The first table below looks at the demand for LongView 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 LongView over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Business Applications 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linedata LongView
Rank 511 567 551
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -16
Contract jobs citing LongView 3 3 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.007% 0.006% 0.023%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.085% 0.064% 0.267%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 10
Average daily rate £450 £370 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.62% -43.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £435 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
3527 4657 4860
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 8.355% 8.584% 8.774%
Number of daily rates quoted 1881 2390 2519
Average daily rate £450 £450 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £293 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £433 £420
% change year-on-year
-1.73% +2.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 56 88
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £21.48
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% +62.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.20 £15.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.50 £57.50 £40.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
LongView
UK

LongView
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England LongView Jobs Demand Trend

LongView
Daily Rate Trend

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

England LongView Daily Rate Trend

LongView
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LongView within the England region over the 3 months to 22 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 +32 3 £450 -
LongView
UK

LongView
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing LongView 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 LongView.

1 8 (80.00%) Front Office
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
1 8 (80.00%) thinkFolio
2 7 (70.00%) Investment Management
3 6 (60.00%) Fixed Income
3 6 (60.00%) Asset Management
4 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (50.00%) Business Analysis
4 5 (50.00%) Equities
5 3 (30.00%) Oracle
5 3 (30.00%) Charles River
5 3 (30.00%) Project Management
5 3 (30.00%) Fund Management
5 3 (30.00%) Derivative
6 2 (20.00%) Bloomberg
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle OLAP
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (20.00%) LatentZero
6 2 (20.00%) Capstone
6 2 (20.00%) Tesseract
6 2 (20.00%) Minerva
6 2 (20.00%) Sentinel
6 2 (20.00%) Subversion
6 2 (20.00%) HFM
6 2 (20.00%) Khalix
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (20.00%) Twitter
6 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (20.00%) Perl

LongView
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing LongView 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 LongView. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) WSH
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) LatentZero
1 2 (20.00%) Capstone
1 2 (20.00%) Tesseract
1 2 (20.00%) Minerva
1 2 (20.00%) Sentinel
1 2 (20.00%) HFM
1 2 (20.00%) Khalix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle OLAP
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) OLAP
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle 9i
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (20.00%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Subversion
1 2 (20.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 8 (80.00%) Front Office
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Financial Business Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Financial Services Business Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Support Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
5 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Fixed Income
2 5 (50.00%) Equities
3 3 (30.00%) Derivative
4 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Investment Management
2 6 (60.00%) Asset Management
3 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (50.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 3 (30.00%) Fund Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (20.00%) Perl
1 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) thinkFolio
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Charles River
3 2 (20.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (20.00%) Twitter
3 2 (20.00%) Hyperion
3 2 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) Fidessa
4 1 (10.00%) Reuters