The first table below looks at the demand for Basel II skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Basel II 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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
Basel II
Rank 480 389 318
Rank change year-on-year
-91 -71
Contract jobs citing Basel II 61 180 304
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.132% 0.308% 0.490%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.880% 4.230% 6.982%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 136 213
Average daily rate £450 £525 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £383 £400 £413
% change year-on-year
-4.37% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
3244 4255 4354
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 7.001% 7.290% 7.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1942 2220 2391
Average daily rate £400 £420 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £230 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 222 239
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.72 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -41.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.50 £37.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%

Basel II
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Basel II within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Basel II Jobs Demand Trend

Basel II
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Basel II within the UK.

Basel II Daily Rate Trend

Basel II
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Basel II within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Basel II Daily Rate Histogram

Basel II
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Basel II within the UK.

Basel II Hourly Rate Trend

Basel II
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Basel II within the UK 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
England -63 58 £463 -15.90%
London -70 44 £525 -4.54%
City of London -33 16 £500 -9.09%
South West +36 8 £391 -15.17%
Yorkshire -2 6 £426 +34.01%
Wiltshire +4 4 £410 -11.11%
Swindon +1 4 £410 -11.11%
Canary Wharf +1 3 £550 -
Scotland -20 3 £250 -37.50%
Glasgow -30 3 £250 -37.50%
Gloucestershire - 3 £375 -
West Yorkshire +1 2 £245 -34.66%
South Yorkshire 0 2 £476 +82.88%
Sheffield 0 2 £476 -4.90%
Bradford - 2 £245 -
Gloucester - 1 £375 -
Bristol - 1 £350 -

Basel II
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Basel II 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 Basel II.

1 84 (62.69%) Finance
2 77 (57.46%) Banking
3 58 (43.28%) Basel III
4 41 (30.60%) Credit Risk
5 40 (29.85%) Investment Banking
6 38 (28.36%) SQL
7 31 (23.13%) Risk Management
8 29 (21.64%) Business Analysis
9 27 (20.15%) Data Analysis
10 26 (19.40%) Market Risk
10 26 (19.40%) Analytics
11 21 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (14.18%) UML
13 16 (11.94%) Validation
14 15 (11.19%) VBA
14 15 (11.19%) Oracle
14 15 (11.19%) Project Management
15 14 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (10.45%) Derivative
16 13 (9.701%) MS Visio
16 13 (9.701%) Front Office
17 12 (8.955%) GAP Analysis
17 12 (8.955%) Data Modelling
18 11 (8.209%) Stress Testing
18 11 (8.209%) Monte Carlo Method
18 11 (8.209%) Greeks
18 11 (8.209%) CRM
18 11 (8.209%) OO
18 11 (8.209%) Python
19 10 (7.463%) Jython

Basel II
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Basel II 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 Basel II. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (5.970%) .NET
2 7 (5.224%) Silverlight
2 7 (5.224%) FpML
2 7 (5.224%) XML
3 4 (2.985%) COM
4 3 (2.239%) Spring MVC
4 3 (2.239%) Spring
4 3 (2.239%) JMS
4 3 (2.239%) JDBC
4 3 (2.239%) Web Services
4 3 (2.239%) J2EE
5 2 (1.493%) XBRL
Application Platforms
1 8 (5.970%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (9.701%) MS Visio
2 7 (5.224%) MS Excel
3 6 (4.478%) MS PowerPoint
4 5 (3.731%) MS Office
5 1 (0.746%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.239%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.746%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (6.716%) TOAD
3 4 (2.985%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.985%) MS Access
3 4 (2.985%) Data Mining
3 4 (2.985%) Base SAS
4 3 (2.239%) QlikView
4 3 (2.239%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (1.493%) OLAP
5 2 (1.493%) DTS
6 1 (0.746%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.746%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.746%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.746%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.746%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.746%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (5.224%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.985%) ERwin
2 4 (2.985%) JIRA
3 3 (2.239%) jMock
3 3 (2.239%) Maven
3 3 (2.239%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.239%) CruiseControl
3 3 (2.239%) JUnit
4 2 (1.493%) Balsamiq Mockups
General
1 84 (62.69%) Finance
2 77 (57.46%) Banking
3 40 (29.85%) Investment Banking
4 13 (9.701%) Front Office
5 10 (7.463%) French Language
6 6 (4.478%) Retail
7 4 (2.985%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.239%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.239%) Legal
9 2 (1.493%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.746%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (61.94%) Analyst
2 58 (43.28%) Business Analyst
3 28 (20.90%) Risk Analyst
4 20 (14.93%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 14 (10.45%) Project Manager
6 13 (9.701%) Developer
7 12 (8.955%) Banking Business Analyst
8 11 (8.209%) Market Risk Analyst
9 10 (7.463%) Credit Analyst
9 10 (7.463%) Market Risk Business Analyst
9 10 (7.463%) Market Analyst
10 9 (6.716%) Programme Manager
11 8 (5.970%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (5.970%) Solutions Analyst
12 7 (5.224%) Credit Risk Analyst
12 7 (5.224%) Technical Business Analyst
12 7 (5.224%) Data Analyst
13 5 (3.731%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
14 4 (2.985%) Risk Manager
14 4 (2.985%) Quantitative Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 41 (30.60%) Credit Risk
2 26 (19.40%) Market Risk
3 14 (10.45%) Derivative
4 8 (5.970%) Credit Derivative
5 7 (5.224%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.224%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.985%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.239%) Mathematics
7 3 (2.239%) Data Integration
8 2 (1.493%) Grid Computing
8 2 (1.493%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.493%) Computer Science
9 1 (0.746%) Data Conversion
9 1 (0.746%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.493%) UNIX
1 2 (1.493%) AIX
2 1 (0.746%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (23.13%) Risk Management
2 29 (21.64%) Business Analysis
3 27 (20.15%) Data Analysis
4 26 (19.40%) Analytics
5 21 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (14.18%) UML
7 16 (11.94%) Validation
8 15 (11.19%) Project Management
9 12 (8.955%) GAP Analysis
9 12 (8.955%) Data Modelling
10 11 (8.209%) Stress Testing
10 11 (8.209%) Monte Carlo Method
10 11 (8.209%) Greeks
10 11 (8.209%) CRM
10 11 (8.209%) OO
11 10 (7.463%) BPR
11 10 (7.463%) ETL
11 10 (7.463%) Business Transformation
11 10 (7.463%) Requirements Analysis
12 9 (6.716%) SSADM
Programming Languages
1 38 (28.36%) SQL
2 15 (11.19%) VBA
3 11 (8.209%) Python
4 10 (7.463%) Jython
4 10 (7.463%) Java
5 9 (6.716%) PL/SQL
6 8 (5.970%) C#
7 7 (5.224%) VB.NET
8 5 (3.731%) C++
9 1 (0.746%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.746%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (2.239%) Degree
1 3 (2.239%) CRISC
1 3 (2.239%) CISA
1 3 (2.239%) CISM
1 3 (2.239%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (0.746%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (43.28%) Basel III
2 9 (6.716%) Solvency II
2 9 (6.716%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (5.224%) COBIT
4 2 (1.493%) SLA
4 2 (1.493%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.746%) FATCA
Systems Management
1 3 (2.239%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (11.19%) Oracle
2 9 (6.716%) Business Objects
3 7 (5.224%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.493%) Informatica
4 2 (1.493%) Siebel
4 2 (1.493%) Murex
4 2 (1.493%) iRise
4 2 (1.493%) DataFlux
5 1 (0.746%) Cognos
5 1 (0.746%) SAP
5 1 (0.746%) Sybase
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