The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of GoldenSource 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 GoldenSource over the 3 months to 23 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 the GoldenSource Corporation.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GoldenSource
Rank 517 534 529
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -5
Contract jobs citing GoldenSource 24 31 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.052% 0.053% 0.092%
As % of the Vendors category 0.110% 0.114% 0.197%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 44
Average daily rate £488 £588 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.02% +2.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £445 £458
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £675 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 - -
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
21806 27110 28885
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.06% 46.44% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11630 13854 14453
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 1173 1314 1625
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.56 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.87% -2.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%

GoldenSource
Jobs Demand Trend

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

GoldenSource Jobs Demand Trend

GoldenSource
Daily Rate Trend

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

GoldenSource Daily Rate Trend

GoldenSource
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GoldenSource within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

GoldenSource Daily Rate Histogram

GoldenSource
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GoldenSource within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +37 24 £488 -17.02%
London +25 23 £500 -14.89%
City of London +25 12 £375 -37.50%
Canary Wharf - 3 £600 -
West Midlands - 1 £325 -

GoldenSource
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing GoldenSource 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 GoldenSource.

1 15 (48.39%) Banking
2 13 (41.94%) Reference Data
3 12 (38.71%) SQL
4 10 (32.26%) Finance
5 9 (29.03%) Investment Banking
6 8 (25.81%) SWIFT
6 8 (25.81%) Misys
6 8 (25.81%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (25.81%) Oracle
6 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
6 8 (25.81%) Sybase
6 8 (25.81%) UNIX
6 8 (25.81%) Windows
6 8 (25.81%) Solaris
6 8 (25.81%) Windows XP
7 7 (22.58%) Tivoli
7 7 (22.58%) Back Office
8 6 (19.35%) Thunderhead
8 6 (19.35%) Cadis
9 5 (16.13%) Data Analysis
9 5 (16.13%) Asset Management
9 5 (16.13%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (16.13%) Investment Management
9 5 (16.13%) Service Management
9 5 (16.13%) Front Office
10 3 (9.677%) Data Management
10 3 (9.677%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (9.677%) Capacity Management
10 3 (9.677%) Agile Software Development
10 3 (9.677%) Equities

GoldenSource
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing GoldenSource 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 GoldenSource. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.226%) Silverlight
1 1 (3.226%) ASP
1 1 (3.226%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.226%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.226%) SAS
1 1 (3.226%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.226%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.452%) Eagle PACE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.677%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.226%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.226%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (3.226%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (3.226%) JIRA
General
1 15 (48.39%) Banking
2 10 (32.26%) Finance
3 9 (29.03%) Investment Banking
4 7 (22.58%) Back Office
5 5 (16.13%) Corporate Banking
5 5 (16.13%) Front Office
6 1 (3.226%) Marketing
6 1 (3.226%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (67.74%) Analyst
2 10 (32.26%) Business Analyst
3 8 (25.81%) Support Analyst
4 7 (22.58%) Data Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Operations Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Data Manager
5 4 (12.90%) Operations Support Analyst
6 3 (9.677%) Project Manager
6 3 (9.677%) Developer
7 2 (6.452%) SQL Developer
7 2 (6.452%) Business Manager
8 1 (3.226%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (3.226%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (3.226%) Change Project Manager
8 1 (3.226%) Operations Manager
8 1 (3.226%) Applications Support
8 1 (3.226%) Change Manager
8 1 (3.226%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.226%) .NET Developer
8 1 (3.226%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) Reference Data
2 8 (25.81%) SWIFT
3 3 (9.677%) Equities
4 2 (6.452%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.226%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.226%) Mathematics
5 1 (3.226%) Physics
5 1 (3.226%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.226%) Derivative
5 1 (3.226%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.226%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Windows Server 2003
1 8 (25.81%) UNIX
1 8 (25.81%) Windows
1 8 (25.81%) Solaris
1 8 (25.81%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.13%) Data Analysis
1 5 (16.13%) Asset Management
1 5 (16.13%) Investment Management
1 5 (16.13%) Service Management
2 3 (9.677%) Data Management
2 3 (9.677%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (9.677%) Capacity Management
2 3 (9.677%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (9.677%) ITSM
3 2 (6.452%) Scrum
3 2 (6.452%) Migration
3 2 (6.452%) Business Analysis
3 2 (6.452%) Fund Management
4 1 (3.226%) Wealth Management
4 1 (3.226%) Matrix Management
4 1 (3.226%) Use Case
4 1 (3.226%) Test Management
4 1 (3.226%) Multithreading
4 1 (3.226%) Data Migration
4 1 (3.226%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) SQL
2 1 (3.226%) T-SQL
2 1 (3.226%) VBA
2 1 (3.226%) C#
2 1 (3.226%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (6.452%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.452%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Misys
1 8 (25.81%) Oracle
1 8 (25.81%) Sybase
2 6 (19.35%) Thunderhead
2 6 (19.35%) Cadis
3 1 (3.226%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.226%) Reuters
3 1 (3.226%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.226%) HP
3 1 (3.226%) BMC
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Posted: 23 May 2013