Knutsford Banking Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Banking' in contract IT jobs within the Knutsford 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 Banking over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Isle of Man Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Street Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	5
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	9	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	34.62 %	20.00 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£450
Average daily rate	£354	£460
% change on same period last year	-23.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£470
UK excluding London average daily rate	£405	£390
% change on same period last year	+3.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.97	£27.46
% change on same period last year	+23.72 %
General Knutsford
Matching contract IT job ads	26	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.010 %
Daily rates quoted	10	8
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£411
Average daily rate	£411	£433
% change on same period last year	-5.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£434	£456
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.85	£27.05
% change on same period last year	+2.97 %
Banking Cheshire

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 Banking across the Knutsford 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 Banking across the Knutsford 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 Banking across the Knutsford region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford region citing Banking 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 Banking.

1 17 (70.83 %) Finance 2 8 (33.33 %) Windows 3 7 (29.17 %) PRINCE2 4 6 (25.00 %) Middleware 5 5 (20.83 %) Project Management 5 5 (20.83 %) UNIX 6 4 (16.67 %) AIX 6 4 (16.67 %) Solaris 6 4 (16.67 %) SAP 6 4 (16.67 %) Tivoli 6 4 (16.67 %) Change Management 7 3 (12.50 %) Gentran 7 3 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 7 3 (12.50 %) Mainframe 7 3 (12.50 %) Shell Script

7 3 (12.50 %) HPUX 7 3 (12.50 %) IBM 7 3 (12.50 %) Active Directory 7 3 (12.50 %) Citrix 7 3 (12.50 %) SAN 8 2 (8.333 %) SSL 8 2 (8.333 %) LAN 8 2 (8.333 %) WAN 8 2 (8.333 %) MCSE 8 2 (8.333 %) SQL 8 2 (8.333 %) IIS 8 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere MQ 8 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 8 2 (8.333 %) Tandem 8 2 (8.333 %) Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford region citing Banking 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 Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (25.00 %) Middleware 2 2 (8.333 %) WBIMB 3 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere 3 1 (4.167 %) COM+ 3 1 (4.167 %) DCOM	Application Platforms 1 3 (12.50 %) Gentran 2 2 (8.333 %) IIS 2 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (4.167 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 3 (12.50 %) SAN 2 2 (8.333 %) SSL 2 2 (8.333 %) LAN 2 2 (8.333 %) WAN 3 1 (4.167 %) POP3 3 1 (4.167 %) SMTP 3 1 (4.167 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (4.167 %) SNA
Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) LoadRunner	General 1 17 (70.83 %) Finance 2 1 (4.167 %) Retail Banking 2 1 (4.167 %) Online Banking 2 1 (4.167 %) Billing 2 1 (4.167 %) General Ledger 2 1 (4.167 %) Retail 2 1 (4.167 %) Education
Job Titles 1 5 (20.83 %) Project Manager 2 4 (16.67 %) Consultant 2 4 (16.67 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 4 (16.67 %) Infrastructure Manager 2 4 (16.67 %) Technical Manager 3 3 (12.50 %) Delivery Manager 3 3 (12.50 %) Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Data Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Infrastructure Specialist 5 1 (4.167 %) Infrastructure Designer 5 1 (4.167 %) Financial Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) Qualified Accountant 5 1 (4.167 %) AIX Administrator 5 1 (4.167 %) Active Directory Specialist 5 1 (4.167 %) Citrix Specialist 5 1 (4.167 %) Service Management Consultant 5 1 (4.167 %) Server Specialist 5 1 (4.167 %) ITIL Consultant 5 1 (4.167 %) Junior Project Manager 5 1 (4.167 %) Server Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (12.50 %) Mainframe 2 2 (8.333 %) Tandem 3 1 (4.167 %) HACMP
Operating Systems 1 8 (33.33 %) Windows 2 5 (20.83 %) UNIX 3 4 (16.67 %) AIX 3 4 (16.67 %) Solaris 4 3 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (12.50 %) HPUX 5 1 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (4.167 %) Windows NT 5 1 (4.167 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (29.17 %) PRINCE2 2 5 (20.83 %) Project Management 3 4 (16.67 %) Change Management 4 2 (8.333 %) Migration 4 2 (8.333 %) Financial Modelling 5 1 (4.167 %) Matrix Management 5 1 (4.167 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (4.167 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (4.167 %) ITIL 5 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE
Programming Languages 1 3 (12.50 %) Shell Script 2 2 (8.333 %) SQL 3 1 (4.167 %) Korn 3 1 (4.167 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) MCSE 1 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (8.333 %) Degree 2 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (12.50 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.167 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 1 (4.167 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 1 (4.167 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 4 (16.67 %) Tivoli 2 2 (8.333 %) OMEGAMON 3 1 (4.167 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 4 (16.67 %) SAP 2 3 (12.50 %) IBM 2 3 (12.50 %) Citrix 3 2 (8.333 %) VMware 4 1 (4.167 %) Altiris 4 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 4 1 (4.167 %) Cisco 4 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft 4 1 (4.167 %) Hyperion 4 1 (4.167 %) VERITAS 4 1 (4.167 %) HP 4 1 (4.167 %) Dell