Bloomberg Contracts in England

Bloomberg
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Bloomberg products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Bloomberg over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Bloomberg.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 502 596
Rank change year-on-year +83 +94 -65
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 130 145 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Vendors category 0.84% 0.71% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 115 156
10th Percentile £313 £308 £264
25th Percentile £385 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £763 £731 £781
90th Percentile £815 £850 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -12.00% -7.41% +17.39%

All Vendors
England

Bloomberg is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,530 20,542 27,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.25% 41.94% 39.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,855 14,123 18,824
10th Percentile £263 £265 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £637 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 594 785
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.94
25th Percentile £14.45 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £39.03 £21.35
Median % change year-on-year -42.34% +82.79% +1.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.31 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Bloomberg in England

Bloomberg
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bloomberg within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
London +77 123 £550 -12.00% 51
North of England - 3 £200 - 1
South West - 3 £200 - 1
North West - 3 £200 -
South East - 2 £288 - 2
Midlands - 2 £800 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £800 -
West Midlands - 1 £800 - 1
Bloomberg
UK

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (10.00%) Confluence
2 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.77%) Apache
4 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.77%) SAS
4 1 (0.77%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 27 (20.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (10.00%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (13.85%) Aladdin
2 10 (7.69%) ION MarketView
3 4 (3.08%) Eikon
4 3 (2.31%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (2.31%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (2.31%) ION Anvil
5 2 (1.54%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.54%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (1.54%) RMDS
5 2 (1.54%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.77%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.31%) AWS
2 16 (12.31%) Azure
2 16 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (10.77%) GCP
4 2 (1.54%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.77%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.77%) dbt
5 1 (0.77%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 11 (8.46%) Firewall
3 6 (4.62%) VPN
4 4 (3.08%) LAN
4 4 (3.08%) WAN
5 3 (2.31%) WebEx
6 1 (0.77%) FTP
6 1 (0.77%) Multicast
6 1 (0.77%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.31%) Data Vault
3 2 (1.54%) KDB
4 1 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.77%) Apache Arrow
4 1 (0.77%) Apache Ignite
4 1 (0.77%) Dremio
4 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (11.54%) JIRA
2 14 (10.77%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.31%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.77%) Git
General
1 71 (54.62%) Finance
2 56 (43.08%) Front Office
3 50 (38.46%) Banking
4 30 (23.08%) Investment Banking
5 21 (16.15%) Social Skills
6 20 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.31%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.54%) Publishing
8 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.77%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 51 (39.23%) Analyst
2 40 (30.77%) Business Analyst
3 21 (16.15%) Support Engineer
4 17 (13.08%) Data Business Analyst
4 17 (13.08%) Developer
5 15 (11.54%) Finance Business Analyst
5 15 (11.54%) Financial Analyst
5 15 (11.54%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 14 (10.77%) Data Analyst
6 14 (10.77%) Finance Manager
6 14 (10.77%) Python Developer
6 14 (10.77%) Quantitative Developer
7 13 (10.00%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 13 (10.00%) Market Analyst
7 13 (10.00%) Market Data Analyst
8 12 (9.23%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
9 11 (8.46%) Front Office Business Analyst
10 10 (7.69%) Desktop Support
11 8 (6.15%) Applications Support
11 8 (6.15%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.08%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (10.00%) XML
3 3 (2.31%) Middleware
4 2 (1.54%) Kafka
4 2 (1.54%) React
4 2 (1.54%) Rendezvous
4 2 (1.54%) Spring
5 1 (0.77%) .NET
5 1 (0.77%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.77%) CSS
5 1 (0.77%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.77%) HTML
5 1 (0.77%) NumPy
5 1 (0.77%) Pandas
5 1 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.77%) REST
5 1 (0.77%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.77%) XSD
5 1 (0.77%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 46 (35.38%) Derivative
2 43 (33.08%) Fixed Income
3 34 (26.15%) Hedge funds
4 32 (24.62%) Equities
5 20 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (10.77%) Product Ownership
7 8 (6.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 6 (4.62%) Data Centre
9 4 (3.08%) Blackberry
10 2 (1.54%) iPad
10 2 (1.54%) iPhone
10 2 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.77%) EFT
11 1 (0.77%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.62%) Windows
2 15 (11.54%) Unix
3 10 (7.69%) Windows 10
4 6 (4.62%) Linux
5 4 (3.08%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.77%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (29.23%) Asset Management
2 37 (28.46%) Investment Management
3 33 (25.38%) Agile
4 19 (14.62%) Risk Management
5 17 (13.08%) Electronic Trading
6 16 (12.31%) Roadmaps
6 16 (12.31%) Software Engineering
7 14 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (10.77%) Portfolio Management
7 14 (10.77%) Quantitative Research
8 13 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (10.00%) Fintech
8 13 (10.00%) Machine Learning
9 12 (9.23%) Data Modelling
9 12 (9.23%) Project Management
10 11 (8.46%) SDLC
10 11 (8.46%) UML
11 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (6.92%) Disaster Recovery
13 8 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (26.92%) Python
2 34 (26.15%) SQL
3 14 (10.77%) R
4 10 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.15%) VBA
6 6 (4.62%) Java
7 2 (1.54%) VBScript
8 1 (0.77%) Clojure
8 1 (0.77%) Groovy
8 1 (0.77%) Scala
8 1 (0.77%) XPath
Qualifications
1 20 (15.38%) Degree
2 5 (3.85%) MCSE
2 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.31%) CFA
4 2 (1.54%) CCNA
4 2 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.54%) MCP
4 2 (1.54%) MCSA
5 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.38%) QA
2 12 (9.23%) EMIR
2 12 (9.23%) MiFID
3 8 (6.15%) Dodd-Frank
4 5 (3.85%) SEPA
5 3 (2.31%) SLA
6 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (6.92%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.54%) Docker
4 1 (0.77%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 4 (3.08%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 2 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.77%) Control-M
3 1 (0.77%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (30.00%) Refinitiv
2 20 (15.38%) Reuters
3 18 (13.85%) Citrix
4 17 (13.08%) ION Trading
5 13 (10.00%) MarketAxess
5 13 (10.00%) Tradeweb
6 12 (9.23%) BISAM
6 12 (9.23%) Microsoft
7 8 (6.15%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.85%) Charles River
9 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.31%) Cisco
10 3 (2.31%) GoldenSource
10 3 (2.31%) VMware
11 2 (1.54%) Avaloq
11 2 (1.54%) BT
11 2 (1.54%) Radianz
11 2 (1.54%) Solace
11 2 (1.54%) TIBCO
11 2 (1.54%) Trayport