Bloomberg Contract Job Trends in the North West

Bloomberg
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 133 117 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.091% 0.13% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 £200 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.38% - -
75th Percentile £366 - -
90th Percentile £377 - -
England median daily rate £463 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -32.73% +5.77% -5.45%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,113 925 1,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.78% 39.03% 44.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 723 507 797
10th Percentile £305 £276 £225
25th Percentile £384 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £593
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 44 93
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £21.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +1.03% +52.17%
75th Percentile £47.12 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £55.79 £53.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.25 £42.75
% change year-on-year -24.36% -22.22% +78.80%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in the North West

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Bloomberg
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Bloomberg
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Manchester - 2 £343 - 1
Bloomberg
England

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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