The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Hammersmith 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 Hammersmith 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 5 7 7
Rank change year-on-year
+2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 4 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 11.43% 9.524% 4.762%
As % of the General category 44.44% 18.18% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £406 £315 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.96% -
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
Hammersmith
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
9 22 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 25.71% 52.38% 61.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 4
Average daily rate £288 £320 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.15% +56.09%
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
London

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hammersmith 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 Hammersmith region.

Hammersmith Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith 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 4 (66.67%) Games
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) VBScript
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) WSH
2 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) Online Games
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Bash shell
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) vCloud

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith 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 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) WSH
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CloudStack
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (16.67%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (66.67%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Online Games
1 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
1 2 (33.33%) Workflow
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
1 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Change Control
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Matrix Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) VBScript
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Bash shell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) PMP
2 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (33.33%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Operations Orchestration
1 1 (16.67%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
1 2 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 1 (16.67%) BMC
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) SAP