London Pensions Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Pensions' in contract IT jobs within the London region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Pensions over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Chesham Chichester Cirencester City of London Colchester Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fleetwood Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Potters Bar Prescot Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stirling Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	270	301
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching contract IT job ads	102	174
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.162 %	0.185 %
As % of the category below	0.697 %	0.722 %
Daily rates quoted	42	60
Average minimum daily rate	£398	£421
Average daily rate	£431	£470
% change on same period last year	-8.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£464	£518
UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£415
% change on same period last year	-3.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£43.13	£18.56
Average hourly rate	£51.25	£18.56
% change on same period last year	+176.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£59.38	£18.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£125.00	£35.17
% change on same period last year	+255.45 %
General London
Matching contract IT job ads	14637	24084
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	23.21 %	25.64 %
Daily rates quoted	6258	10067
Average minimum daily rate	£419	£444
Average daily rate	£450	£476
% change on same period last year	-5.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£482	£508
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	647	913
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.95	£24.68
Average hourly rate	£25.81	£26.88
% change on same period last year	-3.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.68	£29.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.29	£26.57
% change on same period last year	+2.73 %
Pensions England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Pensions across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Pensions across the London region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Pensions across the London region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008.

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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 Pensions within the London region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
City of London	+2	12	£506	+26.45 %
Croydon	-6	7	£269	-10.89 %
Paddington	-	2	£170	-
Docklands, London	+35	1	£475	-

Pensions England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Pensions 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 Pensions.

1 66 (27.16 %) Finance 2 50 (20.58 %) SAP 3 48 (19.75 %) SAP HR 4 38 (15.64 %) Insurance 5 20 (8.230 %) Health 6 19 (7.819 %) Migration 7 18 (7.407 %) SQL Server 8 16 (6.584 %) Project Management 9 13 (5.350 %) Banking 10 12 (4.938 %) SQL 11 11 (4.527 %) PRINCE2 12 9 (3.704 %) Java 12 9 (3.704 %) Oracle 12 9 (3.704 %) Retail 13 8 (3.292 %) Marketing

13 8 (3.292 %) Microsoft 13 8 (3.292 %) Datawarehouse 13 8 (3.292 %) Data Migration 14 7 (2.881 %) UML 14 7 (2.881 %) .NET 14 7 (2.881 %) CSS 14 7 (2.881 %) SQL Server Integration Services 15 6 (2.469 %) Stakeholder Management 15 6 (2.469 %) C++ 15 6 (2.469 %) HTML 15 6 (2.469 %) XHTML 15 6 (2.469 %) ETL 15 6 (2.469 %) SAS 15 6 (2.469 %) Investment Management 16 5 (2.058 %) User Acceptance Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Pensions 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 Pensions. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (2.881 %) .NET 1 7 (2.881 %) CSS 2 6 (2.469 %) XHTML 2 6 (2.469 %) HTML 3 4 (1.646 %) XML 3 4 (1.646 %) JSP 3 4 (1.646 %) J2EE 4 3 (1.235 %) Hibernate 5 2 (0.823 %) Spring 5 2 (0.823 %) AJAX 5 2 (0.823 %) ASP 5 2 (0.823 %) Servlets 6 1 (0.412 %) Struts 6 1 (0.412 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (0.412 %) EJB 6 1 (0.412 %) WebSphere 6 1 (0.412 %) Drupal 6 1 (0.412 %) DOM	Application Platforms 1 6 (2.469 %) SAS 2 3 (1.235 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (1.235 %) SharePoint 2 3 (1.235 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (0.823 %) ESB 4 1 (0.412 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (0.412 %) CMS 4 1 (0.412 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (0.412 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (0.412 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (0.412 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 4 (1.646 %) MS Project 1 4 (1.646 %) MS Excel 2 3 (1.235 %) MS Visio 3 2 (0.823 %) MS Office 3 2 (0.823 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.412 %) CA Clarity 4 1 (0.412 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (0.412 %) Photoshop 4 1 (0.412 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 48 (19.75 %) SAP HR 2 2 (0.823 %) Oracle EBS 3 1 (0.412 %) Summit 3 1 (0.412 %) SAP HCM 3 1 (0.412 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 2 (0.823 %) Internet 2 1 (0.412 %) Firewall 2 1 (0.412 %) Wireless 2 1 (0.412 %) WiMAX 2 1 (0.412 %) Cisco PIX 2 1 (0.412 %) Cisco ASA 2 1 (0.412 %) GPRS 2 1 (0.412 %) GSM 2 1 (0.412 %) LAN 2 1 (0.412 %) SMS 2 1 (0.412 %) UMTS 2 1 (0.412 %) VoIP 2 1 (0.412 %) WAN 2 1 (0.412 %) WCDMA 2 1 (0.412 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (7.407 %) SQL Server 2 8 (3.292 %) Datawarehouse 3 7 (2.881 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 6 (2.469 %) ETL 5 5 (2.058 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 5 (2.058 %) SQL Server 2005 6 4 (1.646 %) MySQL 7 2 (0.823 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 2 (0.823 %) SQL Server 2000 8 1 (0.412 %) EDRMS 8 1 (0.412 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 1 (0.412 %) RDBMS 8 1 (0.412 %) DataStage 8 1 (0.412 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 2 (0.823 %) Flash 2 1 (0.412 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 66 (27.16 %) Finance 2 38 (15.64 %) Insurance 3 20 (8.230 %) Health 4 13 (5.350 %) Banking 5 9 (3.704 %) Retail 6 8 (3.292 %) Marketing 7 5 (2.058 %) Government 8 4 (1.646 %) Investment Banking 8 4 (1.646 %) Financial Institution 8 4 (1.646 %) Back Office 9 3 (1.235 %) Front Office 9 3 (1.235 %) Retail Banking 10 2 (0.823 %) Games 10 2 (0.823 %) Law 10 2 (0.823 %) Legal 11 1 (0.412 %) Advertising 11 1 (0.412 %) Telecoms 11 1 (0.412 %) Construction 11 1 (0.412 %) Education 11 1 (0.412 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 141 (58.02 %) Analyst 2 99 (40.74 %) Business Analyst 3 38 (15.64 %) SAP Business Analyst 3 38 (15.64 %) SAP HR Business Analyst 4 33 (13.58 %) SAP Analyst 5 21 (8.642 %) Developer 6 20 (8.230 %) Project Manager 7 13 (5.350 %) IT Business Analyst 8 12 (4.938 %) Consultant 9 9 (3.704 %) Programme Manager 9 9 (3.704 %) Technical Analyst 10 8 (3.292 %) Architect 10 8 (3.292 %) Test Analyst 10 8 (3.292 %) Senior Analyst 11 6 (2.469 %) Senior Developer 11 6 (2.469 %) IT Project Manager 11 6 (2.469 %) Financial Business Analyst 12 5 (2.058 %) Java Developer 12 5 (2.058 %) Senior Business Analyst 12 5 (2.058 %) Coordinator	Miscellaneous 1 4 (1.646 %) Fixed Income 2 3 (1.235 %) Mathematics 2 3 (1.235 %) Management Information System 3 2 (0.823 %) iPhone 3 2 (0.823 %) Equities 3 2 (0.823 %) Derivative 3 2 (0.823 %) Client/Server 3 2 (0.823 %) PMI 4 1 (0.412 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 1 (0.412 %) W3C 4 1 (0.412 %) Firmware 4 1 (0.412 %) Clustering 4 1 (0.412 %) Psychology 4 1 (0.412 %) Market Risk 4 1 (0.412 %) Data Conversion
Operating Systems 1 5 (2.058 %) Windows 2 4 (1.646 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (0.823 %) Mac OS X 4 1 (0.412 %) UNIX 4 1 (0.412 %) Windows Server 2008 4 1 (0.412 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (0.412 %) AIX 4 1 (0.412 %) HPUX 4 1 (0.412 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (7.819 %) Migration 2 16 (6.584 %) Project Management 3 11 (4.527 %) PRINCE2 4 8 (3.292 %) Data Migration 5 7 (2.881 %) UML 6 6 (2.469 %) Stakeholder Management 6 6 (2.469 %) Investment Management 7 5 (2.058 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 5 (2.058 %) Business Analysis 7 5 (2.058 %) Asset Management 8 4 (1.646 %) Agile Software Development 8 4 (1.646 %) E-business 8 4 (1.646 %) Service Delivery 8 4 (1.646 %) Business Intelligence 8 4 (1.646 %) Data Analysis 8 4 (1.646 %) Systems Analysis 9 3 (1.235 %) Project Planning 9 3 (1.235 %) Wealth Management 9 3 (1.235 %) Data Modelling 9 3 (1.235 %) SOA
Programming Languages 1 12 (4.938 %) SQL 2 9 (3.704 %) Java 3 6 (2.469 %) C++ 4 5 (2.058 %) C 4 5 (2.058 %) JavaScript 5 3 (1.235 %) PHP 5 3 (1.235 %) VBA 6 2 (0.823 %) VB 6 2 (0.823 %) VB.NET 7 1 (0.412 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 5 (2.058 %) Microsoft Certification 1 5 (2.058 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 5 (2.058 %) Degree 2 4 (1.646 %) ISEB 2 4 (1.646 %) PMP 2 4 (1.646 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (0.412 %) CIPD 3 1 (0.412 %) MCAD 3 1 (0.412 %) HNC 3 1 (0.412 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.412 %) CCNA 3 1 (0.412 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.823 %) QA 2 1 (0.412 %) SLA 2 1 (0.412 %) WCAG	System Software 1 2 (0.823 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 50 (20.58 %) SAP 2 9 (3.704 %) Oracle 3 8 (3.292 %) Microsoft 4 4 (1.646 %) Citrix 5 3 (1.235 %) Cognos 6 2 (0.823 %) Cisco 6 2 (0.823 %) VMware 6 2 (0.823 %) thinkFolio 6 2 (0.823 %) Fundtech 6 2 (0.823 %) HP 7 1 (0.412 %) Cadence 7 1 (0.412 %) Exstream 7 1 (0.412 %) Blue Coat 7 1 (0.412 %) Ingenium 7 1 (0.412 %) Bloomberg 7 1 (0.412 %) McAfee Security 7 1 (0.412 %) ATG 7 1 (0.412 %) Thunderhead 7 1 (0.412 %) IBM 7 1 (0.412 %) Murex