Bloomberg Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Bloomberg
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 16 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 165 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.076% 0.073% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £323 - -
25th Percentile £337 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £200 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.25% - -
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £477 - -
England median daily rate £463 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -32.73% +5.77% -5.45%

All Vendors
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,886 1,663 2,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 47.77% 40.60% 45.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 938 1,451
10th Percentile £273 £300 £220
25th Percentile £375 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £589 £593
90th Percentile £649 £675 £673
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 82 107
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.06 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.10 £16.21 £17.48
Median hourly rate £22.63 £33.75 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% +5.47% +60.00%
75th Percentile £58.58 £44.69 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £55.21 £49.52
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Bloomberg as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in the North of England

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Bloomberg.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Bloomberg

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in the North of England

Bloomberg
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Bloomberg.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Bloomberg

Bloomberg
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bloomberg within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. 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
North West -12 2 £343 +71.38% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
Bloomberg
England

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (66.67%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Support
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cash Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Refinitiv
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase