The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 21 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 Liverpool 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 15 7 5
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 8 24 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 5.263% 13.11% 12.74%
As % of the General category 29.63% 42.11% 40.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 11
Average daily rate £400 £290 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.93% -17.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £105 £288 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £461 £350 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £22.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.02 £18.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -6.25%
All of the General Category
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
27 57 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 17.76% 31.15% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 30 27
Average daily rate £314 £290 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.27% -17.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £165 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £350 £738
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 6
Average hourly rate £11.50 £22.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.72% +100.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Finance
Merseyside

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) Oracle
3 5 (26.32%) Project Management
4 3 (15.79%) Financial Institution
4 3 (15.79%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) Resource Management
5 2 (10.53%) Unica
5 2 (10.53%) Unica Affinium
5 2 (10.53%) Direct Marketing
5 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.53%) Strategic Planning
5 2 (10.53%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (10.53%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis
5 2 (10.53%) Marketing
5 2 (10.53%) Degree
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (10.53%) Financial Analysis
5 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 2 (10.53%) DB2
5 2 (10.53%) Business Objects
5 2 (10.53%) Windows
5 2 (10.53%) AIX
5 2 (10.53%) HPUX
5 2 (10.53%) Solaris
5 2 (10.53%) Linux
5 2 (10.53%) Informix
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (10.53%) MS Excel

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 1 (5.263%) Spring
2 1 (5.263%) Hibernate
2 1 (5.263%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Unica Affinium
1 2 (10.53%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.53%) DB2
1 2 (10.53%) Informix
2 1 (5.263%) PowerCenter
2 1 (5.263%) FileMaker
2 1 (5.263%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Maven
General
1 3 (15.79%) Financial Institution
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Consultant
3 3 (15.79%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) MI Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) SAS Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (5.263%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.263%) PL/SQL Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Informatica Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Java Analyst Programmer
5 1 (5.263%) Java Programmer
5 1 (5.263%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Financial Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.263%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) AIX
1 2 (10.53%) HPUX
1 2 (10.53%) Solaris
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Project Management
2 3 (15.79%) Resource Management
3 2 (10.53%) Direct Marketing
3 2 (10.53%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis
3 2 (10.53%) Financial Analysis
3 2 (10.53%) ERP
3 2 (10.53%) ETL
3 2 (10.53%) Process Management
4 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.263%) Data Analysis
4 1 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.263%) Scrum
4 1 (5.263%) MVC
4 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.263%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.263%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.263%) COBOL
4 1 (5.263%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.263%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.263%) APMP
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (5.263%) XenApp
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Unica
2 2 (10.53%) Business Objects
2 2 (10.53%) Baan
2 2 (10.53%) JD Edwards
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) IBM
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Sun
3 1 (5.263%) Citrix
3 1 (5.263%) Informatica
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