The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Renfrewshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 18 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 Renfrewshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 16 16 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing Finance 7 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 11.11% 4.545% -
As % of the General category 58.33% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
Average daily rate £370 £269 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.67% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.70 £17.50 £24.75
% change year-on-year
-4.60% -29.29%
All of the General Category
Renfrewshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
12 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 19.05% 4.545% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 0
Average daily rate £439 £269 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+63.34% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Finance
Scotland

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Renfrewshire 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 Renfrewshire region.

Renfrewshire Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 (83.33%) Telecoms
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) Windows
3 5 (41.67%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (25.00%) Citrix
5 3 (25.00%) HP
5 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
5 3 (25.00%) Windows XP
5 3 (25.00%) MS Office
6 2 (16.67%) Service Management
6 2 (16.67%) CIMA
6 2 (16.67%) VMware
6 2 (16.67%) Jython
6 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 2 (16.67%) Borland
6 2 (16.67%) CMDB
6 2 (16.67%) Windows Vista
6 2 (16.67%) StarTeam
6 2 (16.67%) SAP
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
6 2 (16.67%) XML
6 2 (16.67%) .NET
6 2 (16.67%) MySQL
6 2 (16.67%) Business Objects

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (8.333%) XSL
2 1 (8.333%) XML Schema
2 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
2 1 (8.333%) HTML
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Office
1 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) DHCP
1 1 (8.333%) SNMP
1 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.333%) SAN
1 1 (8.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) TestDirector
1 2 (16.67%) StarTeam
General
1 10 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Management Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Tester
3 1 (8.333%) Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Architect
3 1 (8.333%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Verification Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Build Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Build Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Operations Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (8.333%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (25.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Vista
4 2 (16.67%) Solaris
5 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (8.333%) Requirements Management
3 1 (8.333%) Test Scripting
3 1 (8.333%) Information Assurance
3 1 (8.333%) Security Architecture
3 1 (8.333%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Jython
2 1 (8.333%) XPath
2 1 (8.333%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.333%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CIMA
3 1 (8.333%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.333%) MCP
3 1 (8.333%) CCNP
3 1 (8.333%) CCNA
3 1 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 2 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (16.67%) HP SiteScope
2 2 (16.67%) HP UCMDB
3 1 (8.333%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 1 (8.333%) Netcool
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) HP
2 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) Borland
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) EMC
3 2 (16.67%) Business Objects
3 2 (16.67%) SAP
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco
4 1 (8.333%) Veritas