Bloomberg Contracts in London

Bloomberg
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 341 432
Rank change year-on-year +75 +91 -40
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 122 149 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.57% 0.48%
As % of the Vendors category 1.70% 1.45% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 118 157
10th Percentile £338 £314 £271
25th Percentile £385 £550 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +22.73%
75th Percentile £763 £739 £800
90th Percentile £805 £854 £838
England median daily rate £550 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -12.00% -7.41% +22.73%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,156 10,265 14,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.95% 39.45% 37.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,914 7,272 10,462
10th Percentile £300 £325 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +4.05% +6.80%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 126 180
10th Percentile £13.87 £16.13 £16.95
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.00 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -25.71% +31.33%
75th Percentile £35.69 £53.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £59.38 £70.00 £60.63
England median hourly rate £22.08 £35.00 £21.35
% change year-on-year -36.93% +63.93% +1.67%

Bloomberg
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Bloomberg in London

Bloomberg
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Bloomberg in London

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bloomberg in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in London

Bloomberg
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Bloomberg in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bloomberg within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London +54 24 £400 -30.43% 2
East London -3 2 £765 +206.00% 10
Bloomberg
England

Bloomberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 11 (9.02%) Confluence
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.82%) Apache
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.82%) SAS
4 1 (0.82%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 28 (22.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (10.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (10.66%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (14.75%) Aladdin
2 10 (8.20%) ION MarketView
3 4 (3.28%) Eikon
4 3 (2.46%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (2.46%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (2.46%) ION Anvil
5 2 (1.64%) Endur
5 2 (1.64%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.64%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 30 (24.59%) AWS
2 16 (13.11%) Azure
3 14 (11.48%) GCP
4 13 (10.66%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.64%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.64%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.64%) Serverless
6 1 (0.82%) dbt
6 1 (0.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.66%) FIX Connectivity
2 11 (9.02%) Firewall
3 4 (3.28%) VPN
4 3 (2.46%) LAN
4 3 (2.46%) WAN
5 1 (0.82%) FTP
5 1 (0.82%) Skype
5 1 (0.82%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.28%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.64%) KDB
3 1 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Arrow
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Ignite
3 1 (0.82%) Dremio
3 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (11.48%) TeamCity
2 13 (10.66%) JIRA
3 3 (2.46%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.82%) Git
General
1 67 (54.92%) Finance
2 57 (46.72%) Front Office
3 46 (37.70%) Banking
4 30 (24.59%) Investment Banking
5 20 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (16.39%) Social Skills
6 3 (2.46%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (2.46%) Publishing
7 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.82%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 48 (39.34%) Analyst
2 40 (32.79%) Business Analyst
3 20 (16.39%) Support Engineer
4 18 (14.75%) Developer
5 17 (13.93%) Data Business Analyst
6 15 (12.30%) Finance Business Analyst
6 15 (12.30%) Financial Analyst
6 15 (12.30%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 14 (11.48%) Finance Manager
7 14 (11.48%) Python Developer
7 14 (11.48%) Quantitative Developer
8 13 (10.66%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
9 12 (9.84%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
10 11 (9.02%) Data Analyst
10 11 (9.02%) Front Office Business Analyst
11 10 (8.20%) Market Analyst
11 10 (8.20%) Market Data Analyst
12 9 (7.38%) Desktop Support
13 7 (5.74%) Applications Support
13 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.11%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (10.66%) XML
3 3 (2.46%) Kafka
3 3 (2.46%) Middleware
4 2 (1.64%) .NET
4 2 (1.64%) React
4 2 (1.64%) Rendezvous
4 2 (1.64%) Spring
5 1 (0.82%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.82%) CSS
5 1 (0.82%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.82%) HTML
5 1 (0.82%) NumPy
5 1 (0.82%) Pandas
5 1 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.82%) REST
5 1 (0.82%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.82%) XSD
5 1 (0.82%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 46 (37.70%) Derivative
2 44 (36.07%) Fixed Income
3 34 (27.87%) Hedge funds
4 32 (26.23%) Equities
5 20 (16.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (12.30%) Product Ownership
7 8 (6.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (3.28%) Blackberry
8 4 (3.28%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.64%) iPad
9 2 (1.64%) iPhone
9 2 (1.64%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.82%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.13%) Windows
2 15 (12.30%) Unix
3 8 (6.56%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.46%) Linux
5 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.82%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.15%) Asset Management
1 38 (31.15%) Investment Management
2 34 (27.87%) Agile
3 17 (13.93%) Electronic Trading
3 17 (13.93%) Roadmaps
4 16 (13.11%) Risk Management
4 16 (13.11%) Software Engineering
5 15 (12.30%) Portfolio Management
6 14 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (11.48%) Quantitative Research
7 13 (10.66%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (10.66%) Fintech
7 13 (10.66%) Machine Learning
8 12 (9.84%) Data Modelling
8 12 (9.84%) Project Management
9 11 (9.02%) SDLC
9 11 (9.02%) UML
10 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (7.38%) Business Analysis
11 9 (7.38%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 35 (28.69%) Python
2 34 (27.87%) SQL
3 14 (11.48%) R
4 9 (7.38%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.38%) VBA
5 6 (4.92%) Java
6 2 (1.64%) VBScript
7 1 (0.82%) Clojure
7 1 (0.82%) Groovy
7 1 (0.82%) Scala
7 1 (0.82%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (17.21%) Degree
2 5 (4.10%) MCSE
2 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.46%) CFA
4 2 (1.64%) CCNA
4 2 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.64%) MCP
4 2 (1.64%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.21%) QA
2 12 (9.84%) EMIR
2 12 (9.84%) MiFID
3 8 (6.56%) Dodd-Frank
4 5 (4.10%) SEPA
5 3 (2.46%) SLA
6 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (5.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.82%) Cronacle
2 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.82%) Control-M
1 1 (0.82%) SCCM
1 1 (0.82%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 35 (28.69%) Refinitiv
2 17 (13.93%) ION Trading
3 16 (13.11%) Reuters
4 15 (12.30%) Citrix
5 13 (10.66%) MarketAxess
5 13 (10.66%) Tradeweb
6 12 (9.84%) BISAM
6 12 (9.84%) Microsoft
7 6 (4.92%) Red Hat
8 5 (4.10%) Charles River
9 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.46%) GoldenSource
10 3 (2.46%) Trayport
11 2 (1.64%) Avaloq
11 2 (1.64%) BT
11 2 (1.64%) Cisco
11 2 (1.64%) OpenLink
11 2 (1.64%) Radianz
11 2 (1.64%) Solace
11 2 (1.64%) TIBCO