The first table below looks at the demand for Postgraduate 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 Postgraduate 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 Qualifications 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
Postgraduate
Rank 197 - 246
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Postgraduate 13 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.192% - 0.050%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.228% - 0.407%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
Average daily rate £650 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 - £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 -
% change year-on-year
-40.00% -
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1059 1053 1227
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 15.62% 13.60% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 654 793
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £252 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 36 57
Average hourly rate £23.13 £17.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.14% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.35 £14.78
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £127.40 £28.60 £36.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
Postgraduate
London

Postgraduate
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Postgraduate Jobs Demand Trend

Postgraduate
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Postgraduate Daily Rate Trend

Postgraduate
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Postgraduate Daily Rate Histogram

Postgraduate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 16 (100.00%) Degree
2 13 (81.25%) Finance
3 12 (75.00%) Windows
3 12 (75.00%) Mathematics
3 12 (75.00%) Computer Science
4 11 (68.75%) Physics
4 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
4 11 (68.75%) Linux
4 11 (68.75%) C++
4 11 (68.75%) Multithreading
5 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 8 (50.00%) Banking
6 7 (43.75%) VC++
6 7 (43.75%) PhD
6 7 (43.75%) LLVM
7 5 (31.25%) Analytics
7 5 (31.25%) Front Office
7 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
8 4 (25.00%) VB
8 4 (25.00%) VBA
8 4 (25.00%) Bond Adapt
8 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
9 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
9 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
9 2 (12.50%) BC Cleared
9 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
9 2 (12.50%) Information Assurance
9 2 (12.50%) Information Security
9 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act

Postgraduate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) XML
1 1 (6.250%) .NET
1 1 (6.250%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Bond Adapt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) LLVM
General
1 13 (81.25%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Banking
3 5 (31.25%) Front Office
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.250%) Back Office
5 1 (6.250%) Local Government
5 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 11 (68.75%) C++ Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Quantitative Developer
3 4 (25.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Development Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Market Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Security Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Information Security Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Market Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Strategy Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Market Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Information Assurance Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Information Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Mathematics
1 12 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 11 (68.75%) Physics
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (12.50%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (12.50%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (12.50%) Economics
4 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.250%) Fixed Income
4 1 (6.250%) Grid Computing
4 1 (6.250%) CESG
4 1 (6.250%) CESG CLAS
4 1 (6.250%) Derivative
4 1 (6.250%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (6.250%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 11 (68.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
1 11 (68.75%) Multithreading
2 5 (31.25%) Analytics
2 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 2 (12.50%) Information Assurance
4 2 (12.50%) Information Security
4 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
4 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (6.250%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (6.250%) Logistics
5 1 (6.250%) Operations Research
5 1 (6.250%) Stress Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Integration Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Market Research
5 1 (6.250%) Security Architecture
5 1 (6.250%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) C++
2 7 (43.75%) VC++
3 4 (25.00%) VB
3 4 (25.00%) VBA
4 1 (6.250%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (43.75%) PhD
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) BC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) CITP
4 1 (6.250%) CISA
4 1 (6.250%) MBCS
4 1 (6.250%) CFA
4 1 (6.250%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.250%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle