The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of thinkFolio products and/or services 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 thinkFolio over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within thinkFolio Limited.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
thinkFolio
Rank 181 202 218
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +16
Contract jobs citing thinkFolio 20 18 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.317% 0.231% 0.186%
As % of the Vendors category 0.700% 0.548% 0.445%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 8
Average daily rate £475 £763 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.70% +45.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £518 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £588 £925 £728
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
+37.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2856 3284 4043
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.20% 42.05% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2018 2244 2789
Average daily rate £430 £425 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -12.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 99 125
Average hourly rate £23.75 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £39.60 £41.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
thinkFolio
London

thinkFolio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London thinkFolio Jobs Demand Trend

thinkFolio
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London thinkFolio Daily Rate Trend

thinkFolio
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing thinkFolio across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London thinkFolio Daily Rate Histogram

thinkFolio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing thinkFolio 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 thinkFolio.

1 40 (74.07%) Asset Management
2 29 (53.70%) Investment Management
3 27 (50.00%) LatentZero
4 26 (48.15%) SQL
5 21 (38.89%) Cadis
6 20 (37.04%) Front Office
6 20 (37.04%) Fixed Income
7 18 (33.33%) Fund Management
8 17 (31.48%) SQL Server
9 16 (29.63%) Derivative
10 13 (24.07%) Finance
11 11 (20.37%) Charles River
12 10 (18.52%) Eagle PACE
13 9 (16.67%) C#
13 9 (16.67%) .NET
14 8 (14.81%) VBA
14 8 (14.81%) Control-M
14 8 (14.81%) Banking
14 8 (14.81%) Investment Banking
15 7 (12.96%) SQL Server 2005
15 7 (12.96%) User Acceptance Testing
15 7 (12.96%) ASP.NET
16 6 (11.11%) Equities
16 6 (11.11%) Tesseract
16 6 (11.11%) Minerva
16 6 (11.11%) MATLAB
16 6 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
16 6 (11.11%) Business Analysis
17 5 (9.259%) Sentinel
17 5 (9.259%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

thinkFolio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (16.67%) .NET
2 7 (12.96%) ASP.NET
3 4 (7.407%) Web Services
3 4 (7.407%) XML
3 4 (7.407%) ASP
3 4 (7.407%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.556%) WinForms
5 2 (3.704%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.704%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (1.852%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.852%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (50.00%) LatentZero
2 10 (18.52%) Eagle PACE
3 6 (11.11%) Tesseract
3 6 (11.11%) Minerva
4 5 (9.259%) Sentinel
5 2 (3.704%) LongView
6 1 (1.852%) Capstone
6 1 (1.852%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.704%) HTTP
2 1 (1.852%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (31.48%) SQL Server
2 7 (12.96%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (5.556%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (1.852%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (37.04%) Front Office
2 13 (24.07%) Finance
3 8 (14.81%) Banking
3 8 (14.81%) Investment Banking
4 3 (5.556%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 35 (64.81%) Analyst
2 20 (37.04%) Business Analyst
3 13 (24.07%) Test Analyst
4 10 (18.52%) Developer
5 8 (14.81%) C# Developer
6 7 (12.96%) .NET Developer
6 7 (12.96%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (11.11%) SQL Developer
7 6 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (9.259%) Project Manager
9 4 (7.407%) Systems Developer
10 3 (5.556%) Senior Test Analyst
11 2 (3.704%) IT Project Manager
11 2 (3.704%) Senior Business Analyst
11 2 (3.704%) Support Analyst
11 2 (3.704%) Test Manager
11 2 (3.704%) Project Analyst
12 1 (1.852%) Database Analyst
12 1 (1.852%) Tester
12 1 (1.852%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.04%) Fixed Income
2 16 (29.63%) Derivative
3 6 (11.11%) Equities
4 5 (9.259%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.852%) Swaptions
5 1 (1.852%) Data Extraction
5 1 (1.852%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.852%) Windows
1 1 (1.852%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (1.852%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (74.07%) Asset Management
2 29 (53.70%) Investment Management
3 18 (33.33%) Fund Management
4 7 (12.96%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (11.11%) Business Analysis
5 6 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
6 5 (9.259%) ETL
7 4 (7.407%) Project Management
8 3 (5.556%) UML
8 3 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (5.556%) Functional Testing
8 3 (5.556%) Integration Testing
8 3 (5.556%) Cash Management
9 2 (3.704%) Data Analysis
9 2 (3.704%) Data Mapping
9 2 (3.704%) PRINCE2
9 2 (3.704%) Unit Testing
9 2 (3.704%) Data Modelling
10 1 (1.852%) SOA
10 1 (1.852%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 26 (48.15%) SQL
2 9 (16.67%) C#
3 8 (14.81%) VBA
4 6 (11.11%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.852%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (3.704%) PMP
1 2 (3.704%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.852%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.852%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Control-M
2 4 (7.407%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (38.89%) Cadis
2 11 (20.37%) Charles River
3 4 (7.407%) Bloomberg
4 3 (5.556%) StatPro
4 3 (5.556%) SunGard
5 1 (1.852%) Informatica
5 1 (1.852%) Reuters
5 1 (1.852%) Oracle
5 1 (1.852%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.852%) Fidessa
5 1 (1.852%) Twitter