The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SimCorp 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 SimCorp over the 3 months to 19 June 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 SimCorp.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SimCorp
Rank 379 365 425
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +60
Contract jobs citing SimCorp 5 45 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.022% 0.169% 0.057%
As % of the Vendors category 0.049% 0.375% 0.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 36 16
Average daily rate £825 £700 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% +27.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £160
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
10285 11988 14437
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.10% 45.09% 45.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6459 7240 8774
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 310 402
Average hourly rate £21.34 £19.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.41% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.50 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
SimCorp
England

SimCorp
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London SimCorp Jobs Demand Trend

SimCorp
Daily Rate Trend

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

London SimCorp Daily Rate Trend

SimCorp
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London SimCorp Hourly Rate Trend

SimCorp
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SimCorp within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -35 1 £825 +17.85% 1
Docklands, London - - - -
Canary Wharf - - - -
SimCorp
England

SimCorp
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SimCorp 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 SimCorp.

1 11 (61.11%) SimCorp Dimension
2 9 (50.00%) Finance
3 7 (38.89%) Asset Management
3 7 (38.89%) Back Office
4 5 (27.78%) Fund Management
4 5 (27.78%) Financial Institution
4 5 (27.78%) Project Management
5 4 (22.22%) Fund Accounting
6 3 (16.67%) Cadis
6 3 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 3 (16.67%) Charles River
7 2 (11.11%) Front Office
7 2 (11.11%) Equities
7 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (11.11%) SunGard
7 2 (11.11%) ITIL
7 2 (11.11%) Investment Management
7 2 (11.11%) Eagle STAR
7 2 (11.11%) Economics
7 2 (11.11%) Fixed Income
7 2 (11.11%) Banking
7 2 (11.11%) Degree
7 2 (11.11%) Mathematics
7 2 (11.11%) Physics
8 1 (5.556%) Incident Management
8 1 (5.556%) Derivative
8 1 (5.556%) Xen
8 1 (5.556%) Retail
8 1 (5.556%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (5.556%) Data Migration

SimCorp
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SimCorp 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 SimCorp. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.556%) Middleware
Business Applications
1 11 (61.11%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (11.11%) Eagle STAR
3 1 (5.556%) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.556%) Crystal Reports
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Back Office
3 5 (27.78%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.11%) Front Office
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (5.556%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Business Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Business Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Business Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Business Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Implementation Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.556%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.556%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Equities
1 2 (11.11%) Economics
1 2 (11.11%) Fixed Income
1 2 (11.11%) Mathematics
1 2 (11.11%) Physics
2 1 (5.556%) Derivative
2 1 (5.556%) Wiki
2 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) UNIX
1 1 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Asset Management
2 5 (27.78%) Fund Management
2 5 (27.78%) Project Management
3 4 (22.22%) Fund Accounting
4 3 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL
5 2 (11.11%) Investment Management
6 1 (5.556%) Incident Management
6 1 (5.556%) Data Migration
6 1 (5.556%) Capacity Management
6 1 (5.556%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.556%) SQL
1 1 (5.556%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.556%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Xen
1 1 (5.556%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Cadis
1 3 (16.67%) Charles River
2 2 (11.11%) SunGard
3 1 (5.556%) BI-SAM
3 1 (5.556%) FactSet
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle
3 1 (5.556%) Business Objects
3 1 (5.556%) Citrix
3 1 (5.556%) StatPro
3 1 (5.556%) Remedy
3 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) VMware
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