The first table below looks at the demand for Kondor+ 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 Kondor+ 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
Reuters Kondor+
Rank 193 214 243
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +29
Contract jobs citing Kondor+ 6 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.094% 0.064% 0.020%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.170% 0.916% 0.265%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £450 £500 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £500 -
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%
Kondor+
London

Kondor+
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Kondor+ Jobs Demand Trend

Kondor+
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Kondor+ Daily Rate Trend

Kondor+
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (61.54%) Front Office
2 6 (46.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (38.46%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) XSLT
3 5 (38.46%) UNIX
3 5 (38.46%) Banking
4 4 (30.77%) C#
4 4 (30.77%) C++
4 4 (30.77%) Murex
5 3 (23.08%) J2EE
5 3 (23.08%) Oracle
5 3 (23.08%) XML
5 3 (23.08%) FTP
5 3 (23.08%) JMS
5 3 (23.08%) Middleware
5 3 (23.08%) Back Office
5 3 (23.08%) Workflow
5 3 (23.08%) Finance
5 3 (23.08%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (23.08%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 3 (23.08%) Data Mapping
6 2 (15.38%) Sybase ASE
6 2 (15.38%) ETL
6 2 (15.38%) SQL
6 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
6 2 (15.38%) Sybase
6 2 (15.38%) Misys
6 2 (15.38%) PowerBuilder
6 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (7.692%) Change Management

Kondor+
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (38.46%) XSLT
2 3 (23.08%) J2EE
2 3 (23.08%) XML
2 3 (23.08%) JMS
2 3 (23.08%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (23.08%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) PowerBuilder
General
1 8 (61.54%) Front Office
2 5 (38.46%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Back Office
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 1 (7.692%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Applications Support
2 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
2 3 (23.08%) XML Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Support
4 1 (7.692%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Murex Support Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Murex Support
4 1 (7.692%) Murex Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.692%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.692%) Equities
2 1 (7.692%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Workflow
1 3 (23.08%) Data Mapping
2 2 (15.38%) ETL
3 1 (7.692%) Change Management
3 1 (7.692%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) C#
2 4 (30.77%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Murex
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Sybase
3 2 (15.38%) Misys
4 1 (7.692%) TOWER Software