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 16 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 469 510
Rank change year-on-year +5 +41 +100
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 70 123 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.45% 0.67% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 115 124
10th Percentile £250 £300 £268
25th Percentile £361 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £734 £850 £750
90th Percentile £793 £888 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £414 £200 £160
% change year-on-year +107.00% +25.00% -3.03%

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 15,497 18,381 24,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.62% 43.12% 43.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,443 11,473 16,344
10th Percentile £281 £273 £263
25th Percentile £402 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £714 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 775 1,118 667
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.52 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -36.87% +77.98%
75th Percentile £51.22 £60.71 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £24.18 £27.50
% change year-on-year -6.95% -12.07% +38.82%

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 16 July 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 9 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 16 July 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 -26 63 £500 -25.93% 141
London -23 54 £625 -7.41% 136
Work from Home +9 19 £625 -21.88% 33
UK excluding London +40 12 £414 +107.00% 38
North of England +13 8 £414 +107.00% 1
North West +15 7 £414 +107.00%
Scotland - 3 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -

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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 4 (5.71%) Confluence
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Kondor
2 5 (7.14%) Aladdin
3 4 (5.71%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (4.29%) ION MarketView
5 2 (2.86%) Eikon
5 2 (2.86%) Fidessa
6 1 (1.43%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (1.43%) Eze OMS
6 1 (1.43%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.57%) Azure
2 9 (12.86%) AWS
3 8 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.71%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.29%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.29%) GitHub
6 3 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.43%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.14%) Firewall
2 4 (5.71%) DNS
2 4 (5.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.86%) DHCP
3 2 (2.86%) VPN
4 1 (1.43%) BGP
4 1 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.43%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.43%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.43%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.43%) Multicast
4 1 (1.43%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.43%) Network Security
4 1 (1.43%) OSPF
4 1 (1.43%) SSL
4 1 (1.43%) WebEx
4 1 (1.43%) Wireless
4 1 (1.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Power BI
2 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.71%) Tableau
4 2 (2.86%) Power Query
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.43%) Big Data
5 1 (1.43%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Git
1 6 (8.57%) JIRA
2 4 (5.71%) Cypress.io
2 4 (5.71%) HP UFT
2 4 (5.71%) Selenium
2 4 (5.71%) TestComplete
3 3 (4.29%) Maven
4 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.43%) Crucible
5 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.43%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 37 (52.86%) Finance
2 26 (37.14%) Social Skills
3 18 (25.71%) Front Office
4 16 (22.86%) Banking
5 9 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (11.43%) Investment Banking
7 6 (8.57%) Back Office
8 5 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (5.71%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.43%) International Banking
11 1 (1.43%) Law
11 1 (1.43%) Legal
11 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (27.14%) Analyst
2 16 (22.86%) Developer
2 16 (22.86%) Support Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) Applications Support
4 8 (11.43%) Applications Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) Applications Support Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) Support Analyst
5 6 (8.57%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Systems Support
5 6 (8.57%) Systems Support Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Desktop Support
6 5 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Automation Test Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Automation Tester
7 4 (5.71%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Python Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Test Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) .NET
2 6 (8.57%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (5.71%) .NET Framework
3 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET
3 4 (5.71%) Playwright
3 4 (5.71%) XML
4 3 (4.29%) CSS
4 3 (4.29%) Flask
4 3 (4.29%) HTML
4 3 (4.29%) Pandas
5 2 (2.86%) Murex MxML
5 2 (2.86%) MyBatis
5 2 (2.86%) Rendezvous
6 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.43%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.43%) Kafka
6 1 (1.43%) NumPy
6 1 (1.43%) REST
6 1 (1.43%) SciPy
6 1 (1.43%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 12 (17.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (14.29%) Equities
4 8 (11.43%) Derivative
4 8 (11.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (7.14%) Hedge funds
6 4 (5.71%) Clustering
6 4 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
7 3 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (4.29%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 3 (4.29%) Reference Data
7 3 (4.29%) Smartphone
8 2 (2.86%) BYOD
8 2 (2.86%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (2.86%) Market Risk
9 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (34.29%) Windows
2 10 (14.29%) Unix
3 6 (8.57%) Linux
4 4 (5.71%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.29%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.00%) Agile
1 14 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (14.29%) Migration
3 9 (12.86%) Asset Management
3 9 (12.86%) Data Modelling
3 9 (12.86%) Service Delivery
4 8 (11.43%) Cash Management
4 8 (11.43%) Electronic Trading
4 8 (11.43%) Incident Management
4 8 (11.43%) Low Latency
4 8 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (10.00%) Analytics
5 7 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (10.00%) ITIL
5 7 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 7 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (8.57%) DevOps
6 6 (8.57%) Project Management
6 6 (8.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (35.71%) SQL
2 17 (24.29%) Python
3 10 (14.29%) C#
3 10 (14.29%) Java
4 7 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.43%) Groovy
6 1 (1.43%) Perl
6 1 (1.43%) R
6 1 (1.43%) Ruby
6 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (10.00%) Degree
2 4 (5.71%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.43%) CFA
4 1 (1.43%) MCP
4 1 (1.43%) MCSA
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.14%) SLA
3 3 (4.29%) MiFID
4 2 (2.86%) EMIR
5 1 (1.43%) QA
5 1 (1.43%) UCITS
System Software
1 6 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.29%) Docker
3 1 (1.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (14.29%) SCCM
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (7.14%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.86%) Ansible
5 2 (2.86%) BladeLogic
6 1 (1.43%) Control-M
Vendors
1 23 (32.86%) Reuters
2 21 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (25.71%) Refinitiv
4 10 (14.29%) Sybase
5 8 (11.43%) Tradeweb
6 6 (8.57%) FactSet
6 6 (8.57%) ServiceNow
7 5 (7.14%) ION Trading
8 4 (5.71%) Cisco
8 4 (5.71%) Citrix
8 4 (5.71%) Murex
9 3 (4.29%) Cloudera
9 3 (4.29%) Oracle
9 3 (4.29%) Solace
10 2 (2.86%) Databricks
10 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
10 2 (2.86%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.86%) TIBCO
11 1 (1.43%) Apple
11 1 (1.43%) CQG