The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CQG 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 CQG over the 3 months to 21 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 CQG, Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CQG
Rank 506 545 550
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +5
Contract jobs citing CQG 6 12 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.014% 0.022% 0.009%
As % of the Vendors category 0.030% 0.048% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 2
Average daily rate £266 £400 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.43% +3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £400 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £474 £439 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
19712 24757 25541
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.59% 46.27% 46.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10815 13100 13150
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
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 1143 1239 1486
Average hourly rate £19.63 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.87% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.64 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
CQG
UK

CQG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England CQG Jobs Demand Trend

CQG
Daily Rate Trend

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

England CQG Daily Rate Trend

CQG
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CQG across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England CQG Daily Rate Histogram

CQG
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England CQG Hourly Rate Trend

CQG
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CQG within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 +10 6 £266 -33.43%
CQG
UK

CQG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing CQG 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 CQG.

1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
3 5 (50.00%) Reuters
3 5 (50.00%) Bloomberg
4 4 (40.00%) Windows XP
4 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (40.00%) MS Office
4 4 (40.00%) Equities
4 4 (40.00%) Banking
4 4 (40.00%) Derivative
5 3 (30.00%) Django
5 3 (30.00%) Git (software)
5 3 (30.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (30.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 3 (30.00%) Metaprogramming
5 3 (30.00%) Subversion
5 3 (30.00%) FFastFill
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) SQL
5 3 (30.00%) C#
5 3 (30.00%) C++
5 3 (30.00%) Linux
5 3 (30.00%) UML
5 3 (30.00%) STL
5 3 (30.00%) OO
5 3 (30.00%) Python
5 3 (30.00%) EasyScreen
5 3 (30.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (30.00%) TIBCO
5 3 (30.00%) Rendezvous

CQG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing CQG 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 CQG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) Django
1 3 (30.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 3 (30.00%) STL
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Rendezvous
2 2 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Office
2 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git (software)
1 3 (30.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (30.00%) Subversion
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Front Office
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Help Desk Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) C++ Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior C++ Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C++/C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Equities
1 4 (40.00%) Derivative
2 3 (30.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (30.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (20.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (20.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Metaprogramming
1 3 (30.00%) Scrum
1 3 (30.00%) UML
1 3 (30.00%) OO
1 3 (30.00%) TDD
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (10.00%) Change Control
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) C++
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) VBScript
2 2 (20.00%) VB
3 1 (10.00%) Java
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Reuters
1 5 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 3 (30.00%) FFastFill
2 3 (30.00%) EasyScreen
2 3 (30.00%) TIBCO
3 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 2 (20.00%) Fidessa
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) Citrix
3 2 (20.00%) Lotus
4 1 (10.00%) Tradeweb
4 1 (10.00%) MarketAxess
4 1 (10.00%) Sun
4 1 (10.00%) eSpeed
4 1 (10.00%) Radianz
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