The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Banking 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 Chester 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
Banking
Rank 20 13 11
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 5 8 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 3.597% 6.838% 7.975%
As % of the General category 13.89% 36.36% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 7
Average daily rate £175 £375 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-53.33% +5.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £390 £385
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £22.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.68% +15.78%
All of the General Category
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
36 22 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 25.90% 18.80% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 19
Average daily rate £250 £375 £358
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +4.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £172 £350 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £445 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
Average hourly rate £43.70 - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Banking
Cheshire

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Banking Daily Rate Trend

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 18 (85.71%) Finance
2 10 (47.62%) Investment Banking
3 8 (38.10%) Windows
4 7 (33.33%) Linux
4 7 (33.33%) UNIX
5 6 (28.57%) Windows 7
5 6 (28.57%) Windows XP
5 6 (28.57%) VB
5 6 (28.57%) Red Hat
5 6 (28.57%) Blackberry
6 5 (23.81%) DataStage
6 5 (23.81%) IBM
6 5 (23.81%) Information Security
7 4 (19.05%) Change Data Capture
7 4 (19.05%) ETL
8 3 (14.29%) MS Excel
8 3 (14.29%) Degree
8 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
9 2 (9.524%) Legal
9 2 (9.524%) Migration
9 2 (9.524%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (9.524%) PRINCE2
9 2 (9.524%) MS Project
9 2 (9.524%) PMI
9 2 (9.524%) PMI Certification
9 2 (9.524%) Microsoft
10 1 (4.762%) CCNA
10 1 (4.762%) Citrix
10 1 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (4.762%) Internet

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 1 (4.762%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
1 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 2 (9.524%) MS Project
3 1 (4.762%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) Internet
1 1 (4.762%) Firewall
1 1 (4.762%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) DataStage
General
1 18 (85.71%) Finance
2 10 (47.62%) Investment Banking
3 2 (9.524%) Legal
4 1 (4.762%) Law
4 1 (4.762%) Retail
4 1 (4.762%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Build Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Project Manager
4 3 (14.29%) Graduate
5 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce Project Manager
5 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Incident Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Security Manager
5 1 (4.762%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Blackberry
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (9.524%) PMI
4 1 (4.762%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.762%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Linux
2 7 (33.33%) UNIX
3 6 (28.57%) Windows 7
3 6 (28.57%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Information Security
2 4 (19.05%) Change Data Capture
2 4 (19.05%) ETL
3 2 (9.524%) Migration
3 2 (9.524%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (9.524%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.762%) Six Sigma
4 1 (4.762%) Project Management
4 1 (4.762%) Service Delivery
4 1 (4.762%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.762%) Data Security
4 1 (4.762%) ITIL
4 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.762%) Computer Security
4 1 (4.762%) Data Protection
4 1 (4.762%) Web Development
4 1 (4.762%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (4.762%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (9.524%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.762%) CCNA
3 1 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (4.762%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (4.762%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 5 (23.81%) IBM
3 2 (9.524%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.762%) Citrix
4 1 (4.762%) Oracle
4 1 (4.762%) Cisco