The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Financial Institution over the 3 months to 19 June 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 General 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial Institution
Rank 218 147 174
Rank change year-on-year
-71 +27
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 382 678 599
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.883% 1.280% 1.046%
As % of the General category 2.020% 2.838% 2.115%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 399 349
Average daily rate £450 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £324 £265 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £390 £400
% change year-on-year
-2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 10
Average hourly rate £90.69 £22.25 £43.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+307.58% -49.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.24 £13.62 £17.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £154.14 £37.88 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.38 £17.14 -
% change year-on-year
-33.61% -
All of the General Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
18910 23887 28321
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 43.70% 45.11% 49.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11802 14645 17354
Average daily rate £450 £440 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 591 652 886
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.97 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £24.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+0.05% -3.89%
Financial Institution
UK

Financial Institution
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Financial Institution Jobs Demand Trend

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Financial Institution Daily Rate Trend

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Financial Institution across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Financial Institution Daily Rate Histogram

Financial Institution
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Financial Institution Hourly Rate Trend

Financial Institution
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Financial Institution across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Financial Institution Hourly Rate Histogram

Financial Institution
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Institution within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London -50 297 £475 +6.14% 103
South East +29 30 £438 +12.17% 6
South West -18 22 £373 -6.75% 5
North West +4 13 £425 +41.66% 5
West Midlands +9 8 £450 +2.85% 1
East of England -4 6 £375 -6.25% 2
Yorkshire -6 3 £375 -25.00% 2
East Midlands -12 3 £550 +50.68% 1
North East - - - -
Financial Institution
UK

Financial Institution
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Financial Institution 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 Financial Institution.

1 772 (100.00%) Finance
2 329 (42.62%) Banking
3 124 (16.06%) SQL
4 113 (14.64%) Hedge funds
5 107 (13.86%) Windows
6 102 (13.21%) Oracle
6 102 (13.21%) Project Management
7 98 (12.69%) Microsoft
8 92 (11.92%) Retail
9 90 (11.66%) MS Excel
10 89 (11.53%) Investment Banking
11 84 (10.88%) .NET
12 83 (10.75%) Front Office
13 82 (10.62%) MS Office
14 80 (10.36%) C#
15 72 (9.326%) SQL Server
16 68 (8.808%) Change Management
17 64 (8.290%) UNIX
17 64 (8.290%) Retail Banking
18 63 (8.161%) Migration
18 63 (8.161%) Stakeholder Management
19 58 (7.513%) Derivative
20 56 (7.254%) Java
21 54 (6.995%) Linux
22 52 (6.736%) Fixed Income
23 49 (6.347%) Asset Management
24 48 (6.218%) ITIL
25 46 (5.959%) PRINCE2
26 45 (5.829%) Business Analysis
27 41 (5.311%) Windows 7

Financial Institution
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Financial Institution 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 Financial Institution. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 84 (10.88%) .NET
2 38 (4.922%) ASP.NET
3 32 (4.145%) XML
4 31 (4.016%) Middleware
5 21 (2.720%) HTML5
5 21 (2.720%) REST
6 20 (2.591%) WCF
6 20 (2.591%) FIX Protocol
7 19 (2.461%) WebSphere
8 18 (2.332%) .NET Framework
9 17 (2.202%) HTML
10 16 (2.073%) jQuery
10 16 (2.073%) Web Services
11 14 (1.813%) CSS
12 12 (1.554%) Oracle Fusion
12 12 (1.554%) Ajax
13 11 (1.425%) LINQ
13 11 (1.425%) WPF
14 9 (1.166%) XSLT
14 9 (1.166%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 33 (4.275%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.461%) WebLogic
3 17 (2.202%) IIS
4 7 (0.907%) CMS
5 6 (0.777%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (0.777%) SharePoint 2010
5 6 (0.777%) MS Exchange
6 5 (0.648%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (0.648%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (0.648%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (0.518%) ESB
7 4 (0.518%) Progress Apama
7 4 (0.518%) WebSphere Process Server
7 4 (0.518%) Apache
7 4 (0.518%) TeamSite
8 3 (0.389%) PowerExchange
8 3 (0.389%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.389%) FileNet
8 3 (0.389%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 2 (0.259%) SAS
Applications
1 90 (11.66%) MS Excel
2 82 (10.62%) MS Office
3 33 (4.275%) MS PowerPoint
3 33 (4.275%) MS Visio
4 18 (2.332%) MS Project
5 16 (2.073%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (1.425%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.259%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.130%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 15 (1.943%) Summit
2 9 (1.166%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.777%) ION MarketView
4 5 (0.648%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 5 (0.648%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.389%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.259%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.259%) 3000 Xtra
6 2 (0.259%) SAP GTS
6 2 (0.259%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.259%) AquaLogic BPM
6 2 (0.259%) Eikon
6 2 (0.259%) RMDS
6 2 (0.259%) LatentZero
6 2 (0.259%) Capstone
6 2 (0.259%) Tesseract
6 2 (0.259%) Minerva
6 2 (0.259%) Sentinel
6 2 (0.259%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.130%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.534%) SAN
2 30 (3.886%) Internet
3 18 (2.332%) HTTP
3 18 (2.332%) WAN
4 13 (1.684%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.684%) Firewall
5 11 (1.425%) Intranet
6 9 (1.166%) Connectrix
6 9 (1.166%) NAS
7 7 (0.907%) BGP
7 7 (0.907%) OSPF
7 7 (0.907%) Network Security
8 6 (0.777%) LAN
8 6 (0.777%) SMS
9 4 (0.518%) LDAP
9 4 (0.518%) SSL
9 4 (0.518%) VPN
9 4 (0.518%) IGRP
9 4 (0.518%) EIGRP
10 3 (0.389%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.326%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.720%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 19 (2.461%) Oracle 11g
4 17 (2.202%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (2.202%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (2.073%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (2.073%) OLAP
6 15 (1.943%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 14 (1.813%) BusinessObjects XI
8 12 (1.554%) Oracle 10g
9 11 (1.425%) Oracle OLAP
10 10 (1.295%) SQL Server 2008
11 7 (0.907%) Oracle 8/8i
12 6 (0.777%) SQL Server 2005
12 6 (0.777%) Sybase ASE
12 6 (0.777%) MS Access
12 6 (0.777%) OLTP
13 5 (0.648%) PowerCenter
13 5 (0.648%) DB2
13 5 (0.648%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 22 (2.850%) JUnit
2 17 (2.202%) Mockito
3 16 (2.073%) Selenium
3 16 (2.073%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.295%) Maven
5 9 (1.166%) Team Foundation Server
6 8 (1.036%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 7 (0.907%) CruiseControl
8 6 (0.777%) Ant
8 6 (0.777%) MSI
9 5 (0.648%) JIRA
9 5 (0.648%) jMock
9 5 (0.648%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.518%) NUnit
10 4 (0.518%) AdminStudio
11 3 (0.389%) Rational Rose
11 3 (0.389%) Subversion
12 2 (0.259%) Build Forge
12 2 (0.259%) Jenkins
12 2 (0.259%) Jasmine
General
1 772 (100.00%) Finance
2 329 (42.62%) Banking
3 92 (11.92%) Retail
4 89 (11.53%) Investment Banking
5 83 (10.75%) Front Office
6 64 (8.290%) Retail Banking
7 26 (3.368%) Back Office
8 22 (2.850%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.073%) Legal
10 10 (1.295%) Law
11 7 (0.907%) Marketing
12 6 (0.777%) French Language
13 4 (0.518%) Publishing
14 3 (0.389%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.389%) Wholesale Banking
14 3 (0.389%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.259%) International Banking
15 2 (0.259%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.259%) Billing
16 1 (0.130%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 212 (27.46%) Analyst
2 142 (18.39%) Developer
3 100 (12.95%) Business Analyst
4 78 (10.10%) Project Manager
5 48 (6.218%) C# Developer
6 38 (4.922%) Support Analyst
7 33 (4.275%) Consultant
8 31 (4.016%) Architect
9 27 (3.497%) Administrator
10 19 (2.461%) Support Engineer
11 18 (2.332%) Java Developer
12 17 (2.202%) Test Analyst
13 15 (1.943%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (1.943%) Technical Analyst
14 14 (1.813%) Senior Developer
15 13 (1.684%) Test Manager
15 13 (1.684%) Programme Manager
16 12 (1.554%) C# .NET Developer
16 12 (1.554%) .NET Developer
16 12 (1.554%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 113 (14.64%) Hedge funds
2 58 (7.513%) Derivative
3 52 (6.736%) Fixed Income
4 31 (4.016%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 31 (4.016%) Equities
5 24 (3.109%) Market Risk
6 23 (2.979%) Credit Risk
7 16 (2.073%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.073%) PMI
8 15 (1.943%) Credit Derivative
8 15 (1.943%) Visualisation
9 14 (1.813%) Reference Data
9 14 (1.813%) Exotic Derivative
9 14 (1.813%) Blackberry
10 13 (1.684%) Clustering
11 11 (1.425%) EMC Centera
11 11 (1.425%) CLARiiON
11 11 (1.425%) Symmetrix DMX
12 10 (1.295%) Digital Media
13 9 (1.166%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 107 (13.86%) Windows
2 64 (8.290%) UNIX
3 54 (6.995%) Linux
4 41 (5.311%) Windows 7
5 27 (3.497%) Solaris
6 21 (2.720%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (2.332%) Windows XP
7 18 (2.332%) Windows Server 2003
8 15 (1.943%) Windows Server 2008
9 13 (1.684%) AIX
10 12 (1.554%) HPUX
11 9 (1.166%) VMS
12 6 (0.777%) NetWare
13 3 (0.389%) Android
14 2 (0.259%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.130%) MVS
15 1 (0.130%) OS/390
15 1 (0.130%) zOS
15 1 (0.130%) SUSE
15 1 (0.130%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (13.21%) Project Management
2 68 (8.808%) Change Management
3 63 (8.161%) Migration
3 63 (8.161%) Stakeholder Management
4 49 (6.347%) Asset Management
5 48 (6.218%) ITIL
6 46 (5.959%) PRINCE2
7 45 (5.829%) Business Analysis
8 41 (5.311%) Risk Management
9 38 (4.922%) User Acceptance Testing
10 35 (4.534%) Information Security
11 31 (4.016%) TDD
12 28 (3.627%) Programme Management
12 28 (3.627%) Scrum
13 26 (3.368%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (3.238%) Data Analysis
14 25 (3.238%) E-Commerce
14 25 (3.238%) Multithreading
15 22 (2.850%) Service Delivery
16 21 (2.720%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 124 (16.06%) SQL
2 80 (10.36%) C#
3 56 (7.254%) Java
4 36 (4.663%) JavaScript
5 25 (3.238%) Perl
6 20 (2.591%) VBA
7 15 (1.943%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.425%) VB
9 7 (0.907%) C
10 6 (0.777%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.648%) C++
12 4 (0.518%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.518%) Python
12 4 (0.518%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.518%) VBScript
12 4 (0.518%) COBOL
13 3 (0.389%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.389%) Korn
14 2 (0.259%) Ruby
14 2 (0.259%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (4.534%) Degree
2 21 (2.720%) Security Cleared
3 20 (2.591%) PMI Certification
4 17 (2.202%) SC Cleared
5 14 (1.813%) PMP
6 11 (1.425%) ISEB
7 8 (1.036%) CAPM
8 6 (0.777%) VCDX
9 5 (0.648%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 5 (0.648%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.518%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.518%) CISSP
10 4 (0.518%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.389%) CCNP
11 3 (0.389%) CCNA
11 3 (0.389%) CISA
11 3 (0.389%) CISM
11 3 (0.389%) GIAC
11 3 (0.389%) JNCIA
11 3 (0.389%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.943%) SLA
2 12 (1.554%) QA
3 6 (0.777%) Basel II
4 4 (0.518%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.518%) MiFID
4 4 (0.518%) FATCA
5 3 (0.389%) Basel III
6 1 (0.130%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.130%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.130%) Data Quality
System Software
1 37 (4.793%) Active Directory
2 29 (3.756%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.425%) SRDF
4 10 (1.295%) XenApp
4 10 (1.295%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (1.036%) VMware ESX
6 7 (0.907%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (0.907%) vSphere
7 4 (0.518%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (0.518%) Veritas File System
7 4 (0.518%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.518%) Cronacle
8 3 (0.389%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.259%) XenServer
9 2 (0.259%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.130%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.130%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.130%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 21 (2.720%) HP Quality Center
2 11 (1.425%) EMC TimeFinder
2 11 (1.425%) SCCM
3 8 (1.036%) Data Guard
4 7 (0.907%) Control-M
4 7 (0.907%) Oracle Identity Manager
5 6 (0.777%) SCOM
5 6 (0.777%) BladeLogic
6 4 (0.518%) ServiceCenter
6 4 (0.518%) Tivoli
7 3 (0.389%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.259%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.259%) DameWare
8 2 (0.259%) EMC Navisphere
9 1 (0.130%) CA SiteMinder
9 1 (0.130%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.130%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 1 (0.130%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.130%) Puppet
9 1 (0.130%) Opalis
Vendors
1 102 (13.21%) Oracle
2 98 (12.69%) Microsoft
3 40 (5.181%) VMware
4 35 (4.534%) EMC
5 26 (3.368%) HP
6 25 (3.238%) Red Hat
6 25 (3.238%) Cisco
7 23 (2.979%) IBM
8 21 (2.720%) Citrix
9 18 (2.332%) Sybase
10 17 (2.202%) Bloomberg
11 15 (1.943%) Business Objects
12 14 (1.813%) NetApp
13 13 (1.684%) Informatica
14 12 (1.554%) Adobe
14 12 (1.554%) SAP
15 11 (1.425%) Veritas
16 10 (1.295%) Sun
16 10 (1.295%) Calypso
17 9 (1.166%) Murex
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Java, OO Design, UDB, Sybase, Listed Derivatives, Futures, Clearing Prestigious financial institution requires a strong Java Developer to design & developer components of...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
City of London
Location: London Key Skills: Server Java, C#, WPF, MQ, Spring, Hibernate, WebSphere, SQL (Oracle/Sybase), Agile, Test Driven Development (TDD). Leading financial institution based in London requires a...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
It is essential that candidates have extensive exposure to working within front office roles and have proven ability to succeed within large front office projects. As this role...
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
This role offers business exposure to Commodities, Fized Income and FX. It also offers the C# Developer the chance to get hands on with a wide variety of...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £550 per annum
Posted: 7 June 2013
City of London
This role offers business exposure to Commodities, Fized Income and FX. It also offers the C# Developer the chance to get hands on with a wide variety of...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £550 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £550 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £550 per annum
Posted: 19 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £550 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Resolve Recruitment
Rate: From £25,000 to £30,000 per annum Salary on Pro Rata basis. NB this is
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £550 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Rate: £175 - £196 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
City of London
ITHR
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Maclean Moore Consulting
Rate: Up to £500 per day
Posted: 16 June 2013
South West
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £350.00 - £380.00 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Hatstand Limited
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Kent, South East
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
London
Huxley Associates
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £300.00 - £330.00 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
South West
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £350.00 - £380.00 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Resolve Recruitment
Rate: From £25,000 to £30,000 per annum Salary on Pro Rata basis. NB this is
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
ComputAppoint
Rate: From £350 to £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013