The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 3 4 5
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 61 51 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 19.93% 19.25% 16.30%
As % of the General category 56.48% 52.04% 62.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 41 27
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £138 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £551
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
Average hourly rate £19.39 £47.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-59.17% +90.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.39 £22.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-11.86% -
All of the General Category
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
108 98 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 35.29% 36.98% 26.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 62 41
Average daily rate £325 £251 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.74% -19.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £138 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £423 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 13
Average hourly rate £35.79 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+98.80% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £15.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £79.50 £30.00 £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Finance
South East

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Finance across the Kent region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Kent Finance Daily Rate Histogram

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Finance across the Kent region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Kent Finance Hourly Rate Histogram

Finance
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 Kent region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Maidstone +4 8 £280 -21.12%
Tonbridge +2 4 £450 +227.27%
Tunbridge Wells 0 3 £325 +30.00%
West Malling 0 2 £313 +64.47%
Chatham - 1 - -
Dartford - 1 £350 -
Finance
South East

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 30 (28.04%) Oracle
2 27 (25.23%) Windows
3 26 (24.30%) Oracle RAC
4 25 (23.36%) Microsoft
5 24 (22.43%) Linux
6 22 (20.56%) UNIX
7 21 (19.63%) Oracle 11g
8 20 (18.69%) SQL
9 19 (17.76%) Local Government
10 18 (16.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (15.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 17 (15.89%) Red Hat
12 16 (14.95%) Migration
13 13 (12.15%) MS Excel
14 12 (11.21%) SQL Server
15 11 (10.28%) SharePoint
16 10 (9.346%) SLA
16 10 (9.346%) AIX
16 10 (9.346%) Service Delivery
16 10 (9.346%) Banking
16 10 (9.346%) Windows 7
17 9 (8.411%) .NET
18 8 (7.477%) VBScript
18 8 (7.477%) MCP
18 8 (7.477%) Windows XP
18 8 (7.477%) Microsoft Certification
18 8 (7.477%) Business Intelligence
18 8 (7.477%) MSI
18 8 (7.477%) SCCM
18 8 (7.477%) Investment Management

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 9 (8.411%) .NET
2 5 (4.673%) HTML
3 3 (2.804%) ASP.NET
3 3 (2.804%) .NET Framework
3 3 (2.804%) Web Services
3 3 (2.804%) XML
4 2 (1.869%) Windows SharePoint Services
4 2 (1.869%) WCF
4 2 (1.869%) jQuery
5 1 (0.935%) REST
5 1 (0.935%) WPF
5 1 (0.935%) WF
5 1 (0.935%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.935%) Dojo
5 1 (0.935%) CSS
5 1 (0.935%) SOAP
5 1 (0.935%) Swing
5 1 (0.935%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.935%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.935%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 11 (10.28%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.542%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (2.804%) Windows Azure
3 3 (2.804%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.869%) ESB
4 2 (1.869%) IIS
4 2 (1.869%) SAS
5 1 (0.935%) Apache
5 1 (0.935%) MS Exchange
5 1 (0.935%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.935%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.935%) ArcIMS
Applications
1 13 (12.15%) MS Excel
2 4 (3.738%) MS Office
3 3 (2.804%) Photoshop
3 3 (2.804%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.935%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.935%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.935%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.935%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.935%) VisionPLUS
1 1 (0.935%) Front Arena
1 1 (0.935%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.935%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.673%) SAN
2 3 (2.804%) Firewall
3 2 (1.869%) IP Telephony
3 2 (1.869%) Broadband
3 2 (1.869%) HTTP
4 1 (0.935%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.935%) VPN
4 1 (0.935%) DNS
4 1 (0.935%) LAN
4 1 (0.935%) VoIP
4 1 (0.935%) WAN
4 1 (0.935%) SMTP
4 1 (0.935%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.935%) Junos
4 1 (0.935%) FWSM
4 1 (0.935%) Intranet
4 1 (0.935%) MPLS
4 1 (0.935%) OSPF
4 1 (0.935%) BGP
4 1 (0.935%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.63%) Oracle 11g
2 12 (11.21%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.542%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (3.738%) TimesTen
4 4 (3.738%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (3.738%) Oracle 10g
5 3 (2.804%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.804%) Sybase ASE
5 3 (2.804%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (1.869%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.869%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (1.869%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.869%) DB2
7 1 (0.935%) OLAP
7 1 (0.935%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.935%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.935%) GIS
7 1 (0.935%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (7.477%) MSI
2 7 (6.542%) Wise Package Studio
3 1 (0.935%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.935%) WebLOAD
General
1 19 (17.76%) Local Government
2 10 (9.346%) Banking
3 5 (4.673%) Publishing
4 4 (3.738%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.804%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.804%) Law
6 2 (1.869%) Legal
6 2 (1.869%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.869%) Billing
6 2 (1.869%) Marketing
7 1 (0.935%) Electronics
7 1 (0.935%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (28.04%) DBA
2 26 (24.30%) Oracle DBA
3 20 (18.69%) Senior DBA
4 19 (17.76%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 17 (15.89%) Developer
6 9 (8.411%) Project Manager
7 8 (7.477%) Analyst
7 8 (7.477%) Applications Packager
8 6 (5.607%) SharePoint Developer
8 6 (5.607%) IT Support
9 5 (4.673%) Administrator
9 5 (4.673%) .NET Developer
9 5 (4.673%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 5 (4.673%) Infrastructure Manager
10 4 (3.738%) SharePoint Administrator
10 4 (3.738%) Consultant
11 3 (2.804%) Commercial Manager
11 3 (2.804%) Procurement Manager
11 3 (2.804%) SQL Server DBA
11 3 (2.804%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.673%) Management Information System
1 5 (4.673%) Clustering
2 4 (3.738%) Taxonomies
2 4 (3.738%) Oracle Exalytics
3 3 (2.804%) NHS
4 2 (1.869%) Replication
4 2 (1.869%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.869%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (1.869%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.869%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.935%) iSeries
5 1 (0.935%) Equities
5 1 (0.935%) Derivative
5 1 (0.935%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.23%) Windows
2 24 (22.43%) Linux
3 22 (20.56%) UNIX
4 18 (16.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (9.346%) Windows 7
5 10 (9.346%) AIX
6 8 (7.477%) Windows XP
7 6 (5.607%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (3.738%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.869%) Android
9 2 (1.869%) Solaris
10 1 (0.935%) VMS
10 1 (0.935%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (14.95%) Migration
2 10 (9.346%) Service Delivery
3 8 (7.477%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (7.477%) Investment Management
4 7 (6.542%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (6.542%) Project Management
4 7 (6.542%) Risk Management
5 6 (5.607%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (5.607%) Performance Management
6 5 (4.673%) Fund Management
6 5 (4.673%) Process Management
7 4 (3.738%) PRINCE2
8 3 (2.804%) OO
8 3 (2.804%) ITIL
8 3 (2.804%) Supply Chain Management
8 3 (2.804%) Programme Management
8 3 (2.804%) High Availability
9 2 (1.869%) Data Migration
9 2 (1.869%) Time Management
9 2 (1.869%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.69%) SQL
2 8 (7.477%) VBScript
3 7 (6.542%) PL/SQL
4 6 (5.607%) C#
5 3 (2.804%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.869%) Python
6 2 (1.869%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.869%) Perl
7 1 (0.935%) Java
7 1 (0.935%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.935%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.935%) XAML
7 1 (0.935%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (7.477%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (7.477%) MCP
2 2 (1.869%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (1.869%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (1.869%) Degree
2 2 (1.869%) CCNP
3 1 (0.935%) CCIP
3 1 (0.935%) CCNA
3 1 (0.935%) CCDP
3 1 (0.935%) ISEB
3 1 (0.935%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (0.935%) CCIE
3 1 (0.935%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.346%) SLA
2 8 (7.477%) QA
3 1 (0.935%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (24.30%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (6.542%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.804%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.869%) SRDF
5 1 (0.935%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.935%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 17 (15.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 8 (7.477%) SCCM
3 1 (0.935%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.935%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.935%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 30 (28.04%) Oracle
2 25 (23.36%) Microsoft
3 17 (15.89%) Red Hat
4 7 (6.542%) HP
5 5 (4.673%) Cisco
6 3 (2.804%) Sybase
6 3 (2.804%) Dell
6 3 (2.804%) SAP
6 3 (2.804%) F5
7 2 (1.869%) Nokia
7 2 (1.869%) SunGard
7 2 (1.869%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.935%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.935%) Charles River
8 1 (0.935%) ESRI
8 1 (0.935%) VMware
8 1 (0.935%) Blue Coat
8 1 (0.935%) TippingPoint
8 1 (0.935%) Intel
8 1 (0.935%) Avaya
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