Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for DSTi HiPortfolio skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Business Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HiPortfolio over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkDSTi HiPortfolio
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank175171
Rank change on same period last yearDown-4
Matching contract IT job ads315
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.005 %0.016 %
As % of the category below0.750 %3.145 %
Daily rates quoted14
Average minimum daily rate£200£538
Average daily rate£225£594
% change on same period last year-62.10 %
Average maximum daily rate£250£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£416£479
% change on same period last year-13.26 %
Hourly rates quoted10
Average minimum hourly rate£30.00-
Average hourly rate£40.00-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£50.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads400477
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.630 %0.511 %
Daily rates quoted192207
Average minimum daily rate£434£493
Average daily rate£472£523
% change on same period last year-9.75 %
Average maximum daily rate£509£552
UK excluding London average daily rate£449£433
% change on same period last year+3.67 %
Hourly rates quoted95
Average minimum hourly rate£39.55£36.43
Average hourly rate£45.64£38.21
% change on same period last year+19.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate£51.73£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.61£27.85
% change on same period last year+6.31 %
HiPortfolio LondonHiPortfolio
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.

HiPortfolio
Demand Trend

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

City of London HiPortfolio Demand Trend

HiPortfolio
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London HiPortfolio Daily Rate Trend

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London HiPortfolio Hourly Rate Trend

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

15 (62.50 %)Finance
24 (50.00 %)Investment Management
33 (37.50 %)Migration
33 (37.50 %)Back Office
33 (37.50 %)LatentZero
33 (37.50 %)Asset Management
33 (37.50 %)Reuters
42 (25.00 %)Charles River
42 (25.00 %)BPR
42 (25.00 %)Project Management
42 (25.00 %)Datawarehouse
42 (25.00 %)Reference Data
42 (25.00 %)Data Mapping
42 (25.00 %)InvestOne
42 (25.00 %)User Acceptance Testing
42 (25.00 %)Data Management
42 (25.00 %)Business Analysis
51 (12.50 %)CA Clarity
51 (12.50 %)Fund Management
51 (12.50 %)VB6
51 (12.50 %)Global One
51 (12.50 %)Sophis
51 (12.50 %)Banking
51 (12.50 %)Bloomberg
51 (12.50 %)Front Office
51 (12.50 %)C#
51 (12.50 %)JavaScript
51 (12.50 %)VB
51 (12.50 %)ASP
51 (12.50 %)COM+

HiPortfolio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (12.50 %)ASP
11 (12.50 %)COM+
11 (12.50 %)XML
11 (12.50 %)XSLT
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (12.50 %)CA Clarity
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
12 (25.00 %)InvestOne
21 (12.50 %)Global One
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (25.00 %)Datawarehouse
12 (25.00 %)Reference Data
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
15 (62.50 %)Finance
23 (37.50 %)Back Office
31 (12.50 %)Front Office
31 (12.50 %)Banking
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
17 (87.50 %)Analyst
26 (75.00 %)Business Analyst
31 (12.50 %)Developer
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11 (12.50 %)UNIX
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
14 (50.00 %)Investment Management
23 (37.50 %)Migration
23 (37.50 %)Asset Management
32 (25.00 %)Data Management
32 (25.00 %)Business Analysis
32 (25.00 %)Data Mapping
32 (25.00 %)BPR
32 (25.00 %)Project Management
32 (25.00 %)User Acceptance Testing
41 (12.50 %)Fund Management
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11 (12.50 %)C#
11 (12.50 %)JavaScript
11 (12.50 %)VB
11 (12.50 %)VB6
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
13 (37.50 %)Reuters
13 (37.50 %)LatentZero
22 (25.00 %)Charles River
31 (12.50 %)Sophis
31 (12.50 %)Bloomberg