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This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Front Office' in contract IT jobs across the UK together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Front Office over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFront Office
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank4223
Rank change on same period last yearDown-19
Matching contract IT job ads23954705
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled3.192 %4.760 %
As % of the category below6.627 %9.931 %
Daily rates quoted12632393
Average minimum daily rate£520£522
Average daily rate£559£563
% change on same period last year-0.63 %
Average maximum daily rate£598£603
UK excluding London average daily rate£400£439
% change on same period last year-8.93 %
Hourly rates quoted412
Average minimum hourly rate£38.00£32.08
Average hourly rate£41.25£36.08
% change on same period last year+14.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate£44.50£40.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate£7.50£17.50
% change on same period last year-57.14 %
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
UK
Matching contract IT job ads3614047376
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled48.17 %47.93 %
Daily rates quoted1367716935
Average minimum daily rate£415£419
Average daily rate£444£448
% change on same period last year-0.79 %
Average maximum daily rate£473£476
UK excluding London average daily rate£383£374
% change on same period last year+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted20572302
Average minimum hourly rate£24.89£25.14
Average hourly rate£26.66£26.87
% change on same period last year-0.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate£28.43£28.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate£26.78£27.25
% change on same period last year-1.70 %

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.

Front Office
Demand Trend

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

Front Office Demand Trend

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend

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

Front Office Daily Rate Trend

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Front Office within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Front Office Daily Rate Histogram

Front Office
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Front Office Hourly Rate Trend

Front Office
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 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-152383£559-0.80 %
LondonDown-42286£560-0.84 %
City of LondonDown-6947£544-1.99 %
Docklands, LondonDown-5121£590+2.12 %
South EastUp+9066£325-24.87 %
Canary WharfDown-162£582+8.84 %
BerkshireUp+8753£326-21.56 %
ReadingNew entry-21£326-
MaidenheadNew entry-15--
East of EnglandDown-111£441+3.67 %
South WestUp+317£431-17.85 %
HertfordshireDown-67--
WiltshireUp+135--
HampshireUp+154--
CambridgeshireNew entry-4£441-
OxfordshireDown-23--
SurreyDown-43£250-44.95 %
OxfordNew entry-3--
SwindonUp+23--
MidlandsUp+113--
ScotlandDown-43£475+33.66 %
North WestDown-62--
West MidlandsUp+12--
EdinburghDown-22£475+20.25 %
BasingstokeNew entry-2--
BorehamwoodUp+12--
CambridgeNew entry-2£444-
West SussexUp+62£400-
East MidlandsUp+72--
HerefordshireUp+162--

Front Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Front Office 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 Front Office.

12127 (40.15 %)Banking
22098 (39.61 %)Derivative
31631 (30.79 %)Finance
41585 (29.92 %)Investment Banking
51429 (26.98 %)Java
61400 (26.43 %)C#
71079 (20.37 %)SQL
81015 (19.16 %)C++
91003 (18.94 %)Fixed Income
10859 (16.22 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
11852 (16.08 %)UNIX
12747 (14.10 %)Equities
13745 (14.06 %)Equity Derivative
14716 (13.52 %).NET
15664 (12.54 %)SQL Server
16584 (11.03 %)Sybase
17540 (10.19 %)OO
18522 (9.855 %)VBA
19465 (8.779 %)Oracle
20396 (7.476 %)Credit Derivative
21384 (7.249 %)Back Office
22382 (7.212 %)Risk Management
23373 (7.042 %)Windows
24306 (5.777 %)Degree
25304 (5.739 %)Business Analysis
26296 (5.588 %)Project Management
27295 (5.569 %)Interest Rate Derivative
27295 (5.569 %)Asset Management
28267 (5.041 %)Linux
29260 (4.908 %)WinForms

Front Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Front Office 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 Front Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1716 (13.52 %).NET
2260 (4.908 %)WinForms
3253 (4.776 %)XML
4226 (4.267 %)Spring
5163 (3.077 %)J2EE
6136 (2.567 %)Hibernate
7133 (2.511 %)FIX Protocol
8120 (2.265 %)J2SE
9107 (2.020 %)ASP.NET
10103 (1.944 %)WebServices
11100 (1.888 %)Swing
1290 (1.699 %)Middleware
1381 (1.529 %)MFC
1462 (1.170 %)HTML
1561 (1.152 %)JMS
1659 (1.114 %)Murex Flex
1753 (1.001 %).NET Framework
1843 (0.812 %)XSLT
1941 (0.774 %)ASP
1941 (0.774 %)STL
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
173 (1.378 %)Rendezvous
270 (1.322 %)TIBCO EMS
342 (0.793 %)WebLogic
436 (0.680 %)MTS
534 (0.642 %)Tomcat
630 (0.566 %)Apache
725 (0.472 %)MQSeries
822 (0.415 %)BizTalk Server
920 (0.378 %)JBoss
1017 (0.321 %)SmartSockets
1115 (0.283 %)MS Exchange
1213 (0.245 %)Lotus Notes
1312 (0.227 %)SharePoint
147 (0.132 %)Exchange Server 2000
156 (0.113 %)WebSphere MQ
156 (0.113 %)IIS
164 (0.076 %)Documentum
164 (0.076 %)Resin
173 (0.057 %)SharePoint Server 2007
173 (0.057 %)Oracle Workflow
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1129 (2.435 %)MS Excel
2128 (2.416 %)Spreadsheet
378 (1.473 %)MS Office
435 (0.661 %)MS Project
531 (0.585 %)MS Visio
628 (0.529 %)MS PowerPoint
74 (0.076 %)RoboHelp
74 (0.076 %)Photoshop
82 (0.038 %)MATLAB
82 (0.038 %)CA Clarity
91 (0.019 %)S-PLUS
91 (0.019 %)Fireworks
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
170 (1.322 %)Summit
255 (1.038 %)Global One
350 (0.944 %)Capstone
447 (0.887 %)Minerva
540 (0.755 %)Tesseract
639 (0.736 %)RMDS
735 (0.661 %)Endur
830 (0.566 %)Kondor+
921 (0.396 %)Sentinel
1019 (0.359 %)FENICS FX
1112 (0.227 %)Sophis RISQUE
127 (0.132 %)Findur
127 (0.132 %)Oracle Financials
136 (0.113 %)Oracle EBS
136 (0.113 %)Decalog
136 (0.113 %)TIBCO iProcess
145 (0.094 %)Adaptiv
145 (0.094 %)BusinessWorks
154 (0.076 %)Murex MxG2000
154 (0.076 %)LongView
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
135 (0.661 %)TCP/IP
228 (0.529 %)3G
326 (0.491 %)Network Security
425 (0.472 %)Internet
524 (0.453 %)SGSN
616 (0.302 %)PBX
714 (0.264 %)Intranet
714 (0.264 %)BSS
88 (0.151 %)LAN
96 (0.113 %)WAN
96 (0.113 %)Firewall
105 (0.094 %)HTTP
105 (0.094 %)DNS
105 (0.094 %)SAN
114 (0.076 %)LDAP
114 (0.076 %)FTP
123 (0.057 %)VPN
132 (0.038 %)DHCP
132 (0.038 %)Extranet
132 (0.038 %)2G
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1664 (12.54 %)SQL Server
2100 (1.888 %)SQL Server 2005
380 (1.510 %)RDBMS
465 (1.227 %)MS Access
555 (1.038 %)SQL Server 2000
644 (0.831 %)Datawarehouse
743 (0.812 %)SQL Server 7
839 (0.736 %)SQL Server Integration Services
936 (0.680 %)Oracle 8/8i
1034 (0.642 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1131 (0.585 %)BusinessObjects
1227 (0.510 %)Reference Data
1317 (0.321 %)Crystal Reports
1317 (0.321 %)Oracle 10g
1415 (0.283 %)Oracle 9i
1514 (0.264 %)DB2
1613 (0.245 %)DTS
1613 (0.245 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1712 (0.227 %)ETL
1811 (0.208 %)Data Cleansing
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
175 (1.416 %)NUnit
266 (1.246 %)Ant
266 (1.246 %)JUnit
333 (0.623 %)Eclipse
428 (0.529 %)Log4Net
526 (0.491 %)ClearCase
623 (0.434 %)Subversion
722 (0.415 %)TestDirector
722 (0.415 %)Visual Studio
812 (0.227 %)QuickTest Pro
99 (0.170 %)WinRunner
99 (0.170 %)Oracle Forms
108 (0.151 %)LoadRunner
108 (0.151 %)CruiseControl
117 (0.132 %)ClearQuest
126 (0.113 %)Dreamweaver
126 (0.113 %)NetAdvantage
126 (0.113 %)JProbe
135 (0.094 %)Selenium
135 (0.094 %)Flash
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12127 (40.15 %)Banking
21631 (30.79 %)Finance
31585 (29.92 %)Investment Banking
4384 (7.249 %)Back Office
5138 (2.605 %)Financial Institution
658 (1.095 %)Education
754 (1.019 %)Government
834 (0.642 %)Retail
929 (0.547 %)Auditing
1027 (0.510 %)Legal
1124 (0.453 %)Retail Banking
1219 (0.359 %)Marketing
1318 (0.340 %)Telecoms
1414 (0.264 %)Insurance
1513 (0.245 %)Pensions
1612 (0.227 %)Publishing
1711 (0.208 %)General Ledger
187 (0.132 %)Private Banking
195 (0.094 %)Corporate Banking
195 (0.094 %)Health
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12682 (50.63 %)Developer
21545 (29.17 %)Analyst
3868 (16.39 %)Business Analyst
4806 (15.22 %)Java Developer
5721 (13.61 %)C# Developer
6415 (7.835 %)C++ Developer
7375 (7.079 %)Support Analyst
8366 (6.910 %)Front Office Developer
9314 (5.928 %)Project Manager
10312 (5.890 %)Senior Developer
11239 (4.512 %)Excel Developer
12223 (4.210 %)Applications Support
12223 (4.210 %)VBA Developer
13171 (3.228 %)Excel VBA Developer
14144 (2.719 %).NET Developer
15135 (2.549 %)Senior Java Developer
16127 (2.398 %)SQL Developer
16127 (2.398 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
17116 (2.190 %)Senior Analyst
18112 (2.114 %)Applications Support Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
12098 (39.61 %)Derivative
21003 (18.94 %)Fixed Income
3859 (16.22 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4747 (14.10 %)Equities
5745 (14.06 %)Equity Derivative
6396 (7.476 %)Credit Derivative
7295 (5.569 %)Interest Rate Derivative
8209 (3.946 %)Credit Risk
9166 (3.134 %)Multithreading
10159 (3.002 %)Market Risk
1176 (1.435 %)Grid Computing
1267 (1.265 %)Mathematics
1357 (1.076 %)Computer Science
1451 (0.963 %)N-Tier
1538 (0.717 %)Exotic Derivative
1633 (0.623 %)Management Information System
1724 (0.453 %)Client/Server
1822 (0.415 %)Physics
1921 (0.396 %)Hybrid Derivative
2015 (0.283 %)Blackberry
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1852 (16.08 %)UNIX
2373 (7.042 %)Windows
3267 (5.041 %)Linux
4106 (2.001 %)Solaris
574 (1.397 %)Windows NT
653 (1.001 %)Windows XP
721 (0.396 %)Windows 2000
817 (0.321 %)HPUX
94 (0.076 %)Windows Server 2003
102 (0.038 %)Debian
111 (0.019 %)VxWorks
111 (0.019 %)AIX
111 (0.019 %)VMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1540 (10.19 %)OO
2382 (7.212 %)Risk Management
3304 (5.739 %)Business Analysis
4296 (5.588 %)Project Management
5295 (5.569 %)Asset Management
6200 (3.776 %)Electronic Trading
6200 (3.776 %)Investment Management
7164 (3.096 %)Migration
8148 (2.794 %)User Acceptance Testing
9139 (2.624 %)Agile Software Development
10137 (2.586 %)Algorithmic Trading
11134 (2.530 %)Workflow
12129 (2.435 %)RAD
13128 (2.416 %)Change Management
14102 (1.926 %)E-Commerce
1598 (1.850 %)UML
1598 (1.850 %)TDD
1678 (1.473 %)Fund Management
1775 (1.416 %)OOD
1862 (1.170 %)Scrum
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11429 (26.98 %)Java
21400 (26.43 %)C#
31079 (20.37 %)SQL
41015 (19.16 %)C++
5522 (9.855 %)VBA
6245 (4.625 %)VB
7229 (4.323 %)Perl
8155 (2.926 %)Shell Script
9104 (1.963 %)VC++
1079 (1.491 %)Transact-SQL
1168 (1.284 %)JavaScript
1266 (1.246 %)C
1364 (1.208 %)VB.NET
1453 (1.001 %)PL/SQL
1549 (0.925 %)VB6
1638 (0.717 %)Python
1729 (0.547 %)Korn
1828 (0.529 %)VBScript
1922 (0.415 %)Tcl
209 (0.170 %)Delphi
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1306 (5.777 %)Degree
214 (0.264 %)PhD
38 (0.151 %)ISEB
45 (0.094 %)CISSP
53 (0.057 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
53 (0.057 %)CFA
62 (0.038 %)PRINCE2 Certification
62 (0.038 %)ITIL Certification
62 (0.038 %)ACCA
62 (0.038 %)CIMA
62 (0.038 %)MBA
71 (0.019 %)ISEB Practitioner
71 (0.019 %)PMP
71 (0.019 %)PMI Certification
71 (0.019 %)Cisco Certification
71 (0.019 %)Microsoft Certification
71 (0.019 %)CCNP
71 (0.019 %)Postgraduate
71 (0.019 %)MCSE
71 (0.019 %)ISTQB
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
189 (1.680 %)QA
240 (0.755 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
334 (0.642 %)SLA
418 (0.340 %)Basel II
52 (0.038 %)MiFID
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
111 (0.208 %)Active Directory
26 (0.113 %)Orbix
34 (0.076 %)VMware ESX
43 (0.057 %)Oracle RMAN
52 (0.038 %)Oracle RAC
52 (0.038 %)NFS
52 (0.038 %)NetBackup
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
120 (0.378 %)CONTROL-M
210 (0.189 %)AutoSys
36 (0.113 %)MOM
43 (0.057 %)OpenView
43 (0.057 %)CiscoWorks
52 (0.038 %)Tivoli
61 (0.019 %)Unicenter
61 (0.019 %)BMC PATROL
61 (0.019 %)Norton AntiVirus
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1584 (11.03 %)Sybase
2465 (8.779 %)Oracle
3248 (4.682 %)Bloomberg
4233 (4.399 %)TIBCO
5225 (4.248 %)Microsoft
6213 (4.021 %)Calypso
7180 (3.398 %)Murex
8162 (3.058 %)Reuters
9147 (2.775 %)Fidessa
1095 (1.793 %)LatentZero
1179 (1.491 %)thinkFolio
1277 (1.454 %)Sophis
1349 (0.925 %)Charles River
1349 (0.925 %)Tradeweb
1445 (0.850 %)DataSynapse
1445 (0.850 %)OpenLink
1544 (0.831 %)Tangosol
1636 (0.680 %)GL TRADE
1731 (0.585 %)Business Objects
1827 (0.510 %)Nokia
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