The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Bloomberg products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Bloomberg 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 Vendors for the Docklands, 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 Bloomberg.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bloomberg
Rank 26 29 56
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +27
Contract jobs citing Bloomberg 4 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 2.339% 0.948% 0.166%
As % of the Vendors category 5.634% 2.105% 0.369%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
Average daily rate £500 £449 £675
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.42% -33.51%
UK excluding London average daily rate £575 £425 £350
% change year-on-year
+35.29% +21.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 - £97.63
All Vendors
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
71 95 271
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 41.52% 45.02% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 57 116
Average daily rate £400 £475 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.78% +11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £178 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £565 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +15.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Bloomberg
London

Bloomberg
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London Bloomberg Jobs Demand Trend

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Bloomberg across the Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London Bloomberg Daily Rate Trend

Bloomberg
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Bloomberg across the Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London Bloomberg Hourly Rate Trend

Bloomberg
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Bloomberg 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 Bloomberg.

1 6 (100.00%) Reuters
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) Fixed Income
3 4 (66.67%) Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Business Analysis
4 3 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (50.00%) Derivative
4 3 (50.00%) Equities
5 2 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) UNIX
6 1 (16.67%) Windows
6 1 (16.67%) Solaris
6 1 (16.67%) Linux
6 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
6 1 (16.67%) Cisco
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) Citrix
6 1 (16.67%) BCP
6 1 (16.67%) FIXML
6 1 (16.67%) Sybase
6 1 (16.67%) XML
6 1 (16.67%) ITIL
6 1 (16.67%) Data Management
6 1 (16.67%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (16.67%) Degree
6 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
6 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (16.67%) Firewall

Bloomberg
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) FIXML
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Banking Business Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Market Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Market Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Market Data Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 3 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (50.00%) Derivative
2 3 (50.00%) Equities
3 1 (16.67%) Credit Derivative
3 1 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (16.67%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) BCP
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Reuters
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Sybase