The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fixed Income over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous 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.

Fixed Income
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank1395844
Rank change year-on-year
Down-81Down-14
Matching contract IT job ads80618171870
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.362 %2.961 %3.396 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category5.765 %10.80 %11.81 %
Number of daily rates quoted67713891275
Average daily rate£550£580£550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.17 %+5.45 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£475£425
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£675£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£400£400£343
% change year-on-year
-+16.78 %
Number of hourly rates quoted4112
Average hourly rate£22.00£75.00£85.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-70.66 %-11.76 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.50--
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
139801683015833
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK23.62 %27.43 %28.76 %
Number of daily rates quoted8259100028854
Average daily rate£435£525£500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14 %+5.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£285£263
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£604£650£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£345£338£315
% change year-on-year
+2.22 %+7.14 %
Number of hourly rates quoted657720644
Average hourly rate£22.50£22.63£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.55 %+7.73 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£11.37£11.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£40.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£25.83£20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.14 %+29.15 %

Fixed Income
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 16 May 2012.

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
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 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-80785£550-5.98 %
LondonDown-35779£550-5.98 %
City of LondonDown-17300£550-4.34 %
Northern IrelandUp+2212£400-
County AntrimUp+2211£400-
BelfastUp+1811£400-
Canary WharfDown-316£560-13.84 %
Docklands, LondonUp+45£450-18.18 %
North WestUp+25£325-
ScotlandUp+25£450-
GlasgowUp+34--
South WestDown-184--
MerseysideNew entry-4--
LiverpoolNew entry-4--
StreetNew entry-4--
SomersetNew entry-4--
ManchesterNew entry-1£325-
West MidlandsNew entry-1£438-

Fixed Income
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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.

1588 (40.03 %)Banking
2550 (37.44 %)Front Office
3549 (37.37 %)Finance
4518 (35.26 %)Derivative
5466 (31.72 %)SQL
6407 (27.71 %)Investment Banking
7342 (23.28 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
8333 (22.67 %)C#
9309 (21.03 %)Equities
10286 (19.47 %)Java
11196 (13.34 %)Multithreading
12193 (13.14 %).NET
13177 (12.05 %)Oracle
14169 (11.50 %)Business Analysis
15168 (11.44 %)C++
16166 (11.30 %)Asset Management
17148 (10.07 %)SQL Server
17148 (10.07 %)MS Excel
18145 (9.871 %)OO
19144 (9.803 %)UNIX
20140 (9.530 %)Project Management
21138 (9.394 %)Risk Management
22115 (7.828 %)WPF
23113 (7.692 %)Windows
24112 (7.624 %)VBA
25111 (7.556 %)XML
26108 (7.352 %)Microsoft
2795 (6.467 %)Murex
2894 (6.399 %)Interest Rate Derivative
2993 (6.331 %)Credit Derivative

Fixed Income
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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 Development CategoryApplication Development
1193 (13.14 %).NET
2115 (7.828 %)WPF
3111 (7.556 %)XML
471 (4.833 %)Spring
559 (4.016 %)WCF
658 (3.948 %)J2EE
754 (3.676 %)Murex MxML
848 (3.268 %)WinForms
946 (3.131 %).NET Framework
1041 (2.791 %)Hibernate
1138 (2.587 %)Web Services
1237 (2.519 %)Middleware
1330 (2.042 %)MDX
1428 (1.906 %)JMS
1527 (1.838 %)HTML
1527 (1.838 %)STL
1527 (1.838 %)CSS
1527 (1.838 %)Boost C++ Libraries
1623 (1.566 %)Ajax
1722 (1.498 %)JSP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
126 (1.770 %)SharePoint
221 (1.430 %)WebLogic
318 (1.225 %)Documentum
318 (1.225 %)Rendezvous
417 (1.157 %)Liferay
514 (0.953 %)Tomcat
612 (0.817 %)TIBCO EMS
79 (0.613 %)MQSeries
87 (0.477 %)Progress Apama
87 (0.477 %)Oracle Coherence
96 (0.408 %)WebLogic Portal
105 (0.340 %)Oracle Service Bus
105 (0.340 %)WebSphere Portal
105 (0.340 %)Apache
105 (0.340 %)Oracle Application Server
105 (0.340 %)CMS
114 (0.272 %)ESB
114 (0.272 %)WebSphere MQ
114 (0.272 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
123 (0.204 %)MSMQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1148 (10.07 %)MS Excel
278 (5.310 %)MS Visio
350 (3.404 %)MS PowerPoint
448 (3.268 %)Spreadsheet
545 (3.063 %)MS Project
622 (1.498 %)MS Office
74 (0.272 %)MATLAB
82 (0.136 %)Acrobat
91 (0.068 %)Photoshop
91 (0.068 %)InfoPath
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
148 (3.268 %)ION MarketView
217 (1.157 %)Algo Collateral
315 (1.021 %)Summit
410 (0.681 %)LatentZero
410 (0.681 %)RMDS
58 (0.545 %)SunGard Martini
66 (0.408 %)Bloomberg TOMS
74 (0.272 %)Oracle EBS
83 (0.204 %)Eagle PACE
83 (0.204 %)Oracle Financials
83 (0.204 %)LongView
83 (0.204 %)Beauchamp
92 (0.136 %)HFM
92 (0.136 %)Hyperion Enterprise
92 (0.136 %)Sentinel
92 (0.136 %)BusinessWorks
92 (0.136 %)Advent Geneva
92 (0.136 %)Remedy ITSM
101 (0.068 %)Murex MxG2000
101 (0.068 %)PORTIA
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
124 (1.634 %)Intranet
218 (1.225 %)Internet
218 (1.225 %)DAB
310 (0.681 %)LDAP
47 (0.477 %)TCP/IP
47 (0.477 %)Firewall
55 (0.340 %)LAN
55 (0.340 %)Wireless
64 (0.272 %)SAN
73 (0.204 %)NetScaler
73 (0.204 %)NAS
73 (0.204 %)Bluetooth
82 (0.136 %)HTTP
91 (0.068 %)WAN
91 (0.068 %)BIG-IP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1148 (10.07 %)SQL Server
234 (2.314 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
330 (2.042 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
429 (1.974 %)Oracle 10g
527 (1.838 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
624 (1.634 %)SQL Server Integration Services
721 (1.430 %)SQL Server 2005
819 (1.293 %)Data Mart
819 (1.293 %)Oracle 11g
916 (1.089 %)Data Warehouse
1014 (0.953 %)Oracle Reports
1014 (0.953 %)KDB
1111 (0.749 %)SQL Server 2008
1111 (0.749 %)OLAP
129 (0.613 %)Oracle 8/8i
129 (0.613 %)ETL
129 (0.613 %)RDBMS
138 (0.545 %)MS Access
147 (0.477 %)Crystal Reports
147 (0.477 %)SQL Server 2000
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
131 (2.110 %)JIRA
226 (1.770 %)Visual Studio
320 (1.361 %)Subversion
320 (1.361 %)Maven
418 (1.225 %)Ant
516 (1.089 %)ClearCase
516 (1.089 %)WinRunner
613 (0.885 %)Selenium
613 (0.885 %)TeamCity
613 (0.885 %)SpecFlow
613 (0.885 %)ClearQuest
613 (0.885 %)NUnit
712 (0.817 %)MSBuild
811 (0.749 %)Team Foundation Server
811 (0.749 %)JUnit
910 (0.681 %)RequisitePro
910 (0.681 %)Rational Rose
910 (0.681 %)Eclipse
910 (0.681 %)RIATest
109 (0.613 %)QuickTest Pro
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1588 (40.03 %)Banking
2550 (37.44 %)Front Office
3549 (37.37 %)Finance
4407 (27.71 %)Investment Banking
590 (6.127 %)Back Office
672 (4.901 %)Financial Institution
79 (0.613 %)Retail
79 (0.613 %)Legal
88 (0.545 %)Private Banking
97 (0.477 %)Marketing
106 (0.408 %)French Language
114 (0.272 %)Wholesale Banking
123 (0.204 %)Retail Banking
123 (0.204 %)General Ledger
132 (0.136 %)Billing
141 (0.068 %)Italian Language
141 (0.068 %)Japanese Language
141 (0.068 %)Dutch Language
141 (0.068 %)Electronics
141 (0.068 %)Publishing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1559 (38.05 %)Developer
2558 (37.99 %)Analyst
3349 (23.76 %)Business Analyst
4178 (12.12 %)Java Developer
5166 (11.30 %)C# Developer
697 (6.603 %)Project Manager
794 (6.399 %)Support Analyst
876 (5.174 %)C++ Developer
972 (4.901 %)Senior Developer
1053 (3.608 %)Applications Support
1149 (3.336 %)SQL Developer
1247 (3.199 %)C# .NET Developer
1342 (2.859 %)Data Analyst
1438 (2.587 %).NET Developer
1537 (2.519 %)Applications Support Analyst
1537 (2.519 %)Front Office Developer
1636 (2.451 %)Programme Manager
1636 (2.451 %)Risk Analyst
1735 (2.383 %)Senior Java Developer
1832 (2.178 %)Oracle Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1518 (35.26 %)Derivative
2342 (23.28 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3309 (21.03 %)Equities
494 (6.399 %)Interest Rate Derivative
593 (6.331 %)Credit Derivative
668 (4.629 %)Hedge funds
761 (4.152 %)Market Risk
843 (2.927 %)Credit Risk
939 (2.655 %)Equity Derivative
1037 (2.519 %)Exotic Derivative
1132 (2.178 %)Kindle
1230 (2.042 %)SWIFT
1322 (1.498 %)Mathematics
1418 (1.225 %)Computer Science
1516 (1.089 %)Grid Computing
1615 (1.021 %)Management Information System
1714 (0.953 %)Swaptions
1813 (0.885 %)Reference Data
1911 (0.749 %)N-Tier
1911 (0.749 %)PMI
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1144 (9.803 %)UNIX
2113 (7.692 %)Windows
385 (5.786 %)Linux
417 (1.157 %)Windows XP
515 (1.021 %)Solaris
613 (0.885 %)Windows 7
78 (0.545 %)Windows NT
78 (0.545 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
85 (0.340 %)Windows Server 2008
93 (0.204 %)VMS
102 (0.136 %)Windows Server 2003
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1196 (13.34 %)Multithreading
2169 (11.50 %)Business Analysis
3166 (11.30 %)Asset Management
4145 (9.871 %)OO
5140 (9.530 %)Project Management
6138 (9.394 %)Risk Management
792 (6.263 %)Investment Management
889 (6.059 %)Electronic Trading
977 (5.242 %)ITIL
1074 (5.037 %)E-Commerce
1163 (4.289 %)User Acceptance Testing
1250 (3.404 %)Migration
1250 (3.404 %)Algorithmic Trading
1347 (3.199 %)PRINCE2
1445 (3.063 %)Agile Software Development
1543 (2.927 %)Portfolio Management
1641 (2.791 %)Greeks
1740 (2.723 %)Workflow
1740 (2.723 %)IT Governance
1839 (2.655 %)Data Analysis
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1466 (31.72 %)SQL
2333 (22.67 %)C#
3286 (19.47 %)Java
4168 (11.44 %)C++
5112 (7.624 %)VBA
660 (4.084 %)PL/SQL
752 (3.540 %)VB
843 (2.927 %)Python
941 (2.791 %)Perl
1036 (2.451 %)T-SQL
1127 (1.838 %)JavaScript
1221 (1.430 %)Shell Script
1318 (1.225 %)Ruby
1417 (1.157 %)C
1516 (1.089 %)VC++
1614 (0.953 %)VBScript
1711 (0.749 %)C++/CLI
187 (0.477 %)Scala
196 (0.408 %)XAML
196 (0.408 %)F#
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
172 (4.901 %)Degree
228 (1.906 %)PMI Certification
318 (1.225 %)PMP
413 (0.885 %)ISEB
57 (0.477 %)CFA
65 (0.340 %)PRINCE2 Certification
74 (0.272 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
83 (0.204 %)MCSE
83 (0.204 %)Citrix Certification
83 (0.204 %)CCEA
83 (0.204 %)Microsoft Certification
83 (0.204 %)CIMA
92 (0.136 %)MBA
92 (0.136 %)ACCA
101 (0.068 %)ISTQB
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
139 (2.655 %)ISO 9001
238 (2.587 %)QA
330 (2.042 %)COBIT
413 (0.885 %)EFQM
58 (0.545 %)SLA
67 (0.477 %)MiFID
76 (0.408 %)Basel II
82 (0.136 %)ISO/IEC 20000
91 (0.068 %)Data Quality
91 (0.068 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
114 (0.953 %)OpenSSO
27 (0.477 %)VMware Infrastructure
33 (0.204 %)vSphere
33 (0.204 %)XenApp
33 (0.204 %)XenDesktop
33 (0.204 %)Active Directory
33 (0.204 %)VMware ESX
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
145 (3.063 %)HP Quality Center
27 (0.477 %)Control-M
36 (0.408 %)BladeLogic
45 (0.340 %)Tivoli
54 (0.272 %)NetBackup
61 (0.068 %)Sun Identity Manager
61 (0.068 %)BMC PATROL
61 (0.068 %)Nagios
61 (0.068 %)CA SiteMinder
61 (0.068 %)TIBCO Hawk
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1177 (12.05 %)Oracle
2108 (7.352 %)Microsoft
395 (6.467 %)Murex
492 (6.263 %)Sybase
582 (5.582 %)Bloomberg
660 (4.084 %)ION Trading
758 (3.948 %)Charles River
846 (3.131 %)TIBCO
939 (2.655 %)Calypso
1038 (2.587 %)Reuters
1133 (2.246 %)thinkFolio
1224 (1.634 %)Business Objects
1316 (1.089 %)GoldenSource
1414 (0.953 %)Cadis
1513 (0.885 %)IBM
1513 (0.885 %)BEA
1612 (0.817 %)SunGard
1612 (0.817 %)Tradeweb
1711 (0.749 %)MarketAxess
1810 (0.681 %)VMware