The first table below looks at the demand for Sentinel 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 Sentinel over the 3 months to 23 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 Business Applications 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fidessa LatentZero Sentinel
Rank 191 215 241
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +26
Contract jobs citing Sentinel 8 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.126% 0.051% 0.040%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.559% 0.733% 0.529%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
Average daily rate £525 £436 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.34% +9.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £407 £360
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £465 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 £503 £463
% change year-on-year
+9.39% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
513 546 756
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 8.076% 6.936% 7.581%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 373 540
Average daily rate £450 £450 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 2
Average hourly rate £32.58 £50.00 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.84% +45.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £14.75 £19.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.51 £56.25 £48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
Sentinel
London

Sentinel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Sentinel Jobs Demand Trend

Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Sentinel Daily Rate Trend

Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sentinel across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Sentinel Daily Rate Histogram

Sentinel
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Sentinel Hourly Rate Trend

Sentinel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Sentinel 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 Sentinel.

1 13 (100.00%) Minerva
2 12 (92.31%) Tesseract
3 9 (69.23%) LatentZero
4 8 (61.54%) Capstone
5 7 (53.85%) Investment Management
6 6 (46.15%) Front Office
7 5 (38.46%) Asset Management
7 5 (38.46%) thinkFolio
8 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
8 3 (23.08%) Finance
9 2 (15.38%) Benchmarking
9 2 (15.38%) SQL
9 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
9 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
9 2 (15.38%) Fund Management
10 1 (7.692%) Derivative
10 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
10 1 (7.692%) Eagle PACE
10 1 (7.692%) Fund Accounting
10 1 (7.692%) Portfolio Management
10 1 (7.692%) Cadis
10 1 (7.692%) Twitter
10 1 (7.692%) Fixed Income
10 1 (7.692%) Banking
10 1 (7.692%) VB
10 1 (7.692%) VBA
10 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (7.692%) Client/Server
10 1 (7.692%) HTTP

Sentinel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Sentinel 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 Sentinel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Minerva
2 12 (92.31%) Tesseract
3 9 (69.23%) LatentZero
4 8 (61.54%) Capstone
5 1 (7.692%) Eagle PACE
5 1 (7.692%) LongView
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) HTTP
1 1 (7.692%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
General
1 6 (46.15%) Front Office
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) Business Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Support Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Tester
5 1 (7.692%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Derivative
1 1 (7.692%) Fixed Income
1 1 (7.692%) Client/Server
1 1 (7.692%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Investment Management
2 5 (38.46%) Asset Management
3 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Benchmarking
4 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Fund Management
5 1 (7.692%) Fund Accounting
5 1 (7.692%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) VB
2 1 (7.692%) VBA
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) thinkFolio
2 1 (7.692%) Cadis
2 1 (7.692%) Twitter
2 1 (7.692%) Fidessa
2 1 (7.692%) Informatica
2 1 (7.692%) Reuters
2 1 (7.692%) Bloomberg
2 1 (7.692%) Charles River