Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for FIX Protocol skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FIX Protocol over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the England region.

 Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank382388500
Rank change year-on-year
Up+6Up+112
Matching contract IT job ads954589
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England0.212 %0.123 %0.116 %
As % of the Application Development category0.777 %0.551 %0.472 %
Daily rates quoted751749
Average daily rate£475£475£525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
--9.520 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£375£382£350
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£535£725
UK excluding London average daily rate--£401
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12224817218836
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England27.28 %22.36 %24.54 %
Daily rates quoted634629246226
Average daily rate£385£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4074591222
Average hourly rate£30.00£28.50£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.260 %-10.93 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.25£15.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
FIX Protocol UKFIX Protocol
UK

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.

FIX Protocol
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing FIX Protocol across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England FIX Protocol Demand Trend

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Trend

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

England FIX Protocol Daily Rate Trend

FIX Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing FIX Protocol across the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

England FIX Protocol Daily Rate Histogram

FIX Protocol
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England FIX Protocol Hourly Rate Trend

FIX Protocol
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FIX Protocol within the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-1295£475-
FIX Protocol UKFIX Protocol
UK

FIX Protocol
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing FIX Protocol 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 FIX Protocol.

172 (50.70 %)Java
267 (47.18 %)Banking
362 (43.66 %)Equities
459 (41.55 %)UNIX
554 (38.03 %)Investment Banking
649 (34.51 %)Linux
739 (27.46 %)Finance
835 (24.65 %)SQL
934 (23.94 %)Front Office
1031 (21.83 %)C++
1126 (18.31 %)C#
1126 (18.31 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1224 (16.90 %)TIBCO
1323 (16.20 %)Degree
1422 (15.49 %)Derivative
1422 (15.49 %).NET
1521 (14.79 %)SQL Server
1521 (14.79 %)Perl
1521 (14.79 %)Rendezvous
1619 (13.38 %)Back Office
1619 (13.38 %)Electronic Trading
1717 (11.97 %)Oracle
1816 (11.27 %)J2EE
1915 (10.56 %)Reuters
1915 (10.56 %)Shell Script
1915 (10.56 %)RMDS
2014 (9.859 %)VB
2113 (9.155 %)Solaris
2113 (9.155 %)JMS
2113 (9.155 %)TCP/IP

FIX Protocol
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing FIX Protocol 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 FIX Protocol. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
122 (15.49 %).NET
216 (11.27 %)J2EE
313 (9.155 %)JMS
48 (5.634 %)Middleware
56 (4.225 %)XML
56 (4.225 %)Spring
65 (3.521 %).NET Framework
74 (2.817 %)J2SE
74 (2.817 %)JDBC
74 (2.817 %)Servlets
83 (2.113 %)SOAP
83 (2.113 %)Java RMI
92 (1.408 %)Swing
101 (0.704 %)WCF
101 (0.704 %)WPF
101 (0.704 %)WinForms
101 (0.704 %)ASP.NET
101 (0.704 %)EJB
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
121 (14.79 %)Rendezvous
24 (2.817 %)MQSeries
31 (0.704 %)Progress Apama
31 (0.704 %)CMS
31 (0.704 %)Oracle Workflow
31 (0.704 %)IIS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
15 (3.521 %)MS Excel
21 (0.704 %)MS Office
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
115 (10.56 %)RMDS
24 (2.817 %)Decalog
24 (2.817 %)Capstone
33 (2.113 %)Tesseract
33 (2.113 %)Minerva
33 (2.113 %)Sentinel
41 (0.704 %)GL Clearvision
41 (0.704 %)BusinessWorks
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
113 (9.155 %)TCP/IP
27 (4.930 %)Firewall
36 (4.225 %)VPN
36 (4.225 %)SSL
44 (2.817 %)AMQP
52 (1.408 %)ADSL
52 (1.408 %)Broadband
52 (1.408 %)VoIP
52 (1.408 %)Wireless
61 (0.704 %)SSH
61 (0.704 %)DMZ
61 (0.704 %)CTI
61 (0.704 %)DNS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
121 (14.79 %)SQL Server
25 (3.521 %)SQL Server 2005
31 (0.704 %)KDB
31 (0.704 %)Oracle OLAP
31 (0.704 %)OLAP
31 (0.704 %)Oracle 9i
31 (0.704 %)ETL
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
17 (4.930 %)JUnit
26 (4.225 %)Ant
34 (2.817 %)Subversion
34 (2.817 %)Maven
34 (2.817 %)TeamCity
34 (2.817 %)EasyMock
41 (0.704 %)JIRA
41 (0.704 %)ERwin
41 (0.704 %)QuickTest Pro
England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
167 (47.18 %)Banking
254 (38.03 %)Investment Banking
339 (27.46 %)Finance
434 (23.94 %)Front Office
519 (13.38 %)Back Office
64 (2.817 %)Financial Institution
73 (2.113 %)Education
82 (1.408 %)Health
82 (1.408 %)Billing
91 (0.704 %)Law
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
156 (39.44 %)Developer
244 (30.99 %)Analyst
334 (23.94 %)Java Developer
422 (15.49 %)Senior Developer
521 (14.79 %)Senior Java Developer
619 (13.38 %)Support Analyst
79 (6.338 %)FIX Analyst
79 (6.338 %)Test Analyst
79 (6.338 %)Business Analyst
86 (4.225 %)Team Leader
86 (4.225 %)IT Support
95 (3.521 %)IT Support Analyst
95 (3.521 %)Consultant
104 (2.817 %)Project Manager
113 (2.113 %)Technical Analyst
113 (2.113 %)Technical Manager
113 (2.113 %).NET Developer
113 (2.113 %)Applications Support
113 (2.113 %)Technical Project Manager
122 (1.408 %)Tester
England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
162 (43.66 %)Equities
226 (18.31 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
322 (15.49 %)Derivative
45 (3.521 %)Multithreading
45 (3.521 %)AS400
54 (2.817 %)Client/Server
63 (2.113 %)Interest Rate Derivative
63 (2.113 %)Fixed Income
72 (1.408 %)iSeries
81 (0.704 %)Dependency Injection
81 (0.704 %)Statistics
81 (0.704 %)Computer Science
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
159 (41.55 %)UNIX
249 (34.51 %)Linux
313 (9.155 %)Solaris
47 (4.930 %)Windows
54 (2.817 %)Windows Server 2003
62 (1.408 %)Red Hat Linux
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
119 (13.38 %)Electronic Trading
213 (9.155 %)Algorithmic Trading
38 (5.634 %)Continuous Integration
47 (4.930 %)Business Analysis
47 (4.930 %)Project Management
47 (4.930 %)ITIL
56 (4.225 %)Change Management
56 (4.225 %)Stakeholder Management
56 (4.225 %)Project Planning
56 (4.225 %)System Testing
65 (3.521 %)Disaster Recovery
74 (2.817 %)OO
74 (2.817 %)Asset Management
74 (2.817 %)Systems Analysis
83 (2.113 %)User Acceptance Testing
83 (2.113 %)Investment Management
83 (2.113 %)Time Management
83 (2.113 %)Fund Management
83 (2.113 %)Scrum
83 (2.113 %)Workflow
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
172 (50.70 %)Java
235 (24.65 %)SQL
331 (21.83 %)C++
426 (18.31 %)C#
521 (14.79 %)Perl
615 (10.56 %)Shell Script
714 (9.859 %)VB
813 (9.155 %)Bash shell
911 (7.746 %)Korn
109 (6.338 %)C-shell
117 (4.930 %)C
126 (4.225 %)VBScript
135 (3.521 %)Tcl
144 (2.817 %)RPG
144 (2.817 %)T-SQL
152 (1.408 %)PL/SQL
161 (0.704 %)Bourne shell
161 (0.704 %)VB.NET
161 (0.704 %)VC++
161 (0.704 %)Python
England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
123 (16.20 %)Degree
21 (0.704 %)ISEB
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (0.704 %)QA
England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
124 (16.90 %)TIBCO
217 (11.97 %)Oracle
315 (10.56 %)Reuters
47 (4.930 %)Radianz
56 (4.225 %)Sybase
65 (3.521 %)Microsoft
65 (3.521 %)Fidessa
74 (2.817 %)Bloomberg
74 (2.817 %)LatentZero
83 (2.113 %)MarketAxess
83 (2.113 %)Tradeweb
92 (1.408 %)Thomson Financial
92 (1.408 %)NYFIX
92 (1.408 %)Red Hat
92 (1.408 %)Charles River
92 (1.408 %)Portware
92 (1.408 %)GL TRADE
101 (0.704 %)Ingenium
101 (0.704 %)CQG
101 (0.704 %)HP