The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Banking over the 3 months to 19 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 Cheshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Banking
Rank 7 3 9
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +6
Contract jobs citing Banking 105 119 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 14.48% 14.60% 10.41%
As % of the General category 31.34% 33.06% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 101 68
Average daily rate £370 £388 £309
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.51% +25.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £232 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £488 £399
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £388
% change year-on-year
- +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £70.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -67.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £22.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-6.74% +5.95%
All of the General Category
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
335 360 477
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 46.21% 44.17% 51.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 251 320
Average daily rate £370 £363 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.06% +7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £292 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 16
Average hourly rate £40.29 £24.33 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.61% +8.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.60 £21.39 £9.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.25 £31.00 £70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £24.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+0.05% -3.89%
Banking
North West

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Banking Daily Rate Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Banking across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cheshire Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Banking
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Knutsford -2 32 £375 +15.38% 5
Chester -5 4 £175 -57.05% 1
Wilmslow - - - -
Banking
North West

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 105 (61.40%) Finance
2 46 (26.90%) Migration
3 44 (25.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 43 (25.15%) Retail
5 39 (22.81%) UNIX
5 39 (22.81%) Windows
6 38 (22.22%) Retail Banking
7 32 (18.71%) IBM
7 32 (18.71%) Project Management
8 29 (16.96%) ITIL
9 28 (16.37%) Oracle
10 20 (11.70%) Linux
10 20 (11.70%) Middleware
11 19 (11.11%) PRINCE2
11 19 (11.11%) Mainframe
12 17 (9.942%) Information Security
13 15 (8.772%) Risk Management
13 15 (8.772%) Change Management
14 14 (8.187%) SQL
14 14 (8.187%) Blackberry
14 14 (8.187%) PMI Certification
15 13 (7.602%) VB
15 13 (7.602%) WebSphere
15 13 (7.602%) Change Control
16 12 (7.018%) Java
16 12 (7.018%) PMI
17 11 (6.433%) Windows 7
18 10 (5.848%) Windows XP
18 10 (5.848%) Investment Banking
19 9 (5.263%) AIX

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 20 (11.70%) Middleware
2 13 (7.602%) WebSphere
3 8 (4.678%) .NET
3 8 (4.678%) XML
3 8 (4.678%) Ajax
3 8 (4.678%) jQuery
4 7 (4.094%) WebSphere MQ
5 5 (2.924%) Struts2
5 5 (2.924%) Hibernate
5 5 (2.924%) J2EE
5 5 (2.924%) XSD
5 5 (2.924%) Struts
5 5 (2.924%) Web Services
5 5 (2.924%) EJB
5 5 (2.924%) JSP
5 5 (2.924%) Servlets
5 5 (2.924%) HTML
5 5 (2.924%) JMS
5 5 (2.924%) WSDL
6 3 (1.754%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 5 (2.924%) WebLogic
1 5 (2.924%) MS Exchange
2 4 (2.339%) CMS
2 4 (2.339%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (2.339%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (1.754%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (1.170%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.170%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (0.585%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.585%) Exchange Server 5.5
5 1 (0.585%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 1 (0.585%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.585%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.585%) IIS
5 1 (0.585%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 8 (4.678%) MS Excel
1 8 (4.678%) MS Office
2 6 (3.509%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.170%) MS Project
3 2 (1.170%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.585%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.678%) Firewall
2 7 (4.094%) SAN
3 4 (2.339%) WAN
3 4 (2.339%) Internet
3 4 (2.339%) LDAP
4 3 (1.754%) OSPF
4 3 (1.754%) EIGRP
4 3 (1.754%) IGRP
4 3 (1.754%) BGP
4 3 (1.754%) Extranet
4 3 (1.754%) SMTP
4 3 (1.754%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.170%) VPN
5 2 (1.170%) 3G
5 2 (1.170%) Broadband
5 2 (1.170%) PBX
5 2 (1.170%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.585%) NAS
6 1 (0.585%) VoIP
6 1 (0.585%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.094%) DB2
2 6 (3.509%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.924%) DataStage
4 4 (2.339%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.170%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.170%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (1.170%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.585%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.585%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.585%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.585%) TOAD
7 1 (0.585%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (2.924%) Subversion
1 5 (2.924%) ClearCase
2 4 (2.339%) MSI
2 4 (2.339%) InstallShield
2 4 (2.339%) Wise Package Studio
3 3 (1.754%) Git (software)
3 3 (1.754%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (1.754%) Gradle
3 3 (1.754%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.585%) LoadRunner
General
1 105 (61.40%) Finance
2 43 (25.15%) Retail
3 38 (22.22%) Retail Banking
4 10 (5.848%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.509%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.754%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.170%) Legal
8 1 (0.585%) French Language
8 1 (0.585%) German Language
8 1 (0.585%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.585%) Portuguese Language
8 1 (0.585%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.585%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.585%) Law
8 1 (0.585%) Billing
Job Titles
1 41 (23.98%) Project Manager
2 17 (9.942%) Analyst
3 14 (8.187%) Architect
4 11 (6.433%) Designer
5 10 (5.848%) Developer
5 10 (5.848%) Solutions Designer
6 9 (5.263%) Consultant
7 8 (4.678%) Technical Manager
8 7 (4.094%) Implementation Manager
9 6 (3.509%) Risk Manager
9 6 (3.509%) Migration Engineer
9 6 (3.509%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.509%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.509%) Build Engineer
10 5 (2.924%) Technical Implementation Manager
10 5 (2.924%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.924%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (2.924%) Java Developer
11 4 (2.339%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (2.339%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 14 (8.187%) Blackberry
3 12 (7.018%) PMI
4 6 (3.509%) Tandem
4 6 (3.509%) IBM Mainframe
5 5 (2.924%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.339%) CMDB
7 3 (1.754%) Computer Science
7 3 (1.754%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.754%) Clustering
7 3 (1.754%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.170%) Replication
8 2 (1.170%) IVR
9 1 (0.585%) Online Banking
9 1 (0.585%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.585%) Mobile Payment
9 1 (0.585%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.585%) EPoS
9 1 (0.585%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 39 (22.81%) UNIX
1 39 (22.81%) Windows
2 20 (11.70%) Linux
3 11 (6.433%) Windows 7
4 10 (5.848%) Windows XP
5 9 (5.263%) AIX
6 5 (2.924%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (2.339%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (1.754%) Windows 8
9 2 (1.170%) Windows 2000
9 2 (1.170%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.170%) Android
10 1 (0.585%) Windows Phone
10 1 (0.585%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (26.90%) Migration
2 44 (25.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (18.71%) Project Management
4 29 (16.96%) ITIL
5 19 (11.11%) PRINCE2
6 17 (9.942%) Information Security
7 15 (8.772%) Risk Management
7 15 (8.772%) Change Management
8 13 (7.602%) Change Control
9 8 (4.678%) PRINCE
9 8 (4.678%) E-Commerce
10 7 (4.094%) Capacity Planning
10 7 (4.094%) Agile Software Development
10 7 (4.094%) ETL
11 6 (3.509%) Configuration Management
11 6 (3.509%) Business Analysis
11 6 (3.509%) Content Management
11 6 (3.509%) Service Management
11 6 (3.509%) BDD
12 5 (2.924%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.187%) SQL
2 13 (7.602%) VB
3 12 (7.018%) Java
4 8 (4.678%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.094%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.509%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.924%) VBScript
8 4 (2.339%) C
8 4 (2.339%) C#
9 3 (1.754%) Groovy
9 3 (1.754%) Perl
10 2 (1.170%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.170%) C++
11 1 (0.585%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (8.187%) PMI Certification
2 5 (2.924%) Degree
3 4 (2.339%) PMP
3 4 (2.339%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.339%) CCNA
3 4 (2.339%) CISA
4 3 (1.754%) JNCIA
4 3 (1.754%) CCNP
4 3 (1.754%) ISEB
4 3 (1.754%) CISSP
5 2 (1.170%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.170%) MCSE
5 2 (1.170%) GIAC
6 1 (0.585%) CRISC
6 1 (0.585%) CISM
6 1 (0.585%) QiCA
6 1 (0.585%) MCTS
6 1 (0.585%) MCITP
6 1 (0.585%) CEH
6 1 (0.585%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.924%) QA
2 2 (1.170%) SLA
2 2 (1.170%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.170%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.585%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.585%) Basel III
System Software
1 8 (4.678%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.094%) XenApp
3 5 (2.924%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.924%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.170%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (0.585%) Postfix
5 1 (0.585%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 6 (3.509%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 6 (3.509%) SCCM
2 5 (2.924%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (2.339%) ZENworks
4 3 (1.754%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.170%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 2 (1.170%) Oracle Identity Manager
6 1 (0.585%) ServiceCenter
6 1 (0.585%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.585%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.585%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 32 (18.71%) IBM
2 28 (16.37%) Oracle
3 9 (5.263%) Citrix
3 9 (5.263%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.509%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.509%) VMware
4 6 (3.509%) Brocade
5 5 (2.924%) SAP
5 5 (2.924%) Chordiant
5 5 (2.924%) JBoss
5 5 (2.924%) Cisco
5 5 (2.924%) Juniper
5 5 (2.924%) Hitachi
6 4 (2.339%) Dell
6 4 (2.339%) Nortel
6 4 (2.339%) BMC
6 4 (2.339%) Novell
6 4 (2.339%) AppSense
6 4 (2.339%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.754%) HP
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