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The table below looks at the demand for Investment 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 Investment Management over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkInvestment Management
Location
3 months to
6 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank258195
Rank change on same period last yearDown-63
Matching contract IT job ads397840
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.555 %0.844 %
As % of the category below1.024 %1.684 %
Daily rates quoted137376
Average minimum daily rate£433£448
Average daily rate£474£475
% change on same period last year-0.11 %
Average maximum daily rate£516£502
UK excluding London average daily rate£335£456
% change on same period last year-26.46 %
Hourly rates quoted227
Average minimum hourly rate£19.00£44.33
Average hourly rate£19.50£46.59
% change on same period last year-58.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate£20.00£48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
UK
Matching contract IT job ads3877549867
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled54.17 %50.10 %
Daily rates quoted1369916405
Average minimum daily rate£384£385
Average daily rate£411£409
% change on same period last year+0.38 %
Average maximum daily rate£438£434
UK excluding London average daily rate£378£372
% change on same period last year+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted25703299
Average minimum hourly rate£27.55£28.23
Average hourly rate£29.31£30.07
% change on same period last year-2.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate£31.07£31.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.30£30.27
% change on same period last year-3.20 %

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.

Investment Management
Demand Trend

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

Investment Management Demand Trend

Investment Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Investment Management Daily Rate Trend

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Investment Management within the UK over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

Investment Management Daily Rate Histogram

Investment Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Investment Management Hourly Rate Trend

Investment Management
Top 27 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Management within the UK over the 3 months to 6 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.

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-67369£486+1.59 %
LondonDown-34333£488+1.95 %
City of LondonDown-27134£468-1.23 %
South EastDown-3025£433-7.81 %
ScotlandUp+1025£306-21.93 %
SurreyUp+317£450-15.62 %
EdinburghUp+1312£350-18.76 %
GlasgowUp+1211£294-15.71 %
KentNo change05--
MidlandsNew entry-2--
North WestNew entry-1--
DundeeNew entry-1--
HertfordshireNew entry-1--
BerkshireUp+311--
HampshireUp+181£415-13.54 %
BirminghamNew entry-1--
East MidlandsNew entry-1--
West MidlandsNew entry-1--
East of EnglandUp+241--
YorkshireUp+141£400-
Docklands, LondonDown-221£450-0.86 %
ReadingDown-21--
SouthamptonUp+121£415-7.77 %
EpsomUp+21--
LeedsDown-51£400-
West YorkshireUp+71£400-
LincolnshireNew entry-1--

Investment Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1437 (44.91 %)Finance
2329 (33.81 %)Asset Management
3208 (21.38 %)Banking
4202 (20.76 %)SQL
5201 (20.66 %)Fixed Income
6182 (18.71 %)Front Office
7155 (15.93 %)Derivative
8140 (14.39 %)Fund Management
9138 (14.18 %)Business Analysis
10122 (12.54 %)Project Management
11119 (12.23 %)UNIX
12118 (12.13 %)Oracle
13105 (10.79 %).NET
1497 (9.969 %)SQL Server
1594 (9.661 %)Retail
1686 (8.839 %)Investment Banking
1785 (8.736 %)Back Office
1884 (8.633 %)Retail Banking
1982 (8.428 %)C#
2081 (8.325 %)XML
2081 (8.325 %)LatentZero
2179 (8.119 %)Java
2277 (7.914 %)Equities
2374 (7.605 %)Reuters
2374 (7.605 %)Bloomberg
2470 (7.194 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
2569 (7.091 %)Windows
2666 (6.783 %)OO
2764 (6.578 %)User Acceptance Testing
2859 (6.064 %)UML

Investment Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1105 (10.79 %).NET
281 (8.325 %)XML
348 (4.933 %)J2EE
437 (3.803 %)Spring
536 (3.700 %)Hibernate
635 (3.597 %).NET Framework
732 (3.289 %)HTML
826 (2.672 %)Struts
826 (2.672 %)CSS
826 (2.672 %)JSP
925 (2.569 %)Taglibs
1022 (2.261 %)XSLT
1121 (2.158 %)WebServices
1217 (1.747 %)ASP.NET
1316 (1.644 %)Middleware
1413 (1.336 %)WinForms
1511 (1.131 %)WebSphere
168 (0.822 %)ASP
176 (0.617 %)FIX Protocol
185 (0.514 %)Java RMI
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
135 (3.597 %)WebLogic
226 (2.672 %)JBoss
319 (1.953 %)TeamSite
414 (1.439 %)IIS
513 (1.336 %)SharePoint
67 (0.719 %)MS Exchange
75 (0.514 %)CMS
75 (0.514 %)BizTalk Server
83 (0.308 %)Documentum
83 (0.308 %)Apache
83 (0.308 %)MQSeries
83 (0.308 %)Exchange Server 2003
92 (0.206 %)WebSphere Message Broker
92 (0.206 %)WebSphere MQ
92 (0.206 %)WebLogic Portal
101 (0.103 %)ATG Dynamo
101 (0.103 %)WebSphere Application Server
101 (0.103 %)Tuxedo
101 (0.103 %)Lotus Notes
101 (0.103 %)SharePoint Server 2007
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
135 (3.597 %)MS Excel
224 (2.467 %)Photoshop
321 (2.158 %)MS Office
414 (1.439 %)MS Project
512 (1.233 %)MS PowerPoint
611 (1.131 %)MS Visio
79 (0.925 %)Spreadsheet
83 (0.308 %)CA Clarity
91 (0.103 %)DOC1
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
147 (4.830 %)Capstone
236 (3.700 %)Minerva
332 (3.289 %)RMDS
425 (2.569 %)Tesseract
515 (1.542 %)HiPortfolio
612 (1.233 %)Sentinel
79 (0.925 %)Eagle PACE
88 (0.822 %)Sophis VALUE
88 (0.822 %)HiInvest
96 (0.617 %)SimCorp Dimension
96 (0.617 %)Oracle General Ledger
105 (0.514 %)SalesLogix
114 (0.411 %)WebTrends
114 (0.411 %)LongView
123 (0.308 %)SAP CO
123 (0.308 %)Sophis RISQUE
123 (0.308 %)Oracle Financials
123 (0.308 %)Decalog
123 (0.308 %)Thomson PORTIA
123 (0.308 %)Salerio
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
121 (2.158 %)Internet
219 (1.953 %)Intranet
311 (1.131 %)SAN
46 (0.617 %)FTP
46 (0.617 %)Extranet
55 (0.514 %)DNS
64 (0.411 %)VPN
64 (0.411 %)Firewall
73 (0.308 %)TCP/IP
82 (0.206 %)SSL
82 (0.206 %)GPRS
82 (0.206 %)GSM
82 (0.206 %)LAN
82 (0.206 %)SMS
82 (0.206 %)UMTS
82 (0.206 %)VoIP
82 (0.206 %)WLAN
82 (0.206 %)WAN
82 (0.206 %)Wireless
82 (0.206 %)MPLS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
197 (9.969 %)SQL Server
242 (4.317 %)Datawarehouse
337 (3.803 %)SQL Server 2005
434 (3.494 %)Oracle 10g
530 (3.083 %)RDBMS
623 (2.364 %)ETL
721 (2.158 %)Oracle 8/8i
819 (1.953 %)Reference Data
916 (1.644 %)BusinessObjects
1011 (1.131 %)Oracle 9i
1011 (1.131 %)Crystal Reports
1011 (1.131 %)SQL Server 2000
119 (0.925 %)Data Mining
127 (0.719 %)DB2
136 (0.617 %)Oracle Reports
145 (0.514 %)DTS
154 (0.411 %)MS Access
154 (0.411 %)Oracle 11g
154 (0.411 %)Data Cleansing
163 (0.308 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
123 (2.364 %)Ant
211 (1.131 %)Visual Studio
39 (0.925 %)NUnit
47 (0.719 %)ERwin
56 (0.617 %)AllFusion
64 (0.411 %)Eclipse
64 (0.411 %)CruiseControl
73 (0.308 %)ClearCase
73 (0.308 %)FrontPage
81 (0.103 %)JIRA
81 (0.103 %)QADirector
81 (0.103 %)TestDirector
81 (0.103 %)QuickTest Pro
81 (0.103 %)TestPartner
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1437 (44.91 %)Finance
2208 (21.38 %)Banking
3182 (18.71 %)Front Office
494 (9.661 %)Retail
586 (8.839 %)Investment Banking
685 (8.736 %)Back Office
784 (8.633 %)Retail Banking
835 (3.597 %)Financial Institution
925 (2.569 %)Pensions
1019 (1.953 %)General Ledger
1019 (1.953 %)Education
1115 (1.542 %)Insurance
1115 (1.542 %)Marketing
1210 (1.028 %)Legal
134 (0.411 %)Home Office
143 (0.308 %)Publishing
143 (0.308 %)Law
143 (0.308 %)Construction
143 (0.308 %)Private Banking
152 (0.206 %)Telecoms
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1454 (46.66 %)Analyst
2256 (26.31 %)Business Analyst
3146 (15.01 %)Developer
499 (10.17 %)Project Manager
581 (8.325 %)Support Analyst
666 (6.783 %)Trainee
763 (6.475 %)Senior Analyst
857 (5.858 %)Test Analyst
932 (3.289 %)Applications Support
1031 (3.186 %)Systems Analyst
1130 (3.083 %)Consultant
1228 (2.878 %)Web Developer
1327 (2.775 %)Senior Support Analyst
1424 (2.467 %)Administrator
1523 (2.364 %)C# Developer
1622 (2.261 %)Data Analyst
1622 (2.261 %)Business Systems Analyst
1721 (2.158 %)Senior Business Analyst
1818 (1.850 %)Tester
1818 (1.850 %)Architect
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1201 (20.66 %)Fixed Income
2155 (15.93 %)Derivative
377 (7.914 %)Equities
470 (7.194 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
541 (4.214 %)Credit Derivative
625 (2.569 %)French Language
724 (2.467 %)N-Tier
818 (1.850 %)Equity Derivative
912 (1.233 %)Market Risk
1010 (1.028 %)Data Extraction
119 (0.925 %)Data Integration
128 (0.822 %)Management Information System
137 (0.719 %)AS400
137 (0.719 %)Video Conferencing
137 (0.719 %)Dutch Language
146 (0.617 %)German Language
155 (0.514 %)Computer Science
164 (0.411 %)Blackberry
173 (0.308 %)Client/Server
173 (0.308 %)Cryptography
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1119 (12.23 %)UNIX
269 (7.091 %)Windows
320 (2.055 %)Solaris
418 (1.850 %)Linux
516 (1.644 %)Red Hat Linux
516 (1.644 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
64 (0.411 %)Windows Server 2003
72 (0.206 %)Windows 2000
72 (0.206 %)Windows XP
72 (0.206 %)AIX
72 (0.206 %)HPUX
81 (0.103 %)Windows 2000 Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1329 (33.81 %)Asset Management
2140 (14.39 %)Fund Management
3138 (14.18 %)Business Analysis
4122 (12.54 %)Project Management
566 (6.783 %)OO
664 (6.578 %)User Acceptance Testing
759 (6.064 %)UML
858 (5.961 %)Data Modelling
953 (5.447 %)Migration
1039 (4.008 %)Change Management
1135 (3.597 %)Risk Analysis
1231 (3.186 %)Integration Testing
1231 (3.186 %)System Testing
1329 (2.980 %)Regression Testing
1329 (2.980 %)Configuration Management
1427 (2.775 %)Workflow
1427 (2.775 %)Data Analysis
1427 (2.775 %)Time Management
1523 (2.364 %)Content Management
1622 (2.261 %)Test Scripting
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1202 (20.76 %)SQL
282 (8.428 %)C#
379 (8.119 %)Java
446 (4.728 %)VB
544 (4.522 %)VBA
624 (2.467 %)Perl
722 (2.261 %)VB6
818 (1.850 %)PL/SQL
915 (1.542 %)Shell Script
107 (0.719 %)JavaScript
116 (0.617 %)VB.NET
125 (0.514 %)Transact-SQL
125 (0.514 %)VBScript
125 (0.514 %)RPG
134 (0.411 %)C
134 (0.411 %)Python
143 (0.308 %)C++
152 (0.206 %)PHP
161 (0.103 %)ABAP
161 (0.103 %)Korn
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
142 (4.317 %)Degree
26 (0.617 %)Microsoft Certification
26 (0.617 %)ITIL Certification
34 (0.411 %)CCNA
34 (0.411 %)Cisco Certification
34 (0.411 %)CFA
43 (0.308 %)CISSP
43 (0.308 %)ISEB
43 (0.308 %)MCSA
43 (0.308 %)CISA
52 (0.206 %)CISM
52 (0.206 %)HND
52 (0.206 %)MCSE
61 (0.103 %)MCP
61 (0.103 %)Citrix Certification
61 (0.103 %)Network+ Certification
61 (0.103 %)ACCA
61 (0.103 %)CNA
61 (0.103 %)Novell Certification
61 (0.103 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
116 (1.644 %)QA
23 (0.308 %)SLA
31 (0.103 %)ISO27001
31 (0.103 %)MiFID
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
116 (1.644 %)NFS
116 (1.644 %)NetBackup
26 (0.617 %)Active Directory
32 (0.206 %)VMware ESX
32 (0.206 %)Citrix Presentation Server
41 (0.103 %)VMware Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
18 (0.822 %)AutoSys
22 (0.206 %)Unicenter
31 (0.103 %)CONTROL-M
31 (0.103 %)Norton AntiVirus
31 (0.103 %)Foglight
31 (0.103 %)WSUS
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1118 (12.13 %)Oracle
281 (8.325 %)LatentZero
374 (7.605 %)Reuters
374 (7.605 %)Bloomberg
459 (6.064 %)Sybase
551 (5.242 %)Charles River
634 (3.494 %)thinkFolio
634 (3.494 %)Microsoft
725 (2.569 %)SimCorp
824 (2.467 %)Cisco
923 (2.364 %)Calypso
1018 (1.850 %)SAP
1117 (1.747 %)Red Hat
1117 (1.747 %)Mitel
1216 (1.644 %)Sophis
1216 (1.644 %)Informatica
1216 (1.644 %)VERITAS
1216 (1.644 %)Business Objects
1311 (1.131 %)Murex
1410 (1.028 %)Infragistics