The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Fidessa 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 Fidessa over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Fidessa Group plc.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fidessa
Rank 342 362 290
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -72
Contract jobs citing Fidessa 39 40 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.180% 0.149% 0.479%
As % of the Vendors category 0.398% 0.335% 1.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 82
Average daily rate £500 £525 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £440 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £613 £600 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £675 - £338
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9803 11923 13860
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.19% 44.40% 45.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6187 7228 8368
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £270 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 289 401
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.50 £39.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Fidessa
England

Fidessa
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Fidessa Jobs Demand Trend

Fidessa
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Fidessa Daily Rate Trend

Fidessa
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fidessa across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Fidessa Daily Rate Histogram

Fidessa
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Fidessa Hourly Rate Trend

Fidessa
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fidessa within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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 +21 16 £500 +0.05%
Canary Wharf - 2 £355 -
Fidessa
England

Fidessa
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Fidessa 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 Fidessa.

1 37 (56.06%) Equities
2 31 (46.97%) Front Office
3 24 (36.36%) Finance
4 19 (28.79%) Bloomberg
5 18 (27.27%) Reuters
5 18 (27.27%) Banking
6 15 (22.73%) Windows
7 13 (19.70%) Investment Banking
7 13 (19.70%) Derivative
7 13 (19.70%) Back Office
8 10 (15.15%) MS Office
9 9 (13.64%) C#
9 9 (13.64%) SQL
9 9 (13.64%) Financial Institution
10 8 (12.12%) Fixed Income
10 8 (12.12%) LatentZero
10 8 (12.12%) Business Analysis
10 8 (12.12%) Hedge funds
11 7 (10.61%) Windows 7
11 7 (10.61%) Windows XP
11 7 (10.61%) Sentinel
11 7 (10.61%) Asset Management
11 7 (10.61%) Equity Derivative
11 7 (10.61%) WPF
11 7 (10.61%) Workflow
12 6 (9.091%) LINQ
12 6 (9.091%) Strategic Management
12 6 (9.091%) UNIX
12 6 (9.091%) .NET
13 5 (7.576%) Lotus Notes

Fidessa
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (10.61%) WPF
2 6 (9.091%) LINQ
2 6 (9.091%) .NET
3 4 (6.061%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (3.030%) WCF
5 1 (1.515%) XML
5 1 (1.515%) XSLT
5 1 (1.515%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.576%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (3.030%) Confluence
3 1 (1.515%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 10 (15.15%) MS Office
2 2 (3.030%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (12.12%) LatentZero
2 7 (10.61%) Sentinel
3 4 (6.061%) ION MarketView
3 4 (6.061%) Capstone
3 4 (6.061%) Tesseract
3 4 (6.061%) Minerva
4 1 (1.515%) LongView
4 1 (1.515%) Endur
4 1 (1.515%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.030%) HTTP
1 2 (3.030%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.515%) LAN
2 1 (1.515%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.030%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.515%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.030%) JIRA
2 1 (1.515%) Selenium
2 1 (1.515%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.515%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (1.515%) Subversion
General
1 31 (46.97%) Front Office
2 24 (36.36%) Finance
3 18 (27.27%) Banking
4 13 (19.70%) Investment Banking
4 13 (19.70%) Back Office
5 9 (13.64%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.030%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.030%) French Language
7 1 (1.515%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (56.06%) Analyst
2 23 (34.85%) Business Analyst
3 15 (22.73%) Fidessa Analyst
4 13 (19.70%) Fidessa Business Analyst
5 12 (18.18%) Support Analyst
6 8 (12.12%) Developer
7 7 (10.61%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 7 (10.61%) C# Developer
8 6 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (9.091%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (7.576%) Applications Support
10 4 (6.061%) Senior Fidessa Business Analyst
10 4 (6.061%) Senior Fidessa Analyst
11 3 (4.545%) .NET Developer
11 3 (4.545%) Applications Support Analyst
12 2 (3.030%) Fidessa Developer
12 2 (3.030%) 2nd Line Support
12 2 (3.030%) 1st Line Support
12 2 (3.030%) Support Engineer
12 2 (3.030%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 37 (56.06%) Equities
2 13 (19.70%) Derivative
3 8 (12.12%) Fixed Income
3 8 (12.12%) Hedge funds
4 7 (10.61%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (4.545%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.545%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.030%) Mainframe
6 2 (3.030%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.515%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.515%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.515%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.73%) Windows
2 7 (10.61%) Windows XP
2 7 (10.61%) Windows 7
3 6 (9.091%) UNIX
4 4 (6.061%) Linux
5 3 (4.545%) Solaris
6 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.515%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (12.12%) Business Analysis
2 7 (10.61%) Workflow
2 7 (10.61%) Asset Management
3 6 (9.091%) Strategic Management
4 5 (7.576%) Project Management
4 5 (7.576%) Risk Management
4 5 (7.576%) Electronic Trading
5 4 (6.061%) Operations Management
6 3 (4.545%) Fund Management
6 3 (4.545%) Information Security
6 3 (4.545%) Data Modelling
6 3 (4.545%) Investment Management
6 3 (4.545%) Automated Testing
7 2 (3.030%) Change Control
7 2 (3.030%) Time Management
7 2 (3.030%) Test Automation
7 2 (3.030%) Cash Management
7 2 (3.030%) Regression Testing
7 2 (3.030%) TDD
7 2 (3.030%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.64%) C#
1 9 (13.64%) SQL
2 3 (4.545%) Perl
2 3 (4.545%) VB
3 2 (3.030%) VBScript
3 2 (3.030%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.030%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.515%) VBA
4 1 (1.515%) Python
4 1 (1.515%) Tcl
4 1 (1.515%) C++
4 1 (1.515%) Java
4 1 (1.515%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.061%) QA
2 2 (3.030%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.061%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 19 (28.79%) Bloomberg
2 18 (27.27%) Reuters
3 5 (7.576%) ION Trading
3 5 (7.576%) Lotus
4 4 (6.061%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.061%) thinkFolio
5 3 (4.545%) Tradeweb
5 3 (4.545%) Murex
5 3 (4.545%) Charles River
6 2 (3.030%) CQG
6 2 (3.030%) Twitter
7 1 (1.515%) GL TRADE
7 1 (1.515%) LANSA
7 1 (1.515%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.515%) Algorithmics
7 1 (1.515%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.515%) HP
7 1 (1.515%) Intel
7 1 (1.515%) Citrix
7 1 (1.515%) NetApp
City, London
Application Support, Front Office, Bloomberg, Reuters, Market Data, Murex, Fidessa, Back Office My Financial Client currently require a Front Office Trade Floor Support Analyst. Ideally you will come...
Roc Search
Posted: 13 May 2013
London
My client, a leading investment bank, is looking for a business analyst/project manager to join part of a global team working on the cash equity fidessa system...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £550 - £600 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
Fidessa Analyst / PM - Banking - London - Up to £600pd Our client, an investment bank, are currently looking for a Fidessa Analyst / PM to work in their London office, on...
Orgtel
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
Fidessa Analyst/PM - Banking - London - Our investment bank client is currently looking for a Fidessa Analyst/PM to work in their London office, on a long-term contract...
IT Human Resources
Rate: £600 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
London
A major investment bank is seeking a QA analyst to take ownership of a stream of initiatives within their global Equities Flow and Algo trading business... You will...
Hatstand Limited
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013