The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of GoldenSource products and/or services 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 GoldenSource over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the GoldenSource Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GoldenSource
Rank 191 211 215
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +4
Contract jobs citing GoldenSource 12 7 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.188% 0.089% 0.306%
As % of the Vendors category 0.415% 0.211% 0.727%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 24
Average daily rate £375 £600 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £550 £458
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £665 £635
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2893 3319 4124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.35% 42.20% 42.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2051 2268 2847
Average daily rate £431 £425 £489
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.47% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £285 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 101 131
Average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.00 £39.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
GoldenSource
London

GoldenSource
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London GoldenSource Jobs Demand Trend

GoldenSource
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London GoldenSource Daily Rate Trend

GoldenSource
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GoldenSource across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London GoldenSource Daily Rate Histogram

GoldenSource
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing GoldenSource 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 GoldenSource.

1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
3 6 (37.50%) Sybase
3 6 (37.50%) UNIX
3 6 (37.50%) Windows
3 6 (37.50%) Solaris
3 6 (37.50%) Windows XP
3 6 (37.50%) Misys
3 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (37.50%) SWIFT
4 5 (31.25%) Banking
4 5 (31.25%) Thunderhead
4 5 (31.25%) Tivoli
5 4 (25.00%) Back Office
5 4 (25.00%) Finance
5 4 (25.00%) Service Management
5 4 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
5 4 (25.00%) Cadis
6 3 (18.75%) Reference Data
6 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Capacity Management
6 3 (18.75%) ITSM
7 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
7 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
7 2 (12.50%) Fund Management
7 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
7 2 (12.50%) Investment Management
7 2 (12.50%) Eagle PACE
8 1 (6.250%) Oracle BI EE

GoldenSource
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing GoldenSource 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 GoldenSource. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) Silverlight
1 1 (6.250%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) SAS
1 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Eagle PACE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.250%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (6.250%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Back Office
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Retail
3 1 (6.250%) Marketing
3 1 (6.250%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Support Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Operations Support Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Data Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Business Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Change Project Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (6.250%) SQL Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Change Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Applications Support
6 1 (6.250%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) SWIFT
2 3 (18.75%) Reference Data
3 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) UNIX
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
1 6 (37.50%) Solaris
1 6 (37.50%) Windows XP
1 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Service Management
2 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (18.75%) Capacity Management
2 3 (18.75%) ITSM
3 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
3 2 (12.50%) Fund Management
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) Investment Management
4 1 (6.250%) Operations Research
4 1 (6.250%) Business Development
4 1 (6.250%) Demand Management
4 1 (6.250%) Statistical Modelling
4 1 (6.250%) Data Analytics
4 1 (6.250%) Analytics
4 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.250%) Validation
4 1 (6.250%) Scrum
4 1 (6.250%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
2 1 (6.250%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 6 (37.50%) Sybase
2 6 (37.50%) Misys
3 5 (31.25%) Thunderhead
4 4 (25.00%) Cadis
5 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
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Posted: 24 May 2013