The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cadis products and/or services 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 Cadis over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors for the City of London 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Cadis.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cadis
Rank 166 179 200
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +21
Contract jobs citing Cadis 35 34 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.556% 0.437% 0.467%
As % of the Vendors category 1.235% 1.034% 1.119%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 27 36
Average daily rate £520 £650 £563
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +15.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £525 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £598 £735 £638
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £500 £405
% change year-on-year
-15.00% +23.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £39.51 - £52.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2834 3288 4112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.02% 42.26% 41.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2006 2250 2837
Average daily rate £430 £425 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -12.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £285 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £588 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 97 125
Average hourly rate £23.75 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £38.60 £41.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cadis
London

Cadis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cadis across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

City of London Cadis Jobs Demand Trend

Cadis
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Cadis Daily Rate Trend

Cadis
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cadis across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Cadis Daily Rate Histogram

Cadis
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Cadis Hourly Rate Trend

Cadis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cadis 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 Cadis.

1 38 (69.09%) SQL
2 27 (49.09%) Asset Management
3 24 (43.64%) SQL Server
4 22 (40.00%) Finance
5 21 (38.18%) thinkFolio
6 17 (30.91%) Investment Management
6 17 (30.91%) .NET
7 15 (27.27%) Derivative
8 13 (23.64%) Eagle PACE
9 12 (21.82%) LatentZero
10 11 (20.00%) Fund Management
10 11 (20.00%) C#
10 11 (20.00%) XML
10 11 (20.00%) ETL
11 10 (18.18%) Control-M
12 9 (16.36%) VBA
12 9 (16.36%) ASP.NET
12 9 (16.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (16.36%) Data Analysis
13 8 (14.55%) Banking
13 8 (14.55%) Charles River
13 8 (14.55%) Equities
14 7 (12.73%) Front Office
14 7 (12.73%) Fixed Income
14 7 (12.73%) Data Mining
14 7 (12.73%) Java
14 7 (12.73%) T-SQL
14 7 (12.73%) DTS
14 7 (12.73%) TDD
14 7 (12.73%) SQL Server 2005

Cadis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cadis 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 Cadis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (30.91%) .NET
2 11 (20.00%) XML
3 9 (16.36%) ASP.NET
4 6 (10.91%) .NET Framework
4 6 (10.91%) Silverlight
4 6 (10.91%) LINQ
5 5 (9.091%) ASP
6 4 (7.273%) Web Services
7 3 (5.455%) WinForms
8 2 (3.636%) WebSphere
8 2 (3.636%) JSP
8 2 (3.636%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.636%) IIS
1 2 (3.636%) MQSeries
1 2 (3.636%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.636%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (3.636%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (1.818%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (23.64%) Eagle PACE
2 12 (21.82%) LatentZero
3 2 (3.636%) Tesseract
3 2 (3.636%) Minerva
3 2 (3.636%) 3000 Xtra
3 2 (3.636%) RMDS
4 1 (1.818%) Salerio
4 1 (1.818%) Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.636%) HTTP
2 1 (1.818%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (43.64%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (12.73%) DTS
3 7 (12.73%) Data Mining
3 7 (12.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (12.73%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (7.273%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (7.273%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.455%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (3.636%) QlikView
6 2 (3.636%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.818%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (40.00%) Finance
2 8 (14.55%) Banking
3 7 (12.73%) Investment Banking
3 7 (12.73%) Front Office
4 1 (1.818%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (47.27%) Developer
1 26 (47.27%) Analyst
2 11 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) C# Developer
4 7 (12.73%) .NET Developer
4 7 (12.73%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (10.91%) SQL Developer
6 5 (9.091%) Test Analyst
7 4 (7.273%) Data Analyst
7 4 (7.273%) Analyst Developer
7 4 (7.273%) Systems Developer
8 3 (5.455%) Support Analyst
9 2 (3.636%) Applications Support
9 2 (3.636%) Consultant
9 2 (3.636%) Test Manager
9 2 (3.636%) Project Manager
9 2 (3.636%) Applications Support Analyst
9 2 (3.636%) Implementation Consultant
9 2 (3.636%) Data Manager
9 2 (3.636%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.27%) Derivative
2 8 (14.55%) Equities
3 7 (12.73%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.636%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.636%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.636%) Data Integration
4 2 (3.636%) Kindle
5 1 (1.818%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.818%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.818%) Thin Client
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (49.09%) Asset Management
2 17 (30.91%) Investment Management
3 11 (20.00%) ETL
3 11 (20.00%) Fund Management
4 9 (16.36%) Data Analysis
5 7 (12.73%) TDD
5 7 (12.73%) Waterfall
5 7 (12.73%) BDD
6 6 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (7.273%) Business Analysis
7 4 (7.273%) Time Management
8 3 (5.455%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (5.455%) Project Management
8 3 (5.455%) Data Management
9 2 (3.636%) Enterprise Data Management
9 2 (3.636%) Release Management
9 2 (3.636%) Fund Accounting
10 1 (1.818%) Unit Testing
10 1 (1.818%) Test Scripting
10 1 (1.818%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 38 (69.09%) SQL
2 11 (20.00%) C#
3 9 (16.36%) VBA
4 7 (12.73%) Java
4 7 (12.73%) T-SQL
4 7 (12.73%) XPath
5 6 (10.91%) VB.NET
5 6 (10.91%) MATLAB
6 2 (3.636%) VB6
6 2 (3.636%) VBScript
6 2 (3.636%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (1.818%) ISEB
1 1 (1.818%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) ISO 9001
2 2 (3.636%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.818%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) Control-M
2 4 (7.273%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (38.18%) thinkFolio
2 8 (14.55%) Charles River
3 6 (10.91%) Oracle
4 4 (7.273%) GoldenSource
4 4 (7.273%) Reuters
5 2 (3.636%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.636%) Business Objects
5 2 (3.636%) IBM
5 2 (3.636%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.636%) SunGard
5 2 (3.636%) Citrix
5 2 (3.636%) BMC
6 1 (1.818%) Informatica
6 1 (1.818%) Fiserv
6 1 (1.818%) Twitter
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