Fund Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Fund Management skills across the UK with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Fund Management over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire City of London Docklands, London Edinburgh England Huddersfield Kent London Reading Scotland South East Surrey UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	408	366
Rank change on same period last year	-42
Matching contract IT job ads	153	337
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.216 %	0.341 %
As % of the category below	0.400 %	0.683 %
Daily rates quoted	52	133
Average minimum daily rate	£475	£471
Average daily rate	£516	£514
% change on same period last year	+0.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£557	£556
UK excluding London average daily rate	£413	£486
% change on same period last year	-15.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£55.29
Average hourly rate	£17.63	£56.85
% change on same period last year	-68.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.25	£58.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Processes & Methodologies UK
Matching contract IT job ads	38250	49367
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	54.09 %	49.97 %
Daily rates quoted	13525	16271
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£385
Average daily rate	£411	£409
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£438	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	2597	3268
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£28.11
Average hourly rate	£29.27	£29.95
% change on same period last year	-2.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.04	£31.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.42	£29.97
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Fund Management within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fund Management within the UK over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fund Management within the UK over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fund Management within the UK over the 3 months to 13 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.

Location	Rank 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
England	-58	146	£520	+1.20 %
London	-37	133	£520	+0.76 %
City of London	-41	47	£482	-4.69 %
Scotland	+25	7	£413	-
Edinburgh	+15	6	£413	-
South East	+22	6	-	-
Kent	+10	4	-	-
Docklands, London	+34	2	-	-
Reading	-	1	-	-
Huddersfield	-	1	-	-
West Yorkshire	+6	1	-	-
Berkshire	-	1	-	-
Surrey	+11	1	-	-
Yorkshire	+18	1	-	-
West Midlands	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Fund Management 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 Fund Management.

1 160 (47.20 %) Asset Management 2 139 (41.00 %) Finance 3 129 (38.05 %) Investment Management 4 63 (18.58 %) SQL 5 58 (17.11 %) Banking 6 57 (16.81 %) Front Office 7 45 (13.27 %) Investment Banking 8 41 (12.09 %) Back Office 9 39 (11.50 %) Fixed Income 9 39 (11.50 %) Derivative 10 36 (10.62 %) Project Management 11 34 (10.03 %) .NET 11 34 (10.03 %) Business Analysis 12 30 (8.850 %) Windows 12 30 (8.850 %) MS Excel

13 29 (8.555 %) C# 14 26 (7.670 %) Migration 15 25 (7.375 %) UNIX 16 24 (7.080 %) Microsoft 17 23 (6.785 %) SQL Server 17 23 (6.785 %) Equities 18 22 (6.490 %) Datawarehouse 19 21 (6.195 %) Data Analysis 20 19 (5.605 %) User Acceptance Testing 21 17 (5.015 %) LatentZero 22 16 (4.720 %) Oracle 23 15 (4.425 %) HiPortfolio 24 14 (4.130 %) Java 25 13 (3.835 %) VBA 25 13 (3.835 %) Sybase

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Fund Management 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 Fund Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 34 (10.03 %) .NET 2 12 (3.540 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (1.770 %) HTML 4 4 (1.180 %) CSS 4 4 (1.180 %) FIX Protocol 5 3 (0.885 %) ASP 5 3 (0.885 %) J2EE 5 3 (0.885 %) COM 5 3 (0.885 %) Middleware 5 3 (0.885 %) WinForms 6 2 (0.590 %) XML 6 2 (0.590 %) XSL 6 2 (0.590 %) XHTML 6 2 (0.590 %) WCF 6 2 (0.590 %) Sophis Toolkit 6 2 (0.590 %) WebSphere 6 2 (0.590 %) .NET Remoting 6 2 (0.590 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (0.295 %) COM+ 7 1 (0.295 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 6 (1.770 %) SharePoint 2 4 (1.180 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (0.885 %) IIS 4 2 (0.590 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 2 (0.590 %) WebLogic 5 1 (0.295 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (0.295 %) JBoss 5 1 (0.295 %) MQSeries 5 1 (0.295 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 30 (8.850 %) MS Excel 2 13 (3.835 %) MS Office 3 4 (1.180 %) Spreadsheet 4 3 (0.885 %) MS Project 5 2 (0.590 %) Photoshop 5 2 (0.590 %) MS Visio 6 1 (0.295 %) DOC1 6 1 (0.295 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 15 (4.425 %) HiPortfolio 2 12 (3.540 %) Capstone 3 11 (3.245 %) Minerva 4 7 (2.065 %) SimCorp Dimension 4 7 (2.065 %) Eagle PACE 5 6 (1.770 %) Sophis VALUE 5 6 (1.770 %) Tesseract 6 5 (1.475 %) Sentinel 7 4 (1.180 %) Salerio 7 4 (1.180 %) Sophis RISQUE 8 3 (0.885 %) MultiFonds 9 2 (0.590 %) FRONT ARENA 9 2 (0.590 %) RMDS 9 2 (0.590 %) Oracle Financials 9 2 (0.590 %) HiInvest 9 2 (0.590 %) HiPerformance 9 2 (0.590 %) InvestOne 9 2 (0.590 %) Beauchamp 9 2 (0.590 %) Thomson PORTIA 10 1 (0.295 %) AWD
Communications & Networking 1 4 (1.180 %) WAN 2 3 (0.885 %) Intranet 2 3 (0.885 %) Internet 3 2 (0.590 %) LAN 4 1 (0.295 %) PBX 4 1 (0.295 %) SMS 4 1 (0.295 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (0.295 %) Cisco ASA 4 1 (0.295 %) DHCP 4 1 (0.295 %) DNS 4 1 (0.295 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (6.785 %) SQL Server 2 22 (6.490 %) Datawarehouse 3 11 (3.245 %) Reference Data 4 9 (2.655 %) RDBMS 5 7 (2.065 %) Oracle 10g 6 6 (1.770 %) SQL Server 2005 6 6 (1.770 %) DB2 7 5 (1.475 %) ETL 8 3 (0.885 %) Crystal Reports 9 2 (0.590 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 2 (0.590 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 2 (0.590 %) SQL Server 2000 10 1 (0.295 %) Oracle OWB 10 1 (0.295 %) UniData 10 1 (0.295 %) BusinessObjects 10 1 (0.295 %) Data Cleansing 10 1 (0.295 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 1 (0.295 %) Oracle 9i 10 1 (0.295 %) Crystal Enterprise 10 1 (0.295 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 4 (1.180 %) TestDirector 2 2 (0.590 %) Flash 3 1 (0.295 %) Eclipse 3 1 (0.295 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 139 (41.00 %) Finance 2 58 (17.11 %) Banking 3 57 (16.81 %) Front Office 4 45 (13.27 %) Investment Banking 5 41 (12.09 %) Back Office 6 8 (2.360 %) Retail 7 7 (2.065 %) Legal 7 7 (2.065 %) Pensions 8 6 (1.770 %) Financial Institution 9 5 (1.475 %) Marketing 10 3 (0.885 %) Private Banking 11 2 (0.590 %) Publishing 11 2 (0.590 %) Construction 12 1 (0.295 %) Multimedia 12 1 (0.295 %) Retail Banking 12 1 (0.295 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 181 (53.39 %) Analyst 2 118 (34.81 %) Business Analyst 3 46 (13.57 %) Developer 4 37 (10.91 %) Project Manager 5 26 (7.670 %) Support Analyst 6 16 (4.720 %) Applications Support 7 14 (4.130 %) Data Analyst 8 13 (3.835 %) Senior Analyst 9 12 (3.540 %) Test Analyst 10 11 (3.245 %) Administrator 10 11 (3.245 %) .NET Developer 11 10 (2.950 %) C# Developer 11 10 (2.950 %) Consultant 12 9 (2.655 %) 1st Line Support 13 8 (2.360 %) SQL Developer 13 8 (2.360 %) IT Administrator 14 7 (2.065 %) VBA Developer 14 7 (2.065 %) Programme Manager 14 7 (2.065 %) Helpdesk Analyst 14 7 (2.065 %) 1st Line Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 39 (11.50 %) Fixed Income 1 39 (11.50 %) Derivative 2 23 (6.785 %) Equities 3 11 (3.245 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 9 (2.655 %) Management Information System 5 7 (2.065 %) French Language 6 6 (1.770 %) AS400 7 5 (1.475 %) Equity Derivative 7 5 (1.475 %) Dutch Language 8 4 (1.180 %) Client/Server 9 1 (0.295 %) Web 2.0 9 1 (0.295 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 30 (8.850 %) Windows 2 25 (7.375 %) UNIX 3 11 (3.245 %) Windows XP 4 7 (2.065 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (0.590 %) Solaris 6 1 (0.295 %) Linux 6 1 (0.295 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 160 (47.20 %) Asset Management 2 129 (38.05 %) Investment Management 3 36 (10.62 %) Project Management 4 34 (10.03 %) Business Analysis 5 26 (7.670 %) Migration 6 21 (6.195 %) Data Analysis 7 19 (5.605 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 11 (3.245 %) Workflow 9 10 (2.950 %) Service Delivery 9 10 (2.950 %) Change Management 9 10 (2.950 %) UML 10 9 (2.655 %) Data Modelling 11 8 (2.360 %) OO 11 8 (2.360 %) Systems Analysis 12 7 (2.065 %) Programme Management 12 7 (2.065 %) ITIL 13 6 (1.770 %) PRINCE2 13 6 (1.770 %) Configuration Management 13 6 (1.770 %) Data Architecture 14 5 (1.475 %) Risk Management
Programming Languages 1 63 (18.58 %) SQL 2 29 (8.555 %) C# 3 14 (4.130 %) Java 4 13 (3.835 %) VBA 5 8 (2.360 %) Perl 5 8 (2.360 %) PL/SQL 6 6 (1.770 %) RPG 6 6 (1.770 %) VB 7 5 (1.475 %) JavaScript 8 3 (0.885 %) C++ 8 3 (0.885 %) Shell Script 8 3 (0.885 %) VB6 9 2 (0.590 %) C 9 2 (0.590 %) VBScript 9 2 (0.590 %) Python 10 1 (0.295 %) VB.NET 10 1 (0.295 %) VC++ 10 1 (0.295 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (0.885 %) Degree 2 1 (0.295 %) MCSE 2 1 (0.295 %) ISEB 2 1 (0.295 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (0.295 %) ACCA 2 1 (0.295 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (2.950 %) QA 2 1 (0.295 %) SLA	System Software 1 5 (1.475 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.590 %) VMware ESX 2 2 (0.590 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 2 (0.590 %) VMware Server 3 1 (0.295 %) NetBackup 3 1 (0.295 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (0.295 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 4 (1.180 %) AutoSys 2 2 (0.590 %) WSUS 3 1 (0.295 %) Unicenter 3 1 (0.295 %) CONTROL-M	Vendors 1 24 (7.080 %) Microsoft 2 17 (5.015 %) LatentZero 3 16 (4.720 %) Oracle 4 13 (3.835 %) Sybase 4 13 (3.835 %) thinkFolio 5 11 (3.245 %) SimCorp 5 11 (3.245 %) Charles River 6 10 (2.950 %) Bloomberg 7 7 (2.065 %) Sophis 7 7 (2.065 %) Murex 8 6 (1.770 %) GoldenSource 8 6 (1.770 %) Reuters 8 6 (1.770 %) Fidessa 9 5 (1.475 %) HP 9 5 (1.475 %) Calypso 10 4 (1.180 %) CheckFree 10 4 (1.180 %) NYFIX 11 3 (0.885 %) Axiom 11 3 (0.885 %) Infragistics 11 3 (0.885 %) VMware