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The table below looks at the demand for Equity Derivatives 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 Equity Derivative over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkEquity Derivatives
Location
3 months to
13 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank6848
Rank change on same period last yearDown-20
Matching contract IT job ads180228
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.255 %0.231 %
As % of the category below6.522 %8.601 %
Daily rates quoted7681
Average minimum daily rate£498£559
Average daily rate£539£585
% change on same period last year-7.93 %
Average maximum daily rate£580£611
UK excluding London average daily rate--
% change on same period last year-
Hourly rates quoted10
Average minimum hourly rate£25.00-
Average hourly rate£27.50-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£30.00-
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 ads27602651
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled3.903 %2.684 %
Daily rates quoted16301173
Average minimum daily rate£465£501
Average daily rate£510£538
% change on same period last year-5.27 %
Average maximum daily rate£555£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£349£344
% change on same period last year+1.42 %
Hourly rates quoted6652
Average minimum hourly rate£22.07£24.37
Average hourly rate£24.55£25.84
% change on same period last year-4.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.03£27.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.09£26.20
% change on same period last year-4.24 %
Equity Derivative LondonEquity Derivative
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.

Equity Derivative
Demand Trend

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

City of London Equity Derivative Demand Trend

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Equity Derivative Daily Rate Trend

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Equity Derivative across the City of London region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

City of London Equity Derivative Daily Rate Histogram

Equity Derivative
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Equity Derivative Hourly Rate Trend

Equity Derivative
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Equity Derivative 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 Equity Derivative.

1455 (98.06 %)Derivative
2206 (44.40 %)Front Office
3174 (37.50 %)Banking
4144 (31.03 %)Investment Banking
5121 (26.08 %)Finance
6113 (24.35 %)Java
790 (19.40 %)Equities
885 (18.32 %)C++
980 (17.24 %)SQL
1073 (15.73 %)C#
1169 (14.87 %)Migration
1255 (11.85 %)Sophis
1255 (11.85 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1353 (11.42 %).NET
1452 (11.21 %)Credit Derivative
1550 (10.78 %)VBA
1644 (9.483 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1743 (9.267 %)Back Office
1840 (8.621 %)Sybase
1939 (8.405 %)UNIX
1939 (8.405 %)Change Management
2038 (8.190 %)Business Analysis
2038 (8.190 %)Credit Risk
2137 (7.974 %)Risk Management
2231 (6.681 %)Project Management
2231 (6.681 %)XML
2329 (6.250 %)Fixed Income
2428 (6.034 %)Spring
2527 (5.819 %)Sophis RISQUE
2527 (5.819 %)J2EE

Equity Derivative
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Equity Derivative 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 Equity Derivative. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
153 (11.42 %).NET
231 (6.681 %)XML
328 (6.034 %)Spring
427 (5.819 %)J2EE
510 (2.155 %)Hibernate
69 (1.940 %)WinForms
77 (1.509 %)XML Schema
77 (1.509 %)ASP.NET
77 (1.509 %)HTML
77 (1.509 %)CORBA
86 (1.293 %)MFC
86 (1.293 %)Middleware
86 (1.293 %)JMX
86 (1.293 %)Java RMI
95 (1.078 %)WPF
95 (1.078 %)FIX Protocol
95 (1.078 %)COM
104 (0.862 %)CSS
104 (0.862 %)WebServices
113 (0.647 %)XSL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
15 (1.078 %)TIBCO EMS
24 (0.862 %)Rendezvous
24 (0.862 %)JBoss
33 (0.647 %)WebSphere Application Server
33 (0.647 %)WebLogic
33 (0.647 %)SharePoint
41 (0.216 %)MS Exchange
41 (0.216 %)Documentum
41 (0.216 %)Lotus Notes
41 (0.216 %)Apache
41 (0.216 %)Tomcat
41 (0.216 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
116 (3.448 %)MS Excel
28 (1.724 %)Spreadsheet
34 (0.862 %)MS Office
34 (0.862 %)Photoshop
42 (0.431 %)MS Project
42 (0.431 %)MS Visio
51 (0.216 %)MS PowerPoint
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
127 (5.819 %)Sophis RISQUE
24 (0.862 %)Capstone
24 (0.862 %)Tesseract
24 (0.862 %)Minerva
24 (0.862 %)Sentinel
33 (0.647 %)Sophis VALUE
42 (0.431 %)RMDS
51 (0.216 %)Murex MxG2000
51 (0.216 %)Summit
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
12 (0.431 %)Intranet
21 (0.216 %)SSH
21 (0.216 %)FTP
21 (0.216 %)HTTP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
123 (4.957 %)SQL Server
222 (4.741 %)RDBMS
317 (3.664 %)Reference Data
49 (1.940 %)MS Access
58 (1.724 %)ETL
64 (0.862 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
64 (0.862 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
64 (0.862 %)SQL Server 2005
73 (0.647 %)Oracle OWB
73 (0.647 %)Oracle Discoverer
73 (0.647 %)Datawarehouse
73 (0.647 %)Oracle Reports
73 (0.647 %)Oracle 9i
82 (0.431 %)SQL Server 2000
91 (0.216 %)DTS
91 (0.216 %)SQL Server Integration Services
91 (0.216 %)Data Mart
91 (0.216 %)Sybase ASE
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
18 (1.724 %)Visual Studio
26 (1.293 %)TestDirector
35 (1.078 %)Eclipse
35 (1.078 %)JUnit
44 (0.862 %)ClearCase
44 (0.862 %)NUnit
53 (0.647 %)Subversion
53 (0.647 %)Ant
62 (0.431 %)JProbe
71 (0.216 %)ReSharper
71 (0.216 %)DevPartner
71 (0.216 %)QuickTest Pro
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1206 (44.40 %)Front Office
2174 (37.50 %)Banking
3144 (31.03 %)Investment Banking
4121 (26.08 %)Finance
543 (9.267 %)Back Office
69 (1.940 %)Financial Institution
74 (0.862 %)Education
83 (0.647 %)General Ledger
83 (0.647 %)Insurance
83 (0.647 %)Retail
92 (0.431 %)Marketing
101 (0.216 %)Corporate Banking
101 (0.216 %)Legal
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1199 (42.89 %)Developer
2185 (39.87 %)Analyst
3164 (35.34 %)Business Analyst
475 (16.16 %)Equity Derivatives Business Analyst
573 (15.73 %)Java Developer
644 (9.483 %)Sophis Developer
734 (7.328 %)C# Developer
831 (6.681 %)Senior Developer
925 (5.388 %)Senior Java Developer
1024 (5.172 %)Project Manager
1121 (4.526 %)Credit Risk Business Analyst
1121 (4.526 %)Credit Risk Analyst
1220 (4.310 %)C++ Developer
1319 (4.095 %)Banking Business Analyst
1417 (3.664 %)Equity Analyst
1417 (3.664 %)Risk Analyst
1516 (3.448 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
1612 (2.586 %)Murex Analyst
1612 (2.586 %)Support Analyst
1711 (2.371 %)Senior Analyst
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1455 (98.06 %)Derivative
290 (19.40 %)Equities
355 (11.85 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
452 (11.21 %)Credit Derivative
544 (9.483 %)Interest Rate Derivative
638 (8.190 %)Credit Risk
729 (6.250 %)Fixed Income
827 (5.819 %)Market Risk
915 (3.233 %)Multithreading
108 (1.724 %)Mathematics
116 (1.293 %)Contract for Difference
125 (1.078 %)Grid Computing
134 (0.862 %)Data Extraction
143 (0.647 %)Statistical Arbitrage
143 (0.647 %)Tandem
143 (0.647 %)Exotic Derivative
152 (0.431 %)Index Arbitrage
161 (0.216 %)DTCC
161 (0.216 %)Physics
161 (0.216 %)Computer Science
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
139 (8.405 %)UNIX
226 (5.603 %)Windows
312 (2.586 %)Linux
45 (1.078 %)Solaris
53 (0.647 %)Windows XP
61 (0.216 %)Windows 2000
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
169 (14.87 %)Migration
239 (8.405 %)Change Management
338 (8.190 %)Business Analysis
437 (7.974 %)Risk Management
531 (6.681 %)Project Management
624 (5.172 %)Data Migration
718 (3.879 %)Data Modelling
718 (3.879 %)Requirements Analysis
817 (3.664 %)Project Planning
916 (3.448 %)OO
916 (3.448 %)User Acceptance Testing
1015 (3.233 %)Quality Management
1114 (3.017 %)GAP Analysis
1211 (2.371 %)Workflow
1310 (2.155 %)Test Management
1310 (2.155 %)Test Scripting
149 (1.940 %)SOA
157 (1.509 %)Monte Carlo Method
166 (1.293 %)Investment Management
166 (1.293 %)UML
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1113 (24.35 %)Java
285 (18.32 %)C++
380 (17.24 %)SQL
473 (15.73 %)C#
550 (10.78 %)VBA
610 (2.155 %)VB
79 (1.940 %)C
85 (1.078 %)Shell Script
93 (0.647 %)DHTML
102 (0.431 %)JavaScript
102 (0.431 %)VB.NET
111 (0.216 %)VC++
111 (0.216 %)JCL
111 (0.216 %)XAML
111 (0.216 %)VB6
111 (0.216 %)Perl
111 (0.216 %)Transact-SQL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
14 (0.862 %)Degree
21 (0.216 %)PhD
21 (0.216 %)ACCA
21 (0.216 %)CIMA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (1.509 %)QA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11 (0.216 %)Active Directory
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
155 (11.85 %)Sophis
240 (8.621 %)Sybase
325 (5.388 %)Oracle
417 (3.664 %)Microsoft
417 (3.664 %)Murex
515 (3.233 %)Calypso
612 (2.586 %)TIBCO
79 (1.940 %)GL TRADE
86 (1.293 %)DataSynapse
86 (1.293 %)Reuters
86 (1.293 %)Bloomberg
95 (1.078 %)Informatica
104 (0.862 %)Yolus
104 (0.862 %)LatentZero
112 (0.431 %)Tangosol
121 (0.216 %)Thunderhead
121 (0.216 %)Charles River
121 (0.216 %)Microgen
121 (0.216 %)Lotus
121 (0.216 %)webMethods