The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Economics in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Economics over the 3 months to 17 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 Miscellaneous category 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Economics
Rank 432 517 489
Rank change year-on-year
+85 -28
Contract jobs citing Economics 78 41 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.188% 0.077% 0.147%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.700% 0.304% 0.502%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 20 51
Average daily rate £450 £372 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.96% -5.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £347 £272 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £370 £350
% change year-on-year
+21.62% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £52.50 - £49.00
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11144 13491 16543
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.81% 25.29% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6882 8110 9959
Average daily rate £443 £430 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.90% -18.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £601 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 619 691
Average hourly rate £24.00 £23.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.31
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Economics
UK

Economics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Economics Jobs Demand Trend

Economics
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Economics Daily Rate Trend

Economics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Economics across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Economics Daily Rate Histogram

Economics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Economics Hourly Rate Trend

Economics
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Economics across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Economics Hourly Rate Histogram

Economics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Economics within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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 +61 54 £450 -14.28%
South East +21 10 £331 -9.24%
North West - 8 £450 -
West Midlands +7 2 - -
East Midlands 0 2 - -
South West +20 1 - -
Economics
UK

Economics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Economics 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 Economics.

1 70 (56.91%) Finance
2 64 (52.03%) Degree
3 47 (38.21%) Mathematics
4 38 (30.89%) Project Management
5 31 (25.20%) Banking
6 29 (23.58%) Marketing
7 26 (21.14%) SQL
8 25 (20.33%) Change Management
9 22 (17.89%) Computer Science
9 22 (17.89%) Investment Banking
10 20 (16.26%) SAS
11 19 (15.45%) Project Planning
12 17 (13.82%) Statistics
12 17 (13.82%) Management Information System
13 16 (13.01%) Risk Management
13 16 (13.01%) Credit Risk
14 15 (12.20%) Derivative
14 15 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (12.20%) Analytics
15 14 (11.38%) Telecoms
15 14 (11.38%) Business Analysis
16 11 (8.943%) Retail
16 11 (8.943%) Customer Insight
16 11 (8.943%) Statistical Modelling
17 10 (8.130%) PRINCE2
17 10 (8.130%) Physics
17 10 (8.130%) Market Risk
18 9 (7.317%) CHAID
18 9 (7.317%) Business Transformation
19 8 (6.504%) VBA

Economics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Economics 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 Economics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (4.878%) .NET
2 4 (3.252%) Django
3 3 (2.439%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.626%) XML
5 1 (0.813%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.813%) Ajax
5 1 (0.813%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 1 (0.813%) WPF
5 1 (0.813%) Silverlight
5 1 (0.813%) Web Services
5 1 (0.813%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.813%) K2 blackpearl
Application Platforms
1 20 (16.26%) SAS
2 2 (1.626%) CMS
2 2 (1.626%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.813%) Apache
3 1 (0.813%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.813%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.813%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 7 (5.691%) MS Excel
2 6 (4.878%) MS Office
3 5 (4.065%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.065%) MS PowerPoint
4 4 (3.252%) PowerPivot
4 4 (3.252%) SPSS
5 3 (2.439%) MS Project
6 1 (0.813%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.813%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.626%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (0.813%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.813%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.813%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.439%) 3G
2 2 (1.626%) HTTP
3 1 (0.813%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.813%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.813%) Internet
3 1 (0.813%) Firewall
3 1 (0.813%) 2G
3 1 (0.813%) LTE
3 1 (0.813%) 4G
3 1 (0.813%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.691%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.252%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.252%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (3.252%) TOAD
3 3 (2.439%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.813%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.813%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.813%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.813%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (3.252%) ERwin
2 1 (0.813%) Balsamiq Mockups
General
1 70 (56.91%) Finance
2 31 (25.20%) Banking
3 29 (23.58%) Marketing
4 22 (17.89%) Investment Banking
5 14 (11.38%) Telecoms
6 11 (8.943%) Retail
7 7 (5.691%) Front Office
8 4 (3.252%) Music
9 2 (1.626%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.626%) Back Office
9 2 (1.626%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.626%) Legal
9 2 (1.626%) German Language
10 1 (0.813%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.813%) Games
10 1 (0.813%) French Language
10 1 (0.813%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.813%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 44 (35.77%) Analyst
2 36 (29.27%) Project Manager
3 23 (18.70%) Business Analyst
4 14 (11.38%) Developer
5 11 (8.943%) Senior Analyst
5 11 (8.943%) Risk Manager
6 10 (8.130%) SAS Analyst
7 9 (7.317%) Credit Risk Project Manager
7 9 (7.317%) Insight Analyst
7 9 (7.317%) Strategic Project Manager
7 9 (7.317%) Data Manager
8 8 (6.504%) SAS Insight Analyst
9 7 (5.691%) Senior SAS Analyst
10 6 (4.878%) Senior Insight Analyst
11 4 (3.252%) Infrastructure Manager
11 4 (3.252%) C# Developer
11 4 (3.252%) Programme Manager
11 4 (3.252%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 4 (3.252%) Senior Developer
12 3 (2.439%) Customer Insight Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 47 (38.21%) Mathematics
2 22 (17.89%) Computer Science
3 17 (13.82%) Statistics
3 17 (13.82%) Management Information System
4 16 (13.01%) Credit Risk
5 15 (12.20%) Derivative
6 10 (8.130%) Market Risk
6 10 (8.130%) Physics
7 6 (4.878%) Visualisation
8 5 (4.065%) Fixed Income
9 4 (3.252%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (3.252%) Mobile App
10 3 (2.439%) FMCG
10 3 (2.439%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 3 (2.439%) Handset
11 2 (1.626%) NHS
11 2 (1.626%) Smart Meter
11 2 (1.626%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.626%) Hedge funds
12 1 (0.813%) Social Gaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.439%) Linux
2 2 (1.626%) UNIX
3 1 (0.813%) Windows
3 1 (0.813%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.89%) Project Management
2 25 (20.33%) Change Management
3 19 (15.45%) Project Planning
4 16 (13.01%) Risk Management
5 15 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (12.20%) Analytics
6 14 (11.38%) Business Analysis
7 11 (8.943%) Customer Insight
7 11 (8.943%) Statistical Modelling
8 10 (8.130%) PRINCE2
9 9 (7.317%) CHAID
9 9 (7.317%) Business Transformation
10 8 (6.504%) Quality Management
11 7 (5.691%) Programme Management
11 7 (5.691%) Data Analysis
12 6 (4.878%) User Acceptance Testing
13 5 (4.065%) Use Case
13 5 (4.065%) Unit Testing
13 5 (4.065%) Predictive Modelling
13 5 (4.065%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.14%) SQL
2 8 (6.504%) VBA
3 6 (4.878%) Python
4 5 (4.065%) C
4 5 (4.065%) C#
4 5 (4.065%) Perl
5 4 (3.252%) Java
6 3 (2.439%) R
7 2 (1.626%) C++
8 1 (0.813%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.813%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 64 (52.03%) Degree
2 5 (4.065%) MBA
3 3 (2.439%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.626%) PhD
4 2 (1.626%) PMP
4 2 (1.626%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.626%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.813%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.813%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.813%) ACCA
5 1 (0.813%) CIMA
5 1 (0.813%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.878%) QA
2 1 (0.813%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.813%) SLA
2 1 (0.813%) Basel II
System Software
1 1 (0.813%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (5.691%) Oracle
2 5 (4.065%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.439%) Murex
3 3 (2.439%) Calypso
4 2 (1.626%) SimCorp
4 2 (1.626%) SAP
5 1 (0.813%) Sybase
5 1 (0.813%) Business Objects
5 1 (0.813%) Huawei
5 1 (0.813%) Fujitsu
5 1 (0.813%) iRise
5 1 (0.813%) Twitter
5 1 (0.813%) HP
5 1 (0.813%) Minitab
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