Bloomberg Contracts 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 20 June 2024, 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
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 325 402
Rank change year-on-year +48 +77 +8
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 123 159 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.63% 0.53%
As % of the Vendors category 1.69% 1.57% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 119 173
10th Percentile £338 £298 £286
25th Percentile £488 £467 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% +22.73%
75th Percentile £765 £739 £788
90th Percentile £875 £863 £838
England median daily rate £650 £625 £675
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +22.73%

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 7,278 10,100 14,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.17% 40.16% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,990 7,164 10,487
10th Percentile £312 £325 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £519 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 127 162
10th Percentile £13.91 £16.09 £16.03
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.12 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £28.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% -20.83% +33.33%
75th Percentile £38.75 £53.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £69.25 £62.50
England median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Bloomberg as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in London

Bloomberg
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bloomberg in London.

Daily rate trend for Bloomberg in London

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg in London over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in London

Bloomberg
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bloomberg in London.

Hourly rate trend for Bloomberg in London

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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 20 June 2024. 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 +46 20 £533 -4.44% 1
East London -6 2 £765 +168.42%
Bloomberg
England

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.32%) Apache
1 9 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.50%) Confluence
3 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.81%) SAS
4 1 (0.81%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 25 (20.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (8.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (8.13%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (14.63%) Aladdin
2 9 (7.32%) ION MarketView
3 4 (3.25%) Eikon
3 4 (3.25%) Endur
4 3 (2.44%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (2.44%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (2.44%) ION Anvil
5 2 (1.63%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.63%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 36 (29.27%) AWS
2 18 (14.63%) GCP
3 13 (10.57%) Azure
4 11 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (7.32%) dbt
6 8 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (6.50%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (6.50%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.25%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.25%) Serverless
8 2 (1.63%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.76%) Firewall
2 10 (8.13%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (3.25%) VPN
4 1 (0.81%) DHCP
4 1 (0.81%) DNS
4 1 (0.81%) FTP
4 1 (0.81%) Skype
4 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.81%) WebEx
4 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.32%) Amazon Athena
1 9 (7.32%) Apache Arrow
1 9 (7.32%) Apache Ignite
1 9 (7.32%) Dremio
2 8 (6.50%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.25%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.63%) KDB
5 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (8.94%) JIRA
1 11 (8.94%) TeamCity
2 3 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.81%) Git
General
1 74 (60.16%) Finance
2 60 (48.78%) Front Office
3 51 (41.46%) Banking
4 35 (28.46%) Investment Banking
5 19 (15.45%) Social Skills
6 14 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.07%) Publishing
8 3 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.81%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 50 (40.65%) Analyst
2 37 (30.08%) Business Analyst
3 21 (17.07%) Developer
4 17 (13.82%) Data Business Analyst
5 16 (13.01%) Support Engineer
6 15 (12.20%) Finance Business Analyst
6 15 (12.20%) Financial Analyst
7 13 (10.57%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 12 (9.76%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 12 (9.76%) Python Developer
9 10 (8.13%) Data Analyst
9 10 (8.13%) Finance Manager
9 10 (8.13%) Quantitative Developer
10 9 (7.32%) Desktop Support
10 9 (7.32%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
10 9 (7.32%) Lead
10 9 (7.32%) Market Analyst
10 9 (7.32%) Market Data Analyst
11 8 (6.50%) Front Office Business Analyst
11 8 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.38%) FIX Protocol
2 10 (8.13%) XML
3 9 (7.32%) NumPy
3 9 (7.32%) Pandas
4 8 (6.50%) gRPC
4 8 (6.50%) Protocol Buffers
4 8 (6.50%) SciPy
5 6 (4.88%) Kafka
5 6 (4.88%) PySpark
6 4 (3.25%) .NET
7 3 (2.44%) Middleware
7 3 (2.44%) Spring
8 2 (1.63%) React
8 2 (1.63%) Rendezvous
9 1 (0.81%) CSS
9 1 (0.81%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.81%) HTML
9 1 (0.81%) REST
9 1 (0.81%) XSD
9 1 (0.81%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 49 (39.84%) Derivative
1 49 (39.84%) Fixed Income
2 41 (33.33%) Hedge funds
3 36 (29.27%) Equities
4 28 (22.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 19 (15.45%) Product Ownership
6 8 (6.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (3.25%) Blackberry
7 4 (3.25%) Market Risk
8 3 (2.44%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.63%) iPad
9 2 (1.63%) iPhone
10 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.81%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.26%) Windows
2 14 (11.38%) Unix
3 7 (5.69%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.44%) Linux
5 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.81%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (37.40%) Asset Management
2 41 (33.33%) Agile
3 39 (31.71%) Investment Management
4 21 (17.07%) Roadmaps
5 20 (16.26%) Software Engineering
6 19 (15.45%) Portfolio Management
7 14 (11.38%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (11.38%) Electronic Trading
7 14 (11.38%) Risk Management
8 13 (10.57%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (10.57%) Fintech
8 13 (10.57%) Machine Learning
8 13 (10.57%) Migration
9 11 (8.94%) Business Analysis
10 10 (8.13%) Quantitative Research
10 10 (8.13%) SDLC
11 9 (7.32%) Data Modelling
11 9 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (7.32%) Line Management
11 9 (7.32%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (36.59%) SQL
2 44 (35.77%) Python
3 15 (12.20%) Java
4 11 (8.94%) VBA
5 10 (8.13%) R
6 8 (6.50%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.50%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.63%) Scala
9 1 (0.81%) Clojure
9 1 (0.81%) Groovy
9 1 (0.81%) Perl
9 1 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (17.07%) Degree
2 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.44%) CFA
4 2 (1.63%) CCNA
4 2 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.63%) MCP
4 2 (1.63%) MCSA
4 2 (1.63%) MCSE
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.45%) QA
2 10 (8.13%) EMIR
3 9 (7.32%) MiFID
4 6 (4.88%) Data Quality
5 5 (4.07%) Dodd-Frank
5 5 (4.07%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.81%) Cronacle
2 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.81%) Control-M
1 1 (0.81%) SCCM
1 1 (0.81%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 27 (21.95%) Refinitiv
2 24 (19.51%) Reuters
3 16 (13.01%) ION Trading
4 12 (9.76%) BISAM
5 11 (8.94%) Citrix
5 11 (8.94%) Tradeweb
6 10 (8.13%) MarketAxess
6 10 (8.13%) Microsoft
7 5 (4.07%) Charles River
7 5 (4.07%) Trayport
8 4 (3.25%) OpenLink
8 4 (3.25%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.44%) GoldenSource
9 3 (2.44%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.63%) Avaloq
10 2 (1.63%) BT
10 2 (1.63%) Cisco
10 2 (1.63%) Radianz
10 2 (1.63%) Solace
10 2 (1.63%) TIBCO