The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Murex products and/or services 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 Murex over the 3 months to 18 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Murex S.A.S..

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Murex
Rank 180 165 156
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -9
Contract jobs citing Murex 35 57 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.508% 0.739% 0.937%
As % of the Vendors category 1.109% 1.742% 2.214%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 45 76
Average daily rate £550 £625 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% +8.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £385 £495
10% offered a daily rate of more than £690 £850 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 - £900
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3155 3273 4245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.76% 42.43% 42.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2245 2229 2966
Average daily rate £425 £425 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -12.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 98 136
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £39.00 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Murex
London

Murex
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Murex Jobs Demand Trend

Murex
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Murex Daily Rate Trend

Murex
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Murex across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Murex Daily Rate Histogram

Murex
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Murex Hourly Rate Trend

Murex
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Murex 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 Murex.

1 31 (49.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 23 (36.51%) Front Office
3 21 (33.33%) Banking
4 18 (28.57%) Derivative
5 17 (26.98%) Finance
5 17 (26.98%) SQL
6 15 (23.81%) UNIX
7 14 (22.22%) Oracle
7 14 (22.22%) Java
7 14 (22.22%) Investment Banking
8 12 (19.05%) Workflow
8 12 (19.05%) Calypso
9 11 (17.46%) Summit
10 10 (15.87%) Business Analysis
11 9 (14.29%) Market Risk
12 8 (12.70%) Equity Derivative
13 7 (11.11%) Murex MxML
13 7 (11.11%) Back Office
13 7 (11.11%) C#
14 6 (9.524%) Perl
14 6 (9.524%) Sybase
14 6 (9.524%) Linux
14 6 (9.524%) Red Hat
14 6 (9.524%) Equities
15 5 (7.937%) Fixed Income
15 5 (7.937%) Reuters
15 5 (7.937%) Bloomberg
15 5 (7.937%) Murex MxG2000
15 5 (7.937%) HP
15 5 (7.937%) XSLT

Murex
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Murex 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 Murex. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (11.11%) Murex MxML
2 5 (7.937%) XSLT
3 4 (6.349%) JMS
3 4 (6.349%) J2EE
3 4 (6.349%) XML
4 3 (4.762%) .NET
4 3 (4.762%) Middleware
5 2 (3.175%) LAMP
6 1 (1.587%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.587%) Spring
6 1 (1.587%) JNI
6 1 (1.587%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.587%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.587%) Java SE
6 1 (1.587%) Java EE
6 1 (1.587%) Murex Flex
6 1 (1.587%) WCF
6 1 (1.587%) WPF
6 1 (1.587%) Spring Integration
6 1 (1.587%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.762%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (4.762%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (1.587%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 11 (17.46%) Summit
2 5 (7.937%) Murex MxG2000
3 4 (6.349%) Kondor+
4 2 (3.175%) Front Arena
5 1 (1.587%) Endur
5 1 (1.587%) Global One
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.762%) LDAP
1 3 (4.762%) FTP
2 1 (1.587%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.587%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.937%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.349%) Data Mart
3 2 (3.175%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (3.175%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (3.175%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.175%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.587%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.587%) MS Access
4 1 (1.587%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 1 (1.587%) Ant
1 1 (1.587%) ClearCase
1 1 (1.587%) Eclipse
1 1 (1.587%) Subversion
1 1 (1.587%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (36.51%) Front Office
2 21 (33.33%) Banking
3 17 (26.98%) Finance
4 14 (22.22%) Investment Banking
5 7 (11.11%) Back Office
6 1 (1.587%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.587%) French Language
6 1 (1.587%) German Language
6 1 (1.587%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (46.03%) Analyst
2 19 (30.16%) Business Analyst
3 18 (28.57%) Developer
4 12 (19.05%) Murex Business Analyst
5 11 (17.46%) Murex Analyst
6 7 (11.11%) Murex Developer
7 5 (7.937%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.937%) C# Developer
8 4 (6.349%) Administrator
8 4 (6.349%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.349%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.349%) Linux Administrator
9 3 (4.762%) XML Developer
9 3 (4.762%) FX Business Analyst
9 3 (4.762%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.762%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.762%) Support Analyst
9 3 (4.762%) Applications Support
9 3 (4.762%) Architect
9 3 (4.762%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 31 (49.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (28.57%) Derivative
3 9 (14.29%) Market Risk
4 8 (12.70%) Equity Derivative
5 6 (9.524%) Equities
6 5 (7.937%) Fixed Income
7 4 (6.349%) Credit Derivative
7 4 (6.349%) Swaptions
8 2 (3.175%) Credit Risk
8 2 (3.175%) Open Source
8 2 (3.175%) Mathematics
8 2 (3.175%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (3.175%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.587%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.587%) Economics
9 1 (1.587%) Physics
9 1 (1.587%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.81%) UNIX
2 6 (9.524%) Linux
3 4 (6.349%) Solaris
4 3 (4.762%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.175%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.05%) Workflow
2 10 (15.87%) Business Analysis
3 3 (4.762%) Supplier Management
3 3 (4.762%) Stress Testing
3 3 (4.762%) Project Management
3 3 (4.762%) Risk Management
3 3 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (4.762%) Data Mapping
3 3 (4.762%) Greeks
4 2 (3.175%) Migration
5 1 (1.587%) Validation
5 1 (1.587%) MVVM
5 1 (1.587%) Change Control
5 1 (1.587%) Risk Analytics
5 1 (1.587%) Analytics
5 1 (1.587%) User Stories
5 1 (1.587%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (1.587%) Asset Management
5 1 (1.587%) Workflow Management
5 1 (1.587%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.98%) SQL
2 14 (22.22%) Java
3 7 (11.11%) C#
4 6 (9.524%) Perl
5 4 (6.349%) VBA
6 2 (3.175%) Ruby
6 2 (3.175%) Bash shell
6 2 (3.175%) C++
7 1 (1.587%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.587%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (3.175%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.175%) QA
2 1 (1.587%) Basel II
System Software
1 1 (1.587%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.587%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.587%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.175%) Nagios
1 2 (3.175%) Splunk
1 2 (3.175%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (1.587%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) Oracle
2 12 (19.05%) Calypso
3 6 (9.524%) Sybase
3 6 (9.524%) Red Hat
4 5 (7.937%) Reuters
4 5 (7.937%) Bloomberg
4 5 (7.937%) HP
5 4 (6.349%) Sun
5 4 (6.349%) Veritas
6 3 (4.762%) Wall Street Systems
7 2 (3.175%) Fidessa
7 2 (3.175%) Thunderhead
8 1 (1.587%) VMware
8 1 (1.587%) Sophis
8 1 (1.587%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.587%) OpenLink
8 1 (1.587%) Dell
8 1 (1.587%) Citrix
8 1 (1.587%) Business Objects
8 1 (1.587%) Cisco
City, London
Firm grasp of Idiomatic Java SE... Experience of a minimum of one enterprise-class JEE container (WebSphere, Weblogic, etc) Very strong C# XML/XSLT... Unix/Linux. Murex MXG2000...
Eximius IT
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Posted: 13 June 2013