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The table below looks at the demand for Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFixed Income
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank2121
Rank change on same period last yearNo change0
Matching contract IT job ads387422
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.610 %0.452 %
As % of the category below17.58 %17.37 %
Daily rates quoted215192
Average minimum daily rate£488£529
Average daily rate£534£571
% change on same period last year-6.51 %
Average maximum daily rate£580£613
UK excluding London average daily rate£410£423
% change on same period last year-3.01 %
Hourly rates quoted02
Average minimum hourly rate-£25.00
Average hourly rate-£29.25
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate-£33.50
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 ads22012429
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled3.467 %2.603 %
Daily rates quoted12171097
Average minimum daily rate£455£513
Average daily rate£498£546
% change on same period last year-8.83 %
Average maximum daily rate£541£579
UK excluding London average daily rate£344£343
% change on same period last year+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted7756
Average minimum hourly rate£22.47£22.30
Average hourly rate£24.81£23.89
% change on same period last year+3.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.16£25.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.46£25.58
% change on same period last year-0.46 %
Fixed Income LondonFixed Income
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.

Fixed Income
Demand Trend

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

City of London Fixed Income Demand Trend

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Fixed Income Daily Rate Trend

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fixed Income across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

City of London Fixed Income Daily Rate Histogram

Fixed Income
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Fixed Income Hourly Rate Trend

Fixed Income
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income.

1564 (53.11 %)Banking
2456 (42.94 %)Derivative
3436 (41.05 %)Investment Banking
4415 (39.08 %)Finance
5390 (36.72 %)Front Office
6242 (22.79 %)Java
7204 (19.21 %)Equities
8185 (17.42 %)C#
9169 (15.91 %)SQL
10160 (15.07 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
11155 (14.60 %)UNIX
12136 (12.81 %)Back Office
13134 (12.62 %)OO
14129 (12.15 %)C++
15128 (12.05 %)Bloomberg
16126 (11.86 %).NET
17124 (11.68 %)Oracle
18118 (11.11 %)Sybase
19115 (10.83 %)Windows
20114 (10.73 %)Asset Management
21105 (9.887 %)Calypso
2298 (9.228 %)Business Analysis
2382 (7.721 %)Project Management
2476 (7.156 %)Credit Derivative
2565 (6.121 %)Investment Management
2664 (6.026 %)WinForms
2763 (5.932 %)Multithreading
2862 (5.838 %)Electronic Trading
2862 (5.838 %)Government
2955 (5.179 %)Syncfusion

Fixed Income
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1126 (11.86 %).NET
264 (6.026 %)WinForms
345 (4.237 %)J2EE
437 (3.484 %)XML
525 (2.354 %)Spring
618 (1.695 %)WebServices
717 (1.601 %)ASP.NET
814 (1.318 %)Middleware
814 (1.318 %)Java EE
913 (1.224 %)STL
1012 (1.130 %)MFC
1012 (1.130 %)Hibernate
1111 (1.036 %)Application Packaging
1111 (1.036 %)FIX Protocol
1111 (1.036 %)HTML
129 (0.847 %)EJB
138 (0.753 %)WebSphere
147 (0.659 %)MVC
147 (0.659 %)JSP
147 (0.659 %)Swing
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
141 (3.861 %)MTS
225 (2.354 %)WebLogic
323 (2.166 %)Rendezvous
412 (1.130 %)MQSeries
412 (1.130 %)MS Exchange
56 (0.565 %)Lotus Notes
56 (0.565 %)Apache
56 (0.565 %)Tomcat
65 (0.471 %)Office Project Server
74 (0.377 %)SharePoint
83 (0.282 %)WebLogic Portal
83 (0.282 %)TIBCO EMS
92 (0.188 %)Oracle Workflow
92 (0.188 %)Oracle Application Server
101 (0.094 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
101 (0.094 %)WebSphere MQ
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
128 (2.637 %)MS Office
219 (1.789 %)Spreadsheet
314 (1.318 %)MS Project
410 (0.942 %)MS Excel
56 (0.565 %)MS Visio
64 (0.377 %)Photoshop
71 (0.094 %)MS PowerPoint
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
122 (2.072 %)Capstone
215 (1.412 %)Minerva
310 (0.942 %)Tesseract
48 (0.753 %)Summit
56 (0.565 %)LongView
65 (0.471 %)Loan IQ
72 (0.188 %)Eagle PACE
72 (0.188 %)Sentinel
81 (0.094 %)FRONT ARENA
81 (0.094 %)SalesLogix
81 (0.094 %)Sophis RISQUE
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
110 (0.942 %)TCP/IP
110 (0.942 %)SAN
29 (0.847 %)LDAP
35 (0.471 %)Firewall
44 (0.377 %)OSPF
44 (0.377 %)BGP
44 (0.377 %)Cisco PIX
44 (0.377 %)VPN
44 (0.377 %)SSL
53 (0.282 %)DECnet
62 (0.188 %)IP Telephony
62 (0.188 %)Cisco IPT
62 (0.188 %)WAN
71 (0.094 %)Ethernet
71 (0.094 %)HTTP
71 (0.094 %)Internet
71 (0.094 %)BIG-IP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
148 (4.520 %)SQL Server
213 (1.224 %)Datawarehouse
213 (1.224 %)RDBMS
39 (0.847 %)ETL
48 (0.753 %)Crystal Reports
57 (0.659 %)BusinessObjects
57 (0.659 %)SQL Server 2005
66 (0.565 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
66 (0.565 %)Ingres
66 (0.565 %)Oracle 10g
75 (0.471 %)Oracle OWB
75 (0.471 %)DB2
75 (0.471 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
75 (0.471 %)Reference Data
84 (0.377 %)SQL Server Integration Services
93 (0.282 %)Oracle Reports
93 (0.282 %)Oracle 9i
102 (0.188 %)DTS
102 (0.188 %)SQL Server 2000
102 (0.188 %)Sybase ASE
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
151 (4.802 %)NUnit
249 (4.614 %)Log4Net
329 (2.731 %)TestDirector
422 (2.072 %)ClearCase
59 (0.847 %)QuickTest Pro
68 (0.753 %)LoadRunner
68 (0.753 %)Visual Studio
77 (0.659 %)Eclipse
77 (0.659 %)ClearQuest
85 (0.471 %)Rational Rose
93 (0.282 %)WinRunner
93 (0.282 %)Ant
93 (0.282 %)Cactus
102 (0.188 %)JUnit
111 (0.094 %)Oracle Forms
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1564 (53.11 %)Banking
2436 (41.05 %)Investment Banking
3415 (39.08 %)Finance
4390 (36.72 %)Front Office
5136 (12.81 %)Back Office
662 (5.838 %)Government
727 (2.542 %)Financial Institution
810 (0.942 %)Retail
98 (0.753 %)Education
105 (0.471 %)Construction
105 (0.471 %)Legal
105 (0.471 %)Publishing
114 (0.377 %)Pensions
114 (0.377 %)Health
123 (0.282 %)Auditing
132 (0.188 %)Insurance
132 (0.188 %)Corporate Banking
141 (0.094 %)Retail Banking
141 (0.094 %)General Ledger
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1401 (37.76 %)Analyst
2363 (34.18 %)Developer
3238 (22.41 %)Business Analyst
4115 (10.83 %)Java Developer
598 (9.228 %)C# Developer
675 (7.062 %)Support Analyst
774 (6.968 %)Project Manager
849 (4.614 %).NET Developer
946 (4.331 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
1045 (4.237 %)Applications Support
1045 (4.237 %)Test Analyst
1144 (4.143 %)Senior Developer
1237 (3.484 %)Calypso Developer
1333 (3.107 %)C++ Developer
1426 (2.448 %)Applications Support Analyst
1523 (2.166 %)Senior Java Developer
1622 (2.072 %)Banking Business Analyst
1716 (1.507 %)GUI Developer
1716 (1.507 %)Test Specialist
1716 (1.507 %)Senior Analyst
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1456 (42.94 %)Derivative
2204 (19.21 %)Equities
3160 (15.07 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
476 (7.156 %)Credit Derivative
563 (5.932 %)Multithreading
652 (4.896 %)Interest Rate Derivative
741 (3.861 %)Market Risk
829 (2.731 %)Equity Derivative
919 (1.789 %)Blackberry
1018 (1.695 %)Credit Risk
1114 (1.318 %)Management Information System
1213 (1.224 %)Grid Computing
1310 (0.942 %)Client/Server
149 (0.847 %)Swaptions
156 (0.565 %)Exotic Derivative
156 (0.565 %)N-Tier
164 (0.377 %)PMI
164 (0.377 %)Thin Client
164 (0.377 %)Fat Client
164 (0.377 %)Data Extraction
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1155 (14.60 %)UNIX
2115 (10.83 %)Windows
342 (3.955 %)Solaris
416 (1.507 %)Windows XP
515 (1.412 %)Linux
612 (1.130 %)Windows 2000
612 (1.130 %)VMS
711 (1.036 %)Windows Server 2003
84 (0.377 %)OpenVMS
91 (0.094 %)Windows NT
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1134 (12.62 %)OO
2114 (10.73 %)Asset Management
398 (9.228 %)Business Analysis
482 (7.721 %)Project Management
565 (6.121 %)Investment Management
662 (5.838 %)Electronic Trading
752 (4.896 %)Risk Management
752 (4.896 %)Automated Testing
849 (4.614 %)Scrum
849 (4.614 %)UML
947 (4.426 %)OOD
1038 (3.578 %)User Acceptance Testing
1137 (3.484 %)Test Scripting
1234 (3.202 %)ITIL
1332 (3.013 %)PRINCE2
1332 (3.013 %)Agile Software Development
1430 (2.825 %)Algorithmic Trading
1430 (2.825 %)Use Case
1430 (2.825 %)Change Management
1528 (2.637 %)RUP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1242 (22.79 %)Java
2185 (17.42 %)C#
3169 (15.91 %)SQL
4129 (12.15 %)C++
548 (4.520 %)VBA
634 (3.202 %)C
727 (2.542 %)Perl
819 (1.789 %)Shell Script
917 (1.601 %)VC++
109 (0.847 %)VB
116 (0.565 %)Transact-SQL
124 (0.377 %)Python
133 (0.282 %)PL/SQL
133 (0.282 %)DCL
133 (0.282 %)Korn
141 (0.094 %)Groovy
141 (0.094 %)JavaScript
141 (0.094 %)Tcl
141 (0.094 %)VB.NET
141 (0.094 %)Euclid
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
132 (3.013 %)ISEB
231 (2.919 %)Degree
316 (1.507 %)Microsoft Certification
415 (1.412 %)MCSE
510 (0.942 %)ISEB Practitioner
69 (0.847 %)MCP
77 (0.659 %)PRINCE2 Certification
86 (0.565 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
94 (0.377 %)Cisco Certification
94 (0.377 %)CCIE
94 (0.377 %)CCNP
103 (0.282 %)ITIL Certification
111 (0.094 %)PMP
111 (0.094 %)PMI Certification
111 (0.094 %)ACCA
111 (0.094 %)CIMA
111 (0.094 %)MCAD
111 (0.094 %)PhD
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
125 (2.354 %)QA
24 (0.377 %)ISO9001
24 (0.377 %)Basel II
32 (0.188 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.094 %)MiFID
41 (0.094 %)ISO/IEC 20000
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
19 (0.847 %)NetBackup
19 (0.847 %)AquaLogic
24 (0.377 %)Active Directory
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
121 (1.977 %)AutoSys
27 (0.659 %)CiscoWorks
36 (0.565 %)BMC PATROL
45 (0.471 %)OpenView
54 (0.377 %)NNM
62 (0.188 %)CONTROL-M
62 (0.188 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
71 (0.094 %)Netcool
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1128 (12.05 %)Bloomberg
2124 (11.68 %)Oracle
3118 (11.11 %)Sybase
4105 (9.887 %)Calypso
555 (5.179 %)Syncfusion
650 (4.708 %)Reuters
745 (4.237 %)Tradeweb
839 (3.672 %)eSpeed
934 (3.202 %)thinkFolio
1032 (3.013 %)TIBCO
1128 (2.637 %)BEA
1226 (2.448 %)LatentZero
1322 (2.072 %)Microsoft
1421 (1.977 %)Infragistics
1517 (1.601 %)Remedy
1517 (1.601 %)Charles River
1615 (1.412 %)HP
1615 (1.412 %)ION Trading
1714 (1.318 %)Citrix
1714 (1.318 %)Murex