The first table below looks at the demand for Capstone skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Capstone over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Business Applications category for the London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fidessa LatentZero Capstone
Rank 363 403 433
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +30
Contract jobs citing Capstone 14 12 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.065% 0.045% 0.029%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.811% 0.547% 0.338%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 1
Average daily rate £500 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £675 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
1726 2194 2661
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.970% 8.144% 8.563%
Number of daily rates quoted 1021 1194 1598
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £430 £420
% change year-on-year
-1.16% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 22
Average hourly rate £32.58 £41.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.53% +22.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.40 £15.80 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £90.00 £52.50 £62.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
Capstone
England

Capstone
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Capstone across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

London Capstone Jobs Demand Trend

Capstone
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Capstone Daily Rate Trend

Capstone
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Capstone across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Capstone Daily Rate Histogram

Capstone
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capstone within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London +14 7 £525 +31.25%
Capstone
England

Capstone
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Capstone 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 Capstone.

1 18 (81.82%) Tesseract
1 18 (81.82%) Minerva
2 17 (77.27%) Sentinel
3 13 (59.09%) LatentZero
4 12 (54.55%) Investment Management
5 10 (45.45%) Asset Management
5 10 (45.45%) Front Office
6 9 (40.91%) thinkFolio
7 7 (31.82%) SQL
8 6 (27.27%) Benchmarking
9 5 (22.73%) Finance
9 5 (22.73%) Charles River
10 4 (18.18%) Performance Testing
10 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
10 4 (18.18%) Fidessa
10 4 (18.18%) VBA
10 4 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
11 3 (13.64%) Twitter
11 3 (13.64%) HTTP
11 3 (13.64%) HTTPS
11 3 (13.64%) Fund Management
11 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
11 3 (13.64%) Banking
11 3 (13.64%) Workflow
11 3 (13.64%) Fixed Income
12 2 (9.091%) WinForms
12 2 (9.091%) Business Analysis
12 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
12 2 (9.091%) Eagle PACE

Capstone
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Capstone 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 Capstone. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (9.091%) WinForms
1 2 (9.091%) .NET
1 2 (9.091%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.545%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) MS Project
1 2 (9.091%) MS Office
1 2 (9.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (81.82%) Tesseract
1 18 (81.82%) Minerva
2 17 (77.27%) Sentinel
3 13 (59.09%) LatentZero
4 2 (9.091%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (9.091%) LongView
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) HTTP
1 3 (13.64%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (9.091%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.545%) DTS
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (45.45%) Front Office
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 2 (9.091%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Test Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Support Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Applications Support
4 2 (9.091%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.091%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Test Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (4.545%) Support Specialist
5 1 (4.545%) Applications Support Specialist
5 1 (4.545%) Functional Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Fixed Income
2 2 (9.091%) Mainframe
2 2 (9.091%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.545%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Investment Management
2 10 (45.45%) Asset Management
3 6 (27.27%) Benchmarking
4 4 (18.18%) Performance Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Fund Management
5 3 (13.64%) Workflow
6 2 (9.091%) Business Analysis
6 2 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (9.091%) Project Management
6 2 (9.091%) Portfolio Management
7 1 (4.545%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (4.545%) RAD
7 1 (4.545%) Unit Testing
7 1 (4.545%) Test Management
7 1 (4.545%) Project Planning
7 1 (4.545%) Software Testing
7 1 (4.545%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) VBA
3 2 (9.091%) C#
3 2 (9.091%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) thinkFolio
2 5 (22.73%) Charles River
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 4 (18.18%) Fidessa
4 3 (13.64%) Twitter
5 2 (9.091%) Cadis
6 1 (4.545%) Reuters
6 1 (4.545%) Bloomberg