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 27 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
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 286 277
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 +84
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 76 81 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.55% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 1.12% 1.23% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 72 110
10th Percentile £251 £500 £313
25th Percentile £401 £596 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +5.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £733 £750
90th Percentile £905 £838 £838
England median daily rate £625 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -7.14%

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 6,794 6,574 7,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.02% 44.27% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,429 4,108 5,195
10th Percentile £343 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 68 109
10th Percentile £17.55 £19.51 £16.63
25th Percentile £22.13 £23.75 £23.75
Median hourly rate £25.74 £34.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.94% -7.33% +45.86%
75th Percentile £41.89 £64.06 £61.25
90th Percentile £67.13 £84.28 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.54 £30.43 £45.21
% change year-on-year -22.65% -32.69% +69.14%

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 27 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 27 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 +4 11 £625 -10.71% 4
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 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Fidessa
2 4 (5.26%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (5.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (2.63%) Actimize
3 2 (2.63%) Aladdin
3 2 (2.63%) BondVision
3 2 (2.63%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (2.63%) Eikon
4 1 (1.32%) Eze OMS
4 1 (1.32%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.32%) ION MarketView
4 1 (1.32%) Markit EDM
4 1 (1.32%) Summit
4 1 (1.32%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (11.84%) AWS
3 7 (9.21%) Azure
4 5 (6.58%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.95%) GCP
5 3 (3.95%) GitHub
5 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.63%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.63%) Slack
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.32%) Collibra
7 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.32%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.32%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.32%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.21%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.58%) DHCP
2 5 (6.58%) DNS
3 4 (5.26%) VPN
4 3 (3.95%) Firewall
4 3 (3.95%) Multicast
4 3 (3.95%) Softphone
5 2 (2.63%) DMZ
6 1 (1.32%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (1.32%) LAN
6 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.89%) Tableau
2 4 (5.26%) KDB
2 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.95%) Metadata
3 3 (3.95%) Power BI
4 2 (2.63%) Big Data
5 1 (1.32%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.32%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.32%) Parquet
5 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.32%) Power Query
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Git
1 5 (6.58%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (2.63%) GitLab
3 2 (2.63%) Maven
4 1 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.32%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.32%) Selenium
General
1 51 (67.11%) Finance
2 35 (46.05%) Social Skills
3 31 (40.79%) Front Office
4 26 (34.21%) Banking
5 19 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (19.74%) Investment Banking
7 7 (9.21%) Financial Institution
8 6 (7.89%) Back Office
9 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.32%) Agriculture
12 1 (1.32%) Games
12 1 (1.32%) Legal
12 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.32%) Retail
12 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (32.89%) Analyst
2 15 (19.74%) Business Analyst
3 12 (15.79%) Developer
3 12 (15.79%) Support Engineer
4 10 (13.16%) Senior
5 8 (10.53%) Desktop Support
5 8 (10.53%) Java Developer
6 7 (9.21%) Desktop Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) IT Analyst
7 5 (6.58%) IT Support
7 5 (6.58%) Support Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Lead
9 3 (3.95%) Market Data Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Business Analyst
10 2 (2.63%) Help Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.16%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (7.89%) Pandas
3 5 (6.58%) Flask
3 5 (6.58%) Kafka
4 4 (5.26%) HTML
4 4 (5.26%) REST
5 3 (3.95%) CSS
5 3 (3.95%) RESTful
5 3 (3.95%) Spring
5 3 (3.95%) XML
6 2 (2.63%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.63%) Middleware
6 2 (2.63%) MyBatis
6 2 (2.63%) NumPy
7 1 (1.32%) .NET
7 1 (1.32%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (1.32%) JMS
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.32%) Rendezvous
7 1 (1.32%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.05%) Derivative
2 13 (17.11%) Fixed Income
3 8 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (7.89%) Equities
4 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.95%) Reference Data
5 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.63%) Clustering
6 2 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.63%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.63%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.32%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.32%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.32%) DTCC
7 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.32%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.00%) Windows
2 9 (11.84%) Linux
3 5 (6.58%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.95%) Unix
5 1 (1.32%) Android
5 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.00%) Agile
2 18 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (19.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (15.79%) Asset Management
4 12 (15.79%) Validation
5 11 (14.47%) Electronic Trading
5 11 (14.47%) Low Latency
6 9 (11.84%) AI
6 9 (11.84%) Data Management
6 9 (11.84%) Data Modelling
6 9 (11.84%) DevOps
7 7 (9.21%) Data Analysis
7 7 (9.21%) ITIL
7 7 (9.21%) Risk Management
7 7 (9.21%) Visualisation
8 6 (7.89%) CI/CD
8 6 (7.89%) Customer Service
8 6 (7.89%) Data Governance
8 6 (7.89%) Multithreading
8 6 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (36.84%) SQL
2 21 (27.63%) Python
3 11 (14.47%) PowerShell
4 10 (13.16%) Java
5 4 (5.26%) C#
5 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.63%) Perl
6 2 (2.63%) R
7 1 (1.32%) Bash
7 1 (1.32%) C
7 1 (1.32%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) Degree
2 2 (2.63%) CBAP
3 1 (1.32%) CFA
3 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.32%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) MiFID
2 6 (7.89%) EMIR
2 6 (7.89%) QA
3 5 (6.58%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.63%) SLA
5 1 (1.32%) Basel III
5 1 (1.32%) GDPR
5 1 (1.32%) IFRS
5 1 (1.32%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Docker
2 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) SCCM
2 5 (6.58%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (5.26%) Ansible
3 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.26%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (2.63%) Grafana
4 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.63%) Terraform
4 2 (2.63%) WSUS
5 1 (1.32%) BladeLogic
5 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (27.63%) Refinitiv
2 14 (18.42%) ION Trading
3 13 (17.11%) Tradeweb
4 12 (15.79%) Reuters
5 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
6 7 (9.21%) Murex
7 6 (7.89%) ServiceNow
8 5 (6.58%) Charles River
8 5 (6.58%) Citrix
8 5 (6.58%) MarketAxess
9 4 (5.26%) Oracle
9 4 (5.26%) Splunk
10 3 (3.95%) AppDynamics
10 3 (3.95%) Cisco
10 3 (3.95%) Cloudera
10 3 (3.95%) Databricks
10 3 (3.95%) NYFIX
11 2 (2.63%) Calypso
11 2 (2.63%) Veritas
11 2 (2.63%) VMware