The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Reference Data over the 3 months to 23 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 Miscellaneous category for the Canary Wharf 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Reference Data
Rank 43 40 32
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -8
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 7 9 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.799% 2.356% 5.825%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.911% 5.769% 8.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 16
Average daily rate £600 £600 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £350 £438
10% offered a daily rate of more than £750 £800 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £396 £330
% change year-on-year
+16.79% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
179 156 370
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 46.02% 40.84% 71.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 100 295
Average daily rate £600 £550 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £42.50 - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Reference Data
London

Reference Data
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Reference Data across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Canary Wharf Reference Data Jobs Demand Trend

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Reference Data across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Reference Data Daily Rate Trend

Reference Data
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Reference Data across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Reference Data Daily Rate Histogram

Reference Data
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data.

1 4 (36.36%) Data Mining
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Derivative
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Front Office
2 3 (27.27%) GoldenSource
3 2 (18.18%) Back Office
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Equities
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
3 2 (18.18%) Data Management
3 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) QA
3 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
4 1 (9.091%) Wiki
4 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) XML
4 1 (9.091%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (9.091%) Reuters
4 1 (9.091%) Bloomberg
4 1 (9.091%) Service Management
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement

Reference Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) XML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Mining
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Front Office
3 2 (18.18%) Back Office
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Business Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Data Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Architect
5 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (9.091%) QA Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (9.091%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.091%) Senior Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Derivative
2 2 (18.18%) Equities
2 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
3 1 (9.091%) Wiki
3 1 (9.091%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Project Management
1 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
1 2 (18.18%) Data Management
1 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
1 2 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
1 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
2 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
2 1 (9.091%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (9.091%) Service Management
2 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) GoldenSource
2 1 (9.091%) Reuters
2 1 (9.091%) Bloomberg