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This section looks at the demand for Equities skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Equities over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkEquities
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank2323
Rank change on same period last yearNo change0
Matching contract IT job ads473449
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.630 %0.454 %
As % of the category below15.47 %15.80 %
Daily rates quoted320221
Average minimum daily rate£476£479
Average daily rate£530£513
% change on same period last year+3.42 %
Average maximum daily rate£585£546
UK excluding London average daily rate-£365
% change on same period last year-
Hourly rates quoted12
Average minimum hourly rate£35.00£20.00
Average hourly rate£36.50£22.50
% change on same period last year+62.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate£38.00£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads30572841
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled4.075 %2.874 %
Daily rates quoted18291404
Average minimum daily rate£478£499
Average daily rate£524£543
% change on same period last year-3.44 %
Average maximum daily rate£571£587
UK excluding London average daily rate£352£354
% change on same period last year-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted6442
Average minimum hourly rate£18.99£22.33
Average hourly rate£20.70£23.43
% change on same period last year-11.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate£22.41£24.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.44£29.20
% change on same period last year-16.30 %
Equities LondonEquities
London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Equities
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

Equities
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The 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 25 July 2008.

City of London Equities Daily Rate Histogram

Equities
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 25 July 2008, 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.

1455 (50.28 %)Banking
2392 (43.31 %)Investment Banking
3340 (37.57 %)Derivative
4319 (35.25 %)Front Office
5263 (29.06 %)Finance
6259 (28.62 %)Fixed Income
7218 (24.09 %)UNIX
8208 (22.98 %)SQL
9174 (19.23 %)C#
10157 (17.35 %)Java
11154 (17.02 %)C++
12109 (12.04 %)Sybase
13107 (11.82 %)Equity Derivative
14105 (11.60 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
15104 (11.49 %).NET
16102 (11.27 %)Back Office
1790 (9.945 %)Oracle
1883 (9.171 %)Fidessa
1979 (8.729 %)Business Analysis
2076 (8.398 %)Windows
2175 (8.287 %)OO
2272 (7.956 %)Project Management
2370 (7.735 %)Asset Management
2469 (7.624 %)Linux
2566 (7.293 %)Perl
2665 (7.182 %)Scrum
2764 (7.072 %)SQL Server
2863 (6.961 %)Algorithmic Trading
2962 (6.851 %)Bloomberg
3058 (6.409 %)Reuters

Equities
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1104 (11.49 %).NET
255 (6.077 %)J2EE
340 (4.420 %)FIX Protocol
436 (3.978 %)XML
533 (3.646 %)Spring
632 (3.536 %)Hibernate
727 (2.983 %)MFC
826 (2.873 %)Middleware
924 (2.652 %)WinForms
1022 (2.431 %)ASP.NET
1119 (2.099 %)CORBA
1216 (1.768 %)ASP.NET 2.0
1315 (1.657 %)XHTML
1315 (1.657 %)CSS
1315 (1.657 %)JDBC
1413 (1.436 %)WebServices
1511 (1.215 %)ASP
1610 (1.105 %)HTML
1610 (1.105 %)Java RMI
1610 (1.105 %)Velocity
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
132 (3.536 %)WebLogic
220 (2.210 %)TIBCO EMS
319 (2.099 %)Rendezvous
416 (1.768 %)IIS
512 (1.326 %)MQSeries
67 (0.773 %)WebLogic Portal
74 (0.442 %)JBoss
83 (0.331 %)SharePoint
83 (0.331 %)Tomcat
91 (0.110 %)WebSphere Application Server
91 (0.110 %)ESB
91 (0.110 %)Office Project Server
91 (0.110 %)Exchange Server 2007
91 (0.110 %)MS Exchange
91 (0.110 %)WebSphere MQ
91 (0.110 %)Lotus Notes
91 (0.110 %)Lotus Domino
91 (0.110 %)Apache
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
123 (2.541 %)MS Excel
29 (0.994 %)Spreadsheet
36 (0.663 %)MS Office
45 (0.552 %)MS Project
54 (0.442 %)MS Visio
63 (0.331 %)MS PowerPoint
72 (0.221 %)MATLAB
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
112 (1.326 %)Minerva
26 (0.663 %)Capstone
35 (0.552 %)Tesseract
44 (0.442 %)LongView
53 (0.331 %)Global One
53 (0.331 %)Sentinel
53 (0.331 %)Oracle Financials
62 (0.221 %)RMDS
62 (0.221 %)Monis
71 (0.110 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
71 (0.110 %)Summit
71 (0.110 %)Oracle EBS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
110 (1.105 %)LDAP
28 (0.884 %)TCP/IP
35 (0.552 %)SAN
35 (0.552 %)HTTP
42 (0.221 %)Firewall
42 (0.221 %)LAN
42 (0.221 %)WAN
51 (0.110 %)DNS
51 (0.110 %)Network Security
51 (0.110 %)Extranet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
164 (7.072 %)SQL Server
246 (5.083 %)Reference Data
337 (4.088 %)RDBMS
415 (1.657 %)MS Access
513 (1.436 %)Datawarehouse
610 (1.105 %)BusinessObjects
610 (1.105 %)ETL
78 (0.884 %)SQL Server 7
78 (0.884 %)Oracle 10g
86 (0.663 %)Oracle OWB
95 (0.552 %)Crystal Reports
95 (0.552 %)Oracle Reports
95 (0.552 %)SQL Server 2005
104 (0.442 %)SQL Server Integration Services
104 (0.442 %)SQL Server 2000
104 (0.442 %)Oracle OLAP
104 (0.442 %)OLAP
113 (0.331 %)Oracle 9i
122 (0.221 %)Sybase ASE
131 (0.110 %)BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
124 (2.652 %)TestDirector
210 (1.105 %)Eclipse
39 (0.994 %)JUnit
45 (0.552 %)NUnit
54 (0.442 %)Ant
63 (0.331 %)PowerBuilder
63 (0.331 %)ERwin
72 (0.221 %)Subversion
81 (0.110 %)Cactus
81 (0.110 %)XDE
81 (0.110 %)Visual Studio
81 (0.110 %)ClearCase
81 (0.110 %)WinRunner
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1455 (50.28 %)Banking
2392 (43.31 %)Investment Banking
3319 (35.25 %)Front Office
4263 (29.06 %)Finance
5102 (11.27 %)Back Office
638 (4.199 %)Financial Institution
711 (1.215 %)Legal
810 (1.105 %)Retail
96 (0.663 %)Education
104 (0.442 %)Wholesale Banking
113 (0.331 %)General Ledger
113 (0.331 %)Insurance
113 (0.331 %)Pensions
113 (0.331 %)Health
122 (0.221 %)Government
122 (0.221 %)Marketing
131 (0.110 %)Auditing
131 (0.110 %)Publishing
131 (0.110 %)Corporate Banking
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1350 (38.67 %)Analyst
2280 (30.94 %)Developer
3205 (22.65 %)Business Analyst
487 (9.613 %)Java Developer
586 (9.503 %)Project Manager
679 (8.729 %)Support Analyst
770 (7.735 %)C++ Developer
868 (7.514 %)Applications Support
952 (5.746 %)C# Developer
1039 (4.309 %)Senior Developer
1136 (3.978 %)Banking Business Analyst
1234 (3.757 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
1333 (3.646 %)Applications Support Analyst
1430 (3.315 %)Fidessa Analyst
1528 (3.094 %)C++/CSharp Developer
1626 (2.873 %)Architect
1626 (2.873 %)Test Analyst
1725 (2.762 %)Tester
1725 (2.762 %)Fidessa Developer
1822 (2.431 %).NET Developer
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1340 (37.57 %)Derivative
2259 (28.62 %)Fixed Income
3107 (11.82 %)Equity Derivative
4105 (11.60 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
538 (4.199 %)Credit Derivative
629 (3.204 %)Interest Rate Derivative
723 (2.541 %)N-Tier
821 (2.320 %)Credit Risk
919 (2.099 %)Multithreading
1017 (1.878 %)Market Risk
1112 (1.326 %)Client/Server
1210 (1.105 %)Mathematics
139 (0.994 %)Contract for Difference
148 (0.884 %)Replication
154 (0.442 %)PMI
163 (0.331 %)Computer Science
172 (0.221 %)VWAP
172 (0.221 %)Exotic Derivative
172 (0.221 %)DTCC
172 (0.221 %)Blackberry
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1218 (24.09 %)UNIX
276 (8.398 %)Windows
369 (7.624 %)Linux
441 (4.530 %)Solaris
518 (1.989 %)Windows XP
63 (0.331 %)Windows 2000
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
179 (8.729 %)Business Analysis
275 (8.287 %)OO
372 (7.956 %)Project Management
470 (7.735 %)Asset Management
565 (7.182 %)Scrum
663 (6.961 %)Algorithmic Trading
753 (5.856 %)Migration
842 (4.641 %)UML
928 (3.094 %)Investment Management
1027 (2.983 %)Electronic Trading
1125 (2.762 %)Agile Software Development
1125 (2.762 %)Data Migration
1224 (2.652 %)Extreme Programming
1323 (2.541 %)Risk Management
1422 (2.431 %)Change Management
1422 (2.431 %)PRINCE2
1521 (2.320 %)System Testing
1620 (2.210 %)Test Management
1719 (2.099 %)Use Case
1818 (1.989 %)TDD
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1208 (22.98 %)SQL
2174 (19.23 %)C#
3157 (17.35 %)Java
4154 (17.02 %)C++
566 (7.293 %)Perl
641 (4.530 %)Shell Script
727 (2.983 %)Tcl
826 (2.873 %)C
923 (2.541 %)PL/SQL
1021 (2.320 %)JavaScript
1115 (1.657 %)VBA
1210 (1.105 %)VC++
1210 (1.105 %)VBScript
1210 (1.105 %)VB
139 (0.994 %)VB.NET
145 (0.552 %)Korn
154 (0.442 %)Transact-SQL
162 (0.221 %)AWK
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
144 (4.862 %)Degree
216 (1.768 %)ISEB
33 (0.331 %)PRINCE2 Certification
33 (0.331 %)PMI Certification
42 (0.221 %)ISEB Practitioner
51 (0.110 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
51 (0.110 %)ACCA
51 (0.110 %)CIMA
51 (0.110 %)PMP
51 (0.110 %)Cisco Certification
51 (0.110 %)HND
51 (0.110 %)CCNP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
150 (5.525 %)QA
23 (0.331 %)MiFID
23 (0.331 %)SLA
32 (0.221 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
32 (0.221 %)Basel II
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
17 (0.773 %)AquaLogic
24 (0.442 %)Orbix
31 (0.110 %)Active Directory
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
14 (0.442 %)CONTROL-M
22 (0.221 %)Tivoli
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1109 (12.04 %)Sybase
290 (9.945 %)Oracle
383 (9.171 %)Fidessa
462 (6.851 %)Bloomberg
558 (6.409 %)Reuters
657 (6.298 %)TIBCO
748 (5.304 %)Microsoft
816 (1.768 %)Informatica
816 (1.768 %)LatentZero
915 (1.657 %)Calypso
1012 (1.326 %)BEA
1111 (1.215 %)Murex
1210 (1.105 %)Business Objects
139 (0.994 %)GL TRADE
147 (0.773 %)Sophis
156 (0.663 %)Charles River
156 (0.663 %)thinkFolio
165 (0.552 %)GoldenSource
165 (0.552 %)Sun
173 (0.331 %)Portware
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