The first table below looks at the demand for Investment Management 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 Investment Management over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Investment Management
Rank 93 74 86
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +12
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 119 181 202
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.890% 2.326% 2.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.576% 3.257% 2.855%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 137 155
Average daily rate £500 £550 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £390 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £770 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £450 £369
% change year-on-year
+5.55% +22.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £24.50 £48.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -49.74%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4620 5558 7076
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.39% 71.44% 71.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3487 4000 5250
Average daily rate £450 £462 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.59% -7.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 99 97
Average hourly rate £42.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+68.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Investment Management
London

Investment Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Investment Management Jobs Demand Trend

Investment Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Investment Management Daily Rate Trend

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Investment Management across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Investment Management Daily Rate Histogram

Investment Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Investment Management Hourly Rate Trend

Investment Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Investment Management 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 Investment Management.

1 111 (50.68%) Asset Management
2 93 (42.47%) Finance
3 50 (22.83%) Fund Management
4 49 (22.37%) Banking
5 40 (18.26%) SQL
6 37 (16.89%) Front Office
7 29 (13.24%) Derivative
7 29 (13.24%) thinkFolio
8 28 (12.79%) Business Analysis
8 28 (12.79%) Fixed Income
9 27 (12.33%) Investment Banking
10 26 (11.87%) C#
11 25 (11.42%) .NET
12 23 (10.50%) SQL Server
12 23 (10.50%) Project Management
13 22 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (8.676%) Wealth Management
14 19 (8.676%) ASP.NET
15 18 (8.219%) Java
16 17 (7.763%) Charles River
16 17 (7.763%) Back Office
16 17 (7.763%) Migration
16 17 (7.763%) Agile Software Development
16 17 (7.763%) User Acceptance Testing
16 17 (7.763%) Cadis
17 15 (6.849%) Change Management
18 13 (5.936%) Equities
18 13 (5.936%) TDD
18 13 (5.936%) LatentZero
18 13 (5.936%) .NET Framework

Investment Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Investment Management 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 Investment Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (11.42%) .NET
2 19 (8.676%) ASP.NET
3 13 (5.936%) .NET Framework
4 12 (5.479%) XML
5 9 (4.110%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (3.196%) WCF
7 5 (2.283%) NHibernate
7 5 (2.283%) ASP
7 5 (2.283%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 5 (2.283%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 4 (1.826%) Web Services
8 4 (1.826%) WinForms
9 3 (1.370%) Spring
9 3 (1.370%) WPF
9 3 (1.370%) J2EE
10 2 (0.913%) XSL
10 2 (0.913%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.913%) jQuery
11 1 (0.457%) Spring.NET
11 1 (0.457%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (1.370%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.913%) SAS
2 2 (0.913%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (0.913%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (0.457%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 13 (5.936%) MS Excel
2 7 (3.196%) MS Office
3 2 (0.913%) MS Project
3 2 (0.913%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.913%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (5.936%) LatentZero
2 8 (3.653%) Minerva
3 7 (3.196%) Sentinel
4 6 (2.740%) Capstone
4 6 (2.740%) Tesseract
4 6 (2.740%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.913%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.913%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.913%) LongView
5 2 (0.913%) Global One
5 2 (0.913%) MultiFonds
6 1 (0.457%) Front Arena
6 1 (0.457%) Summit
6 1 (0.457%) Eagle STAR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.913%) HTTPS
1 2 (0.913%) Intranet
1 2 (0.913%) HTTP
1 2 (0.913%) Network Security
2 1 (0.457%) VPN
2 1 (0.457%) Internet
2 1 (0.457%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.653%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (2.283%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.826%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.370%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (1.370%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.370%) DTS
5 3 (1.370%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.913%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.913%) MS Access
7 1 (0.457%) MySQL
7 1 (0.457%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (0.457%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.457%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.457%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.457%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 7 (3.196%) JIRA
1 7 (3.196%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.370%) Subversion
2 3 (1.370%) Eclipse
2 3 (1.370%) MSTest
2 3 (1.370%) MSBuild
3 2 (0.913%) WinRunner
3 2 (0.913%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.913%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.913%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.457%) NUnit
4 1 (0.457%) PHPUnit
General
1 93 (42.47%) Finance
2 49 (22.37%) Banking
3 37 (16.89%) Front Office
4 27 (12.33%) Investment Banking
5 17 (7.763%) Back Office
6 10 (4.566%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.283%) Retail
8 4 (1.826%) Marketing
9 3 (1.370%) Private Banking
9 3 (1.370%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.370%) Publishing
10 2 (0.913%) Legal
10 2 (0.913%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.457%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.457%) Advertising
11 1 (0.457%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (52.05%) Analyst
2 85 (38.81%) Business Analyst
3 41 (18.72%) Project Manager
4 34 (15.53%) Developer
5 15 (6.849%) Lead Business Analyst
6 14 (6.393%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (5.936%) Support Analyst
8 12 (5.479%) .NET Developer
8 12 (5.479%) C# Developer
9 11 (5.023%) Applications Support
9 11 (5.023%) Senior Business Analyst
10 9 (4.110%) C# .NET Developer
11 8 (3.653%) Programme Manager
11 8 (3.653%) Data Analyst
12 7 (3.196%) Senior Project Manager
12 7 (3.196%) Test Analyst
12 7 (3.196%) Senior Manager
12 7 (3.196%) SQL Developer
13 6 (2.740%) Applications Support Analyst
14 5 (2.283%) Project Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.24%) Derivative
2 28 (12.79%) Fixed Income
3 13 (5.936%) Equities
4 8 (3.653%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.653%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.370%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.370%) Mathematics
5 3 (1.370%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.370%) SWIFT
6 2 (0.913%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.913%) Data Conversion
6 2 (0.913%) Ergonomics
7 1 (0.457%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.457%) SaaS
7 1 (0.457%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.457%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.457%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.457%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.653%) UNIX
2 6 (2.740%) Windows
3 2 (0.913%) Windows XP
3 2 (0.913%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.457%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (50.68%) Asset Management
2 50 (22.83%) Fund Management
3 28 (12.79%) Business Analysis
4 23 (10.50%) Project Management
5 22 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (8.676%) Wealth Management
7 17 (7.763%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (7.763%) Migration
7 17 (7.763%) Agile Software Development
8 15 (6.849%) Change Management
9 13 (5.936%) TDD
10 11 (5.023%) MVC
10 11 (5.023%) Risk Management
10 11 (5.023%) OO
11 10 (4.566%) Data Analysis
11 10 (4.566%) Portfolio Management
12 9 (4.110%) Scrum
13 8 (3.653%) Data Modelling
14 7 (3.196%) Project Planning
14 7 (3.196%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 40 (18.26%) SQL
2 26 (11.87%) C#
3 18 (8.219%) Java
4 12 (5.479%) VBA
5 8 (3.653%) C++
6 6 (2.740%) VB
6 6 (2.740%) MATLAB
7 5 (2.283%) C
8 4 (1.826%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.826%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.826%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.370%) VBScript
10 2 (0.913%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.913%) XPath
11 1 (0.457%) PHP5
11 1 (0.457%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.457%) tcsh
11 1 (0.457%) Bash shell
11 1 (0.457%) PHP
11 1 (0.457%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (3.653%) Degree
2 3 (1.370%) PMP
2 3 (1.370%) PMI Certification
3 2 (0.913%) ISEB
3 2 (0.913%) CFA
4 1 (0.457%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.457%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.740%) MiFID
2 2 (0.913%) QA
System Software
1 7 (3.196%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.370%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.457%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 7 (3.196%) Control-M
2 2 (0.913%) OpenView
3 1 (0.457%) SCCM
3 1 (0.457%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 29 (13.24%) thinkFolio
2 17 (7.763%) Charles River
2 17 (7.763%) Cadis
3 13 (5.936%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.566%) Oracle
4 10 (4.566%) Bloomberg
5 5 (2.283%) StatPro
6 4 (1.826%) Citrix
6 4 (1.826%) Sybase
7 3 (1.370%) Business Objects
7 3 (1.370%) SunGard
7 3 (1.370%) webMethods
7 3 (1.370%) Symantec
7 3 (1.370%) VMware
8 2 (0.913%) Serena
8 2 (0.913%) GoldenSource
8 2 (0.913%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.913%) Metastorm
8 2 (0.913%) Twitter
8 2 (0.913%) Remedy
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
My London based Investment Management client urgently requires a strong Figaro Business Analyst to join their Change team.EXPERIENCE OF IMPLEMENTING FIGARO IS ESSENTIAL.You will also need:-...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Responsibilities will include leading all aspects of business analysis involving requirements gathering, business process definition and post project benefits review... The ideal candidate will possess very strong financial...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Candidates must have the ability to work in an Agile development environment, and must be strong team players who are also able to work independently of supervision... They...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013