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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Risk 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 Risk Management over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the London region.

 Risk Management
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank475867
Rank change year-on-year
Up+11Up+9
Matching contract IT job ads920443857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London3.552 %2.684 %2.339 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category5.779 %4.736 %4.450 %
Daily rates quoted571213398
Average daily rate£540£500£525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.000 %-4.800 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£375£325£350
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£650£675
UK excluding London average daily rate£363£400£380
% change year-on-year
-9.370 %+5.260 %
Hourly rates quoted4217
Average hourly rate£40.00£29.50£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.59 %-15.71 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£31.80£29.10£27.10
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£44.00£29.90£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£30.00£22.50
% change year-on-year
-16.66 %+33.33 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
15919935419257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London61.46 %56.67 %52.55 %
Daily rates quoted875038898026
Average daily rate£450£410£438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.750 %-6.280 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£288£250£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£575£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£360£375
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted287293718
Average hourly rate£30.00£26.00£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38 %-5.450 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£13.00£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£44.00£46.76£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-10.90 %-8.330 %
Risk Management EnglandRisk Management
England

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.

Risk Management
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Risk Management across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London Risk Management Demand Trend

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Risk Management Daily Rate Trend

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Risk Management across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London Risk Management Daily Rate Histogram

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Risk Management Hourly Rate Trend

Risk Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Management within the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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 LondonUp+2401£525-
Canary WharfUp+861£550-35.29 %
Docklands, LondonDown-1312£475-17.39 %
CroydonUp+63£700-
PaddingtonNew entry-2£440-
UxbridgeDown-41£600-
BromleyNew entry-1--
Kingston Upon ThamesNew entry-1£350-
Risk Management EnglandRisk Management
England

Risk Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Risk 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 Risk Management.

1768 (44.06 %)Banking
2616 (35.34 %)Front Office
3586 (33.62 %)Finance
4577 (33.10 %)Derivative
5555 (31.84 %)Investment Banking
6388 (22.26 %)Java
7363 (20.83 %)SQL
8350 (20.08 %)C#
9308 (17.67 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
10294 (16.87 %)Project Management
11275 (15.78 %)Credit Risk
12246 (14.11 %)C++
13221 (12.68 %)Fixed Income
14220 (12.62 %)Market Risk
15200 (11.47 %).NET
16184 (10.56 %)Equity Derivative
17181 (10.38 %)UNIX
18179 (10.27 %)Business Analysis
19173 (9.925 %)Sybase
20149 (8.548 %)Oracle
21134 (7.688 %)SQL Server
22130 (7.458 %)VBA
23129 (7.401 %)Interest Rate Derivative
24121 (6.942 %)OO
25118 (6.770 %)Credit Derivative
26114 (6.540 %)Equities
2799 (5.680 %)Change Management
2892 (5.278 %)PRINCE2
2989 (5.106 %)User Acceptance Testing
3088 (5.049 %)Degree

Risk Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Risk 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 Risk Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1200 (11.47 %).NET
279 (4.532 %)XML
368 (3.901 %)WinForms
458 (3.328 %)Web Services
554 (3.098 %)WPF
651 (2.926 %)Spring
743 (2.467 %)J2EE
830 (1.721 %)ASP.NET
925 (1.434 %)Swing
1024 (1.377 %)Hibernate
1119 (1.090 %).NET Framework
1218 (1.033 %)Middleware
1218 (1.033 %)Oracle Coherence
1317 (0.975 %)JDBC
1416 (0.918 %)JMS
1515 (0.861 %)Murex Flex
1613 (0.746 %)RESTful
1613 (0.746 %)WF
1712 (0.688 %)WCF
1712 (0.688 %)JSP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
119 (1.090 %)SAS
216 (0.918 %)SharePoint
311 (0.631 %)Apache
49 (0.516 %)TIBCO EMS
58 (0.459 %)Confluence
66 (0.344 %)Rendezvous
74 (0.229 %)Oracle Workflow
83 (0.172 %)Jetty
83 (0.172 %)SharePoint Server 2007
92 (0.115 %)Office Project Server
92 (0.115 %)SmartSockets
92 (0.115 %)Tomcat
92 (0.115 %)IIS
92 (0.115 %)Lotus Notes
101 (0.057 %)Mathematica
101 (0.057 %)WebLogic
101 (0.057 %)MTS
101 (0.057 %)MS Exchange
101 (0.057 %)Progress Apama
101 (0.057 %)Exchange Server 2003
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
174 (4.246 %)MS Excel
246 (2.639 %)Spreadsheet
345 (2.582 %)MS Project
436 (2.065 %)MS Office
530 (1.721 %)MS Visio
616 (0.918 %)MS PowerPoint
712 (0.688 %)CA Clarity
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
117 (0.975 %)Summit
28 (0.459 %)Endur
37 (0.402 %)GL Clearvision
46 (0.344 %)SolArc RightAngle
54 (0.229 %)BancWare
63 (0.172 %)CODA-Financials
63 (0.172 %)SAP HR
72 (0.115 %)Temenos T24
72 (0.115 %)SunGard AvantGard
72 (0.115 %)3000 Xtra
72 (0.115 %)Sophis RISQUE
72 (0.115 %)Kondor+
72 (0.115 %)Adaptiv
81 (0.057 %)Front Arena
81 (0.057 %)Dynamics AX
81 (0.057 %)SAP CFM
81 (0.057 %)Findur
81 (0.057 %)SAP BPC
81 (0.057 %)SAP ERP
81 (0.057 %)Siebel Analytics
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
122 (1.262 %)Internet
216 (0.918 %)Firewall
37 (0.402 %)Intranet
46 (0.344 %)HTTP
46 (0.344 %)WAN
55 (0.287 %)LAN
55 (0.287 %)TCP/IP
55 (0.287 %)Network Security
63 (0.172 %)SAN
72 (0.115 %)LDAP
72 (0.115 %)Broadband
81 (0.057 %)Intrusion Detection
81 (0.057 %)BIG-IP
81 (0.057 %)Wireless
81 (0.057 %)VoIP
81 (0.057 %)DHCP
81 (0.057 %)VPN
81 (0.057 %)DNS
81 (0.057 %)Kerberos
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1134 (7.688 %)SQL Server
247 (2.697 %)Datawarehouse
324 (1.377 %)BusinessObjects
420 (1.147 %)RDBMS
517 (0.975 %)KDB
614 (0.803 %)Data Mining
614 (0.803 %)SQL Server 2005
712 (0.688 %)SQL Server Integration Services
712 (0.688 %)Oracle 10g
811 (0.631 %)MS Access
98 (0.459 %)Sybase ASE
107 (0.402 %)ETL
107 (0.402 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
116 (0.344 %)Reference Data
116 (0.344 %)SQL Server 2000
116 (0.344 %)OLAP
125 (0.287 %)Data Cleansing
134 (0.229 %)Oracle Reports
134 (0.229 %)Sybase IQ
134 (0.229 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
130 (1.721 %)Subversion
226 (1.492 %)JUnit
320 (1.147 %)Maven
419 (1.090 %)NUnit
517 (0.975 %)JIRA
613 (0.746 %)jMock
712 (0.688 %)TeamCity
712 (0.688 %)NCover
712 (0.688 %)CruiseControl
811 (0.631 %)TestDirector
910 (0.574 %)XDE
107 (0.402 %)Ant
107 (0.402 %)ClearCase
107 (0.402 %)QuickTest Pro
114 (0.229 %)Selenium
114 (0.229 %)Visual Studio
123 (0.172 %)PVCS
123 (0.172 %)VSS/SourceSafe
123 (0.172 %)ERwin
131 (0.057 %)Log4Net
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1768 (44.06 %)Banking
2616 (35.34 %)Front Office
3586 (33.62 %)Finance
4555 (31.84 %)Investment Banking
584 (4.819 %)Back Office
653 (3.041 %)Insurance
748 (2.754 %)Financial Institution
843 (2.467 %)Government
928 (1.606 %)Retail
1026 (1.492 %)Legal
1120 (1.147 %)Education
1215 (0.861 %)Retail Banking
1312 (0.688 %)Law
1411 (0.631 %)Construction
1411 (0.631 %)Health
159 (0.516 %)Auditing
168 (0.459 %)Pensions
168 (0.459 %)Marketing
168 (0.459 %)Telecoms
177 (0.402 %)Corporate Banking
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1643 (36.89 %)Developer
2551 (31.61 %)Analyst
3394 (22.60 %)Business Analyst
4228 (13.08 %)Java Developer
5201 (11.53 %)Project Manager
6158 (9.065 %)C# Developer
7115 (6.598 %)Risk Analyst
8111 (6.368 %)C++ Developer
995 (5.450 %)Credit Risk Analyst
1091 (5.221 %)Senior Developer
1186 (4.934 %)Credit Risk Business Analyst
1266 (3.787 %)Credit Analyst
1357 (3.270 %)Excel Developer
1357 (3.270 %).NET Developer
1357 (3.270 %)Banking Business Analyst
1456 (3.213 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
1555 (3.155 %)Market Risk Analyst
1651 (2.926 %)Consultant
1750 (2.869 %)Quantitative Developer
1848 (2.754 %)Risk Manager
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1577 (33.10 %)Derivative
2308 (17.67 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3275 (15.78 %)Credit Risk
4221 (12.68 %)Fixed Income
5220 (12.62 %)Market Risk
6184 (10.56 %)Equity Derivative
7129 (7.401 %)Interest Rate Derivative
8118 (6.770 %)Credit Derivative
9114 (6.540 %)Equities
1068 (3.901 %)Grid Computing
1151 (2.926 %)Management Information System
1247 (2.697 %)Multithreading
1333 (1.893 %)Mathematics
1415 (0.861 %)NHS
1415 (0.861 %)Exotic Derivative
1513 (0.746 %)CESG
1612 (0.688 %)Computer Science
1612 (0.688 %)N-Tier
1612 (0.688 %)CESG CLAS
1711 (0.631 %)Cloud Computing
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1181 (10.38 %)UNIX
283 (4.762 %)Windows
364 (3.672 %)Linux
46 (0.344 %)Solaris
55 (0.287 %)Windows XP
55 (0.287 %)Windows Server 2003
55 (0.287 %)Windows 2000 Server
64 (0.229 %)Red Hat Linux
72 (0.115 %)Windows 2000
81 (0.057 %)OpenVMS
81 (0.057 %)MVS
81 (0.057 %)Windows Server 2008
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1294 (16.87 %)Project Management
2179 (10.27 %)Business Analysis
3121 (6.942 %)OO
499 (5.680 %)Change Management
592 (5.278 %)PRINCE2
689 (5.106 %)User Acceptance Testing
768 (3.901 %)Stakeholder Management
863 (3.614 %)Monte Carlo Method
962 (3.557 %)Migration
1060 (3.442 %)Agile Software Development
1060 (3.442 %)UML
1156 (3.213 %)E-Commerce
1250 (2.869 %)Project Planning
1343 (2.467 %)Stress Testing
1442 (2.410 %)RAD
1539 (2.238 %)Asset Management
1539 (2.238 %)Software Engineering
1638 (2.180 %)Electronic Trading
1737 (2.123 %)Workflow
1834 (1.951 %)OOD
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1388 (22.26 %)Java
2363 (20.83 %)SQL
3350 (20.08 %)C#
4246 (14.11 %)C++
5130 (7.458 %)VBA
670 (4.016 %)Perl
736 (2.065 %)VB
831 (1.779 %)Shell Script
831 (1.779 %)C
927 (1.549 %)JavaScript
1023 (1.320 %)Python
1116 (0.918 %)VC++
1213 (0.746 %)PL/SQL
1312 (0.688 %)T-SQL
1411 (0.631 %)VB6
154 (0.229 %)VB.NET
163 (0.172 %)Bash shell
163 (0.172 %)Korn
172 (0.115 %)XPath
172 (0.115 %)Smalltalk
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
188 (5.049 %)Degree
225 (1.434 %)PMI Certification
322 (1.262 %)Security Cleared
322 (1.262 %)PMP
416 (0.918 %)ISEB
511 (0.631 %)PRINCE2 Certification
610 (0.574 %)SC Cleared
610 (0.574 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
79 (0.516 %)CISSP
79 (0.516 %)DV Cleared
88 (0.459 %)CTC Cleared
97 (0.402 %)CISM
105 (0.287 %)CISA
114 (0.229 %)PhD
123 (0.172 %)Cisco Certification
132 (0.115 %)CCNP
141 (0.057 %)CEH
141 (0.057 %)ISEB Practitioner
141 (0.057 %)CCNA
141 (0.057 %)QiCA
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
159 (3.385 %)QA
252 (2.983 %)Basel II
328 (1.606 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
415 (0.861 %)ISO27001
512 (0.688 %)COBIT
611 (0.631 %)GAAP
77 (0.402 %)MiFID
85 (0.287 %)BS7799
94 (0.229 %)SLA
94 (0.229 %)ISO17799
103 (0.172 %)HMG Infosec
112 (0.115 %)PCI DSS
121 (0.057 %)ISO9000
121 (0.057 %)ISO/IEC 20000
121 (0.057 %)CESG Infosec
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
17 (0.402 %)Active Directory
22 (0.115 %)vSphere
22 (0.115 %)VMware Infrastructure
22 (0.115 %)VMware ESX
31 (0.057 %)RACF
31 (0.057 %)Oracle RAC
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
119 (1.090 %)AutoSys
22 (0.115 %)WSUS
22 (0.115 %)CONTROL-M
22 (0.115 %)MOM
22 (0.115 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
31 (0.057 %)SCCM
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1173 (9.925 %)Sybase
2149 (8.548 %)Oracle
362 (3.557 %)Microsoft
438 (2.180 %)Murex
534 (1.951 %)DataSynapse
625 (1.434 %)TIBCO
724 (1.377 %)Business Objects
820 (1.147 %)Reuters
820 (1.147 %)OpenLink
918 (1.033 %)Bloomberg
1017 (0.975 %)Sophis
1112 (0.688 %)SAP
1211 (0.631 %)Cognos
137 (0.402 %)Infragistics
137 (0.402 %)SunGard
137 (0.402 %)Tradeweb
146 (0.344 %)SolArc
155 (0.287 %)PeopleSoft
155 (0.287 %)Cisco
155 (0.287 %)CODA