Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for HiInvest skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HiInvest over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 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 of the Business Applications category.

LinkDSTi HiInvest
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank490431595
Rank change year-on-year
Down-59Up+164
Matching contract IT job ads3105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.006 %0.025 %0.006 %
As % of the Business Applications category0.072 %0.297 %0.084 %
Daily rates quoted004
Average daily rate--£375
UK excluding London average daily rate--£375
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryAll Business Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
414033635928
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK8.570 %8.525 %7.212 %
Daily rates quoted166510221650
Average daily rate£450£450£475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
--5.260 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£283£300£325
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£600£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£400£425£450
% change year-on-year
-5.880 %-5.550 %
Hourly rates quoted7068138
Average hourly rate£32.75£24.75£28.72
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.32 %-13.82 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£11.15£12.30
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£47.55£57.00£57.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.50£20.50£25.00
% change year-on-year
+53.65 %-18.00 %

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.

HiInvest
Demand Trend

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

HiInvest Demand Trend

HiInvest
Daily Rate Trend

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

HiInvest Daily Rate Trend

HiInvest
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HiInvest within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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-513--
City of LondonDown-653--
LondonDown-713--

HiInvest
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing HiInvest 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 HiInvest.

15 (100.00 %)LongView
15 (100.00 %)Charles River
15 (100.00 %)LatentZero
15 (100.00 %)thinkFolio
24 (80.00 %)Investment Management
24 (80.00 %)Fund Management
24 (80.00 %)Front Office
33 (60.00 %)TestDirector
42 (40.00 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
42 (40.00 %)SQL
42 (40.00 %)Tesseract
42 (40.00 %)Minerva
42 (40.00 %)Sentinel
42 (40.00 %)Test Scripting
42 (40.00 %)Eagle PACE
42 (40.00 %)GoldenSource
42 (40.00 %)Data Analysis
51 (20.00 %)WebSphere
51 (20.00 %)User Acceptance Testing
51 (20.00 %)Data Mapping
51 (20.00 %)Cash Management
51 (20.00 %)Asset Management
51 (20.00 %)Back Office
51 (20.00 %)VBA
51 (20.00 %)Oracle
51 (20.00 %)Oracle 8/8i
51 (20.00 %)MS Excel
51 (20.00 %)MS Access
51 (20.00 %)Decalog

HiInvest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing HiInvest 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 HiInvest. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (20.00 %)WebSphere
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (20.00 %)MS Excel
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
15 (100.00 %)LongView
22 (40.00 %)Tesseract
22 (40.00 %)Minerva
22 (40.00 %)Sentinel
22 (40.00 %)Eagle PACE
31 (20.00 %)Decalog
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (20.00 %)Oracle 8/8i
11 (20.00 %)MS Access
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (60.00 %)TestDirector
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (80.00 %)Front Office
21 (20.00 %)Back Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
13 (60.00 %)Analyst
22 (40.00 %)Business Analyst
31 (20.00 %)Test Leader
31 (20.00 %)Test Manager
31 (20.00 %)Test Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (40.00 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14 (80.00 %)Investment Management
14 (80.00 %)Fund Management
22 (40.00 %)Test Scripting
22 (40.00 %)Data Analysis
31 (20.00 %)User Acceptance Testing
31 (20.00 %)Data Mapping
31 (20.00 %)Cash Management
31 (20.00 %)Asset Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12 (40.00 %)SQL
21 (20.00 %)VBA
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (100.00 %)Charles River
15 (100.00 %)LatentZero
15 (100.00 %)thinkFolio
22 (40.00 %)GoldenSource
31 (20.00 %)Oracle