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The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mathematics in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mathematics 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category.

LinkMathematics (Maths)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank292321336
Rank change year-on-year
Up+29Up+15
Matching contract IT job ads221120300
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.457 %0.304 %0.365 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category1.712 %1.262 %1.716 %
Daily rates quoted974984
Average daily rate£500£450£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11 %+12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£257£131£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£608£605£750
UK excluding London average daily rate£363£275£300
% change year-on-year
+31.81 %-8.330 %
Hourly rates quoted171549
Average hourly rate£25.00£22.50£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-29.68 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£6.75£14.16£10.40
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.30£36.40£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£22.50£32.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11 %-29.68 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12906950817483
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.72 %24.10 %21.27 %
Daily rates quoted681835476206
Average daily rate£525£425£515
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.52 %-17.47 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£285£225£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£600£700
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£330£350
% change year-on-year
-1.510 %-5.710 %
Hourly rates quoted5918051511
Average hourly rate£19.50£22.50£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33 %-10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.50£12.00£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£40.00£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£22.63£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.04 %-9.480 %

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.

Mathematics
Demand Trend

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

Mathematics Demand Trend

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Mathematics Daily Rate Trend

Mathematics
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mathematics within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Mathematics Daily Rate Histogram

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Mathematics Hourly Rate Trend

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mathematics within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Mathematics Hourly Rate Histogram

Mathematics
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics 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
EnglandUp+46220£500+11.11 %
LondonUp+6163£525+5.00 %
City of LondonDown-3755£525-4.54 %
South EastUp+1228£380+38.18 %
East of EnglandUp+1310--
South WestUp+29£294-
BerkshireUp+128£380+38.18 %
SurreyDown-87£215-
CambridgeshireUp+65--
HampshireUp+15£400+166.66 %
BracknellNew entry-5£380-
EssexUp+64--
CambridgeDown-24--
North WestDown-24£109-
Canary WharfDown-274£538+2.38 %
WithamNew entry-4--
BristolNew entry-4£225-
Docklands, LondonDown-43£650+18.18 %
EpsomDown-32--
East MidlandsDown-82--
GloucestershireNew entry-2--
LiverpoolNew entry-2£93-
MerseysideNew entry-2£93-
HertfordshireUp+141--
GuildfordUp+111£170-
West MidlandsUp+111--
LancashireUp+91--
ScotlandDown-141--
MidlandsNew entry-1--
YorkshireNew entry-1--

Mathematics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1210 (52.63 %)Degree
2153 (38.35 %)SQL
3125 (31.33 %)C++
4105 (26.32 %)Banking
5103 (25.81 %)Finance
697 (24.31 %)VBA
793 (23.31 %)Physics
887 (21.80 %)SAS
986 (21.55 %)C#
1085 (21.30 %)Front Office
1169 (17.29 %)Investment Banking
1266 (16.54 %)Economics
1365 (16.29 %)Derivative
1464 (16.04 %)SPSS
1563 (15.79 %)Marketing
1658 (14.54 %)Java
1757 (14.29 %)Computer Science
1853 (13.28 %)C
1952 (13.03 %)Statistics
2050 (12.53 %)Market Research
2149 (12.28 %)Fixed Income
2248 (12.03 %)Data Mining
2248 (12.03 %)Logistic Regression
2345 (11.28 %)Oracle
2442 (10.53 %).NET
2541 (10.28 %)Sybase
2638 (9.524 %)UNIX
2736 (9.023 %)OO
2736 (9.023 %)Education
2835 (8.772 %)Risk Management

Mathematics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
142 (10.53 %).NET
223 (5.764 %)XML
315 (3.759 %)CSS
414 (3.509 %)Spring
512 (3.008 %)STL
611 (2.757 %)AJAX
710 (2.506 %)Hibernate
89 (2.256 %).NET Framework
89 (2.256 %)Boost C++ Libraries
98 (2.005 %)WPF
98 (2.005 %)JSP
98 (2.005 %)ASP.NET
98 (2.005 %)HTML
107 (1.754 %)XSLT
116 (1.504 %)XML Schema
116 (1.504 %)SAX
116 (1.504 %)DOM
125 (1.253 %)Servlets
125 (1.253 %)SOAP
125 (1.253 %)Struts
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
187 (21.80 %)SAS
216 (4.010 %)Tomcat
35 (1.253 %)Apache
35 (1.253 %)SharePoint Portal Server
44 (1.003 %)SharePoint
53 (0.752 %)Rendezvous
53 (0.752 %)MQSeries
53 (0.752 %)Jetty
62 (0.501 %)SharePoint Server 2007
62 (0.501 %)TIBCO EMS
62 (0.501 %)Lotus Notes
71 (0.251 %)CMS
71 (0.251 %)Content Management Server
71 (0.251 %)Sitecore CMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
164 (16.04 %)SPSS
224 (6.015 %)MS Excel
39 (2.256 %)Spreadsheet
46 (1.504 %)MS Office
55 (1.253 %)MATLAB
55 (1.253 %)MS Visio
63 (0.752 %)Fireworks
63 (0.752 %)Photoshop
72 (0.501 %)MS PowerPoint
81 (0.251 %)MS Project
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (1.504 %)Summit
24 (1.003 %)RMDS
33 (0.752 %)WebTrends
33 (0.752 %)Endur
42 (0.501 %)Siebel Analytics
51 (0.251 %)Oracle EBS
51 (0.251 %)Findur
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
16 (1.504 %)Internet
16 (1.504 %)Wireless
25 (1.253 %)3G
34 (1.003 %)SMS
43 (0.752 %)Wi-Fi
52 (0.501 %)Ethernet
52 (0.501 %)CDMA
52 (0.501 %)GSM
61 (0.251 %)Intranet
61 (0.251 %)WCDMA
61 (0.251 %)Bluetooth
61 (0.251 %)SAN
61 (0.251 %)TCP/IP
61 (0.251 %)LTE
61 (0.251 %)UWB
61 (0.251 %)Network Security
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
148 (12.03 %)Data Mining
226 (6.516 %)SQL Server
38 (2.005 %)Base SAS
47 (1.754 %)ETL
56 (1.504 %)BusinessObjects
64 (1.003 %)Clementine
64 (1.003 %)Crystal Reports
73 (0.752 %)MySQL
73 (0.752 %)MS Access
73 (0.752 %)RDBMS
82 (0.501 %)SAS Enterprise Guide
82 (0.501 %)Oracle BI EE
82 (0.501 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
82 (0.501 %)Oracle Discoverer
82 (0.501 %)Informix
82 (0.501 %)OLAP
91 (0.251 %)Firebird
91 (0.251 %)DB2
91 (0.251 %)Datawarehouse
91 (0.251 %)SQL Server Integration Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
19 (2.256 %)Maven
28 (2.005 %)Subversion
37 (1.754 %)Ant
37 (1.754 %)Visual Studio
37 (1.754 %)Eclipse
46 (1.504 %)CruiseControl
55 (1.253 %)JUnit
55 (1.253 %)NUnit
63 (0.752 %)Dreamweaver
72 (0.501 %)Team Foundation Server
72 (0.501 %)ClearCase
81 (0.251 %)Bugzilla
81 (0.251 %)InstallShield
81 (0.251 %)PVCS
81 (0.251 %)VSS/SourceSafe
81 (0.251 %)jMock
81 (0.251 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
81 (0.251 %)Git (software)
81 (0.251 %)WatiN
81 (0.251 %)FxCop
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1105 (26.32 %)Banking
2103 (25.81 %)Finance
385 (21.30 %)Front Office
469 (17.29 %)Investment Banking
563 (15.79 %)Marketing
636 (9.023 %)Education
716 (4.010 %)Electronics
814 (3.509 %)Games
913 (3.258 %)Telecoms
1012 (3.008 %)Retail
118 (2.005 %)Health
127 (1.754 %)Government
135 (1.253 %)Construction
144 (1.003 %)Pharmaceutical
144 (1.003 %)Back Office
144 (1.003 %)Publishing
153 (0.752 %)Electric
153 (0.752 %)Aerospace
153 (0.752 %)Retail Banking
153 (0.752 %)Insurance
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1173 (43.36 %)Developer
2146 (36.59 %)Analyst
355 (13.78 %)SAS Analyst
448 (12.03 %)C++ Developer
547 (11.78 %)Data Analyst
644 (11.03 %)C# Developer
735 (8.772 %)Programmer
832 (8.020 %)Data Manager
930 (7.519 %)SAS Programmer
930 (7.519 %)SAS Data Analyst
1029 (7.268 %)Business Analyst
1128 (7.018 %)Java Developer
1222 (5.514 %)Senior Developer
1320 (5.013 %)Quantitative Developer
1418 (4.511 %)Insight Analyst
1515 (3.759 %)Senior Analyst
1613 (3.258 %).NET Developer
1711 (2.757 %)Software Engineer
1711 (2.757 %)VBA Developer
1711 (2.757 %)C++/C# Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
193 (23.31 %)Physics
266 (16.54 %)Economics
365 (16.29 %)Derivative
457 (14.29 %)Computer Science
552 (13.03 %)Statistics
649 (12.28 %)Fixed Income
723 (5.764 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
818 (4.511 %)Equity Derivative
915 (3.759 %)Equities
915 (3.759 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1013 (3.258 %)Credit Derivative
1013 (3.258 %)Credit Risk
1013 (3.258 %)Market Risk
119 (2.256 %)Multithreading
125 (1.253 %)FMCG
125 (1.253 %)Data Extraction
134 (1.003 %)Smartphone
134 (1.003 %)Firmware
134 (1.003 %)E-Learning
143 (0.752 %)VHDL
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
138 (9.524 %)UNIX
215 (3.759 %)Windows
313 (3.258 %)Linux
412 (3.008 %)Solaris
54 (1.003 %)HPUX
62 (0.501 %)Windows XP
62 (0.501 %)Windows 2000
71 (0.251 %)zOS
71 (0.251 %)NetWare
71 (0.251 %)Windows XP Embedded
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
150 (12.53 %)Market Research
248 (12.03 %)Logistic Regression
336 (9.023 %)OO
435 (8.772 %)Risk Management
521 (5.263 %)Data Analysis
616 (4.010 %)UML
714 (3.509 %)OOA/OOD
714 (3.509 %)Data Modelling
813 (3.258 %)Business Intelligence
813 (3.258 %)Agile Software Development
813 (3.258 %)Statistical Analysis
912 (3.008 %)Business Analysis
1010 (2.506 %)Operations Research
1010 (2.506 %)Workflow
119 (2.256 %)OOD
119 (2.256 %)Asset Management
119 (2.256 %)Software Engineering
128 (2.005 %)Monte Carlo Method
128 (2.005 %)Systems Analysis
128 (2.005 %)E-Commerce
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1153 (38.35 %)SQL
2125 (31.33 %)C++
397 (24.31 %)VBA
486 (21.55 %)C#
558 (14.54 %)Java
653 (13.28 %)C
719 (4.762 %)JavaScript
818 (4.511 %)T-SQL
917 (4.261 %)Python
1016 (4.010 %)VB
1016 (4.010 %)Perl
1114 (3.509 %)Assembly Language
1211 (2.757 %)Shell Script
138 (2.005 %)PL/SQL
146 (1.504 %)XPath
146 (1.504 %)VB.NET
155 (1.253 %)VC++
155 (1.253 %)SAS Macro
163 (0.752 %)Fortran
172 (0.501 %)Lua
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1210 (52.63 %)Degree
213 (3.258 %)PhD
36 (1.504 %)Security Cleared
44 (1.003 %)CFA
53 (0.752 %)CIMA
53 (0.752 %)SC Cleared
62 (0.501 %)DV Cleared
62 (0.501 %)Microsoft Certification
71 (0.251 %)ACCA
71 (0.251 %)Postgraduate
71 (0.251 %)ITIL Certification
71 (0.251 %)PMI Certification
71 (0.251 %)ICAEW
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
113 (3.258 %)QA
22 (0.501 %)GCP
22 (0.501 %)Basel II
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.251 %)Tivoli
11 (0.251 %)HP Quality Center
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
145 (11.28 %)Oracle
241 (10.28 %)Sybase
313 (3.258 %)Microsoft
49 (2.256 %)Reuters
49 (2.256 %)JBoss
58 (2.005 %)Bloomberg
67 (1.754 %)Murex
76 (1.504 %)Business Objects
85 (1.253 %)Ab Initio
85 (1.253 %)Adobe
94 (1.003 %)Tradeweb
94 (1.003 %)Cognos
103 (0.752 %)Perforce
103 (0.752 %)OpenLink
103 (0.752 %)Siebel
103 (0.752 %)Omniture
112 (0.501 %)Portware
112 (0.501 %)Cisco
112 (0.501 %)Lotus
112 (0.501 %)MicroStrategy