The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Calypso products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Calypso 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Calypso Technology.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Calypso
Rank 466 481 434
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -47
Contract jobs citing Calypso 64 97 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.138% 0.166% 0.254%
As % of the Vendors category 0.294% 0.358% 0.547%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 60 106
Average daily rate £550 £613 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.20% +6.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £478
10% offered a daily rate of more than £750 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 £395
% change year-on-year
- -17.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21775 27088 28510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.93% 46.48% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11633 13855 14263
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1193 1289 1605
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Calypso
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Calypso within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Calypso Jobs Demand Trend

Calypso
Daily Rate Trend

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

Calypso Daily Rate Trend

Calypso
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Calypso within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Calypso Daily Rate Histogram

Calypso
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Calypso Hourly Rate Trend

Calypso
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Calypso within the UK 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
England +20 64 £550 -10.20%
London -6 64 £550 -12.00%
City of London -9 23 £525 -16.00%
Canary Wharf -11 5 £600 -

Calypso
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Calypso 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 Calypso.

1 54 (47.37%) Banking
2 52 (45.61%) Derivative
3 45 (39.47%) Investment Banking
4 44 (38.60%) Back Office
5 40 (35.09%) Finance
6 34 (29.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 33 (28.95%) Front Office
8 25 (21.93%) Murex
9 21 (18.42%) Business Analysis
10 19 (16.67%) SQL
11 18 (15.79%) Fixed Income
12 17 (14.91%) Java
13 12 (10.53%) Workflow
14 11 (9.649%) Thunderhead
15 10 (8.772%) Summit
15 10 (8.772%) Financial Institution
16 9 (7.895%) Bloomberg
16 9 (7.895%) Oracle
16 9 (7.895%) UNIX
16 9 (7.895%) Equities
16 9 (7.895%) Equity Derivative
16 9 (7.895%) User Acceptance Testing
17 8 (7.018%) Asset Management
17 8 (7.018%) ISO 9001
17 8 (7.018%) Project Management
18 7 (6.140%) MS Excel
19 6 (5.263%) Credit Derivative
19 6 (5.263%) Sophis
19 6 (5.263%) QA
19 6 (5.263%) Use Case

Calypso
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Calypso 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 Calypso. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (3.509%) XML
1 4 (3.509%) XSLT
1 4 (3.509%) Spring
1 4 (3.509%) Drools
2 3 (2.632%) J2EE
3 2 (1.754%) HTML
3 2 (1.754%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 4 (3.509%) MQSeries
Applications
1 7 (6.140%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.754%) MS Office
3 1 (0.877%) MS Project
3 1 (0.877%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (8.772%) Summit
2 2 (1.754%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.877%) Loanet
3 1 (0.877%) Global One
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.877%) HTTP
1 1 (0.877%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.632%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.754%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (1.754%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.754%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (0.877%) Introscope
1 1 (0.877%) JIRA
General
1 54 (47.37%) Banking
2 45 (39.47%) Investment Banking
3 44 (38.60%) Back Office
4 40 (35.09%) Finance
5 33 (28.95%) Front Office
6 10 (8.772%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.877%) International Banking
7 1 (0.877%) French Language
Job Titles
1 81 (71.05%) Analyst
2 59 (51.75%) Business Analyst
3 11 (9.649%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 10 (8.772%) Banking Business Analyst
4 10 (8.772%) Senior Business Analyst
4 10 (8.772%) Senior Analyst
5 9 (7.895%) Developer
6 8 (7.018%) Technical Analyst
7 6 (5.263%) Support Analyst
8 5 (4.386%) Test Analyst
8 5 (4.386%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.509%) Consultant
9 4 (3.509%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.509%) Calypso Developer
9 4 (3.509%) Risk Analyst
10 3 (2.632%) Quantitative Analyst
10 3 (2.632%) Project Manager
11 2 (1.754%) Junior
11 2 (1.754%) Systems Administrator
11 2 (1.754%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 52 (45.61%) Derivative
2 34 (29.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 18 (15.79%) Fixed Income
4 9 (7.895%) Equities
4 9 (7.895%) Equity Derivative
5 6 (5.263%) Market Risk
5 6 (5.263%) Credit Derivative
6 4 (3.509%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 4 (3.509%) Kindle
7 3 (2.632%) Mathematics
7 3 (2.632%) Economics
8 2 (1.754%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.754%) Exotic Derivative
8 2 (1.754%) Swaptions
8 2 (1.754%) SWIFT
8 2 (1.754%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.754%) Open Source
9 1 (0.877%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.877%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.895%) UNIX
2 2 (1.754%) Windows
2 2 (1.754%) Linux
2 2 (1.754%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.877%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (18.42%) Business Analysis
2 12 (10.53%) Workflow
3 9 (7.895%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (7.018%) Project Management
4 8 (7.018%) Asset Management
5 6 (5.263%) Use Case
6 5 (4.386%) Scrum
7 4 (3.509%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (3.509%) Migration
7 4 (3.509%) Risk Management
7 4 (3.509%) Project Planning
8 3 (2.632%) Web Development
8 3 (2.632%) Stress Testing
8 3 (2.632%) Data Management
8 3 (2.632%) Change Management
8 3 (2.632%) Benchmarking
8 3 (2.632%) Risk Analytics
8 3 (2.632%) Analytics
9 2 (1.754%) GAP Analysis
9 2 (1.754%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.67%) SQL
2 17 (14.91%) Java
3 4 (3.509%) VBA
3 4 (3.509%) Perl
4 3 (2.632%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.754%) Ruby
5 2 (1.754%) Bash shell
5 2 (1.754%) R
5 2 (1.754%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.754%) C++
6 1 (0.877%) COBOL
6 1 (0.877%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (3.509%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.018%) ISO 9001
2 6 (5.263%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (3.509%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.754%) Splunk
2 2 (1.754%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (1.754%) Nagios
3 1 (0.877%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 25 (21.93%) Murex
2 11 (9.649%) Thunderhead
3 9 (7.895%) Oracle
3 9 (7.895%) Bloomberg
4 6 (5.263%) Sophis
5 5 (4.386%) Sybase
6 3 (2.632%) Wall Street Systems
7 2 (1.754%) Twitter
7 2 (1.754%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.754%) Reuters
8 1 (0.877%) Microsoft
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