The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Feltham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance 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 terms in our General category for the Feltham 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
Financial
Rank 7 4 3
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Feltham 5.556% 18.18% 15.38%
As % of the General category 12.50% 100.00% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £600 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £11.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -9.09%
All of the General Category
Feltham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
8 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Feltham 44.44% 18.18% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
Average daily rate £264 - £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £11.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Finance
London

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Feltham 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 Feltham region.

Feltham Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Feltham 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 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Build Forge
2 2 (50.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (50.00%) Lombardi
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Process Server
2 2 (50.00%) IBM Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Jython
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) Ant
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) MS Project
3 1 (25.00%) MS Office
3 1 (25.00%) RPG
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) DB2

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Feltham 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 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (25.00%) MS Project
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Build Forge
1 2 (50.00%) Ant
General
1 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Learning Management System
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Information Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) Jython
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) RPG
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Lombardi
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft