The first table below looks at the demand for Eagle PACE 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 Eagle PACE 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
Eagle Investment Systems PACE
Rank 363 404 431
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +27
Contract jobs citing Eagle PACE 14 11 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.065% 0.041% 0.035%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.811% 0.501% 0.413%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 8
Average daily rate £525 £550 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £386
10% offered a daily rate of more than £640 £775 £608
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 - -
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%
Eagle PACE
England

Eagle PACE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Eagle PACE Jobs Demand Trend

Eagle PACE
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Eagle PACE Daily Rate Trend

Eagle PACE
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Eagle PACE Daily Rate Histogram

Eagle PACE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Eagle PACE 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 +16 8 £538 +13.15%
Eagle PACE
England

Eagle PACE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 19 (63.33%) Asset Management
2 18 (60.00%) Investment Management
3 17 (56.67%) Cadis
4 15 (50.00%) Finance
5 13 (43.33%) thinkFolio
6 12 (40.00%) LatentZero
7 11 (36.67%) Back Office
8 9 (30.00%) Eagle STAR
9 8 (26.67%) Banking
9 8 (26.67%) Data Management
9 8 (26.67%) Investment Banking
10 7 (23.33%) SQL
11 6 (20.00%) Front Office
11 6 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (16.67%) Fund Management
12 5 (16.67%) CFA
12 5 (16.67%) MBA
12 5 (16.67%) PMP
12 5 (16.67%) PMI Certification
12 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
12 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (13.33%) Reuters
13 4 (13.33%) Bloomberg
13 4 (13.33%) VBA
13 4 (13.33%) Project Management
14 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
14 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Management
14 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
14 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
14 3 (10.00%) Tesseract

Eagle PACE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (3.333%) WinForms
1 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.333%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.333%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Visio
1 2 (6.667%) MS Project
1 2 (6.667%) MS Office
2 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (40.00%) LatentZero
2 9 (30.00%) Eagle STAR
3 3 (10.00%) Tesseract
3 3 (10.00%) Minerva
4 2 (6.667%) Sentinel
4 2 (6.667%) Capstone
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) HTTP
2 1 (3.333%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Back Office
3 8 (26.67%) Banking
3 8 (26.67%) Investment Banking
4 6 (20.00%) Front Office
5 2 (6.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (76.67%) Analyst
2 14 (46.67%) Business Analyst
3 8 (26.67%) Test Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Test Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Business Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Data Manager
6 1 (3.333%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.333%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.333%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.333%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Asset Management
2 18 (60.00%) Investment Management
3 8 (26.67%) Data Management
4 6 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (16.67%) Fund Management
6 4 (13.33%) Project Management
7 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Management
7 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
7 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
8 2 (6.667%) Data Architecture
8 2 (6.667%) Fund Accounting
8 2 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (6.667%) Migration
9 1 (3.333%) RAD
9 1 (3.333%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (3.333%) Functional Testing
9 1 (3.333%) Risk Analytics
9 1 (3.333%) Analytics
9 1 (3.333%) Data Migration
9 1 (3.333%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) VBA
3 1 (3.333%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) CFA
1 5 (16.67%) MBA
1 5 (16.67%) PMP
1 5 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 2 (6.667%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.667%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Cadis
2 13 (43.33%) thinkFolio
3 4 (13.33%) Reuters
3 4 (13.33%) Bloomberg
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.667%) GoldenSource
5 2 (6.667%) Charles River
5 2 (6.667%) Informatica
6 1 (3.333%) Twitter