Reference Data Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Reference Data over the 3 months to 21 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Reference Data
Rank 257 237 149
Rank change year-on-year
-20 -88
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 134 175 402
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.608% 0.649% 1.311%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.839% 2.018% 3.465%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 139 307
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £283 £495
10% offered a daily rate of more than £663 £675 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £398 £330
% change year-on-year
+16.20% +20.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 7287 8670 11603
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.08% 32.13% 37.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5064 5888 7838
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 211 195
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Reference Data
England

Reference Data
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Reference Data Jobs Demand Trend

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Reference Data Daily Rate Trend

Reference Data
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Reference Data across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London Reference Data Daily Rate Histogram

Reference Data
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Reference Data Hourly Rate Trend

Reference Data
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data within the London region over the 3 months to 21 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 30 £550 -
Canary Wharf -9 7 £600 +6.66%
Docklands, London +3 2 £450 -10.00%
Reference Data
England

Reference Data
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data.

1 134 (53.39%) Banking
2 101 (40.24%) Finance
3 82 (32.67%) Investment Banking
4 70 (27.89%) Derivative
5 69 (27.49%) SQL
6 59 (23.51%) Business Analysis
7 54 (21.51%) Data Modelling
8 50 (19.92%) Project Management
8 50 (19.92%) Data Analysis
9 47 (18.73%) Data Management
10 46 (18.33%) Data Warehouse
11 40 (15.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 33 (13.15%) XML
13 32 (12.75%) Data Mapping
14 28 (11.16%) Back Office
14 28 (11.16%) Retail
14 28 (11.16%) Agile Software Development
15 27 (10.76%) Data Architecture
15 27 (10.76%) Market Risk
16 25 (9.960%) Fixed Income
17 24 (9.562%) ERwin
17 24 (9.562%) Degree
18 23 (9.163%) Wiki
18 23 (9.163%) User Acceptance Testing
18 23 (9.163%) UML
19 21 (8.367%) Credit Derivative
19 21 (8.367%) BDD
20 19 (7.570%) Front Office
20 19 (7.570%) Use Case
21 18 (7.171%) Asset Management

Reference Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (13.15%) XML
2 9 (3.586%) .NET
2 9 (3.586%) ASP.NET
3 6 (2.390%) J2EE
4 4 (1.594%) Middleware
5 2 (0.797%) FpML
6 1 (0.398%) JMS
6 1 (0.398%) JDBC
6 1 (0.398%) Web Services
6 1 (0.398%) Velocity
6 1 (0.398%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 5 (1.992%) SAS
2 3 (1.195%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.398%) FileNet
Applications
1 17 (6.773%) MS Excel
2 13 (5.179%) MS Visio
3 12 (4.781%) MS PowerPoint
4 5 (1.992%) MS Office
5 3 (1.195%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.195%) Summit
2 2 (0.797%) Taleo
2 2 (0.797%) Eagle PACE
3 1 (0.398%) Loan IQ
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.789%) HTTP
2 1 (0.398%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.398%) FTP
2 1 (0.398%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (18.33%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (4.382%) Data Mining
2 11 (4.382%) MS Access
3 8 (3.187%) TOAD
4 5 (1.992%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.797%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.797%) Big Data
6 1 (0.398%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.398%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.398%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.398%) QlikView
6 1 (0.398%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.398%) BusinessObjects XI
6 1 (0.398%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.398%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.398%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (9.562%) ERwin
2 5 (1.992%) ClearQuest
2 5 (1.992%) ClearCase
2 5 (1.992%) Ant
2 5 (1.992%) CruiseControl
3 3 (1.195%) Balsamiq Mockups
4 2 (0.797%) JUnit
4 2 (0.797%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 134 (53.39%) Banking
2 101 (40.24%) Finance
3 82 (32.67%) Investment Banking
4 28 (11.16%) Back Office
4 28 (11.16%) Retail
5 19 (7.570%) Front Office
6 15 (5.976%) Retail Banking
7 13 (5.179%) Legal
8 10 (3.984%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.594%) Billing
10 2 (0.797%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.398%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.398%) Marketing
11 1 (0.398%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.398%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 143 (56.97%) Analyst
2 111 (44.22%) Business Analyst
3 37 (14.74%) Project Manager
4 32 (12.75%) Data Analyst
5 31 (12.35%) Architect
6 22 (8.765%) Data Modeller
7 20 (7.968%) Data Architect
8 14 (5.578%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
9 13 (5.179%) Banking Business Analyst
10 11 (4.382%) Developer
11 9 (3.586%) Business Manager
12 8 (3.187%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (2.789%) Reference Data Business Analyst
13 7 (2.789%) Technical Analyst
13 7 (2.789%) Senior Business Analyst
13 7 (2.789%) Systems Analyst
13 7 (2.789%) Technical Business Analyst
13 7 (2.789%) Data Manager
14 6 (2.390%) Financial Business Analyst
14 6 (2.390%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 70 (27.89%) Derivative
2 40 (15.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (10.76%) Market Risk
4 25 (9.960%) Fixed Income
5 23 (9.163%) Wiki
6 21 (8.367%) Credit Derivative
7 13 (5.179%) Equities
8 9 (3.586%) Credit Risk
9 8 (3.187%) Data Integration
10 5 (1.992%) Replication
11 3 (1.195%) Computer Science
12 2 (0.797%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.398%) Mathematics
13 1 (0.398%) Physics
13 1 (0.398%) Pharmacovigilance
13 1 (0.398%) Statistical Arbitrage
13 1 (0.398%) Data Conversion
13 1 (0.398%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.789%) UNIX
2 6 (2.390%) Windows
3 2 (0.797%) Linux
4 1 (0.398%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (23.51%) Business Analysis
2 54 (21.51%) Data Modelling
3 50 (19.92%) Project Management
3 50 (19.92%) Data Analysis
4 47 (18.73%) Data Management
5 32 (12.75%) Data Mapping
6 28 (11.16%) Agile Software Development
7 27 (10.76%) Data Architecture
8 23 (9.163%) User Acceptance Testing
8 23 (9.163%) UML
9 21 (8.367%) BDD
10 19 (7.570%) Use Case
11 18 (7.171%) Asset Management
11 18 (7.171%) Migration
12 16 (6.375%) Wealth Management
13 14 (5.578%) Investment Management
13 14 (5.578%) GAP Analysis
13 14 (5.578%) Change Management
14 12 (4.781%) Time Management
15 11 (4.382%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (27.49%) SQL
2 10 (3.984%) Java
3 7 (2.789%) Perl
3 7 (2.789%) VBA
4 3 (1.195%) C++
5 2 (0.797%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.797%) C#
6 1 (0.398%) Bash shell
6 1 (0.398%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.398%) C
6 1 (0.398%) VB
6 1 (0.398%) Korn
Qualifications
1 24 (9.562%) Degree
2 3 (1.195%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.797%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.398%) ISEB
4 1 (0.398%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.398%) BC Cleared
4 1 (0.398%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.398%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.976%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.586%) QA
3 6 (2.390%) MiFID
4 4 (1.594%) SLA
4 4 (1.594%) FATCA
5 2 (0.797%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 13 (5.179%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 17 (6.773%) Oracle
2 13 (5.179%) HP
3 12 (4.781%) GoldenSource
4 8 (3.187%) Cadis
5 7 (2.789%) Informatica
5 7 (2.789%) Pega
6 6 (2.390%) Teradata
6 6 (2.390%) Microsoft
7 5 (1.992%) Murex
8 4 (1.594%) Actimize
8 4 (1.594%) Netezza
8 4 (1.594%) Sybase
8 4 (1.594%) Interwoven
9 3 (1.195%) iRise
9 3 (1.195%) Trillium
9 3 (1.195%) CA
9 3 (1.195%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.797%) SAP
10 2 (0.797%) Remedy
10 2 (0.797%) Reuters
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