Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Murex MxML skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Murex MxML 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 Application Development category.

 Murex MxML
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank460422539
Rank change year-on-year
Down-38Up+117
Matching contract IT job ads331961
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.068 %0.048 %0.074 %
As % of the Application Development category0.256 %0.218 %0.307 %
Daily rates quoted21522
Average daily rate£625£500£700
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00 %-28.57 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£500£600
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£775£690£846
UK excluding London average daily rate---
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12893871819870
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.69 %22.10 %24.17 %
Daily rates quoted657530396466
Average daily rate£375£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4254911255
Average hourly rate£30.00£29.70£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.010 %-7.180 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.30£14.50£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£41.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %

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.

Murex MxML
Demand Trend

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

Murex MxML Demand Trend

Murex MxML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Murex MxML Daily Rate Trend

Murex MxML
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Murex MxML Daily Rate Histogram

Murex MxML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Murex MxML Hourly Rate Trend

Murex MxML
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Murex MxML 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-3033£625+25.00 %
LondonDown-5033£625+25.00 %
City of LondonDown-6113£600+20.00 %
Canary WharfNew entry-2£675-

Murex MxML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

175 (100.00 %)Murex
246 (61.33 %)UNIX
344 (58.67 %)Sybase
438 (50.67 %)Data Mart
537 (49.33 %)SQL
630 (40.00 %)Workflow
728 (37.33 %)Front Office
826 (34.67 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
826 (34.67 %)Derivative
921 (28.00 %)Banking
1020 (26.67 %)Fixed Income
1020 (26.67 %)Java
1118 (24.00 %)C++
1215 (20.00 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1314 (18.67 %)VBA
1412 (16.00 %)Shell Script
1412 (16.00 %)Perl
1510 (13.33 %)Actuate
169 (12.00 %)C#
178 (10.67 %)Investment Banking
178 (10.67 %)Finance
187 (9.333 %)Equities
187 (9.333 %)Solaris
195 (6.667 %)Middleware
195 (6.667 %)Back Office
204 (5.333 %)Law
204 (5.333 %)XSLT
213 (4.000 %)Apache Axis
213 (4.000 %)Equity Derivative
213 (4.000 %)Murex MxG2000

Murex MxML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15 (6.667 %)Middleware
24 (5.333 %)XSLT
33 (4.000 %)Apache Axis
33 (4.000 %)WSDL
42 (2.667 %)XML
51 (1.333 %)Murex Flex
51 (1.333 %)DOM
51 (1.333 %)XSL
51 (1.333 %)JDBC
51 (1.333 %)SAX
51 (1.333 %)Spring
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (4.000 %)Apache
13 (4.000 %)Tomcat
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (4.000 %)Murex MxG2000
21 (1.333 %)ION MarketView
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
138 (50.67 %)Data Mart
21 (1.333 %)Crystal Reports
21 (1.333 %)Oracle Reports
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (1.333 %)ClearCase
11 (1.333 %)Eclipse
11 (1.333 %)Log4j
11 (1.333 %)Subversion
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
128 (37.33 %)Front Office
221 (28.00 %)Banking
38 (10.67 %)Investment Banking
38 (10.67 %)Finance
45 (6.667 %)Back Office
54 (5.333 %)Law
61 (1.333 %)Financial Institution
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
136 (48.00 %)Developer
136 (48.00 %)Murex Developer
227 (36.00 %)Analyst
326 (34.67 %)Murex Analyst
422 (29.33 %)Murex Support
518 (24.00 %)Support Analyst
617 (22.67 %)Murex Support Analyst
713 (17.33 %)Consultant
713 (17.33 %)Murex Consultant
89 (12.00 %)Business Analyst
89 (12.00 %)Murex Business Analyst
97 (9.333 %)Murex MxML Developer
104 (5.333 %)Support Consultant
104 (5.333 %)Murex Support Consultant
113 (4.000 %)Applications Support
113 (4.000 %)Technical Consultant
113 (4.000 %)Applications Support Analyst
122 (2.667 %)Senior Analyst
122 (2.667 %)Murex Specialist
122 (2.667 %)Data Mart Consultant
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
126 (34.67 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
126 (34.67 %)Derivative
220 (26.67 %)Fixed Income
315 (20.00 %)Interest Rate Derivative
47 (9.333 %)Equities
53 (4.000 %)Equity Derivative
61 (1.333 %)Credit Derivative
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
146 (61.33 %)UNIX
27 (9.333 %)Solaris
31 (1.333 %)Windows
31 (1.333 %)AIX
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
130 (40.00 %)Workflow
23 (4.000 %)Migration
32 (2.667 %)Load Balancing
41 (1.333 %)Risk Analysis
41 (1.333 %)User Acceptance Testing
41 (1.333 %)Capacity Planning
41 (1.333 %)Business Analysis
41 (1.333 %)E-Commerce
41 (1.333 %)Data Modelling
41 (1.333 %)Validation
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
137 (49.33 %)SQL
220 (26.67 %)Java
318 (24.00 %)C++
414 (18.67 %)VBA
512 (16.00 %)Shell Script
512 (16.00 %)Perl
69 (12.00 %)C#
71 (1.333 %)XPath
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (1.333 %)NFS
11 (1.333 %)Samba
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (4.000 %)CONTROL-M
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
175 (100.00 %)Murex
244 (58.67 %)Sybase
310 (13.33 %)Actuate
41 (1.333 %)Oracle
41 (1.333 %)ION Trading