The first table below looks at the demand for Prophet skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Prophet over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Business Applications category.

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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SunGard iWorks Prophet
Rank - 571 556
Contract jobs citing Prophet 0 7 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.012% 0.052%
As % of the Business Applications category - 0.135% 0.560%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 21
Average daily rate - £375 £800
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -53.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £375 £800
% change year-on-year
- -53.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
3983 5191 5719
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 8.584% 8.907% 9.330%
Number of daily rates quoted 1982 2535 2796
Average daily rate £450 £450 £450
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 61 104
Average hourly rate £37.80 £25.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+51.20% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.15 £14.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.50 £56.60 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.92 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+64.92% +14.60%

Prophet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Prophet Jobs Demand Trend

Prophet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Prophet Daily Rate Trend

Prophet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Prophet Hourly Rate Trend

Prophet
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Prophet 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 Prophet.

1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) System Testing
1 3 (30.00%) Solvency II
2 2 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (10.00%) ETL
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) VB
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) EMB Igloo
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics

Prophet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Prophet 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 Prophet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) EMB Igloo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Test Team Leader
2 3 (30.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Services Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Business Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) System Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Modelling
2 1 (10.00%) Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (10.00%) ETL
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
1 1 (10.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Solvency II
2 2 (20.00%) QA