The first table below looks at the demand for Sentinel 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 Sentinel over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Business Applications 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fidessa LatentZero Sentinel
Rank 367 412 420
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +8
Contract jobs citing Sentinel 20 6 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.091% 0.022% 0.042%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.130% 0.268% 0.494%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 7
Average daily rate £525 £473 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £415 £365
10% offered a daily rate of more than £590 £615 £680
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 £503 £463
% change year-on-year
+9.39% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
1770 2239 2633
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 8.048% 8.190% 8.593%
Number of daily rates quoted 1046 1223 1583
Average daily rate £463 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £433 £420
% change year-on-year
-1.73% +2.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 21
Average hourly rate £32.58 £40.50 £29.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.55% +38.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £16.15 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £87.50 £51.25 £62.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
Sentinel
England

Sentinel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Sentinel Jobs Demand Trend

Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Sentinel Daily Rate Trend

Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sentinel across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Sentinel Daily Rate Histogram

Sentinel
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Sentinel Hourly Rate Trend

Sentinel
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sentinel within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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 +14 8 £525 +20.34%
Sentinel
England

Sentinel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Sentinel 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 Sentinel.

1 25 (83.33%) Minerva
2 24 (80.00%) Tesseract
3 23 (76.67%) LatentZero
4 17 (56.67%) Capstone
4 17 (56.67%) Asset Management
5 16 (53.33%) Front Office
6 15 (50.00%) Investment Management
7 12 (40.00%) thinkFolio
8 7 (23.33%) Finance
8 7 (23.33%) Benchmarking
8 7 (23.33%) SQL
8 7 (23.33%) Fidessa
9 6 (20.00%) Charles River
9 6 (20.00%) Business Analysis
10 5 (16.67%) Performance Testing
10 5 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
11 4 (13.33%) Fixed Income
11 4 (13.33%) Fund Management
11 4 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
12 3 (10.00%) Derivative
12 3 (10.00%) Cadis
12 3 (10.00%) Twitter
12 3 (10.00%) Functional Testing
12 3 (10.00%) Workflow
12 3 (10.00%) Reuters
12 3 (10.00%) Bloomberg
12 3 (10.00%) HTTP
12 3 (10.00%) HTTPS
13 2 (6.667%) SLA
13 2 (6.667%) Informatica

Sentinel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Sentinel 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 Sentinel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (3.333%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 25 (83.33%) Minerva
2 24 (80.00%) Tesseract
3 23 (76.67%) LatentZero
4 17 (56.67%) Capstone
5 2 (6.667%) LongView
5 2 (6.667%) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) HTTP
1 3 (10.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.333%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
General
1 16 (53.33%) Front Office
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 2 (6.667%) Back Office
3 2 (6.667%) Financial Institution
3 2 (6.667%) Investment Banking
3 2 (6.667%) Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (76.67%) Analyst
2 10 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 8 (26.67%) Test Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Applications Support
5 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.667%) Applications Support Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Applications Support Specialist
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Programme Manager
7 1 (3.333%) Lead Test Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.333%) Support Specialist
7 1 (3.333%) Applications Specialist
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (3.333%) Tester
7 1 (3.333%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 3 (10.00%) Derivative
3 2 (6.667%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.667%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.667%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.333%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Asset Management
2 15 (50.00%) Investment Management
3 7 (23.33%) Benchmarking
4 6 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 5 (16.67%) Performance Testing
6 4 (13.33%) Fund Management
6 4 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (10.00%) Functional Testing
7 3 (10.00%) Workflow
8 2 (6.667%) Project Management
8 2 (6.667%) Risk Management
8 2 (6.667%) Portfolio Management
8 2 (6.667%) Fund Accounting
8 2 (6.667%) Cash Management
9 1 (3.333%) Data Management
9 1 (3.333%) Project Planning
9 1 (3.333%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) SQL
2 2 (6.667%) VB
2 2 (6.667%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) thinkFolio
2 7 (23.33%) Fidessa
3 6 (20.00%) Charles River
4 3 (10.00%) Cadis
4 3 (10.00%) Twitter
4 3 (10.00%) Reuters
4 3 (10.00%) Bloomberg
5 2 (6.667%) Informatica