The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution 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 Financial Institution 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 terms in our General 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial Institution
Rank 104 84 113
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +29
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 107 161 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.700% 2.069% 1.544%
As % of the General category 2.996% 3.412% 2.276%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 126 117
Average daily rate £475 £475 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £300 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £590 £975 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £378 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.66% -5.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £22.25 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -20.53%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-6.81% +29.41%
All of the General Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
3572 4719 6677
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 56.74% 60.66% 67.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2739 3532 5033
Average daily rate £475 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £310 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 73 89
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.80 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.49 £41.90 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Financial Institution
London

Financial Institution
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Financial Institution Jobs Demand Trend

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Financial Institution Daily Rate Trend

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Financial Institution Daily Rate Histogram

Financial Institution
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Financial Institution Hourly Rate Trend

Financial Institution
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 203 (100.00%) Finance
2 99 (48.77%) Banking
3 41 (20.20%) Windows
4 31 (15.27%) Java
5 30 (14.78%) .NET
5 30 (14.78%) Investment Banking
6 28 (13.79%) Project Management
7 26 (12.81%) Microsoft
8 23 (11.33%) JavaScript
8 23 (11.33%) SQL
9 22 (10.84%) Oracle
10 21 (10.34%) Scrum
10 21 (10.34%) TDD
11 20 (9.852%) Change Management
11 20 (9.852%) C#
12 19 (9.360%) Migration
13 18 (8.867%) SQL Server
14 17 (8.374%) User Acceptance Testing
15 16 (7.882%) Windows 7
15 16 (7.882%) MS Office
15 16 (7.882%) UNIX
15 16 (7.882%) HP
16 15 (7.389%) REST
16 15 (7.389%) Derivative
16 15 (7.389%) QA
17 14 (6.897%) BDD
17 14 (6.897%) Linux
17 14 (6.897%) MS Excel
17 14 (6.897%) SharePoint
17 14 (6.897%) Back Office

Financial Institution
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 30 (14.78%) .NET
2 15 (7.389%) REST
3 13 (6.404%) HTML5
3 13 (6.404%) ASP.NET
3 13 (6.404%) XML
4 11 (5.419%) HTML
5 9 (4.433%) WCF
6 7 (3.448%) CSS
6 7 (3.448%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (2.956%) Middleware
7 6 (2.956%) LINQ
7 6 (2.956%) jQuery
8 5 (2.463%) Ajax
8 5 (2.463%) WebSphere
8 5 (2.463%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 4 (1.970%) Software Packaging
10 3 (1.478%) Application Packaging
10 3 (1.478%) Web Services
11 2 (0.985%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.985%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 14 (6.897%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.463%) IIS
2 5 (2.463%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (1.970%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (1.970%) ESB
3 4 (1.970%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.478%) TeamSite
4 3 (1.478%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (1.478%) PowerExchange
5 2 (0.985%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.985%) Apache
6 1 (0.493%) CICS
6 1 (0.493%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.493%) SAS
6 1 (0.493%) CMS
6 1 (0.493%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.493%) WebSphere Process Server
6 1 (0.493%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 16 (7.882%) MS Office
2 14 (6.897%) MS Excel
3 7 (3.448%) MS Visio
3 7 (3.448%) MS Project
3 7 (3.448%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.493%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (3.448%) Summit
2 4 (1.970%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (1.478%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 2 (0.985%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.985%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.985%) SAP GTS
4 2 (0.985%) LatentZero
4 2 (0.985%) Capstone
4 2 (0.985%) Tesseract
4 2 (0.985%) Minerva
4 2 (0.985%) Sentinel
5 1 (0.493%) Kondor+
5 1 (0.493%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.493%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.419%) Internet
1 11 (5.419%) SAN
2 5 (2.463%) WAN
3 4 (1.970%) HTTP
3 4 (1.970%) MPLS
4 3 (1.478%) Firewall
4 3 (1.478%) VPN
4 3 (1.478%) Intranet
4 3 (1.478%) Network Security
4 3 (1.478%) NetScaler
5 2 (0.985%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.985%) Junos
5 2 (0.985%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.985%) SSL
5 2 (0.985%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.985%) LAN
5 2 (0.985%) VoIP
5 2 (0.985%) Wireless
5 2 (0.985%) IP Telephony
5 2 (0.985%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.867%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.926%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (4.433%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.970%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (1.970%) OLTP
5 3 (1.478%) PowerCenter
5 3 (1.478%) OLAP
5 3 (1.478%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (1.478%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.985%) MS Access
6 2 (0.985%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (0.985%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (0.985%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (0.985%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (0.985%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.493%) Spotfire
7 1 (0.493%) QlikView
7 1 (0.493%) Big Data
7 1 (0.493%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.493%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (6.404%) JUnit
1 13 (6.404%) Selenium
1 13 (6.404%) Mockito
2 7 (3.448%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.478%) MSI
3 3 (1.478%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.985%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.985%) OpenDeploy
5 1 (0.493%) Ant
5 1 (0.493%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.493%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.493%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.493%) JSUnit
5 1 (0.493%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.493%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.493%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.493%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (0.493%) NUnit
5 1 (0.493%) CruiseControl
5 1 (0.493%) Subversion
General
1 203 (100.00%) Finance
2 99 (48.77%) Banking
3 30 (14.78%) Investment Banking
4 14 (6.897%) Back Office
5 5 (2.463%) Retail
5 5 (2.463%) Retail Banking
5 5 (2.463%) Front Office
6 4 (1.970%) Legal
7 3 (1.478%) Publishing
7 3 (1.478%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.493%) Law
8 1 (0.493%) International Banking
8 1 (0.493%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (24.14%) Analyst
2 40 (19.70%) Developer
3 22 (10.84%) Business Analyst
4 21 (10.34%) Project Manager
5 12 (5.911%) Consultant
6 10 (4.926%) C# Developer
7 9 (4.433%) Support Analyst
8 8 (3.941%) Architect
8 8 (3.941%) Java Developer
8 8 (3.941%) .NET Developer
9 6 (2.956%) ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (2.956%) Administrator
9 6 (2.956%) Banking Business Analyst
10 5 (2.463%) Agile Java Developer
10 5 (2.463%) Server Technician
10 5 (2.463%) Credit Analyst
10 5 (2.463%) Network Engineer
10 5 (2.463%) Test Manager
10 5 (2.463%) Test Analyst
11 4 (1.970%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.389%) Derivative
2 10 (4.926%) Credit Risk
3 9 (4.433%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (3.941%) Market Risk
5 7 (3.448%) SWIFT
6 6 (2.956%) Clustering
7 5 (2.463%) PMI
7 5 (2.463%) Reference Data
7 5 (2.463%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.970%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.970%) Open Source
9 3 (1.478%) Equities
9 3 (1.478%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.985%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.985%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.985%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.985%) Digital Media
11 1 (0.493%) Blog
11 1 (0.493%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.493%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 41 (20.20%) Windows
2 16 (7.882%) UNIX
2 16 (7.882%) Windows 7
3 14 (6.897%) Linux
4 10 (4.926%) Solaris
5 7 (3.448%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.970%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (1.970%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (1.478%) Windows XP
8 2 (0.985%) AIX
8 2 (0.985%) HPUX
9 1 (0.493%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (13.79%) Project Management
2 21 (10.34%) Scrum
2 21 (10.34%) TDD
3 20 (9.852%) Change Management
4 19 (9.360%) Migration
5 17 (8.374%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (6.897%) BDD
7 13 (6.404%) Software Engineering
8 11 (5.419%) Validation
8 11 (5.419%) ITIL
9 10 (4.926%) UML
9 10 (4.926%) Business Analysis
9 10 (4.926%) Investment Management
10 9 (4.433%) Data Analysis
10 9 (4.433%) Asset Management
11 8 (3.941%) OO
11 8 (3.941%) E-Commerce
11 8 (3.941%) MVC
11 8 (3.941%) Waterfall
12 7 (3.448%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 31 (15.27%) Java
2 23 (11.33%) JavaScript
2 23 (11.33%) SQL
3 20 (9.852%) C#
4 8 (3.941%) Perl
5 6 (2.956%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.970%) VBA
6 4 (1.970%) C++
7 3 (1.478%) Python
7 3 (1.478%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.985%) Korn
8 2 (0.985%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.985%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.985%) C
9 1 (0.493%) COBOL
9 1 (0.493%) VBScript
9 1 (0.493%) VB
9 1 (0.493%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.493%) ABAP
9 1 (0.493%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (5.911%) Degree
2 8 (3.941%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.448%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.463%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.985%) PMP
5 2 (0.985%) CCNP
5 2 (0.985%) ISEB
5 2 (0.985%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.985%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (0.493%) CAPM
6 1 (0.493%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (0.493%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.493%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.493%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.493%) CISSP
6 1 (0.493%) MCDBA
6 1 (0.493%) CISA
6 1 (0.493%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.389%) QA
2 6 (2.956%) Basel II
3 4 (1.970%) Basel III
3 4 (1.970%) SLA
4 3 (1.478%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.493%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (6.404%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.956%) XenApp
3 5 (2.463%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.478%) XenDesktop
4 3 (1.478%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.985%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.493%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 6 (2.956%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (2.463%) BladeLogic
3 4 (1.970%) SCCM
4 2 (0.985%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.493%) Control-M
5 1 (0.493%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 26 (12.81%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.84%) Oracle
3 16 (7.882%) HP
4 10 (4.926%) EMC
5 9 (4.433%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.941%) Informatica
7 7 (3.448%) Citrix
7 7 (3.448%) SAP
8 6 (2.956%) Cisco
8 6 (2.956%) CommVault
9 5 (2.463%) Juniper
9 5 (2.463%) OpenLink
9 5 (2.463%) VMware
9 5 (2.463%) JBoss
9 5 (2.463%) Business Objects
10 4 (1.970%) Calypso
10 4 (1.970%) Cognos
10 4 (1.970%) IBM
10 4 (1.970%) Mercator
10 4 (1.970%) Bloomberg
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