The first table below looks at the demand for MTS 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 MTS 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 Application Platforms 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
Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)
Rank 206 207 240
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +33
Contract jobs citing MTS 4 5 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.059% 0.065% 0.110%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.357% 0.409% 0.811%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
Average daily rate - £625 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £180 - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
Average hourly rate £42.54 £46.25 £41.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.02% +12.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.57 £44.85 £40.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.51 £47.65 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 - -
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1119 1222 1356
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 16.50% 15.79% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 833 941
Average daily rate £400 £400 £417
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 35 73
Average hourly rate £25.25 £21.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.23% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £13.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £52.50 £42.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
MTS
London

MTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London MTS Jobs Demand Trend

MTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London MTS Daily Rate Trend

MTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London MTS Hourly Rate Trend

MTS
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

City of London MTS Hourly Rate Histogram

MTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (66.67%) Java
1 8 (66.67%) Bloomberg
1 8 (66.67%) eSpeed
1 8 (66.67%) Fixed Income
1 8 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (66.67%) TDD
1 8 (66.67%) Banking
1 8 (66.67%) Investment Banking
1 8 (66.67%) Tradeweb
2 7 (58.33%) RMDS
2 7 (58.33%) MarketAxess
2 7 (58.33%) ION MarketView
2 7 (58.33%) Refactoring
2 7 (58.33%) Multithreading
2 7 (58.33%) ION Trading
2 7 (58.33%) Reuters
2 7 (58.33%) OO
2 7 (58.33%) Swing
3 4 (33.33%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) VB
3 4 (33.33%) .NET
4 3 (25.00%) Oracle
4 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) MS Office
4 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 3 (25.00%) XML
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Oracle 10g

MTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (58.33%) Swing
2 4 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (8.333%) Rendezvous
4 1 (8.333%) Middleware
4 1 (8.333%) WinForms
4 1 (8.333%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (58.33%) RMDS
1 7 (58.33%) ION MarketView
2 3 (25.00%) Endur
2 3 (25.00%) ZaiNet
2 3 (25.00%) Aligne
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) FTP
1 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (66.67%) Banking
1 8 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (8.333%) Front Office
2 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.333%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Technical Support
5 1 (8.333%) .NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Real Time Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 3 (25.00%) Blackberry
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (66.67%) TDD
2 7 (58.33%) Refactoring
2 7 (58.33%) Multithreading
2 7 (58.33%) OO
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) ETRM
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.333%) Project Management
5 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
5 1 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (8.333%) Scrum
5 1 (8.333%) Business Continuity
5 1 (8.333%) Asset Management
5 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.333%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (8.333%) Release Management
5 1 (8.333%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) VB
3 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (8.333%) ActionScript
4 1 (8.333%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (8.333%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Bloomberg
1 8 (66.67%) eSpeed
1 8 (66.67%) Tradeweb
2 7 (58.33%) MarketAxess
2 7 (58.33%) ION Trading
2 7 (58.33%) Reuters
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Oracle
5 1 (8.333%) TIBCO
5 1 (8.333%) Sun
5 1 (8.333%) Sybase
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