The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 17 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 Suffolk 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 18 6 5
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 13 47 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 8.075% 18.80% 17.42%
As % of the General category 48.15% 70.15% 60.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 29 10
Average daily rate £455 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.75% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £295 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £481 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £18.00 £17.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +0.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.39 £22.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-11.86% -
All of the General Category
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
27 67 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 16.77% 26.80% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 23
Average daily rate £435 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.75% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £300 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
Average hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% +59.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Finance
East of England

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 17 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
Ipswich -9 5 £455 +21.33%
Finance
East of England

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 19 (35.85%) Project Management
2 16 (30.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (18.87%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (15.09%) SQL
4 8 (15.09%) QA
4 8 (15.09%) Waterfall
5 7 (13.21%) HP Quality Center
5 7 (13.21%) UML
5 7 (13.21%) HP
6 6 (11.32%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (11.32%) Test Scripting
6 6 (11.32%) Migration
6 6 (11.32%) System Testing
7 5 (9.434%) Integration Testing
7 5 (9.434%) ISEB
7 5 (9.434%) ETL
8 4 (7.547%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (7.547%) Use Case
8 4 (7.547%) Data Migration
8 4 (7.547%) Change Control
9 3 (5.660%) Change Management
9 3 (5.660%) CRM
10 2 (3.774%) SharePoint
10 2 (3.774%) Windows
10 2 (3.774%) MSMQ
10 2 (3.774%) C#
10 2 (3.774%) VB.NET
10 2 (3.774%) .NET
10 2 (3.774%) Oracle
10 2 (3.774%) SQL Server

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 (3.774%) NHibernate
1 2 (3.774%) .NET Framework
1 2 (3.774%) WCF
1 2 (3.774%) WPF
1 2 (3.774%) Silverlight
1 2 (3.774%) LINQ
1 2 (3.774%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (3.774%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (3.774%) .NET
1 2 (3.774%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.887%) XBRL
2 1 (1.887%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.774%) MSMQ
1 2 (3.774%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.774%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (3.774%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (3.774%) MS Office
1 2 (3.774%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.774%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.887%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.887%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.887%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (7.547%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.774%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (3.774%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.774%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (3.774%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (3.774%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (3.774%) Billing
2 1 (1.887%) General Ledger
2 1 (1.887%) Marketing
2 1 (1.887%) German Language
2 1 (1.887%) Financial Institution
2 1 (1.887%) Back Office
2 1 (1.887%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (50.94%) Analyst
2 20 (37.74%) Project Manager
3 19 (35.85%) Business Analyst
4 8 (15.09%) QA Analyst
5 7 (13.21%) Senior Project Manager
5 7 (13.21%) Senior Manager
6 5 (9.434%) IT Project Manager
6 5 (9.434%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 4 (7.547%) UML Business Analyst
7 4 (7.547%) QA Test Analyst
7 4 (7.547%) Developer
7 4 (7.547%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) Tester
8 2 (3.774%) Architect
8 2 (3.774%) Consultant
8 2 (3.774%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.774%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.774%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) SQL Developer
8 2 (3.774%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.774%) N-Tier
2 1 (1.887%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.774%) Windows
1 2 (3.774%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (3.774%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (3.774%) Windows 7
2 1 (1.887%) GCOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.85%) Project Management
2 16 (30.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (15.09%) Waterfall
4 7 (13.21%) UML
5 6 (11.32%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (11.32%) Migration
5 6 (11.32%) Test Scripting
5 6 (11.32%) System Testing
6 5 (9.434%) Integration Testing
6 5 (9.434%) ETL
7 4 (7.547%) Change Control
7 4 (7.547%) Data Migration
7 4 (7.547%) Use Case
8 3 (5.660%) CRM
8 3 (5.660%) Change Management
9 2 (3.774%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (3.774%) Configuration Management
9 2 (3.774%) SOA
9 2 (3.774%) MVC
9 2 (3.774%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.09%) SQL
2 2 (3.774%) VB.NET
2 2 (3.774%) C#
3 1 (1.887%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (9.434%) ISEB
2 2 (3.774%) Degree
3 1 (1.887%) APMP
3 1 (1.887%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) QA
2 2 (3.774%) Solvency II
3 1 (1.887%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) HP
2 2 (3.774%) Oracle
2 2 (3.774%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.887%) Sun
3 1 (1.887%) SunGard
3 1 (1.887%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (1.887%) Kofax
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