The first table below looks at the demand for Fund Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fund Management 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Birmingham 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
Fund Management
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Fund Management 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £513 £450
% change year-on-year
-12.19% +13.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
296 374 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.58% 61.01% 57.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 203 181
Average daily rate £350 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £227 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 £525 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 10
Average hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £14.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+116.66% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £119.80 £34.40 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Fund Management
West Midlands

Fund Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Fund Management across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Birmingham Fund Management Jobs Demand Trend

Fund Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Fund Management 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 Fund Management.

1 12 (100.00%) Banking
1 12 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 12 (100.00%) Wealth Management
1 12 (100.00%) Corporate Banking
1 12 (100.00%) Business Transformation
2 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) EMC
2 6 (50.00%) SAN
3 5 (41.67%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) Cisco
4 4 (33.33%) Clustering
5 3 (25.00%) Symmetrix
5 3 (25.00%) EMC TimeFinder
5 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (25.00%) Finance
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) SUSE
5 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (25.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (25.00%) Symmetrix DMX
5 3 (25.00%) SRDF
5 3 (25.00%) Korn
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) Sun
5 3 (25.00%) RDF
5 3 (25.00%) Citrix
5 3 (25.00%) Active Directory

Fund Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Fund Management 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 Fund Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (25.00%) DHCP
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (8.333%) Extranet
3 1 (8.333%) Firewall
3 1 (8.333%) Junos
General
1 12 (100.00%) Banking
1 12 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 12 (100.00%) Corporate Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 3 (25.00%) Storage Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) SAN Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) EMC Storage Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) SAN Storage Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Transition Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Firewall Support
3 1 (8.333%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Clustering
2 3 (25.00%) Symmetrix
2 3 (25.00%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (8.333%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) UNIX
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) AIX
1 3 (25.00%) Solaris
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows 2000
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (25.00%) SUSE
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Wealth Management
1 12 (100.00%) Business Transformation
2 5 (41.67%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) RDF
3 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C
1 3 (25.00%) VB
1 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (25.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) PMP
1 2 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.333%) CCSE
2 1 (8.333%) CCNP
2 1 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (25.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 3 (25.00%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) EMC TimeFinder
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) EMC
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Sun
3 3 (25.00%) HP
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 3 (25.00%) Sybase
3 3 (25.00%) NetApp
3 3 (25.00%) Veritas
4 1 (8.333%) CheckPoint
4 1 (8.333%) McAfee
4 1 (8.333%) Blue Coat
4 1 (8.333%) Juniper