Finance IT Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 167 229 351
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.85% 28.70% 35.45%
As % of the General category 52.19% 68.56% 69.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 164 255
Average daily rate £370 £350 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £288 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £506 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
Average hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -6.97%
All of the General Category
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 320 334 508
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 43.78% 41.85% 51.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 224 354
Average daily rate £370 £373 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.80% +12.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £288 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £513 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 14
Average hourly rate £40.57 £27.58 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.12% +112.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.36 £21.18 £9.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £31.00 £70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Finance
North West

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Finance across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cheshire Finance Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Knutsford 0 51 £370 +13.84%
Warrington +6 17 £400 +10.34%
Chester -5 16 £350 -6.66%
Macclesfield -6 3 £325 -10.95%
Alderley Edge +2 1 £425 +6.25%
Finance
North West

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 114 (34.76%) Banking
2 70 (21.34%) Project Management
3 59 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 58 (17.68%) Migration
4 58 (17.68%) Windows
5 45 (13.72%) UNIX
6 44 (13.41%) PRINCE2
7 40 (12.20%) SQL
8 38 (11.59%) Oracle
9 35 (10.67%) ITIL
10 34 (10.37%) Change Management
11 33 (10.06%) Retail
12 27 (8.232%) Security Cleared
12 27 (8.232%) Mainframe
13 26 (7.927%) IBM
14 25 (7.622%) Risk Management
15 24 (7.317%) Citrix
16 22 (6.707%) MS Excel
16 22 (6.707%) SC Cleared
17 21 (6.402%) SAP
17 21 (6.402%) PMI Certification
18 20 (6.098%) Linux
19 19 (5.793%) Information Security
19 19 (5.793%) Retail Banking
20 18 (5.488%) Telecoms
20 18 (5.488%) PL/SQL
21 17 (5.183%) Service Delivery
21 17 (5.183%) Blackberry
21 17 (5.183%) Middleware
21 17 (5.183%) WebSphere

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 17 (5.183%) Middleware
1 17 (5.183%) WebSphere
2 13 (3.963%) jQuery
3 12 (3.659%) Ajax
4 9 (2.744%) Web Services
4 9 (2.744%) .NET
4 9 (2.744%) J2EE
4 9 (2.744%) JSP
4 9 (2.744%) Servlets
4 9 (2.744%) WSDL
4 9 (2.744%) Hibernate
5 7 (2.134%) XML
5 7 (2.134%) ASP.NET
6 5 (1.524%) XSD
6 5 (1.524%) Struts
6 5 (1.524%) EJB
6 5 (1.524%) JMS
6 5 (1.524%) Application Packaging
6 5 (1.524%) Struts2
7 4 (1.220%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 9 (2.744%) SharePoint
1 9 (2.744%) CMS
2 8 (2.439%) MS Exchange
3 5 (1.524%) WebLogic
3 5 (1.524%) Apache
3 5 (1.524%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (1.220%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (1.220%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (0.915%) IIS
5 3 (0.915%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.610%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.610%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (0.610%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (0.305%) SAS
7 1 (0.305%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.305%) eRoom
7 1 (0.305%) Mule
7 1 (0.305%) WordPress
7 1 (0.305%) Drupal
7 1 (0.305%) ESB
Applications
1 22 (6.707%) MS Excel
2 8 (2.439%) MS PowerPoint
3 7 (2.134%) MS Project
3 7 (2.134%) MS Office
4 4 (1.220%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.915%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.305%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 16 (4.878%) Oracle EBS R12
2 11 (3.354%) Oracle Applications
2 11 (3.354%) Oracle Payroll
3 10 (3.049%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (2.439%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.610%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.610%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.305%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.305%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.305%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.305%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.305%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.305%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.305%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.305%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.305%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.305%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.963%) Internet
2 11 (3.354%) Firewall
3 6 (1.829%) WAN
4 5 (1.524%) LAN
4 5 (1.524%) Extranet
5 4 (1.220%) SMTP
5 4 (1.220%) HTTP
6 3 (0.915%) LDAP
6 3 (0.915%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.610%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.305%) CTI
8 1 (0.305%) SAN
8 1 (0.305%) DNS
8 1 (0.305%) SSL
8 1 (0.305%) PBX
8 1 (0.305%) VoIP
8 1 (0.305%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.305%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.305%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.305%) IGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.878%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.439%) DB2
3 6 (1.829%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (1.829%) DataStage
3 6 (1.829%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.524%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (1.220%) Oracle 11g
6 3 (0.915%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.915%) SAP BW
6 3 (0.915%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (0.610%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.610%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.305%) TOAD
8 1 (0.305%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.305%) GIS
8 1 (0.305%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.744%) Subversion
2 7 (2.134%) Visual Studio
2 7 (2.134%) MSI
2 7 (2.134%) InstallShield
3 5 (1.524%) ClearCase
4 4 (1.220%) Wise Package Studio
4 4 (1.220%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 4 (1.220%) JUnit
5 3 (0.915%) Gradle
5 3 (0.915%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.915%) ClearQuest
5 3 (0.915%) JIRA
5 3 (0.915%) FinalBuilder
5 3 (0.915%) Git (software)
6 2 (0.610%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.305%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.305%) PVCS
7 1 (0.305%) Ant
7 1 (0.305%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.305%) LSMW
General
1 114 (34.76%) Banking
2 33 (10.06%) Retail
3 19 (5.793%) Retail Banking
4 18 (5.488%) Telecoms
5 8 (2.439%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.134%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.524%) Legal
8 4 (1.220%) Billing
9 3 (0.915%) Local Government
9 3 (0.915%) Marketing
10 2 (0.610%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.610%) Back Office
11 1 (0.305%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.305%) Law
11 1 (0.305%) Military
11 1 (0.305%) French Language
11 1 (0.305%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (22.87%) Project Manager
2 43 (13.11%) Analyst
3 25 (7.622%) Developer
4 21 (6.402%) Consultant
5 19 (5.793%) Architect
6 15 (4.573%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 15 (4.573%) Service Manager
6 15 (4.573%) Infrastructure Manager
7 14 (4.268%) Business Analyst
8 13 (3.963%) Security Manager
9 12 (3.659%) Oracle Consultant
9 12 (3.659%) Programme Manager
10 10 (3.049%) Security Project Manager
10 10 (3.049%) Designer
10 10 (3.049%) Data Analyst
11 8 (2.439%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (2.134%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.134%) Build Engineer
12 7 (2.134%) Implementation Manager
12 7 (2.134%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.232%) Mainframe
2 17 (5.183%) Blackberry
3 15 (4.573%) PMI
4 6 (1.829%) Mobile Banking
5 5 (1.524%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.524%) Online Banking
6 4 (1.220%) Web 2.0
6 4 (1.220%) Clustering
7 3 (0.915%) Reference Data
7 3 (0.915%) Computer Science
8 2 (0.610%) Tandem
8 2 (0.610%) IVR
8 2 (0.610%) CMDB
8 2 (0.610%) IBM Mainframe
8 2 (0.610%) Replication
8 2 (0.610%) N-Tier
8 2 (0.610%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.305%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.305%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.305%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 58 (17.68%) Windows
2 45 (13.72%) UNIX
3 20 (6.098%) Linux
4 14 (4.268%) Windows 7
5 12 (3.659%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (3.049%) Windows XP
7 9 (2.744%) AIX
8 8 (2.439%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.524%) Windows 8
10 4 (1.220%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.220%) Android
11 2 (0.610%) Solaris
12 1 (0.305%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (21.34%) Project Management
2 59 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 58 (17.68%) Migration
4 44 (13.41%) PRINCE2
5 35 (10.67%) ITIL
6 34 (10.37%) Change Management
7 25 (7.622%) Risk Management
8 19 (5.793%) Information Security
9 17 (5.183%) Service Delivery
10 15 (4.573%) Service Management
11 12 (3.659%) Data Analysis
11 12 (3.659%) Financial Modelling
11 12 (3.659%) PRINCE
11 12 (3.659%) ETL
11 12 (3.659%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (3.354%) Waterfall
12 11 (3.354%) Data Migration
12 11 (3.354%) Agile Software Development
12 11 (3.354%) Supplier Management
13 10 (3.049%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 40 (12.20%) SQL
2 18 (5.488%) PL/SQL
3 16 (4.878%) VB
4 14 (4.268%) Java
5 13 (3.963%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.439%) C#
7 7 (2.134%) C++
7 7 (2.134%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.524%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.220%) XPath
9 4 (1.220%) VBScript
10 3 (0.915%) C
10 3 (0.915%) FoxPro (VFP)
10 3 (0.915%) Groovy
10 3 (0.915%) VB6
11 2 (0.610%) Perl
12 1 (0.305%) PHP
12 1 (0.305%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.305%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 27 (8.232%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.707%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.402%) PMI Certification
4 12 (3.659%) BC Cleared
5 9 (2.744%) Degree
6 8 (2.439%) PMP
7 7 (2.134%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.220%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (0.915%) CCNA
9 3 (0.915%) ISEB
9 3 (0.915%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.915%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.610%) CEH
10 2 (0.610%) CISA
10 2 (0.610%) CISM
10 2 (0.610%) CISSP
10 2 (0.610%) IBM WebSphere Certification
10 2 (0.610%) CRISC
11 1 (0.305%) HND
11 1 (0.305%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.439%) SLA
2 6 (1.829%) QA
3 5 (1.524%) COBIT
4 2 (0.610%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.610%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.610%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.305%) Basel III
System Software
1 15 (4.573%) XenApp
2 11 (3.354%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (2.439%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.524%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.915%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.610%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.305%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.305%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 9 (2.744%) SCCM
2 5 (1.524%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (1.220%) Tivoli
3 4 (1.220%) ZENworks
4 1 (0.305%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (0.305%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (0.305%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 38 (11.59%) Oracle
2 26 (7.927%) IBM
3 24 (7.317%) Citrix
4 21 (6.402%) SAP
5 12 (3.659%) VMware
5 12 (3.659%) Microsoft
6 7 (2.134%) Ariba
7 6 (1.829%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.524%) Verint
8 5 (1.524%) Cognos
8 5 (1.524%) Siebel
8 5 (1.524%) JBoss
8 5 (1.524%) Chordiant
8 5 (1.524%) AppSense
9 4 (1.220%) HP
9 4 (1.220%) Cisco
9 4 (1.220%) Novell
10 3 (0.915%) Informatica
10 3 (0.915%) Juniper
10 3 (0.915%) Perforce
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