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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 688 318 783
Rank change year-on-year -370 +465 -52
Permanent jobs citing Bloomberg 204 1,103 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 1.11% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 2.64% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 166 140 224
10th Percentile £35,000 £22,000 £31,625
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £112,500 £77,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £146,250 £130,000 £121,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £22,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +138.64% -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 36,536 41,710 62,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.57% 42.06% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,889 23,890 32,938
10th Percentile £26,742 £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 £75,000 £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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Bloomberg in the UK

Bloomberg
Top 8 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 18 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 -284 204 £85,000 +88.89% 65
London +158 192 £85,000 +51.11% 58
Work from Home +106 49 £137,500 +139.13% 14
UK excluding London -529 12 £52,500 +138.64% 19
South East -267 7 £52,500 +138.64% 13
East of England -132 4 £42,500 - 2
North of England -78 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 (20.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (15.69%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.45%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.98%) Apache
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (9.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 31 (15.20%) Aladdin
2 16 (7.84%) Fidessa
2 16 (7.84%) thinkFolio
3 6 (2.94%) Eikon
4 4 (1.96%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (1.47%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 67 (32.84%) AWS
2 45 (22.06%) Azure
3 39 (19.12%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (18.63%) GCP
5 6 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 6 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
5 6 (2.94%) Serverless
6 4 (1.96%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.47%) WhatsApp
8 2 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.98%) dbt
8 2 (0.98%) Slack
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.49%) GitHub
9 1 (0.49%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 38 (18.63%) DHCP
1 38 (18.63%) DNS
1 38 (18.63%) TCP/IP
2 18 (8.82%) LAN
3 17 (8.33%) VPN
4 16 (7.84%) Firewall
4 16 (7.84%) FIX Connectivity
5 8 (3.92%) Wireless
6 7 (3.43%) VLAN
7 5 (2.45%) FTP
7 5 (2.45%) PSTN
8 1 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.49%) SMTP
8 1 (0.49%) SNMP
8 1 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.94%) MySQL
2 6 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.96%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Arrow
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Ignite
4 2 (0.98%) Dremio
4 2 (0.98%) Metadata
5 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Git
1 6 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 153 (75.00%) Finance
2 85 (41.67%) Front Office
3 52 (25.49%) Banking
4 24 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 16 (7.84%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.92%) Law
8 7 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Back Office
10 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.98%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 85 (41.67%) Analyst
2 42 (20.59%) Developer
2 42 (20.59%) Support Analyst
3 41 (20.10%) Python Developer
4 38 (18.63%) Quantitative Developer
5 27 (13.24%) Financial Analyst
6 25 (12.25%) IT Support
7 24 (11.76%) Finance Manager
8 23 (11.27%) Applications Support
8 23 (11.27%) Business Analyst
9 22 (10.78%) Support Engineer
10 18 (8.82%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
11 17 (8.33%) Lead
11 17 (8.33%) Senior
12 16 (7.84%) Data Business Analyst
12 16 (7.84%) Finance Business Analyst
13 14 (6.86%) Systems Analyst
14 13 (6.37%) Applications Support Analyst
15 12 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 11 (5.39%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.27%) FIX Protocol
2 10 (4.90%) React
3 8 (3.92%) .NET
4 7 (3.43%) ADSI
4 7 (3.43%) LDAP
5 6 (2.94%) .NET Core
5 6 (2.94%) .NET Framework
5 6 (2.94%) Unity DI Container
6 4 (1.96%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.96%) CSS
6 4 (1.96%) FastAPI
6 4 (1.96%) HTML
6 4 (1.96%) Kafka
6 4 (1.96%) NumPy
6 4 (1.96%) Pandas
6 4 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.96%) REST
6 4 (1.96%) Spring
6 4 (1.96%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (41.18%) Fixed Income
2 75 (36.76%) Hedge funds
3 63 (30.88%) Derivative
4 58 (28.43%) Equities
5 26 (12.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 23 (11.27%) Product Ownership
7 16 (7.84%) Eurex
8 13 (6.37%) Replication
9 6 (2.94%) Blackberry
9 6 (2.94%) Blog
9 6 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (2.94%) N-Tier
9 6 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.94%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.47%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.98%) Equity Derivative
12 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.98%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 83 (40.69%) Windows
2 42 (20.59%) Windows Server
3 27 (13.24%) Windows 10
4 26 (12.75%) Linux
5 16 (7.84%) CentOS
5 16 (7.84%) Unix
6 13 (6.37%) Windows Server 2008
7 11 (5.39%) Solaris
7 11 (5.39%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.94%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.96%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.98%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.49%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (43.63%) Asset Management
2 75 (36.76%) Agile
2 75 (36.76%) Investment Management
3 48 (23.53%) ITIL
4 44 (21.57%) Software Engineering
5 39 (19.12%) Quantitative Research
6 33 (16.18%) Roadmaps
7 27 (13.24%) Analytics
8 24 (11.76%) Portfolio Management
9 20 (9.80%) Machine Learning
9 20 (9.80%) Systems Analysis
10 18 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
11 17 (8.33%) ITSM
12 16 (7.84%) Client Onboarding
12 16 (7.84%) Fintech
13 14 (6.86%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (6.86%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (6.37%) Kalman Filter
14 13 (6.37%) People Management
14 13 (6.37%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (42.16%) Python
2 84 (41.18%) SQL
3 39 (19.12%) R
4 38 (18.63%) PowerShell
5 22 (10.78%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.33%) Bash
7 16 (7.84%) Perl
7 16 (7.84%) Ruby
8 11 (5.39%) Java
9 6 (2.94%) C#
9 6 (2.94%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.96%) Clojure
10 4 (1.96%) Groovy
10 4 (1.96%) Scala
11 2 (0.98%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (13.24%) Degree
2 13 (6.37%) CREST Certified
2 13 (6.37%) MCSA
2 13 (6.37%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.88%) SLA
2 6 (2.94%) QA
3 5 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.96%) MiFID
System Software
1 54 (26.47%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.96%) vSphere
4 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (5.88%) SCCM
2 5 (2.45%) Backup Exec
3 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.47%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.49%) Control-M
5 1 (0.49%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.49%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.49%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.49%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (0.49%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.22%) Reuters
3 22 (10.78%) ION Trading
3 22 (10.78%) Refinitiv
4 20 (9.80%) Cisco
5 18 (8.82%) Oracle
5 18 (8.82%) Trayport
6 17 (8.33%) VMware
7 16 (7.84%) Charles River
7 16 (7.84%) CQG
7 16 (7.84%) Patsystems
7 16 (7.84%) Red Hat
8 14 (6.86%) BISAM
8 14 (6.86%) FactSet
9 13 (6.37%) MobileIron
10 10 (4.90%) Citrix
11 8 (3.92%) Dell
11 8 (3.92%) HP
12 7 (3.43%) FFastFill
13 6 (2.94%) Symantec