The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Preston region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance 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 terms in our General category for the Preston 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 13 18 2
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -16
Contract jobs citing Finance 4 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston 7.407% 5.085% 15.00%
As % of the General category 57.14% 47.37% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 1
Average daily rate £365 £356 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.45% -5.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £19.04 £10.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+90.40% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.89 £17.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year
-3.48% -28.57%
All of the General Category
Preston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
7 19 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston 12.96% 10.73% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 2
Average daily rate £340 £388 £233
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.25% +66.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £295 £119
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £418 £347
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £19.02 £10.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+90.20% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £24.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+0.05% -3.89%
Finance
Lancashire

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Preston Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 4 (44.44%) Oracle
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle iProcurement
2 3 (33.33%) E-business
2 3 (33.33%) Project Management
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
4 1 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (11.11%) ERP
4 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) ISEB
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (11.11%) CA
4 1 (11.11%) Intranet
4 1 (11.11%) HND
4 1 (11.11%) MS Office
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (11.11%) AppSense

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle iProcurement
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Intranet
1 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) ICT Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) E-business
1 3 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
3 1 (11.11%) ERP
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) System Testing
3 1 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ISEB
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (11.11%) HND
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) CA
2 1 (11.11%) AppSense
2 1 (11.11%) Lumension