Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 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 Vendors currently tracked.

LinkMurex
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank309256212
Rank change year-on-year
Down-53Down-44
Matching contract IT job ads199194571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.412 %0.492 %0.695 %
As % of the Vendors category0.939 %1.114 %1.602 %
Daily rates quoted12371312
Average daily rate£600£500£675
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00 %-25.92 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£485£450£575
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£750£750£800
UK excluding London average daily rate-£275£650
% change year-on-year
--57.69 %
Hourly rates quoted010
Average hourly rate-£90.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£90.00-
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
211921741035634
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK43.87 %44.13 %43.35 %
Daily rates quoted9143508310163
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£230£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£350£360
% change year-on-year
-5.710 %-2.770 %
Hourly rates quoted121613663140
Average hourly rate£20.00£21.50£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.970 %+2.380 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.46£11.50£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.46£40.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£21.00£20.00
% change year-on-year
-9.520 %+5.000 %

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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Murex S.A.S..

Murex
Demand Trend

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

Murex Demand Trend

Murex
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

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

Murex Daily Rate Histogram

Murex
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 5 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 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-37197£600+17.07 %
LondonDown-57197£600+17.07 %
City of LondonDown-1688£600-4.00 %
Canary WharfDown-2612£650-3.70 %
Docklands, LondonDown-163£700+55.55 %

Murex
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

1183 (45.75 %)Derivative
2173 (43.25 %)Banking
3151 (37.75 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4143 (35.75 %)Front Office
5129 (32.25 %)UNIX
6118 (29.50 %)Finance
7116 (29.00 %)Investment Banking
8102 (25.50 %)Java
999 (24.75 %)Sybase
1094 (23.50 %)SQL
1178 (19.50 %)C++
1178 (19.50 %)Calypso
1275 (18.75 %)Murex MxML
1366 (16.50 %)Fixed Income
1456 (14.00 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1555 (13.75 %)Summit
1644 (11.00 %)Data Mart
1740 (10.00 %)Workflow
1838 (9.500 %)Risk Management
1838 (9.500 %)Equity Derivative
1936 (9.000 %)Back Office
1936 (9.000 %)Equities
2032 (8.000 %)Market Risk
2131 (7.750 %)Perl
2227 (6.750 %)Oracle
2227 (6.750 %)User Acceptance Testing
2326 (6.500 %)C#
2326 (6.500 %)VBA
2326 (6.500 %)Migration
2425 (6.250 %)Sophis

Murex
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
175 (18.75 %)Murex MxML
225 (6.250 %)Murex Flex
320 (5.000 %)XML
418 (4.500 %)Spring
512 (3.000 %)Swing
611 (2.750 %)FpML
611 (2.750 %)Middleware
710 (2.500 %)Hibernate
89 (2.250 %)J2EE
97 (1.750 %)AJAX
106 (1.500 %)Struts
115 (1.250 %)JDBC
115 (1.250 %)XSLT
115 (1.250 %)Java SE
124 (1.000 %)J2SE
124 (1.000 %)JMS
124 (1.000 %)JSP
133 (0.750 %).NET
133 (0.750 %)WSDL
133 (0.750 %)Apache Axis
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (1.000 %)MQSeries
14 (1.000 %)Tomcat
23 (0.750 %)MTS
23 (0.750 %)Apache
31 (0.250 %)WebLogic
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
112 (3.000 %)MS Excel
22 (0.500 %)Spreadsheet
22 (0.500 %)MS Visio
22 (0.500 %)MS Office
31 (0.250 %)MS Project
31 (0.250 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
155 (13.75 %)Summit
215 (3.750 %)Murex MxG2000
39 (2.250 %)ION MarketView
48 (2.000 %)RMDS
57 (1.750 %)Global One
66 (1.500 %)Loan IQ
74 (1.000 %)Front Arena
83 (0.750 %)SunGard GMI
83 (0.750 %)SAP Bank Analyzer
92 (0.500 %)Adaptiv
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (0.500 %)DNS
21 (0.250 %)LAN
21 (0.250 %)WAN
21 (0.250 %)DHCP
21 (0.250 %)TCP/IP
21 (0.250 %)Wi-Fi
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
144 (11.00 %)Data Mart
28 (2.000 %)RDBMS
36 (1.500 %)SQL Server
44 (1.000 %)MS Access
52 (0.500 %)SQL Server 2008
52 (0.500 %)Sybase ASE
61 (0.250 %)Crystal Reports
61 (0.250 %)Data Mining
61 (0.250 %)Datawarehouse
61 (0.250 %)Oracle Reports
61 (0.250 %)Sybase IQ
61 (0.250 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
19 (2.250 %)Ant
26 (1.500 %)Subversion
26 (1.500 %)ClearCase
26 (1.500 %)Eclipse
35 (1.250 %)JUnit
43 (0.750 %)TestDirector
52 (0.500 %)QuickTest Pro
52 (0.500 %)Visual Studio
61 (0.250 %)LoadRunner
61 (0.250 %)Log4j
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1173 (43.25 %)Banking
2143 (35.75 %)Front Office
3118 (29.50 %)Finance
4116 (29.00 %)Investment Banking
536 (9.000 %)Back Office
614 (3.500 %)Financial Institution
76 (1.500 %)Education
85 (1.250 %)Publishing
85 (1.250 %)Chemicals
85 (1.250 %)Construction
85 (1.250 %)Marketing
94 (1.000 %)General Ledger
94 (1.000 %)Law
102 (0.500 %)Games
111 (0.250 %)Health
111 (0.250 %)Retail
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1160 (40.00 %)Analyst
2116 (29.00 %)Developer
3104 (26.00 %)Business Analyst
474 (18.50 %)Murex Developer
555 (13.75 %)Murex Analyst
636 (9.000 %)Murex Support
734 (8.500 %)Java Developer
833 (8.250 %)Support Analyst
931 (7.750 %)Murex Business Analyst
1024 (6.000 %)Murex Support Analyst
1123 (5.750 %)Project Manager
1123 (5.750 %)Risk Analyst
1218 (4.500 %)Consultant
1218 (4.500 %)Banking Business Analyst
1317 (4.250 %)Murex Consultant
1416 (4.000 %)Senior Analyst
1416 (4.000 %)Service Manager
1515 (3.750 %)Applications Support
1613 (3.250 %)Contracts Manager
1712 (3.000 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1183 (45.75 %)Derivative
2151 (37.75 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
366 (16.50 %)Fixed Income
456 (14.00 %)Interest Rate Derivative
538 (9.500 %)Equity Derivative
636 (9.000 %)Equities
732 (8.000 %)Market Risk
817 (4.250 %)Credit Derivative
913 (3.250 %)Credit Risk
107 (1.750 %)Mathematics
115 (1.250 %)Client/Server
115 (1.250 %)Grid Computing
115 (1.250 %)Multithreading
122 (0.500 %)French Language
122 (0.500 %)German Language
122 (0.500 %)Exotic Derivative
131 (0.250 %)Blackberry
131 (0.250 %)Mainframe
131 (0.250 %)Replication
131 (0.250 %)Clustering
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1129 (32.25 %)UNIX
220 (5.000 %)Windows
220 (5.000 %)Solaris
35 (1.250 %)Linux
43 (0.750 %)Windows XP
51 (0.250 %)AIX
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
140 (10.00 %)Workflow
238 (9.500 %)Risk Management
327 (6.750 %)User Acceptance Testing
426 (6.500 %)Migration
522 (5.500 %)Risk Analysis
617 (4.250 %)Service Management
716 (4.000 %)Business Analysis
815 (3.750 %)ITIL
914 (3.500 %)Project Management
1012 (3.000 %)Validation
1110 (2.500 %)Service Delivery
1110 (2.500 %)Release Management
129 (2.250 %)OO
138 (2.000 %)RUP
138 (2.000 %)UML
147 (1.750 %)Change Management
147 (1.750 %)Requirements Analysis
156 (1.500 %)Configuration Management
156 (1.500 %)Data Modelling
165 (1.250 %)Logistics
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1102 (25.50 %)Java
294 (23.50 %)SQL
378 (19.50 %)C++
431 (7.750 %)Perl
526 (6.500 %)C#
526 (6.500 %)VBA
624 (6.000 %)Shell Script
75 (1.250 %)VB
84 (1.000 %)Korn
84 (1.000 %)C
84 (1.000 %)JavaScript
84 (1.000 %)PL/SQL
84 (1.000 %)T-SQL
91 (0.250 %)XPath
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (1.750 %)ISEB
17 (1.750 %)Degree
24 (1.000 %)CIMA
33 (0.750 %)ACCA
41 (0.250 %)PhD
41 (0.250 %)PMP
41 (0.250 %)PMI Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (0.750 %)QA
22 (0.500 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
31 (0.250 %)Basel II
31 (0.250 %)IAS 39
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (1.000 %)Veritas Cluster Server
22 (0.500 %)Veritas Volume Manager
22 (0.500 %)Samba
31 (0.250 %)NFS
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
16 (1.500 %)CONTROL-M
23 (0.750 %)AutoSys
32 (0.500 %)HP Quality Center
32 (0.500 %)NetBackup
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
199 (24.75 %)Sybase
278 (19.50 %)Calypso
327 (6.750 %)Oracle
425 (6.250 %)Sophis
515 (3.750 %)Fidessa
515 (3.750 %)Actuate
611 (2.750 %)OpenLink
79 (2.250 %)Microsoft
79 (2.250 %)ION Trading
88 (2.000 %)Bloomberg
97 (1.750 %)SunGard
106 (1.500 %)Wall Street Systems
115 (1.250 %)Yolus
124 (1.000 %)Algorithmics
124 (1.000 %)Reuters
124 (1.000 %)TIBCO
124 (1.000 %)Veritas
133 (0.750 %)SAP
133 (0.750 %)Temenos
133 (0.750 %)Accenture