The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Investment Banking 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 Glasgow 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
Investment Banking
Rank 55 29 33
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +4
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 21 33 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 2.251% 4.193% 4.467%
As % of the General category 5.237% 7.449% 9.309%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 19
Average daily rate £425 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £425 £432
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £386 £381
% change year-on-year
+10.03% +1.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year
-31.81% -68.11%
All of the General Category
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
401 443 333
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 42.98% 56.29% 47.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 222 192
Average daily rate £350 £338 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -6.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 1
Average hourly rate £14.50 £9.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.63% -50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Investment Banking
Scotland

Investment Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Investment Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Investment Banking Daily Rate Trend

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Glasgow Investment Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Investment Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Investment Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Investment 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 Investment Banking.

1 50 (100.00%) Banking
2 28 (56.00%) SQL
3 24 (48.00%) Java
4 21 (42.00%) Finance
5 16 (32.00%) UNIX
6 13 (26.00%) Sybase
7 12 (24.00%) C++
7 12 (24.00%) Spring
8 11 (22.00%) C#
8 11 (22.00%) Multithreading
9 10 (20.00%) Perl
9 10 (20.00%) VBA
9 10 (20.00%) VB
9 10 (20.00%) Shell Script
10 9 (18.00%) Linux
10 9 (18.00%) Derivative
11 8 (16.00%) Hibernate
11 8 (16.00%) Scala
12 7 (14.00%) Fixed Income
12 7 (14.00%) Risk Management
12 7 (14.00%) RDBMS
13 6 (12.00%) Sun
13 6 (12.00%) Solaris
13 6 (12.00%) .NET
13 6 (12.00%) QA
13 6 (12.00%) WPF
14 5 (10.00%) Equity Derivative
14 5 (10.00%) Software Testing
14 5 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
14 5 (10.00%) Regression Testing

Investment Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (24.00%) Spring
2 8 (16.00%) Hibernate
3 6 (12.00%) .NET
3 6 (12.00%) WPF
4 2 (4.000%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (4.000%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.000%) CSS
4 2 (4.000%) STL
4 2 (4.000%) XML
4 2 (4.000%) XSL
4 2 (4.000%) Spring MVC
4 2 (4.000%) jQuery
5 1 (2.000%) Velocity
5 1 (2.000%) JSON
5 1 (2.000%) SWT
5 1 (2.000%) Ajax
5 1 (2.000%) XSLT
5 1 (2.000%) ODBC
5 1 (2.000%) ActiveX
5 1 (2.000%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.000%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.000%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.000%) HTTP
2 1 (2.000%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) RDBMS
2 5 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.000%) Sybase IQ
3 3 (6.000%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.000%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.000%) DTS
3 3 (6.000%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (4.000%) DB2
4 2 (4.000%) Sybase ASE
4 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (4.000%) QlikView
5 1 (2.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (4.000%) ClearCase
2 1 (2.000%) Selenium
2 1 (2.000%) Maven
2 1 (2.000%) Ant
2 1 (2.000%) JUnit
2 1 (2.000%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (2.000%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.000%) Cucumber
General
1 50 (100.00%) Banking
2 21 (42.00%) Finance
3 4 (8.000%) Retail
4 3 (6.000%) Retail Banking
4 3 (6.000%) Games
4 3 (6.000%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.000%) Front Office
5 1 (2.000%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 28 (56.00%) Developer
2 16 (32.00%) Analyst
3 12 (24.00%) Business Analyst
3 12 (24.00%) Java Developer
4 7 (14.00%) C++ Developer
4 7 (14.00%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.00%) C++/Java Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Applications Developer
6 4 (8.000%) Test Analyst
7 3 (6.000%) Senior Applications Developer
7 3 (6.000%) Sybase Developer
8 2 (4.000%) Data Analyst
8 2 (4.000%) Informatica Developer
8 2 (4.000%) Senior C++ Developer
8 2 (4.000%) Senior Informatica Developer
9 1 (2.000%) ScrumMaster
9 1 (2.000%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 1 (2.000%) Banking Business Analyst
9 1 (2.000%) Business Test Analyst
9 1 (2.000%) Automation Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Derivative
2 7 (14.00%) Fixed Income
3 5 (10.00%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (6.000%) Open Source
5 2 (4.000%) Data Integration
6 1 (2.000%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.000%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.000%) Computer Science
6 1 (2.000%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.000%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.00%) UNIX
2 9 (18.00%) Linux
3 6 (12.00%) Solaris
4 3 (6.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.00%) Multithreading
2 7 (14.00%) Risk Management
3 5 (10.00%) Software Testing
3 5 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (10.00%) Regression Testing
3 5 (10.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (10.00%) Manual Testing
4 4 (8.000%) Scrum
4 4 (8.000%) Migration
5 3 (6.000%) Data Analysis
5 3 (6.000%) Data Modelling
5 3 (6.000%) Unit Testing
6 2 (4.000%) Test Scripting
6 2 (4.000%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (4.000%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (4.000%) Kanban
6 2 (4.000%) MVVM
6 2 (4.000%) ETL
6 2 (4.000%) MVC
6 2 (4.000%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 28 (56.00%) SQL
2 24 (48.00%) Java
3 12 (24.00%) C++
4 11 (22.00%) C#
5 10 (20.00%) Perl
5 10 (20.00%) VBA
5 10 (20.00%) VB
5 10 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 8 (16.00%) Scala
7 5 (10.00%) Python
8 4 (8.000%) VB.NET
9 1 (2.000%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.000%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (8.000%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Sybase
2 6 (12.00%) Sun
3 3 (6.000%) Oracle
4 2 (4.000%) Informatica