Bloomberg Contracts in England

Bloomberg
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 June 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
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 416 470
Rank change year-on-year -18 +54 +71
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 56 133 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.36% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.84% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 125 121
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £316 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -37.26% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £736 £800 £750
90th Percentile £779 £875 £863
UK median daily rate £424 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -37.26% +8.00% -7.41%

All Vendors
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,935 15,860 20,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.33% 42.46% 42.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,577 10,045 13,714
10th Percentile £278 £275 £266
25th Percentile £402 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 1,069 542
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.47 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.56 £18.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £24.18 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +9.39% -25.37% +50.70%
75th Percentile £52.00 £59.95 £59.67
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £73.59
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.05 £40.50
% change year-on-year +4.57% -40.62% +85.95%

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 26 June 2025.

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 26 June 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
London -26 48 £500 -25.93% 189
North of England +19 7 £414 +107.00% 4
North West +16 7 £414 +107.00% 3
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 3 (5.36%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Kondor
2 3 (5.36%) Aladdin
2 3 (5.36%) ION MarketView
3 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (1.79%) Eikon
3 1 (1.79%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.79%) RMDS
3 1 (1.79%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.50%) AWS
1 7 (12.50%) Azure
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.57%) GitHub
4 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) DNS
2 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.79%) BGP
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.79%) DHCP
3 1 (1.79%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.79%) Multicast
3 1 (1.79%) Network Security
3 1 (1.79%) OSPF
3 1 (1.79%) SSL
3 1 (1.79%) VPN
3 1 (1.79%) WebEx
3 1 (1.79%) Wireless
3 1 (1.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Power BI
2 2 (3.57%) Data Mart
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.79%) Power Query
3 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) JIRA
2 4 (7.14%) Cypress.io
2 4 (7.14%) HP UFT
2 4 (7.14%) Selenium
2 4 (7.14%) TestComplete
3 3 (5.36%) Git
4 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.57%) Maven
4 2 (3.57%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.79%) Crucible
5 1 (1.79%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 28 (50.00%) Finance
2 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
3 13 (23.21%) Banking
4 12 (21.43%) Front Office
5 10 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (12.50%) Back Office
7 6 (10.71%) Investment Banking
8 5 (8.93%) Financial Institution
8 5 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.57%) Law
10 1 (1.79%) International Banking
10 1 (1.79%) Legal
10 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Analyst
2 13 (23.21%) Support Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Applications Support
3 10 (17.86%) Developer
4 9 (16.07%) Support Analyst
5 8 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Systems Support
7 6 (10.71%) Systems Support Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Automation Tester
8 4 (7.14%) Java Automation Tester
8 4 (7.14%) Java Developer
8 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Test Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Tester
9 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
9 3 (5.36%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) .NET
2 5 (8.93%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (7.14%) Playwright
3 4 (7.14%) XML
4 3 (5.36%) Murex MxML
5 2 (3.57%) NumPy
5 2 (3.57%) Rendezvous
6 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.79%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.79%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.79%) JSON
6 1 (1.79%) Kafka
6 1 (1.79%) MyBatis
6 1 (1.79%) Pandas
6 1 (1.79%) PySpark
6 1 (1.79%) REST
6 1 (1.79%) WPF
6 1 (1.79%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (17.86%) Fixed Income
3 9 (16.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 6 (10.71%) Derivative
4 6 (10.71%) Equities
5 3 (5.36%) Clustering
5 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.36%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (5.36%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 3 (5.36%) Smartphone
6 2 (3.57%) BYOD
6 2 (3.57%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.57%) Market Risk
6 2 (3.57%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.79%) Hackathon
7 1 (1.79%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (37.50%) Windows
2 11 (19.64%) Unix
3 5 (8.93%) Linux
4 3 (5.36%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (17.86%) Migration
3 9 (16.07%) Service Delivery
4 8 (14.29%) Cash Management
4 8 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 8 (14.29%) ITIL
4 8 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
6 6 (10.71%) Agile
6 6 (10.71%) Project Management
7 5 (8.93%) CI/CD
7 5 (8.93%) DevOps
7 5 (8.93%) Investment Management
7 5 (8.93%) Low Latency
7 5 (8.93%) Risk Management
7 5 (8.93%) System Testing
7 5 (8.93%) Test Automation
8 4 (7.14%) Break/Fix
8 4 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (7.14%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.14%) SQL
2 12 (21.43%) Python
3 9 (16.07%) Java
4 7 (12.50%) C#
5 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.79%) Groovy
6 1 (1.79%) Perl
6 1 (1.79%) Ruby
6 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.14%) Degree
1 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) CFA
2 1 (1.79%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.79%) MCP
2 1 (1.79%) MCSA
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) SLA
2 4 (7.14%) MiFID
3 3 (5.36%) EMIR
4 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.79%) QA
4 1 (1.79%) UCITS
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) Xen
2 1 (1.79%) XenApp
2 1 (1.79%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (16.07%) SCCM
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (7.14%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (3.57%) Ansible
4 2 (3.57%) BladeLogic
4 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.79%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (37.50%) Reuters
2 17 (30.36%) Refinitiv
3 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 10 (17.86%) Sybase
5 8 (14.29%) Tradeweb
6 6 (10.71%) ServiceNow
7 5 (8.93%) Citrix
7 5 (8.93%) ION Trading
7 5 (8.93%) Murex
8 4 (7.14%) Cisco
8 4 (7.14%) FactSet
9 3 (5.36%) Oracle
10 2 (3.57%) Dynatrace
10 2 (3.57%) Red Hat
10 2 (3.57%) Solace
10 2 (3.57%) TIBCO
11 1 (1.79%) Meraki
11 1 (1.79%) Okta
11 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
11 1 (1.79%) Snow
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