The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Banking 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 Cambridge 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
Banking
Rank - - 30
Contract jobs citing Banking 0 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - - 1.563%
As % of the General category - - 6.557%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £390 £385
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £22.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.68% +15.78%
All of the General Category
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
98 99 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 29.79% 23.35% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 55 31
Average daily rate £368 £350 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +4.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £235 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 10
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.15 £11.50 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.50 £48.75 £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Banking
Cambridgeshire

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Banking Daily Rate Trend

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing 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 Banking.

1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) ISO 9001
1 3 (50.00%) ISEB
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Kindle
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Business Objects
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
3 1 (16.67%) DHTML
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) SNMP
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (16.67%) SunGard
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) NHibernate
3 1 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) WCF
3 1 (16.67%) LINQ
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing 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 Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) DHTML
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) NHibernate
1 1 (16.67%) WCF
1 1 (16.67%) LINQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Kindle
2 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Test Management
1 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
1 1 (16.67%) Scrum
1 1 (16.67%) TDD
1 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Business Objects
2 1 (16.67%) SunGard