Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

 Analyst
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank433
Rank change year-on-year
Down-1No change0
Matching contract IT job ads240111622247
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London27.99 %28.73 %27.89 %
As % of the Job Titles category30.56 %30.62 %29.81 %
Daily rates quoted15336451065
Average daily rate£475£450£475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.550 %-5.260 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£275£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£320£325£349
% change year-on-year
-1.530 %-6.810 %
Hourly rates quoted4445110
Average hourly rate£20.00£19.00£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.260 %-9.520 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£13.20£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.10£45.50£31.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£16.50£15.00
% change year-on-year
-9.090 %+10.00 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
785737957539
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London91.61 %93.84 %93.57 %
Daily rates quoted495820093524
Average daily rate£500£450£475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-5.260 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£275£295
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£600£625
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted131117292
Average hourly rate£21.00£19.00£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.52 %-9.520 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£12.00£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£49.25£35.00£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
Analyst LondonAnalyst
London

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.

Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Analyst across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Analyst Demand Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Analyst across the City of London region.

City of London Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

City of London Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Analyst across the City of London region.

City of London Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

City of London Analyst Hourly Rate Histogram

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Analyst in their job title 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 with Analyst in their job title.

12000 (45.31 %)Banking
21638 (37.11 %)Finance
31425 (32.28 %)Investment Banking
4995 (22.54 %)Business Analysis
5815 (18.46 %)Derivative
6786 (17.81 %)SQL
7675 (15.29 %)Front Office
8420 (9.515 %)Fixed Income
9394 (8.926 %)Back Office
10374 (8.473 %)Project Management
11345 (7.816 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
12342 (7.748 %)User Acceptance Testing
13331 (7.499 %)UNIX
14319 (7.227 %)Oracle
15303 (6.865 %)SQL Server
16297 (6.729 %)Windows
17289 (6.547 %)Risk Management
18273 (6.185 %)Credit Risk
19270 (6.117 %)Equities
20260 (5.890 %)Microsoft
21242 (5.483 %)MS Excel
22230 (5.211 %)Insurance
23226 (5.120 %)MS Office
24224 (5.075 %)Migration
25203 (4.599 %)Java
26187 (4.237 %)C#
27183 (4.146 %)Data Analysis
28179 (4.055 %)Sybase
29177 (4.010 %)Retail
30170 (3.851 %)Workflow

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Analyst in their job title 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 with Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1169 (3.829 %).NET
2149 (3.376 %)XML
341 (0.929 %)HTML
439 (0.884 %)ASP.NET
531 (0.702 %)J2EE
625 (0.566 %)WebSphere
720 (0.453 %)XML Messaging
819 (0.430 %)WinForms
819 (0.430 %)Web Services
918 (0.408 %).NET Framework
1017 (0.385 %)FIX Protocol
1116 (0.362 %)XSL
1116 (0.362 %)ASP
1116 (0.362 %)XML Schema
1215 (0.340 %)Flash
1215 (0.340 %)Spring
1314 (0.317 %)XSLT
1412 (0.272 %)Hibernate
1511 (0.249 %)FpML
1511 (0.249 %)CSS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
167 (1.518 %)SharePoint
256 (1.269 %)SAS
335 (0.793 %)Rendezvous
430 (0.680 %)CMS
526 (0.589 %)MS Exchange
622 (0.498 %)Lotus Notes
622 (0.498 %)Tomcat
622 (0.498 %)IIS
718 (0.408 %)Apache
815 (0.340 %)Documentum
911 (0.249 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1010 (0.227 %)Exchange Server 2003
119 (0.204 %)SharePoint Server 2007
128 (0.181 %)Oracle Workflow
137 (0.159 %)Lotus Domino
137 (0.159 %)MTS
137 (0.159 %)Drupal
146 (0.136 %)Exchange Server 2007
146 (0.136 %)AquaLogic
146 (0.136 %)MQSeries
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1242 (5.483 %)MS Excel
2226 (5.120 %)MS Office
3125 (2.832 %)MS Visio
479 (1.790 %)MS Project
562 (1.405 %)MS PowerPoint
562 (1.405 %)Spreadsheet
66 (0.136 %)CA Clarity
66 (0.136 %)SPSS
72 (0.045 %)MATLAB
81 (0.023 %)FastStats
81 (0.023 %)DeltaView
81 (0.023 %)InfoPath
81 (0.023 %)ArcView
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
156 (1.269 %)Summit
236 (0.816 %)Endur
331 (0.702 %)Algo Collateral
426 (0.589 %)ION MarketView
519 (0.430 %)RMDS
617 (0.385 %)Loan IQ
712 (0.272 %)Dynamics CRM
712 (0.272 %)Microsoft CRM
811 (0.249 %)TIBCO iProcess
811 (0.249 %)BusinessWorks
811 (0.249 %)LongView
811 (0.249 %)SimCorp Dimension
910 (0.227 %)Eagle PACE
109 (0.204 %)BancWare
109 (0.204 %)Oracle Financials
109 (0.204 %)Kondor+
109 (0.204 %)Minerva
118 (0.181 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
118 (0.181 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
118 (0.181 %)HiPortfolio
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
171 (1.609 %)Internet
242 (0.952 %)Firewall
337 (0.838 %)Intranet
430 (0.680 %)LAN
528 (0.634 %)WAN
626 (0.589 %)DNS
720 (0.453 %)SAN
819 (0.430 %)TCP/IP
819 (0.430 %)VPN
914 (0.317 %)DHCP
1012 (0.272 %)VoIP
1111 (0.249 %)MPLS
1111 (0.249 %)SSL
1210 (0.227 %)Extranet
138 (0.181 %)3G
147 (0.159 %)OSPF
147 (0.159 %)Ethernet
156 (0.136 %)DMZ
156 (0.136 %)NetScreen
156 (0.136 %)EIGRP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1303 (6.865 %)SQL Server
2121 (2.741 %)Datawarehouse
397 (2.198 %)BusinessObjects
478 (1.767 %)ETL
556 (1.269 %)SQL Server 2005
649 (1.110 %)Reference Data
748 (1.087 %)SQL Server Integration Services
841 (0.929 %)MS Access
939 (0.884 %)Data Mining
1037 (0.838 %)SQL Server 2000
1132 (0.725 %)RDBMS
1228 (0.634 %)Data Cleansing
1322 (0.498 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1419 (0.430 %)Essbase
1518 (0.408 %)OLAP
1518 (0.408 %)Oracle 10g
1616 (0.362 %)Crystal Reports
1715 (0.340 %)BusinessObjects XI
1715 (0.340 %)Oracle 8/8i
1715 (0.340 %)Oracle Reports
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
145 (1.019 %)TestDirector
239 (0.884 %)QuickTest Pro
325 (0.566 %)ClearCase
423 (0.521 %)JIRA
518 (0.408 %)Subversion
518 (0.408 %)Selenium
518 (0.408 %)WinRunner
518 (0.408 %)ClearQuest
617 (0.385 %)Rational Rose
716 (0.362 %)LoadRunner
815 (0.340 %)RequisitePro
913 (0.295 %)Eclipse
1012 (0.272 %)Visual Studio
1111 (0.249 %)JUnit
129 (0.204 %)Team Foundation Server
129 (0.204 %)Ant
138 (0.181 %)FitNesse
146 (0.136 %)CruiseControl
146 (0.136 %)NUnit
146 (0.136 %)Log4Net
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12000 (45.31 %)Banking
21638 (37.11 %)Finance
31425 (32.28 %)Investment Banking
4675 (15.29 %)Front Office
5394 (8.926 %)Back Office
6230 (5.211 %)Insurance
7177 (4.010 %)Retail
899 (2.243 %)Government
899 (2.243 %)Legal
990 (2.039 %)Retail Banking
1069 (1.563 %)Financial Institution
1156 (1.269 %)General Ledger
1244 (0.997 %)Marketing
1343 (0.974 %)Corporate Banking
1442 (0.952 %)Law
1537 (0.838 %)Education
1635 (0.793 %)Private Banking
1731 (0.702 %)Health
1822 (0.498 %)Telecoms
1919 (0.430 %)Construction
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1815 (18.46 %)Derivative
2420 (9.515 %)Fixed Income
3345 (7.816 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4273 (6.185 %)Credit Risk
5270 (6.117 %)Equities
6169 (3.829 %)Market Risk
7147 (3.330 %)Equity Derivative
7147 (3.330 %)Credit Derivative
8134 (3.036 %)Interest Rate Derivative
974 (1.676 %)Management Information System
1047 (1.065 %)Blackberry
1127 (0.612 %)Swaptions
1226 (0.589 %)NHS
1323 (0.521 %)Statistics
1420 (0.453 %)Mathematics
1517 (0.385 %)AS400
1616 (0.362 %)French Language
1713 (0.295 %)Data Integration
1713 (0.295 %)Data Extraction
1713 (0.295 %)Client/Server
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1331 (7.499 %)UNIX
2297 (6.729 %)Windows
398 (2.220 %)Linux
468 (1.541 %)Windows Server 2003
565 (1.473 %)Windows XP
655 (1.246 %)Solaris
742 (0.952 %)Windows 2000
828 (0.634 %)Windows Vista
914 (0.317 %)VMS
1012 (0.272 %)Windows Server 2008
119 (0.204 %)Windows NT
128 (0.181 %)Mac OS X
128 (0.181 %)Windows 2000 Server
133 (0.068 %)Red Hat Linux
142 (0.045 %)Windows 7
151 (0.023 %)SUSE
151 (0.023 %)MVS
151 (0.023 %)zOS
151 (0.023 %)OpenVMS
151 (0.023 %)AIX
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1995 (22.54 %)Business Analysis
2374 (8.473 %)Project Management
3342 (7.748 %)User Acceptance Testing
4289 (6.547 %)Risk Management
5224 (5.075 %)Migration
6183 (4.146 %)Data Analysis
7170 (3.851 %)Workflow
8152 (3.444 %)UML
9147 (3.330 %)Change Management
10146 (3.308 %)Stakeholder Management
11139 (3.149 %)Asset Management
12133 (3.013 %)Test Scripting
13131 (2.968 %)Data Modelling
14120 (2.719 %)E-Commerce
15118 (2.673 %)PRINCE2
16116 (2.628 %)ITIL
17114 (2.583 %)Investment Management
18108 (2.447 %)Systems Analysis
19101 (2.288 %)Agile Software Development
2096 (2.175 %)Use Case
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1786 (17.81 %)SQL
2203 (4.599 %)Java
3187 (4.237 %)C#
4162 (3.670 %)VBA
5104 (2.356 %)C++
690 (2.039 %)VB
784 (1.903 %)C
863 (1.427 %)Perl
952 (1.178 %)PL/SQL
952 (1.178 %)T-SQL
1037 (0.838 %)Shell Script
1121 (0.476 %)JavaScript
1121 (0.476 %)Python
1219 (0.430 %)VB.NET
1316 (0.362 %)Tcl
1415 (0.340 %)VBScript
158 (0.181 %)RPG
167 (0.159 %)Bash shell
167 (0.159 %)ABAP
176 (0.136 %)Korn
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1115 (2.605 %)Degree
287 (1.971 %)Security Cleared
367 (1.518 %)ISEB
440 (0.906 %)SC Cleared
534 (0.770 %)CIMA
630 (0.680 %)ACCA
721 (0.476 %)Microsoft Certification
819 (0.430 %)DV Cleared
916 (0.362 %)MCSE
1015 (0.340 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1113 (0.295 %)Cisco Certification
129 (0.204 %)CBAP
129 (0.204 %)BC Cleared
138 (0.181 %)MOS
138 (0.181 %)CCNP
138 (0.181 %)CCNA
138 (0.181 %)MBA
147 (0.159 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
147 (0.159 %)PMI Certification
147 (0.159 %)MCP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1132 (2.990 %)QA
272 (1.631 %)Basel II
338 (0.861 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
431 (0.702 %)SLA
511 (0.249 %)MiFID
68 (0.181 %)GAAP
76 (0.136 %)ISO9001
82 (0.045 %)WCAG
82 (0.045 %)ISO27001
91 (0.023 %)PCI DSS
91 (0.023 %)BS7799
91 (0.023 %)COBIT
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
195 (2.152 %)Active Directory
212 (0.272 %)MSMQ
36 (0.136 %)Squid
36 (0.136 %)VMware ESX
36 (0.136 %)VMware Infrastructure
44 (0.091 %)Citrix Presentation Server
53 (0.068 %)XenApp
53 (0.068 %)ISA Server
62 (0.045 %)Terminal Services
71 (0.023 %)SRDF
71 (0.023 %)XenServer
71 (0.023 %)XenDesktop
71 (0.023 %)Veritas Volume Manager
71 (0.023 %)RACF
71 (0.023 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
71 (0.023 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
113 (0.295 %)AutoSys
210 (0.227 %)OpenView
39 (0.204 %)HP Quality Center
39 (0.204 %)Tivoli
48 (0.181 %)WSUS
57 (0.159 %)MOM
66 (0.136 %)BMC PATROL
66 (0.136 %)SCCM
66 (0.136 %)SCOM
75 (0.113 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
75 (0.113 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
84 (0.091 %)MSI
84 (0.091 %)CONTROL-M
84 (0.091 %)NetBackup
84 (0.091 %)ServiceCenter
93 (0.068 %)Backup Exec
93 (0.068 %)Norton AntiVirus
102 (0.045 %)CiscoWorks
102 (0.045 %)MIMEsweeper
102 (0.045 %)Tivoli Configuration Manager
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1319 (7.227 %)Oracle
2260 (5.890 %)Microsoft
3179 (4.055 %)Sybase
497 (2.198 %)Business Objects
584 (1.903 %)TIBCO
681 (1.835 %)Reuters
780 (1.812 %)Bloomberg
874 (1.676 %)Cognos
967 (1.518 %)SAP
1062 (1.405 %)Murex
1160 (1.359 %)Remedy
1247 (1.065 %)Citrix
1344 (0.997 %)Calypso
1443 (0.974 %)OpenLink
1542 (0.952 %)Cisco
1641 (0.929 %)Charles River
1739 (0.884 %)ION Trading
1739 (0.884 %)Fidessa
1838 (0.861 %)HP
1934 (0.770 %)thinkFolio