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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 263 310
Rank change year-on-year -39 +47 +41
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 59 117 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.73% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 0.97% 1.68% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 107 111
10th Percentile £225 £500 £243
25th Percentile £321 £569 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £775 £875 £750
90th Percentile £839 £888 £844
England median daily rate £463 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -32.73% +5.77% -5.45%

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 6,106 6,972 9,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.11% 43.35% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,948 4,532 6,401
10th Percentile £325 £313 £319
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -2.65%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 78 113
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.67
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 £64.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £79.13 £69.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%

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
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +4 11 £625 -21.09% 4
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 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) ION MarketView
2 3 (5.08%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (3.39%) Aladdin
3 2 (3.39%) BondVision
3 2 (3.39%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (3.39%) Eikon
4 1 (1.69%) Eze OMS
4 1 (1.69%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.69%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (11.86%) Azure
3 5 (8.47%) AWS
3 5 (8.47%) Snowflake
4 4 (6.78%) GitHub
4 4 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.69%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) DNS
2 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.08%) DHCP
3 3 (5.08%) VPN
4 1 (1.69%) BGP
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.69%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.69%) Multicast
4 1 (1.69%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.69%) Network Security
4 1 (1.69%) OSPF
4 1 (1.69%) SSL
4 1 (1.69%) Wireless
4 1 (1.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Power BI
1 3 (5.08%) Tableau
2 2 (3.39%) Big Data
2 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.39%) Power Query
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Cypress.io
1 4 (6.78%) HP UFT
1 4 (6.78%) Selenium
1 4 (6.78%) TestComplete
2 3 (5.08%) Git
2 3 (5.08%) Maven
3 2 (3.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.69%) GitLab
4 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.69%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (55.93%) Finance
2 27 (45.76%) Social Skills
3 21 (35.59%) Front Office
4 17 (28.81%) Banking
5 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (15.25%) Investment Banking
7 6 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (8.47%) Financial Institution
9 4 (6.78%) Back Office
10 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.69%) Games
11 1 (1.69%) International Banking
11 1 (1.69%) Law
11 1 (1.69%) Legal
11 1 (1.69%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Analyst
2 12 (20.34%) Support Analyst
3 9 (15.25%) Developer
4 8 (13.56%) Desktop Support
5 6 (10.17%) Support Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Automation Test Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Automation Tester
7 4 (6.78%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 4 (6.78%) IT Support
7 4 (6.78%) Java Automation Tester
7 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Test Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Tester
8 3 (5.08%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) IT Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Senior
8 3 (5.08%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (8.47%) .NET
3 4 (6.78%) Playwright
4 3 (5.08%) CSS
4 3 (5.08%) Flask
4 3 (5.08%) HTML
4 3 (5.08%) MyBatis
4 3 (5.08%) Pandas
4 3 (5.08%) Rendezvous
5 2 (3.39%) XML
6 1 (1.69%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.69%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.69%) JSON
6 1 (1.69%) Kafka
6 1 (1.69%) Middleware
6 1 (1.69%) Murex MxML
6 1 (1.69%) NumPy
6 1 (1.69%) SciPy
6 1 (1.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.03%) Fixed Income
2 11 (18.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (11.86%) Equities
4 6 (10.17%) Derivative
5 4 (6.78%) Clustering
5 4 (6.78%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (5.08%) Hedge funds
6 3 (5.08%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.39%) Blackberry
7 2 (3.39%) BYOD
7 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.39%) Market Risk
7 2 (3.39%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.69%) Hackathon
8 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (44.07%) Windows
2 8 (13.56%) Linux
3 6 (10.17%) Windows 10
4 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.08%) Unix
6 1 (1.69%) Android
6 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (16.95%) Electronic Trading
3 8 (13.56%) Agile
3 8 (13.56%) Asset Management
3 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (11.86%) Data Modelling
4 7 (11.86%) Low Latency
5 6 (10.17%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (10.17%) Customer Service
5 6 (10.17%) ITIL
5 6 (10.17%) Risk Management
6 5 (8.47%) CI/CD
6 5 (8.47%) Data Management
6 5 (8.47%) DevOps
6 5 (8.47%) Investment Management
6 5 (8.47%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (8.47%) Software Testing
6 5 (8.47%) System Testing
6 5 (8.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.51%) Python
2 16 (27.12%) SQL
3 8 (13.56%) Java
3 8 (13.56%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.17%) PowerShell
5 5 (8.47%) C#
6 2 (3.39%) R
7 1 (1.69%) Bash
7 1 (1.69%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 4 (6.78%) Degree
1 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.08%) SLA
3 2 (3.39%) EMIR
4 1 (1.69%) Basel III
4 1 (1.69%) IFRS
4 1 (1.69%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.69%) MiFID
4 1 (1.69%) QA
4 1 (1.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.08%) Docker
3 1 (1.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (11.86%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (8.47%) SCCM
4 4 (6.78%) Ansible
4 4 (6.78%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.08%) BladeLogic
6 1 (1.69%) Grafana
6 1 (1.69%) Terraform
6 1 (1.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (37.29%) Reuters
2 15 (25.42%) Refinitiv
3 13 (22.03%) Microsoft
4 8 (13.56%) ION Trading
4 8 (13.56%) ServiceNow
4 8 (13.56%) Tradeweb
5 6 (10.17%) Citrix
6 5 (8.47%) Cisco
6 5 (8.47%) Murex
6 5 (8.47%) Oracle
7 4 (6.78%) Dynatrace
7 4 (6.78%) Solace
8 3 (5.08%) Cloudera
8 3 (5.08%) Databricks
8 3 (5.08%) TIBCO
9 2 (3.39%) FactSet
9 2 (3.39%) MarketAxess
9 2 (3.39%) Sybase
10 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.69%) Salesforce