The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Murex 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 Murex 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 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 Murex S.A.S..

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Murex
Rank 271 258 237
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -21
Contract jobs citing Murex 108 165 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.499% 0.612% 0.705%
As % of the Vendors category 1.108% 1.374% 1.558%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 118 152
Average daily rate £550 £650 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £400 £491
10% offered a daily rate of more than £730 £850 £850
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 - £663
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9744 12013 14055
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 44.99% 44.59% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6123 7282 8491
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £265 £285
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 287 296 406
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 £35.95 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Murex
England

Murex
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Murex Jobs Demand Trend

Murex
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Murex Daily Rate Trend

Murex
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Murex Daily Rate Histogram

Murex
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Murex Hourly Rate Trend

Murex
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Murex 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 -12 34 £538 -6.52%
Canary Wharf +6 9 £600 -17.80%
Murex
England

Murex
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 97 (45.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 80 (37.38%) Finance
3 77 (35.98%) Front Office
3 77 (35.98%) Banking
4 64 (29.91%) SQL
5 62 (28.97%) Derivative
6 51 (23.83%) Investment Banking
7 45 (21.03%) UNIX
8 38 (17.76%) Java
9 37 (17.29%) Workflow
10 34 (15.89%) Oracle
10 34 (15.89%) Murex MxML
11 32 (14.95%) Business Analysis
12 30 (14.02%) Migration
13 29 (13.55%) Back Office
14 28 (13.08%) Calypso
15 27 (12.62%) Sybase
15 27 (12.62%) Summit
16 24 (11.21%) Market Risk
17 23 (10.75%) Fixed Income
18 22 (10.28%) Data Mart
19 20 (9.346%) XML
19 20 (9.346%) Linux
19 20 (9.346%) Risk Management
20 19 (8.879%) C#
21 16 (7.477%) Equity Derivative
22 15 (7.009%) Project Management
22 15 (7.009%) C++
22 15 (7.009%) Solaris
23 14 (6.542%) Murex MxG2000

Murex
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 34 (15.89%) Murex MxML
2 20 (9.346%) XML
3 14 (6.542%) XSLT
4 12 (5.607%) Murex Flex
5 7 (3.271%) Spring
5 7 (3.271%) Hibernate
6 6 (2.804%) Middleware
6 6 (2.804%) Java EE
7 5 (2.336%) Java SE
7 5 (2.336%) WebSphere
7 5 (2.336%) .NET
8 4 (1.869%) JMS
8 4 (1.869%) J2EE
8 4 (1.869%) Web Services
9 3 (1.402%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 2 (0.935%) STL
10 2 (0.935%) LAMP
10 2 (0.935%) Drools
11 1 (0.467%) Spring Integration
11 1 (0.467%) Castor
Application Platforms
1 5 (2.336%) SharePoint Server
2 4 (1.869%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.402%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 3 (1.402%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.935%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (2.336%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.935%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.935%) MS Office
3 1 (0.467%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 27 (12.62%) Summit
2 14 (6.542%) Murex MxG2000
3 5 (2.336%) Kondor+
4 3 (1.402%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.935%) Endur
5 2 (0.935%) Global One
5 2 (0.935%) Front Arena
6 1 (0.467%) Aligne
6 1 (0.467%) Loanet
6 1 (0.467%) Loan IQ
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.869%) LDAP
2 3 (1.402%) FTP
2 3 (1.402%) HTTP
2 3 (1.402%) SAN
3 2 (0.935%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.467%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.467%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.28%) Data Mart
2 13 (6.075%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.869%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (0.935%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.935%) MS Access
4 2 (0.935%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (0.935%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (0.935%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (0.467%) Xcelsius
5 1 (0.467%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (2.804%) Eclipse
1 6 (2.804%) JIRA
2 3 (1.402%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (0.935%) JUnit
4 1 (0.467%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.467%) SilkPerformer
4 1 (0.467%) Subversion
4 1 (0.467%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.467%) Ant
4 1 (0.467%) LoadRunner
General
1 80 (37.38%) Finance
2 77 (35.98%) Front Office
2 77 (35.98%) Banking
3 51 (23.83%) Investment Banking
4 29 (13.55%) Back Office
5 5 (2.336%) Financial Institution
6 4 (1.869%) Spanish Language
7 2 (0.935%) Retail
7 2 (0.935%) Billing
8 1 (0.467%) French Language
8 1 (0.467%) German Language
Job Titles
1 120 (56.07%) Analyst
2 85 (39.72%) Business Analyst
3 51 (23.83%) Murex Business Analyst
4 48 (22.43%) Murex Analyst
4 48 (22.43%) Developer
5 22 (10.28%) Murex Developer
6 18 (8.411%) Support Analyst
7 15 (7.009%) Senior Analyst
8 13 (6.075%) Java Developer
9 11 (5.140%) Murex Support
10 10 (4.673%) Senior Business Analyst
10 10 (4.673%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.673%) Murex Support Analyst
11 9 (4.206%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.738%) Test Analyst
12 8 (3.738%) Risk Analyst
13 6 (2.804%) Administrator
13 6 (2.804%) Senior Murex Developer
14 5 (2.336%) Murex MxML Developer
14 5 (2.336%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 97 (45.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 62 (28.97%) Derivative
3 24 (11.21%) Market Risk
4 23 (10.75%) Fixed Income
5 16 (7.477%) Equity Derivative
6 14 (6.542%) Equities
6 14 (6.542%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 10 (4.673%) Credit Risk
8 8 (3.738%) Mathematics
9 6 (2.804%) Swaptions
10 5 (2.336%) Hedge funds
10 5 (2.336%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.869%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.402%) Economics
13 2 (0.935%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.935%) CMDB
13 2 (0.935%) Open Source
14 1 (0.467%) Physics
14 1 (0.467%) Computer Science
14 1 (0.467%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 45 (21.03%) UNIX
2 20 (9.346%) Linux
3 15 (7.009%) Solaris
4 11 (5.140%) Windows
5 5 (2.336%) Windows 7
6 4 (1.869%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (17.29%) Workflow
2 32 (14.95%) Business Analysis
3 30 (14.02%) Migration
4 20 (9.346%) Risk Management
5 15 (7.009%) Project Management
6 14 (6.542%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (4.206%) Analytics
8 8 (3.738%) Data Analysis
8 8 (3.738%) Stress Testing
9 6 (2.804%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (2.804%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (2.804%) Change Management
9 6 (2.804%) Test Scripting
9 6 (2.804%) Release Management
9 6 (2.804%) Waterfall
10 5 (2.336%) Requirements Analysis
10 5 (2.336%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (2.336%) ITIL
10 5 (2.336%) Data Modelling
11 4 (1.869%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 64 (29.91%) SQL
2 38 (17.76%) Java
3 19 (8.879%) C#
4 15 (7.009%) C++
5 14 (6.542%) Perl
6 10 (4.673%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.271%) PL/SQL
7 7 (3.271%) VBA
8 6 (2.804%) Python
9 4 (1.869%) C
10 3 (1.402%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.935%) Ruby
11 2 (0.935%) Bash shell
11 2 (0.935%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (2.336%) Degree
2 4 (1.869%) ISTQB
3 3 (1.402%) ISEB
4 1 (0.467%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.673%) QA
2 2 (0.935%) SLA
2 2 (0.935%) Basel II
3 1 (0.467%) Basel III
3 1 (0.467%) MiFID
3 1 (0.467%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.467%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.467%) vSphere
1 1 (0.467%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.804%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.935%) Nagios
2 2 (0.935%) Control-M
2 2 (0.935%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (0.935%) Splunk
3 1 (0.467%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (15.89%) Oracle
2 28 (13.08%) Calypso
3 27 (12.62%) Sybase
4 13 (6.075%) Sun
5 9 (4.206%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.738%) Remedy
6 8 (3.738%) Sophis
7 7 (3.271%) HP
8 6 (2.804%) Veritas
8 6 (2.804%) Bloomberg
8 6 (2.804%) StreamBase
9 5 (2.336%) Thunderhead
9 5 (2.336%) Reuters
9 5 (2.336%) Microsoft
10 4 (1.869%) Adobe
10 4 (1.869%) Misys
10 4 (1.869%) Business Objects
10 4 (1.869%) Wall Street Systems
11 3 (1.402%) Fidessa
11 3 (1.402%) EMC
London
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Hays Finance Technology
Rate: £600.00 - £750.00 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
The BA will undertake analysis, design and testing of new FX Options products. The role is based away from the core Murex team and working alongside the Pricing...
Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013
London
The BA will undertake analysis, design and testing of new FX Options products. The role is based away from the core Murex team and working alongside the Pricing...
Hays Finance Technology
Rate: £600.00 - £700.00 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Solutions Architect Key Responsibilities:*Lead the design of solutions for large projects and programmes.*Manage senior business stakeholders.*Govern and shape the delivery of projects working closely with...
Rate: £650 - £700 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013
City, London
Solutions Architect, 3rd party vendor platforms, Murex, Summit, Calypso, Asset Classes, Credit rates, bonds, FX, Trade Lifecycle, Equities... Murex, Summit, Calypso - Must have strong knowledge experience of Financial...
Aston Carter
Rate: Competitive rate
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
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Rate: 700+
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
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IT Human Resources
Rate: £800 - £850 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of Fixed Income, Equity and/or Futures processing through investment banking experience KEY SKILLS REQUIRED oC# and .Net framework (version...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013