City of London French Language Contracts

This section looks at the demand for French Language 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 job ads that have cited French Language over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bracknell Bromley Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Gatwick Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Jersey Kent Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes North East North Lanarkshire North West Oxfordshire Poole Reading Sandwich Scotland Slough South East South West St Helens Surrey UK West Midlands West Sussex Weybridge Wokingham	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	195	175
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	28	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	0.860 %	0.804 %
Daily rates quoted	17	14
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£359
Average daily rate	£380	£404
% change on same period last year	-6.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£449
UK excluding London average daily rate	£404	£410
% change on same period last year	-1.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£21.50	£23.00
% change on same period last year	-6.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£13.46	£15.84
% change on same period last year	-14.99 %
Miscellaneous City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	3256	2984
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.324 %	3.062 %
Daily rates quoted	1910	1440
Average minimum daily rate	£477	£498
Average daily rate	£522	£542
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£568	£586
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	72	48
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.62	£22.06
Average hourly rate	£21.43	£24.09
% change on same period last year	-11.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.24	£26.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.49	£28.98
% change on same period last year	-15.50 %
French Language 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing French Language across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing French Language across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing French Language 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 French Language.

1 21 (43.75 %) Banking 2 16 (33.33 %) Investment Banking 3 13 (27.08 %) Finance 4 10 (20.83 %) SQL 5 8 (16.67 %) MS Office 5 8 (16.67 %) ITIL 5 8 (16.67 %) Spanish Language 6 7 (14.58 %) Windows 6 7 (14.58 %) MS Excel 7 6 (12.50 %) Sybase 7 6 (12.50 %) German Language 8 5 (10.42 %) Italian Language 8 5 (10.42 %) Degree 8 5 (10.42 %) Dutch Language 8 5 (10.42 %) Java

8 5 (10.42 %) Configuration Management 8 5 (10.42 %) Service Delivery 9 4 (8.333 %) Project Management 9 4 (8.333 %) Service Management 9 4 (8.333 %) Active Directory 9 4 (8.333 %) Citrix 9 4 (8.333 %) Microsoft 9 4 (8.333 %) C# 9 4 (8.333 %) VB 9 4 (8.333 %) VBA 9 4 (8.333 %) MS Visio 9 4 (8.333 %) LAN 9 4 (8.333 %) WAN 9 4 (8.333 %) Derivative 9 4 (8.333 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing French Language 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 French Language. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.083 %) HTML 1 1 (2.083 %) .NET 1 1 (2.083 %) WebServices 1 1 (2.083 %) Hibernate 1 1 (2.083 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.167 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (2.083 %) SharePoint 2 1 (2.083 %) Mule
Applications 1 8 (16.67 %) MS Office 2 7 (14.58 %) MS Excel 3 4 (8.333 %) MS Visio 4 1 (2.083 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (2.083 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) Remedy ITSM 1 1 (2.083 %) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking 1 4 (8.333 %) LAN 1 4 (8.333 %) WAN 2 1 (2.083 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (2.083 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.083 %) Internet 2 1 (2.083 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.083 %) MS Access 1 1 (2.083 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (2.083 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) CruiseControl 1 1 (2.083 %) Subversion	General 1 21 (43.75 %) Banking 2 16 (33.33 %) Investment Banking 3 13 (27.08 %) Finance 4 4 (8.333 %) Telecoms 5 2 (4.167 %) Front Office 6 1 (2.083 %) Education 6 1 (2.083 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 12 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 9 (18.75 %) Developer 3 6 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 4 5 (10.42 %) Senior Manager 4 5 (10.42 %) Consultant 5 3 (6.250 %) Author 5 3 (6.250 %) Technical Author 5 3 (6.250 %) Security Consultant 5 3 (6.250 %) C# Developer 6 2 (4.167 %) Project Manager 6 2 (4.167 %) Information Security Consultant 6 2 (4.167 %) Service Manager 6 2 (4.167 %) Administrator 6 2 (4.167 %) RAD Developer 7 1 (2.083 %) Desktop Manager 7 1 (2.083 %) Senior Analyst 7 1 (2.083 %) Senior Project Manager 7 1 (2.083 %) Java Developer 7 1 (2.083 %) .NET Developer 7 1 (2.083 %) Security Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 8 (16.67 %) Spanish Language 2 6 (12.50 %) German Language 3 5 (10.42 %) Italian Language 3 5 (10.42 %) Dutch Language 4 4 (8.333 %) Credit Derivative 4 4 (8.333 %) Derivative 4 4 (8.333 %) Swedish Language 4 4 (8.333 %) Portuguese Language 5 3 (6.250 %) Finnish Language 5 3 (6.250 %) Arabic Language 5 3 (6.250 %) Danish Language 5 3 (6.250 %) Norwegian Language 5 3 (6.250 %) Greek Language 6 2 (4.167 %) Statistics 7 1 (2.083 %) Spread Betting 7 1 (2.083 %) Mathematics 7 1 (2.083 %) Economics 7 1 (2.083 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 1 (2.083 %) Blackberry 7 1 (2.083 %) Fixed Income
Operating Systems 1 7 (14.58 %) Windows 2 3 (6.250 %) Linux 2 3 (6.250 %) UNIX 3 1 (2.083 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (2.083 %) Windows NT 3 1 (2.083 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (16.67 %) ITIL 2 5 (10.42 %) Configuration Management 2 5 (10.42 %) Service Delivery 3 4 (8.333 %) Project Management 3 4 (8.333 %) Service Management 4 3 (6.250 %) RAD 4 3 (6.250 %) Information Security 4 3 (6.250 %) Risk Management 5 2 (4.167 %) Change Management 5 2 (4.167 %) CRM 5 2 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (4.167 %) Problem Management 5 2 (4.167 %) OO 6 1 (2.083 %) Risk Analysis 6 1 (2.083 %) Release Management 6 1 (2.083 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (2.083 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (2.083 %) Investment Management 6 1 (2.083 %) OOP 6 1 (2.083 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 10 (20.83 %) SQL 2 5 (10.42 %) Java 3 4 (8.333 %) VB 3 4 (8.333 %) C# 3 4 (8.333 %) VBA 4 2 (4.167 %) JavaScript 4 2 (4.167 %) Perl 5 1 (2.083 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 5 (10.42 %) Degree 2 3 (6.250 %) CISSP 3 2 (4.167 %) CISM 4 1 (2.083 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (2.083 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (2.083 %) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.250 %) SLA 2 1 (2.083 %) ISO27001 2 1 (2.083 %) COBIT 2 1 (2.083 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 4 (8.333 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (2.083 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 6 (12.50 %) Sybase 2 4 (8.333 %) Microsoft 2 4 (8.333 %) Citrix 3 3 (6.250 %) Remedy 3 3 (6.250 %) Oracle 4 2 (4.167 %) Lotus 5 1 (2.083 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (2.083 %) Reuters 5 1 (2.083 %) Bloomberg 5 1 (2.083 %) Murex 5 1 (2.083 %) SAP 5 1 (2.083 %) Siebel 5 1 (2.083 %) Altiris 5 1 (2.083 %) Actimize 5 1 (2.083 %) Capita