Bloomberg Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Bloomberg
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 289 304 433
Rank change year-on-year +15 +129 +157
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 15 41 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.33% 0.63% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 36 38
10th Percentile £393 £325 £451
25th Percentile £425 £647 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile - £763 £722
90th Percentile £732 £850 £816
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -7.41%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Bloomberg
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Bloomberg as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Bloomberg trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Bloomberg.

Bloomberg daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Bloomberg daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Aladdin
1 1 (6.67%) Fidessa
1 1 (6.67%) Kondor
1 1 (6.67%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (6.67%) Data Mart
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Cypress.io
1 4 (26.67%) HP UFT
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
1 4 (26.67%) Selenium
1 4 (26.67%) TestComplete
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Back Office
2 4 (26.67%) Front Office
2 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Automation Test Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Automation Tester
2 4 (26.67%) Business Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Java Automation Tester
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Test Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Tester
3 3 (20.00%) Applications Support
3 3 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Murex Support
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) Playwright
3 3 (20.00%) Murex MxML
4 2 (13.33%) XML
5 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
5 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
5 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Derivative
2 3 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 3 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (20.00%) Pricing Data
3 2 (13.33%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (13.33%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 2 (13.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (6.67%) Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Equities
4 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) Reference Data
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Analytics
1 4 (26.67%) Integration Testing
1 4 (26.67%) OO
1 4 (26.67%) OOP
1 4 (26.67%) Open Source
1 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
1 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
1 4 (26.67%) System Testing
1 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
1 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
2 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Functional Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Workflow
4 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (6.67%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) C#
1 5 (33.33%) Java
1 5 (33.33%) Python
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Ruby
3 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) EMIR
1 2 (13.33%) MiFID
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Reuters
2 3 (20.00%) Murex
2 3 (20.00%) Sybase
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (13.33%) Refinitiv
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) CQG
4 1 (6.67%) FactSet
4 1 (6.67%) FIS
4 1 (6.67%) ION Trading
4 1 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) Tradeweb