The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Spread Betting 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 Spread Betting 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
Spread Betting
Rank 193 208 240
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +32
Contract jobs citing Spread Betting 10 10 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.157% 0.127% 0.051%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.496% 0.389% 0.127%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 5
Average daily rate £300 £413 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% -21.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £588 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%
Spread Betting
London

Spread Betting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Spread Betting Jobs Demand Trend

Spread Betting
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Spread Betting Daily Rate Trend

Spread Betting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 12 (85.71%) Finance
2 9 (64.29%) Games
2 9 (64.29%) HTML
2 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 9 (64.29%) CSS
3 8 (57.14%) HTTP
3 8 (57.14%) Ajax
3 8 (57.14%) Web Development
3 8 (57.14%) JSON
3 8 (57.14%) Ext JS
3 8 (57.14%) jQuery
3 8 (57.14%) Online Betting
3 8 (57.14%) Sencha
4 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (21.43%) OO
4 3 (21.43%) Java
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle
5 2 (14.29%) Front Office
5 2 (14.29%) QA
5 2 (14.29%) Selenium
6 1 (7.143%) WCF
6 1 (7.143%) Silverlight
6 1 (7.143%) RIA
6 1 (7.143%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (7.143%) .NET Framework
6 1 (7.143%) ESB
6 1 (7.143%) MVC
6 1 (7.143%) Web 2.0
6 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (7.143%) TDD

Spread Betting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (64.29%) HTML
1 9 (64.29%) CSS
2 8 (57.14%) Ajax
2 8 (57.14%) JSON
2 8 (57.14%) Ext JS
2 8 (57.14%) jQuery
3 1 (7.143%) WCF
3 1 (7.143%) Silverlight
3 1 (7.143%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.143%) .NET
3 1 (7.143%) Middleware
3 1 (7.143%) Hibernate
3 1 (7.143%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle Coherence
1 1 (7.143%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) OmniGraffle
1 1 (7.143%) Photoshop
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (7.143%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (7.143%) Subversion
2 1 (7.143%) TestNG
2 1 (7.143%) WebDriver
2 1 (7.143%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.143%) JUnit
2 1 (7.143%) Eclipse
General
1 12 (85.71%) Finance
2 9 (64.29%) Games
3 8 (57.14%) Online Betting
4 2 (14.29%) Front Office
5 1 (7.143%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Developer
2 8 (57.14%) Web Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Automated Test Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) User Experience Designer
3 1 (7.143%) Designer
3 1 (7.143%) QA Leader
3 1 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.143%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.143%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Hyperion Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) RIA
1 1 (7.143%) Web 2.0
1 1 (7.143%) Digital Media
1 1 (7.143%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) Windows
1 1 (7.143%) Linux
1 1 (7.143%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Web Development
2 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (21.43%) OO
3 1 (7.143%) MVC
3 1 (7.143%) TDD
3 1 (7.143%) Automated Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Software Engineering
3 1 (7.143%) Automation Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
3 1 (7.143%) Multithreading
3 1 (7.143%) BDD
3 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
3 1 (7.143%) OOP
3 1 (7.143%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) Java
3 1 (7.143%) Perl
3 1 (7.143%) Python
3 1 (7.143%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Sencha
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.143%) JBoss
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) Hyperion