The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Dorking region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 23 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 Dorking 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 2 8 4
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -4
Contract jobs citing Finance 2 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorking 50.00% 11.11% 16.67%
As % of the General category 100.00% 100.00% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £313 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -6.97%
All of the General Category
Dorking
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
2 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorking 50.00% 11.11% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
Average daily rate - £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Finance
Surrey

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorking 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 Dorking region.

Dorking Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Dorking Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorking 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 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) AIX
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) IPsec
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) XenApp
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorking 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 Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (16.67%) MS Project
3 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) IPsec
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) IT Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (33.33%) Team Leader
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Support Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Support Team Leader
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Manager
2 1 (16.67%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) AIX
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
1 1 (16.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) XenApp
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle