The first table below looks at the demand for Summit 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 Summit over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Misys Summit
Rank 423 484 436
Rank change year-on-year
+61 -48
Contract jobs citing Summit 90 75 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.216% 0.141% 0.242%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.602% 1.641% 2.772%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 55 98
Average daily rate £550 £375 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.66% -31.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £238 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £655 £640 £655
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £320 £288
% change year-on-year
+9.37% +11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
Average hourly rate - £14.70 £29.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -49.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £14.70 £30.50
% change year-on-year
- -51.81%
All Business Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
3459 4570 4907
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 8.320% 8.568% 8.733%
Number of daily rates quoted 1839 2338 2537
Average daily rate £450 £450 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £290 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £430 £420
% change year-on-year
-1.16% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 52 90
Average hourly rate £37.80 £34.00 £22.98
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.17% +47.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.00 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.50 £57.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
Summit
UK

Summit
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Summit Jobs Demand Trend

Summit
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Summit Daily Rate Trend

Summit
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Summit across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Summit Daily Rate Histogram

Summit
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Summit Hourly Rate Trend

Summit
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Summit within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +71 76 £550 +15.78%
South West +24 11 £350 +21.47%
South East - 2 £275 -
West Midlands +7 1 £350 -
Summit
UK

Summit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Summit 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 Summit.

1 48 (41.03%) Banking
2 47 (40.17%) Finance
3 31 (26.50%) Investment Banking
4 27 (23.08%) Front Office
4 27 (23.08%) C++
4 27 (23.08%) Murex
5 26 (22.22%) Derivative
6 25 (21.37%) Java
7 24 (20.51%) Back Office
8 23 (19.66%) Oracle
9 20 (17.09%) SQL
10 19 (16.24%) Fixed Income
11 18 (15.38%) Business Analysis
12 17 (14.53%) C#
13 15 (12.82%) Sybase
13 15 (12.82%) Migration
13 15 (12.82%) Financial Institution
14 14 (11.97%) QA
15 13 (11.11%) UML
15 13 (11.11%) Calypso
16 12 (10.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 12 (10.26%) ISO 9001
16 12 (10.26%) SAP
16 12 (10.26%) Risk Management
16 12 (10.26%) ISO 14001
17 10 (8.547%) ESB
17 10 (8.547%) OO
17 10 (8.547%) JBoss
17 10 (8.547%) Informatica
18 9 (7.692%) Microsoft

Summit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Summit 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 Summit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (6.838%) CSS
2 7 (5.983%) HTML5
2 7 (5.983%) CSS3
3 5 (4.274%) WebSphere
3 5 (4.274%) XML
4 4 (3.419%) JAXB
4 4 (3.419%) Web Services
4 4 (3.419%) Hibernate
4 4 (3.419%) Dojo
4 4 (3.419%) jQuery
4 4 (3.419%) RESTful
5 3 (2.564%) HTML
6 2 (1.709%) .NET
6 2 (1.709%) FpML
6 2 (1.709%) LAMP
6 2 (1.709%) SAP Basis
7 1 (0.855%) Castor
7 1 (0.855%) Silverlight
7 1 (0.855%) Symfony
7 1 (0.855%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 10 (8.547%) ESB
2 5 (4.274%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.709%) NetWeaver
3 2 (1.709%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.855%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (6.838%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.564%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (2.564%) Fireworks
2 3 (2.564%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.709%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.709%) MS Office
3 2 (1.709%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.709%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.855%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.855%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.855%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.855%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.855%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.419%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (2.564%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.564%) MS Access
3 2 (1.709%) TOAD
3 2 (1.709%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.709%) SAP BW
3 2 (1.709%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (1.709%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.855%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (0.855%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.855%) EDMS
4 1 (0.855%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.838%) Subversion
2 3 (2.564%) Balsamiq Mockups
3 2 (1.709%) ERwin
4 1 (0.855%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.855%) Wise Package Studio
4 1 (0.855%) MSI
4 1 (0.855%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (0.855%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.855%) ClearCase
General
1 48 (41.03%) Banking
2 47 (40.17%) Finance
3 31 (26.50%) Investment Banking
4 27 (23.08%) Front Office
5 24 (20.51%) Back Office
6 15 (12.82%) Financial Institution
7 7 (5.983%) Retail
8 1 (0.855%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.855%) French Language
8 1 (0.855%) German Language
8 1 (0.855%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.855%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (39.32%) Analyst
2 40 (34.19%) Business Analyst
3 21 (17.95%) Developer
4 16 (13.68%) Summit Business Analyst
5 15 (12.82%) Architect
5 15 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (9.402%) Summit Developer
6 11 (9.402%) Technical Leader
7 6 (5.128%) Project Manager
8 5 (4.274%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.419%) Consultant
9 4 (3.419%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 3 (2.564%) Risk Analyst
10 3 (2.564%) Credit Analyst
10 3 (2.564%) Web Designer
10 3 (2.564%) Project Analyst
10 3 (2.564%) Designer
10 3 (2.564%) Configuration Manager
10 3 (2.564%) Test Manager
10 3 (2.564%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.22%) Derivative
2 19 (16.24%) Fixed Income
3 12 (10.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.983%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 6 (5.128%) Credit Risk
6 5 (4.274%) Market Risk
6 5 (4.274%) Equities
7 4 (3.419%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.564%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.709%) Open Source
9 2 (1.709%) SWIFT
9 2 (1.709%) Computer Science
10 1 (0.855%) Credit Derivative
10 1 (0.855%) CESG
10 1 (0.855%) CESG CLAS
10 1 (0.855%) Economics
10 1 (0.855%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.855%) Physics
10 1 (0.855%) Swaptions
10 1 (0.855%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.692%) Windows
2 4 (3.419%) UNIX
3 3 (2.564%) Linux
4 2 (1.709%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.855%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.855%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (15.38%) Business Analysis
2 15 (12.82%) Migration
3 13 (11.11%) UML
4 12 (10.26%) Risk Management
5 10 (8.547%) OO
6 9 (7.692%) Configuration Management
7 8 (6.838%) Project Management
7 8 (6.838%) Data Analysis
8 6 (5.128%) SOA
9 5 (4.274%) Analytics
9 5 (4.274%) Change Management
9 5 (4.274%) E-Commerce
10 4 (3.419%) GAP Analysis
10 4 (3.419%) Web Development
10 4 (3.419%) Agile Software Development
11 3 (2.564%) Asset Management
11 3 (2.564%) Technical Architecture
11 3 (2.564%) User Experience Design
11 3 (2.564%) Usability Testing
11 3 (2.564%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.08%) C++
2 25 (21.37%) Java
3 20 (17.09%) SQL
4 17 (14.53%) C#
5 6 (5.128%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.419%) XQuery
6 4 (3.419%) XPath
7 3 (2.564%) C
8 2 (1.709%) ABAP
8 2 (1.709%) VBA
8 2 (1.709%) Perl
8 2 (1.709%) Bourne shell
8 2 (1.709%) Bash shell
8 2 (1.709%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.709%) Korn
8 2 (1.709%) Ruby
9 1 (0.855%) PHP
9 1 (0.855%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.855%) COBOL
9 1 (0.855%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (5.983%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.983%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.274%) Degree
3 1 (0.855%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (0.855%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.855%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.97%) QA
2 12 (10.26%) ISO 9001
2 12 (10.26%) ISO 14001
3 3 (2.564%) Basel II
4 1 (0.855%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.855%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.855%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (0.855%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.709%) Nagios
1 2 (1.709%) Splunk
1 2 (1.709%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (0.855%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.855%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (23.08%) Murex
2 23 (19.66%) Oracle
3 15 (12.82%) Sybase
4 13 (11.11%) Calypso
5 12 (10.26%) SAP
6 10 (8.547%) JBoss
6 10 (8.547%) Informatica
7 9 (7.692%) Microsoft
8 7 (5.983%) Misys
9 6 (5.128%) Sophis
10 3 (2.564%) iRise
10 3 (2.564%) Thunderhead
10 3 (2.564%) Bloomberg
11 2 (1.709%) HP
11 2 (1.709%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.709%) IXOS
11 2 (1.709%) IBM
11 2 (1.709%) Tieto
12 1 (0.855%) ION Trading
12 1 (0.855%) Reuters
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