The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Derivative 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 Derivative over the 3 months to 17 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 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Derivatives
Rank 12 13 13
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Contract jobs citing Derivative 18 20 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 10.78% 9.050% 12.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 26.87% 40.00% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 42
Average daily rate £513 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.89% -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £421 £426
10% offered a daily rate of more than £648 £638 £670
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £395
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year
-32.00% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
67 50 280
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 40.12% 22.62% 46.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 30 127
Average daily rate £500 £510 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.96% -11.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £385 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £605 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £26.75 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +16.30%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Derivative
London

Derivative
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London Derivative Jobs Demand Trend

Derivative
Daily Rate Trend

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

Docklands, London Derivative Daily Rate Trend

Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Derivative across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Docklands, London Derivative Daily Rate Histogram

Derivative
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Docklands, London Derivative Hourly Rate Trend

Derivative
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Derivative 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 Derivative.

1 15 (57.69%) Front Office
1 15 (57.69%) Banking
1 15 (57.69%) Investment Banking
2 11 (42.31%) Business Analysis
2 11 (42.31%) Fixed Income
3 10 (38.46%) Finance
3 10 (38.46%) SQL
4 8 (30.77%) Credit Derivative
5 7 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (26.92%) Data Mining
5 7 (26.92%) TIBCO
5 7 (26.92%) Spotfire
5 7 (26.92%) Visualisation
5 7 (26.92%) Data Analytics
5 7 (26.92%) Analytics
6 5 (19.23%) UNIX
6 5 (19.23%) Equities
7 4 (15.38%) Test Scripting
7 4 (15.38%) QA
8 3 (11.54%) Electronic Trading
8 3 (11.54%) JIRA
8 3 (11.54%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (11.54%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (11.54%) Confluence
8 3 (11.54%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (11.54%) Grid Computing
8 3 (11.54%) Automated Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Regression Testing
8 3 (11.54%) XML
8 3 (11.54%) Reuters

Derivative
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Derivative 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 Derivative. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (11.54%) XML
1 3 (11.54%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (7.692%) XML Messaging
3 1 (3.846%) JSON
3 1 (3.846%) REST
3 1 (3.846%) FIXML
3 1 (3.846%) .NET
3 1 (3.846%) SOAP
3 1 (3.846%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (3.846%) GemFire
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (7.692%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.846%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.692%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.846%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Data Mining
1 7 (26.92%) Spotfire
2 1 (3.846%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.846%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
General
1 15 (57.69%) Front Office
1 15 (57.69%) Banking
1 15 (57.69%) Investment Banking
2 10 (38.46%) Finance
3 2 (7.692%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.846%) Legal
4 1 (3.846%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Analyst
2 12 (46.15%) Business Analyst
3 9 (34.62%) Banking Business Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Front Office Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Project Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Consultant
5 2 (7.692%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) QA Consultant
6 1 (3.846%) Market Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Market Data Business Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Market Data Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Systems Tester
6 1 (3.846%) QA Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Coordinator
6 1 (3.846%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Fixed Income
2 8 (30.77%) Credit Derivative
3 7 (26.92%) Visualisation
4 5 (19.23%) Equities
5 3 (11.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (11.54%) Grid Computing
6 2 (7.692%) Mathematics
6 2 (7.692%) Computer Science
7 1 (3.846%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) UNIX
2 2 (7.692%) Windows
2 2 (7.692%) Linux
3 1 (3.846%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Business Analysis
2 7 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (26.92%) Data Analytics
2 7 (26.92%) Analytics
3 4 (15.38%) Test Scripting
4 3 (11.54%) Regression Testing
4 3 (11.54%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (11.54%) Automated Testing
4 3 (11.54%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (7.692%) System Testing
5 2 (7.692%) Time Management
5 2 (7.692%) Systems Analysis
5 2 (7.692%) Risk Management
5 2 (7.692%) Project Management
5 2 (7.692%) Multithreading
5 2 (7.692%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.846%) Service Management
6 1 (3.846%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.846%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.846%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) Perl
2 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.692%) Python
4 1 (3.846%) VBA
4 1 (3.846%) C#
4 1 (3.846%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (7.692%) Degree
2 1 (3.846%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) TIBCO
2 3 (11.54%) Reuters
2 3 (11.54%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.846%) DataSynapse
3 1 (3.846%) Sybase
3 1 (3.846%) Microsoft