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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 303 272
Rank change year-on-year -74 -31 +23
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 78 59 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.44% 0.72%
As % of the Vendors category 0.90% 0.95% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 34 107
10th Percentile £225 £225 £500
25th Percentile £359 £321 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £688
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -23.64% +5.77%
75th Percentile £731 £775 £875
90th Percentile £850 £839 £888
England median daily rate £539 £463 £688
% change year-on-year +16.54% -32.73% +5.77%

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 8,715 6,204 7,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.84% 46.19% 43.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 4,017 4,543
10th Percentile £338 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.65% -4.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 120 78
10th Percentile £16.93 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.30 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +42.59% -14.60% -17.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £83.50 £63.88 £79.13
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £33.25
% change year-on-year +19.28% -24.36% -22.22%

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 September 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 September 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 -25 13 £292 -53.36% 33
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 6 (7.69%) MTS
2 4 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.85%) Confluence
4 1 (1.28%) Apache
4 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Aladdin
2 4 (5.13%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (2.56%) Eikon
3 2 (2.56%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (2.56%) Summit
4 1 (1.28%) Actimize
4 1 (1.28%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (1.28%) Findur
4 1 (1.28%) Monis
4 1 (1.28%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.64%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (21.79%) Azure
3 13 (16.67%) AWS
4 7 (8.97%) Snowflake
5 6 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.69%) Google Workspace
6 4 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.13%) SaaS
7 3 (3.85%) dbt
8 2 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.56%) GCP
8 2 (2.56%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.28%) Azure Databricks
9 1 (1.28%) Collibra
9 1 (1.28%) Dagster
9 1 (1.28%) GitHub
9 1 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.28%) OCI
9 1 (1.28%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.51%) VPN
2 13 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 11 (14.10%) Firewall
4 7 (8.97%) DNS
5 6 (7.69%) DHCP
6 5 (6.41%) DMZ
6 5 (6.41%) Internet
7 4 (5.13%) Multicast
8 2 (2.56%) BGP
9 1 (1.28%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (1.28%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (1.28%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (1.28%) Network Security
9 1 (1.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.13%) Power BI
3 3 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.85%) KDB
4 2 (2.56%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.28%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.28%) Metadata
5 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.28%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.28%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (17.95%) JIRA
2 4 (5.13%) Git
3 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
General
1 56 (71.79%) Finance
2 44 (56.41%) Front Office
3 29 (37.18%) Banking
4 27 (34.62%) Social Skills
5 16 (20.51%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (6.41%) Legal
8 3 (3.85%) Back Office
8 3 (3.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.28%) German Language
9 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (41.03%) Analyst
2 13 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 11 (14.10%) Support Engineer
4 10 (12.82%) IT Analyst
5 9 (11.54%) Data Engineer
6 8 (10.26%) Help Desk Analyst
7 6 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Support Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Applications Support
8 5 (6.41%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Compliance Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Compliance Business Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Data Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Lead
9 4 (5.13%) IT Support
9 4 (5.13%) Python Data Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.85%) IT Governance Manager
10 3 (3.85%) Market Data Manager
10 3 (3.85%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (5.13%) Middleware
2 4 (5.13%) React
3 3 (3.85%) Kafka
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.56%) JSON
4 2 (2.56%) Next.js
4 2 (2.56%) Redux
4 2 (2.56%) WebSockets
4 2 (2.56%) XML
5 1 (1.28%) .NET
5 1 (1.28%) Django
5 1 (1.28%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.28%) Flask
5 1 (1.28%) FpML
5 1 (1.28%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (20.51%) Derivative
3 12 (15.38%) Fixed Income
3 12 (15.38%) Onboarding
4 6 (7.69%) Reference Data
5 5 (6.41%) Cloud Native
5 5 (6.41%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (5.13%) Equities
6 4 (5.13%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (3.85%) Client/Server
7 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.85%) Hedge funds
7 3 (3.85%) Replication
8 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.56%) DTCC
8 2 (2.56%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (2.56%) Eurex
9 1 (1.28%) BYOD
9 1 (1.28%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.64%) Windows
2 6 (7.69%) Linux
2 6 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 21 (26.92%) Agile
3 18 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (21.79%) Migration
5 16 (20.51%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (17.95%) Investment Management
7 13 (16.67%) Business Analysis
7 13 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 13 (16.67%) Project Delivery
8 12 (15.38%) Analytics
8 12 (15.38%) Asset Management
8 12 (15.38%) Data Analysis
9 11 (14.10%) Data Governance
9 11 (14.10%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (14.10%) System Integration Testing
10 10 (12.82%) Data Management
10 10 (12.82%) ETL
11 9 (11.54%) Change Management
11 9 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (11.54%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.00%) SQL
2 24 (30.77%) Python
3 15 (19.23%) PowerShell
4 10 (12.82%) Java
5 5 (6.41%) C#
5 5 (6.41%) Tcl
6 3 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.85%) VBA
7 1 (1.28%) C++
7 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.28%) Korn
7 1 (1.28%) R
7 1 (1.28%) Scala
7 1 (1.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 3 (3.85%) MCSA
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.56%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.28%) CFA
4 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.28%) PMP
4 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.13%) QA
3 3 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.56%) EMIR
4 2 (2.56%) MiFID
5 1 (1.28%) AIFMD
5 1 (1.28%) GDPR
5 1 (1.28%) SLA
5 1 (1.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.28%) Docker
3 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (16.67%) SCCM
2 5 (6.41%) WSUS
3 2 (2.56%) Ansible
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.56%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (1.28%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.51%) Refinitiv
3 14 (17.95%) Murex
4 13 (16.67%) Citrix
4 13 (16.67%) ION Trading
5 12 (15.38%) Reuters
6 9 (11.54%) Tradeweb
7 7 (8.97%) MarketAxess
8 6 (7.69%) Databricks
9 5 (6.41%) Charles River
9 5 (6.41%) Sybase
10 4 (5.13%) Cisco
10 4 (5.13%) FactSet
10 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.56%) FXall
11 2 (2.56%) Google
11 2 (2.56%) NYFIX
11 2 (2.56%) SimCorp
12 1 (1.28%) StatPro
12 1 (1.28%) Temenos