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 25 July 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
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 301 272
Rank change year-on-year -47 -29 +39
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 77 59 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.43% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 0.92% 0.94% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 30 111
10th Percentile £225 £248 £359
25th Percentile £319 £321 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £688
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £775 £875
90th Percentile £725 £816 £888
England median daily rate £450 £425 £675
% change year-on-year +5.88% -37.04% +8.00%

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 8,360 6,246 7,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.87% 45.99% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,457 4,066 4,895
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £764
England median daily rate £510 £510 £520
% change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 119 97
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.62
25th Percentile £22.48 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.32 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.88% -4.29% -14.06%
75th Percentile £57.86 £48.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £72.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £25.15 £27.25
% change year-on-year +43.14% -7.71% -27.33%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -26 10 £270 -56.80% 23
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 (5.19%) Apache Spark
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.90%) Confluence
3 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.30%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Aladdin
2 5 (6.49%) Loan IQ
3 4 (5.19%) Fidessa
4 3 (3.90%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (2.60%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (2.60%) Findur
5 2 (2.60%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (2.60%) Summit
6 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (1.30%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 23 (29.87%) Azure
2 19 (24.68%) AWS
3 18 (23.38%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.79%) Google Workspace
5 6 (7.79%) Snowflake
6 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.19%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.90%) SaaS
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.60%) GitHub
9 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.60%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.30%) Collibra
10 1 (1.30%) Dagster
10 1 (1.30%) dbt
10 1 (1.30%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.88%) VPN
2 11 (14.29%) Firewall
3 10 (12.99%) TCP/IP
4 5 (6.49%) DMZ
4 5 (6.49%) DNS
5 4 (5.19%) DHCP
6 3 (3.90%) Internet
7 2 (2.60%) Multicast
8 1 (1.30%) BGP
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (1.30%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (1.30%) IP Telephony
8 1 (1.30%) OSPF
8 1 (1.30%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.49%) Power BI
3 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.90%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.60%) KDB
5 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.30%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.30%) Metadata
6 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.30%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) JIRA
2 2 (2.60%) Git
2 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.60%) Toad
3 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.30%) Postman
General
1 51 (66.23%) Finance
2 32 (41.56%) Front Office
3 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
4 20 (25.97%) Banking
5 14 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (9.09%) Investment Banking
7 5 (6.49%) Legal
8 3 (3.90%) Back Office
8 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.30%) German Language
10 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (41.56%) Analyst
2 13 (16.88%) Business Analyst
3 9 (11.69%) Data Engineer
3 9 (11.69%) IT Analyst
4 8 (10.39%) Help Desk Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Support Analyst
6 5 (6.49%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) Migration Specialist
7 4 (5.19%) Python Data Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior
7 4 (5.19%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Cassandra Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Compliance Business Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Data Governance Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Data Migration Lead
8 3 (3.90%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Lead
8 3 (3.90%) Pricing Specialist
8 3 (3.90%) Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.79%) Middleware
2 5 (6.49%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (6.49%) Kafka
3 3 (3.90%) JSON
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.60%) JMS
4 2 (2.60%) REST
4 2 (2.60%) XML
5 1 (1.30%) .NET
5 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.30%) NumPy
5 1 (1.30%) Pandas
5 1 (1.30%) PySpark
5 1 (1.30%) React
5 1 (1.30%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (18.18%) Derivative
3 11 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 8 (10.39%) Fixed Income
5 7 (9.09%) Cloud Native
5 7 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (7.79%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (5.19%) OTC Derivatives
8 3 (3.90%) Client/Server
8 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.90%) Equities
8 3 (3.90%) Hedge funds
8 3 (3.90%) Reference Data
8 3 (3.90%) Replication
9 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
9 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.60%) DTCC
9 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (31.17%) Windows
2 7 (9.09%) Windows 10
3 5 (6.49%) Linux
4 3 (3.90%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.17%) Agile
2 23 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 14 (18.18%) DevOps
5 13 (16.88%) Analytics
5 13 (16.88%) Data Management
5 13 (16.88%) Migration
5 13 (16.88%) User Acceptance Testing
6 12 (15.58%) Data Analysis
7 11 (14.29%) ITIL
8 10 (12.99%) Data Governance
8 10 (12.99%) ETL
9 9 (11.69%) Investment Management
9 9 (11.69%) System Integration Testing
10 8 (10.39%) Asset Management
10 8 (10.39%) Decision-Making
10 8 (10.39%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (10.39%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (10.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (48.05%) SQL
2 23 (29.87%) Python
3 20 (25.97%) PowerShell
4 12 (15.58%) Java
5 2 (2.60%) C++
5 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.60%) VBA
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) C#
6 1 (1.30%) Korn
6 1 (1.30%) Scala
6 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) Degree
2 4 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (3.90%) MCSA
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.60%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PMP
5 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.49%) QA
3 3 (3.90%) EMIR
3 3 (3.90%) MiFID
3 3 (3.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.60%) GDPR
4 2 (2.60%) SLA
5 1 (1.30%) AIFMD
5 1 (1.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (11.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.60%) Docker
4 2 (2.60%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (15.58%) SCCM
2 5 (6.49%) WSUS
3 3 (3.90%) Grafana
3 3 (3.90%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (2.60%) Ansible
4 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.60%) WMI
5 1 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.30%) Kibana
5 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 18 (23.38%) Refinitiv
3 17 (22.08%) Murex
3 17 (22.08%) Reuters
4 15 (19.48%) Citrix
5 9 (11.69%) Charles River
5 9 (11.69%) ION Trading
6 6 (7.79%) ServiceNow
6 6 (7.79%) VMware
7 5 (6.49%) Cisco
7 5 (6.49%) Databricks
8 3 (3.90%) FactSet
8 3 (3.90%) SimCorp
8 3 (3.90%) Splunk
9 2 (2.60%) AppDynamics
9 2 (2.60%) Eze Software Group
9 2 (2.60%) Google
9 2 (2.60%) MarketAxess
9 2 (2.60%) OpenLink
9 2 (2.60%) Tradeweb