The first table below looks at the demand for Risk Management skills 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 Risk Management 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Risk Management
Rank 19 33 22
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -11
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 38 17 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 9.845% 4.497% 8.932%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.91% 5.724% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 27
Average daily rate £575 £538 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.97% -6.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £400 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £675 £620
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £388 £425
% change year-on-year
+9.67% -8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+16.00% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
319 297 391
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 82.64% 78.57% 75.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 186 295
Average daily rate £550 £550 £550
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £350 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £65.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +333.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Risk Management
London

Risk Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf Risk Management Jobs Demand Trend

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf Risk Management Daily Rate Trend

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Risk Management across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Risk Management Daily Rate Histogram

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Risk Management across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Risk Management Hourly Rate Trend

Risk Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Risk 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 Risk Management.

1 27 (47.37%) SQL
2 25 (43.86%) Finance
3 18 (31.58%) C#
3 18 (31.58%) Oracle
4 17 (29.82%) Market Risk
5 16 (28.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (26.32%) Multithreading
7 13 (22.81%) Front Office
7 13 (22.81%) Java
8 12 (21.05%) OOP
8 12 (21.05%) Project Management
9 10 (17.54%) Linux
9 10 (17.54%) OLAP
9 10 (17.54%) Business Objects
9 10 (17.54%) Banking
10 9 (15.79%) Credit Derivative
10 9 (15.79%) QlikView
10 9 (15.79%) Derivative
10 9 (15.79%) C++
10 9 (15.79%) OO
11 8 (14.04%) MS Excel
11 8 (14.04%) SQLPlus
11 8 (14.04%) TOAD
11 8 (14.04%) Oracle OLAP
11 8 (14.04%) WPF
11 8 (14.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (14.04%) Waterfall
12 7 (12.28%) 29West
12 7 (12.28%) MDX
12 7 (12.28%) Oracle Coherence

Risk Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Risk 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 Risk Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (14.04%) WPF
2 7 (12.28%) MDX
3 4 (7.018%) .NET
4 3 (5.263%) LAMP
4 3 (5.263%) WCF
4 3 (5.263%) XML
4 3 (5.263%) HTML
5 2 (3.509%) STL
5 2 (3.509%) OpenGL
5 2 (3.509%) DirectX
5 2 (3.509%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (3.509%) WebGL
6 1 (1.754%) Task Parallel Library
6 1 (1.754%) LINQ
6 1 (1.754%) jQuery
6 1 (1.754%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.754%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.754%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.754%) DCOM
Application Platforms
1 7 (12.28%) Oracle Coherence
2 6 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.263%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (14.04%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.509%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.509%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.754%) PowerPivot
3 1 (1.754%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (12.28%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.509%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) OLAP
2 9 (15.79%) QlikView
3 8 (14.04%) SQLPlus
3 8 (14.04%) TOAD
3 8 (14.04%) Oracle OLAP
3 8 (14.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (7.018%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.263%) MySQL
6 2 (3.509%) MS Access
6 2 (3.509%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (3.509%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (1.754%) ReportNet
7 1 (1.754%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.754%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (3.509%) JIRA
1 2 (3.509%) CruiseControl
1 2 (3.509%) Build Forge
1 2 (3.509%) Hudson
General
1 25 (43.86%) Finance
2 13 (22.81%) Front Office
3 10 (17.54%) Banking
4 6 (10.53%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.018%) Retail
6 2 (3.509%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.509%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.754%) Legal
7 1 (1.754%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (40.35%) Developer
2 17 (29.82%) Analyst
3 10 (17.54%) Business Analyst
4 7 (12.28%) Market Risk Developer
5 5 (8.772%) Project Manager
6 4 (7.018%) Front Office Developer
6 4 (7.018%) Excel Developer
6 4 (7.018%) C# Developer
6 4 (7.018%) Java Team Leader
6 4 (7.018%) Team Leader
7 3 (5.263%) Market Risk Business Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Market Risk Analyst
8 2 (3.509%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (3.509%) Consultant
8 2 (3.509%) PMO Analyst
8 2 (3.509%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.509%) Market Data Specialist
9 1 (1.754%) Senior SQL Developer
9 1 (1.754%) Data Visualisation Specialist
9 1 (1.754%) RAD Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.82%) Market Risk
2 16 (28.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (15.79%) Credit Derivative
3 9 (15.79%) Derivative
4 5 (8.772%) Credit Risk
5 3 (5.263%) Equities
6 2 (3.509%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.509%) Mathematics
6 2 (3.509%) Computer Science
6 2 (3.509%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (3.509%) Visualisation
7 1 (1.754%) SWIFT
7 1 (1.754%) Economics
7 1 (1.754%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.754%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.54%) Linux
2 7 (12.28%) Solaris
3 1 (1.754%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) Multithreading
2 12 (21.05%) OOP
2 12 (21.05%) Project Management
3 9 (15.79%) OO
4 8 (14.04%) Waterfall
5 7 (12.28%) E-Commerce
6 6 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (10.53%) Software Engineering
6 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (8.772%) UML
8 4 (7.018%) Stress Testing
8 4 (7.018%) Data Modelling
8 4 (7.018%) MVC
8 4 (7.018%) Change Management
8 4 (7.018%) Wealth Management
9 3 (5.263%) Scrum
9 3 (5.263%) Algorithmic Trading
9 3 (5.263%) Operations Management
10 2 (3.509%) Business Analysis
10 2 (3.509%) AOP
Programming Languages
1 27 (47.37%) SQL
2 18 (31.58%) C#
3 13 (22.81%) Java
4 9 (15.79%) C++
5 5 (8.772%) VBA
6 4 (7.018%) C
7 3 (5.263%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.263%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (8.772%) Degree
2 1 (1.754%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.509%) COBIT
1 2 (3.509%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (31.58%) Oracle
2 10 (17.54%) Business Objects
3 7 (12.28%) 29West
4 3 (5.263%) Fidessa
5 2 (3.509%) Reuters
5 2 (3.509%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.509%) StatPro
5 2 (3.509%) Trayport
6 1 (1.754%) Teradata
6 1 (1.754%) Perforce
6 1 (1.754%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.754%) Cognos
6 1 (1.754%) SAP