The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Banking over the 3 months to 23 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 South Wales 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Banking
Rank 11 5 16
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +11
Contract jobs citing Banking 36 60 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 10.81% 14.96% 7.656%
As % of the General category 28.35% 30.30% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 52 21
Average daily rate £375 £393 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.58% +4.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £396 £390 £385
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £22.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-13.63% +18.91%
All of the General Category
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
127 198 180
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 38.14% 49.38% 43.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 140 115
Average daily rate £390 £380 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.63% +8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £275 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.00 £10.28
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% +55.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Banking
Wales

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Wales Banking Daily Rate Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Banking across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South Wales Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Wales Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Banking
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cardiff -3 28 £375 -1.31%
Newport -2 5 £410 -2.38%
Banking
Wales

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing Banking 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 Banking.

1 50 (71.43%) Finance
2 29 (41.43%) Retail
3 28 (40.00%) Retail Banking
4 22 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (27.14%) Project Management
6 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 14 (20.00%) Migration
7 11 (15.71%) Business Analysis
8 10 (14.29%) AS400
8 10 (14.29%) SQL
8 10 (14.29%) MS Office
8 10 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (12.86%) Windows
9 9 (12.86%) MS Project
10 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
10 7 (10.00%) Mainframe
11 6 (8.571%) IBM
11 6 (8.571%) Change Management
11 6 (8.571%) WebSphere
11 6 (8.571%) iSeries
12 5 (7.143%) ETL
12 5 (7.143%) ISEB
12 5 (7.143%) UNIX
13 4 (5.714%) IIS
13 4 (5.714%) .NET
13 4 (5.714%) T-SQL
13 4 (5.714%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (5.714%) Incident Management
13 4 (5.714%) User Acceptance Testing
13 4 (5.714%) Stakeholder Engagement

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing Banking 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 Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (8.571%) WebSphere
2 4 (5.714%) .NET
3 1 (1.429%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.429%) jQuery
3 1 (1.429%) J2EE
3 1 (1.429%) HTML
3 1 (1.429%) CSS
3 1 (1.429%) XML
3 1 (1.429%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.714%) IIS
2 3 (4.286%) SAS
3 1 (1.429%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.429%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (14.29%) MS Office
2 9 (12.86%) MS Project
3 2 (2.857%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.857%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.429%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.857%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (1.429%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.286%) Internet
2 1 (1.429%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.429%) DNS
2 1 (1.429%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.714%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (4.286%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (4.286%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.857%) DB2
5 2 (2.857%) Data Mart
5 2 (2.857%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.429%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.429%) BODI
6 1 (1.429%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.429%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.429%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.429%) OLTP
6 1 (1.429%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 2 (2.857%) TestDirector
2 1 (1.429%) Oracle Forms
General
1 50 (71.43%) Finance
2 29 (41.43%) Retail
3 28 (40.00%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.429%) Marketing
4 1 (1.429%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 37 (52.86%) Analyst
2 20 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 13 (18.57%) Project Manager
4 8 (11.43%) Applications Support
5 7 (10.00%) Applications Support Analyst
5 7 (10.00%) Support Analyst
6 5 (7.143%) Banking Business Analyst
6 5 (7.143%) Developer
7 3 (4.286%) Environment Analyst
7 3 (4.286%) Financial Business Analyst
7 3 (4.286%) PMO Analyst
7 3 (4.286%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (4.286%) Financial Services Business Analyst
7 3 (4.286%) Business Manager
7 3 (4.286%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.286%) Test Analyst
8 2 (2.857%) Senior Manager
8 2 (2.857%) Implementation Manager
8 2 (2.857%) Business Project Manager
8 2 (2.857%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) AS400
2 7 (10.00%) Mainframe
3 6 (8.571%) iSeries
4 2 (2.857%) Clustering
5 1 (1.429%) LPAR
5 1 (1.429%) DLPAR
5 1 (1.429%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.429%) Statistics
5 1 (1.429%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.429%) Physics
5 1 (1.429%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.429%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.86%) Windows
2 5 (7.143%) UNIX
3 3 (4.286%) AIX
3 3 (4.286%) OS/400
4 1 (1.429%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.429%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (27.14%) Project Management
3 14 (20.00%) Migration
4 11 (15.71%) Business Analysis
5 6 (8.571%) Change Management
6 5 (7.143%) ETL
7 4 (5.714%) Incident Management
7 4 (5.714%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (5.714%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (4.286%) Change Control
8 3 (4.286%) Test Scripting
8 3 (4.286%) Risk Analysis
8 3 (4.286%) Data Analysis
8 3 (4.286%) Automated Testing
8 3 (4.286%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (4.286%) UML
8 3 (4.286%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (2.857%) OO
9 2 (2.857%) E-Commerce
9 2 (2.857%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.29%) SQL
2 4 (5.714%) T-SQL
3 3 (4.286%) COBOL
3 3 (4.286%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.857%) VB
4 2 (2.857%) Java
4 2 (2.857%) RPG
5 1 (1.429%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.429%) Perl
5 1 (1.429%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.143%) ISEB
2 2 (2.857%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (2.857%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.857%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.857%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.429%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.429%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.571%) IBM
3 3 (4.286%) Cognos
4 2 (2.857%) Oracle
4 2 (2.857%) Rackspace
5 1 (1.429%) SAP
5 1 (1.429%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.429%) HP
5 1 (1.429%) EMC
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Our client, a large financial services organisation, currently requires a Business Analyst to work on a 3-month initial contract based in Cardiff. Experience in Lending would be...
Experis IT
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013