Equities Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities 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 Equities 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 Miscellaneous 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Equities
Rank 94 62 42
Rank change year-on-year
-32 -20
Contract jobs citing Equities 121 202 391
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.897% 2.568% 3.991%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.996% 7.848% 9.934%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 158 308
Average daily rate £500 £575 £588
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% -2.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £384 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £750 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 - £11.00
Search 50 Equities jobs in the City of London
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 2018 2574 3936
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.64% 32.73% 40.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1496 1987 3043
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £298 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 67 54
Average hourly rate £24.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.38 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £44.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Equities
London

Equities
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Equities Jobs Demand Trend

Equities
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Equities Daily Rate Trend

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Equities Daily Rate Histogram

Equities
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Equities Hourly Rate Trend

Equities
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Equities 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 Equities.

1 82 (46.07%) Banking
2 72 (40.45%) Derivative
3 67 (37.64%) Front Office
4 65 (36.52%) Finance
4 65 (36.52%) Investment Banking
5 60 (33.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 58 (32.58%) Fixed Income
7 53 (29.78%) SQL
8 31 (17.42%) UNIX
9 29 (16.29%) SQL Server
9 29 (16.29%) C#
10 28 (15.73%) Java
11 22 (12.36%) .NET
11 22 (12.36%) Linux
12 20 (11.24%) C++
13 19 (10.67%) XML
13 19 (10.67%) Project Management
13 19 (10.67%) Asset Management
14 18 (10.11%) TDD
14 18 (10.11%) Back Office
14 18 (10.11%) Data Analysis
14 18 (10.11%) Perl
15 16 (8.989%) Agile Software Development
16 15 (8.427%) Business Analysis
16 15 (8.427%) WCF
17 14 (7.865%) Investment Management
18 12 (6.742%) WPF
18 12 (6.742%) Waterfall
18 12 (6.742%) BDD
19 11 (6.180%) Spring

Equities
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Equities 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 Equities. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (12.36%) .NET
2 19 (10.67%) XML
3 15 (8.427%) WCF
4 12 (6.742%) WPF
5 11 (6.180%) Spring
6 10 (5.618%) Hibernate
7 5 (2.809%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (2.809%) Web Services
7 5 (2.809%) LINQ
8 4 (2.247%) FpML
8 4 (2.247%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.247%) WinForms
9 3 (1.685%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.685%) STL
10 2 (1.124%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 2 (1.124%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (1.124%) Django
10 2 (1.124%) jQuery
10 2 (1.124%) J2EE
10 2 (1.124%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (1.685%) Oracle Coherence
2 2 (1.124%) Rendezvous
2 2 (1.124%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.562%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.562%) Apache
3 1 (0.562%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.562%) WebLogic Integration
3 1 (0.562%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (4.494%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.685%) MS Project
3 2 (1.124%) MS Office
3 2 (1.124%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.562%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.562%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.809%) Global One
2 3 (1.685%) LatentZero
3 2 (1.124%) Summit
4 1 (0.562%) Kondor+
4 1 (0.562%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.562%) LongView
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.494%) HTTP
2 7 (3.933%) LDAP
3 6 (3.371%) DNS
4 5 (2.809%) SAN
5 4 (2.247%) Intranet
6 3 (1.685%) Extranet
7 1 (0.562%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.562%) VPN
7 1 (0.562%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.494%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 8 (4.494%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (3.933%) DTS
3 7 (3.933%) Data Mining
4 4 (2.247%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (1.685%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.124%) OLTP
7 1 (0.562%) MySQL
7 1 (0.562%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.562%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (3.933%) Visual Studio
2 3 (1.685%) Subversion
2 3 (1.685%) JIRA
2 3 (1.685%) Selenium
2 3 (1.685%) JUnit
3 2 (1.124%) Hudson
3 2 (1.124%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.124%) Git (software)
3 2 (1.124%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.124%) CruiseControl
4 1 (0.562%) NUnit
4 1 (0.562%) Maven
4 1 (0.562%) ReSharper
4 1 (0.562%) FitNesse
4 1 (0.562%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.562%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (0.562%) jMock
General
1 82 (46.07%) Banking
2 67 (37.64%) Front Office
3 65 (36.52%) Finance
3 65 (36.52%) Investment Banking
4 18 (10.11%) Back Office
5 10 (5.618%) Retail
6 5 (2.809%) Advertising
6 5 (2.809%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.685%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.124%) Legal
9 1 (0.562%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.562%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (34.27%) Developer
1 61 (34.27%) Analyst
2 46 (25.84%) Business Analyst
3 19 (10.67%) Project Manager
4 13 (7.303%) C# Developer
5 12 (6.742%) Java Developer
6 11 (6.180%) C++ Developer
6 11 (6.180%) Support Analyst
7 10 (5.618%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.494%) Applications Support
9 6 (3.371%) Architect
9 6 (3.371%) Banking Business Analyst
9 6 (3.371%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (3.371%) Senior C++ Developer
10 5 (2.809%) Oracle Developer
10 5 (2.809%) .NET Developer
10 5 (2.809%) Applications Support Analyst
10 5 (2.809%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 5 (2.809%) C# .NET Developer
11 4 (2.247%) C# Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 72 (40.45%) Derivative
2 60 (33.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (32.58%) Fixed Income
4 9 (5.056%) Market Risk
5 7 (3.933%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (3.371%) Credit Derivative
7 5 (2.809%) Credit Risk
7 5 (2.809%) Open Source
7 5 (2.809%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.247%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.247%) N-Tier
8 4 (2.247%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.685%) SWIFT
10 2 (1.124%) Data Integration
10 2 (1.124%) Computer Science
10 2 (1.124%) Swaptions
11 1 (0.562%) Exotic Derivative
11 1 (0.562%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 1 (0.562%) Mathematics
11 1 (0.562%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.42%) UNIX
2 22 (12.36%) Linux
3 8 (4.494%) Windows
4 6 (3.371%) Solaris
4 6 (3.371%) SUSE
5 2 (1.124%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.562%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.562%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (10.67%) Project Management
1 19 (10.67%) Asset Management
2 18 (10.11%) TDD
2 18 (10.11%) Data Analysis
3 16 (8.989%) Agile Software Development
4 15 (8.427%) Business Analysis
5 14 (7.865%) Investment Management
6 12 (6.742%) Waterfall
6 12 (6.742%) BDD
7 10 (5.618%) Migration
7 10 (5.618%) Multithreading
7 10 (5.618%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (5.056%) Electronic Trading
8 9 (5.056%) Risk Management
8 9 (5.056%) OO
8 9 (5.056%) ETL
9 8 (4.494%) Data Modelling
9 8 (4.494%) Stress Testing
10 6 (3.371%) UML
10 6 (3.371%) Fund Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (29.78%) SQL
2 29 (16.29%) C#
3 28 (15.73%) Java
4 20 (11.24%) C++
5 18 (10.11%) Perl
6 10 (5.618%) VBA
7 8 (4.494%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.933%) XPath
8 7 (3.933%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.371%) C
10 5 (2.809%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.809%) Python
11 2 (1.124%) PHP
11 2 (1.124%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.124%) Korn
12 1 (0.562%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.562%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 10 (5.618%) Degree
2 1 (0.562%) ISTQB
2 1 (0.562%) ISEB
2 1 (0.562%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (0.562%) PMP
2 1 (0.562%) PMI Certification
2 1 (0.562%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.809%) QA
2 1 (0.562%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.562%) Basel III
System Software
1 6 (3.371%) NFS
2 5 (2.809%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (0.562%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.124%) OpenView
2 1 (0.562%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (6.180%) Fidessa
2 10 (5.618%) Sybase
2 10 (5.618%) Oracle
3 9 (5.056%) Bloomberg
4 8 (4.494%) Charles River
4 8 (4.494%) Cadis
5 7 (3.933%) thinkFolio
5 7 (3.933%) Reuters
6 6 (3.371%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.371%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.371%) Business Objects
7 4 (2.247%) Murex
8 3 (1.685%) DataSynapse
8 3 (1.685%) JBoss
9 2 (1.124%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.124%) SunGard
9 2 (1.124%) EasyScreen
9 2 (1.124%) CQG
9 2 (1.124%) FFastFill
9 2 (1.124%) Sophis
FpML Business analyst, XML,
City, London
Strong data modelling. - Experience creating sample messages is required. - Excellent derivatives knowledge and experience, preferably FX, commodities and equities. - Extensive UAT testing experience. Communication skills are key for...
Aston Carter
Rate: £400 - £450 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
CROSS PRODUCT BUSINESS ANALYST - £600/DAY
City of London
The successful candidate will not need to be an SME within a specific asset class, but more so have exposure to a wide spectrum of Front Office Asset...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Test Manager/Businesss Analyst - £500/Day
City of London
Key Words: UAT, Test Manager, Business Analyst, Front Office, SQL, Access, Excel, Field Mapping, Cross Asset, Bonds, Equities, Loans, Debt, Commodities, FX, Rates, Credit, Global Markets, OTC Derivatives,...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Oracle and Geneos Specialist. London Banking
City, London
Equities, FX, Fixed Income, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Dodd Frank, Regulatory, Oracle, Coherence, Geneos, Monitoring Tools... This application support team has over 200 feeds going into one core...
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £600 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Project Manager - Trade Reporting/EMIR
City of London
An Investment banking client of mine are urgently seeking for a Project Manager to work on their Dodd Frank and Derivatives reporting space. The candidate will provide Project...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Dodd Frank Project Manager
City of London
An Investment banking client of mine are urgently seeking for a Project Manager to work on their Dodd Frank and Derivatives reporting space. The candidate will provide Project...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Experienced Cadis Developer needed
City of London
Experience of CADIS 8.5 Experience of MS SQL server development (SQL, T-SQL, SSIS/DTS, SSRS, database design) Experience of delivering financial services projects using ETL and...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Test Manager- Investment Banking- 500-600
City of London
You will also be required to prepare test strategy documents covering test objectives, scope, environment, deliverables, roles and responsibilities, schedule, risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies Generating reports on...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £600 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Low Latency Engineer. London Banking
City, London
Low Latency, Fix Connectivity, Onboarding, Linux, Unix, Perl, Python, Shell, Electronic Trading, Integration... Candidates will need to be able to script to a strong level in either; Perl,...
Aston Carter
Rate: £400 - £700 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Solutions Architect, Asset Classes, Zoning
City, London
My client is a top-tier Investment Bank that requires a Solutions Architect with strong asset classes knowledge and experience (Credit rates/bonds/FX/Trade Lifecycle/Equities). Key...
Aston Carter
Rate: Market rate
Posted: 20 May 2013
3rd Line Application Support Analyst- Cash Equities
City, London
The Principal Responsibilities of this position are: - Incident management o Participate in Cash Equities IT critical incident management event... - Problem management o Confirm the actual impact for Cash...
iKas International
Rate: £400 - £495 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Lead Solution Architect
City of London
Produces detailed component specifications and translates these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products. Within a business change programme, assists in the preparation of technical plans and...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Solutions Architect, Capital Markets, Financial Markets, Murex
City, London
Solutions Architect, 3rd party vendor platforms, Murex, Summit, Calypso, Asset Classes, Credit rates, bonds, FX, Trade Lifecycle, Equities... Murex, Summit, Calypso - Must have strong knowledge experience of Financial...
Aston Carter
Rate: Competitive rate
Posted: 21 May 2013
Solutions Architect, Capital Markets, Financial Markets, Murex
City, London
Solutions Architect, 3rd party vendor platforms, Murex, Summit, Calypso, Asset Classes, Credit rates, bonds, FX, Trade Lifecycle, Equities... Murex, Summit, Calypso - Must have strong knowledge experience of Financial...
Aston Carter
Rate: 700+
Posted: 23 May 2013
Senior Solution Architect, Investment Banking
City, London
A leading Investment Bank now requires a Senior Solution Architect to lead the design of solutions for large projects and programmes, through expert architectural skills, translating high level...
JM
Rate: £650 - £700 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Lead Solution Architect
City, London
Asset classes (Credit rates/bonds/FX/Trade Lifecycle/Equities) Focus on knowledge transfer Worked alongside desk heads Proven architecture deliverables Offshore supplier management Strong stakeholder management - Use appropriate...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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