The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Murex 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 Murex 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 Murex S.A.S..

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Murex
Rank 429 403 371
Rank change year-on-year
-26 -32
Contract jobs citing Murex 112 164 228
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.242% 0.281% 0.367%
As % of the Vendors category 0.514% 0.605% 0.789%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 116 156
Average daily rate £550 £650 £613
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +6.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £483
10% offered a daily rate of more than £750 £838 £850
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 - £663
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £22.50 -
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%

Murex
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Murex Jobs Demand Trend

Murex
Daily Rate Trend

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

Murex Daily Rate Trend

Murex
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Murex Daily Rate Histogram

Murex
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Murex Hourly Rate Trend

Murex
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Murex 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 -8 109 £550 -15.38%
London -13 109 £550 -15.38%
City of London -6 34 £538 -2.27%
Canary Wharf +7 10 £600 -17.80%
Scotland - 1 £450 -
Stirling - 1 £450 -

Murex
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 98 (45.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 82 (37.96%) Finance
3 78 (36.11%) Front Office
3 78 (36.11%) Banking
4 65 (30.09%) SQL
5 63 (29.17%) Derivative
6 51 (23.61%) Investment Banking
7 45 (20.83%) UNIX
8 38 (17.59%) Java
9 36 (16.67%) Workflow
10 34 (15.74%) Oracle
11 33 (15.28%) Murex MxML
12 32 (14.81%) Business Analysis
13 31 (14.35%) Back Office
14 30 (13.89%) Migration
15 27 (12.50%) Sybase
15 27 (12.50%) Calypso
16 26 (12.04%) Summit
17 24 (11.11%) Market Risk
18 23 (10.65%) Fixed Income
19 21 (9.722%) Data Mart
19 21 (9.722%) XML
20 20 (9.259%) Linux
20 20 (9.259%) Risk Management
21 19 (8.796%) C#
22 16 (7.407%) Project Management
22 16 (7.407%) Equity Derivative
23 15 (6.944%) C++
23 15 (6.944%) Solaris
23 15 (6.944%) XSLT

Murex
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 33 (15.28%) Murex MxML
2 21 (9.722%) XML
3 15 (6.944%) XSLT
4 12 (5.556%) Murex Flex
5 8 (3.704%) Spring
5 8 (3.704%) Hibernate
6 7 (3.241%) Java EE
7 6 (2.778%) Middleware
7 6 (2.778%) WebSphere
7 6 (2.778%) Java SE
8 5 (2.315%) .NET
9 4 (1.852%) JMS
9 4 (1.852%) J2EE
9 4 (1.852%) Web Services
10 3 (1.389%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 2 (0.926%) STL
11 2 (0.926%) LAMP
11 2 (0.926%) Drools
12 1 (0.463%) Castor
12 1 (0.463%) Spring Integration
Application Platforms
1 5 (2.315%) SharePoint Server
2 4 (1.852%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.389%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 3 (1.389%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.926%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (2.315%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.926%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.926%) MS Office
3 1 (0.463%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 26 (12.04%) Summit
2 14 (6.481%) Murex MxG2000
3 5 (2.315%) Kondor+
4 3 (1.389%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.926%) Endur
5 2 (0.926%) Global One
5 2 (0.926%) Front Arena
6 1 (0.463%) Aligne
6 1 (0.463%) Loanet
6 1 (0.463%) Loan IQ
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.852%) LDAP
2 3 (1.389%) FTP
2 3 (1.389%) HTTP
2 3 (1.389%) SAN
3 2 (0.926%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.463%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.463%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.722%) Data Mart
2 14 (6.481%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.852%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (0.926%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.926%) MS Access
4 2 (0.926%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (0.926%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (0.926%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (0.463%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.463%) Xcelsius
5 1 (0.463%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 6 (2.778%) Eclipse
1 6 (2.778%) JIRA
2 3 (1.389%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (0.926%) JUnit
4 1 (0.463%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.463%) SilkPerformer
4 1 (0.463%) Subversion
4 1 (0.463%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.463%) Ant
4 1 (0.463%) ClearCase
General
1 82 (37.96%) Finance
2 78 (36.11%) Front Office
2 78 (36.11%) Banking
3 51 (23.61%) Investment Banking
4 31 (14.35%) Back Office
5 7 (3.241%) Financial Institution
6 4 (1.852%) Spanish Language
7 2 (0.926%) Billing
7 2 (0.926%) Retail
7 2 (0.926%) German Language
8 1 (0.463%) French Language
8 1 (0.463%) Legal
Job Titles
1 120 (55.56%) Analyst
2 85 (39.35%) Business Analyst
3 51 (23.61%) Murex Business Analyst
4 49 (22.69%) Developer
5 47 (21.76%) Murex Analyst
6 22 (10.19%) Murex Developer
7 18 (8.333%) Support Analyst
8 15 (6.944%) Senior Analyst
9 14 (6.481%) Java Developer
10 11 (5.093%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.093%) Murex Support
11 10 (4.630%) Murex Support Analyst
11 10 (4.630%) Senior Business Analyst
11 10 (4.630%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.704%) Test Analyst
12 8 (3.704%) Risk Analyst
13 6 (2.778%) Administrator
13 6 (2.778%) Senior Murex Developer
14 5 (2.315%) Murex MxML Developer
14 5 (2.315%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 98 (45.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 63 (29.17%) Derivative
3 24 (11.11%) Market Risk
4 23 (10.65%) Fixed Income
5 16 (7.407%) Equity Derivative
6 14 (6.481%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 13 (6.019%) Equities
8 10 (4.630%) Credit Risk
9 8 (3.704%) Mathematics
10 6 (2.778%) Swaptions
11 5 (2.315%) Reference Data
11 5 (2.315%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.852%) Credit Derivative
13 3 (1.389%) Economics
14 2 (0.926%) Client/Server
14 2 (0.926%) CMDB
14 2 (0.926%) Open Source
15 1 (0.463%) Physics
15 1 (0.463%) Computer Science
15 1 (0.463%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 45 (20.83%) UNIX
2 20 (9.259%) Linux
3 15 (6.944%) Solaris
4 11 (5.093%) Windows
5 5 (2.315%) Windows 7
6 4 (1.852%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (16.67%) Workflow
2 32 (14.81%) Business Analysis
3 30 (13.89%) Migration
4 20 (9.259%) Risk Management
5 16 (7.407%) Project Management
6 14 (6.481%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (4.167%) Analytics
8 8 (3.704%) Data Analysis
8 8 (3.704%) Stress Testing
9 6 (2.778%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (2.778%) Change Management
9 6 (2.778%) Waterfall
9 6 (2.778%) Release Management
9 6 (2.778%) Test Scripting
10 5 (2.315%) Requirements Analysis
10 5 (2.315%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (2.315%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (2.315%) ITIL
11 4 (1.852%) Data Modelling
11 4 (1.852%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 65 (30.09%) SQL
2 38 (17.59%) Java
3 19 (8.796%) C#
4 15 (6.944%) C++
5 14 (6.481%) Perl
6 10 (4.630%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.241%) PL/SQL
7 7 (3.241%) VBA
8 6 (2.778%) Python
9 4 (1.852%) C
10 3 (1.389%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.926%) Ruby
11 2 (0.926%) R
11 2 (0.926%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (2.315%) Degree
2 4 (1.852%) ISEB
2 4 (1.852%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.463%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.630%) QA
2 2 (0.926%) SLA
2 2 (0.926%) Basel II
3 1 (0.463%) Basel III
3 1 (0.463%) MiFID
3 1 (0.463%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.463%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.463%) vSphere
1 1 (0.463%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.241%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.926%) Control-M
2 2 (0.926%) Nagios
2 2 (0.926%) Splunk
2 2 (0.926%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (0.463%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (15.74%) Oracle
2 27 (12.50%) Sybase
2 27 (12.50%) Calypso
3 13 (6.019%) Sun
4 9 (4.167%) Red Hat
5 8 (3.704%) Remedy
5 8 (3.704%) Sophis
6 7 (3.241%) HP
7 6 (2.778%) Veritas
7 6 (2.778%) Bloomberg
7 6 (2.778%) StreamBase
8 5 (2.315%) Thunderhead
8 5 (2.315%) Reuters
8 5 (2.315%) Microsoft
9 4 (1.852%) Adobe
9 4 (1.852%) Misys
9 4 (1.852%) Business Objects
9 4 (1.852%) Wall Street Systems
10 3 (1.389%) EMC
10 3 (1.389%) Fidessa
London
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Rate: £600.00 - £750.00 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
The BA will undertake analysis, design and testing of new FX Options products. The role is based away from the core Murex team and working alongside the Pricing...
Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013
London
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Rate: £600.00 - £700.00 per annum
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London
Solutions Architect Key Responsibilities:*Lead the design of solutions for large projects and programmes.*Manage senior business stakeholders.*Govern and shape the delivery of projects working closely with...
Rate: £650 - £700 per day
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Aston Carter
Rate: Competitive rate
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
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Rate: £800 - £850 per day
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The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of Fixed Income, Equity and/or Futures processing through investment banking experience KEY SKILLS REQUIRED oC# and .Net framework (version...
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Rate: £500 - £550 per day
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