Bloomberg Contract Job Trends

Bloomberg
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 July 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
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 484 465
Rank change year-on-year -98 -19 +35
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 80 69 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.37% 0.45% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 37 117
10th Percentile £225 £250 £300
25th Percentile £356 £361 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -14.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £730 £850
90th Percentile £745 £790 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate - £414 £200
% change year-on-year - +107.00% +25.00%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 21,810 15,429 18,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.24% 47.54% 43.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,572 9,456 11,571
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 733 1,125
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £34.30 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% +0.60% -38.34%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.18
% change year-on-year +43.61% -6.41% -20.72%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bloomberg relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Bloomberg job vacancy trend in the UK

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bloomberg

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in the UK

Bloomberg
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bloomberg

Bloomberg
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bloomberg within the UK over the 6 months to 11 July 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
England -87 79 £450 -10.00% 25
London -29 77 £450 -28.00% 23
Work from Home -54 17 £450 -28.00% 6
North West -56 2 - -
North of England -79 2 - -
UK excluding London -111 2 - - 3

Bloomberg
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 4 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.50%) IIS
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.25%) MTS
Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Fidessa
2 5 (6.25%) Aladdin
2 5 (6.25%) Loan IQ
3 4 (5.00%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (5.00%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (2.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (2.50%) Findur
4 2 (2.50%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (2.50%) Summit
5 1 (1.25%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.75%) Azure
2 20 (25.00%) AWS
3 18 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.75%) Google Workspace
6 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.00%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.75%) SaaS
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.50%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.25%) Collibra
9 1 (1.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.25%) VPN
2 12 (15.00%) Firewall
2 12 (15.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.50%) DMZ
3 6 (7.50%) DNS
4 5 (6.25%) DHCP
5 3 (3.75%) Internet
6 2 (2.50%) LAN
6 2 (2.50%) WAN
6 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.25%) BGP
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.25%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (1.25%) IP Telephony
7 1 (1.25%) Multicast
7 1 (1.25%) OSPF
7 1 (1.25%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.50%) Power BI
4 2 (2.50%) Tableau
5 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.25%) KDB
5 1 (1.25%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.25%) Metadata
5 1 (1.25%) Power Query
5 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.25%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Toad
3 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.25%) Git
4 1 (1.25%) Postman
General
1 54 (67.50%) Finance
2 32 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 31 (38.75%) Front Office
4 25 (31.25%) Banking
5 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (12.50%) Investment Banking
7 8 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (6.25%) Legal
9 3 (3.75%) Back Office
9 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.25%) German Language
10 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (42.50%) Analyst
2 18 (22.50%) Business Analyst
3 9 (11.25%) Data Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) IT Analyst
4 8 (10.00%) Help Desk Analyst
5 7 (8.75%) Support Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Senior
7 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) IT Support
8 4 (5.00%) Migration Specialist
8 4 (5.00%) Python Data Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Cassandra Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Compliance Business Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Data Migration Lead
9 3 (3.75%) Market Data Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Market Data Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) Middleware
2 5 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (6.25%) Kafka
3 3 (3.75%) JMS
3 3 (3.75%) JSON
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (3.75%) REST
4 2 (2.50%) NumPy
4 2 (2.50%) Pandas
4 2 (2.50%) Software Packaging
4 2 (2.50%) XML
5 1 (1.25%) .NET
5 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.25%) PySpark
5 1 (1.25%) React
5 1 (1.25%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.00%) Derivative
2 14 (17.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (15.00%) Onboarding
4 7 (8.75%) Cloud Native
4 7 (8.75%) Fixed Income
4 7 (8.75%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (7.50%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (6.25%) Equities
6 5 (6.25%) OTC Derivatives
7 4 (5.00%) Client/Server
8 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (3.75%) iPhone
8 3 (3.75%) Replication
9 2 (2.50%) Credit Risk
9 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.50%) DTCC
9 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
9 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.50%) Windows
2 8 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 5 (6.25%) Linux
3 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.75%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.25%) Agile
2 23 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 14 (17.50%) ITIL
4 14 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (16.25%) Data Modelling
5 13 (16.25%) DevOps
6 11 (13.75%) Analytics
6 11 (13.75%) Data Analysis
6 11 (13.75%) Data Management
6 11 (13.75%) Migration
6 11 (13.75%) System Integration Testing
7 9 (11.25%) Validation
8 8 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (10.00%) ETL
8 8 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 8 (10.00%) Service Delivery
9 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
9 7 (8.75%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 40 (50.00%) SQL
2 21 (26.25%) Python
3 20 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 13 (16.25%) Java
5 2 (2.50%) C++
5 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.50%) VBA
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) Korn
6 1 (1.25%) Scala
6 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (16.25%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (3.75%) MCSA
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.50%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.00%) MiFID
2 4 (5.00%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) SLA
3 3 (3.75%) EMIR
3 3 (3.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.50%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) AIFMD
5 1 (1.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.50%) Docker
4 2 (2.50%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (17.50%) SCCM
2 6 (7.50%) WSUS
3 4 (5.00%) Grafana
4 2 (2.50%) AirWatch
4 2 (2.50%) Ansible
4 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.50%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (2.50%) WMI
5 1 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.25%) Kibana
5 1 (1.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 19 (23.75%) Murex
2 19 (23.75%) Reuters
3 16 (20.00%) Citrix
3 16 (20.00%) Refinitiv
4 11 (13.75%) ION Trading
5 8 (10.00%) Charles River
6 6 (7.50%) VMware
7 5 (6.25%) Cisco
7 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.00%) FactSet
8 4 (5.00%) SimCorp
8 4 (5.00%) Splunk
9 3 (3.75%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.75%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (3.75%) Eze Software Group
10 2 (2.50%) Google
10 2 (2.50%) MarketAxess
10 2 (2.50%) OpenLink
10 2 (2.50%) Tradeweb