The first table below looks at the demand for PowerCenter 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 PowerCenter 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence 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
Informatica PowerCenter
Rank 195 209 226
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +17
Contract jobs citing PowerCenter 8 8 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.124% 0.102% 0.103%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.574% 0.566% 0.557%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 6
Average daily rate £564 £448 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.73% -0.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £433 £388
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £315 £375
% change year-on-year
+19.04% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1393 1413 1794
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.68% 17.97% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1046 1017 1345
Average daily rate £425 £425 £459
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 14
Average hourly rate £39.51 £33.75 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.05% +31.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.10 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
PowerCenter
London

PowerCenter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London PowerCenter Jobs Demand Trend

PowerCenter
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London PowerCenter Daily Rate Trend

PowerCenter
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London PowerCenter Daily Rate Histogram

PowerCenter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 18 (100.00%) Informatica
2 9 (50.00%) Finance
3 8 (44.44%) Oracle
3 8 (44.44%) UNIX
4 6 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 6 (33.33%) SAS
4 6 (33.33%) PowerExchange
5 5 (27.78%) Banking
5 5 (27.78%) Business Objects
6 4 (22.22%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 3 (16.67%) CIMA
7 3 (16.67%) ACCA
7 3 (16.67%) Financial Institution
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) B2B
7 3 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
7 3 (16.67%) SQL
7 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
7 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
8 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
8 2 (11.11%) Linux
8 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (11.11%) C
8 2 (11.11%) Java
8 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
8 2 (11.11%) ISO 9001
8 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (11.11%) ETL

PowerCenter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) FpML
2 1 (5.556%) SAP XI
2 1 (5.556%) Middleware
2 1 (5.556%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) SAS
1 6 (33.33%) PowerExchange
2 1 (5.556%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (5.556%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (5.556%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (5.556%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle OWB
4 1 (5.556%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.556%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.556%) Music
4 1 (5.556%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Data Migration Specialist
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Informatica Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Informatica Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) SAP Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Business Objects Developer
4 1 (5.556%) DBA
4 1 (5.556%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Fixed Income
1 2 (11.11%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) UNIX
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (5.556%) AIX
3 1 (5.556%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 3 (16.67%) Migration
2 3 (16.67%) B2B
2 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
3 2 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (5.556%) Data Management
4 1 (5.556%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.556%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.556%) Service Management
4 1 (5.556%) Validation
4 1 (5.556%) ITIL
4 1 (5.556%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Master Data Management
4 1 (5.556%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) C
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CIMA
1 3 (16.67%) ACCA
2 1 (5.556%) OCP
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO 9001
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.556%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Control-M
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Informatica
2 8 (44.44%) Oracle
3 5 (27.78%) Business Objects
4 1 (5.556%) DataFlux
4 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.556%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (5.556%) SAP