The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Investment Banking over the 3 months to 17 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 Bedfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Investment Banking
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - - -
As % of the General category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £390 £388
% change year-on-year
+8.97% +0.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £23.50 £69.00
% change year-on-year
-36.17% -65.94%
All of the General Category
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
75 127 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 40.54% 45.04% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 60 50
Average daily rate £400 £338 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.51% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £225 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £489 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 2
Average hourly rate £32.75 £36.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.88% +22.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Investment Banking
East of England

Investment Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Investment Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire Investment Banking Daily Rate Trend

Investment Banking
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Investment Banking 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 Investment Banking.

1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cognos
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) OLAP
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) EPiServer

Investment Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Investment Banking 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 Investment Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) OLAP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cognos
1 1 (33.33%) EPiServer