Bloomberg
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Bloomberg products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Bloomberg over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 719 312 788
Rank change year-on-year -407 +476 -66
Permanent jobs citing Bloomberg 197 1,143 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 1.10% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.54% 2.64% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 166 140 209
10th Percentile £35,000 £22,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £45,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +86.81% -24.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £112,500 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £146,250 £130,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,750 £22,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +126.14% -37.14% -48.15%

All Vendors
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,590 43,247 61,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.14% 41.80% 38.98%
Number of salaries quoted 25,090 24,701 33,301
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bloomberg.

Salary trend for Bloomberg in the UK

Bloomberg
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Bloomberg in the UK

Bloomberg
Top 9 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -291 195 £85,000 +88.89% 59
London +168 181 £85,000 +54.55% 53
Work from Home +109 51 £137,500 +110.73% 13
UK excluding London -535 15 £49,750 +126.14% 7
South East -261 9 £52,500 +138.64% 2
East of England -128 4 £42,500 - 1
North of England -90 1 - - 1
Scotland -204 1 - - 1
North West - 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 42 (21.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (16.75%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.54%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (1.02%) Apache
4 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 21 (10.66%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 32 (16.24%) Aladdin
2 16 (8.12%) thinkFolio
3 15 (7.61%) Fidessa
4 4 (2.03%) Eikon
5 3 (1.52%) Markit EDM
5 3 (1.52%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (1.02%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 61 (30.96%) AWS
2 44 (22.34%) Azure
3 38 (19.29%) GCP
3 38 (19.29%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.03%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.02%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.02%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.02%) dbt
5 2 (1.02%) Serverless
5 2 (1.02%) Slack
5 2 (1.02%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.51%) GitHub
6 1 (0.51%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 38 (19.29%) DHCP
1 38 (19.29%) DNS
1 38 (19.29%) TCP/IP
2 20 (10.15%) VPN
3 17 (8.63%) LAN
4 15 (7.61%) Firewall
4 15 (7.61%) FIX Connectivity
5 8 (4.06%) Wireless
6 7 (3.55%) VLAN
7 5 (2.54%) PSTN
8 3 (1.52%) FTP
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.17%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.05%) MySQL
3 3 (1.52%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.02%) Apache Arrow
4 2 (1.02%) Apache Ignite
4 2 (1.02%) Dremio
4 2 (1.02%) Metadata
4 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.02%) Tableau
5 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.51%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.55%) JIRA
2 3 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
General
1 149 (75.63%) Finance
2 76 (38.58%) Front Office
3 50 (25.38%) Banking
4 23 (11.68%) Social Skills
5 17 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (8.12%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.03%) Law
8 3 (1.52%) Back Office
8 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.02%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (44.16%) Analyst
2 46 (23.35%) Support Analyst
3 41 (20.81%) Developer
4 40 (20.30%) Python Developer
5 38 (19.29%) Quantitative Developer
6 28 (14.21%) IT Support
7 26 (13.20%) Financial Analyst
8 24 (12.18%) Finance Manager
9 23 (11.68%) Business Analyst
10 22 (11.17%) Applications Support
11 21 (10.66%) Support Engineer
12 18 (9.14%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
13 17 (8.63%) Lead
14 16 (8.12%) Data Business Analyst
14 16 (8.12%) Finance Business Analyst
15 15 (7.61%) Senior
16 14 (7.11%) IT Analyst
16 14 (7.11%) Systems Analyst
17 13 (6.60%) IT Support Analyst
18 12 (6.09%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.66%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (3.55%) ADSI
2 7 (3.55%) LDAP
3 5 (2.54%) React
4 4 (2.03%) .NET
5 3 (1.52%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.52%) CSS
5 3 (1.52%) FastAPI
5 3 (1.52%) HTML
5 3 (1.52%) Kafka
5 3 (1.52%) NumPy
5 3 (1.52%) Pandas
5 3 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.52%) REST
5 3 (1.52%) Spring
5 3 (1.52%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.02%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.02%) Unity DI Container
6 2 (1.02%) XML
6 2 (1.02%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 80 (40.61%) Fixed Income
2 66 (33.50%) Hedge funds
3 59 (29.95%) Derivative
4 58 (29.44%) Equities
5 26 (13.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 19 (9.64%) Product Ownership
7 16 (8.12%) Eurex
8 15 (7.61%) Replication
9 6 (3.05%) Blackberry
9 6 (3.05%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (2.03%) Driving Licence
11 4 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.02%) Blog
12 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.02%) Equity Derivative
12 2 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (1.02%) Private Cloud
12 2 (1.02%) Reference Data
12 2 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 82 (41.62%) Windows
2 43 (21.83%) Windows Server
3 28 (14.21%) Windows 10
4 24 (12.18%) Linux
5 16 (8.12%) Unix
6 15 (7.61%) CentOS
6 15 (7.61%) Windows Server 2008
7 10 (5.08%) Solaris
7 10 (5.08%) Ubuntu
8 6 (3.05%) Windows 7
9 4 (2.03%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.51%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (41.62%) Asset Management
2 73 (37.06%) Agile
3 69 (35.03%) Investment Management
4 52 (26.40%) ITIL
5 40 (20.30%) Software Engineering
6 39 (19.80%) Quantitative Research
7 29 (14.72%) Roadmaps
8 22 (11.17%) Portfolio Management
9 20 (10.15%) Analytics
9 20 (10.15%) Machine Learning
10 19 (9.64%) ITSM
11 18 (9.14%) Artificial Intelligence
12 16 (8.12%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (8.12%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (8.12%) Fintech
12 16 (8.12%) Service Management
12 16 (8.12%) Systems Analysis
13 15 (7.61%) Cryptography
13 15 (7.61%) Data Loss Prevention
13 15 (7.61%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 76 (38.58%) Python
2 74 (37.56%) SQL
3 39 (19.80%) PowerShell
3 39 (19.80%) R
4 17 (8.63%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.12%) Bash
6 15 (7.61%) Perl
6 15 (7.61%) Ruby
7 7 (3.55%) Java
8 4 (2.03%) VBA
9 3 (1.52%) Clojure
9 3 (1.52%) Groovy
9 3 (1.52%) Scala
10 2 (1.02%) C#
10 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (14.21%) Degree
2 15 (7.61%) CREST Certified
2 15 (7.61%) MCSA
2 15 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.09%) SLA
2 3 (1.52%) MiFID
3 2 (1.02%) QA
4 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 54 (27.41%) Active Directory
2 19 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.03%) vSphere
4 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (7.11%) SCCM
2 5 (2.54%) Backup Exec
3 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.52%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.51%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.51%) Control-M
5 1 (0.51%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.51%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.51%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.51%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (0.51%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (17.77%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.18%) Refinitiv
3 23 (11.68%) Reuters
4 22 (11.17%) Cisco
5 21 (10.66%) ION Trading
6 19 (9.64%) VMware
7 18 (9.14%) FactSet
7 18 (9.14%) Oracle
8 17 (8.63%) Charles River
8 17 (8.63%) Trayport
9 15 (7.61%) CQG
9 15 (7.61%) MobileIron
9 15 (7.61%) Patsystems
9 15 (7.61%) Red Hat
10 14 (7.11%) BISAM
11 11 (5.58%) Dell
11 11 (5.58%) HP
12 10 (5.08%) Citrix
13 7 (3.55%) FFastFill
14 6 (3.05%) Symantec