The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 20 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 Stirling 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 38 24 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 40.00% 44.44% 70.33%
As % of the General category 53.52% 66.67% 85.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 42
Average daily rate £333 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £416 £514
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 £24.50
% change year-on-year
-4.60% -28.57%
All of the General Category
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
71 36 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 74.74% 66.67% 82.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 19 52
Average daily rate £350 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £250 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £11.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Finance
Scotland

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Finance across the Stirling region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Stirling Finance Daily Rate Histogram

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 13 (27.08%) SQL
1 13 (27.08%) XML
2 12 (25.00%) Banking
3 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
4 9 (18.75%) Cadis
5 8 (16.67%) Java
5 8 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 8 (16.67%) Test Scripting
6 7 (14.58%) Data Analysis
7 6 (12.50%) WebSphere
7 6 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
7 6 (12.50%) Project Management
7 6 (12.50%) Data Mining
7 6 (12.50%) ETL
8 5 (10.42%) MS Excel
8 5 (10.42%) T-SQL
8 5 (10.42%) Oracle
8 5 (10.42%) UNIX
8 5 (10.42%) Spring
9 4 (8.333%) Capita
9 4 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (8.333%) Derivative
9 4 (8.333%) Silverlight
9 4 (8.333%) jQuery
9 4 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (8.333%) Test Management
9 4 (8.333%) XPath
9 4 (8.333%) Programme Management
9 4 (8.333%) Equities
9 4 (8.333%) TDD

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 13 (27.08%) XML
2 6 (12.50%) WebSphere
3 5 (10.42%) Spring
4 4 (8.333%) Silverlight
4 4 (8.333%) jQuery
4 4 (8.333%) CSS
4 4 (8.333%) HTML
4 4 (8.333%) WebSphere MQ
5 3 (6.250%) HTML5
5 3 (6.250%) J2EE
5 3 (6.250%) Flash
5 3 (6.250%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.167%) Java SE
6 2 (4.167%) Web Services
6 2 (4.167%) JMS
6 2 (4.167%) JDBC
6 2 (4.167%) XSLT
6 2 (4.167%) .NET
7 1 (2.083%) Spring Integration
7 1 (2.083%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.333%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.167%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.083%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) MS Excel
2 4 (8.333%) Photoshop
3 3 (6.250%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (2.083%) Fireworks
4 1 (2.083%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.083%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.083%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (12.50%) Data Mining
3 4 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (8.333%) DTS
4 2 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.083%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.250%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (4.167%) Selenium
3 1 (2.083%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.083%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (2.083%) JUnit
3 1 (2.083%) Firebug
General
1 12 (25.00%) Banking
2 8 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 2 (4.167%) Marketing
3 2 (4.167%) Front Office
4 1 (2.083%) Billing
Job Titles
1 22 (45.83%) Analyst
2 17 (35.42%) Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) PMO Analyst
5 6 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.333%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (6.250%) Designer
7 3 (6.250%) Business Analyst
8 2 (4.167%) Developer Analyst
8 2 (4.167%) Web Designer
8 2 (4.167%) Resource Manager
9 1 (2.083%) Digital Designer
9 1 (2.083%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.083%) Systems Analyst
9 1 (2.083%) Systems Administrator
9 1 (2.083%) Development Specialist
9 1 (2.083%) Senior Manager
9 1 (2.083%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.083%) Programmer
9 1 (2.083%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.333%) Derivative
1 4 (8.333%) Equities
1 4 (8.333%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.167%) Animation
2 2 (4.167%) W3C
3 1 (2.083%) SWIFT
3 1 (2.083%) PMI
3 1 (2.083%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.083%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.083%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) UNIX
2 2 (4.167%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.083%) Windows
3 1 (2.083%) Solaris
3 1 (2.083%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 7 (14.58%) Data Analysis
3 6 (12.50%) Project Management
3 6 (12.50%) ETL
4 4 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (8.333%) Test Management
4 4 (8.333%) Programme Management
4 4 (8.333%) TDD
4 4 (8.333%) Waterfall
4 4 (8.333%) BDD
5 3 (6.250%) PRINCE2
5 3 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (6.250%) Change Management
6 2 (4.167%) Business Analysis
6 2 (4.167%) Automated Testing
6 2 (4.167%) Asset Management
7 1 (2.083%) Data Transformation
7 1 (2.083%) PRINCE
7 1 (2.083%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (2.083%) UML
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.08%) SQL
2 8 (16.67%) Java
3 5 (10.42%) T-SQL
4 4 (8.333%) XPath
5 3 (6.250%) ActionScript
6 2 (4.167%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.167%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.167%) ActionScript 3.0
7 1 (2.083%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.083%) Perl
7 1 (2.083%) C#
7 1 (2.083%) VBA
7 1 (2.083%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (8.333%) ISEB
1 4 (8.333%) PMP
1 4 (8.333%) PMI Certification
2 3 (6.250%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (6.250%) Degree
3 1 (2.083%) MBA
System Software
1 1 (2.083%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 3 (6.250%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Cadis
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle
3 4 (8.333%) Capita
3 4 (8.333%) Sybase
4 2 (4.167%) HP
4 2 (4.167%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.167%) Adobe
5 1 (2.083%) IBM
5 1 (2.083%) Citrix
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