The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 Halifax 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
Banking
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Contract jobs citing Banking 62 145 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 51.67% 63.88% 55.74%
As % of the General category 62.63% 78.38% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 134 36
Average daily rate £388 £396 £384
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.89% +3.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £280 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £390 £385
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £22.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.68% +15.78%
All of the General Category
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
99 185 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 82.50% 81.50% 81.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 167 65
Average daily rate £378 £380 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.65% -3.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £270 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
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 £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Banking
West Yorkshire

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

Halifax Banking Daily Rate Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Halifax Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Halifax Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 88 (73.33%) Finance
2 67 (55.83%) Retail
3 54 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (36.67%) Retail Banking
5 38 (31.67%) Project Management
6 18 (15.00%) PRINCE2
7 15 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (9.167%) Change Management
8 11 (9.167%) Project Planning
9 10 (8.333%) Test Scripting
9 10 (8.333%) MS Project
10 9 (7.500%) Migration
10 9 (7.500%) HP Quality Center
11 8 (6.667%) Business Transformation
11 8 (6.667%) MS Excel
12 7 (5.833%) ISEB
12 7 (5.833%) Business Analysis
12 7 (5.833%) APMP
13 6 (5.000%) Use Case
13 6 (5.000%) ISTQB
13 6 (5.000%) Workflow
13 6 (5.000%) SQL
14 5 (4.167%) MS Office
14 5 (4.167%) Windows
14 5 (4.167%) UML
14 5 (4.167%) Software Testing
14 5 (4.167%) Investment Banking
14 5 (4.167%) Online Banking
14 5 (4.167%) Pega
15 4 (3.333%) Cisco PIX

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (1.667%) WebSphere
1 2 (1.667%) .NET
1 2 (1.667%) CSS
2 1 (0.833%) Middleware
2 1 (0.833%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.667%) StreamWeaver
1 2 (1.667%) SAS
2 1 (0.833%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.833%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 10 (8.333%) MS Project
2 8 (6.667%) MS Excel
3 5 (4.167%) MS Office
4 4 (3.333%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.833%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.833%) SAP HR
1 1 (0.833%) SAP Payroll
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.333%) Cisco PIX
1 4 (3.333%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (3.333%) Firewall
2 3 (2.500%) Internet
3 2 (1.667%) NFC
3 2 (1.667%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (1.667%) VLAN
3 2 (1.667%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.667%) HSRP
3 2 (1.667%) FWSM
3 2 (1.667%) IPsec
3 2 (1.667%) Wireless
3 2 (1.667%) ATM
3 2 (1.667%) SMS
3 2 (1.667%) RIP
3 2 (1.667%) SNMP
3 2 (1.667%) NetScreen
3 2 (1.667%) OSPF
3 2 (1.667%) BGP
3 2 (1.667%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.667%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.833%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.833%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (0.833%) Data Mart
General
1 88 (73.33%) Finance
2 67 (55.83%) Retail
3 44 (36.67%) Retail Banking
4 5 (4.167%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.500%) Legal
5 3 (2.500%) Marketing
6 2 (1.667%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.833%) Front Office
7 1 (0.833%) Back Office
7 1 (0.833%) Law
Job Titles
1 46 (38.33%) Analyst
2 34 (28.33%) Project Manager
3 23 (19.17%) Business Analyst
4 12 (10.00%) Test Analyst
5 8 (6.667%) Senior Manager
5 8 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (5.000%) Implementation Manager
6 6 (5.000%) Senior Project Manager
7 5 (4.167%) Banking Business Analyst
8 4 (3.333%) PMO Analyst
8 4 (3.333%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (3.333%) Test Manager
9 3 (2.500%) Developer
9 3 (2.500%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 3 (2.500%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (2.500%) Senior Test Analyst
9 3 (2.500%) Informatica Specialist
9 3 (2.500%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 3 (2.500%) Defect Manager
9 3 (2.500%) Assistant Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.167%) Online Banking
2 2 (1.667%) DataPower
2 2 (1.667%) Device Driver
2 2 (1.667%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.833%) Mainframe
3 1 (0.833%) Informatics
3 1 (0.833%) Copywriting
3 1 (0.833%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.167%) Windows
2 2 (1.667%) Linux
2 2 (1.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (31.67%) Project Management
3 18 (15.00%) PRINCE2
4 15 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (9.167%) Change Management
5 11 (9.167%) Project Planning
6 10 (8.333%) Test Scripting
7 9 (7.500%) Migration
8 8 (6.667%) Business Transformation
9 7 (5.833%) Business Analysis
10 6 (5.000%) Use Case
10 6 (5.000%) Workflow
11 5 (4.167%) UML
11 5 (4.167%) Software Testing
12 4 (3.333%) BPMN
12 4 (3.333%) Test Management
12 4 (3.333%) Incident Management
12 4 (3.333%) Data Analysis
12 4 (3.333%) SOA
13 3 (2.500%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.000%) SQL
2 3 (2.500%) VBA
3 1 (0.833%) C
3 1 (0.833%) Java
3 1 (0.833%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.833%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (5.833%) ISEB
1 7 (5.833%) APMP
2 6 (5.000%) ISTQB
3 4 (3.333%) CCNA
3 4 (3.333%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.500%) CCNP
5 2 (1.667%) CCDP
5 2 (1.667%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.833%) ACCA
6 1 (0.833%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.833%) CCIE
6 1 (0.833%) CIMA
6 1 (0.833%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.333%) FATCA
2 1 (0.833%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 9 (7.500%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.833%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.833%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (0.833%) Opalis
Vendors
1 5 (4.167%) Pega
2 4 (3.333%) Cisco
2 4 (3.333%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.333%) Informatica
2 4 (3.333%) CheckPoint
2 4 (3.333%) TIBCO
3 2 (1.667%) Oracle
3 2 (1.667%) SAP
3 2 (1.667%) IBM
3 2 (1.667%) Nokia
4 1 (0.833%) McAfee
4 1 (0.833%) Juniper
4 1 (0.833%) HP
4 1 (0.833%) Business Objects
Halifax, Yorkshire
A leading banking client urgently requires a Project Manager to work in their Halifax Office, on a 4 month contract basis.
Orgtel
Rate: £450 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Halifax £300 - £350 per day Initial 3 Month Contract Skills: Business Analysis, Banking, SAP, Process Simplification, Data Migration, Financial Services Our financial services client requires 2 Business Analysts...
Reed Technology
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Halifax, Yorkshire
Essential Skills: Specialist Informatica knowledge within ILM Proven Informatica experience in Archiving solutions Online Archiving Database (OAD) experience is essential Experience across SQL, Oracle and Linux are essential.
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Halifax, West Yorkshire
ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER - FINANCIAL SERVICES - HALIFAX My leading financial services client has an urgent requirement for a Assistant Project Manager to be responsible for typical Assistant Project Manager...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £300.00 - £315.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Halifax, West Yorkshire
VMWare. Citrix. Active directory and Windows based domains... DNS, DHCP servers... Antivirus solutions (Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro) Backup solutions (Symantec backup exec, ArcServe etc.) TCP/ IP and Networking...
Spinnaker Red
Rate: From £280 to £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Halifax, Yorkshire
You will use your extensive knowledge of Archiving and The Informatics Archiving tool set, to develop technical accounting solutions for live data. The data is hosted on high...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013