The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Calypso products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Calypso over the 3 months to 22 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 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Calypso Technology.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Calypso
Rank 452 477 409
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -68
Contract jobs citing Calypso 62 93 159
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.147% 0.171% 0.287%
As % of the Vendors category 0.315% 0.371% 0.623%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 60 107
Average daily rate £550 £625 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% +8.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £425 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £750 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 £395
% change year-on-year
- -17.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
19694 25078 25524
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.65% 46.23% 46.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10834 13246 13131
Average daily rate £400 £400 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1141 1256 1497
Average hourly rate £19.56 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.18% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.34 £11.50 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Calypso
UK

Calypso
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Calypso Jobs Demand Trend

Calypso
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Calypso Daily Rate Trend

Calypso
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Calypso across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England Calypso Daily Rate Histogram

Calypso
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Calypso Hourly Rate Trend

Calypso
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Calypso within the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
London +1 62 £550 -12.00%
Calypso
UK

Calypso
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Calypso 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 Calypso.

1 56 (49.12%) Banking
2 52 (45.61%) Derivative
3 47 (41.23%) Investment Banking
4 43 (37.72%) Back Office
5 42 (36.84%) Finance
6 34 (29.82%) Front Office
6 34 (29.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 26 (22.81%) Murex
8 23 (20.18%) Business Analysis
9 20 (17.54%) Fixed Income
10 19 (16.67%) SQL
11 17 (14.91%) Java
12 12 (10.53%) Workflow
13 11 (9.649%) Thunderhead
13 11 (9.649%) Summit
14 10 (8.772%) Financial Institution
15 9 (7.895%) Equity Derivative
15 9 (7.895%) Equities
15 9 (7.895%) Asset Management
15 9 (7.895%) Bloomberg
15 9 (7.895%) Project Management
15 9 (7.895%) Oracle
15 9 (7.895%) UNIX
15 9 (7.895%) ISO 9001
15 9 (7.895%) User Acceptance Testing
16 7 (6.140%) Sophis
16 7 (6.140%) MS Excel
17 6 (5.263%) Credit Derivative
17 6 (5.263%) QA
17 6 (5.263%) Use Case

Calypso
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Calypso 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 Calypso. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (3.509%) XML
1 4 (3.509%) XSLT
1 4 (3.509%) Spring
1 4 (3.509%) Drools
2 3 (2.632%) J2EE
3 2 (1.754%) HTML
3 2 (1.754%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 4 (3.509%) MQSeries
Applications
1 7 (6.140%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.754%) MS Office
3 1 (0.877%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.877%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 11 (9.649%) Summit
2 2 (1.754%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.877%) Loanet
3 1 (0.877%) Global One
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.877%) HTTP
1 1 (0.877%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.632%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.754%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.754%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (1.754%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (0.877%) JIRA
1 1 (0.877%) Introscope
General
1 56 (49.12%) Banking
2 47 (41.23%) Investment Banking
3 43 (37.72%) Back Office
4 42 (36.84%) Finance
5 34 (29.82%) Front Office
6 10 (8.772%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.877%) French Language
7 1 (0.877%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (70.18%) Analyst
2 58 (50.88%) Business Analyst
3 11 (9.649%) Senior Analyst
3 11 (9.649%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
3 11 (9.649%) Senior Business Analyst
4 10 (8.772%) Banking Business Analyst
5 9 (7.895%) Developer
6 8 (7.018%) Technical Analyst
7 6 (5.263%) Support Analyst
8 5 (4.386%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.386%) Test Analyst
9 4 (3.509%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.509%) Consultant
9 4 (3.509%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.509%) Calypso Developer
9 4 (3.509%) Risk Analyst
10 3 (2.632%) Quantitative Analyst
11 2 (1.754%) Junior
11 2 (1.754%) Systems Administrator
11 2 (1.754%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 52 (45.61%) Derivative
2 34 (29.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (17.54%) Fixed Income
4 9 (7.895%) Equity Derivative
4 9 (7.895%) Equities
5 6 (5.263%) Credit Derivative
5 6 (5.263%) Market Risk
6 4 (3.509%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 4 (3.509%) Kindle
7 3 (2.632%) Mathematics
7 3 (2.632%) Economics
8 2 (1.754%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.754%) Exotic Derivative
8 2 (1.754%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.754%) Swaptions
8 2 (1.754%) Open Source
8 2 (1.754%) SWIFT
9 1 (0.877%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.877%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.895%) UNIX
2 2 (1.754%) Windows
2 2 (1.754%) Linux
2 2 (1.754%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.877%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.18%) Business Analysis
2 12 (10.53%) Workflow
3 9 (7.895%) Asset Management
3 9 (7.895%) Project Management
3 9 (7.895%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (5.263%) Use Case
5 5 (4.386%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (4.386%) Scrum
6 4 (3.509%) Risk Management
6 4 (3.509%) Migration
6 4 (3.509%) Project Planning
7 3 (2.632%) Risk Analytics
7 3 (2.632%) Analytics
7 3 (2.632%) Stress Testing
7 3 (2.632%) Web Development
7 3 (2.632%) Data Management
7 3 (2.632%) Change Management
7 3 (2.632%) Benchmarking
8 2 (1.754%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (1.754%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.67%) SQL
2 17 (14.91%) Java
3 4 (3.509%) VBA
3 4 (3.509%) Perl
4 3 (2.632%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.754%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.754%) C++
5 2 (1.754%) Ruby
5 2 (1.754%) R
5 2 (1.754%) Bash shell
6 1 (0.877%) C#
6 1 (0.877%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (3.509%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.895%) ISO 9001
2 6 (5.263%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (3.509%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.754%) Nagios
2 2 (1.754%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (1.754%) Splunk
3 1 (0.877%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 26 (22.81%) Murex
2 11 (9.649%) Thunderhead
3 9 (7.895%) Bloomberg
3 9 (7.895%) Oracle
4 7 (6.140%) Sophis
5 5 (4.386%) Sybase
6 3 (2.632%) Wall Street Systems
7 2 (1.754%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.754%) Reuters
7 2 (1.754%) Twitter
8 1 (0.877%) Microsoft
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