The first table below looks at the demand for LatentZero 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 LatentZero over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fidessa LatentZero
Rank 199 201 234
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +33
Contract jobs citing LatentZero 11 11 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.162% 0.142% 0.170%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.037% 2.004% 2.264%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 14
Average daily rate £450 £513 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.19% -14.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £438 £480
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £563 £805
UK excluding London average daily rate £613 £463 £400
% change year-on-year
+32.43% +15.62%
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
540 549 751
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.965% 7.092% 7.502%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 380 544
Average daily rate £450 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £320 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £683
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £408
% change year-on-year
- +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 2
Average hourly rate £32.58 £44.50 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.78% +29.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £15.10 £19.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.51 £53.80 £48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+44.00% -13.79%
LatentZero
London

LatentZero
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London LatentZero Jobs Demand Trend

LatentZero
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London LatentZero Daily Rate Trend

LatentZero
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LatentZero across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London LatentZero Daily Rate Histogram

LatentZero
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London LatentZero Hourly Rate Trend

LatentZero
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing LatentZero 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 LatentZero.

1 25 (80.65%) thinkFolio
2 21 (67.74%) Asset Management
3 19 (61.29%) Front Office
4 14 (45.16%) SQL
5 13 (41.94%) Minerva
6 11 (35.48%) SQL Server
6 11 (35.48%) Cadis
7 10 (32.26%) Sentinel
7 10 (32.26%) Tesseract
7 10 (32.26%) Finance
7 10 (32.26%) Fixed Income
8 9 (29.03%) Investment Management
8 9 (29.03%) Derivative
9 8 (25.81%) Eagle PACE
9 8 (25.81%) Capstone
10 7 (22.58%) Portfolio Management
11 6 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (19.35%) Investment Banking
11 6 (19.35%) Banking
11 6 (19.35%) Charles River
11 6 (19.35%) VBA
12 5 (16.13%) VB
12 5 (16.13%) MS Excel
12 5 (16.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (12.90%) Sophis
13 4 (12.90%) Credit Derivative
13 4 (12.90%) Oracle
13 4 (12.90%) Decalog
13 4 (12.90%) XML
13 4 (12.90%) Sybase

LatentZero
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing LatentZero 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 LatentZero. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (12.90%) XML
1 4 (12.90%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (3.226%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.226%) .NET
2 1 (3.226%) WinForms
Applications
1 5 (16.13%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (41.94%) Minerva
2 10 (32.26%) Sentinel
2 10 (32.26%) Tesseract
3 8 (25.81%) Eagle PACE
3 8 (25.81%) Capstone
4 4 (12.90%) Decalog
5 1 (3.226%) LongView
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.226%) HTTP
1 1 (3.226%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.452%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (3.226%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (61.29%) Front Office
2 10 (32.26%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Investment Banking
3 6 (19.35%) Banking
4 2 (6.452%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.226%) Back Office
5 1 (3.226%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (77.42%) Analyst
2 10 (32.26%) Test Analyst
3 9 (29.03%) Business Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Support Analyst
5 3 (9.677%) Functional Analyst
5 3 (9.677%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.452%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (6.452%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (6.452%) Test Manager
6 2 (6.452%) Junior
6 2 (6.452%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.452%) FIX Analyst
6 2 (6.452%) Junior Support Analyst
6 2 (6.452%) Junior Analyst
7 1 (3.226%) Tester
7 1 (3.226%) Developer
7 1 (3.226%) Database Analyst
7 1 (3.226%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Fixed Income
2 9 (29.03%) Derivative
3 5 (16.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (12.90%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (3.226%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.226%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.226%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.226%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (3.226%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (3.226%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Asset Management
2 9 (29.03%) Investment Management
3 7 (22.58%) Portfolio Management
4 6 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (12.90%) Fund Management
6 3 (9.677%) Functional Testing
7 2 (6.452%) Benchmarking
7 2 (6.452%) Project Management
7 2 (6.452%) Business Analysis
8 1 (3.226%) Software Testing
8 1 (3.226%) Data Migration
8 1 (3.226%) Fund Accounting
8 1 (3.226%) PRINCE2
8 1 (3.226%) RAD
8 1 (3.226%) Regression Testing
8 1 (3.226%) Migration
8 1 (3.226%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (3.226%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (3.226%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) VBA
3 5 (16.13%) VB
4 1 (3.226%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.226%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (3.226%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.226%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (9.677%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 25 (80.65%) thinkFolio
2 11 (35.48%) Cadis
3 6 (19.35%) Charles River
4 4 (12.90%) Sophis
4 4 (12.90%) Oracle
4 4 (12.90%) Sybase
5 3 (9.677%) Bloomberg
6 2 (6.452%) Informatica
6 2 (6.452%) Reuters
6 2 (6.452%) Fidessa
7 1 (3.226%) Twitter
7 1 (3.226%) Microsoft
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