The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Fidessa 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 Fidessa over the 3 months to 24 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 Fidessa Group plc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fidessa
Rank 475 542 425
Rank change year-on-year
+67 -117
Contract jobs citing Fidessa 54 42 159
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.116% 0.072% 0.260%
As % of the Vendors category 0.248% 0.155% 0.560%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 30 90
Average daily rate £501 £525 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.66% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £440 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £620 £600 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £675 - £338
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
21803 27081 28409
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.00% 46.44% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11623 13840 14202
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £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 1174 1312 1605
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.22 £11.50 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Fidessa
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Fidessa Jobs Demand Trend

Fidessa
Daily Rate Trend

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

Fidessa Daily Rate Trend

Fidessa
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fidessa within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Fidessa Daily Rate Histogram

Fidessa
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Fidessa Hourly Rate Trend

Fidessa
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fidessa within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +55 51 £500 -4.71%
London +41 45 £500 -4.71%
City of London +19 18 £513 +2.55%
South Coast - 4 - -
Scotland - 3 £675 -
Canary Wharf - 2 £355 -
Midlands - 2 - -
Glasgow - 2 £675 -

Fidessa
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Fidessa 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 Fidessa.

1 38 (47.50%) Equities
2 31 (38.75%) Finance
2 31 (38.75%) Front Office
3 23 (28.75%) Banking
4 20 (25.00%) Bloomberg
5 19 (23.75%) Windows
6 18 (22.50%) Reuters
7 14 (17.50%) Investment Banking
8 13 (16.25%) Back Office
9 11 (13.75%) LatentZero
9 11 (13.75%) Business Analysis
9 11 (13.75%) Derivative
9 11 (13.75%) MS Office
10 10 (12.50%) SQL
10 10 (12.50%) Sentinel
11 9 (11.25%) Financial Institution
11 9 (11.25%) C#
12 8 (10.00%) Windows XP
12 8 (10.00%) Fixed Income
12 8 (10.00%) Windows 7
12 8 (10.00%) Hedge funds
13 7 (8.750%) Investment Management
13 7 (8.750%) WPF
13 7 (8.750%) Workflow
13 7 (8.750%) Asset Management
13 7 (8.750%) UNIX
14 6 (7.500%) Lotus Notes
14 6 (7.500%) .NET
14 6 (7.500%) Project Management
14 6 (7.500%) LINQ

Fidessa
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Fidessa 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 Fidessa. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (8.750%) WPF
2 6 (7.500%) .NET
2 6 (7.500%) LINQ
3 5 (6.250%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.500%) WCF
5 1 (1.250%) XML
5 1 (1.250%) XSLT
5 1 (1.250%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (7.500%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (2.500%) Confluence
3 1 (1.250%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 11 (13.75%) MS Office
2 2 (2.500%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (13.75%) LatentZero
2 10 (12.50%) Sentinel
3 5 (6.250%) Capstone
4 4 (5.000%) Tesseract
4 4 (5.000%) Minerva
4 4 (5.000%) ION MarketView
5 1 (1.250%) LongView
5 1 (1.250%) Endur
5 1 (1.250%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.500%) HTTP
1 2 (2.500%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.250%) LAN
2 1 (1.250%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.250%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.250%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.500%) JIRA
1 2 (2.500%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (1.250%) Selenium
2 1 (1.250%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.250%) WinRunner
2 1 (1.250%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.250%) Subversion
General
1 31 (38.75%) Finance
1 31 (38.75%) Front Office
2 23 (28.75%) Banking
3 14 (17.50%) Investment Banking
4 13 (16.25%) Back Office
5 9 (11.25%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.750%) French Language
6 3 (3.750%) Retail
7 2 (2.500%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.250%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 44 (55.00%) Analyst
2 24 (30.00%) Business Analyst
3 18 (22.50%) Fidessa Analyst
4 14 (17.50%) Fidessa Business Analyst
5 12 (15.00%) Support Analyst
6 8 (10.00%) Developer
7 7 (8.750%) C# Developer
8 6 (7.500%) Test Analyst
8 6 (7.500%) Consultant
8 6 (7.500%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 5 (6.250%) Fidessa Consultant
9 5 (6.250%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (6.250%) Applications Support
9 5 (6.250%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (3.750%) Senior Fidessa Business Analyst
10 3 (3.750%) Senior Fidessa Analyst
10 3 (3.750%) Applications Support Analyst
10 3 (3.750%) .NET Developer
11 2 (2.500%) Fidessa Developer
11 2 (2.500%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 38 (47.50%) Equities
2 11 (13.75%) Derivative
3 8 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 8 (10.00%) Hedge funds
4 5 (6.250%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (3.750%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.750%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.500%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.500%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.250%) SWIFT
7 1 (1.250%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.250%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.250%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.75%) Windows
2 8 (10.00%) Windows XP
2 8 (10.00%) Windows 7
3 7 (8.750%) UNIX
4 4 (5.000%) Linux
5 3 (3.750%) Solaris
6 1 (1.250%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.250%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.250%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (13.75%) Business Analysis
2 7 (8.750%) Investment Management
2 7 (8.750%) Workflow
2 7 (8.750%) Asset Management
3 6 (7.500%) Project Management
4 5 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (6.250%) Electronic Trading
4 5 (6.250%) Strategic Management
4 5 (6.250%) Regression Testing
4 5 (6.250%) Risk Management
5 4 (5.000%) Operations Management
5 4 (5.000%) Automated Testing
5 4 (5.000%) Test Scripting
6 3 (3.750%) Fund Management
6 3 (3.750%) Data Modelling
6 3 (3.750%) Information Security
7 2 (2.500%) Migration
7 2 (2.500%) TDD
7 2 (2.500%) Wealth Management
7 2 (2.500%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.50%) SQL
2 9 (11.25%) C#
3 3 (3.750%) Perl
3 3 (3.750%) VB
4 2 (2.500%) VBScript
4 2 (2.500%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.500%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.250%) Tcl
5 1 (1.250%) Python
5 1 (1.250%) VBA
5 1 (1.250%) C++
5 1 (1.250%) Java
5 1 (1.250%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (3.750%) Degree
2 1 (1.250%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.250%) QA
2 2 (2.500%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.000%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 20 (25.00%) Bloomberg
2 18 (22.50%) Reuters
3 5 (6.250%) Lotus
3 5 (6.250%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.250%) ION Trading
4 4 (5.000%) thinkFolio
5 3 (3.750%) Tradeweb
5 3 (3.750%) Murex
5 3 (3.750%) Charles River
6 2 (2.500%) CQG
6 2 (2.500%) Twitter
7 1 (1.250%) NetApp
7 1 (1.250%) HP
7 1 (1.250%) Intel
7 1 (1.250%) Citrix
7 1 (1.250%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.250%) Algorithmics
7 1 (1.250%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.250%) Sun
7 1 (1.250%) Sybase
London
My client, a leading investment bank, is looking for a business analyst/project manager to join part of a global team working on the cash equity fidessa system...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £550 - £600 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
Fidessa Analyst / PM - Banking - London - Up to £600pd Our client, an investment bank, are currently looking for a Fidessa Analyst / PM to work in their London office, on...
Orgtel
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
Fidessa Analyst/PM - Banking - London - Our investment bank client is currently looking for a Fidessa Analyst/PM to work in their London office, on a long-term contract...
IT Human Resources
Rate: £600 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
London
Business Analyst - Project Manager - Investment Banking - Cash Equities - Fidessa - V5 - Implementation - Front Office A leading Investment Bank based in London requires and experienced Cash Equities Business Analyst / Project...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £600 a day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
My client, a top tier investment bank requires an experienced Fidessa Business Analyst with some Project Management experience to join their London team on the Cash Equity Fidessa...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013