East of England Retail Banking Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Retail Banking' in contract IT jobs within the East of England region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail Banking over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Retail Banking
Location Andover Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Dartford Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Poole Pudsey Reading Scotland South Coast South East South West Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	136	136
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	3	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	0.163 %	0.818 %
Daily rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum daily rate	-	£428
Average daily rate	-	£441
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£453
UK excluding London average daily rate	£431	£427
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£12.00	£30.50
% change on same period last year	-60.65 %
General East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1839	2079
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.451 %	2.074 %
Daily rates quoted	625	793
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£342
Average daily rate	£388	£364
% change on same period last year	+6.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£416	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	174	186
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.23	£25.20
Average hourly rate	£29.01	£26.97
% change on same period last year	+7.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.79	£28.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.03	£27.25
% change on same period last year	+2.86 %
Retail Banking England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Retail Banking
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Retail Banking across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Retail Banking across the East of England region.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridgeshire	+5	2	-	-
Norfolk	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 8 (100.00 %) Banking 1 8 (100.00 %) Retail 2 6 (75.00 %) Finance 3 4 (50.00 %) Java 4 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 5 2 (25.00 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (25.00 %) WebSphere 5 2 (25.00 %) JSP 5 2 (25.00 %) Servlets 5 2 (25.00 %) Struts 5 2 (25.00 %) XML 5 2 (25.00 %) SQL 5 2 (25.00 %) Linux 6 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (12.50 %) Sun

6 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (12.50 %) Perl 6 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 6 1 (12.50 %) Sybase 6 1 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 6 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 6 1 (12.50 %) CruiseControl 6 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 6 1 (12.50 %) Spring 6 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 6 1 (12.50 %) Marketing 6 1 (12.50 %) Business Development 6 1 (12.50 %) Degree

Retail Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 2 2 (25.00 %) JSP 2 2 (25.00 %) Servlets 2 2 (25.00 %) Struts 2 2 (25.00 %) XML 2 2 (25.00 %) WebSphere 3 1 (12.50 %) Hibernate 3 1 (12.50 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) CruiseControl
General 1 8 (100.00 %) Banking 1 8 (100.00 %) Retail 2 6 (75.00 %) Finance 3 2 (25.00 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 4 1 (12.50 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Developer 1 3 (37.50 %) Java Developer 1 3 (37.50 %) J2EE Developer 1 3 (37.50 %) Java/J2EE Developer 2 2 (25.00 %) Business Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Systems Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) DBA 3 1 (12.50 %) Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) Sybase DBA 3 1 (12.50 %) Banking Business Analyst
Operating Systems 1 2 (25.00 %) Linux 2 1 (12.50 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Development
Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) Java 2 2 (25.00 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) Degree
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Sybase 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 1 1 (12.50 %) Sun