The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Thunderhead 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 Thunderhead over the 3 months to 22 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 Thunderhead Limited.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Thunderhead
Rank 194 214 239
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +25
Contract jobs citing Thunderhead 11 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.171% 0.013% 0.021%
As % of the Vendors category 0.379% 0.030% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
Average daily rate £375 £650 £513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-42.30% +26.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £650 £483
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £650 £543
UK excluding London average daily rate - £400 £463
% change year-on-year
- -13.51%
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
2906 3363 4071
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.20% 42.15% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2056 2300 2802
Average daily rate £433 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.76% -15.00%
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 105 101 129
Average hourly rate £23.75 £21.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.09% -2.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £13.59
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £39.50 £44.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Thunderhead
London

Thunderhead
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Thunderhead Jobs Demand Trend

Thunderhead
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Thunderhead Daily Rate Trend

Thunderhead
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Thunderhead across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London Thunderhead Daily Rate Histogram

Thunderhead
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Thunderhead 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 Thunderhead.

1 7 (58.33%) Banking
2 6 (50.00%) SWIFT
2 6 (50.00%) Misys
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (50.00%) Sybase
2 6 (50.00%) UNIX
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Solaris
2 6 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (41.67%) Tivoli
3 5 (41.67%) Service Management
3 5 (41.67%) Back Office
3 5 (41.67%) Corporate Banking
3 5 (41.67%) GoldenSource
4 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Capacity Management
4 4 (33.33%) ITSM
4 4 (33.33%) Calypso
5 3 (25.00%) Derivative
6 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
6 2 (16.67%) Murex
6 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
6 2 (16.67%) Finance
7 1 (8.333%) Summit
7 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
7 1 (8.333%) Workflow

Thunderhead
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Thunderhead 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 Thunderhead. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) HTML
1 1 (8.333%) XML
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Summit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (58.33%) Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Back Office
2 5 (41.67%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) Support Analyst
3 5 (41.67%) Operations Support Analyst
3 5 (41.67%) Operations Analyst
4 4 (33.33%) Business Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Applications Support
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) SWIFT
2 3 (25.00%) Derivative
3 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.333%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) UNIX
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
1 6 (50.00%) Solaris
1 6 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Service Management
2 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 4 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (8.333%) Workflow
4 1 (8.333%) UML
4 1 (8.333%) ITIL
4 1 (8.333%) Workflow Management
4 1 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.333%) C
2 1 (8.333%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Misys
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
1 6 (50.00%) Sybase
2 5 (41.67%) GoldenSource
3 4 (33.33%) Calypso
4 2 (16.67%) Murex
5 1 (8.333%) Sophis