The first table below looks at the demand for Fund Management 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 Management 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 Management
Rank 297 270 326
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +56
Contract jobs citing Fund Management 80 148 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.369% 0.549% 0.377%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.494% 0.765% 0.529%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 93 83
Average daily rate £500 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £325 £405
10% offered a daily rate of more than £722 £975 £690
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £513 £450
% change year-on-year
-12.19% +13.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +48.57%
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 Management
England

Fund Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Fund Management Jobs Demand Trend

Fund Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Fund Management Daily Rate Trend

Fund Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Fund Management Daily Rate Histogram

Fund Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Fund Management Hourly Rate Trend

Fund Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fund Management 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 -30 36 £500 -27.27%
Fund Management
England

Fund Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 96 (60.38%) Asset Management
2 87 (54.72%) Investment Management
3 60 (37.74%) Finance
4 45 (28.30%) SQL
5 31 (19.50%) Banking
6 30 (18.87%) Front Office
7 26 (16.35%) Fixed Income
7 26 (16.35%) thinkFolio
8 24 (15.09%) Project Management
9 21 (13.21%) Investment Banking
9 21 (13.21%) Derivative
10 20 (12.58%) C#
11 19 (11.95%) .NET
11 19 (11.95%) Business Analysis
12 17 (10.69%) Charles River
13 16 (10.06%) SQL Server
14 15 (9.434%) Cadis
15 14 (8.805%) VBA
15 14 (8.805%) Oracle
15 14 (8.805%) LatentZero
15 14 (8.805%) Equities
16 12 (7.547%) HTTP
17 11 (6.918%) HTTPS
17 11 (6.918%) ASP.NET
17 11 (6.918%) Programme Management
17 11 (6.918%) Twitter
18 10 (6.289%) Scrum
18 10 (6.289%) Stakeholder Management
18 10 (6.289%) Data Warehouse
19 9 (5.660%) Data Modelling

Fund Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 19 (11.95%) .NET
2 11 (6.918%) ASP.NET
3 7 (4.403%) XML
4 6 (3.774%) ASP
5 4 (2.516%) Web Services
5 4 (2.516%) Swing
5 4 (2.516%) J2EE
5 4 (2.516%) EJB
5 4 (2.516%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.516%) WCF
6 3 (1.887%) JPA
6 3 (1.887%) EJB 3.0
6 3 (1.887%) JDO
6 3 (1.887%) Java EE
6 3 (1.887%) JMS
7 2 (1.258%) XSL
7 2 (1.258%) Application Packaging
7 2 (1.258%) WinForms
7 2 (1.258%) jQuery
8 1 (0.629%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 8 (5.031%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.516%) WebLogic
2 4 (2.516%) MS Exchange
2 4 (2.516%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (1.887%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (1.258%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.258%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.258%) Lync
4 2 (1.258%) Confluence
5 1 (0.629%) CMS
5 1 (0.629%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.629%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.629%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (2.516%) MS Excel
1 4 (2.516%) MS Office
2 3 (1.887%) MS Project
3 2 (1.258%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.258%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.629%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (8.805%) LatentZero
2 5 (3.145%) Eagle PACE
2 5 (3.145%) SimCorp Dimension
3 4 (2.516%) Sentinel
3 4 (2.516%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.887%) Capstone
4 3 (1.887%) Tesseract
4 3 (1.887%) Minerva
4 3 (1.887%) LongView
5 1 (0.629%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.629%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.629%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.547%) HTTP
2 11 (6.918%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.516%) Intranet
4 2 (1.258%) Firewall
4 2 (1.258%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.258%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.629%) Network Security
5 1 (0.629%) Wireless
5 1 (0.629%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.06%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.289%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (5.660%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (2.516%) QlikView
4 4 (2.516%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (1.258%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.258%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.258%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (1.258%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.629%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (0.629%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.629%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.629%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 4 (2.516%) JUnit
1 4 (2.516%) Subversion
2 3 (1.887%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (1.887%) JIRA
3 2 (1.258%) InstallShield
3 2 (1.258%) Maven
4 1 (0.629%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.629%) CruiseControl
4 1 (0.629%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (37.74%) Finance
2 31 (19.50%) Banking
3 30 (18.87%) Front Office
4 21 (13.21%) Investment Banking
5 9 (5.660%) Back Office
6 6 (3.774%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.145%) Legal
8 4 (2.516%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (2.516%) Marketing
9 3 (1.887%) Advertising
9 3 (1.887%) Retail
10 2 (1.258%) Billing
11 1 (0.629%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (45.91%) Analyst
2 55 (34.59%) Business Analyst
3 40 (25.16%) Project Manager
4 30 (18.87%) Developer
5 12 (7.547%) Senior Analyst
6 11 (6.918%) Programme Manager
6 11 (6.918%) Business Manager
7 10 (6.289%) .NET Developer
7 10 (6.289%) Senior Business Analyst
8 9 (5.660%) C# Developer
8 9 (5.660%) Business Project Manager
9 8 (5.031%) SQL Developer
9 8 (5.031%) Applications Support
9 8 (5.031%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (3.774%) Project Analyst
11 5 (3.145%) RAD Developer
11 5 (3.145%) VBA Developer
11 5 (3.145%) Test Analyst
11 5 (3.145%) Senior Manager
12 4 (2.516%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.35%) Fixed Income
2 21 (13.21%) Derivative
3 14 (8.805%) Equities
4 6 (3.774%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.516%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.887%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.887%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.258%) PKI
7 2 (1.258%) Clustering
7 2 (1.258%) Swaptions
8 1 (0.629%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.629%) Symmetrix DMX
8 1 (0.629%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.629%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.516%) UNIX
1 4 (2.516%) Windows
2 3 (1.887%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (1.258%) Solaris
3 2 (1.258%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (1.258%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.629%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.629%) SUSE
4 1 (0.629%) Linux
4 1 (0.629%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (60.38%) Asset Management
2 87 (54.72%) Investment Management
3 24 (15.09%) Project Management
4 19 (11.95%) Business Analysis
5 11 (6.918%) Programme Management
6 10 (6.289%) Scrum
6 10 (6.289%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (5.660%) Data Modelling
7 9 (5.660%) Agile Software Development
8 8 (5.031%) Wealth Management
9 7 (4.403%) Cash Management
9 7 (4.403%) RAD
10 6 (3.774%) PRINCE2
10 6 (3.774%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (3.145%) Use Case
11 5 (3.145%) GAP Analysis
11 5 (3.145%) Change Management
11 5 (3.145%) Migration
11 5 (3.145%) Data Analysis
11 5 (3.145%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 45 (28.30%) SQL
2 20 (12.58%) C#
3 14 (8.805%) VBA
4 8 (5.031%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.774%) Java
5 6 (3.774%) MATLAB
6 4 (2.516%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.887%) VB
8 2 (1.258%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.258%) VBScript
8 2 (1.258%) C
8 2 (1.258%) Perl
8 2 (1.258%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.258%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.629%) Korn
9 1 (0.629%) PHP
9 1 (0.629%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (1.887%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (1.258%) PMP
2 2 (1.258%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.629%) CISM
3 1 (0.629%) Degree
3 1 (0.629%) ISEB
3 1 (0.629%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.031%) MiFID
2 4 (2.516%) FATCA
3 2 (1.258%) SLA
3 2 (1.258%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.145%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.516%) XenApp
3 2 (1.258%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.629%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (0.629%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 8 (5.031%) Control-M
2 2 (1.258%) WMI
2 2 (1.258%) Backup Exec
2 2 (1.258%) SCCM
2 2 (1.258%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 26 (16.35%) thinkFolio
2 17 (10.69%) Charles River
3 15 (9.434%) Cadis
4 14 (8.805%) Oracle
5 11 (6.918%) Twitter
6 8 (5.031%) Microsoft
7 6 (3.774%) Sybase
8 5 (3.145%) SimCorp
8 5 (3.145%) StatPro
8 5 (3.145%) Citrix
9 4 (2.516%) JBoss
9 4 (2.516%) Bloomberg
9 4 (2.516%) VMware
10 3 (1.887%) Cisco
10 3 (1.887%) Fidessa
10 3 (1.887%) SunGard
10 3 (1.887%) Business Objects
10 3 (1.887%) Progress
11 2 (1.258%) SAP
11 2 (1.258%) IBM