta
9 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.00%) Snow