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 14 December 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 286 271
Rank change year-on-year -16 -15 +85
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 79 95 134
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.62% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 1.18% 1.40% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 86 106
10th Percentile £248 £500 £306
25th Percentile £400 £638 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £663
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +3.77% -5.36%
75th Percentile £750 £825 £750
90th Percentile £915 £888 £844
England median daily rate £650 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -5.45% +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 6,707 6,764 7,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.02% 44.28% 40.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,368 4,243 5,389
10th Percentile £334 £313 £300
25th Percentile £420 £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 £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 67 107
10th Percentile £17.88 £19.37 £16.94
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £23.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -8.27% +48.41%
75th Percentile £42.75 £64.38 £60.63
90th Percentile £65.96 £85.45 £86.35
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 11 £625 -10.71% 6
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 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.80%) Confluence
3 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.27%) Apache
4 1 (1.27%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (5.06%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 4 (5.06%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.53%) Actimize
2 2 (2.53%) Aladdin
2 2 (2.53%) BondVision
2 2 (2.53%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (2.53%) Eikon
2 2 (2.53%) ION MarketView
3 1 (1.27%) Eze OMS
3 1 (1.27%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (1.27%) Markit EDM
3 1 (1.27%) Summit
3 1 (1.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (11.39%) AWS
3 8 (10.13%) Azure
4 5 (6.33%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.80%) GCP
6 3 (3.80%) GitHub
7 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.53%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.53%) Slack
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.27%) Collibra
8 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.27%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.27%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.27%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.13%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.59%) DHCP
2 6 (7.59%) DNS
3 4 (5.06%) Firewall
3 4 (5.06%) VPN
4 3 (3.80%) Multicast
4 3 (3.80%) Softphone
5 2 (2.53%) DMZ
6 1 (1.27%) LAN
6 1 (1.27%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) Tableau
2 4 (5.06%) KDB
2 4 (5.06%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.06%) Power BI
3 3 (3.80%) Metadata
4 2 (2.53%) Big Data
4 2 (2.53%) Power Query
5 1 (1.27%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.27%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.27%) Parquet
5 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Git
1 5 (6.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.06%) JIRA
3 2 (2.53%) GitLab
3 2 (2.53%) Maven
4 1 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.27%) Selenium
General
1 52 (65.82%) Finance
2 35 (44.30%) Social Skills
3 32 (40.51%) Front Office
4 26 (32.91%) Banking
5 19 (24.05%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (18.99%) Investment Banking
7 8 (10.13%) Financial Institution
8 6 (7.59%) Back Office
9 4 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.27%) Agriculture
12 1 (1.27%) Games
12 1 (1.27%) Legal
12 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.27%) Retail
12 1 (1.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (32.91%) Analyst
2 14 (17.72%) Business Analyst
3 13 (16.46%) Developer
4 12 (15.19%) Support Engineer
5 10 (12.66%) Senior
6 9 (11.39%) Desktop Support
7 8 (10.13%) Java Developer
8 7 (8.86%) Desktop Engineer
8 7 (8.86%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 7 (8.86%) Support Analyst
9 6 (7.59%) IT Analyst
9 6 (7.59%) IT Support
10 5 (6.33%) IT Support Analyst
11 4 (5.06%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (5.06%) Python Developer
12 3 (3.80%) Front Office Developer
12 3 (3.80%) Lead
12 3 (3.80%) Market Data Analyst
12 3 (3.80%) Senior Analyst
12 3 (3.80%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (7.59%) Pandas
3 5 (6.33%) Flask
3 5 (6.33%) Kafka
4 4 (5.06%) HTML
4 4 (5.06%) REST
5 3 (3.80%) CSS
5 3 (3.80%) RESTful
5 3 (3.80%) Spring
6 2 (2.53%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.53%) Middleware
6 2 (2.53%) MyBatis
6 2 (2.53%) NumPy
6 2 (2.53%) Rendezvous
6 2 (2.53%) XML
7 1 (1.27%) .NET
7 1 (1.27%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.27%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (1.27%) JMS
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.52%) Derivative
2 15 (18.99%) Fixed Income
3 9 (11.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (8.86%) Equities
5 6 (7.59%) Product Ownership
6 4 (5.06%) Reference Data
7 3 (3.80%) Hedge funds
7 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.53%) Blackberry
8 2 (2.53%) BYOD
8 2 (2.53%) Clustering
8 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.53%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.27%) DTCC
9 1 (1.27%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 22 (27.85%) Windows
2 9 (11.39%) Linux
3 6 (7.59%) Windows 10
4 4 (5.06%) Unix
5 1 (1.27%) Android
5 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.05%) Agile
2 17 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (20.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (15.19%) Asset Management
4 12 (15.19%) Low Latency
5 11 (13.92%) Electronic Trading
5 11 (13.92%) Validation
6 10 (12.66%) Data Modelling
7 9 (11.39%) AI
7 9 (11.39%) Data Management
7 9 (11.39%) DevOps
8 8 (10.13%) ITIL
9 7 (8.86%) Data Analysis
9 7 (8.86%) Visualisation
10 6 (7.59%) CI/CD
10 6 (7.59%) Data Governance
10 6 (7.59%) Multithreading
10 6 (7.59%) Risk Management
11 5 (6.33%) Data Pipeline
11 5 (6.33%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.97%) SQL
2 22 (27.85%) Python
3 11 (13.92%) PowerShell
4 10 (12.66%) Java
5 4 (5.06%) C#
5 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.53%) Perl
6 2 (2.53%) R
7 1 (1.27%) Bash
7 1 (1.27%) C
7 1 (1.27%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (7.59%) Degree
2 2 (2.53%) CBAP
3 1 (1.27%) CFA
3 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) MiFID
2 6 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.59%) EMIR
2 6 (7.59%) QA
3 2 (2.53%) SLA
4 1 (1.27%) Basel III
4 1 (1.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) IFRS
4 1 (1.27%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (7.59%) Docker
2 5 (6.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) SCCM
2 6 (7.59%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (6.33%) Ansible
4 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.06%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (2.53%) BladeLogic
5 2 (2.53%) Grafana
5 2 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.53%) Terraform
5 2 (2.53%) WSUS
6 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (26.58%) Refinitiv
2 15 (18.99%) ION Trading
2 15 (18.99%) Reuters
2 15 (18.99%) Tradeweb
3 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.59%) Murex
4 6 (7.59%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.33%) Citrix
5 5 (6.33%) MarketAxess
5 5 (6.33%) Oracle
6 4 (5.06%) Charles River
6 4 (5.06%) Cisco
6 4 (5.06%) Splunk
7 3 (3.80%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.80%) Cloudera
7 3 (3.80%) Databricks
7 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.80%) NYFIX
8 2 (2.53%) FIS
8 2 (2.53%) Solace