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 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 448 541 667
Rank change year-on-year +93 +126 -67
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 131 153 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.27% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.72% 0.62% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 119 163
10th Percentile £313 £298 £263
25th Percentile £385 £545 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -7.41% +22.73%
75th Percentile £763 £739 £800
90th Percentile £808 £853 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £244 £160 £155
% change year-on-year +52.34% +3.23% -47.23%

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 18,083 24,657 35,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.06% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,274 16,502 23,585
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £468
% change year-on-year - +6.95% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 666 891
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.11 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.97% +73.68% +0.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Bloomberg in the UK

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Bloomberg in the UK

Bloomberg
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Bloomberg in the UK

Bloomberg
Top 10 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 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
England +92 128 £550 -12.00% 64
London +75 122 £600 -4.00% 55
Work from Home +109 38 £725 +20.83% 17
UK excluding London +56 6 £244 +52.34% 18
South West - 3 £200 - 1
North West - 3 £200 -
North of England - 3 £200 -
South East - 2 £288 - 11
Midlands - 1 £800 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £800 - 2

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 13 (9.92%) Confluence
2 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) SAS
4 1 (0.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 28 (21.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (9.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (9.92%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (13.74%) Aladdin
2 10 (7.63%) ION MarketView
3 4 (3.05%) Eikon
4 3 (2.29%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (2.29%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (2.29%) ION Anvil
5 2 (1.53%) Endur
5 2 (1.53%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.53%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.76%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 1 (0.76%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.66%) AWS
2 17 (12.98%) Azure
3 15 (11.45%) GCP
3 15 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.53%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (1.53%) dbt
4 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.53%) Serverless
5 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.92%) FIX Connectivity
2 11 (8.40%) Firewall
3 6 (4.58%) VPN
4 3 (2.29%) LAN
4 3 (2.29%) WAN
4 3 (2.29%) WebEx
5 1 (0.76%) FTP
5 1 (0.76%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.29%) Data Vault
3 2 (1.53%) KDB
4 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Arrow
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Ignite
4 1 (0.76%) Big Data
4 1 (0.76%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.76%) Dremio
4 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.76%) Power BI
4 1 (0.76%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (11.45%) JIRA
2 14 (10.69%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.29%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.76%) Git
General
1 72 (54.96%) Finance
2 57 (43.51%) Front Office
3 51 (38.93%) Banking
4 30 (22.90%) Investment Banking
5 22 (16.79%) Social Skills
6 20 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.29%) Publishing
8 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.76%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 53 (40.46%) Analyst
2 42 (32.06%) Business Analyst
3 20 (15.27%) Support Engineer
4 18 (13.74%) Developer
5 17 (12.98%) Data Business Analyst
6 15 (11.45%) Finance Business Analyst
6 15 (11.45%) Financial Analyst
6 15 (11.45%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 14 (10.69%) Data Analyst
7 14 (10.69%) Finance Manager
7 14 (10.69%) Python Developer
7 14 (10.69%) Quantitative Developer
8 13 (9.92%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 13 (9.92%) Market Analyst
8 13 (9.92%) Market Data Analyst
9 12 (9.16%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
10 11 (8.40%) Front Office Business Analyst
11 9 (6.87%) Desktop Support
12 7 (5.34%) Applications Support Engineer
12 7 (5.34%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.21%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (9.92%) XML
3 3 (2.29%) Kafka
3 3 (2.29%) Middleware
4 2 (1.53%) .NET
4 2 (1.53%) React
4 2 (1.53%) Rendezvous
4 2 (1.53%) Spring
5 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.76%) CSS
5 1 (0.76%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.76%) HTML
5 1 (0.76%) NumPy
5 1 (0.76%) Pandas
5 1 (0.76%) PySpark
5 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.76%) REST
5 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.76%) XSD
5 1 (0.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 48 (36.64%) Derivative
2 44 (33.59%) Fixed Income
3 34 (25.95%) Hedge funds
4 32 (24.43%) Equities
5 22 (16.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (11.45%) Product Ownership
7 10 (7.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (3.82%) Data Centre
9 4 (3.05%) Blackberry
10 2 (1.53%) iPad
10 2 (1.53%) iPhone
10 2 (1.53%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.76%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.14%) Windows
2 15 (11.45%) Unix
3 10 (7.63%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.05%) Linux
5 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.76%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (29.77%) Asset Management
1 39 (29.77%) Investment Management
2 34 (25.95%) Agile
3 19 (14.50%) Risk Management
4 17 (12.98%) Electronic Trading
4 17 (12.98%) Roadmaps
4 17 (12.98%) Software Engineering
5 15 (11.45%) Portfolio Management
6 14 (10.69%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (10.69%) Quantitative Research
7 13 (9.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (9.92%) Fintech
7 13 (9.92%) Machine Learning
8 12 (9.16%) Data Modelling
8 12 (9.16%) Project Management
9 11 (8.40%) SDLC
9 11 (8.40%) UML
10 10 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (6.87%) Business Analysis
11 9 (6.87%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.48%) Python
2 35 (26.72%) SQL
3 15 (11.45%) R
4 9 (6.87%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.87%) VBA
5 6 (4.58%) Java
6 2 (1.53%) Scala
6 2 (1.53%) VBScript
7 1 (0.76%) Clojure
7 1 (0.76%) Groovy
7 1 (0.76%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (16.03%) Degree
2 5 (3.82%) MCSE
2 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.29%) CFA
4 2 (1.53%) CCNA
4 2 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.53%) MCP
4 2 (1.53%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.03%) QA
2 14 (10.69%) EMIR
2 14 (10.69%) MiFID
3 8 (6.11%) Dodd-Frank
4 7 (5.34%) SEPA
5 3 (2.29%) SLA
6 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (6.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.05%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.76%) Control-M
2 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (29.01%) Refinitiv
2 20 (15.27%) Reuters
3 17 (12.98%) Citrix
3 17 (12.98%) ION Trading
4 13 (9.92%) MarketAxess
4 13 (9.92%) Tradeweb
5 12 (9.16%) BISAM
5 12 (9.16%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.34%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.82%) Charles River
8 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.29%) GoldenSource
9 3 (2.29%) Trayport
10 2 (1.53%) Avaloq
10 2 (1.53%) BT
10 2 (1.53%) Cisco
10 2 (1.53%) OpenLink
10 2 (1.53%) Radianz
10 2 (1.53%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.53%) VMware