Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Spreadsheet 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 Spreadsheet 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 Applications category for the London region.

 Spreadsheets
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank171178170
Rank change year-on-year
Up+7Down-8
Matching contract IT job ads241123339
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London0.930 %0.745 %0.925 %
As % of the Applications category9.287 %6.747 %8.286 %
Daily rates quoted13061190
Average daily rate£525£450£475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66 %-5.260 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£186£175
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£238£214£230
% change year-on-year
+11.11 %-7.060 %
Hourly rates quoted81027
Average hourly rate£16.00£14.00£18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28 %-24.32 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£11.90£10.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£23.40£17.70£25.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate£13.00£14.50£13.00
% change year-on-year
-10.34 %+11.53 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryAll Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
259518234091
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London10.02 %11.04 %11.16 %
Daily rates quoted13386611554
Average daily rate£375£325£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38 %-7.140 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£195£165£175
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£270£310£300
% change year-on-year
-12.90 %+3.330 %
Hourly rates quoted179244588
Average hourly rate£19.00£17.00£18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.76 %-5.550 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.50£12.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£50.00£32.50£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.50£15.00£15.00
% change year-on-year
-3.330 %-
Spreadsheet EnglandSpreadsheet
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.

Spreadsheet
Demand Trend

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

London Spreadsheet Demand Trend

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Spreadsheet Daily Rate Trend

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Spreadsheet Daily Rate Histogram

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Spreadsheet Hourly Rate Trend

Spreadsheet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spreadsheet 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 LondonDown-794£525+16.66 %
Canary WharfDown-1221£175-46.56 %
HayesNew entry-8--
Docklands, LondonDown-106£338+64.63 %
UxbridgeDown-131£305+217.70 %
Spreadsheet EnglandSpreadsheet
England

Spreadsheet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1177 (40.41 %)Front Office
2171 (39.04 %)Derivative
3170 (38.81 %)VBA
4141 (32.19 %)C#
5138 (31.51 %)Banking
6136 (31.05 %)Finance
7109 (24.89 %)Investment Banking
8102 (23.29 %)SQL
985 (19.41 %)Fixed Income
1068 (15.53 %).NET
1167 (15.30 %)MS Excel
1257 (13.01 %)Equity Derivative
1349 (11.19 %)SQL Server
1446 (10.50 %)Risk Management
1544 (10.05 %)Oracle
1544 (10.05 %)C++
1643 (9.817 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1742 (9.589 %)Equities
1838 (8.676 %)Credit Derivative
1937 (8.447 %)Sybase
2036 (8.219 %)VB
2036 (8.219 %)RAD
2036 (8.219 %)Business Analysis
2133 (7.534 %)Migration
2133 (7.534 %)Client/Server
2232 (7.306 %)Microsoft
2329 (6.621 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
2329 (6.621 %)OO
2428 (6.393 %)Degree
2527 (6.164 %)Data Analysis

Spreadsheet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
168 (15.53 %).NET
220 (4.566 %)XML
315 (3.425 %)WPF
49 (2.055 %)WinForms
49 (2.055 %).NET Framework
57 (1.598 %)Middleware
66 (1.370 %)XML Schema
75 (1.142 %)Flash
75 (1.142 %)ADO
84 (0.913 %)Web Services
84 (0.913 %)HTML
93 (0.685 %)XSLT
93 (0.685 %)ASP.NET
93 (0.685 %)LINQ
93 (0.685 %)WF
102 (0.457 %)Silverlight
102 (0.457 %)Google Maps API
102 (0.457 %)DOM
102 (0.457 %)DCOM
102 (0.457 %)ODBC
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (1.598 %)SAS
17 (1.598 %)TIBCO EMS
25 (1.142 %)SharePoint
34 (0.913 %)Lotus Notes
43 (0.685 %)CMS
52 (0.457 %)LiveLink
61 (0.228 %)MS Exchange
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
167 (15.30 %)MS Excel
224 (5.479 %)MS Office
313 (2.968 %)MS PowerPoint
49 (2.055 %)MS Visio
55 (1.142 %)MS Project
63 (0.685 %)SPSS
71 (0.228 %)Photoshop
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (2.283 %)Endur
22 (0.457 %)Summit
31 (0.228 %)Oracle Financials
31 (0.228 %)Capstone
31 (0.228 %)Tesseract
31 (0.228 %)Minerva
31 (0.228 %)Sentinel
31 (0.228 %)ION MarketView
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
19 (2.055 %)3G
28 (1.826 %)2G
35 (1.142 %)Internet
44 (0.913 %)Intranet
52 (0.457 %)VLAN
52 (0.457 %)RNC
52 (0.457 %)Firewall
52 (0.457 %)VoIP
52 (0.457 %)DNS
52 (0.457 %)DMZ
52 (0.457 %)OSPF
52 (0.457 %)BGP
61 (0.228 %)ATM
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
149 (11.19 %)SQL Server
215 (3.425 %)MS Access
34 (0.913 %)SQL Server Integration Services
43 (0.685 %)BusinessObjects
43 (0.685 %)SQL Server 2005
52 (0.457 %)Data Cleansing
52 (0.457 %)Datawarehouse
61 (0.228 %)Reference Data
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (0.685 %)Visual Studio
22 (0.457 %)Subversion
31 (0.228 %)PowerBuilder
31 (0.228 %)TestDirector
31 (0.228 %)QuickTest Pro
31 (0.228 %)LoadRunner
31 (0.228 %)ClearCase
31 (0.228 %)NUnit
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1177 (40.41 %)Front Office
2138 (31.51 %)Banking
3136 (31.05 %)Finance
4109 (24.89 %)Investment Banking
517 (3.881 %)Government
611 (2.511 %)Back Office
710 (2.283 %)Telecoms
89 (2.055 %)Publishing
98 (1.826 %)Billing
98 (1.826 %)Health
98 (1.826 %)Education
98 (1.826 %)Financial Institution
105 (1.142 %)Private Banking
114 (0.913 %)Marketing
123 (0.685 %)Insurance
123 (0.685 %)Local Government
123 (0.685 %)Retail
132 (0.457 %)General Ledger
132 (0.457 %)Legal
132 (0.457 %)Games
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1187 (42.69 %)Developer
2146 (33.33 %)Analyst
3136 (31.05 %)Excel Developer
486 (19.63 %)Business Analyst
562 (14.16 %)C# Developer
657 (13.01 %)VBA Developer
754 (12.33 %)Excel VBA Developer
833 (7.534 %)Front Office Developer
922 (5.023 %)Administrator
1019 (4.338 %)Senior Developer
1019 (4.338 %)Senior Excel Developer
1116 (3.653 %)Senior Analyst
1116 (3.653 %)Analyst Developer
1215 (3.425 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
1314 (3.196 %)Business Developer
1411 (2.511 %)Senior Business Analyst
1411 (2.511 %)Data Analyst
1411 (2.511 %)Spreadsheet Developer
1411 (2.511 %)Banking Business Analyst
1510 (2.283 %)Information Analyst
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1171 (39.04 %)Derivative
285 (19.41 %)Fixed Income
357 (13.01 %)Equity Derivative
443 (9.817 %)Interest Rate Derivative
542 (9.589 %)Equities
638 (8.676 %)Credit Derivative
733 (7.534 %)Client/Server
829 (6.621 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
915 (3.425 %)NHS
915 (3.425 %)Statistics
1013 (2.968 %)Credit Risk
118 (1.826 %)Mathematics
127 (1.598 %)Management Information System
135 (1.142 %)N-Tier
143 (0.685 %)Grid Computing
143 (0.685 %)Exotic Derivative
152 (0.457 %)Multithreading
152 (0.457 %)Market Risk
152 (0.457 %)FMCG
161 (0.228 %)Blackberry
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
123 (5.251 %)Windows
216 (3.653 %)UNIX
33 (0.685 %)Linux
33 (0.685 %)Windows XP
42 (0.457 %)Solaris
42 (0.457 %)Windows 2000
42 (0.457 %)Windows Server 2003
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
146 (10.50 %)Risk Management
236 (8.219 %)RAD
236 (8.219 %)Business Analysis
333 (7.534 %)Migration
429 (6.621 %)OO
527 (6.164 %)Data Analysis
622 (5.023 %)Project Management
721 (4.795 %)Workflow
721 (4.795 %)OOD
817 (3.881 %)Asset Management
913 (2.968 %)User Acceptance Testing
1012 (2.740 %)Greeks
1012 (2.740 %)PRINCE2
1110 (2.283 %)Agile Software Development
129 (2.055 %)Risk Analysis
129 (2.055 %)Data Entry
138 (1.826 %)Data Management
147 (1.598 %)Information Management
147 (1.598 %)Document Management
156 (1.370 %)Fund Management
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1170 (38.81 %)VBA
2141 (32.19 %)C#
3102 (23.29 %)SQL
444 (10.05 %)C++
536 (8.219 %)VB
613 (2.968 %)Java
613 (2.968 %)PL/SQL
710 (2.283 %)T-SQL
84 (0.913 %)C
93 (0.685 %)VC++
102 (0.457 %)XPath
102 (0.457 %)F#
102 (0.457 %)Perl
111 (0.228 %)VBScript
111 (0.228 %)XAML
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
128 (6.393 %)Degree
212 (2.740 %)Security Cleared
39 (2.055 %)DV Cleared
44 (0.913 %)ECDL
53 (0.685 %)ACCA
53 (0.685 %)CIMA
62 (0.457 %)SC Cleared
71 (0.228 %)Microsoft Certification
71 (0.228 %)PRINCE2 Certification
71 (0.228 %)ISEB
71 (0.228 %)PhD
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (1.598 %)QA
23 (0.685 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
32 (0.457 %)SLA
32 (0.457 %)Basel II
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (0.457 %)Active Directory
21 (0.228 %)Samba
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (0.457 %)CiscoWorks
21 (0.228 %)HP Quality Center
21 (0.228 %)SCOM
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
144 (10.05 %)Oracle
237 (8.447 %)Sybase
332 (7.306 %)Microsoft
418 (4.110 %)Bloomberg
517 (3.881 %)Reuters
610 (2.283 %)OpenLink
78 (1.826 %)TIBCO
85 (1.142 %)Remedy
85 (1.142 %)SAP
85 (1.142 %)Infragistics
94 (0.913 %)Cisco
94 (0.913 %)Lotus
94 (0.913 %)Ericsson
103 (0.685 %)Business Objects
103 (0.685 %)Sophis
103 (0.685 %)Google
112 (0.457 %)thinkFolio
112 (0.457 %)Murex
112 (0.457 %)Calypso
112 (0.457 %)Citrix