The first table below looks at the demand for GAP Analysis skills 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 GAP Analysis over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GAP Analysis
Rank 134 138 160
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +22
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 72 77 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.120% 0.965% 0.848%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.529% 1.348% 1.181%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 59 61
Average daily rate £450 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £300 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £625 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £389 £400 £366
% change year-on-year
-2.81% +9.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £35.44 - £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £30.00
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4709 5713 6944
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.25% 71.60% 71.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3551 4136 5135
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 96 98
Average hourly rate £41.50 £24.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.91% -4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £15.00 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
GAP Analysis
London

GAP Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing GAP Analysis across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London GAP Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London GAP Analysis Daily Rate Trend

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GAP Analysis across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London GAP Analysis Daily Rate Histogram

GAP Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London GAP Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

GAP Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing GAP Analysis 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 GAP Analysis.

1 51 (45.54%) Finance
2 36 (32.14%) Banking
3 34 (30.36%) Business Analysis
4 30 (26.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (21.43%) SQL
6 16 (14.29%) Data Analysis
7 15 (13.39%) UML
8 14 (12.50%) Project Management
9 13 (11.61%) Risk Management
9 13 (11.61%) SAP
10 12 (10.71%) Migration
10 12 (10.71%) Legal
10 12 (10.71%) Investment Banking
10 12 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
11 11 (9.821%) Use Case
11 11 (9.821%) Security Cleared
11 11 (9.821%) Data Modelling
11 11 (9.821%) Microsoft
11 11 (9.821%) Waterfall
12 10 (8.929%) HP Quality Center
12 10 (8.929%) MS Visio
12 10 (8.929%) Workflow
12 10 (8.929%) Derivative
12 10 (8.929%) Degree
12 10 (8.929%) Information Security
13 9 (8.036%) Retail
13 9 (8.036%) Data Mapping
13 9 (8.036%) SC Cleared
13 9 (8.036%) User Acceptance Testing
13 9 (8.036%) Management Information System

GAP Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing GAP Analysis 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 GAP Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (5.357%) SAP XI
2 4 (3.571%) .NET
3 2 (1.786%) J2EE
3 2 (1.786%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.786%) CSS
3 2 (1.786%) HTML
3 2 (1.786%) Middleware
4 1 (0.893%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.893%) XML
Application Platforms
1 5 (4.464%) SharePoint
1 5 (4.464%) WebLogic
1 5 (4.464%) IIS
2 3 (2.679%) Apache
2 3 (2.679%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.893%) CMS
3 1 (0.893%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (8.929%) MS Visio
2 7 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
2 7 (6.250%) MS Office
3 6 (5.357%) MS Excel
4 1 (0.893%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.679%) Temenos T24
1 3 (2.679%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.893%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.893%) Summit
2 1 (0.893%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.893%) SAP EHS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.250%) Network Security
2 6 (5.357%) LAN
3 5 (4.464%) WAN
4 4 (3.571%) SDH
4 4 (3.571%) ATM
4 4 (3.571%) MPLS
5 3 (2.679%) Firewall
5 3 (2.679%) HTTP
6 2 (1.786%) DNS
6 2 (1.786%) Wireless
6 2 (1.786%) CTI
6 2 (1.786%) SAN
7 1 (0.893%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.893%) Intranet
7 1 (0.893%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.357%) BusinessObjects
2 6 (5.357%) BusinessObjects XI
3 5 (4.464%) ReportNet
4 4 (3.571%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (2.679%) IBM InfoSphere
5 3 (2.679%) QlikView
6 2 (1.786%) OLAP
6 2 (1.786%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.786%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (1.786%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.786%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.786%) Oracle OLAP
6 2 (1.786%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (1.786%) Essbase
7 1 (0.893%) MS Access
7 1 (0.893%) TOAD
7 1 (0.893%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.464%) JIRA
2 2 (1.786%) JUnit
3 1 (0.893%) Balsamiq Mockups
3 1 (0.893%) ERwin
3 1 (0.893%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.893%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.893%) Eclipse
General
1 51 (45.54%) Finance
2 36 (32.14%) Banking
3 12 (10.71%) Legal
3 12 (10.71%) Investment Banking
4 9 (8.036%) Retail
5 7 (6.250%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.464%) International Banking
6 5 (4.464%) Front Office
6 5 (4.464%) Advertising
7 4 (3.571%) Law
7 4 (3.571%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.679%) Marketing
8 3 (2.679%) Back Office
9 2 (1.786%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.893%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 74 (66.07%) Analyst
2 63 (56.25%) Business Analyst
3 12 (10.71%) Consultant
4 10 (8.929%) Architect
4 10 (8.929%) Banking Business Analyst
4 10 (8.929%) Data Analyst
5 9 (8.036%) Systems Analyst
6 7 (6.250%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.357%) Security Consultant
7 6 (5.357%) Developer
7 6 (5.357%) Banking Analyst
8 5 (4.464%) Information Security Consultant
8 5 (4.464%) Business Data Analyst
8 5 (4.464%) Business Systems Analyst
8 5 (4.464%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.571%) Siebel Analyst
9 4 (3.571%) MI Analyst
9 4 (3.571%) Insurance Business Analyst
9 4 (3.571%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (3.571%) Siebel Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.929%) Derivative
2 9 (8.036%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.143%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (5.357%) Computer Science
5 5 (4.464%) Reference Data
6 4 (3.571%) SWIFT
6 4 (3.571%) Visualisation
6 4 (3.571%) IIBA
7 3 (2.679%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.679%) Equities
7 3 (2.679%) FMCG
7 3 (2.679%) PKI
8 2 (1.786%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.786%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.786%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.786%) Clustering
8 2 (1.786%) iSeries
9 1 (0.893%) SaaS
9 1 (0.893%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.893%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.036%) Windows
2 6 (5.357%) UNIX
2 6 (5.357%) Linux
3 2 (1.786%) AIX
3 2 (1.786%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (1.786%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.36%) Business Analysis
2 30 (26.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 15 (13.39%) UML
5 14 (12.50%) Project Management
6 13 (11.61%) Risk Management
7 12 (10.71%) Migration
7 12 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (9.821%) Use Case
8 11 (9.821%) Data Modelling
8 11 (9.821%) Waterfall
9 10 (8.929%) Workflow
9 10 (8.929%) Information Security
10 9 (8.036%) Data Mapping
10 9 (8.036%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (8.036%) Change Management
11 8 (7.143%) CRM
11 8 (7.143%) Risk Assessment
12 7 (6.250%) Systems Analysis
12 7 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 24 (21.43%) SQL
2 5 (4.464%) PL/SQL
3 4 (3.571%) Java
4 2 (1.786%) C
4 2 (1.786%) C#
4 2 (1.786%) C++
5 1 (0.893%) Perl
5 1 (0.893%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (9.821%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.929%) Degree
3 9 (8.036%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.143%) ISEB
5 3 (2.679%) JNCIE
5 3 (2.679%) CISSP
5 3 (2.679%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.679%) CCIE
5 3 (2.679%) CISM
6 2 (1.786%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.893%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.893%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.250%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.571%) COBIT
2 4 (3.571%) QA
3 2 (1.786%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.786%) FATCA
4 1 (0.893%) Basel II
4 1 (0.893%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 4 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.679%) Forefront TMG
2 3 (2.679%) UAG
2 3 (2.679%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.786%) VMware ESX
3 2 (1.786%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (8.929%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (11.61%) SAP
2 11 (9.821%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.036%) Cisco
3 9 (8.036%) IBM
3 9 (8.036%) Oracle
4 8 (7.143%) Cognos
5 7 (6.250%) Juniper
6 6 (5.357%) Business Objects
6 6 (5.357%) Siebel
7 4 (3.571%) Citrix
7 4 (3.571%) VMware
8 3 (2.679%) Riverbed
8 3 (2.679%) Charles River
9 2 (1.786%) Sybase
9 2 (1.786%) NetApp
9 2 (1.786%) HP
9 2 (1.786%) Informatica
9 2 (1.786%) Brocade
9 2 (1.786%) Teradata
9 2 (1.786%) Guidewire
City of London
You will meet the following requirements: Strong core BA skills: Business Case Analysis, Requirements gathering, Gap Analysis and specification writing Investment Management or Asset Management background Experience of...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
You will meet the following requirements: Strong core BA skills: Business Case Analysis, Requirements gathering, Gap Analysis and specification writing Investment Management or Asset Management background Experience of...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
You will meet the following requirements: Strong core BA skills: Business Case Analysis, Requirements gathering, Gap Analysis and specification writing Investment Management or Asset Management background Experience of...
Orgtel
Rate: £425 - £450 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Capita Resourcing welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of gender, race, disability, age or sexual orientation. Capita Resourcing is a trading name of Capita Resourcing Ltd.....
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Any exposure to risk management systems would be advantageous. You will have excellent authoring and technical skills with extensive banking experience and exposure to MM, FX, bonds and...
Benedict Cole Limited
Rate: £430 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
My global client is looking to secure a Management Information / Business Intelligence Business Analyst. In order to be successful, you will be required to have the following skills...
Montash
Rate: £350 - £500 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
Although the department have an existing Management Control Information System (MCIS) the hardware and supporting software are coming to the end of their lifecycle, and the development and...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 30 April 2013
City of London
Excellent understanding of Management information solutions*Good understanding of workflow tools and their usage*Good understanding of Global Investment Banking *Good understanding of technical issues rolling out /supporting...
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
City of London
Main FunctionSupport US Cash Programme release testing: ProvideQualityCentre training Produce assigned SIT Test Plan and test packs documents according to the standard as provided by the Test Manager...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013