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 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 528 632
Rank change year-on-year +65 +104 -15
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 127 160 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 0.66% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 119 180
10th Percentile £311 £286 £263
25th Percentile £396 £467 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +22.73%
75th Percentile £763 £739 £766
90th Percentile £850 £853 £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 18,475 24,264 35,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.50% 43.51% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,478 16,171 23,828
10th Percentile £268 £268 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +8.47%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,154 643 858
10th Percentile £12.25 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.00 £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 £64.50 £47.99
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £35.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% +79.49% +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 7 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 7 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 +56 125 £650 +4.00% 47
London +48 120 £650 +4.00% 44
Work from Home +119 38 £725 +20.83% 11
UK excluding London +57 5 £200 +25.00% 6
North of England - 3 £200 -
South West - 3 £200 - 3
North West - 3 £200 -
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 11 (8.66%) Confluence
2 5 (3.94%) Apache
2 5 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.79%) SAS
5 1 (0.79%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 25 (19.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (8.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (8.66%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (14.17%) Aladdin
2 10 (7.87%) ION MarketView
3 4 (3.15%) Eikon
4 3 (2.36%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (2.36%) Endur
4 3 (2.36%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (2.36%) ION Anvil
5 2 (1.57%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.57%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 32 (25.20%) AWS
2 15 (11.81%) GCP
3 14 (11.02%) Azure
4 13 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.94%) dbt
6 4 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.15%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.36%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.36%) Serverless
8 2 (1.57%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.45%) Firewall
2 11 (8.66%) FIX Connectivity
3 6 (4.72%) VPN
4 3 (2.36%) WebEx
5 1 (0.79%) DHCP
5 1 (0.79%) DNS
5 1 (0.79%) FTP
5 1 (0.79%) Skype
5 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (3.94%) Apache Arrow
1 5 (3.94%) Apache Ignite
1 5 (3.94%) Dremio
2 4 (3.15%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.36%) Data Vault
4 2 (1.57%) KDB
5 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (11.02%) JIRA
2 12 (9.45%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.36%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.79%) Git
General
1 72 (56.69%) Finance
2 56 (44.09%) Front Office
3 52 (40.94%) Banking
4 31 (24.41%) Investment Banking
5 20 (15.75%) Social Skills
6 15 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.15%) Publishing
8 3 (2.36%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.79%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 54 (42.52%) Analyst
2 40 (31.50%) Business Analyst
3 19 (14.96%) Developer
4 17 (13.39%) Data Business Analyst
5 16 (12.60%) Support Engineer
6 15 (11.81%) Finance Business Analyst
6 15 (11.81%) Financial Analyst
7 13 (10.24%) Data Analyst
7 13 (10.24%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 13 (10.24%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 12 (9.45%) Market Analyst
8 12 (9.45%) Market Data Analyst
8 12 (9.45%) Python Developer
9 11 (8.66%) Finance Manager
9 11 (8.66%) Quantitative Developer
10 10 (7.87%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
11 9 (7.09%) Desktop Support
11 9 (7.09%) Front Office Business Analyst
12 8 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (5.51%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.81%) FIX Protocol
2 11 (8.66%) XML
3 5 (3.94%) Kafka
3 5 (3.94%) NumPy
3 5 (3.94%) Pandas
4 4 (3.15%) gRPC
4 4 (3.15%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (3.15%) SciPy
5 3 (2.36%) .NET
5 3 (2.36%) Middleware
5 3 (2.36%) PySpark
5 3 (2.36%) Spring
6 2 (1.57%) React
6 2 (1.57%) Rendezvous
7 1 (0.79%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.79%) JPA
7 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.79%) REST
7 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.79%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 49 (38.58%) Derivative
2 46 (36.22%) Fixed Income
3 37 (29.13%) Hedge funds
4 33 (25.98%) Equities
5 26 (20.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (14.17%) Product Ownership
7 10 (7.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (3.15%) Blackberry
9 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.36%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.57%) iPad
10 2 (1.57%) iPhone
10 2 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.79%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.32%) Windows
2 15 (11.81%) Unix
3 9 (7.09%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.36%) Linux
5 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.79%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.07%) Asset Management
2 39 (30.71%) Investment Management
3 37 (29.13%) Agile
4 20 (15.75%) Roadmaps
5 18 (14.17%) Portfolio Management
5 18 (14.17%) Risk Management
6 17 (13.39%) Software Engineering
7 15 (11.81%) Electronic Trading
8 14 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (10.24%) Artificial Intelligence
9 13 (10.24%) Fintech
9 13 (10.24%) Machine Learning
10 11 (8.66%) Quantitative Research
11 10 (7.87%) Business Analysis
11 10 (7.87%) Data Modelling
11 10 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (7.87%) SDLC
12 9 (7.09%) Migration
12 9 (7.09%) Project Management
12 9 (7.09%) UML
Programming Languages
1 41 (32.28%) SQL
2 40 (31.50%) Python
3 11 (8.66%) Java
3 11 (8.66%) R
4 10 (7.87%) VBA
5 4 (3.15%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.36%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.57%) Scala
8 1 (0.79%) Clojure
8 1 (0.79%) Groovy
8 1 (0.79%) Perl
8 1 (0.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (16.54%) Degree
2 3 (2.36%) CFA
2 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.57%) CCNA
3 2 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.57%) MCP
3 2 (1.57%) MCSA
3 2 (1.57%) MCSE
3 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.96%) QA
2 13 (10.24%) EMIR
3 12 (9.45%) MiFID
4 7 (5.51%) SEPA
5 6 (4.72%) Dodd-Frank
6 5 (3.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) Cronacle
2 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.79%) Control-M
2 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (24.41%) Refinitiv
2 24 (18.90%) Reuters
3 17 (13.39%) ION Trading
4 13 (10.24%) Citrix
5 12 (9.45%) BISAM
5 12 (9.45%) Tradeweb
6 11 (8.66%) MarketAxess
7 10 (7.87%) Microsoft
8 5 (3.94%) Charles River
9 4 (3.15%) ServiceNow
9 4 (3.15%) Trayport
10 3 (2.36%) GoldenSource
10 3 (2.36%) OpenLink
10 3 (2.36%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.57%) Avaloq
11 2 (1.57%) BT
11 2 (1.57%) Cisco
11 2 (1.57%) Radianz
11 2 (1.57%) Solace
11 2 (1.57%) TIBCO