The first table below looks at the demand for Solvency II skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solvency II 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Hertfordshire 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
Solvency II
Rank - 65 -
Contract jobs citing Solvency II 0 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 0.512% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 9.259% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £413 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £383 £439 £550
% change year-on-year
-12.77% -20.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
27 54 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 4.239% 5.527% 9.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 16
Average daily rate £430 £413 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.24% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £300 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £590 £438 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 8
Average hourly rate £15.00 £12.00 £26.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -54.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
Solvency II
East of England

Solvency II
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Solvency II across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Hertfordshire Solvency II Jobs Demand Trend

Solvency II
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Solvency II Daily Rate Trend

Solvency II
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Solvency II 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 Solvency II.

1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Bugzilla
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) V-Model

Solvency II
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bugzilla
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB