The first table below looks at the demand for Fund Accounting 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 Fund Accounting 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
Fund Accounting
Rank 355 370 399
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +29
Contract jobs citing Fund Accounting 22 45 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.102% 0.167% 0.138%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.136% 0.233% 0.194%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 33 30
Average daily rate £500 £550 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £450 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £608 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £375
% change year-on-year
- +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.55% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16194 19350 22109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.77% 71.83% 71.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11076 12690 14542
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 340 350
Average hourly rate £30.00 £26.23 £27.23
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.39% -3.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £102.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Fund Accounting
England

Fund Accounting
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Fund Accounting across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London Fund Accounting Jobs Demand Trend

Fund Accounting
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Fund Accounting Daily Rate Trend

Fund Accounting
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Fund Accounting Daily Rate Histogram

Fund Accounting
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Fund Accounting Hourly Rate Trend

Fund Accounting
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fund Accounting 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 +2 8 £600 +9.09%
Fund Accounting
England

Fund Accounting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 17 (47.22%) Asset Management
2 13 (36.11%) Investment Management
2 13 (36.11%) Finance
3 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 9 (25.00%) Degree
4 8 (22.22%) Hedge funds
4 8 (22.22%) Banking
5 7 (19.44%) Back Office
6 6 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (16.67%) VMware
6 6 (16.67%) VMware ESX
6 6 (16.67%) Clustering
6 6 (16.67%) Windows
6 6 (16.67%) Linux
6 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
6 6 (16.67%) SAN
6 6 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 6 (16.67%) Middleware
6 6 (16.67%) NAS
6 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (16.67%) Network Security
6 6 (16.67%) Derivative
7 5 (13.89%) Business Analysis
7 5 (13.89%) Investment Banking
7 5 (13.89%) Cadis
8 4 (11.11%) SimCorp
8 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
8 4 (11.11%) Project Management
8 4 (11.11%) PRINCE2
9 3 (8.333%) Financial Institution

Fund Accounting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (16.67%) Middleware
2 3 (8.333%) .NET
3 1 (2.778%) XML
3 1 (2.778%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.556%) CMS
2 1 (2.778%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.333%) MS Excel
1 3 (8.333%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (5.556%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.556%) Eagle PACE
1 2 (5.556%) Eagle STAR
1 2 (5.556%) LatentZero
1 2 (5.556%) Tesseract
1 2 (5.556%) Minerva
1 2 (5.556%) Sentinel
1 2 (5.556%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (2.778%) Summit
2 1 (2.778%) MultiFonds
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) SAN
1 6 (16.67%) NAS
1 6 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (2.778%) Intranet
2 1 (2.778%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.333%) DTS
1 3 (8.333%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.556%) Data Mart
2 2 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.778%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.778%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.778%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.778%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
2 8 (22.22%) Banking
3 7 (19.44%) Back Office
4 5 (13.89%) Investment Banking
5 3 (8.333%) Financial Institution
5 3 (8.333%) Front Office
6 1 (2.778%) Retail
6 1 (2.778%) Marketing
6 1 (2.778%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Analyst
2 19 (52.78%) Business Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (16.67%) Administrator
4 4 (11.11%) Project Manager
5 3 (8.333%) Business Systems Analyst
5 3 (8.333%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (8.333%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (8.333%) Developer
5 3 (8.333%) Technical Business Analyst
5 3 (8.333%) Business Manager
6 2 (5.556%) Business Project Manager
6 2 (5.556%) SQL Developer
6 2 (5.556%) Consultant
7 1 (2.778%) Test Analyst
7 1 (2.778%) Implementation Consultant
7 1 (2.778%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.778%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (2.778%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.778%) Financial Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Hedge funds
2 6 (16.67%) Clustering
2 6 (16.67%) Derivative
3 3 (8.333%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.556%) Economics
4 2 (5.556%) Mathematics
4 2 (5.556%) Physics
4 2 (5.556%) Equities
5 1 (2.778%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.778%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Asset Management
2 13 (36.11%) Investment Management
3 6 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (13.89%) Business Analysis
5 4 (11.11%) Project Management
5 4 (11.11%) PRINCE2
6 3 (8.333%) Configuration Management
6 3 (8.333%) Requirements Analysis
6 3 (8.333%) Systems Analysis
6 3 (8.333%) Data Management
6 3 (8.333%) Build Automation
7 2 (5.556%) Process Improvement
7 2 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (5.556%) Fund Management
7 2 (5.556%) BCP
7 2 (5.556%) Migration
8 1 (2.778%) Change Management
8 1 (2.778%) TDD
8 1 (2.778%) CRM
8 1 (2.778%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) SQL
2 6 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (8.333%) T-SQL
3 3 (8.333%) VB.NET
4 1 (2.778%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.778%) PMP
2 1 (2.778%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.778%) GAAP
1 1 (2.778%) FATCA
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) VMware ESX
1 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) VMware
2 5 (13.89%) Cadis
3 4 (11.11%) SimCorp
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.333%) Bloomberg
4 3 (8.333%) Charles River
4 3 (8.333%) SunGard
4 3 (8.333%) Yardi
5 2 (5.556%) thinkFolio
5 2 (5.556%) Reuters
5 2 (5.556%) Informatica
6 1 (2.778%) Open Text
6 1 (2.778%) Misys
6 1 (2.778%) SmartStream
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