Bloomberg Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Bloomberg
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 2025, 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 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.20% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 - -
75th Percentile £366 - -
90th Percentile £377 - -
North West median daily rate £343 £200 -
% change year-on-year +71.38% - -

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 491 461 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 48.28% 39.13% 38.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 273 455
10th Percentile £311 £363 £225
25th Percentile £400 £416 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £727 £675 £686
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 16 23
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.81 £15.73
25th Percentile £19.07 £19.21 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.32 £30.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +69.30% -11.97%
75th Percentile £31.40 £44.06 £43.13
90th Percentile £55.49 £74.38 £53.38
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% +1.03% +52.17%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in Manchester

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bloomberg.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bloomberg

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Kondor
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Support
2 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cash Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Refinitiv
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase