Reference Data Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Reference Data 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 Miscellaneous category for the South West 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
Reference Data
Rank 105 135 -
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 6 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.299% 0.185% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.489% 0.940% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
Average daily rate £500 £390 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.20% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £396 £330
% change year-on-year
+16.79% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 403 638 513
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 20.05% 19.66% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 341 218
Average daily rate £350 £390 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £268 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 42 57
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.70 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £44.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Reference Data
England

Reference Data
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Reference Data across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

South West Reference Data Jobs Demand Trend

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Reference Data Daily Rate Trend

Reference Data
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Reference Data Hourly Rate Trend

Reference Data
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data within the South West 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
Somerset - 2 - -
Wiltshire - 2 £500 -
Bristol +8 1 £510 +30.76%
Reference Data
England

Reference Data
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data.

1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (30.00%) Data Architecture
2 6 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 5 (25.00%) Data Management
3 5 (25.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Legal
4 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (20.00%) Data Mining
4 4 (20.00%) Internet
4 4 (20.00%) Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) QA
4 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Data Validation
5 3 (15.00%) Validation
6 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (10.00%) Change Management
6 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (10.00%) ETL
6 2 (10.00%) SAS
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) MySQL
6 2 (10.00%) SQL
6 2 (10.00%) SAP
6 2 (10.00%) MS Excel
6 2 (10.00%) Talend Open Studio
6 2 (10.00%) Pentaho
6 2 (10.00%) Data Transformation

Reference Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (20.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (10.00%) MySQL
3 2 (10.00%) Pentaho
4 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.000%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.000%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.000%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.000%) Marketing
5 1 (5.000%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
1 5 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Management Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Report Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) SAS Project Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Crystal Reports Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Data Migration Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.000%) Derivative
2 1 (5.000%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Data Architecture
1 6 (30.00%) Data Governance
2 5 (25.00%) Data Management
3 4 (20.00%) Migration
3 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (20.00%) Analytics
3 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Data Validation
4 3 (15.00%) Validation
5 2 (10.00%) Change Management
5 2 (10.00%) ETL
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics
5 2 (10.00%) Refactoring
5 2 (10.00%) Information Management
6 1 (5.000%) Data Analysis
6 1 (5.000%) Business Analysis
6 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (5.000%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.000%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) Degree
1 1 (5.000%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) SAP
1 2 (10.00%) Talend
2 1 (5.000%) Wall Street Systems
2 1 (5.000%) Business Objects
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