Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs
Job Type
Source

The table below looks at the demand for Fixed Income skills across the UK with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Fixed Income over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFixed Income
Location
3 months to
6 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank8970
Rank change on same period last yearDown-19
Matching contract IT job ads12722102
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled1.777 %2.112 %
As % of the category below8.423 %10.01 %
Daily rates quoted7061018
Average minimum daily rate£501£524
Average daily rate£544£560
% change on same period last year-2.91 %
Average maximum daily rate£587£596
UK excluding London average daily rate£492£445
% change on same period last year+10.47 %
Hourly rates quoted68
Average minimum hourly rate£36.13£28.25
Average hourly rate£39.21£36.25
% change on same period last year+8.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate£42.29£44.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
UK
Matching contract IT job ads1510221007
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled21.10 %21.11 %
Daily rates quoted58177374
Average minimum daily rate£436£465
Average daily rate£469£499
% change on same period last year-5.89 %
Average maximum daily rate£502£532
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£345
% change on same period last year+1.31 %
Hourly rates quoted12001700
Average minimum hourly rate£23.99£24.33
Average hourly rate£25.89£26.20
% change on same period last year-1.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.78£28.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.83£26.95
% change on same period last year-7.89 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Fixed Income
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Fixed Income within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Fixed Income Demand Trend

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Trend

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

Fixed Income Daily Rate Trend

Fixed Income
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the UK over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

Fixed Income Daily Rate Histogram

Fixed Income
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Fixed Income Hourly Rate Trend

Fixed Income
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the UK over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

Fixed Income Hourly Rate Histogram

Fixed Income
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the UK over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-171264£544-3.29 %
LondonDown-61249£544-3.22 %
City of LondonUp+3565£540-2.41 %
Docklands, LondonDown-1339£558+4.21 %
Canary WharfDown-828£519-9.77 %
South EastUp+4212£485-7.61 %
SurreyUp+2710£517+0.32 %
NottinghamshireNew entry-2£410-
NottinghamNew entry-2£410-
East MidlandsNew entry-2£410-
ScotlandUp+31--
South WestNew entry-1£550-
North WestNew entry-1£550-
StreetNew entry-1£550-
LiverpoolNew entry-1£550-
MerseysideNew entry-1£550-
BerkshireNew entry-1£250-
SomersetNew entry-1£550-

Fixed Income
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income.

11125 (45.97 %)Banking
21037 (42.38 %)Derivative
3901 (36.82 %)Front Office
4870 (35.55 %)Finance
5855 (34.94 %)Investment Banking
6628 (25.66 %)Java
7497 (20.31 %)SQL
8480 (19.62 %)Equities
9435 (17.78 %)C#
10419 (17.12 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
11355 (14.51 %)Oracle
12346 (14.14 %)UNIX
13338 (13.81 %)Sybase
14332 (13.57 %)C++
15304 (12.42 %)OO
16296 (12.10 %)Asset Management
17281 (11.48 %)Back Office
18274 (11.20 %).NET
19238 (9.726 %)Windows
20218 (8.909 %)Bloomberg
21213 (8.705 %)Business Analysis
22212 (8.664 %)Credit Derivative
23201 (8.214 %)Investment Management
24189 (7.724 %)Calypso
25182 (7.438 %)Interest Rate Derivative
26180 (7.356 %)XML
27157 (6.416 %)Project Management
28150 (6.130 %)Electronic Trading
29142 (5.803 %)VBA
30129 (5.272 %)Spring

Fixed Income
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1274 (11.20 %).NET
2180 (7.356 %)XML
3129 (5.272 %)Spring
4111 (4.536 %)WinForms
5105 (4.291 %)J2EE
671 (2.902 %)STL
757 (2.329 %)MFC
845 (1.839 %)WebServices
939 (1.594 %)Hibernate
1037 (1.512 %)Middleware
1135 (1.430 %)Swing
1135 (1.430 %)WebSphere
1233 (1.349 %)J2SE
1329 (1.185 %)Oracle Coherence
1425 (1.022 %)HTML
1522 (0.899 %)AJAX
1621 (0.858 %)Java EE
1621 (0.858 %)ASP.NET
1720 (0.817 %)JSP
1720 (0.817 %)Servlets
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
173 (2.983 %)MTS
254 (2.207 %)Tomcat
353 (2.166 %)Apache
451 (2.084 %)WebLogic
546 (1.880 %)Rendezvous
622 (0.899 %)TIBCO EMS
720 (0.817 %)WebSphere MQ
720 (0.817 %)MQSeries
810 (0.409 %)WebLogic Portal
810 (0.409 %)Oracle Workflow
99 (0.368 %)MS Exchange
107 (0.286 %)BizTalk Server
107 (0.286 %)IIS
107 (0.286 %)Office Project Server
116 (0.245 %)SharePoint
124 (0.163 %)JBoss
131 (0.041 %)Lotus Notes
131 (0.041 %)CMS
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
162 (2.534 %)MS Office
249 (2.002 %)MS Excel
339 (1.594 %)Spreadsheet
437 (1.512 %)MS Project
525 (1.022 %)MS Visio
69 (0.368 %)Photoshop
75 (0.204 %)InDesign
83 (0.123 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
177 (3.147 %)Capstone
260 (2.452 %)Minerva
350 (2.043 %)Tesseract
434 (1.389 %)Sentinel
531 (1.267 %)Summit
611 (0.450 %)LongView
611 (0.450 %)Loan IQ
710 (0.409 %)FRONT ARENA
86 (0.245 %)Oracle Financials
94 (0.163 %)Sophis VALUE
103 (0.123 %)Eagle PACE
112 (0.082 %)BusinessWorks
112 (0.082 %)Oracle Applications
121 (0.041 %)Global One
121 (0.041 %)HiInvest
121 (0.041 %)Sophis RISQUE
121 (0.041 %)Eagle STAR
121 (0.041 %)Oracle General Ledger
121 (0.041 %)SalesLogix
121 (0.041 %)Thomson PORTIA
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
125 (1.022 %)TCP/IP
214 (0.572 %)LDAP
311 (0.450 %)SAN
46 (0.245 %)Firewall
55 (0.204 %)OSPF
55 (0.204 %)BGP
55 (0.204 %)VPN
55 (0.204 %)HTTP
55 (0.204 %)SSL
55 (0.204 %)Cisco PIX
64 (0.163 %)WAN
64 (0.163 %)Intranet
73 (0.123 %)DECnet
82 (0.082 %)Internet
82 (0.082 %)IP Telephony
82 (0.082 %)BIG-IP
82 (0.082 %)Cisco IPT
82 (0.082 %)LAN
91 (0.041 %)Ethernet
91 (0.041 %)SNMP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1112 (4.577 %)SQL Server
264 (2.615 %)RDBMS
333 (1.349 %)Reference Data
431 (1.267 %)ETL
528 (1.144 %)Datawarehouse
618 (0.736 %)Crystal Reports
716 (0.654 %)DB2
815 (0.613 %)BusinessObjects
914 (0.572 %)Oracle 10g
914 (0.572 %)Oracle OWB
1013 (0.531 %)SQL Server 2005
1013 (0.531 %)Oracle 9i
1111 (0.450 %)Oracle Reports
1111 (0.450 %)Oracle 8/8i
1111 (0.450 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1111 (0.450 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1210 (0.409 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1210 (0.409 %)Data Mining
1210 (0.409 %)IDOL
139 (0.368 %)MS Access
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
172 (2.942 %)NUnit
255 (2.248 %)Log4Net
340 (1.635 %)ClearCase
431 (1.267 %)TestDirector
528 (1.144 %)Visual Studio
616 (0.654 %)JUnit
616 (0.654 %)QuickTest Pro
715 (0.613 %)Eclipse
810 (0.409 %)Ant
810 (0.409 %)ClearQuest
99 (0.368 %)FitNesse
107 (0.286 %)Selenium
115 (0.204 %)Subversion
115 (0.204 %)Dreamweaver
115 (0.204 %)Rational Rose
124 (0.163 %)Cactus
124 (0.163 %)JIRA
132 (0.082 %)CruiseControl
132 (0.082 %)Flash
132 (0.082 %)RequisitePro
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11125 (45.97 %)Banking
2901 (36.82 %)Front Office
3870 (35.55 %)Finance
4855 (34.94 %)Investment Banking
5281 (11.48 %)Back Office
694 (3.841 %)Government
775 (3.065 %)Financial Institution
831 (1.267 %)Retail
922 (0.899 %)Retail Banking
1012 (0.490 %)Legal
1111 (0.450 %)Insurance
1210 (0.409 %)Education
138 (0.327 %)Pensions
147 (0.286 %)General Ledger
147 (0.286 %)Games
147 (0.286 %)Online Games
156 (0.245 %)Construction
165 (0.204 %)Health
174 (0.163 %)Auditing
183 (0.123 %)Publishing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1933 (38.13 %)Analyst
2917 (37.47 %)Developer
3604 (24.68 %)Business Analyst
4371 (15.16 %)Java Developer
5190 (7.765 %)Project Manager
6161 (6.579 %)C# Developer
7149 (6.089 %)Support Analyst
8108 (4.414 %)C++ Developer
999 (4.046 %)Applications Support
1096 (3.923 %)Senior Developer
1186 (3.515 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
1280 (3.269 %).NET Developer
1372 (2.942 %)Calypso Developer
1459 (2.411 %)Test Analyst
1554 (2.207 %)Senior Java Developer
1649 (2.002 %)Banking Business Analyst
1747 (1.921 %)Applications Support Analyst
1845 (1.839 %)Senior Analyst
1938 (1.553 %)Excel Developer
2036 (1.471 %)GUI Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11037 (42.38 %)Derivative
2480 (19.62 %)Equities
3419 (17.12 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4212 (8.664 %)Credit Derivative
5182 (7.438 %)Interest Rate Derivative
6126 (5.149 %)Multithreading
787 (3.555 %)Market Risk
873 (2.983 %)Equity Derivative
946 (1.880 %)Credit Risk
1039 (1.594 %)Grid Computing
1136 (1.471 %)Client/Server
1219 (0.776 %)Swaptions
1219 (0.776 %)Mathematics
1317 (0.695 %)N-Tier
1415 (0.613 %)Management Information System
1514 (0.572 %)Blackberry
1613 (0.531 %)PMI
1613 (0.531 %)Contract for Difference
178 (0.327 %)Spread Betting
187 (0.286 %)Computer Science
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1346 (14.14 %)UNIX
2238 (9.726 %)Windows
374 (3.024 %)Linux
454 (2.207 %)Solaris
542 (1.716 %)Windows XP
614 (0.572 %)VMS
712 (0.490 %)Windows 2000
811 (0.450 %)Windows NT
910 (0.409 %)Windows Server 2003
104 (0.163 %)OpenVMS
113 (0.123 %)Red Hat Linux
122 (0.082 %)Windows 2000 Server
131 (0.041 %)SUSE
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1304 (12.42 %)OO
2296 (12.10 %)Asset Management
3213 (8.705 %)Business Analysis
4201 (8.214 %)Investment Management
5157 (6.416 %)Project Management
6150 (6.130 %)Electronic Trading
7126 (5.149 %)Risk Management
8119 (4.863 %)User Acceptance Testing
9115 (4.700 %)UML
1079 (3.228 %)Agile Software Development
1169 (2.820 %)Change Management
1266 (2.697 %)OOD
1362 (2.534 %)TDD
1460 (2.452 %)Migration
1558 (2.370 %)Data Modelling
1558 (2.370 %)Workflow
1656 (2.289 %)Automated Testing
1755 (2.248 %)Scrum
1853 (2.166 %)Data Analysis
1951 (2.084 %)Regression Testing
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1628 (25.66 %)Java
2497 (20.31 %)SQL
3435 (17.78 %)C#
4332 (13.57 %)C++
5142 (5.803 %)VBA
673 (2.983 %)Perl
770 (2.861 %)VC++
860 (2.452 %)C
957 (2.329 %)Shell Script
1039 (1.594 %)VB
1128 (1.144 %)Transact-SQL
1223 (0.940 %)PL/SQL
1321 (0.858 %)JavaScript
1410 (0.409 %)Python
1410 (0.409 %)Korn
157 (0.286 %)PHP
166 (0.245 %)Euclid
173 (0.123 %)VB6
173 (0.123 %)DCL
173 (0.123 %)Tcl
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1111 (4.536 %)Degree
236 (1.471 %)ISEB
312 (0.490 %)Microsoft Certification
411 (0.450 %)PRINCE2 Certification
411 (0.450 %)MCSE
411 (0.450 %)ISEB Practitioner
59 (0.368 %)MCP
66 (0.245 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
75 (0.204 %)Cisco Certification
75 (0.204 %)CCIE
75 (0.204 %)CCNP
84 (0.163 %)CIMA
93 (0.123 %)ACCA
93 (0.123 %)CFA
93 (0.123 %)ITIL Certification
101 (0.041 %)PMP
101 (0.041 %)PMI Certification
101 (0.041 %)MCAD
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
147 (1.921 %)QA
26 (0.245 %)Basel II
35 (0.204 %)ISO9001
44 (0.163 %)SLA
53 (0.123 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
53 (0.123 %)MiFID
61 (0.041 %)ISO/IEC 20000
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
117 (0.695 %)AquaLogic
210 (0.409 %)NetBackup
31 (0.041 %)Active Directory
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
135 (1.430 %)AutoSys
210 (0.409 %)CONTROL-M
39 (0.368 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
48 (0.327 %)CiscoWorks
56 (0.245 %)BMC PATROL
65 (0.204 %)NNM
65 (0.204 %)OpenView
71 (0.041 %)Netcool
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1355 (14.51 %)Oracle
2338 (13.81 %)Sybase
3218 (8.909 %)Bloomberg
4189 (7.724 %)Calypso
5119 (4.863 %)LatentZero
6103 (4.209 %)Tradeweb
783 (3.392 %)TIBCO
879 (3.228 %)Reuters
966 (2.697 %)Syncfusion
1062 (2.534 %)Microsoft
1155 (2.248 %)Charles River
1252 (2.125 %)thinkFolio
1350 (2.043 %)Murex
1449 (2.002 %)DataSynapse
1544 (1.798 %)ION Trading
1642 (1.716 %)eSpeed
1740 (1.635 %)Infragistics
1836 (1.471 %)BEA
1933 (1.349 %)Tangosol
2032 (1.308 %)Fidessa