Bloomberg Job Trends

Bloomberg
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Bloomberg products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Bloomberg over the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Bloomberg.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 272 621
Rank change year-on-year -334 +349 -331
Permanent jobs citing Bloomberg 70 514 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 1.12% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 2.86% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19 39 172
10th Percentile £53,000 - £35,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £83,473
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -16.14% +51.77%
75th Percentile £80,625 £90,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £149,000 £100,000 £146,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +57.30% +102.27%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 20,588 17,962 29,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.67% 39.29% 37.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,211 9,761 22,807
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £46,581
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.71% -6.84%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Bloomberg job vacancy trend in the UK

Bloomberg
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bloomberg.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bloomberg

Bloomberg
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Bloomberg in the UK

Bloomberg
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bloomberg within the UK over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -326 67 £75,000 +20.00% 11
London -220 65 £75,000 +36.36% 10
Work from Home +24 3 £67,500 -20.59% 1
UK excluding London -64 3 £65,000 -7.14% 1
North West -21 2 - -
North of England -42 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

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 13 (18.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.57%) Confluence
3 2 (2.86%) IIS
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Fidessa
2 4 (5.71%) Aladdin
3 3 (4.29%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (1.43%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.43%) Azure
2 12 (17.14%) AWS
3 10 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.29%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.86%) GCP
7 2 (2.86%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.43%) Figma
8 1 (1.43%) GitHub
8 1 (1.43%) n8n
8 1 (1.43%) PaaS
8 1 (1.43%) Prefect
8 1 (1.43%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.43%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.14%) LAN
2 5 (7.14%) WAN
3 4 (5.71%) DHCP
3 4 (5.71%) DNS
3 4 (5.71%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (5.71%) Multicast
4 3 (4.29%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (4.29%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (4.29%) Firewall
5 2 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.86%) IP Telephony
5 2 (2.86%) WebEx
6 1 (1.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (45.71%) Tableau
2 11 (15.71%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.71%) Power BI
4 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.43%) Power Query
5 1 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) JIRA
General
1 59 (84.29%) Finance
2 41 (58.57%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (51.43%) Banking
4 32 (45.71%) Financial Institution
5 30 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
7 7 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (5.71%) Front Office
8 4 (5.71%) Spanish Language
9 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.86%) Legal
10 1 (1.43%) Back Office
10 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (58.57%) Analyst
2 32 (45.71%) Data Analyst
3 9 (12.86%) Support Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 5 (7.14%) Product Analyst
4 5 (7.14%) Product Business Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Business Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Deskside Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Deskside Support
5 4 (5.71%) Deskside Support Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Desktop Support
5 4 (5.71%) Developer
5 4 (5.71%) Product Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.29%) Administrator
6 3 (4.29%) Support Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (4.29%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Technical Support
6 3 (4.29%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (4.29%) .NET
3 2 (2.86%) REST
3 2 (2.86%) Web Services
4 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.43%) CSS
4 1 (1.43%) HTML
4 1 (1.43%) JMS
4 1 (1.43%) Kafka
4 1 (1.43%) Middleware
4 1 (1.43%) React
4 1 (1.43%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 32 (45.71%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (10.00%) Eurex
3 6 (8.57%) Equities
3 6 (8.57%) Fixed Income
4 5 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (7.14%) Hedge funds
5 4 (5.71%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.86%) Blackberry
7 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.43%) IoT
8 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.00%) Windows
2 9 (12.86%) Linux
3 6 (8.57%) Windows 10
4 5 (7.14%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.29%) Solaris
5 3 (4.29%) Ubuntu
5 3 (4.29%) Unix
5 3 (4.29%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (51.43%) Asset Management
3 34 (48.57%) AI
3 34 (48.57%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (48.57%) Risk Management
4 33 (47.14%) Analytics
4 33 (47.14%) Data Analysis
5 32 (45.71%) Portfolio Management
5 32 (45.71%) Workflow
6 31 (44.29%) Data Science
6 31 (44.29%) Migration
7 30 (42.86%) Business Strategy
7 30 (42.86%) Mathematics
7 30 (42.86%) Risk Analytics
7 30 (42.86%) Scenario Testing
7 30 (42.86%) Statistical Modelling
7 30 (42.86%) Statistics
7 30 (42.86%) Stress Testing
8 9 (12.86%) Agile
9 8 (11.43%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (61.43%) Python
2 11 (15.71%) SQL
3 9 (12.86%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.86%) Bash
4 2 (2.86%) C#
4 2 (2.86%) Java
4 2 (2.86%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.43%) C++
5 1 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.43%) R
5 1 (1.43%) Rust
5 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (55.71%) Degree
2 30 (42.86%) Numerate Degree
3 12 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (11.43%) MCSA
4 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 5 (7.14%) MCDST
5 5 (7.14%) MCITP
5 5 (7.14%) MCSE
6 4 (5.71%) A+ Certification
7 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.43%) CFA
8 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (45.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.29%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) Basel III
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) GRC
3 1 (1.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.29%) Docker
4 2 (2.86%) vSphere
4 2 (2.86%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.71%) SCCM
3 3 (4.29%) Cisco CUCM
3 3 (4.29%) ServiceCenter
4 2 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.43%) Grafana
5 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (42.86%) Alteryx
2 19 (27.14%) Reuters
3 11 (15.71%) Cisco
3 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.00%) CQG
4 7 (10.00%) HP
4 7 (10.00%) ION Trading
4 7 (10.00%) Patsystems
4 7 (10.00%) Trayport
4 7 (10.00%) VMware
5 6 (8.57%) Charles River
5 6 (8.57%) ServiceNow
6 5 (7.14%) Apple
6 5 (7.14%) Oracle
7 4 (5.71%) FactSet
7 4 (5.71%) Salesforce
7 4 (5.71%) SimCorp
7 4 (5.71%) Tradeweb
8 3 (4.29%) FNZ
8 3 (4.29%) MarketAxess