Financial market data contracts
UK public sector · 56 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 56
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £121k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £30.7m
- 52 of 56 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 32
- Suppliers
- 24
29 financial market data contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most financial market data contracts took 63% of them (35 of 56).
- The median contract, £121k, is close to the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
- London had the most contracts: 19, or 34% of the total.
Who buys financial market data
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1BANK OF ENGLAND8 contracts£5.9m
- 2Financial Conduct Authority6 contracts£17.7m
- 3UK Export Finance4 contracts£445k
- 4NATIONAL WEALTH FUND LIMITED3 contracts£270k
- 5BORDER TO COAST PENSIONS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED3 contracts£253k
- 6Government Actuary's Department2 contracts£378k
- 7Coventry University2 contracts£296k
- 8University of Strathclyde2 contracts£269k
- 9University of Bedfordshire2 contracts£122k
- 10Ofgem2 contracts—
Top financial market data contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Bloomberg16 contracts£7.0m
- 2Refinitiv7 contracts£17.4m
- 3S&P Global5 contracts£514k
- 4London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)4 contracts£282k
- 5Moody's3 contracts£873k
- 6S&P DOW JONES INDICES LIMITED2 contracts—
- 7Experian1 contract£1.5m
- 8Moneyfacts Group1 contract£460k
- 9Dun & Bradstreet1 contract£333k
- 10Oxford Economics Group Ltd1 contract£325k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Cardiff Metropolitan University to London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) · Awarded 1 October 2026
Department for Business and Trade to S&P Global · Awarded 18 September 2026
Ulster University to Bloomberg · Awarded 11 September 2026
Competition and Markets Authority to Refinitiv · Awarded 3 September 2026
2025-089 PRA Subscription (official notice, opens in a new tab)
Value not published
Ofgem to S&P DOW JONES INDICES LIMITED · Awarded 20 August 2026
iBoxx Subscription (official notice, opens in a new tab)
Value not published
Ofgem to S&P DOW JONES INDICES LIMITED · Awarded 20 August 2026
UK Export Finance to Oxford Economics Group Ltd · Awarded 4 August 2026
UK GOVERNMENT INVESTMENTS LIMITED to S&P Global · Awarded 15 July 2026
Coventry University to Bloomberg · Awarded 13 July 2026
University of Strathclyde to Bloomberg · Awarded 8 July 2026
Largest
Financial Conduct Authority to Refinitiv · Awarded 11 June 2026
BANK OF ENGLAND to Bloomberg · Awarded 25 February 2026
Development Bank of Wales to Experian · Awarded 30 March 2026
Financial Conduct Authority to Refinitiv · Awarded 31 December 2025
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 49 · Scotland 3 · Wales 3 · Northern Ireland 1
What is included
Market data feeds, credit ratings and credit risk datasets for financial markets work, and the systems that manage market data subscriptions.
- Market data feeds and services
- Credit ratings services
- Credit default and credit risk datasets
- Market data inventory and management systems
What is not included
- Company accounts databases (it.data.company-and-business-information)
- Consumer credit reference data (it.data.geodemographic-and-consumer-data)
- Cryptoasset analytics (it.lob.police-intelligence-analysis)