The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Reigate region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 20 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 Reigate 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 4 10 1
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -9
Contract jobs citing Finance 3 6 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reigate 21.43% 14.63% 54.55%
As % of the General category 50.00% 54.55% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 19
Average daily rate £525 £118 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+346.80% -70.62%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.39 £20.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-5.41% -4.65%
All of the General Category
Reigate
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
6 11 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reigate 42.86% 26.83% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 20
Average daily rate £400 £130 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+207.69% -67.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £118 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £372 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -5.66%
Finance
Surrey

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reigate 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 Reigate region.

Reigate 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 Reigate region.

Reigate Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reigate 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 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) .NET
2 8 (47.06%) SharePoint
2 8 (47.06%) Scrum
3 6 (35.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (35.29%) CRM
3 6 (35.29%) MVC
3 6 (35.29%) Workflow
3 6 (35.29%) VB.NET
3 6 (35.29%) MS Office
3 6 (35.29%) Visual Studio
3 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET
3 6 (35.29%) XML
3 6 (35.29%) XSLT
3 6 (35.29%) WCF
3 6 (35.29%) WF
4 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
5 4 (23.53%) Oracle
6 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
6 3 (17.65%) Citrix
6 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (17.65%) TDD
6 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (17.65%) Release Management
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (11.76%) SCCM
7 2 (11.76%) Hibernate

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reigate 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 8 (47.06%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET
2 6 (35.29%) XML
2 6 (35.29%) XSLT
2 6 (35.29%) WCF
2 6 (35.29%) WF
3 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
3 2 (11.76%) Spring
3 2 (11.76%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 8 (47.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.76%) MS Exchange
2 2 (11.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (11.76%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DHCP
1 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
1 2 (11.76%) VPN
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.882%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (5.882%) Selenium
2 1 (5.882%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.882%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) .NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Performance Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) VB.NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Support Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Web Applications Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Support Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Web Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Developer
4 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) C# Web Developer
4 2 (11.76%) C# Application Developer
4 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Agile C# Developer
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (11.76%) UNIX
3 2 (11.76%) AIX
3 2 (11.76%) Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Windows XP
4 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Scrum
2 6 (35.29%) MVC
2 6 (35.29%) Workflow
2 6 (35.29%) CRM
3 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
3 3 (17.65%) Release Management
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (17.65%) TDD
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (11.76%) Web Application Development
5 1 (5.882%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.882%) Migration
5 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) VB.NET
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.882%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) XenApp
1 2 (11.76%) vSphere
2 1 (5.882%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
3 3 (17.65%) Citrix
4 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
4 2 (11.76%) VMware
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco
5 1 (5.882%) AppSense