The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of eSpeed 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 eSpeed over the 3 months to 21 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 eSpeed.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
eSpeed
Rank 526 571 548
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -23
Contract jobs citing eSpeed 14 10 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.030% 0.017% 0.053%
As % of the Vendors category 0.063% 0.037% 0.114%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 27
Average daily rate £500 £400 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -38.46%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
22181 27194 27998
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.98% 46.52% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11810 13898 14021
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £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 1218 1319 1577
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 £11.23 £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 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%

eSpeed
Jobs Demand Trend

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

eSpeed Jobs Demand Trend

eSpeed
Daily Rate Trend

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

eSpeed Daily Rate Trend

eSpeed
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing eSpeed within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

eSpeed Daily Rate Histogram

eSpeed
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing eSpeed within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +49 14 £500 +25.00%
London +20 14 £500 +25.00%
City of London +7 2 £650 +62.50%

eSpeed
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing eSpeed 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 eSpeed.

1 26 (96.30%) Fixed Income
2 25 (92.59%) MarketAxess
2 25 (92.59%) Reuters
3 17 (62.96%) UNIX
4 16 (59.26%) TIBCO
4 16 (59.26%) Rendezvous
4 16 (59.26%) Project Management
4 16 (59.26%) Electronic Trading
5 15 (55.56%) Firewall
5 15 (55.56%) Change Management
6 14 (51.85%) Red Hat
6 14 (51.85%) Windows
6 14 (51.85%) Linux
6 14 (51.85%) Python
6 14 (51.85%) Perl
6 14 (51.85%) SQL
6 14 (51.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (51.85%) Capacity Management
7 13 (48.15%) Tradeweb
7 13 (48.15%) Bloomberg
8 12 (44.44%) MTS
8 12 (44.44%) Java
8 12 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
8 12 (44.44%) TDD
8 12 (44.44%) Banking
9 11 (40.74%) Multithreading
10 10 (37.04%) ION Trading
10 10 (37.04%) RMDS
10 10 (37.04%) ION MarketView
10 10 (37.04%) Refactoring

eSpeed
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing eSpeed 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 eSpeed. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (37.04%) Swing
2 3 (11.11%) J2EE
3 2 (7.407%) WinForms
4 1 (3.704%) .NET
4 1 (3.704%) Spring
4 1 (3.704%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 16 (59.26%) Rendezvous
2 12 (44.44%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (7.407%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (37.04%) RMDS
1 10 (37.04%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 15 (55.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (44.44%) Banking
2 9 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 2 (7.407%) Front Office
4 2 (7.407%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Linux Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) Developer
3 9 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.407%) Real Time Developer
6 1 (3.704%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 26 (96.30%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.704%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) UNIX
2 14 (51.85%) Windows
2 14 (51.85%) Linux
2 14 (51.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Project Management
1 16 (59.26%) Electronic Trading
2 15 (55.56%) Change Management
3 14 (51.85%) Capacity Management
4 12 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (44.44%) TDD
5 11 (40.74%) Multithreading
6 10 (37.04%) Refactoring
6 10 (37.04%) OO
7 2 (7.407%) Release Management
7 2 (7.407%) Domain-Driven Design
7 2 (7.407%) Software Engineering
7 2 (7.407%) Scrum
7 2 (7.407%) Asset Management
7 2 (7.407%) Service Delivery
7 2 (7.407%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (7.407%) E-Commerce
8 1 (3.704%) ITIL
8 1 (3.704%) Workflow
8 1 (3.704%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
1 14 (51.85%) Perl
1 14 (51.85%) SQL
2 12 (44.44%) Java
3 2 (7.407%) C#
3 2 (7.407%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (7.407%) Degree
Vendors
1 25 (92.59%) MarketAxess
1 25 (92.59%) Reuters
2 16 (59.26%) TIBCO
3 14 (51.85%) Red Hat
4 13 (48.15%) Tradeweb
4 13 (48.15%) Bloomberg
5 10 (37.04%) ION Trading
6 5 (18.52%) Sybase
7 3 (11.11%) Sun
8 2 (7.407%) Microsoft
9 1 (3.704%) CQG
9 1 (3.704%) Radianz