The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail Banking over the 3 months to 18 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retail Banking
Rank 181 123 195
Rank change year-on-year
-58 +72
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 509 810 552
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 1.163% 1.528% 0.965%
As % of the General category 2.663% 3.398% 1.947%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 620 356
Average daily rate £425 £400 £446
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -10.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £285 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £515 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £396 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+4.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £145.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -86.20%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.00 £145.00
% change year-on-year
- -86.20%
All of the General Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
19114 23840 28349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 43.66% 44.97% 49.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11918 14621 17366
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 606 653 890
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 £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Retail Banking
UK

Retail Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Retail Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Retail Banking Daily Rate Trend

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Retail Banking across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Retail Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Retail Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Retail Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Retail Banking
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the England region over the 3 months to 18 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 -53 255 £450 +5.88% 65
South West -11 85 £380 -2.56% 5
North West +30 53 £370 -2.31% 6
Yorkshire -38 41 £370 -1.98% 8
South East +2 27 £406 +3.17% 2
East Midlands -12 22 £475 +18.75% 7
North East +17 9 £475 +35.71%
East of England +17 9 £223 -31.53% 1
Retail Banking
UK

Retail Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Retail Banking 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 Retail Banking.

1 982 (100.00%) Banking
1 982 (100.00%) Retail
2 621 (63.24%) Finance
3 268 (27.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 180 (18.33%) Project Management
5 168 (17.11%) Change Management
6 91 (9.267%) E-Commerce
7 87 (8.859%) User Acceptance Testing
8 84 (8.554%) SQL
9 83 (8.452%) Business Analysis
10 80 (8.147%) MS Project
11 77 (7.841%) Migration
12 76 (7.739%) PRINCE2
13 69 (7.026%) Microsoft
14 64 (6.517%) Financial Institution
14 64 (6.517%) HP Quality Center
15 62 (6.314%) Oracle
16 57 (5.804%) Investment Banking
17 54 (5.499%) Business Transformation
18 48 (4.888%) ISEB
19 47 (4.786%) Java
20 44 (4.481%) Online Banking
21 43 (4.379%) Internet
22 42 (4.277%) MS Excel
23 40 (4.073%) PRINCE2 Certification
23 40 (4.073%) Credit Risk
24 36 (3.666%) Corporate Banking
24 36 (3.666%) GAP Analysis
24 36 (3.666%) Analytics
24 36 (3.666%) Test Scripting

Retail Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Retail Banking 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 Retail Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (1.833%) .NET
1 18 (1.833%) WebSphere
2 17 (1.731%) Web Services
3 15 (1.527%) SAP XI
4 14 (1.426%) J2EE
5 13 (1.324%) Middleware
6 11 (1.120%) HTML
7 10 (1.018%) Spring
8 9 (0.916%) SOAP
9 8 (0.815%) XML
10 7 (0.713%) BAPI
11 6 (0.611%) CSS
11 6 (0.611%) RESTful
12 5 (0.509%) WebSphere MQ
13 4 (0.407%) JSON
13 4 (0.407%) WSRP
13 4 (0.407%) JSF
13 4 (0.407%) JPA
13 4 (0.407%) JSR 286
14 3 (0.305%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 32 (3.259%) SAS
2 22 (2.240%) CMS
3 21 (2.138%) Apache
4 19 (1.935%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.935%) IIS
5 18 (1.833%) Tomcat
6 16 (1.629%) WebLogic
7 13 (1.324%) TeamSite
8 7 (0.713%) WebSphere Process Server
8 7 (0.713%) WebSphere Application Server
9 6 (0.611%) ESB
10 4 (0.407%) Liferay
11 2 (0.204%) Office Communications Server
11 2 (0.204%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.204%) Exchange Server 2007
11 2 (0.204%) Exchange Server 2003
11 2 (0.204%) StreamWeaver
11 2 (0.204%) MS Exchange
12 1 (0.102%) IBM Notes
12 1 (0.102%) CICS
Applications
1 80 (8.147%) MS Project
2 42 (4.277%) MS Excel
3 28 (2.851%) MS PowerPoint
4 27 (2.749%) MS Office
5 17 (1.731%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.815%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.815%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.102%) DOC1
7 1 (0.102%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.102%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 12 (1.222%) VisionPLUS
2 5 (0.509%) SiteCatalyst
3 3 (0.305%) SAP FI-GL
4 2 (0.204%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.204%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.204%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.204%) Taleo
4 2 (0.204%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.204%) PeopleSoft Financials
4 2 (0.204%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.102%) WebTrends
5 1 (0.102%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.102%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.102%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.102%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.102%) Oracle General Ledger
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.379%) Internet
2 15 (1.527%) ATM
3 8 (0.815%) HTTP
4 5 (0.509%) SAN
5 4 (0.407%) Intranet
5 4 (0.407%) Firewall
5 4 (0.407%) LDAP
5 4 (0.407%) WAN
6 3 (0.305%) LAN
6 3 (0.305%) NAS
7 2 (0.204%) DHCP
7 2 (0.204%) FTP
7 2 (0.204%) DNS
8 1 (0.102%) SSL
8 1 (0.102%) SMS
8 1 (0.102%) VoIP
8 1 (0.102%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.102%) Network Security
8 1 (0.102%) Extranet
8 1 (0.102%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.138%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (1.833%) BusinessObjects XI
3 17 (1.731%) SQL Server
3 17 (1.731%) Oracle Reports
4 16 (1.629%) BusinessObjects
4 16 (1.629%) ReportNet
5 13 (1.324%) DB2
6 7 (0.713%) Data Mining
7 6 (0.611%) MS Access
8 5 (0.509%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.407%) Oracle 10g
10 3 (0.305%) SQL Server 2005
10 3 (0.305%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 3 (0.305%) Base SAS
11 2 (0.204%) Oracle 11g
11 2 (0.204%) Big Data
11 2 (0.204%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.102%) QlikView
12 1 (0.102%) TOAD
12 1 (0.102%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (2.240%) JIRA
2 16 (1.629%) QuickTest Pro
3 8 (0.815%) JUnit
4 4 (0.407%) LoadRunner
4 4 (0.407%) WinRunner
4 4 (0.407%) TestPartner
5 2 (0.204%) ChangeMan
6 1 (0.102%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.102%) ERwin
6 1 (0.102%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.102%) Oracle Forms
General
1 982 (100.00%) Banking
1 982 (100.00%) Retail
2 621 (63.24%) Finance
3 64 (6.517%) Financial Institution
4 57 (5.804%) Investment Banking
5 36 (3.666%) Corporate Banking
6 30 (3.055%) Marketing
7 17 (1.731%) Legal
8 13 (1.324%) Back Office
9 9 (0.916%) General Ledger
10 5 (0.509%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.509%) Front Office
11 4 (0.407%) Wholesale Banking
11 4 (0.407%) Private Banking
11 4 (0.407%) Spanish Language
12 3 (0.305%) Billing
13 1 (0.102%) Law
13 1 (0.102%) French Language
13 1 (0.102%) German Language
Job Titles
1 374 (38.09%) Analyst
2 212 (21.59%) Business Analyst
3 201 (20.47%) Project Manager
4 67 (6.823%) Developer
5 66 (6.721%) Banking Business Analyst
6 65 (6.619%) Test Analyst
7 64 (6.517%) Architect
8 44 (4.481%) PMO Analyst
9 36 (3.666%) Test Manager
10 31 (3.157%) Solutions Architect
11 30 (3.055%) Senior Manager
11 30 (3.055%) Implementation Manager
12 28 (2.851%) Senior Analyst
13 25 (2.546%) Programme Manager
14 22 (2.240%) Lead Architect
15 21 (2.138%) Programme Analyst
15 21 (2.138%) Data Analyst
15 21 (2.138%) Programme Office Analyst
16 18 (1.833%) Business Manager
17 17 (1.731%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.481%) Online Banking
2 40 (4.073%) Credit Risk
3 23 (2.342%) Mainframe
3 23 (2.342%) Mobile Banking
4 18 (1.833%) Reference Data
5 17 (1.731%) Computer Science
6 11 (1.120%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (1.120%) Mobile App
7 10 (1.018%) DataPower
8 5 (0.509%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.407%) AS400
9 4 (0.407%) Blackberry
9 4 (0.407%) Copywriting
9 4 (0.407%) SWIFT
10 3 (0.305%) Equities
10 3 (0.305%) W3C
11 2 (0.204%) Thin Client
11 2 (0.204%) IVR
11 2 (0.204%) Clustering
11 2 (0.204%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.462%) Windows
2 17 (1.731%) UNIX
3 12 (1.222%) Linux
4 3 (0.305%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.204%) AIX
5 2 (0.204%) Solaris
5 2 (0.204%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.204%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.102%) VME
6 1 (0.102%) Android
6 1 (0.102%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.102%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.102%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.102%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.102%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (27.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 180 (18.33%) Project Management
3 168 (17.11%) Change Management
4 91 (9.267%) E-Commerce
5 87 (8.859%) User Acceptance Testing
6 83 (8.452%) Business Analysis
7 77 (7.841%) Migration
8 76 (7.739%) PRINCE2
9 54 (5.499%) Business Transformation
10 36 (3.666%) Analytics
10 36 (3.666%) Test Scripting
10 36 (3.666%) GAP Analysis
11 35 (3.564%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 34 (3.462%) Waterfall
12 34 (3.462%) Data Analysis
13 32 (3.259%) Change Control
14 31 (3.157%) Project Planning
15 29 (2.953%) PRINCE
16 27 (2.749%) Risk Management
17 26 (2.648%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (8.554%) SQL
2 47 (4.786%) Java
3 13 (1.324%) C
4 12 (1.222%) VBA
5 10 (1.018%) C#
6 7 (0.713%) Perl
6 7 (0.713%) Bash shell
7 6 (0.611%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.407%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.407%) RPG
9 3 (0.305%) PHP
9 3 (0.305%) COBOL
9 3 (0.305%) JCL
10 2 (0.204%) PL/1
10 2 (0.204%) VB
11 1 (0.102%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.102%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.102%) VBScript
11 1 (0.102%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 48 (4.888%) ISEB
2 40 (4.073%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 31 (3.157%) Degree
4 19 (1.935%) ISTQB
5 6 (0.611%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (0.407%) APMP
7 3 (0.305%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 3 (0.305%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.305%) PMP
7 3 (0.305%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.204%) ACCA
8 2 (0.204%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.102%) CIPD
9 1 (0.102%) CIMA
9 1 (0.102%) MBA
9 1 (0.102%) CISSP
9 1 (0.102%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.102%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.102%) CCNP
9 1 (0.102%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.731%) QA
2 9 (0.916%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (0.611%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.509%) FATCA
5 4 (0.407%) Basel II
5 4 (0.407%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.204%) Basel III
7 1 (0.102%) SLA
7 1 (0.102%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.102%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (0.509%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.204%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.102%) XenApp
3 1 (0.102%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.102%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 64 (6.517%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (0.611%) Tivoli
2 6 (0.611%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 2 (0.204%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 69 (7.026%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.314%) Oracle
3 35 (3.564%) IBM
4 32 (3.259%) HP
5 29 (2.953%) SAP
6 23 (2.342%) Cognos
7 20 (2.037%) Business Objects
8 12 (1.222%) Pega
9 5 (0.509%) TSYS
9 5 (0.509%) Fiserv
9 5 (0.509%) LogLogic
9 5 (0.509%) Adobe
9 5 (0.509%) Informatica
10 4 (0.407%) Sun
10 4 (0.407%) Teradata
10 4 (0.407%) Veritas
10 4 (0.407%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.305%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.305%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.305%) FatWire
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Day to day duties will include: * Identifying and validating key business requirements * Creating functional and non-functional requirements in project briefs * Co-ordinating requirements walk-through and sign-...
Venn Group
Rate: £350 - 450 Per Day
Posted: 14 June 2013
South West
BUSINESS ANALYST RETAIL BANKING SOUTH WEST ENGLAND. My client has an urgent requirement for a Business Analyst with insurance experience. The individual will have worked in large scale...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £350.00 - £380.00 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
In instances where the correct approvals are not in place, they would have to push back on the people who raised them and get this remedied, so must...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £200 - £215 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
BUSINESS ANALYST - RETAIL BANKING - FATCA - LONDON Urgent requirement for a Business Analyst to join a retail bank based in London on a large Regulatory Programme... Previous experience on...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £400.00 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
BUSINESS ANALYST - RETAIL BANKING - AML - LONDON A leading retail bank has an urgent requirement for an experienced Business Analyst to join them on a large AML transformation programme...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £450.00 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Orgtel
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
City of London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Rate: £525 - £550 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Northamptonshire
Clarity Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £495 - £575 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Northamptonshire
Clarity Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £400.00 - £450.00 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
Clarity Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £350 - £380 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Northamptonshire
Clarity Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £450.00 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Northamptonshire
Clarity Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £310 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Coal IT Services
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Coal IT Services
Rate: £350 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bristol, South West
Orgtel
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Experis IT
Rate: £430 - £480 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Northampton, Northamptonshire
Clarity Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £460 - £515 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
South West
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £400.00 - £500.00 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Orgtel
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £350 to £375 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Halifax, Yorkshire
Orgtel
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £700 to £725 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013