The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 24 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 St Albans 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 10 9 9
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 6.667% 3.448% 6.897%
As % of the General category 18.18% 9.091% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £413 £250 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+65.00% +8.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £250 £154
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £250 £306
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -9.09%
All of the General Category
St Albans
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
11 11 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 36.67% 37.93% 51.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 12
Average daily rate £400 £425 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% -12.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £500 £578
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Finance
Hertfordshire

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 1 (33.33%) Statistics
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 1 (33.33%) LINQ
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
1 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VB
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) Windows

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) LINQ
1 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Statistics
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
1 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree