The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Financial Institution 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial Institution
Rank 57 59 65
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +6
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 6 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.829% 0.501% 0.722%
As % of the General category 1.887% 1.194% 1.411%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
Average daily rate £340 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £378 £413
% change year-on-year
-0.66% -8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £11.39 £17.00
% change year-on-year
+80.06% -33.02%
All of the General Category
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
318 335 496
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 43.92% 41.93% 51.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 225 344
Average daily rate £370 £373 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.80% +12.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £293 £238
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 19 7 14
Average hourly rate £40.29 £27.58 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+46.09% +112.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.11 £21.18 £9.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.97 £31.00 £70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Financial Institution
North West

Financial Institution
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Financial Institution Jobs Demand Trend

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Financial Institution across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Financial Institution Daily Rate Trend

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Financial Institution across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire Financial Institution Daily Rate Histogram

Financial Institution
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Financial Institution Hourly Rate Trend

Financial Institution
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Institution within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 - 1 £330 -
Financial Institution
North West

Financial Institution
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Financial Institution 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 Financial Institution.

1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Retail
3 3 (42.86%) IBM
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) Content Management
4 2 (28.57%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (28.57%) CMS
4 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
5 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds
5 1 (14.29%) C#
5 1 (14.29%) VMware
5 1 (14.29%) Information Security
5 1 (14.29%) IVR
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Document Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) JNCIA
5 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management

Financial Institution
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Financial Institution 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 Financial Institution. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) CMS
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (14.29%) MS Office
2 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (14.29%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) PBX
1 1 (14.29%) VoIP
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
1 1 (14.29%) IGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Retail
4 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Change Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds
1 1 (14.29%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Content Management
2 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Document Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Security Management
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) JNCIA
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Adobe
3 1 (14.29%) Nortel
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Mercator