The first table below looks at the demand for the Investment Banking Business Analyst role 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 Investment Banking Business Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Investment Bank Business Analyst
Rank 171 162 135
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -27
Contract jobs requiring an Investment Banking Business Analyst 44 60 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.638% 0.778% 1.176%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.691% 0.850% 1.282%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 55 98
Average daily rate £525 £575 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £469 £500
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £613 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £425 £500
% change year-on-year
-17.64% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 £24.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.75% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6370 7058 9203
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.39% 91.51% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4711 5127 6701
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 174 214
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.50 £43.95 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Investment Banking Business Analyst
London

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Investment Banking Business Analyst across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Investment Banking Business Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Investment Banking Business Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Investment Banking Business Analyst across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Investment Banking Business Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Investment Banking Business Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Investment Banking Business Analyst in their job title 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 with Investment Banking Business Analyst in their job title.

1 52 (68.42%) Banking
1 52 (68.42%) Investment Banking
2 28 (36.84%) Finance
3 27 (35.53%) SQL
4 19 (25.00%) Business Analysis
5 18 (23.68%) Fixed Income
6 16 (21.05%) Front Office
7 13 (17.11%) Derivative
8 11 (14.47%) Credit Risk
9 10 (13.16%) Use Case
10 9 (11.84%) Market Risk
11 8 (10.53%) Oracle
11 8 (10.53%) Data Analysis
12 7 (9.211%) VBA
12 7 (9.211%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (7.895%) Agile Software Development
13 6 (7.895%) Workflow
13 6 (7.895%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (7.895%) MS Visio
13 6 (7.895%) Data Modelling
13 6 (7.895%) User Acceptance Testing
14 5 (6.579%) Monte Carlo Method
14 5 (6.579%) Degree
14 5 (6.579%) Business Objects
14 5 (6.579%) Microsoft
14 5 (6.579%) Validation
14 5 (6.579%) Equities
14 5 (6.579%) Asset Management
14 5 (6.579%) MS PowerPoint
15 4 (5.263%) Data Management

Investment Banking Business Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Investment Banking Business Analyst in their job title 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 with Investment Banking Business Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (5.263%) XML
2 2 (2.632%) HTML
2 2 (2.632%) Web Services
3 1 (1.316%) .NET
3 1 (1.316%) XML Schema
3 1 (1.316%) FpML
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.947%) Confluence
2 2 (2.632%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.316%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.895%) MS Visio
2 5 (6.579%) MS PowerPoint
3 4 (5.263%) MS Office
4 3 (3.947%) MS Excel
5 2 (2.632%) Photoshop
6 1 (1.316%) MS Project
6 1 (1.316%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.947%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.632%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (2.632%) Summit
2 2 (2.632%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.632%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (1.316%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (1.316%) Adaptiv
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.316%) Intranet
1 1 (1.316%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.263%) TOAD
2 3 (3.947%) SQLPlus
3 2 (2.632%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (2.632%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.632%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 2 (2.632%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.316%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.316%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.316%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.316%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.316%) MS Access
4 1 (1.316%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (1.316%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.632%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (2.632%) Rational Rose
1 2 (2.632%) JDeveloper
1 2 (2.632%) JIRA
1 2 (2.632%) Microsoft Blend
General
1 52 (68.42%) Banking
1 52 (68.42%) Investment Banking
2 28 (36.84%) Finance
3 16 (21.05%) Front Office
4 4 (5.263%) Back Office
5 2 (2.632%) Legal
6 1 (1.316%) Advertising
6 1 (1.316%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.316%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Fixed Income
2 13 (17.11%) Derivative
3 11 (14.47%) Credit Risk
4 9 (11.84%) Market Risk
5 7 (9.211%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (6.579%) Equities
7 3 (3.947%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (3.947%) Wiki
8 1 (1.316%) Swaptions
8 1 (1.316%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.316%) Economics
8 1 (1.316%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.947%) UNIX
2 1 (1.316%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 10 (13.16%) Use Case
3 8 (10.53%) Data Analysis
4 6 (7.895%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (7.895%) Data Modelling
4 6 (7.895%) Workflow
4 6 (7.895%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (7.895%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (6.579%) Monte Carlo Method
5 5 (6.579%) Validation
5 5 (6.579%) Asset Management
6 4 (5.263%) Data Management
6 4 (5.263%) Test Scripting
6 4 (5.263%) UML
6 4 (5.263%) Greeks
6 4 (5.263%) Risk Management
7 3 (3.947%) Analytics
7 3 (3.947%) Project Management
7 3 (3.947%) Requirements Management
7 3 (3.947%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.53%) SQL
2 7 (9.211%) VBA
3 4 (5.263%) Python
3 4 (5.263%) Java
4 3 (3.947%) Jython
5 2 (2.632%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.632%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.632%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.632%) XAML
6 1 (1.316%) C#
6 1 (1.316%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (6.579%) Degree
2 4 (5.263%) ISEB
3 2 (2.632%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.263%) QA
2 2 (2.632%) Basel III
3 1 (1.316%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.316%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.316%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 3 (3.947%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (10.53%) Oracle
2 5 (6.579%) Business Objects
2 5 (6.579%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.263%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.632%) HP
4 2 (2.632%) Pega
4 2 (2.632%) Adobe
4 2 (2.632%) Sybase
5 1 (1.316%) Cognos
5 1 (1.316%) Murex
5 1 (1.316%) Calypso
5 1 (1.316%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.316%) Reuters
5 1 (1.316%) Teradata
5 1 (1.316%) Sophis
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