The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in IT contracts advertised for the Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fixed Income over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Northern Ireland 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fixed Income
Rank - 17 38
Contract jobs citing Fixed Income 0 12 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland - 6.383% 2.688%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 30.00% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 5
Average daily rate - £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
+15.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £23.50 -
% change year-on-year
-27.65% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Northern Ireland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
55 40 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 21.83% 21.28% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 12 17
Average daily rate £300 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £12.42 - £12.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Fixed Income
UK

Fixed Income
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Fixed Income across the Northern Ireland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Northern Ireland Fixed Income Jobs Demand Trend

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Fixed Income across the Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland Fixed Income Daily Rate Trend

Fixed Income
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland region citing Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income.

1 6 (100.00%) Equities
2 5 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) WebLogic
2 5 (83.33%) Derivative
2 5 (83.33%) WebSphere
2 5 (83.33%) Java EE
2 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) Progress Apama
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) OLAP
4 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
5 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (16.67%) Sybase
5 1 (16.67%) Sybase ASE

Fixed Income
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland region citing Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) WebSphere
1 5 (83.33%) Java EE
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) WebLogic
2 3 (50.00%) Progress Apama
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) OLAP
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (16.67%) Sybase ASE
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Sybase DBA
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Equities
2 5 (83.33%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Sybase