Reference Data 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 Reference Data 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 Reference Data over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Reference Data
Rank 171 176 98
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -78
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 32 42 172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.502% 0.534% 1.756%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.586% 1.632% 4.370%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 140
Average daily rate £550 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.76% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £500
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £750 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £396 £330
% change year-on-year
+16.79% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
Search 12 Reference Data jobs in the City of London
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 2018 2574 3936
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.64% 32.73% 40.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1496 1987 3043
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £298 £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 47 67 54
Average hourly rate £24.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.38 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £44.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Reference Data
London

Reference Data
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Reference Data Jobs Demand Trend

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Reference Data Daily Rate Trend

Reference Data
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Reference Data across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Reference Data Daily Rate Histogram

Reference Data
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Reference Data Hourly Rate Trend

Reference Data
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data.

1 38 (51.35%) Banking
2 34 (45.95%) SQL
3 33 (44.59%) Derivative
4 27 (36.49%) Project Management
5 25 (33.78%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (31.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 23 (31.08%) Finance
7 18 (24.32%) Investment Banking
7 18 (24.32%) XML
8 17 (22.97%) Agile Software Development
9 15 (20.27%) Degree
9 15 (20.27%) Wiki
9 15 (20.27%) Market Risk
10 14 (18.92%) BDD
10 14 (18.92%) Credit Derivative
10 14 (18.92%) Fixed Income
10 14 (18.92%) UML
11 12 (16.22%) Data Analysis
12 11 (14.86%) Use Case
12 11 (14.86%) Business Analysis
12 11 (14.86%) MS Excel
12 11 (14.86%) Data Modelling
13 10 (13.51%) Oracle
14 8 (10.81%) Back Office
14 8 (10.81%) Data Management
14 8 (10.81%) HP
14 8 (10.81%) HP Quality Center
15 7 (9.459%) ASP.NET
15 7 (9.459%) .NET
15 7 (9.459%) MS Visio

Reference Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (24.32%) XML
2 7 (9.459%) ASP.NET
2 7 (9.459%) .NET
3 2 (2.703%) FpML
4 1 (1.351%) jQuery
4 1 (1.351%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.351%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.351%) FileNet
Applications
1 11 (14.86%) MS Excel
2 7 (9.459%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.054%) MS Office
3 3 (4.054%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.703%) Eagle PACE
2 1 (1.351%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.703%) HTTP
2 1 (1.351%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (33.78%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.054%) MS Access
2 3 (4.054%) Data Mining
2 3 (4.054%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.703%) TOAD
4 1 (1.351%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (1.351%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.351%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.351%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.351%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (4.054%) ERwin
2 1 (1.351%) Balsamiq Mockups
2 1 (1.351%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (1.351%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.351%) JUnit
General
1 38 (51.35%) Banking
2 23 (31.08%) Finance
3 18 (24.32%) Investment Banking
4 8 (10.81%) Back Office
5 6 (8.108%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.054%) Billing
7 2 (2.703%) Legal
7 2 (2.703%) Front Office
7 2 (2.703%) Retail
8 1 (1.351%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.351%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (66.22%) Analyst
2 35 (47.30%) Business Analyst
3 14 (18.92%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
4 12 (16.22%) Project Manager
5 10 (13.51%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.405%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (5.405%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (5.405%) Developer
6 4 (5.405%) Systems Analyst
6 4 (5.405%) Agile Business Analyst
7 3 (4.054%) Architect
7 3 (4.054%) Business Manager
7 3 (4.054%) QA Analyst
7 3 (4.054%) Credit Risk Analyst
7 3 (4.054%) Banking Business Analyst
7 3 (4.054%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
7 3 (4.054%) Data Manager
8 2 (2.703%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.703%) Data Modeller
8 2 (2.703%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 33 (44.59%) Derivative
2 23 (31.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (20.27%) Wiki
3 15 (20.27%) Market Risk
4 14 (18.92%) Credit Derivative
4 14 (18.92%) Fixed Income
5 5 (6.757%) Equities
6 3 (4.054%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.703%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.108%) Windows
2 2 (2.703%) Linux
3 1 (1.351%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.49%) Project Management
2 17 (22.97%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (18.92%) BDD
3 14 (18.92%) UML
4 12 (16.22%) Data Analysis
5 11 (14.86%) Use Case
5 11 (14.86%) Business Analysis
5 11 (14.86%) Data Modelling
6 8 (10.81%) Data Management
7 7 (9.459%) Risk Management
7 7 (9.459%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (8.108%) Scrum
8 6 (8.108%) Data Mapping
8 6 (8.108%) User Stories
8 6 (8.108%) Waterfall
9 5 (6.757%) Cash Management
9 5 (6.757%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (6.757%) GAP Analysis
10 4 (5.405%) Migration
10 4 (5.405%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (45.95%) SQL
2 2 (2.703%) Perl
2 2 (2.703%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.351%) Bash shell
3 1 (1.351%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.351%) C#
3 1 (1.351%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.351%) VBA
3 1 (1.351%) Korn
Qualifications
1 15 (20.27%) Degree
2 1 (1.351%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.351%) BC Cleared
2 1 (1.351%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.351%) ISEB
2 1 (1.351%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.108%) QA
2 4 (5.405%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.054%) MiFID
4 2 (2.703%) FATCA
5 1 (1.351%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) Oracle
2 8 (10.81%) HP
3 4 (5.405%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.054%) Pega
4 3 (4.054%) GoldenSource
4 3 (4.054%) Actimize
5 2 (2.703%) Netezza
5 2 (2.703%) Remedy
5 2 (2.703%) Cadis
6 1 (1.351%) iRise
6 1 (1.351%) Murex
6 1 (1.351%) Informatica
6 1 (1.351%) Cognos
6 1 (1.351%) IBM
6 1 (1.351%) Trillium
6 1 (1.351%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.351%) Teradata
6 1 (1.351%) Perforce
6 1 (1.351%) Kofax
Enterprise Data Architect/Data Architect
City of London
Skills/experiences:- - Extensive experience with either Oracle, SQL Sever or Netezza - Extensive experience in enterprise architecture - Excellent stakeholder management skills - Developing information/Data strategy/Frameworks - Extensive data experience...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £550 - £570 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Enterprise Data Architect
City of London
Skills/experiences:- - Extensive experience with either Oracle, SQL Sever or Netezza - Extensive experience in enterprise architecture - Excellent stakeholder management skills - Developing information/Data strategy/Frameworks - Extensive data experience...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Senior Information Analyst - 3 Months contract
City of London
Urgent Requirement: Senior Information Analyst - 3 Month contract - £200 - £250 per day - London Information Analyst / MS Excel / T-SQL / SSRS / MS Word / SAS Data Sets/ NHSAn excellent opportunity...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
60347 - Data Migration Analyst/BO Report Developer
City of London
My global banking client is seeking a Data Migration Analyst/BO Report Developer for a project to ensure that the data in the key strategic system for Operational...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £449 - £450 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
ASP.NET, SQL, ANALYST DEVELOPER, BANKING, LONDON
City, London
A leading global investment bank are currently recruiting for a strong Analyst Developer with ASP.Net and excellent SQL skills to work in a reference data IT team...
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Business Analyst/Project Manager-Credit Risk/Legal
City of London
Legal documents & Data is a major change initiative in the banks legal department. The Programme will improve risk management processes as they relate to the documentation and legal...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Project Manager - DFA, EMIR, FATCA Delivery
City of London
The successful candidate will have a proven track record of working with DFA, EMIR and FATCA, ideally within Investment Banking. The role will require the Project Manager to...
Orgtel
Rate: £600 - £650 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
PMO LEAD - BANKING - CLIENT DATA / DATA CHANGE - LONDON
City, London
A leading Investment bank require a Lead PMO to be involved in a large scale compliance and due diligence workstream, covering both IT and change. We are looking...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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