The first table below looks at the demand for HFM 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 HFM over the 3 months to 23 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 Business Applications 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
Rank 188 204 221
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +17
Contract jobs citing HFM 11 15 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.173% 0.191% 0.241%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.144% 2.747% 3.175%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 14
Average daily rate £500 £488 £513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -4.87%
UK excluding London average daily rate £525 £450 £450
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
513 546 756
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 8.076% 6.936% 7.581%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 373 540
Average daily rate £450 £450 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 2
Average hourly rate £32.58 £50.00 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.84% +45.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £14.75 £19.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.51 £56.25 £48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
HFM
London

HFM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London HFM Jobs Demand Trend

HFM
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London HFM Daily Rate Trend

HFM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing HFM 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 HFM.

1 20 (86.96%) Hyperion
2 18 (78.26%) Finance
3 15 (65.22%) Oracle
4 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
5 5 (21.74%) SQL
5 5 (21.74%) Hyperion Planning
6 4 (17.39%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
7 3 (13.04%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (13.04%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (13.04%) Essbase
7 3 (13.04%) Banking
7 3 (13.04%) General Ledger
7 3 (13.04%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (8.696%) Data Migration
8 2 (8.696%) Data Cleansing
8 2 (8.696%) Oracle OLAP
8 2 (8.696%) Oracle 11g
8 2 (8.696%) Scrum
8 2 (8.696%) Investment Banking
8 2 (8.696%) Systems Analysis
8 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (8.696%) Subversion
8 2 (8.696%) Khalix
8 2 (8.696%) Migration
8 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (8.696%) WSH
8 2 (8.696%) IBM
8 2 (8.696%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (8.696%) Shell Script

HFM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing HFM 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 HFM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.696%) WSH
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (8.696%) Khalix
4 2 (8.696%) LongView
5 1 (4.348%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (4.348%) Cognos Planning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) Essbase
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (8.696%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.696%) OLAP
3 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Subversion
1 2 (8.696%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 18 (78.26%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Banking
2 3 (13.04%) General Ledger
3 2 (8.696%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Hyperion Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Systems Accountant
4 2 (8.696%) Data Migration Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Hyperion Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Technical Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Hyperion Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) HFM Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Systems Support
5 1 (4.348%) Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.696%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (8.696%) Data Migration
1 2 (8.696%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (8.696%) Scrum
1 2 (8.696%) Systems Analysis
1 2 (8.696%) Migration
1 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (8.696%) ERP
1 2 (8.696%) Data Modelling
1 2 (8.696%) PRINCE2
1 2 (8.696%) Metadata Management
2 1 (4.348%) Service Delivery
2 1 (4.348%) Validation
2 1 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (4.348%) Integration Testing
2 1 (4.348%) Test Scripting
2 1 (4.348%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
3 2 (8.696%) Shell Script
3 2 (8.696%) Perl
3 2 (8.696%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.696%) ACCA
1 2 (8.696%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.696%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 20 (86.96%) Hyperion
2 15 (65.22%) Oracle
3 2 (8.696%) IBM
3 2 (8.696%) Cognos
3 2 (8.696%) Business Objects
City, London
A large scale London based business is currently seeking an HFM Systems administration Manager to join them on an interim six month contract. The Hyperion Systems Administration manager...
Sanderson
Rate: £600 - £800 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013