The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Equities 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
Equities
Rank 130 106 59
Rank change year-on-year
-24 -47
Contract jobs citing Equities 338 495 1007
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.561% 1.837% 3.241%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.700% 5.722% 8.555%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 385 743
Average daily rate £510 £550 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.27% -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £406 £400 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 - £11.00
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7191 8651 11771
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.20% 32.11% 37.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4968 5870 7935
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 209 196
Average hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.22% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.49 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.40 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Equities
England

Equities
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Equities Jobs Demand Trend

Equities
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Equities Daily Rate Trend

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Equities Daily Rate Histogram

Equities
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Equities Hourly Rate Trend

Equities
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equities 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 -32 121 £500 -13.04%
Docklands, London +5 11 £500 -11.11%
Canary Wharf -8 7 £600 -
Equities
England

Equities
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 306 (52.04%) Banking
2 253 (43.03%) Investment Banking
2 253 (43.03%) Derivative
3 230 (39.12%) Finance
4 200 (34.01%) Front Office
5 194 (32.99%) Fixed Income
6 186 (31.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 171 (29.08%) SQL
8 98 (16.67%) C#
9 96 (16.33%) UNIX
10 94 (15.99%) Java
11 90 (15.31%) Project Management
12 76 (12.93%) SQL Server
12 76 (12.93%) Agile Software Development
13 67 (11.39%) Business Analysis
14 63 (10.71%) .NET
15 61 (10.37%) Risk Management
16 60 (10.20%) Back Office
16 60 (10.20%) C++
17 58 (9.864%) Perl
18 55 (9.354%) Microsoft
18 55 (9.354%) Asset Management
19 52 (8.844%) TDD
19 52 (8.844%) Multithreading
20 51 (8.673%) Linux
21 50 (8.503%) MS Excel
21 50 (8.503%) QA
22 49 (8.333%) Oracle
23 44 (7.483%) Bloomberg
23 44 (7.483%) Data Analysis

Equities
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 63 (10.71%) .NET
2 39 (6.633%) XML
3 32 (5.442%) WPF
4 29 (4.932%) Spring
5 21 (3.571%) FIX Protocol
5 21 (3.571%) WCF
6 19 (3.231%) Hibernate
7 16 (2.721%) WinForms
8 12 (2.041%) STL
9 11 (1.871%) MDX
10 10 (1.701%) .NET Framework
11 9 (1.531%) JMS
11 9 (1.531%) J2SE
11 9 (1.531%) Web Services
12 8 (1.361%) FpML
12 8 (1.361%) J2EE
12 8 (1.361%) ASP.NET
13 7 (1.190%) LINQ
13 7 (1.190%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 5 (0.850%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 13 (2.211%) Confluence
2 10 (1.701%) Rendezvous
2 10 (1.701%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.020%) Lotus Notes
4 5 (0.850%) Mule
5 4 (0.680%) Oracle Coherence
6 3 (0.510%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.510%) Progress Apama
7 2 (0.340%) TIBCO EMS
7 2 (0.340%) FileNet
7 2 (0.340%) CMS
7 2 (0.340%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.340%) Apache
7 2 (0.340%) GemFire
8 1 (0.170%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.170%) MSMQ
8 1 (0.170%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (0.170%) WebLogic Integration
8 1 (0.170%) Documentum
Applications
1 50 (8.503%) MS Excel
2 26 (4.422%) MS Visio
2 26 (4.422%) MS Project
3 16 (2.721%) MS Office
4 10 (1.701%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (0.340%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.531%) Global One
2 5 (0.850%) LongView
2 5 (0.850%) Summit
3 4 (0.680%) LatentZero
3 4 (0.680%) Sophis RISQUE
3 4 (0.680%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.170%) Loanet
4 1 (0.170%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.170%) Capstone
4 1 (0.170%) Tesseract
4 1 (0.170%) Minerva
4 1 (0.170%) Sentinel
4 1 (0.170%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.170%) Kondor+
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.061%) HTTP
2 16 (2.721%) SAN
3 12 (2.041%) LDAP
4 11 (1.871%) DNS
5 10 (1.701%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.850%) HTTPS
6 5 (0.850%) Intranet
6 5 (0.850%) Internet
7 3 (0.510%) Extranet
8 1 (0.170%) VPN
8 1 (0.170%) Firewall
8 1 (0.170%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (12.93%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.401%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 19 (3.231%) OLAP
4 17 (2.891%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.211%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (2.041%) Oracle OLAP
6 12 (2.041%) Data Mining
7 11 (1.871%) SQL Server 2008
8 10 (1.701%) Oracle 8/8i
8 10 (1.701%) OLTP
8 10 (1.701%) RDBMS
9 9 (1.531%) DTS
9 9 (1.531%) Oracle 11g
10 8 (1.361%) QlikView
11 7 (1.190%) Big Data
11 7 (1.190%) KDB
12 6 (1.020%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 6 (1.020%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.850%) DB2
14 4 (0.680%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 35 (5.952%) JIRA
2 27 (4.592%) QuickTest Pro
3 17 (2.891%) Subversion
4 13 (2.211%) JUnit
5 11 (1.871%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.871%) Maven
6 10 (1.701%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.361%) Jenkins
8 6 (1.020%) FitNesse
9 5 (0.850%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.850%) Selenium
10 2 (0.340%) NUnit
10 2 (0.340%) CruiseControl
10 2 (0.340%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.340%) Git (software)
10 2 (0.340%) ReSharper
10 2 (0.340%) DbUnit
10 2 (0.340%) Hudson
11 1 (0.170%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.170%) NetBeans IDE
General
1 306 (52.04%) Banking
2 253 (43.03%) Investment Banking
3 230 (39.12%) Finance
4 200 (34.01%) Front Office
5 60 (10.20%) Back Office
6 25 (4.252%) Financial Institution
7 15 (2.551%) Retail
8 10 (1.701%) Legal
9 6 (1.020%) French Language
10 5 (0.850%) Advertising
10 5 (0.850%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.340%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.170%) German Language
12 1 (0.170%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.170%) Marketing
12 1 (0.170%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.170%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 250 (42.52%) Analyst
2 172 (29.25%) Developer
3 157 (26.70%) Business Analyst
4 48 (8.163%) Project Manager
5 41 (6.973%) Java Developer
6 34 (5.782%) C# Developer
6 34 (5.782%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 33 (5.612%) Support Analyst
8 30 (5.102%) Senior Developer
9 28 (4.762%) Senior Analyst
9 28 (4.762%) C++ Developer
10 21 (3.571%) Banking Business Analyst
11 19 (3.231%) Senior Business Analyst
11 19 (3.231%) Database Developer
12 18 (3.061%) Technical Analyst
13 17 (2.891%) Tester
14 15 (2.551%) Applications Support
14 15 (2.551%) Test Analyst
14 15 (2.551%) Technical Business Analyst
15 14 (2.381%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 253 (43.03%) Derivative
2 194 (32.99%) Fixed Income
3 186 (31.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 40 (6.803%) Equity Derivative
5 31 (5.272%) Market Risk
6 23 (3.912%) Credit Risk
7 20 (3.401%) PMI
8 18 (3.061%) Hedge funds
8 18 (3.061%) Credit Derivative
9 14 (2.381%) Computer Science
10 13 (2.211%) Management Information System
10 13 (2.211%) Reference Data
11 12 (2.041%) N-Tier
12 9 (1.531%) Open Source
13 8 (1.361%) SWIFT
14 7 (1.190%) Visualisation
14 7 (1.190%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 4 (0.680%) Data Integration
15 4 (0.680%) Wiki
16 3 (0.510%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 96 (16.33%) UNIX
2 51 (8.673%) Linux
3 35 (5.952%) Windows
4 17 (2.891%) Solaris
5 11 (1.871%) SUSE
6 7 (1.190%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.510%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.170%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (15.31%) Project Management
2 76 (12.93%) Agile Software Development
3 67 (11.39%) Business Analysis
4 61 (10.37%) Risk Management
5 55 (9.354%) Asset Management
6 52 (8.844%) TDD
6 52 (8.844%) Multithreading
7 44 (7.483%) Data Analysis
8 36 (6.122%) Electronic Trading
9 34 (5.782%) UML
9 34 (5.782%) Scrum
10 33 (5.612%) Portfolio Management
11 32 (5.442%) Regression Testing
11 32 (5.442%) Investment Management
12 30 (5.102%) PRINCE2
13 29 (4.932%) ITIL
13 29 (4.932%) User Acceptance Testing
14 28 (4.762%) Migration
15 26 (4.422%) IT Governance
16 25 (4.252%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 171 (29.08%) SQL
2 98 (16.67%) C#
3 94 (15.99%) Java
4 60 (10.20%) C++
5 58 (9.864%) Perl
6 34 (5.782%) Shell Script
7 32 (5.442%) VBA
8 26 (4.422%) PL/SQL
9 24 (4.082%) Python
10 20 (3.401%) C
11 18 (3.061%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.871%) JavaScript
13 9 (1.531%) VB
13 9 (1.531%) XPath
14 6 (1.020%) Ruby
15 4 (0.680%) Korn
15 4 (0.680%) VB6
15 4 (0.680%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.340%) Scala
16 2 (0.340%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (5.272%) Degree
2 24 (4.082%) PMI Certification
3 19 (3.231%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 8 (1.361%) ISEB
5 4 (0.680%) PMP
6 3 (0.510%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.340%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.340%) MBA
8 1 (0.170%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.503%) QA
2 22 (3.741%) COBIT
3 10 (1.701%) SLA
4 5 (0.850%) Basel III
5 1 (0.170%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.170%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.170%) MiFID
System Software
1 11 (1.871%) NFS
2 10 (1.701%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 3 (0.510%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (5.782%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (0.680%) Netcool
3 2 (0.340%) OpenView
4 1 (0.170%) Control-M
Vendors
1 55 (9.354%) Microsoft
2 49 (8.333%) Oracle
3 44 (7.483%) Bloomberg
4 40 (6.803%) Sybase
5 38 (6.463%) Fidessa
6 37 (6.293%) Reuters
7 22 (3.741%) TIBCO
8 18 (3.061%) Charles River
9 15 (2.551%) Business Objects
10 14 (2.381%) Murex
11 12 (2.041%) thinkFolio
12 11 (1.871%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.701%) Thunderhead
13 10 (1.701%) Niku
13 10 (1.701%) Calypso
13 10 (1.701%) Cadis
14 8 (1.361%) Sophis
15 7 (1.190%) Lotus
15 7 (1.190%) Algorithmics
16 6 (1.020%) Cognos
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