Physics Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Physics 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 Physics over the 3 months to 21 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Physics
Rank 177 216 231
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +15
Contract jobs citing Physics 26 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.405% 0.013% 0.052%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.284% 0.038% 0.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 1 3
Average daily rate £500 £350 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -41.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
+42.85% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
- +47.36%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 2025 2601 3903
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.51% 33.08% 40.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1504 2000 3020
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 68 51
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.95% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.44 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £47.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Physics
London

Physics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Physics Jobs Demand Trend

Physics
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Physics Daily Rate Trend

Physics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Physics across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Physics Daily Rate Histogram

Physics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Physics Hourly Rate Trend

Physics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Physics 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 Physics.

1 38 (80.85%) Mathematics
2 34 (72.34%) Computer Science
3 26 (55.32%) Degree
4 21 (44.68%) C++
4 21 (44.68%) Java
4 21 (44.68%) SQL
5 19 (40.43%) Software Engineering
6 16 (34.04%) Data Analysis
6 16 (34.04%) Data Mining
6 16 (34.04%) Analytics
7 15 (31.91%) Apache Pig
7 15 (31.91%) HBase
7 15 (31.91%) Mahout
7 15 (31.91%) Big Data
7 15 (31.91%) Apache Cassandra
7 15 (31.91%) MapReduce
7 15 (31.91%) Social Network
7 15 (31.91%) Hadoop
7 15 (31.91%) Apache Hive
8 14 (29.79%) PhD
9 13 (27.66%) Finance
10 10 (21.28%) RDBMS
10 10 (21.28%) Scrum
10 10 (21.28%) Data Modelling
10 10 (21.28%) TDD
10 10 (21.28%) Banking
11 9 (19.15%) Business Analysis
11 9 (19.15%) MongoDB
11 9 (19.15%) Data Integration
11 9 (19.15%) OLAP

Physics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Physics 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 Physics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (31.91%) MapReduce
2 8 (17.02%) ASP
3 6 (12.77%) .NET
4 3 (6.383%) XML
4 3 (6.383%) XSLT
4 3 (6.383%) Cocoa
5 2 (4.255%) CSS
5 2 (4.255%) WCF
5 2 (4.255%) WPF
5 2 (4.255%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.255%) Node.js
6 1 (2.128%) Underscore.js
6 1 (2.128%) Backbone.js
6 1 (2.128%) Spring
6 1 (2.128%) JRules
6 1 (2.128%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (2.128%) HTML5
6 1 (2.128%) Silverlight
6 1 (2.128%) LINQ
6 1 (2.128%) STL
Application Platforms
1 15 (31.91%) Apache Pig
2 8 (17.02%) SAS
3 6 (12.77%) Apache
4 1 (2.128%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (14.89%) SPSS
2 1 (2.128%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.128%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) HTTP
2 1 (2.128%) BSS
2 1 (2.128%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) Data Mining
2 15 (31.91%) HBase
2 15 (31.91%) Mahout
2 15 (31.91%) Big Data
2 15 (31.91%) Apache Cassandra
2 15 (31.91%) Hadoop
2 15 (31.91%) Apache Hive
3 10 (21.28%) RDBMS
4 9 (19.15%) MongoDB
4 9 (19.15%) OLAP
4 9 (19.15%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.255%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (2.128%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.128%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.128%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.511%) LLVM
2 3 (6.383%) Xcode
3 1 (2.128%) JIRA
3 1 (2.128%) Maven
3 1 (2.128%) Subversion
3 1 (2.128%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (27.66%) Finance
2 10 (21.28%) Banking
3 6 (12.77%) Front Office
4 5 (10.64%) Games
5 4 (8.511%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.255%) Marketing
7 1 (2.128%) Retail
7 1 (2.128%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.128%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (65.96%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) C++ Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Data Scientist
3 8 (17.02%) Research Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) Hadoop Developer
5 5 (10.64%) C# Developer
6 4 (8.511%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.511%) Analyst
6 4 (8.511%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.511%) Quantitative Developer
6 4 (8.511%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 3 (6.383%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (6.383%) iOS Developer
7 3 (6.383%) Senior iOS Developer
7 3 (6.383%) Research Scientist
7 3 (6.383%) Games Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.255%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Senior Games Developer
Miscellaneous
1 38 (80.85%) Mathematics
2 34 (72.34%) Computer Science
3 15 (31.91%) Social Network
4 9 (19.15%) Data Integration
4 9 (19.15%) Machine Learning
5 8 (17.02%) Statistics
6 7 (14.89%) Derivative
7 6 (12.77%) Grid Computing
7 6 (12.77%) Neural Network
7 6 (12.77%) Visualisation
8 5 (10.64%) Fixed Income
9 4 (8.511%) Credit Risk
9 4 (8.511%) Market Risk
9 4 (8.511%) iPad
10 3 (6.383%) iPhone
10 3 (6.383%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (4.255%) Mobile Games
11 2 (4.255%) Economics
11 2 (4.255%) Animation
12 1 (2.128%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Linux
2 5 (10.64%) Windows
3 3 (6.383%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.128%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) Software Engineering
2 16 (34.04%) Data Analysis
2 16 (34.04%) Analytics
3 10 (21.28%) Scrum
3 10 (21.28%) Data Modelling
3 10 (21.28%) TDD
4 9 (19.15%) Business Analysis
5 6 (12.77%) Predictive Modelling
5 6 (12.77%) Multithreading
6 4 (8.511%) Risk Management
6 4 (8.511%) OO
7 3 (6.383%) Change Control
7 3 (6.383%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (4.255%) Digital Marketing
9 1 (2.128%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (2.128%) Game Development
9 1 (2.128%) Statistical Modelling
9 1 (2.128%) Straight-Through Processing
9 1 (2.128%) Build Automation
9 1 (2.128%) Customer Analytics
Programming Languages
1 21 (44.68%) C++
1 21 (44.68%) Java
1 21 (44.68%) SQL
2 7 (14.89%) Python
2 7 (14.89%) C#
3 6 (12.77%) Scala
3 6 (12.77%) R
4 4 (8.511%) VC++
5 3 (6.383%) Objective-C
6 2 (4.255%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.255%) VBA
6 2 (4.255%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.128%) XPath
7 1 (2.128%) SAS Macro
7 1 (2.128%) Perl
7 1 (2.128%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 26 (55.32%) Degree
2 14 (29.79%) PhD
3 4 (8.511%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.128%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.255%) QA
2 1 (2.128%) Basel III
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.383%) Oracle
3 1 (2.128%) Murex
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City, London
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Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
C++ Quant Developer - Tier 1 Investment Bank
City, London
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Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
QA Developer / Tier 1 Investment Bank -£650/pd LDN
City of London
QA Developer Quantitative London Tier 1 Investment Bank Finance Risk My Tier 1 investment Banking Client based in the City of London is looking for a Quantitative Developer...
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Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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