The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equity Derivative in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Equity Derivative over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Equity Derivatives
Rank 393 394 150
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -244
Contract jobs citing Equity Derivative 120 166 749
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.289% 0.311% 1.333%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.071% 1.231% 4.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 122 578
Average daily rate £555 £550 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.90% -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £500 £500
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £700 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £313 £375
% change year-on-year
+60.00% -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11208 13487 16440
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.96% 25.29% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6896 8084 9903
Average daily rate £438 £437 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.11% -16.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £255 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £607 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 617 685
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% -2.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.60 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Equity Derivative
UK

Equity Derivative
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Equity Derivative Jobs Demand Trend

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Equity Derivative Daily Rate Trend

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Equity Derivative across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Equity Derivative Daily Rate Histogram

Equity Derivative
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Equity Derivative Hourly Rate Trend

Equity Derivative
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equity Derivative within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 -4 120 £555 +0.90%
Equity Derivative
UK

Equity Derivative
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Equity Derivative 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 Equity Derivative.

1 210 (96.77%) Derivative
2 111 (51.15%) Front Office
3 94 (43.32%) Banking
4 89 (41.01%) Java
5 73 (33.64%) Investment Banking
6 53 (24.42%) Finance
7 50 (23.04%) SQL
8 44 (20.28%) Agile Software Development
9 40 (18.43%) Equities
10 36 (16.59%) TDD
11 32 (14.75%) C#
12 31 (14.29%) C++
12 31 (14.29%) Oracle
13 30 (13.82%) UNIX
13 30 (13.82%) Fixed Income
13 30 (13.82%) Risk Management
14 29 (13.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 27 (12.44%) Unit Testing
16 23 (10.60%) PL/SQL
17 22 (10.14%) Perl
17 22 (10.14%) Python
18 21 (9.677%) Credit Derivative
19 20 (9.217%) Pair Programming
20 19 (8.756%) BDD
21 17 (7.834%) SQL Server
22 16 (7.373%) Murex
22 16 (7.373%) Workflow
22 16 (7.373%) Back Office
23 15 (6.912%) Multithreading
23 15 (6.912%) Degree

Equity Derivative
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Equity Derivative 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 Equity Derivative. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (5.991%) Spring
2 12 (5.530%) XML
3 11 (5.069%) WPF
4 8 (3.687%) Hibernate
4 8 (3.687%) .NET
5 6 (2.765%) MDX
6 5 (2.304%) J2SE
6 5 (2.304%) Murex MxML
7 4 (1.843%) HTML5
8 3 (1.382%) JDBC
8 3 (1.382%) Web Services
8 3 (1.382%) J2EE
9 2 (0.922%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.922%) RESTful
9 2 (0.922%) JSON
9 2 (0.922%) WinForms
9 2 (0.922%) XML Messaging
9 2 (0.922%) ADO.NET
10 1 (0.461%) Middleware
10 1 (0.461%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (2.304%) Confluence
2 4 (1.843%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.922%) Oracle Coherence
3 2 (0.922%) MQSeries
3 2 (0.922%) Rendezvous
3 2 (0.922%) GemFire
4 1 (0.461%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 2 (0.922%) MS Office
1 2 (0.922%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.461%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.765%) RMDS
2 5 (2.304%) Murex MxG2000
2 5 (2.304%) Sophis RISQUE
3 1 (0.461%) Summit
3 1 (0.461%) Kondor+
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.843%) HTTP
2 2 (0.922%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.834%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.608%) Oracle OLAP
2 10 (4.608%) OLAP
3 8 (3.687%) Oracle 11g
4 6 (2.765%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (2.765%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (2.765%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 6 (2.765%) Oracle 8/8i
5 5 (2.304%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.843%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.922%) QlikView
7 2 (0.922%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (0.922%) DB2
7 2 (0.922%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.461%) Big Data
8 1 (0.461%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.461%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.461%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (0.461%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 13 (5.991%) JIRA
2 11 (5.069%) JUnit
3 6 (2.765%) Subversion
4 4 (1.843%) JBehave
5 3 (1.382%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.382%) jMock
6 2 (0.922%) Selenium
6 2 (0.922%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.922%) EasyMock
6 2 (0.922%) QuickTest Pro
6 2 (0.922%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.922%) Mockito
6 2 (0.922%) Hudson
7 1 (0.461%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.461%) Expression Blend
General
1 111 (51.15%) Front Office
2 94 (43.32%) Banking
3 73 (33.64%) Investment Banking
4 53 (24.42%) Finance
5 16 (7.373%) Back Office
6 9 (4.147%) Legal
7 3 (1.382%) Retail
8 2 (0.922%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.461%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 113 (52.07%) Developer
2 67 (30.88%) Analyst
3 64 (29.49%) Java Developer
4 45 (20.74%) Business Analyst
5 20 (9.217%) Agile Java Developer
6 18 (8.295%) Senior Developer
7 16 (7.373%) Equity Derivatives Business Analyst
8 14 (6.452%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (5.069%) Project Manager
9 11 (5.069%) Murex Analyst
10 10 (4.608%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 10 (4.608%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (4.147%) Oracle Developer
11 9 (4.147%) Support Analyst
12 8 (3.687%) Murex Business Analyst
12 8 (3.687%) Senior Business Analyst
12 8 (3.687%) C# Developer
13 6 (2.765%) WPF Developer
14 5 (2.304%) C++ Developer
14 5 (2.304%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 210 (96.77%) Derivative
2 40 (18.43%) Equities
3 30 (13.82%) Fixed Income
4 29 (13.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 21 (9.677%) Credit Derivative
6 10 (4.608%) N-Tier
7 6 (2.765%) Equity Risk
7 6 (2.765%) Credit Risk
7 6 (2.765%) Computer Science
8 5 (2.304%) Mathematics
9 4 (1.843%) Wiki
9 4 (1.843%) Economics
10 3 (1.382%) Grid Computing
10 3 (1.382%) DTCC
10 3 (1.382%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 2 (0.922%) Contract for Difference
11 2 (0.922%) Market Risk
12 1 (0.461%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.461%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.82%) UNIX
2 8 (3.687%) Windows
3 4 (1.843%) Linux
4 2 (0.922%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.461%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (20.28%) Agile Software Development
2 36 (16.59%) TDD
3 30 (13.82%) Risk Management
4 27 (12.44%) Unit Testing
5 20 (9.217%) Pair Programming
6 19 (8.756%) BDD
7 16 (7.373%) Workflow
8 15 (6.912%) Multithreading
8 15 (6.912%) Business Analysis
8 15 (6.912%) Dependency Injection
9 12 (5.530%) Scrum
10 11 (5.069%) Greeks
11 10 (4.608%) Configuration Management
11 10 (4.608%) Project Management
11 10 (4.608%) Data Modelling
12 9 (4.147%) Migration
12 9 (4.147%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (3.226%) OO
13 7 (3.226%) Project Planning
14 6 (2.765%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 89 (41.01%) Java
2 50 (23.04%) SQL
3 32 (14.75%) C#
4 31 (14.29%) C++
5 23 (10.60%) PL/SQL
6 22 (10.14%) Perl
6 22 (10.14%) Python
7 12 (5.530%) Scala
7 12 (5.530%) VBA
8 10 (4.608%) VB
9 9 (4.147%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.843%) VB6
11 3 (1.382%) Clojure
12 2 (0.922%) Jython
12 2 (0.922%) C
13 1 (0.461%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.461%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.461%) F#
13 1 (0.461%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 15 (6.912%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.147%) QA
2 2 (0.922%) Basel III
3 1 (0.461%) FATCA
3 1 (0.461%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.461%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 7 (3.226%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 31 (14.29%) Oracle
2 16 (7.373%) Murex
3 13 (5.991%) Sophis
4 9 (4.147%) Calypso
4 9 (4.147%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.147%) Sybase
5 8 (3.687%) Reuters
6 5 (2.304%) Fidessa
7 4 (1.843%) Perforce
8 3 (1.382%) Sun
8 3 (1.382%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.382%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.382%) DataSynapse
9 1 (0.461%) HP
9 1 (0.461%) CA
9 1 (0.461%) Thunderhead
9 1 (0.461%) GL TRADE
9 1 (0.461%) Google
9 1 (0.461%) UC4
City of London
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Rate: £500 - £800 per day
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ITHR 752
Rate: £650.00
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Rate: £500 - £625 per day
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Rate: £500 - £7000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Rate: £600 - £700 per day
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Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per annum
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