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 3 May 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
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 301 268
Rank change year-on-year -33 -33 +84
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 75 47 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 0.37% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 0.99% 0.82% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 27 119
10th Percentile £330 £250 £335
25th Percentile £423 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £763
90th Percentile £780 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -12.00%

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 7,602 5,707 7,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.80% 45.40% 40.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,025 3,753 4,967
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% -2.67%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £657
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 93 140
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.97 £13.87
25th Percentile £22.79 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +22.62% -22.14%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £36.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £63.88
England median hourly rate £30.75 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +13.36% +20.56% -43.75%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -19 9 £913 +62.22% 8
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 (5.33%) Confluence
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.33%) MTS
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Fidessa
2 5 (6.67%) Bloomberg AIM
2 5 (6.67%) Loan IQ
3 4 (5.33%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 3 (4.00%) Aladdin
4 3 (4.00%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (2.67%) Actimize
5 2 (2.67%) Findur
6 1 (1.33%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (1.33%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (1.33%) Markit EDM
6 1 (1.33%) Summit
6 1 (1.33%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.00%) Azure
2 17 (22.67%) AWS
3 14 (18.67%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (10.67%) Google Workspace
5 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.00%) GitHub
6 3 (4.00%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.67%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.67%) Slack
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.33%) Collibra
8 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.33%) GCP
8 1 (1.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.00%) Firewall
2 11 (14.67%) TCP/IP
3 9 (12.00%) VPN
4 7 (9.33%) DMZ
5 4 (5.33%) DNS
6 3 (4.00%) DHCP
6 3 (4.00%) Softphone
7 2 (2.67%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (1.33%) BGP
8 1 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (1.33%) IP Telephony
8 1 (1.33%) Multicast
8 1 (1.33%) OSPF
8 1 (1.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.33%) Metadata
2 4 (5.33%) Tableau
3 2 (2.67%) Power BI
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.33%) Ataccama
4 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.33%) Power Query
4 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) JIRA
2 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.00%) Git
3 3 (4.00%) Toad
4 1 (1.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.33%) Postman
General
1 47 (62.67%) Finance
2 34 (45.33%) Social Skills
3 32 (42.67%) Front Office
4 26 (34.67%) Banking
5 21 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (20.00%) Investment Banking
7 7 (9.33%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (6.67%) Back Office
9 3 (4.00%) Financial Institution
9 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.67%) Legal
10 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.67%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (41.33%) Analyst
2 21 (28.00%) Business Analyst
3 11 (14.67%) Senior
4 9 (12.00%) IT Analyst
4 9 (12.00%) Support Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Help Desk Analyst
5 7 (9.33%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (8.00%) IT Support
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Electronics Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Lead
8 4 (5.33%) Migration Specialist
9 3 (4.00%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Data Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Data Migration Specialist
9 3 (4.00%) Desktop Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Help Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.67%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (8.00%) Kafka
3 5 (6.67%) REST
3 5 (6.67%) XML
4 4 (5.33%) JMS
4 4 (5.33%) JSON
4 4 (5.33%) Middleware
5 3 (4.00%) Pandas
6 2 (2.67%) NumPy
7 1 (1.33%) .NET
7 1 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.33%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.33%) HTML
7 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.33%) RESTful
7 1 (1.33%) SciPy
7 1 (1.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Derivative
2 11 (14.67%) Fixed Income
2 11 (14.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (12.00%) Onboarding
4 7 (9.33%) Equities
5 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 5 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (5.33%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.33%) Client/Server
6 4 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.33%) OTC Derivatives
7 3 (4.00%) Credit Risk
7 3 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (2.67%) Hedge funds
8 2 (2.67%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.33%) Eurex
9 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (29.33%) Windows
2 8 (10.67%) Linux
3 5 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.33%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (33.33%) Agile
3 14 (18.67%) DevOps
4 12 (16.00%) ITIL
4 12 (16.00%) Validation
5 11 (14.67%) Data Analysis
5 11 (14.67%) Data Modelling
5 11 (14.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (13.33%) Electronic Trading
7 9 (12.00%) Data Management
8 8 (10.67%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (9.33%) ETL
9 7 (9.33%) Order Management
9 7 (9.33%) Service Delivery
9 7 (9.33%) Service Management
10 6 (8.00%) Data Governance
10 6 (8.00%) Data Validation
10 6 (8.00%) Migration
10 6 (8.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.67%) SQL
2 18 (24.00%) Python
3 16 (21.33%) PowerShell
4 12 (16.00%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) C++
5 2 (2.67%) Perl
5 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.33%) Bash
6 1 (1.33%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Degree
2 5 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (5.33%) MCSA
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.67%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.67%) PMP
4 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) CBAP
5 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) QA
2 5 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.67%) MiFID
3 3 (4.00%) GDPR
4 2 (2.67%) EMIR
5 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) XenDesktop
3 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (17.33%) SCCM
2 6 (8.00%) WSUS
3 5 (6.67%) Grafana
4 4 (5.33%) Ansible
5 3 (4.00%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.67%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (2.67%) WMI
7 1 (1.33%) Kibana
7 1 (1.33%) Terraform
7 1 (1.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.33%) Refinitiv
2 16 (21.33%) Reuters
3 13 (17.33%) Murex
4 12 (16.00%) ION Trading
5 11 (14.67%) Charles River
5 11 (14.67%) Citrix
6 7 (9.33%) Splunk
7 6 (8.00%) AppDynamics
8 5 (6.67%) Cisco
8 5 (6.67%) ServiceNow
8 5 (6.67%) VMware
9 4 (5.33%) Tradeweb
10 3 (4.00%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (4.00%) Eze Software Group
10 3 (4.00%) FactSet
10 3 (4.00%) MarketAxess
10 3 (4.00%) SimCorp
11 2 (2.67%) Proofpoint
11 2 (2.67%) Veritas