The first table below looks at the demand for Eagle PACE skills 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 Eagle PACE over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Business Applications category 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Eagle Investment Systems PACE
Rank 195 212 232
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +20
Contract jobs citing Eagle PACE 8 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.124% 0.064% 0.041%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.530% 0.931% 0.554%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 4
Average daily rate £538 £550 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.27% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £490 £413
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £610 £518
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
523 537 722
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 8.139% 6.830% 7.459%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 365 516
Average daily rate £450 £455 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.09% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £313 £363
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 2
Average hourly rate £32.58 £50.00 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.84% +45.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £14.75 £19.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.51 £56.25 £48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £21.96
% change year-on-year
+68.00% +2.45%
Eagle PACE
London

Eagle PACE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Eagle PACE Jobs Demand Trend

Eagle PACE
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Eagle PACE Daily Rate Trend

Eagle PACE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Eagle PACE across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Eagle PACE Daily Rate Histogram

Eagle PACE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Eagle PACE 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 Eagle PACE.

1 11 (84.62%) Cadis
2 8 (61.54%) Asset Management
2 8 (61.54%) thinkFolio
2 8 (61.54%) LatentZero
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 6 (46.15%) Investment Management
4 5 (38.46%) Banking
4 5 (38.46%) Investment Banking
4 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
4 5 (38.46%) Finance
5 4 (30.77%) Front Office
6 3 (23.08%) VBA
6 3 (23.08%) Data Management
6 3 (23.08%) Fund Management
6 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Management
7 2 (15.38%) GoldenSource
7 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
7 2 (15.38%) Reference Data
7 2 (15.38%) Reuters
7 2 (15.38%) Bloomberg
7 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (15.38%) Tesseract
7 2 (15.38%) Minerva
8 1 (7.692%) Sentinel
8 1 (7.692%) Back Office
8 1 (7.692%) MBA
8 1 (7.692%) Migration
8 1 (7.692%) WinForms
8 1 (7.692%) HTTP

Eagle PACE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Eagle PACE 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 Eagle PACE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) WinForms
1 1 (7.692%) .NET
1 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (61.54%) LatentZero
2 2 (15.38%) Tesseract
2 2 (15.38%) Minerva
3 1 (7.692%) Sentinel
3 1 (7.692%) Eagle STAR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) HTTP
1 1 (7.692%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (38.46%) Banking
1 5 (38.46%) Investment Banking
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Front Office
3 1 (7.692%) Back Office
3 1 (7.692%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Analyst
2 7 (53.85%) Business Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) Test Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Business Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Data Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Reference Data
2 1 (7.692%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Asset Management
2 6 (46.15%) Investment Management
3 3 (23.08%) Data Management
3 3 (23.08%) Fund Management
3 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Management
4 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
5 1 (7.692%) Migration
5 1 (7.692%) RAD
5 1 (7.692%) Data Architecture
5 1 (7.692%) Fund Accounting
5 1 (7.692%) Functional Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) VBA
3 1 (7.692%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) MBA
1 1 (7.692%) ISEB
1 1 (7.692%) PMP
1 1 (7.692%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.692%) CFA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Cadis
2 8 (61.54%) thinkFolio
3 2 (15.38%) GoldenSource
3 2 (15.38%) Reuters
3 2 (15.38%) Bloomberg
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.692%) Informatica
4 1 (7.692%) Twitter