Bloomberg Contracts

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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 445 572
Rank change year-on-year -16 +127 +93
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 59 137 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.31% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.42% 0.74% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 127 119
10th Percentile £253 £313 £324
25th Percentile £361 £361 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £725 £763 £731
90th Percentile £768 £800 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £414 £288 £160
% change year-on-year +44.00% +79.69% -5.88%

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 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in the UK

Bloomberg
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Bloomberg in the UK

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in the UK

Bloomberg
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Bloomberg in the UK

Bloomberg
Top 10 Contract 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 1 May 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
England -20 56 £550 - 122
London -41 47 £650 +18.18% 114
Work from Home +15 15 £650 -10.34% 24
UK excluding London +68 11 £414 +44.00% 25
North of England +24 7 £414 +107.00% 2
North West +22 7 £414 +107.00% 2
Midlands +22 2 - - 3
West Midlands +15 2 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (8.47%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (3.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Kondor
2 4 (6.78%) Fidessa
3 2 (3.39%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.69%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (1.69%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) AWS
1 11 (18.64%) Azure
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.08%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) DNS
2 4 (6.78%) Wireshark
3 3 (5.08%) FIX Connectivity
3 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.39%) DHCP
5 1 (1.69%) BGP
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.69%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.69%) Network Security
5 1 (1.69%) OSPF
5 1 (1.69%) SSL
5 1 (1.69%) VPN
5 1 (1.69%) WebEx
5 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.78%) Power BI
3 2 (3.39%) Data Mart
3 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.69%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) JIRA
2 4 (6.78%) Cypress.io
2 4 (6.78%) HP UFT
2 4 (6.78%) Selenium
2 4 (6.78%) TestComplete
3 3 (5.08%) Git
4 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.69%) Crucible
5 1 (1.69%) Maven
5 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (50.85%) Finance
2 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.34%) Banking
3 12 (20.34%) Front Office
4 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.86%) Back Office
6 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.78%) Law
7 3 (5.08%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.39%) General Ledger
8 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.39%) Legal
9 1 (1.69%) International Banking
9 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Analyst
2 14 (23.73%) Applications Support
3 13 (22.03%) Support Engineer
4 10 (16.95%) Support Analyst
5 8 (13.56%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Business Analyst
6 7 (11.86%) Developer
6 7 (11.86%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Senior
7 6 (10.17%) Systems Support
7 6 (10.17%) Systems Support Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Applications Support Analyst
9 4 (6.78%) Automation Test Analyst
9 4 (6.78%) Automation Tester
9 4 (6.78%) Data Analyst
9 4 (6.78%) Java Automation Tester
9 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
9 4 (6.78%) Test Analyst
9 4 (6.78%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) .NET
2 5 (8.47%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (6.78%) Playwright
3 4 (6.78%) XML
4 3 (5.08%) Murex MxML
4 3 (5.08%) NumPy
4 3 (5.08%) Pandas
4 3 (5.08%) PySpark
5 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.69%) JSON
5 1 (1.69%) Kafka
5 1 (1.69%) REST
5 1 (1.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 9 (15.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (11.86%) Equities
2 7 (11.86%) Fixed Income
3 6 (10.17%) Derivative
4 3 (5.08%) Eurex
4 3 (5.08%) Hedge funds
4 3 (5.08%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 3 (5.08%) Pricing Data
4 3 (5.08%) Smartphone
5 2 (3.39%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) Bitcoin
6 1 (1.69%) Clustering
6 1 (1.69%) Hackathon
6 1 (1.69%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.69%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.51%) Windows
2 11 (18.64%) Unix
3 5 (8.47%) Linux
4 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.08%) CentOS
5 3 (5.08%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.39%) Rocky
7 1 (1.69%) Debian
7 1 (1.69%) Fedora
7 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.69%) Solaris
7 1 (1.69%) SUSE
7 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.69%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (15.25%) ITIL
2 9 (15.25%) Migration
2 9 (15.25%) Service Delivery
3 8 (13.56%) Agile
3 8 (13.56%) Cash Management
3 8 (13.56%) Incident Management
3 8 (13.56%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (8.47%) Analytics
4 5 (8.47%) Data Analysis
4 5 (8.47%) Electronic Trading
4 5 (8.47%) Investment Management
4 5 (8.47%) Project Management
4 5 (8.47%) Risk Management
4 5 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (8.47%) System Testing
4 5 (8.47%) Test Automation
4 5 (8.47%) Workflow
5 4 (6.78%) OO
5 4 (6.78%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) SQL
2 15 (25.42%) Python
3 7 (11.86%) Java
4 6 (10.17%) C#
5 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.78%) Perl
6 3 (5.08%) Bash
6 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.39%) VBA
8 1 (1.69%) Groovy
8 1 (1.69%) Ruby
8 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.47%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) CFA
4 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.69%) MCP
4 1 (1.69%) MCSA
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) SLA
2 4 (6.78%) MiFID
3 3 (5.08%) EMIR
4 1 (1.69%) QA
4 1 (1.69%) UCITS
System Software
1 6 (10.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) XenApp
2 1 (1.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (16.95%) SCCM
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (5.08%) Rundeck
3 3 (5.08%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.69%) Control-M
Vendors
1 23 (38.98%) Reuters
2 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 16 (27.12%) Refinitiv
3 10 (16.95%) Sybase
4 6 (10.17%) Citrix
5 5 (8.47%) ION Trading
5 5 (8.47%) Murex
5 5 (8.47%) Red Hat
5 5 (8.47%) ServiceNow
5 5 (8.47%) Tradeweb
5 5 (8.47%) Trayport
6 4 (6.78%) CQG
6 4 (6.78%) Oracle
7 3 (5.08%) Patsystems
8 2 (3.39%) Cisco
8 2 (3.39%) FactSet
9 1 (1.69%) Advent
9 1 (1.69%) F5
9 1 (1.69%) LexisNexis
9 1 (1.69%) Meraki