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 10 March 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
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 316 262
Rank change year-on-year -5 -54 +108
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 78 46 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.35% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 1.09% 0.80% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 33 123
10th Percentile £352 £270 £313
25th Percentile £450 £414 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £595
Median % change year-on-year - +9.24% -4.80%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £756
90th Percentile £875 £829 £800
England median daily rate £650 £650 £600
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%

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 7,154 5,766 7,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.40% 44.46% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,719 3,696 5,003
10th Percentile £350 £325 £276
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 80 148
10th Percentile £17.99 £20.77 £13.72
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.99% +25.69% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £57.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.45 £80.75 £69.65
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.62 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.34% +22.46% -28.57%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -16 9 £913 +82.50% 3
East London - 2 - - 1
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 5 (6.41%) Confluence
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.28%) Apache
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.85%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Fidessa
2 7 (8.97%) Bloomberg AIM
3 5 (6.41%) Loan IQ
4 4 (5.13%) Aladdin
4 4 (5.13%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 3 (3.85%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (2.56%) Actimize
7 1 (1.28%) Eikon
7 1 (1.28%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (1.28%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (1.28%) Markit EDM
7 1 (1.28%) Summit
7 1 (1.28%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.95%) AWS
2 11 (14.10%) Azure
3 9 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (5.13%) Google Workspace
4 4 (5.13%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.85%) GCP
5 3 (3.85%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.56%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.56%) Slack
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.28%) Collibra
7 1 (1.28%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.28%) GitHub
7 1 (1.28%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.28%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.97%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.41%) Firewall
3 4 (5.13%) DMZ
3 4 (5.13%) VPN
4 3 (3.85%) DHCP
4 3 (3.85%) DNS
4 3 (3.85%) Multicast
4 3 (3.85%) Softphone
5 2 (2.56%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (1.28%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.28%) LAN
6 1 (1.28%) WAN
6 1 (1.28%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) NoSQL
1 5 (6.41%) Tableau
2 4 (5.13%) KDB
2 4 (5.13%) Power BI
3 3 (3.85%) Metadata
4 1 (1.28%) Ataccama
4 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.28%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.28%) Parquet
4 1 (1.28%) Power Query
4 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (11.54%) JIRA
2 5 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.85%) Git
3 3 (3.85%) Toad
4 1 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.28%) GitLab
4 1 (1.28%) Postman
4 1 (1.28%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.28%) Selenium
General
1 50 (64.10%) Finance
2 36 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 31 (39.74%) Front Office
4 28 (35.90%) Banking
5 27 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (21.79%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.69%) Back Office
7 6 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (7.69%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.28%) Legal
10 1 (1.28%) Retail
10 1 (1.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (38.46%) Analyst
2 24 (30.77%) Business Analyst
3 14 (17.95%) Senior
4 9 (11.54%) Developer
4 9 (11.54%) Support Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) IT Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) IT Support
8 4 (5.13%) Electronics Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Market Data Analyst
9 3 (3.85%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
9 3 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Help Desk Analyst
9 3 (3.85%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Support Analyst
9 3 (3.85%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.10%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (8.97%) Kafka
2 7 (8.97%) REST
3 5 (6.41%) Pandas
4 4 (5.13%) JMS
4 4 (5.13%) Middleware
4 4 (5.13%) NumPy
4 4 (5.13%) XML
5 3 (3.85%) RESTful
5 3 (3.85%) Spring
6 2 (2.56%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.56%) Flask
6 2 (2.56%) JSON
7 1 (1.28%) Apache Avro
7 1 (1.28%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.28%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.28%) SciPy
7 1 (1.28%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.64%) Derivative
2 14 (17.95%) Fixed Income
3 10 (12.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (10.26%) Equities
5 5 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (5.13%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.13%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.13%) OTC Derivatives
7 3 (3.85%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.85%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.56%) Client/Server
8 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.56%) Hedge funds
8 2 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.79%) Windows
2 8 (10.26%) Linux
3 4 (5.13%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.56%) Unix
4 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (26.92%) Agile
3 14 (17.95%) Validation
4 13 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.10%) DevOps
5 11 (14.10%) Electronic Trading
6 9 (11.54%) Data Analysis
6 9 (11.54%) Data Management
6 9 (11.54%) Data Validation
6 9 (11.54%) Low Latency
7 8 (10.26%) Data Modelling
7 8 (10.26%) ITIL
7 8 (10.26%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (8.97%) Algorithmic Trading
8 7 (8.97%) Analytics
8 7 (8.97%) Order Management
8 7 (8.97%) Visualisation
9 6 (7.69%) Asset Management
9 6 (7.69%) Containerisation
9 6 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 34 (43.59%) SQL
2 21 (26.92%) Python
3 14 (17.95%) Java
3 14 (17.95%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.13%) C#
5 2 (2.56%) Perl
6 1 (1.28%) Bash
6 1 (1.28%) C
6 1 (1.28%) C++
6 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (14.10%) Degree
2 2 (2.56%) CBAP
2 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.56%) PMI Certification
2 2 (2.56%) PMP
3 1 (1.28%) CFA
3 1 (1.28%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.28%) MCSA
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) MiFID
2 8 (10.26%) QA
3 6 (7.69%) EMIR
4 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.56%) GDPR
6 1 (1.28%) Basel III
6 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.13%) Docker
2 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.56%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (11.54%) SCCM
2 5 (6.41%) Grafana
2 5 (6.41%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 3 (3.85%) Ansible
3 3 (3.85%) WSUS
4 2 (2.56%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.56%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.56%) WMI
5 1 (1.28%) Kibana
5 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (21.79%) Refinitiv
2 14 (17.95%) Reuters
3 13 (16.67%) ION Trading
3 13 (16.67%) Murex
4 12 (15.38%) Charles River
4 12 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 9 (11.54%) Tradeweb
6 8 (10.26%) Citrix
7 6 (7.69%) AppDynamics
7 6 (7.69%) Splunk
7 6 (7.69%) VMware
8 4 (5.13%) Cisco
8 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (3.85%) Eze Software Group
9 3 (3.85%) FactSet
9 3 (3.85%) MarketAxess
9 3 (3.85%) NYFIX
9 3 (3.85%) Oracle
9 3 (3.85%) SimCorp