The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Erskine region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 23 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 terms in our General category for the Erskine 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 11.11% - -
As % of the General category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £370 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -6.97%
All of the General Category
Erskine
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
14 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 22.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
Average daily rate £378 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Finance
Renfrewshire

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Erskine Finance Jobs Demand Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Trend

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

Erskine Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine region citing Finance 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 Finance.

1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 10 (90.91%) Telecoms
3 8 (72.73%) Windows
4 5 (45.45%) OpenView Configuration Management
5 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
6 3 (27.27%) HP
6 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 3 (27.27%) Citrix
6 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
6 3 (27.27%) Windows XP
6 3 (27.27%) MS Office
7 2 (18.18%) Service Management
7 2 (18.18%) CIMA
7 2 (18.18%) VMware
7 2 (18.18%) Borland
7 2 (18.18%) Jython
7 2 (18.18%) StarTeam
7 2 (18.18%) HP SiteScope
7 2 (18.18%) HP UCMDB
7 2 (18.18%) Windows 7
7 2 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (18.18%) Windows Vista
7 2 (18.18%) CMDB
7 2 (18.18%) SAP
7 2 (18.18%) MySQL
7 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
7 2 (18.18%) Business Objects

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine region citing Finance 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 Finance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (18.18%) XML
2 1 (9.091%) XSL
2 1 (9.091%) XML Schema
2 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
2 1 (9.091%) HTML
2 1 (9.091%) .NET
2 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
1 3 (27.27%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Internet
1 1 (9.091%) SAN
1 1 (9.091%) DHCP
1 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
1 2 (18.18%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) StarTeam
1 2 (18.18%) TestDirector
General
1 10 (90.91%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.091%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Management Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Architect
3 1 (9.091%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Build Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Build Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) CMDB
2 1 (9.091%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (27.27%) Windows XP
4 2 (18.18%) Windows 7
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Vista
4 2 (18.18%) Solaris
5 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Service Management
1 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
2 1 (9.091%) Test Scripting
2 1 (9.091%) Information Assurance
2 1 (9.091%) Security Architecture
2 1 (9.091%) Software Deployment
2 1 (9.091%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Jython
2 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.091%) VBScript
2 1 (9.091%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.091%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) CIMA
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.091%) MCP
3 1 (9.091%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 2 (18.18%) HP SiteScope
2 2 (18.18%) HP UCMDB
2 2 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (9.091%) Netcool
3 1 (9.091%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) HP
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) Citrix
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Borland
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 2 (18.18%) Business Objects
2 2 (18.18%) EMC
3 1 (9.091%) Veritas