London FIX Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the FIX Analyst role in IT contracts within the London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited FIX Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

FIX Analyst
Location City of London England Feltham London Middlesex South East UK	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	393	439
Rank change on same period last year	+46
Matching contract IT job ads	11	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	0.036 %	0.090 %
Daily rates quoted	8	22
Average minimum daily rate	£438	£391
Average daily rate	£455	£441
% change on same period last year	+3.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£473	£491
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	£525
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles London
Matching contract IT job ads	30304	43510
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	39.99 %	43.33 %
Daily rates quoted	12933	16283
Average minimum daily rate	£407	£422
Average daily rate	£437	£451
% change on same period last year	-3.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£479
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1648	2229
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.96	£24.09
Average hourly rate	£24.58	£25.81
% change on same period last year	-4.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.20	£27.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
FIX Analyst England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing FIX Analyst across the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FIX Analyst within the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
City of London	-21	8	£479	+9.52 %
Feltham	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited FIX Analyst in their job title 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 with FIX Analyst in their job title.

1 34 (75.56 %) FIX Protocol 2 32 (71.11 %) UNIX 3 26 (57.78 %) Perl 4 22 (48.89 %) Front Office 5 21 (46.67 %) Finance 6 16 (35.56 %) LatentZero 7 15 (33.33 %) SQL 8 14 (31.11 %) .NET 9 13 (28.89 %) VB 9 13 (28.89 %) VBA 9 13 (28.89 %) Shell Script 10 12 (26.67 %) Fidessa 10 12 (26.67 %) ASP.NET 10 12 (26.67 %) VB.NET 10 12 (26.67 %) Banking

11 10 (22.22 %) MS Office 12 9 (20.00 %) Oracle 12 9 (20.00 %) Process Management 13 5 (11.11 %) Financial Institution 13 5 (11.11 %) Investment Banking 14 4 (8.889 %) MQSeries 15 3 (6.667 %) Java 15 3 (6.667 %) Solaris 15 3 (6.667 %) Asset Management 15 3 (6.667 %) QA 15 3 (6.667 %) Minerva 16 2 (4.444 %) Sentinel 16 2 (4.444 %) Capstone 16 2 (4.444 %) Derivative 16 2 (4.444 %) Linux

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited FIX Analyst in their job title 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 with FIX Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 34 (75.56 %) FIX Protocol 2 14 (31.11 %) .NET 3 12 (26.67 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (4.444 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (8.889 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 10 (22.22 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (6.667 %) Minerva 2 2 (4.444 %) Sentinel 2 2 (4.444 %) Capstone 3 1 (2.222 %) Tesseract
General 1 22 (48.89 %) Front Office 2 21 (46.67 %) Finance 3 12 (26.67 %) Banking 4 5 (11.11 %) Financial Institution 4 5 (11.11 %) Investment Banking	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.444 %) Derivative 2 1 (2.222 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 1 (2.222 %) Equity Derivative 2 1 (2.222 %) Fixed Income 2 1 (2.222 %) Equities
Operating Systems 1 32 (71.11 %) UNIX 2 3 (6.667 %) Solaris 3 2 (4.444 %) Linux 3 2 (4.444 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (20.00 %) Process Management 2 3 (6.667 %) Asset Management 3 1 (2.222 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (2.222 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.222 %) Requirements Analysis 3 1 (2.222 %) Automated Testing 3 1 (2.222 %) Fund Management 3 1 (2.222 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (2.222 %) Electronic Trading 3 1 (2.222 %) Investment Management 3 1 (2.222 %) V-Model 3 1 (2.222 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 26 (57.78 %) Perl 2 15 (33.33 %) SQL 3 13 (28.89 %) VB 3 13 (28.89 %) VBA 3 13 (28.89 %) Shell Script 4 12 (26.67 %) VB.NET 5 3 (6.667 %) Java 6 2 (4.444 %) C++	Qualifications 1 1 (2.222 %) ISEB 1 1 (2.222 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.667 %) QA	Systems Management 1 1 (2.222 %) OpenView 1 1 (2.222 %) BMC PATROL
Vendors 1 16 (35.56 %) LatentZero 2 12 (26.67 %) Fidessa 3 9 (20.00 %) Oracle 4 1 (2.222 %) HP 4 1 (2.222 %) BMC 4 1 (2.222 %) VERITAS 4 1 (2.222 %) Tradeweb