The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail Banking over the 3 months to 19 June 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 East of England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retail Banking
Rank 109 131 126
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -5
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 9 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.407% 0.166% 0.144%
As % of the General category 1.206% 0.469% 0.376%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 4
Average daily rate £223 £300 £444
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.83% -32.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £278 £390
10% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £416 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £396 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+4.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £145.00
All of the General Category
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
746 1067 1065
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 33.74% 35.33% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 461 477
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £244 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 89 85
Average hourly rate £32.50 £29.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.06% +28.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £16.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £47.50 £38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £24.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+0.05% -3.89%
Retail Banking
England

Retail Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Retail Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Retail Banking across the East of England region.

East of England Retail Banking Daily Rate Trend

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Retail Banking across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East of England Retail Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Retail Banking
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Hertfordshire - 5 £228 -
Essex -3 1 £425 -7.60% 2
Norfolk - 1 - -
Retail Banking
England

Retail Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Retail Banking 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 Retail Banking.

1 12 (100.00%) Banking
1 12 (100.00%) Retail
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (41.67%) Java
3 5 (41.67%) SOAP
3 5 (41.67%) Web Services
3 5 (41.67%) Spring
3 5 (41.67%) BDD
3 5 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (41.67%) User Stories
4 4 (33.33%) JPA
4 4 (33.33%) JSF
4 4 (33.33%) WSRP
4 4 (33.33%) JSR 286
4 4 (33.33%) Liferay
4 4 (33.33%) RESTful
4 4 (33.33%) J2EE
4 4 (33.33%) Content Management
4 4 (33.33%) CMS
5 2 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (8.333%) Code Coverage
6 1 (8.333%) Oracle
6 1 (8.333%) JUnit
6 1 (8.333%) MS Office
6 1 (8.333%) EJB
6 1 (8.333%) JSP
6 1 (8.333%) Servlets
6 1 (8.333%) XML
6 1 (8.333%) XSD
6 1 (8.333%) UML

Retail Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Retail Banking 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 Retail Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (41.67%) SOAP
1 5 (41.67%) Web Services
1 5 (41.67%) Spring
2 4 (33.33%) JPA
2 4 (33.33%) JSF
2 4 (33.33%) WSRP
2 4 (33.33%) JSR 286
2 4 (33.33%) RESTful
2 4 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (8.333%) EJB
3 1 (8.333%) JSP
3 1 (8.333%) Servlets
3 1 (8.333%) XML
3 1 (8.333%) XSD
3 1 (8.333%) HTML
3 1 (8.333%) Ajax
3 1 (8.333%) JSON
3 1 (8.333%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Liferay
1 4 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Office
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle BPM
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (8.333%) JUnit
General
1 12 (100.00%) Banking
1 12 (100.00%) Retail
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.333%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Portal Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) J2EE Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Test Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Business Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Programme Manager
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle SOA Developer
5 1 (8.333%) SOA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) BDD
1 5 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (41.67%) User Stories
2 4 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (8.333%) Code Coverage
3 1 (8.333%) UML
3 1 (8.333%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (8.333%) SOA
3 1 (8.333%) MVC
3 1 (8.333%) Programme Management
3 1 (8.333%) BPEL
3 1 (8.333%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (8.333%) Waterfall
3 1 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (8.333%) Investment Management
3 1 (8.333%) Business Analysis
3 1 (8.333%) Fund Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
2 1 (8.333%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle
Essex
Day to day duties will include: * Identifying and validating key business requirements * Creating functional and non-functional requirements in project briefs * Co-ordinating requirements walk-through and sign-...
Venn Group
Rate: £350 - 450 Per Day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Southend-On-Sea, Essex
The Purpose of the role: To provide testing skills to confirm the 'as is' functionality (via Regression testing) and the 'to be' functionality (UAT)... Assist with test scripting...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £330.00 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
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