The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fixed Income over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fixed Income
Rank 55 60 29
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -31
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 750 814 1694
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 3.289% 3.062% 5.384%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.930% 9.583% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 696 1313
Average daily rate £550 £550 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 £22.00 £40.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.45% -46.01%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year
-22.72% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7553 8494 11818
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.12% 31.95% 37.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5226 5808 8072
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 192 165
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +4.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £13.00 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £52.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Fixed Income
England

Fixed Income
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Fixed Income Jobs Demand Trend

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Fixed Income Daily Rate Trend

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fixed Income across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Fixed Income Daily Rate Histogram

Fixed Income
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Fixed Income Hourly Rate Trend

Fixed Income
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -4 234 £550 - 100
Docklands, London +10 12 £500 -2.43%
Canary Wharf +4 10 £550 -5.17%
Bromley - - - -
Fixed Income
England

Fixed Income
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income.

1 633 (45.41%) Banking
2 604 (43.33%) Front Office
3 474 (34.00%) Investment Banking
4 473 (33.93%) Derivative
5 452 (32.42%) SQL
6 450 (32.28%) Finance
7 433 (31.06%) C#
8 303 (21.74%) .NET
9 289 (20.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 243 (17.43%) Java
11 230 (16.50%) SQL Server
12 218 (15.64%) Oracle
13 205 (14.71%) Microsoft
14 200 (14.35%) Equities
15 195 (13.99%) C++
16 179 (12.84%) UNIX
17 172 (12.34%) Multithreading
18 171 (12.27%) Electronic Trading
19 168 (12.05%) Agile Software Development
20 166 (11.91%) Windows
21 155 (11.12%) Project Management
22 137 (9.828%) MS Excel
23 136 (9.756%) Python
24 135 (9.684%) XML
25 129 (9.254%) WPF
26 127 (9.110%) Business Analysis
27 120 (8.608%) Analytics
28 113 (8.106%) TDD
28 113 (8.106%) Linux
29 108 (7.747%) Credit Derivative

Fixed Income
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 303 (21.74%) .NET
2 135 (9.684%) XML
3 129 (9.254%) WPF
4 68 (4.878%) STL
5 57 (4.089%) WCF
6 55 (3.945%) WinForms
7 54 (3.874%) ASP.NET
8 47 (3.372%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 47 (3.372%) Rendezvous
9 43 (3.085%) Middleware
10 41 (2.941%) Spring
11 39 (2.798%) Ajax
12 38 (2.726%) Hibernate
13 33 (2.367%) Silverlight
13 33 (2.367%) MDX
14 31 (2.224%) HTML
15 30 (2.152%) Web Services
16 29 (2.080%) J2EE
17 26 (1.865%) SAML
18 21 (1.506%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 43 (3.085%) Oracle Coherence
2 21 (1.506%) CMS
3 19 (1.363%) Oracle Workflow
4 12 (0.861%) MTS
5 9 (0.646%) Confluence
6 8 (0.574%) GemFire
7 7 (0.502%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.502%) MQSeries
8 6 (0.430%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.430%) Apache
8 6 (0.430%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.430%) Alfresco
8 6 (0.430%) Progress Apama
9 5 (0.359%) Liferay
9 5 (0.359%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.287%) FileNet
11 3 (0.215%) Documentum
11 3 (0.215%) TIBCO EMS
12 2 (0.143%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.143%) IIS
Applications
1 137 (9.828%) MS Excel
2 39 (2.798%) Spreadsheet
3 27 (1.937%) MS Project
3 27 (1.937%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.435%) MS PowerPoint
5 16 (1.148%) MS Office
6 9 (0.646%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.215%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 67 (4.806%) ION MarketView
2 24 (1.722%) LatentZero
3 23 (1.650%) Summit
4 14 (1.004%) RMDS
5 11 (0.789%) Minerva
6 8 (0.574%) Capstone
7 6 (0.430%) LongView
7 6 (0.430%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 5 (0.359%) Decalog
8 5 (0.359%) Adaptiv
9 4 (0.287%) Sentinel
10 3 (0.215%) Eagle PACE
10 3 (0.215%) Tesseract
11 2 (0.143%) Kondor+
11 2 (0.143%) SimCorp Dimension
11 2 (0.143%) SunGard Martini
12 1 (0.072%) 3000 Xtra
12 1 (0.072%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.726%) Kerberos
2 33 (2.367%) Internet
3 25 (1.793%) HTTP
4 24 (1.722%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.506%) Firewall
6 6 (0.430%) SSL
6 6 (0.430%) AMQP
7 5 (0.359%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.359%) Intranet
8 2 (0.143%) Extranet
8 2 (0.143%) LAN
8 2 (0.143%) LDAP
8 2 (0.143%) DNS
9 1 (0.072%) VPN
9 1 (0.072%) SMTP
9 1 (0.072%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (16.50%) SQL Server
2 75 (5.380%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 62 (4.448%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 57 (4.089%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (2.726%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 36 (2.582%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 36 (2.582%) SQL Server 2008
7 35 (2.511%) RDBMS
8 34 (2.439%) Oracle 8/8i
9 25 (1.793%) SQL Server 2012
10 24 (1.722%) Data Mart
11 23 (1.650%) Spotfire
12 18 (1.291%) Data Mining
13 17 (1.220%) Oracle 11g
14 16 (1.148%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (1.076%) OLAP
16 14 (1.004%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
17 13 (0.933%) Oracle 10g
18 11 (0.789%) BusinessObjects XI
18 11 (0.789%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 57 (4.089%) Visual Studio
2 48 (3.443%) TeamCity
3 44 (3.156%) CruiseControl
4 33 (2.367%) JIRA
5 31 (2.224%) Subversion
6 25 (1.793%) Oracle Forms
7 24 (1.722%) QuickTest Pro
8 22 (1.578%) Maven
9 17 (1.220%) Eclipse
10 16 (1.148%) JUnit
11 15 (1.076%) MSBuild
12 10 (0.717%) ClearCase
13 9 (0.646%) NUnit
14 8 (0.574%) Hudson
15 4 (0.287%) Git (software)
15 4 (0.287%) Selenium
16 3 (0.215%) Team Foundation Server
16 3 (0.215%) TestDirector
17 2 (0.143%) ReSharper
17 2 (0.143%) Ant
General
1 633 (45.41%) Banking
2 604 (43.33%) Front Office
3 474 (34.00%) Investment Banking
4 450 (32.28%) Finance
5 86 (6.169%) Back Office
6 47 (3.372%) Financial Institution
7 28 (2.009%) Retail
8 6 (0.430%) Marketing
8 6 (0.430%) Advertising
9 5 (0.359%) Telecoms
9 5 (0.359%) Legal
10 3 (0.215%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.143%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.143%) French Language
11 2 (0.143%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 611 (43.83%) Developer
2 498 (35.72%) Analyst
3 318 (22.81%) Business Analyst
4 238 (17.07%) C# Developer
5 128 (9.182%) Java Developer
6 125 (8.967%) C++ Developer
7 96 (6.887%) Project Manager
8 81 (5.811%) Senior Developer
9 74 (5.308%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 74 (5.308%) Support Analyst
10 59 (4.232%) .NET Developer
11 55 (3.945%) C# .NET Developer
11 55 (3.945%) Banking Business Analyst
12 44 (3.156%) C++/C# Developer
13 43 (3.085%) Security Analyst
14 42 (3.013%) Application Security Analyst
14 42 (3.013%) Senior Analyst
15 35 (2.511%) Excel Developer
15 35 (2.511%) Senior C# Developer
15 35 (2.511%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 473 (33.93%) Derivative
2 289 (20.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 200 (14.35%) Equities
4 108 (7.747%) Credit Derivative
5 100 (7.174%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 74 (5.308%) Credit Risk
7 57 (4.089%) Market Risk
8 35 (2.511%) Visualisation
9 30 (2.152%) Grid Computing
10 29 (2.080%) Equity Derivative
11 28 (2.009%) Computer Science
12 26 (1.865%) Mathematics
13 25 (1.793%) Swaptions
14 23 (1.650%) Reference Data
15 22 (1.578%) PMI
15 22 (1.578%) Wiki
16 17 (1.220%) Exotic Derivative
16 17 (1.220%) Physics
17 14 (1.004%) Hedge funds
18 13 (0.933%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 179 (12.84%) UNIX
2 166 (11.91%) Windows
3 113 (8.106%) Linux
4 26 (1.865%) Windows 7
5 22 (1.578%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.506%) Windows XP
7 6 (0.430%) Solaris
7 6 (0.430%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.287%) AIX
9 2 (0.143%) SUSE
9 2 (0.143%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (12.34%) Multithreading
2 171 (12.27%) Electronic Trading
3 168 (12.05%) Agile Software Development
4 155 (11.12%) Project Management
5 127 (9.110%) Business Analysis
6 120 (8.608%) Analytics
7 113 (8.106%) TDD
8 103 (7.389%) Risk Management
9 94 (6.743%) Asset Management
10 83 (5.954%) OO
11 78 (5.595%) E-Commerce
12 74 (5.308%) Business Intelligence
13 61 (4.376%) Workflow
14 52 (3.730%) UML
14 52 (3.730%) Investment Management
15 50 (3.587%) Scrum
16 48 (3.443%) Continuous Integration
17 45 (3.228%) BDD
18 44 (3.156%) RAD
19 43 (3.085%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 452 (32.42%) SQL
2 433 (31.06%) C#
3 243 (17.43%) Java
4 195 (13.99%) C++
5 136 (9.756%) Python
6 96 (6.887%) VBA
7 75 (5.380%) Perl
8 60 (4.304%) JavaScript
9 37 (2.654%) C
10 27 (1.937%) VB
11 26 (1.865%) PL/SQL
12 18 (1.291%) Shell Script
13 12 (0.861%) Scala
14 11 (0.789%) XAML
15 10 (0.717%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.646%) VC++
17 6 (0.430%) MATLAB
17 6 (0.430%) Groovy
18 4 (0.287%) Korn
18 4 (0.287%) VB6
Qualifications
1 75 (5.380%) Degree
2 24 (1.722%) PMI Certification
3 19 (1.363%) ISEB
4 16 (1.148%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 14 (1.004%) PhD
6 6 (0.430%) ISTQB
6 6 (0.430%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.359%) CBAP
8 4 (0.287%) CFA
9 3 (0.215%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.143%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.143%) MBA
10 2 (0.143%) CISSP
10 2 (0.143%) PMP
10 2 (0.143%) MCSE
11 1 (0.072%) APMP
11 1 (0.072%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.072%) MCP
11 1 (0.072%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.072%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (4.376%) QA
2 28 (2.009%) COBIT
3 19 (1.363%) ISO 9001
4 7 (0.502%) Basel III
4 7 (0.502%) Basel II
5 6 (0.430%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.287%) SLA
7 2 (0.143%) MiFID
7 2 (0.143%) FATCA
8 1 (0.072%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.072%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (0.359%) VMware ESX
2 3 (0.215%) OpenSSO
3 2 (0.143%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.143%) SRDF
4 1 (0.072%) XenApp
4 1 (0.072%) NFS
4 1 (0.072%) NDS
Systems Management
1 38 (2.726%) CA SiteMinder
2 31 (2.224%) HP Quality Center
3 12 (0.861%) BladeLogic
3 12 (0.861%) Control-M
4 9 (0.646%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (0.502%) Splunk
6 1 (0.072%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.072%) SCCM
6 1 (0.072%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 218 (15.64%) Oracle
2 205 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 95 (6.815%) Bloomberg
4 91 (6.528%) TIBCO
4 91 (6.528%) Reuters
5 80 (5.739%) ION Trading
6 73 (5.237%) Sybase
7 41 (2.941%) CA
8 38 (2.726%) Charles River
9 35 (2.511%) thinkFolio
10 31 (2.224%) HP
11 28 (2.009%) eSpeed
11 28 (2.009%) Tradeweb
12 27 (1.937%) Business Objects
12 27 (1.937%) Murex
13 25 (1.793%) MarketAxess
14 23 (1.650%) Red Hat
14 23 (1.650%) Calypso
15 15 (1.076%) DataSynapse
16 14 (1.004%) IBM
City of London
You will be speaking to the business - so an appreciation for Fixed Income and Credit product will be needed, however you will not be needed to SME in...
Real Staffing
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
A Quantitative Developer accountable for the integrity and ongoing development of the IT Platform and infrastructure and also for facilitating the development of the Index business through the...
Incisive Ltd
Rate: £580 - £680 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
You will be speaking to the business - so an appreciation for Fixed Income and Credit product will be needed, however you will not be needed to SME in...
Real Staffing
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
This role offers business exposure to Commodities, Fixed Income and FX. It also offers the C# Developer the chance to get hands on with a wide variety of...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £550 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
City of London
This role offers business exposure to Commodities, Fixed Income and FX. It also offers the C# Developer the chance to get hands on with a wide variety of...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £550 per annum
Posted: 19 June 2013
City, London
JM
Rate: £600 - £675 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £550 - £650 per day + Excellent Banking Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Montash
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Rate: £350 - £385 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Rate: £350 - £385 per day
Posted: 16 June 2013
London
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Salary: £650 - £700 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Rate: £700 - £850 per week
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
IT Human Resources
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £525 per day
Posted: 16 June 2013
London
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013