London Spread Betting Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Spread Betting in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spread Betting over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the London region.

Spread Betting
Location City of London England London UK	3 months to 22 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	370	292	397
Rank change year-on-year	-78 +105
Matching contract IT job ads	5	14	32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London	0.019 %	0.084 %	0.088 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.055 %	0.274 %	0.315 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1	21
Average daily rate	£325	£200	£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+62.50 % -46.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£265	£200	£280
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£385	£200	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	-	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-	-
All Miscellaneous Category London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Miscellaneous category	9138	5117	10166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London	35.03 %	30.78 %	27.82 %
Daily rates quoted	5460	2281	4601
Average daily rate	£535	£475	£550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+12.63 % -13.63 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£274	£325
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£700
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£330	£350
% change year-on-year	-1.510 % -5.710 %
Hourly rates quoted	201	236	456
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£20.00	£24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	- -16.66 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£13.50	£12.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£39.60	£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.50	£22.74	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-18.64 % -9.040 %
Spread Betting 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.

Spread Betting
Demand Trend

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

Spread Betting
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Spread Betting 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 Spread Betting across the London region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

Spread Betting
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Spread Betting
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spread Betting within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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.

Location	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	-74	2	£250	-

Spread Betting England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Spread Betting 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 Spread Betting.

1 3 (50.00 %) Finance 2 2 (33.33 %) Education 2 2 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 2 2 (33.33 %) HTML 2 2 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL 2 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 2 (33.33 %) Business Objects 2 2 (33.33 %) CSS 2 2 (33.33 %) JSP 2 2 (33.33 %) OO 2 2 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 2 (33.33 %) Siebel 2 2 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 2 2 (33.33 %) Oracle Discoverer

2 2 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (33.33 %) AJAX 2 2 (33.33 %) Statistics 2 2 (33.33 %) CFA 2 2 (33.33 %) JSTL 2 2 (33.33 %) Mathematics 2 2 (33.33 %) Computer Science 2 2 (33.33 %) CIMA 2 2 (33.33 %) Siebel Analytics 2 2 (33.33 %) YUI 2 2 (33.33 %) Oracle BI EE 3 1 (16.67 %) jQuery 3 1 (16.67 %) Oracle EBS 3 1 (16.67 %) Dojo 3 1 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development

Spread Betting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Spread Betting 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 Spread Betting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (33.33 %) HTML 1 2 (33.33 %) CSS 1 2 (33.33 %) JSP 1 2 (33.33 %) XHTML 1 2 (33.33 %) AJAX 1 2 (33.33 %) JSTL 1 2 (33.33 %) YUI 2 1 (16.67 %) jQuery 2 1 (16.67 %) Dojo	Business Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) Siebel Analytics 2 1 (16.67 %) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (33.33 %) Oracle Discoverer 1 2 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects 1 2 (33.33 %) Oracle BI EE	General 1 3 (50.00 %) Finance 2 2 (33.33 %) Education
Job Titles 1 4 (66.67 %) Analyst 2 3 (50.00 %) Business Analyst 3 2 (33.33 %) Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) UI Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) Front-End Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (16.67 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (16.67 %) Senior Test Analyst 4 1 (16.67 %) Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (33.33 %) Statistics 1 2 (33.33 %) Mathematics 1 2 (33.33 %) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 1 2 (33.33 %) OO 1 2 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development 2 1 (16.67 %) TDD 2 1 (16.67 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 2 (33.33 %) JavaScript 1 2 (33.33 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) CFA 1 2 (33.33 %) CIMA	Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 2 (33.33 %) Business Objects 1 2 (33.33 %) Siebel