The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year
0 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 50 39 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 25.25% 21.43% 26.42%
As % of the General category 63.29% 57.35% 65.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 16 29
Average daily rate £425 £420 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.19% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £130 £383
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £485 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £9.56 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +0.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -9.09%
All of the General Category
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
79 68 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 39.90% 37.36% 40.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 25 43
Average daily rate £400 £420 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +6.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £156 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £500 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 6
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +40.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Finance
Hampshire

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Finance across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Basingstoke Finance Jobs Demand Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Finance across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Finance across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Basingstoke Finance Daily Rate Histogram

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Finance across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Finance also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Finance.

1 19 (25.68%) Windows
2 17 (22.97%) AIX
2 17 (22.97%) Solaris
2 17 (22.97%) Linux
2 17 (22.97%) UNIX
3 14 (18.92%) Oracle
4 13 (17.57%) SAP
5 12 (16.22%) MS Excel
5 12 (16.22%) Remedy
6 11 (14.86%) BMC
6 11 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (14.86%) ITIL
6 11 (14.86%) Remedy ITSM
6 11 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (13.51%) Management Information System
7 10 (13.51%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (13.51%) SAP BW
8 9 (12.16%) Project Management
8 9 (12.16%) Change Management
8 9 (12.16%) Change Control
9 8 (10.81%) SQL
9 8 (10.81%) Perl
9 8 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (10.81%) Microsoft
9 8 (10.81%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (9.459%) Korn
10 7 (9.459%) B2B
10 7 (9.459%) FTP
10 7 (9.459%) ATM
10 7 (9.459%) PRINCE2

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Finance also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Finance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (6.757%) jQuery
1 5 (6.757%) HTML
1 5 (6.757%) Web Services
2 4 (5.405%) CSS
2 4 (5.405%) SOAP
2 4 (5.405%) soapUI
3 3 (4.054%) REST
3 3 (4.054%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 3 (4.054%) Spring
3 3 (4.054%) JTA
3 3 (4.054%) Spring MVC
3 3 (4.054%) JSON
3 3 (4.054%) Spring Security
3 3 (4.054%) Spring Web Flow
3 3 (4.054%) Java EE
3 3 (4.054%) JPA
3 3 (4.054%) JAXB
3 3 (4.054%) JMS
3 3 (4.054%) EJB
3 3 (4.054%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.405%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (5.405%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (16.22%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.351%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.351%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.351%) MS Project
2 1 (1.351%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (10.81%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (6.757%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (4.054%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (2.703%) SAP FI
5 2 (2.703%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (2.703%) SAP CO
6 1 (1.351%) HFM
6 1 (1.351%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (1.351%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.459%) FTP
1 7 (9.459%) ATM
2 4 (5.405%) LAN
3 3 (4.054%) ISDN
3 3 (4.054%) H.323
4 2 (2.703%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.351%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.351%) Network Security
5 1 (1.351%) VoIP
5 1 (1.351%) WAN
5 1 (1.351%) MPLS
5 1 (1.351%) OSPF
5 1 (1.351%) BGP
5 1 (1.351%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) SAP BW
2 6 (8.108%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.054%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (4.054%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.054%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.054%) DB2
4 2 (2.703%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.703%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.351%) Essbase
5 1 (1.351%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.351%) MySQL
5 1 (1.351%) SAP BI
Development Applications
1 6 (8.108%) Selenium
2 4 (5.405%) Git (software)
2 4 (5.405%) Maven
3 3 (4.054%) SpecFlow
3 3 (4.054%) JBehave
3 3 (4.054%) Mockito
3 3 (4.054%) JUnit
4 2 (2.703%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.351%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.351%) NUnit
5 1 (1.351%) Subversion
5 1 (1.351%) ReSharper
5 1 (1.351%) WATIR
5 1 (1.351%) FitNesse
5 1 (1.351%) Hudson
General
1 10 (13.51%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (6.757%) Manufacturing
3 4 (5.405%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.054%) Banking
4 3 (4.054%) Marketing
4 3 (4.054%) Electronics
5 2 (2.703%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.351%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.351%) Retail
6 1 (1.351%) Billing
6 1 (1.351%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (22.97%) Consultant
2 11 (14.86%) Project Manager
3 6 (8.108%) Architect
3 6 (8.108%) Developer
4 5 (6.757%) Programme Manager
5 4 (5.405%) Analyst
5 4 (5.405%) Administrator
5 4 (5.405%) Programmer
5 4 (5.405%) Designer
5 4 (5.405%) SAS Programmer
5 4 (5.405%) Technical Manager
5 4 (5.405%) Technical Leader
6 3 (4.054%) Business Manager
6 3 (4.054%) Oracle Consultant
6 3 (4.054%) Systems Manager
6 3 (4.054%) Business Systems Manager
6 3 (4.054%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.054%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 3 (4.054%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (4.054%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.51%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.757%) Data Integration
3 4 (5.405%) CMDB
3 4 (5.405%) SecurID
4 3 (4.054%) SaaS
4 3 (4.054%) DTV
5 1 (1.351%) Statistics
5 1 (1.351%) PACS
5 1 (1.351%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.351%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.68%) Windows
2 17 (22.97%) AIX
2 17 (22.97%) Solaris
2 17 (22.97%) Linux
2 17 (22.97%) UNIX
3 5 (6.757%) SUSE
4 3 (4.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
1 11 (14.86%) ITIL
1 11 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (12.16%) Project Management
2 9 (12.16%) Change Management
2 9 (12.16%) Change Control
3 8 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (9.459%) B2B
4 7 (9.459%) PRINCE2
5 6 (8.108%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (8.108%) Programme Management
5 6 (8.108%) BDD
6 5 (6.757%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (6.757%) Configuration Management
7 4 (5.405%) Risk Management
7 4 (5.405%) MVC
7 4 (5.405%) CRM
7 4 (5.405%) Operations Management
7 4 (5.405%) Pair Programming
8 3 (4.054%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.81%) SQL
1 8 (10.81%) Perl
2 7 (9.459%) Korn
3 6 (8.108%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.405%) Java
5 3 (4.054%) C#
6 2 (2.703%) C++
6 2 (2.703%) C
6 2 (2.703%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.703%) Python
7 1 (1.351%) Ruby
7 1 (1.351%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 5 (6.757%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.405%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 4 (5.405%) Degree
3 3 (4.054%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.703%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.703%) CCIE
4 2 (2.703%) CCNP
5 1 (1.351%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.351%) CCIP
5 1 (1.351%) CCNA
5 1 (1.351%) CCDP
5 1 (1.351%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.351%) PMP
5 1 (1.351%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.351%) HNC
5 1 (1.351%) HND
5 1 (1.351%) CIMA
5 1 (1.351%) ISEB
5 1 (1.351%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.405%) CDISC
2 3 (4.054%) SLA
3 1 (1.351%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.757%) VMware Server
1 5 (6.757%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.405%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (9.459%) Control-M
2 3 (4.054%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.351%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (18.92%) Oracle
2 13 (17.57%) SAP
3 12 (16.22%) Remedy
4 11 (14.86%) BMC
5 8 (10.81%) Microsoft
6 7 (9.459%) IBM
7 6 (8.108%) Red Hat
7 6 (8.108%) VMware
8 4 (5.405%) Informatica
8 4 (5.405%) Salesforce.com
8 4 (5.405%) Cisco
9 3 (4.054%) Twitter
9 3 (4.054%) Citrix
9 3 (4.054%) JBoss
10 2 (2.703%) Hyperion
11 1 (1.351%) Adobe
11 1 (1.351%) HP
11 1 (1.351%) Sage
11 1 (1.351%) Primavera
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