The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of ION Trading products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ION Trading over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within ION Trading.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
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Rank 315 351 210
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -141
Contract jobs citing ION Trading 62 59 267
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.287% 0.219% 0.845%
As % of the Vendors category 0.636% 0.492% 1.866%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 39 161
Average daily rate £525 £550 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £550
10% offered a daily rate of more than £595 £675 £750
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £310
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 - £35.00
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9754 11998 14306
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.08% 44.55% 45.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6142 7276 8648
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £265 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 296 409
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.73 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
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England

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

London ION Trading Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

London ION Trading Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ION Trading across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London ION Trading Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

London ION Trading Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ION Trading within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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 +12 11 £501 -4.66%
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England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ION Trading 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 ION Trading.

1 72 (77.42%) Fixed Income
1 72 (77.42%) ION MarketView
2 50 (53.76%) Electronic Trading
3 41 (44.09%) Front Office
4 37 (39.78%) Java
5 36 (38.71%) Bloomberg
6 34 (36.56%) Banking
7 33 (35.48%) SQL
8 32 (34.41%) UNIX
9 26 (27.96%) Reuters
10 21 (22.58%) Investment Banking
11 19 (20.43%) OO
12 17 (18.28%) Windows
12 17 (18.28%) Tradeweb
13 16 (17.20%) Sybase
13 16 (17.20%) TDD
14 14 (15.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (13.98%) Swing
15 13 (13.98%) Agile Software Development
15 13 (13.98%) Finance
16 12 (12.90%) RMDS
17 11 (11.83%) Multithreading
18 10 (10.75%) Refactoring
18 10 (10.75%) MTS
18 10 (10.75%) Oracle
18 10 (10.75%) eSpeed
18 10 (10.75%) MarketAxess
19 9 (9.677%) XML
19 9 (9.677%) Algorithmic Trading
20 8 (8.602%) User Acceptance Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ION Trading 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 ION Trading. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (13.98%) Swing
2 9 (9.677%) XML
3 8 (8.602%) J2EE
4 5 (5.376%) Spring
5 4 (4.301%) Java EE
5 4 (4.301%) JRules
5 4 (4.301%) XSLT
6 3 (3.226%) HTML
6 3 (3.226%) SOAP
6 3 (3.226%) XHTML
6 3 (3.226%) Ajax
7 2 (2.151%) Web Services
8 1 (1.075%) J2SE
8 1 (1.075%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 10 (10.75%) MTS
2 4 (4.301%) TIBCO EMS
2 4 (4.301%) Tomcat
2 4 (4.301%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.151%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.075%) MS Office
1 1 (1.075%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 72 (77.42%) ION MarketView
2 12 (12.90%) RMDS
3 4 (4.301%) BusinessWorks
4 3 (3.226%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (1.075%) Endur
5 1 (1.075%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.151%) LAN
1 2 (2.151%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.075%) NAS
2 1 (1.075%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.452%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.301%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (4.301%) Essbase
3 2 (2.151%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.075%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.075%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (7.527%) Subversion
2 6 (6.452%) Ant
2 6 (6.452%) JUnit
3 4 (4.301%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.151%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.075%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.075%) JIRA
General
1 41 (44.09%) Front Office
2 34 (36.56%) Banking
3 21 (22.58%) Investment Banking
4 13 (13.98%) Finance
5 2 (2.151%) Marketing
5 2 (2.151%) Games
6 1 (1.075%) Back Office
6 1 (1.075%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.075%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (44.09%) Analyst
2 27 (29.03%) Developer
3 25 (26.88%) Java Developer
3 25 (26.88%) Support Analyst
4 17 (18.28%) Business Analyst
5 6 (6.452%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (6.452%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.376%) Architect
7 4 (4.301%) Support Specialist
7 4 (4.301%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.226%) Consultant
9 2 (2.151%) Financial Business Analyst
9 2 (2.151%) Financial Analyst
9 2 (2.151%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (2.151%) C# Developer
9 2 (2.151%) Applications Support
9 2 (2.151%) Head of Web Analytics
9 2 (2.151%) Web Analytics Consultant
10 1 (1.075%) Configuration Manager
10 1 (1.075%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 72 (77.42%) Fixed Income
2 14 (15.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.151%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.151%) Social Media
4 1 (1.075%) Replication
4 1 (1.075%) CLARiiON
4 1 (1.075%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.075%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.075%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.075%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 32 (34.41%) UNIX
2 17 (18.28%) Windows
3 5 (5.376%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.76%) Electronic Trading
2 19 (20.43%) OO
3 16 (17.20%) TDD
4 13 (13.98%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (11.83%) Multithreading
6 10 (10.75%) Refactoring
7 9 (9.677%) Algorithmic Trading
8 8 (8.602%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (8.602%) Unit Testing
8 8 (8.602%) Project Planning
8 8 (8.602%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (7.527%) E-Commerce
10 4 (4.301%) Data Analysis
10 4 (4.301%) Workflow Management
10 4 (4.301%) Business Analysis
10 4 (4.301%) Workflow
10 4 (4.301%) Scrum
10 4 (4.301%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (4.301%) UML
10 4 (4.301%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 37 (39.78%) Java
2 33 (35.48%) SQL
3 6 (6.452%) C++
4 5 (5.376%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.301%) XPath
5 4 (4.301%) C#
6 3 (3.226%) C
6 3 (3.226%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.226%) Perl
6 3 (3.226%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (2.151%) PMP
1 2 (2.151%) PMI Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (1.075%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (1.075%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 36 (38.71%) Bloomberg
2 26 (27.96%) Reuters
3 17 (18.28%) Tradeweb
4 16 (17.20%) Sybase
5 10 (10.75%) Oracle
5 10 (10.75%) eSpeed
5 10 (10.75%) MarketAxess
6 5 (5.376%) IBM
6 5 (5.376%) Fidessa
7 4 (4.301%) TIBCO
8 3 (3.226%) Sun
9 1 (1.075%) EMC
9 1 (1.075%) Murex
9 1 (1.075%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.075%) OpenLink
9 1 (1.075%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.075%) Brocade
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