The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Cambridgeshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 7 5 6
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 66 100 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 11.19% 13.89% 16.33%
As % of the General category 39.29% 49.26% 56.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 61 57
Average daily rate £425 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £300 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £510 £510
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
Average hourly rate £10.50 £12.15 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.58% -59.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.70 £17.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year
-4.60% -28.57%
All of the General Category
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
168 203 183
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 28.47% 28.19% 28.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 102 88
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £290 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 22
Average hourly rate £37.50 £34.25 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.48% +0.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £12.35 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.00 £49.75 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Finance
East of England

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Peterborough +5 26 £434 -3.61% 9
Cambridge -4 21 £401 +20.45% 28
Huntingdon - - - - 1
St Neots - - - -
Finance
East of England

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 36 (25.71%) Oracle
2 24 (17.14%) Middleware
3 22 (15.71%) .NET
4 21 (15.00%) Java
5 19 (13.57%) SAP
6 16 (11.43%) Financial Institution
6 16 (11.43%) Project Management
6 16 (11.43%) Hedge funds
7 15 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (10.00%) SQL Server
8 14 (10.00%) TDD
9 13 (9.286%) WebLogic
9 13 (9.286%) SOA
10 12 (8.571%) C#
10 12 (8.571%) Information Security
11 11 (7.857%) ESB
11 11 (7.857%) XML
11 11 (7.857%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (7.143%) Microsoft
12 10 (7.143%) SQL
12 10 (7.143%) CODA
12 10 (7.143%) BizTalk Server
12 10 (7.143%) Validation
12 10 (7.143%) SAP PI
12 10 (7.143%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (6.429%) Multithreading
13 9 (6.429%) Windows Azure
13 9 (6.429%) Migration
13 9 (6.429%) Contract for Difference
13 9 (6.429%) Systems Analysis

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 24 (17.14%) Middleware
2 22 (15.71%) .NET
3 11 (7.857%) XML
4 10 (7.143%) SAP PI
4 10 (7.143%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (6.429%) WSDL
5 9 (6.429%) XML Schema
6 7 (5.000%) WCF
6 7 (5.000%) ASP.NET
7 6 (4.286%) DHTML
7 6 (4.286%) NHibernate
8 5 (3.571%) Web Services
8 5 (3.571%) COM+
9 4 (2.857%) ASP
9 4 (2.857%) LINQ
10 3 (2.143%) WebCenter
10 3 (2.143%) WebSphere
11 2 (1.429%) HTML
12 1 (0.714%) CSS3
12 1 (0.714%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 13 (9.286%) WebLogic
2 11 (7.857%) ESB
3 10 (7.143%) BizTalk Server
4 9 (6.429%) Windows Azure
5 7 (5.000%) IIS
6 6 (4.286%) SharePoint
7 5 (3.571%) Sakai Project
8 3 (2.143%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 1 (0.714%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (5.714%) MS Office
2 7 (5.000%) MS Excel
3 4 (2.857%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (2.143%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.571%) CODA-Financials
2 3 (2.143%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.429%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.429%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.429%) Changepoint
3 2 (1.429%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.429%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.429%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.714%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.714%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.714%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.714%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.714%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.714%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.143%) Firewall
1 3 (2.143%) HTTP
2 2 (1.429%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.429%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.429%) Internet
2 2 (1.429%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (1.429%) FCoE
2 2 (1.429%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (1.429%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.714%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (0.714%) Wireless
3 1 (0.714%) VLAN
3 1 (0.714%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.429%) VLDB
3 4 (2.857%) MS Access
4 2 (1.429%) MySQL
4 2 (1.429%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.429%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.714%) QlikView
5 1 (0.714%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.714%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (0.714%) ReportNet
5 1 (0.714%) DB2
5 1 (0.714%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.714%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.714%) Cognos Powerplay
5 1 (0.714%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.714%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 5 (3.571%) Talend Open Studio
2 3 (2.143%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (2.143%) JIRA
2 3 (2.143%) Subversion
3 2 (1.429%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.429%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.714%) Selenium
4 1 (0.714%) MSI
4 1 (0.714%) InstallShield
4 1 (0.714%) AdminStudio
4 1 (0.714%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 16 (11.43%) Financial Institution
2 8 (5.714%) Back Office
3 5 (3.571%) Banking
4 4 (2.857%) Retail
5 3 (2.143%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.429%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.714%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (27.86%) Analyst
2 18 (12.86%) Developer
3 16 (11.43%) Business Analyst
4 15 (10.71%) Architect
5 14 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 13 (9.286%) Administrator
6 13 (9.286%) Project Manager
7 10 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.000%) .NET Developer
8 7 (5.000%) C# Developer
8 7 (5.000%) Senior Support Engineer
9 6 (4.286%) Consultant
10 5 (3.571%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.571%) Java Developer
10 5 (3.571%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 5 (3.571%) Test Analyst
10 5 (3.571%) Applications Specialist
11 4 (2.857%) Support Analyst
11 4 (2.857%) Systems Administrator
11 4 (2.857%) SAP Manager
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.43%) Hedge funds
2 9 (6.429%) Contract for Difference
2 9 (6.429%) N-Tier
3 8 (5.714%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.000%) Open Source
4 7 (5.000%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.571%) VLE
6 1 (0.714%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.714%) Clustering
6 1 (0.714%) CLARiiON
6 1 (0.714%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.714%) Physics
6 1 (0.714%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.714%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.714%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.429%) Windows
2 2 (1.429%) UNIX
3 1 (0.714%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (11.43%) Project Management
2 15 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
3 14 (10.00%) TDD
4 13 (9.286%) SOA
5 12 (8.571%) Information Security
6 11 (7.857%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (7.143%) Validation
8 9 (6.429%) Multithreading
8 9 (6.429%) Migration
8 9 (6.429%) Systems Analysis
9 8 (5.714%) PRINCE2
9 8 (5.714%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (5.000%) Cash Management
10 7 (5.000%) System Testing
10 7 (5.000%) Risk Management
10 7 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
10 7 (5.000%) Software Testing
11 6 (4.286%) E-Commerce
11 6 (4.286%) ITIL
11 6 (4.286%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.00%) Java
2 12 (8.571%) C#
3 10 (7.143%) SQL
4 7 (5.000%) VB
5 6 (4.286%) VB6
6 4 (2.857%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.857%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.714%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.714%) F#
Qualifications
1 6 (4.286%) Degree
2 5 (3.571%) ISEB
3 3 (2.143%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 3 (2.143%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.143%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.429%) MCSE
4 2 (1.429%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.714%) CCEE
5 1 (0.714%) PMP
5 1 (0.714%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.714%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.714%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.714%) PhD
5 1 (0.714%) CCNP
5 1 (0.714%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.571%) SLA
2 3 (2.143%) QA
3 1 (0.714%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (5.714%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.429%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.714%) vSphere
3 1 (0.714%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.714%) XenApp
3 1 (0.714%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.714%) VMware ESX
3 1 (0.714%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.714%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.714%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.714%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (5.000%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 6 (4.286%) HP Quality Center
3 5 (3.571%) Control-M
4 4 (2.857%) SCCM
5 3 (2.143%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 36 (25.71%) Oracle
2 19 (13.57%) SAP
3 10 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.143%) CODA
4 8 (5.714%) BMC
5 6 (4.286%) HP
5 6 (4.286%) Citrix
6 5 (3.571%) Talend
6 5 (3.571%) SunGard
6 5 (3.571%) Remedy
7 4 (2.857%) IT2
8 3 (2.143%) Cisco
9 2 (1.429%) IBM
9 2 (1.429%) Unisys
9 2 (1.429%) VMware
10 1 (0.714%) Twitter
10 1 (0.714%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.714%) AppSense
10 1 (0.714%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.714%) CheckPoint
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