The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Billing in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Billing over the 3 months to 22 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 Kent 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Billing
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Billing 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 1.342% - -
As % of the General category 3.670% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £475 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £425 £335
% change year-on-year
-17.64% +26.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £17.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-35.29% -2.85%
All of the General Category
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
109 105 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 36.58% 39.18% 25.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 37
Average daily rate £339 £260 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.28% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £138 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 13
Average hourly rate £27.59 £16.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+67.19% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.80 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £74.25 £29.25 £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Billing
South East

Billing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Billing Jobs Demand Trend

Billing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kent Billing Daily Rate Trend

Billing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent Billing Hourly Rate Trend

Billing
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Billing 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 Billing.

1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Fund Accounting
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (25.00%) Equities
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Derivative
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

Billing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Billing 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 Billing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Market Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Market Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Market Data Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (25.00%) Equities
2 1 (25.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Fund Accounting
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft