The first table below looks at the demand for Minerva 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 Minerva 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fidessa LatentZero Minerva
Rank 192 211 242
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +31
Contract jobs citing Minerva 9 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.143% 0.026% 0.041%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.775% 0.380% 0.553%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £525 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.25% -11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 - -
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
507 526 723
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 8.054% 6.761% 7.346%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 359 515
Average daily rate £450 £455 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.15% -13.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £310 £361
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 7 4 2
Average hourly rate £35.44 £50.00 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.12% +45.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.90 £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 £22.92 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+64.92% +14.60%
Minerva
London

Minerva
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Minerva Jobs Demand Trend

Minerva
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Minerva Daily Rate Trend

Minerva
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Minerva Daily Rate Histogram

Minerva
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 14 (82.35%) Tesseract
2 13 (76.47%) Sentinel
3 12 (70.59%) LatentZero
4 9 (52.94%) Capstone
4 9 (52.94%) Front Office
5 8 (47.06%) Investment Management
6 7 (41.18%) Asset Management
7 6 (35.29%) thinkFolio
8 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (23.53%) SQL
9 3 (17.65%) Charles River
9 3 (17.65%) Finance
9 3 (17.65%) Functional Testing
10 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
10 2 (11.76%) Cadis
10 2 (11.76%) Eagle PACE
10 2 (11.76%) Fixed Income
10 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
10 2 (11.76%) Derivative
10 2 (11.76%) Fund Management
10 2 (11.76%) Benchmarking
11 1 (5.882%) Mainframe
11 1 (5.882%) VB
11 1 (5.882%) VBA
11 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (5.882%) Client/Server
11 1 (5.882%) HTTP
11 1 (5.882%) HTTPS
11 1 (5.882%) Fidessa
11 1 (5.882%) Informatica

Minerva
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Business Applications
1 14 (82.35%) Tesseract
2 13 (76.47%) Sentinel
3 12 (70.59%) LatentZero
4 9 (52.94%) Capstone
5 2 (11.76%) Eagle PACE
6 1 (5.882%) LongView
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
1 1 (5.882%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
General
1 9 (52.94%) Front Office
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.882%) Banking
4 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Analyst
2 9 (52.94%) Business Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Tester
5 1 (5.882%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.882%) Functional Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Fixed Income
1 2 (11.76%) Derivative
2 1 (5.882%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.882%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.882%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Investment Management
2 7 (41.18%) Asset Management
3 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Functional Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Benchmarking
5 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Fund Management
6 1 (5.882%) Data Management
6 1 (5.882%) Fund Accounting
6 1 (5.882%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.882%) VB
2 1 (5.882%) VBA
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) thinkFolio
2 3 (17.65%) Charles River
3 2 (11.76%) Cadis
4 1 (5.882%) Twitter
4 1 (5.882%) Fidessa
4 1 (5.882%) Informatica
4 1 (5.882%) Reuters
4 1 (5.882%) Bloomberg