Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Bloomberg products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Bloomberg over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the London region.

 Bloomberg
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank168194142
Rank change year-on-year
Up+26Down-52
Matching contract IT job ads245106419
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London0.946 %0.642 %1.143 %
As % of the Vendors category2.247 %1.501 %2.531 %
Daily rates quoted16545170
Average daily rate£525£450£475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66 %-5.260 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£250£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£400£400
% change year-on-year
-25.00 %-
Hourly rates quoted181010
Average hourly rate£22.50£11.50£26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+95.65 %-55.76 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.40£11.50£22.35
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£39.75£20.00£31.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.25--
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
10905706016556
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London42.10 %42.77 %45.18 %
Daily rates quoted568926476015
Average daily rate£450£400£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50 %-11.11 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£235£260
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£625
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£350£360
% change year-on-year
-5.710 %-2.770 %
Hourly rates quoted347368983
Average hourly rate£20.00£22.50£21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.11 %+4.650 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£13.50£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£40.00£40.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£21.00£20.00
% change year-on-year
-9.520 %+5.000 %
Bloomberg EnglandBloomberg
England

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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Bloomberg.

Bloomberg
Demand Trend

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

London Bloomberg Demand Trend

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Bloomberg Daily Rate Trend

Bloomberg
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Bloomberg across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London Bloomberg Daily Rate Histogram

Bloomberg
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Bloomberg Hourly Rate Trend

Bloomberg
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Bloomberg across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London Bloomberg Hourly Rate Histogram

Bloomberg
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bloomberg within the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
City of LondonDown-6123£525+16.66 %
Docklands, LondonUp+512£550+15.78 %
Canary WharfDown-273£630-
Bloomberg EnglandBloomberg
England

Bloomberg
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Bloomberg 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 Bloomberg.

1273 (59.74 %)Reuters
2167 (36.54 %)Banking
3157 (34.35 %)Front Office
4140 (30.63 %)Finance
5118 (25.82 %)Fixed Income
6111 (24.29 %)Java
6111 (24.29 %)SQL
7103 (22.54 %)Investment Banking
891 (19.91 %)C#
975 (16.41 %)SQL Server
975 (16.41 %)Electronic Trading
1072 (15.75 %).NET
1169 (15.10 %)UNIX
1268 (14.88 %)Windows
1366 (14.44 %)Derivative
1465 (14.22 %)MS Office
1563 (13.79 %)MS Excel
1657 (12.47 %)Oracle
1755 (12.04 %)Sybase
1848 (10.50 %)Back Office
1947 (10.28 %)Tradeweb
2043 (9.409 %)XML
2043 (9.409 %)OO
2043 (9.409 %)Microsoft
2141 (8.972 %)Windows XP
2141 (8.972 %)C++
2239 (8.534 %)TIBCO
2338 (8.315 %)ION Trading
2437 (8.096 %)Linux
2535 (7.659 %)VBA

Bloomberg
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Bloomberg 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 Bloomberg. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
172 (15.75 %).NET
243 (9.409 %)XML
333 (7.221 %)Spring
430 (6.565 %)Hibernate
529 (6.346 %).NET Framework
618 (3.939 %)ASP.NET
717 (3.720 %)WinForms
717 (3.720 %)Web Services
814 (3.063 %)XSLT
814 (3.063 %)COM+
814 (3.063 %)ASP
912 (2.626 %)Middleware
109 (1.969 %)J2SE
118 (1.751 %)WPF
127 (1.532 %)Velocity
127 (1.532 %)WebSphere
127 (1.532 %)JMX
136 (1.313 %)Struts
136 (1.313 %)HTML
145 (1.094 %)GWT
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
130 (6.565 %)MTS
130 (6.565 %)Rendezvous
214 (3.063 %)MQSeries
313 (2.845 %)Lotus Notes
412 (2.626 %)SonicMQ
58 (1.751 %)MS Exchange
67 (1.532 %)Jetty
75 (1.094 %)Exchange Server 2003
83 (0.656 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
83 (0.656 %)BizTalk Server
83 (0.656 %)SharePoint
83 (0.656 %)Tomcat
91 (0.219 %)Exchange Server 2007
91 (0.219 %)Progress Apama
91 (0.219 %)Site Server
91 (0.219 %)Lotus Domino
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
165 (14.22 %)MS Office
263 (13.79 %)MS Excel
318 (3.939 %)Spreadsheet
49 (1.969 %)MS PowerPoint
58 (1.751 %)MS Project
65 (1.094 %)MS Visio
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
134 (7.440 %)ION MarketView
228 (6.127 %)RMDS
323 (5.033 %)3000 Xtra
419 (4.158 %)Bloomberg TOMS
513 (2.845 %)Summit
65 (1.094 %)FENICS FX
71 (0.219 %)Advent Geneva
71 (0.219 %)Capstone
71 (0.219 %)Murex MxG2000
71 (0.219 %)LongView
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
121 (4.595 %)TCP/IP
214 (3.063 %)WAN
214 (3.063 %)LAN
310 (2.188 %)DNS
48 (1.751 %)VoIP
57 (1.532 %)Firewall
57 (1.532 %)DHCP
64 (0.875 %)VPN
73 (0.656 %)SMS
73 (0.656 %)Internet
82 (0.438 %)EIGRP
82 (0.438 %)Ethernet
82 (0.438 %)Cisco ASA
82 (0.438 %)IP Telephony
82 (0.438 %)Cisco IOS
91 (0.219 %)Network Security
91 (0.219 %)SSH
91 (0.219 %)3G
91 (0.219 %)DMZ
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
175 (16.41 %)SQL Server
220 (4.376 %)SQL Server 2005
318 (3.939 %)SQL Server Integration Services
415 (3.282 %)Reference Data
54 (0.875 %)BusinessObjects
62 (0.438 %)Oracle 8/8i
62 (0.438 %)Datawarehouse
62 (0.438 %)Data Mining
62 (0.438 %)Data Cleansing
62 (0.438 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
71 (0.219 %)KDB
71 (0.219 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
71 (0.219 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
71 (0.219 %)RDBMS
71 (0.219 %)Crystal Reports
71 (0.219 %)DTS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
111 (2.407 %)Ant
26 (1.313 %)Eclipse
35 (1.094 %)JIRA
35 (1.094 %)JUnit
43 (0.656 %)InstallShield
52 (0.438 %)ClearCase
52 (0.438 %)Visual Studio
52 (0.438 %)AdminStudio
61 (0.219 %)Subversion
61 (0.219 %)WinRunner
61 (0.219 %)VSS/SourceSafe
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1167 (36.54 %)Banking
2157 (34.35 %)Front Office
3140 (30.63 %)Finance
4103 (22.54 %)Investment Banking
548 (10.50 %)Back Office
615 (3.282 %)Financial Institution
714 (3.063 %)Publishing
810 (2.188 %)Government
95 (1.094 %)Marketing
104 (0.875 %)Education
113 (0.656 %)Telecoms
113 (0.656 %)Law
122 (0.438 %)Electric
122 (0.438 %)Insurance
122 (0.438 %)Wholesale Banking
131 (0.219 %)Corporate Banking
131 (0.219 %)International Banking
131 (0.219 %)Pensions
131 (0.219 %)Home Office
131 (0.219 %)Legal
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1177 (38.73 %)Developer
2170 (37.20 %)Analyst
372 (15.75 %)Java Developer
372 (15.75 %)Business Analyst
459 (12.91 %)Support Analyst
540 (8.753 %)C# Developer
631 (6.783 %)Desktop Support
729 (6.346 %)Data Analyst
823 (5.033 %)Market Analyst
921 (4.595 %)VB Developer
921 (4.595 %)Market Data Analyst
1018 (3.939 %)Support Engineer
1115 (3.282 %)Excel Developer
1115 (3.282 %)GUI Developer
1214 (3.063 %)Software Engineer
1214 (3.063 %)Analyst Developer
1214 (3.063 %)Business Support Analyst
1313 (2.845 %)Senior Software Engineer
1313 (2.845 %)Project Manager
1411 (2.407 %)Banking Business Analyst
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1118 (25.82 %)Fixed Income
266 (14.44 %)Derivative
332 (7.002 %)Blackberry
426 (5.689 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
519 (4.158 %)Credit Derivative
618 (3.939 %)Multithreading
716 (3.501 %)Equities
814 (3.063 %)N-Tier
913 (2.845 %)PDA
1012 (2.626 %)Interest Rate Derivative
118 (1.751 %)Mathematics
126 (1.313 %)Swaptions
135 (1.094 %)DTCC
135 (1.094 %)Open Source
135 (1.094 %)Management Information System
144 (0.875 %)Market Risk
153 (0.656 %)Statistics
153 (0.656 %)Data Integration
153 (0.656 %)Client/Server
162 (0.438 %)AS400
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
169 (15.10 %)UNIX
268 (14.88 %)Windows
341 (8.972 %)Windows XP
437 (8.096 %)Linux
516 (3.501 %)Solaris
610 (2.188 %)Windows Server 2003
79 (1.969 %)Windows 2000
85 (1.094 %)Windows Vista
85 (1.094 %)Windows 7
92 (0.438 %)Windows Server 2008
101 (0.219 %)AIX
101 (0.219 %)Windows NT
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
175 (16.41 %)Electronic Trading
243 (9.409 %)OO
322 (4.814 %)Asset Management
421 (4.595 %)Investment Management
518 (3.939 %)RAD
518 (3.939 %)Risk Management
616 (3.501 %)ITIL
616 (3.501 %)E-Commerce
616 (3.501 %)Business Analysis
714 (3.063 %)Project Management
813 (2.845 %)UML
912 (2.626 %)Fund Management
109 (1.969 %)Cash Management
109 (1.969 %)Workflow
118 (1.751 %)OOD
118 (1.751 %)Migration
118 (1.751 %)User Acceptance Testing
127 (1.532 %)Data Modelling
127 (1.532 %)OOP
136 (1.313 %)SOA
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1111 (24.29 %)Java
1111 (24.29 %)SQL
291 (19.91 %)C#
341 (8.972 %)C++
435 (7.659 %)VBA
532 (7.002 %)VB
619 (4.158 %)VB6
619 (4.158 %)JavaScript
718 (3.939 %)PL/SQL
718 (3.939 %)Shell Script
88 (1.751 %)C
97 (1.532 %)VC++
106 (1.313 %)Perl
106 (1.313 %)VB.NET
115 (1.094 %)Tcl
124 (0.875 %)VBScript
133 (0.656 %)Python
142 (0.438 %)PowerShell
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
114 (3.063 %)Degree
28 (1.751 %)Microsoft Certification
37 (1.532 %)MCP
43 (0.656 %)MOS
52 (0.438 %)MCSE
52 (0.438 %)Cisco Certification
52 (0.438 %)CCNP
52 (0.438 %)CCNA
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (1.313 %)QA
25 (1.094 %)SLA
31 (0.219 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
133 (7.221 %)Active Directory
23 (0.656 %)Citrix Presentation Server
23 (0.656 %)VMware Infrastructure
32 (0.438 %)MetaFrame
41 (0.219 %)XenApp
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
14 (0.875 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
23 (0.656 %)MSI
32 (0.438 %)DameWare
41 (0.219 %)SCOM
41 (0.219 %)NetBackup
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1273 (59.74 %)Reuters
257 (12.47 %)Oracle
355 (12.04 %)Sybase
447 (10.28 %)Tradeweb
543 (9.409 %)Microsoft
639 (8.534 %)TIBCO
738 (8.315 %)ION Trading
823 (5.033 %)eSpeed
922 (4.814 %)Citrix
1013 (2.845 %)Fidessa
1013 (2.845 %)HP
1013 (2.845 %)Lotus
119 (1.969 %)DevExpress
119 (1.969 %)Charles River
128 (1.751 %)Cisco
128 (1.751 %)Murex
128 (1.751 %)thinkFolio
137 (1.532 %)GoldenSource
145 (1.094 %)Telerate
154 (0.875 %)Business Objects