The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance 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 General category for the Crawley 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
Financial
Rank 8 6 20
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +14
Contract jobs citing Finance 18 43 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 12.08% 15.52% 5.738%
As % of the General category 62.07% 46.74% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 4
Average daily rate £425 £400 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +8.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £300 £182
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £500 £441
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £14.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -9.09%
All of the General Category
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
29 92 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 19.46% 33.21% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 66 10
Average daily rate £425 £425 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £310 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £505 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 5
Average hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+63.46% -13.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Finance
West Sussex

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Finance across the Crawley region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Crawley Finance Jobs Demand Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Finance across the Crawley region.

Crawley Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Crawley Finance Daily Rate Histogram

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Finance across the Crawley region.

Crawley Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing Finance 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 Finance.

1 11 (24.44%) Project Management
2 10 (22.22%) PRINCE2
3 9 (20.00%) Windows
4 8 (17.78%) Data Modelling
4 8 (17.78%) ITIL
4 8 (17.78%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (15.56%) Data Architecture
5 7 (15.56%) TOGAF
5 7 (15.56%) ETL
5 7 (15.56%) MS Project
5 7 (15.56%) Information Architecture
6 6 (13.33%) IBM
6 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
6 6 (13.33%) Risk Management
6 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (13.33%) Online Betting
7 5 (11.11%) Financial Modelling
7 5 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
7 5 (11.11%) Degree
7 5 (11.11%) VMware
7 5 (11.11%) Back Office
7 5 (11.11%) HP
7 5 (11.11%) Citrix
7 5 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 5 (11.11%) MS Office
7 5 (11.11%) DHCP
7 5 (11.11%) DNS
7 5 (11.11%) vSphere
7 5 (11.11%) Smart Meter
7 5 (11.11%) XenApp

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing Finance 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 Finance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.222%) Application Packaging
1 1 (2.222%) Middleware
1 1 (2.222%) .NET
1 1 (2.222%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (4.444%) MS Exchange
1 2 (4.444%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.444%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (2.222%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (15.56%) MS Project
2 5 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
2 5 (11.11%) MS Office
3 4 (8.889%) MS Excel
4 3 (6.667%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.222%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) DHCP
1 5 (11.11%) DNS
2 3 (6.667%) Firewall
3 2 (4.444%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.444%) VPN
3 2 (4.444%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.222%) QlikView
1 1 (2.222%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.222%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (2.222%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.222%) MSI
General
1 6 (13.33%) Online Betting
2 5 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (2.222%) French Language
3 1 (2.222%) Banking
3 1 (2.222%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.222%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) Analyst
2 10 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) Project Manager
4 7 (15.56%) Architect
4 7 (15.56%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.889%) Wintel Analyst
5 4 (8.889%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (8.889%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
6 3 (6.667%) Team Leader
7 2 (4.444%) Infrastructure Support Manager
7 2 (4.444%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
7 2 (4.444%) Senior Manager
7 2 (4.444%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.444%) Consultant
7 2 (4.444%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (4.444%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.444%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (4.444%) Support Manager
7 2 (4.444%) Support Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Smart Meter
2 4 (8.889%) Economics
2 4 (8.889%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.222%) AS400
3 1 (2.222%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.222%) PMI
3 1 (2.222%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Windows
2 8 (17.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (4.444%) Windows XP
3 2 (4.444%) AIX
3 2 (4.444%) Linux
3 2 (4.444%) UNIX
3 2 (4.444%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.222%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (24.44%) Project Management
2 10 (22.22%) PRINCE2
3 8 (17.78%) Data Modelling
3 8 (17.78%) ITIL
4 7 (15.56%) Data Architecture
4 7 (15.56%) TOGAF
4 7 (15.56%) ETL
4 7 (15.56%) Information Architecture
5 6 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.11%) Financial Modelling
7 3 (6.667%) Validation
7 3 (6.667%) B2C
7 3 (6.667%) Change Control
7 3 (6.667%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (4.444%) Data Governance
8 2 (4.444%) Budget Control
8 2 (4.444%) Business Transformation
8 2 (4.444%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (4.444%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.667%) SQL
2 2 (4.444%) C
3 1 (2.222%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
1 5 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (2.222%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (2.222%) MBA
2 1 (2.222%) ISEB
2 1 (2.222%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.222%) CCAB
2 1 (2.222%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.444%) Solvency II
1 2 (4.444%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.444%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.222%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.222%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.11%) vSphere
2 5 (11.11%) XenApp
3 3 (6.667%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 3 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.667%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (6.667%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) IBM
2 5 (11.11%) VMware
2 5 (11.11%) HP
2 5 (11.11%) Citrix
3 4 (8.889%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.667%) Oracle
5 2 (4.444%) Cisco
5 2 (4.444%) SAP
5 2 (4.444%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.222%) Cognos
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