The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance 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 General category for the Peterborough 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
Financial
Rank 1 7 7
Rank change year-on-year
+6 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 32 12 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 34.04% 14.29% 18.02%
As % of the General category 86.49% 50.00% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 13
Average daily rate £446 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% +28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £438 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £488 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.39 £22.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-11.86% -
All of the General Category
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
37 24 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 39.36% 28.57% 22.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 18
Average daily rate £446 £450 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £441 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £493 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
Average hourly rate £32.00 £30.50 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.91% +12.96%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Finance
Cambridgeshire

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Finance across the Peterborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Peterborough Finance Jobs Demand Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Trend

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

Peterborough Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Finance across the Peterborough region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Peterborough Finance Daily Rate Histogram

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Peterborough Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough region citing Finance 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 Finance.

1 10 (20.83%) .NET
1 10 (20.83%) Oracle
2 9 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (16.67%) C#
4 7 (14.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (14.58%) SQL
4 7 (14.58%) Back Office
5 6 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 6 (12.50%) VB6
5 6 (12.50%) NHibernate
5 6 (12.50%) WCF
5 6 (12.50%) VB
5 6 (12.50%) DHTML
5 6 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 6 (12.50%) Web Services
5 6 (12.50%) CODA
5 6 (12.50%) Project Management
5 6 (12.50%) System Testing
5 6 (12.50%) Waterfall
6 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (10.42%) Cash Management
6 5 (10.42%) Middleware
6 5 (10.42%) ITIL
6 5 (10.42%) COM+
6 5 (10.42%) T-SQL
6 5 (10.42%) Degree
7 4 (8.333%) LINQ
7 4 (8.333%) Subversion
7 4 (8.333%) Retail
7 4 (8.333%) Java

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough region citing Finance 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 Finance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (20.83%) .NET
2 6 (12.50%) DHTML
2 6 (12.50%) Web Services
2 6 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 6 (12.50%) NHibernate
2 6 (12.50%) WCF
3 5 (10.42%) COM+
3 5 (10.42%) Middleware
4 4 (8.333%) ASP
4 4 (8.333%) LINQ
5 2 (4.167%) GWT
5 2 (4.167%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (4.167%) WebSphere
5 2 (4.167%) Apache Flex
5 2 (4.167%) J2EE
5 2 (4.167%) Hibernate
5 2 (4.167%) Spring
6 1 (2.083%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.250%) ESB
2 2 (4.167%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.083%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.250%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.083%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.250%) CODA-Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.167%) Firewall
2 1 (2.083%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.250%) MS Access
2 2 (4.167%) Oracle OWB
2 2 (4.167%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (4.167%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.167%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.083%) DB2
3 1 (2.083%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.083%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.333%) Subversion
1 4 (8.333%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (8.333%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (2.083%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.083%) JIRA
General
1 7 (14.58%) Back Office
2 4 (8.333%) Retail
3 2 (4.167%) Banking
4 1 (2.083%) General Ledger
4 1 (2.083%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Analyst
2 8 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 6 (12.50%) Developer
3 6 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Project Manager
4 5 (10.42%) Architect
5 4 (8.333%) Test Manager
5 4 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (6.250%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (6.250%) Administrator
6 3 (6.250%) Programme Manager
6 3 (6.250%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.250%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 3 (6.250%) Release Manager
6 3 (6.250%) Test Programme Manager
7 2 (4.167%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Test Leader
7 2 (4.167%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Programmer
7 2 (4.167%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.083%) Clustering
2 1 (2.083%) Kindle
2 1 (2.083%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.083%) UNIX
1 1 (2.083%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (12.50%) Project Management
2 6 (12.50%) Risk Management
2 6 (12.50%) System Testing
2 6 (12.50%) Waterfall
3 5 (10.42%) Cash Management
3 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (10.42%) ITIL
4 4 (8.333%) Test Management
4 4 (8.333%) Investment Management
4 4 (8.333%) Time Management
5 3 (6.250%) Test Strategy
5 3 (6.250%) Build Automation
5 3 (6.250%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (6.250%) Integration Testing
5 3 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (6.250%) Configuration Management
5 3 (6.250%) PRINCE2
5 3 (6.250%) Migration
6 2 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) C#
2 7 (14.58%) SQL
3 6 (12.50%) VB
3 6 (12.50%) VB6
4 5 (10.42%) T-SQL
5 4 (8.333%) Java
6 2 (4.167%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.167%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Degree
2 3 (6.250%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.083%) PMP
3 1 (2.083%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.083%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.083%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.250%) QA
2 2 (4.167%) SLA
3 1 (2.083%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.083%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.083%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (2.083%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (6.250%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Oracle
2 6 (12.50%) CODA
3 4 (8.333%) Talend
4 3 (6.250%) IT2
4 3 (6.250%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.250%) SunGard
4 3 (6.250%) HP
5 2 (4.167%) Unisys
5 2 (4.167%) webMethods
6 1 (2.083%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.083%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.083%) Informatica
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