Highlands Finance Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Finance' in contract IT jobs within the Highlands region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Andover Avon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bletchley Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cobham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fleetwood Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guernsey Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kegworth Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	6	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£377
% change on same period last year	+1.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	-
Average hourly rate	£40.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.45	£27.09
% change on same period last year	-9.74 %
General Highlands
Matching contract IT job ads	6	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.020 %
Daily rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum daily rate	-	£284
Average daily rate	-	£287
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£289
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£375
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£18.73
Average hourly rate	£40.25	£19.00
% change on same period last year	+111.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.50	£19.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.36	£26.71
% change on same period last year	+2.45 %
Finance Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Finance across the Highlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Finance across the Highlands region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Finance across the Highlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Finance across the Highlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Highlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Inverness	-	6	-	-

Finance Scotland

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Highlands 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 6 (85.71 %) Change Management 2 5 (71.43 %) Pharmaceutical 3 4 (57.14 %) Financial Modelling 3 4 (57.14 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 4 (57.14 %) MS Office 3 4 (57.14 %) MS Excel 3 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft 4 3 (42.86 %) Benchmarking 4 3 (42.86 %) ACCA 4 3 (42.86 %) CIMA 4 3 (42.86 %) MS PowerPoint 5 2 (28.57 %) Manufacturing 5 2 (28.57 %) CA 6 1 (14.29 %) Hyperion 6 1 (14.29 %) Cognos

6 1 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 6 1 (14.29 %) Hyperion Essbase 6 1 (14.29 %) Hyperion Enterprise 6 1 (14.29 %) Performance Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Highlands 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.

Applications 1 4 (57.14 %) MS Office 1 4 (57.14 %) MS Excel 2 3 (42.86 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) Hyperion Enterprise
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) Hyperion Essbase	General 1 5 (71.43 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (28.57 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 7 (100.00 %) Analyst 2 6 (85.71 %) Senior Analyst 2 6 (85.71 %) Financial Analyst 2 6 (85.71 %) Senior Financial Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Hyperion Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (85.71 %) Change Management 2 4 (57.14 %) Financial Modelling 3 3 (42.86 %) Benchmarking 4 1 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (14.29 %) Performance Management
Qualifications 1 3 (42.86 %) ACCA 1 3 (42.86 %) CIMA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (57.14 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) CA 3 1 (14.29 %) Hyperion 3 1 (14.29 %) Cognos 3 1 (14.29 %) Oracle