Bloomberg Contracts

Bloomberg
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 523 634
Rank change year-on-year +74 +111 -16
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 126 160 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 0.66% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 119 171
10th Percentile £311 £286 £263
25th Percentile £385 £489 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -7.41% +22.73%
75th Percentile £763 £739 £788
90th Percentile £814 £863 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £160 £160
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -45.53%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Bloomberg in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Bloomberg in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bloomberg within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +53 124 £575 -8.00% 63
London +60 119 £650 +4.00% 56
Work from Home +107 36 £725 +20.83% 20
UK excluding London +41 5 £200 +25.00% 6
North of England - 3 £200 -
North West - 3 £200 -
South West - 3 £200 - 3
South East - 2 £288 -

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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 12 (9.52%) Confluence
2 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.79%) SAS
4 1 (0.79%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 26 (20.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (9.52%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (14.29%) Aladdin
2 11 (8.73%) ION MarketView
3 4 (3.17%) Eikon
4 3 (2.38%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (2.38%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (2.38%) ION Anvil
5 2 (1.59%) Endur
5 2 (1.59%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.59%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.22%) AWS
2 15 (11.90%) Azure
3 14 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (9.52%) GCP
5 2 (1.59%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.59%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.59%) Serverless
6 1 (0.79%) dbt
6 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.52%) Firewall
1 12 (9.52%) FIX Connectivity
2 6 (4.76%) VPN
3 3 (2.38%) WebEx
4 1 (0.79%) DHCP
4 1 (0.79%) DNS
4 1 (0.79%) FTP
4 1 (0.79%) LAN
4 1 (0.79%) Skype
4 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.79%) WAN
4 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.38%) Data Vault
3 2 (1.59%) KDB
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Arrow
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Ignite
4 1 (0.79%) Dremio
4 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (11.90%) JIRA
2 13 (10.32%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.79%) Git
General
1 68 (53.97%) Finance
2 53 (42.06%) Front Office
3 49 (38.89%) Banking
4 28 (22.22%) Investment Banking
5 20 (15.87%) Social Skills
6 17 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.38%) Publishing
8 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.79%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 53 (42.06%) Analyst
2 41 (32.54%) Business Analyst
3 18 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 17 (13.49%) Data Business Analyst
4 17 (13.49%) Developer
5 15 (11.90%) Finance Business Analyst
5 15 (11.90%) Financial Analyst
6 14 (11.11%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 13 (10.32%) Data Analyst
7 13 (10.32%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 12 (9.52%) Finance Manager
8 12 (9.52%) Market Analyst
8 12 (9.52%) Market Data Analyst
8 12 (9.52%) Python Developer
8 12 (9.52%) Quantitative Developer
9 11 (8.73%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
10 10 (7.94%) Front Office Business Analyst
11 9 (7.14%) Desktop Support
12 8 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (5.56%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.70%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (9.52%) XML
3 4 (3.17%) Kafka
4 3 (2.38%) Middleware
4 3 (2.38%) Spring
5 2 (1.59%) .NET
5 2 (1.59%) React
5 2 (1.59%) Rendezvous
6 1 (0.79%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.79%) CSS
6 1 (0.79%) HTML
6 1 (0.79%) JPA
6 1 (0.79%) NumPy
6 1 (0.79%) Pandas
6 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.79%) REST
6 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.79%) Spring MVC
6 1 (0.79%) XSD
6 1 (0.79%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 47 (37.30%) Derivative
2 43 (34.13%) Fixed Income
3 34 (26.98%) Hedge funds
4 30 (23.81%) Equities
5 22 (17.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (13.49%) Product Ownership
7 10 (7.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (3.17%) Blackberry
9 3 (2.38%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.59%) iPad
10 2 (1.59%) iPhone
10 2 (1.59%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.79%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.05%) Windows
2 16 (12.70%) Unix
3 10 (7.94%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.38%) Linux
5 2 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.79%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.95%) Investment Management
2 38 (30.16%) Asset Management
3 33 (26.19%) Agile
4 19 (15.08%) Risk Management
4 19 (15.08%) Roadmaps
5 17 (13.49%) Portfolio Management
6 16 (12.70%) Electronic Trading
7 14 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 13 (10.32%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (10.32%) Fintech
8 13 (10.32%) Machine Learning
9 12 (9.52%) Quantitative Research
10 11 (8.73%) Data Modelling
10 11 (8.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (7.94%) Project Management
11 10 (7.94%) SDLC
11 10 (7.94%) UML
12 9 (7.14%) Business Analysis
12 9 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.37%) SQL
2 36 (28.57%) Python
3 12 (9.52%) R
4 9 (7.14%) VBA
5 7 (5.56%) Java
6 5 (3.97%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.59%) Scala
8 1 (0.79%) Clojure
8 1 (0.79%) Groovy
8 1 (0.79%) Perl
8 1 (0.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (2.38%) CFA
2 3 (2.38%) MCSE
2 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.59%) CCNA
3 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.59%) MCP
3 2 (1.59%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.08%) QA
2 14 (11.11%) EMIR
3 13 (10.32%) MiFID
4 7 (5.56%) Dodd-Frank
4 7 (5.56%) SEPA
5 4 (3.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) Cronacle
2 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.17%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.79%) Control-M
2 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (26.19%) Refinitiv
2 21 (16.67%) Reuters
3 18 (14.29%) ION Trading
4 13 (10.32%) Citrix
4 13 (10.32%) Tradeweb
5 12 (9.52%) BISAM
5 12 (9.52%) MarketAxess
6 11 (8.73%) Microsoft
7 5 (3.97%) Charles River
8 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.38%) GoldenSource
9 3 (2.38%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.38%) Trayport
10 2 (1.59%) Avaloq
10 2 (1.59%) BT
10 2 (1.59%) Cisco
10 2 (1.59%) OpenLink
10 2 (1.59%) Radianz
10 2 (1.59%) Solace
10 2 (1.59%) TIBCO