The first table below looks at the demand for FIXML 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 FIXML over the 3 months to 21 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 Application Development 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial Information Exchange Markup Language (FIXML)
Rank 387 361 412
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +51
Contract jobs citing FIXML 2 44 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.163% 0.059%
As % of the Application Development category 0.031% 0.582% 0.193%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 28 14
Average daily rate £450 £575 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.73% -4.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £700
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6388 7563 9347
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.00% 28.03% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4622 4989 6271
Average daily rate £406 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 106 133
Average hourly rate £41.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.96% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.45 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
FIXML
England

FIXML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London FIXML Jobs Demand Trend

FIXML
Daily Rate Trend

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

London FIXML Daily Rate Trend

FIXML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing FIXML 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 FIXML.

1 9 (90.00%) XML
2 7 (70.00%) Java
3 6 (60.00%) SWIFT
4 5 (50.00%) Open Source
4 5 (50.00%) WinDbg
4 5 (50.00%) WebSphere
4 5 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 5 (50.00%) Alfresco
4 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 5 (50.00%) VBScript
4 5 (50.00%) .NET
4 5 (50.00%) J2EE
4 5 (50.00%) MySQL
4 5 (50.00%) Oracle
4 5 (50.00%) XSL
4 5 (50.00%) ODBC
4 5 (50.00%) IIS
4 5 (50.00%) MS Office
4 5 (50.00%) HTML
4 5 (50.00%) Windows
4 5 (50.00%) Apache
4 5 (50.00%) Tomcat
4 5 (50.00%) MS Access
4 5 (50.00%) WSDL
4 5 (50.00%) IBM
4 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (50.00%) SharePoint
4 5 (50.00%) MS Visio
4 5 (50.00%) Plumtree

FIXML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing FIXML 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 FIXML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (90.00%) XML
2 5 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 5 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) J2EE
2 5 (50.00%) XSL
2 5 (50.00%) ODBC
2 5 (50.00%) HTML
2 5 (50.00%) WSDL
2 5 (50.00%) OLE DB
3 4 (40.00%) ASP
3 4 (40.00%) JSP
4 3 (30.00%) FpML
5 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (20.00%) Middleware
5 2 (20.00%) Spring
6 1 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (10.00%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) Alfresco
1 5 (50.00%) IIS
1 5 (50.00%) Apache
1 5 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 5 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 5 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MS Office
1 5 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) SSH
2 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) TELNET
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
1 5 (50.00%) MS Access
2 1 (10.00%) MarkLogic
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) WinDbg
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Applications Support
3 3 (30.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Middleware Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Middleware Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) XML Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Support Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) SWIFT
2 5 (50.00%) Open Source
3 3 (30.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
4 2 (20.00%) Derivative
5 1 (10.00%) Statistics
5 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Document Management
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) System Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) VBScript
3 1 (10.00%) XQuery
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
1 5 (50.00%) IBM
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (50.00%) Plumtree
1 5 (50.00%) Lotus
2 4 (40.00%) JBoss
3 2 (20.00%) Unisys
3 2 (20.00%) Sun
4 1 (10.00%) Tableau
4 1 (10.00%) Cognos
4 1 (10.00%) Reuters
4 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
4 1 (10.00%) Remedy
4 1 (10.00%) BMC
4 1 (10.00%) Alias