The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of ION Trading 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 ION Trading 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 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 ION Trading.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
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Rank 438 485 332
Rank change year-on-year
+47 -153
Contract jobs citing ION Trading 72 73 260
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.173% 0.137% 0.461%
As % of the Vendors category 0.372% 0.296% 1.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 47 163
Average daily rate £550 £550 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £550
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £660 £750
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £369 £310
% change year-on-year
+1.69% +18.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £16.00 - £16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 - £35.00
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
19343 24682 25994
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.53% 46.26% 46.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10648 13062 13369
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £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 1121 1209 1513
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 £11.25 £11.99 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
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Jobs Demand Trend

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

England ION Trading Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

England ION Trading Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

England ION Trading Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

England ION Trading Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ION Trading 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 +23 68 £550 -
West Midlands +7 2 £400 +14.20%
South West +23 1 - -
North West - 1 £275 -
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 73 (70.87%) Fixed Income
2 71 (68.93%) ION MarketView
3 51 (49.51%) Electronic Trading
4 43 (41.75%) Front Office
5 38 (36.89%) Java
5 38 (36.89%) SQL
6 37 (35.92%) Bloomberg
7 36 (34.95%) UNIX
8 35 (33.98%) Banking
9 26 (25.24%) Reuters
10 22 (21.36%) Investment Banking
11 20 (19.42%) OO
12 17 (16.50%) Windows
12 17 (16.50%) Tradeweb
13 16 (15.53%) Finance
13 16 (15.53%) TDD
14 15 (14.56%) Sybase
15 13 (12.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (12.62%) Swing
15 13 (12.62%) Agile Software Development
16 11 (10.68%) Oracle
16 11 (10.68%) Multithreading
16 11 (10.68%) RMDS
17 10 (9.709%) Refactoring
17 10 (9.709%) MarketAxess
17 10 (9.709%) MTS
17 10 (9.709%) J2EE
17 10 (9.709%) eSpeed
18 9 (8.738%) SQL Server
18 9 (8.738%) XML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 13 (12.62%) Swing
2 10 (9.709%) J2EE
3 9 (8.738%) XML
4 5 (4.854%) Spring
5 4 (3.883%) Java EE
5 4 (3.883%) XSLT
5 4 (3.883%) JRules
6 3 (2.913%) Ajax
7 2 (1.942%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.942%) XHTML
7 2 (1.942%) SOAP
7 2 (1.942%) HTML
8 1 (0.971%) .NET
8 1 (0.971%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.971%) Web Services
8 1 (0.971%) J2SE
8 1 (0.971%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 10 (9.709%) MTS
2 4 (3.883%) Tomcat
2 4 (3.883%) TIBCO EMS
2 4 (3.883%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.971%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.942%) MS Office
2 1 (0.971%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 71 (68.93%) ION MarketView
2 11 (10.68%) RMDS
3 4 (3.883%) BusinessWorks
4 3 (2.913%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (1.942%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (1.942%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.971%) Summit
6 1 (0.971%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.971%) LAN
1 1 (0.971%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.971%) SAN
1 1 (0.971%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.738%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.883%) Essbase
2 4 (3.883%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (1.942%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.942%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.942%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (1.942%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.942%) OLAP
3 2 (1.942%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.971%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (0.971%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (6.796%) Subversion
2 6 (5.825%) Ant
2 6 (5.825%) JUnit
3 4 (3.883%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.971%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.971%) JIRA
4 1 (0.971%) Oracle APEX
General
1 43 (41.75%) Front Office
2 35 (33.98%) Banking
3 22 (21.36%) Investment Banking
4 16 (15.53%) Finance
5 3 (2.913%) Marketing
6 2 (1.942%) Games
7 1 (0.971%) Back Office
7 1 (0.971%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.971%) Spanish Language
7 1 (0.971%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 42 (40.78%) Analyst
2 31 (30.10%) Developer
3 27 (26.21%) Java Developer
4 25 (24.27%) Support Analyst
5 18 (17.48%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.825%) Consultant
6 6 (5.825%) Senior Developer
6 6 (5.825%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (4.854%) Architect
8 4 (3.883%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.913%) Support Specialist
9 3 (2.913%) Applications Support
10 2 (1.942%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 2 (1.942%) C# Developer
10 2 (1.942%) Support Consultant
10 2 (1.942%) Administrator
10 2 (1.942%) Senior Analyst
10 2 (1.942%) Business Consultant
10 2 (1.942%) Financial Business Analyst
10 2 (1.942%) Web Analytics Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 73 (70.87%) Fixed Income
2 13 (12.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.913%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.942%) Derivative
4 2 (1.942%) Social Media
5 1 (0.971%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.971%) Equities
5 1 (0.971%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.971%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.971%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.971%) Replication
5 1 (0.971%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 36 (34.95%) UNIX
2 17 (16.50%) Windows
3 5 (4.854%) Linux
4 1 (0.971%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (49.51%) Electronic Trading
2 20 (19.42%) OO
3 16 (15.53%) TDD
4 13 (12.62%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (10.68%) Multithreading
6 10 (9.709%) Refactoring
7 8 (7.767%) Algorithmic Trading
7 8 (7.767%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (6.796%) Project Planning
8 7 (6.796%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (6.796%) Unit Testing
9 6 (5.825%) Data Analysis
9 6 (5.825%) E-Commerce
9 6 (5.825%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (3.883%) Workflow
10 4 (3.883%) Scrum
10 4 (3.883%) Workflow Management
10 4 (3.883%) Business Analysis
10 4 (3.883%) UML
10 4 (3.883%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 38 (36.89%) Java
1 38 (36.89%) SQL
2 5 (4.854%) Perl
2 5 (4.854%) Shell Script
2 5 (4.854%) C++
3 4 (3.883%) XPath
3 4 (3.883%) C#
4 3 (2.913%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.942%) C
5 2 (1.942%) PHP
5 2 (1.942%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.971%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (0.971%) PMP
1 1 (0.971%) PMI Certification
1 1 (0.971%) Degree
1 1 (0.971%) SC Cleared
1 1 (0.971%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (0.971%) VMware ESX
1 1 (0.971%) vSphere
1 1 (0.971%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (0.971%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (0.971%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 37 (35.92%) Bloomberg
2 26 (25.24%) Reuters
3 17 (16.50%) Tradeweb
4 15 (14.56%) Sybase
5 11 (10.68%) Oracle
6 10 (9.709%) eSpeed
6 10 (9.709%) MarketAxess
7 5 (4.854%) IBM
7 5 (4.854%) Fidessa
8 4 (3.883%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.942%) Sun
9 2 (1.942%) Infor
10 1 (0.971%) Murex
10 1 (0.971%) EMC
10 1 (0.971%) Informatica
10 1 (0.971%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.971%) Cognos
10 1 (0.971%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.971%) VMware
10 1 (0.971%) Brocade
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