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 17 August 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
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 301 261
Rank change year-on-year -60 -40 +44
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 76 63 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.46% 0.76%
As % of the Vendors category 0.89% 1.01% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 36 114
10th Percentile £225 £225 -
25th Percentile £364 £306 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £688
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -38.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £597 £775 £869
90th Percentile £743 £831 £888
England median daily rate £450 £414 £688
% change year-on-year +8.70% -39.78% +10.00%

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 8,553 6,246 6,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.58% 46.06% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,570 4,057 4,731
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 129 87
10th Percentile £18.14 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.76 £22.90 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £58.31 £40.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.50
England median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.11% -16.17% -20.00%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -17 9 £270 -56.80% 9
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%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.95%) MTS
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Aladdin
2 4 (5.26%) Loan IQ
3 3 (3.95%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (2.63%) Findur
4 2 (2.63%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (2.63%) Summit
5 1 (1.32%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (1.32%) Eikon
5 1 (1.32%) Fidessa
5 1 (1.32%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 20 (26.32%) Azure
2 17 (22.37%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (21.05%) AWS
4 9 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.89%) Google Workspace
6 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.26%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.95%) SaaS
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.63%) GitHub
8 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.63%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.32%) Collibra
9 1 (1.32%) Dagster
9 1 (1.32%) dbt
9 1 (1.32%) GCP
9 1 (1.32%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) VPN
2 10 (13.16%) Firewall
2 10 (13.16%) TCP/IP
3 5 (6.58%) DMZ
3 5 (6.58%) DNS
4 4 (5.26%) DHCP
5 3 (3.95%) Internet
6 2 (2.63%) Multicast
7 1 (1.32%) BGP
7 1 (1.32%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.32%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (1.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.26%) Power BI
3 3 (3.95%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.63%) KDB
5 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.32%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.32%) Metadata
5 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.32%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Git
2 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
General
1 47 (61.84%) Finance
2 38 (50.00%) Front Office
3 26 (34.21%) Social Skills
4 24 (31.58%) Banking
5 10 (13.16%) Investment Banking
6 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (9.21%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (6.58%) Legal
9 3 (3.95%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.63%) Back Office
11 1 (1.32%) German Language
11 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.32%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (38.16%) Analyst
2 10 (13.16%) Business Analyst
3 9 (11.84%) Data Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Help Desk Analyst
4 8 (10.53%) IT Analyst
5 7 (9.21%) Support Analyst
5 7 (9.21%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Compliance Analyst
6 5 (6.58%) Compliance Business Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Migration Specialist
7 4 (5.26%) Python Data Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Python Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Data Migration Specialist
8 3 (3.95%) Desktop Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Desktop Support
8 3 (3.95%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) IT Manager
8 3 (3.95%) IT Procurement Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) Middleware
2 4 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (5.26%) Kafka
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.63%) JSON
4 2 (2.63%) React
4 2 (2.63%) XML
5 1 (1.32%) .NET
5 1 (1.32%) FpML
5 1 (1.32%) JMS
5 1 (1.32%) Next.js
5 1 (1.32%) NumPy
5 1 (1.32%) Pandas
5 1 (1.32%) PySpark
5 1 (1.32%) Redux
5 1 (1.32%) REST
5 1 (1.32%) SciPy
5 1 (1.32%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (21.05%) Derivative
3 11 (14.47%) Onboarding
4 10 (13.16%) Fixed Income
5 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
5 7 (9.21%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (5.26%) OTC Derivatives
6 4 (5.26%) Reference Data
6 4 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (3.95%) Client/Server
7 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.95%) Equities
7 3 (3.95%) Hedge funds
7 3 (3.95%) Replication
8 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.63%) DTCC
8 2 (2.63%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (2.63%) Eurex
9 1 (1.32%) iPad
9 1 (1.32%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 23 (30.26%) Windows
2 6 (7.89%) Linux
2 6 (7.89%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.95%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.95%) Agile
2 19 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (18.42%) User Acceptance Testing
5 13 (17.11%) DevOps
5 13 (17.11%) Migration
6 12 (15.79%) Data Modelling
7 11 (14.47%) Analytics
8 10 (13.16%) Data Analysis
8 10 (13.16%) Data Management
8 10 (13.16%) ETL
8 10 (13.16%) Investment Management
8 10 (13.16%) Project Delivery
8 10 (13.16%) System Integration Testing
9 9 (11.84%) Data Governance
9 9 (11.84%) ITIL
9 9 (11.84%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (10.53%) Asset Management
10 8 (10.53%) Business Analysis
10 8 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 36 (47.37%) SQL
2 22 (28.95%) Python
3 19 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 12 (15.79%) Java
5 3 (3.95%) VBA
6 2 (2.63%) C#
6 2 (2.63%) C++
6 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.63%) Tcl
6 2 (2.63%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.32%) Bash
7 1 (1.32%) Korn
7 1 (1.32%) Scala
7 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (13.16%) Degree
2 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (3.95%) MCSA
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.63%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.32%) PMP
5 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.26%) QA
3 3 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.63%) EMIR
4 2 (2.63%) MiFID
4 2 (2.63%) SLA
5 1 (1.32%) AIFMD
5 1 (1.32%) GDPR
5 1 (1.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (11.84%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.95%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.63%) Docker
4 1 (1.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (15.79%) SCCM
2 5 (6.58%) WSUS
3 3 (3.95%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (2.63%) Ansible
4 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.63%) WMI
5 1 (1.32%) Grafana
5 1 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (23.68%) Murex
3 16 (21.05%) Refinitiv
4 14 (18.42%) Citrix
4 14 (18.42%) Reuters
5 10 (13.16%) ION Trading
6 5 (6.58%) Charles River
6 5 (6.58%) Databricks
6 5 (6.58%) Tradeweb
6 5 (6.58%) VMware
7 4 (5.26%) Cisco
7 4 (5.26%) MarketAxess
7 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.63%) FactSet
8 2 (2.63%) Google
8 2 (2.63%) OpenLink
8 2 (2.63%) Splunk
8 2 (2.63%) Sybase
9 1 (1.32%) Snow
9 1 (1.32%) Talend