Reuters Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Reuters 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 Reuters 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 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 Reuters Group PLC.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Reuters
Rank 350 359 317
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -42
Contract jobs citing Reuters 192 226 308
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.414% 0.388% 0.502%
As % of the Vendors category 0.882% 0.834% 1.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 179 212
Average daily rate £500 £450 £520
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -13.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £272 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 £450 £364
% change year-on-year
+22.22% +23.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 14
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.82% -9.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.70 £17.75 £17.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.52 £27.25 £60.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £31.50 £97.63
% change year-on-year
-55.55% -67.73%
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 21775 27088 28510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.93% 46.48% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11633 13855 14263
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
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 1193 1289 1605
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Reuters
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reuters Jobs Demand Trend

Reuters
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reuters Daily Rate Trend

Reuters
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Reuters within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reuters Daily Rate Histogram

Reuters
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reuters Hourly Rate Trend

Reuters
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Reuters within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reuters Hourly Rate Histogram

Reuters
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reuters within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +8 188 £500 +11.11%
London +4 187 £500 +11.11%
City of London -27 48 £450 +12.50%
Canary Wharf -1 8 £650 +44.44%
Docklands, London +8 6 £500 +11.42%
Scotland -12 4 - -
Stirling - 4 - -

Reuters
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 243 (79.41%) Bloomberg
2 127 (41.50%) Finance
3 113 (36.93%) Banking
4 96 (31.37%) Windows
5 91 (29.74%) Front Office
6 84 (27.45%) C#
7 82 (26.80%) SQL
8 81 (26.47%) Fixed Income
9 78 (25.49%) Investment Banking
10 77 (25.16%) Java
11 64 (20.92%) Electronic Trading
12 63 (20.59%) SQL Server
13 60 (19.61%) UNIX
14 45 (14.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 45 (14.71%) RMDS
15 44 (14.38%) Derivative
15 44 (14.38%) Microsoft
16 42 (13.73%) .NET
17 41 (13.40%) C++
18 40 (13.07%) MS Office
19 38 (12.42%) Oracle
19 38 (12.42%) Sybase
20 37 (12.09%) Equities
21 35 (11.44%) Agile Software Development
21 35 (11.44%) TIBCO
22 33 (10.78%) Linux
23 31 (10.13%) MS Excel
23 31 (10.13%) VBA
24 30 (9.804%) Rendezvous
24 30 (9.804%) Project Management

Reuters
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 42 (13.73%) .NET
2 18 (5.882%) Web Services
2 18 (5.882%) WCF
3 15 (4.902%) WPF
4 14 (4.575%) Middleware
4 14 (4.575%) ASP.NET
5 13 (4.248%) XML
5 13 (4.248%) .NET Framework
6 12 (3.922%) MDX
7 11 (3.595%) Swing
8 10 (3.268%) Struts
9 6 (1.961%) JSP
10 5 (1.634%) JSON
10 5 (1.634%) Silverlight
10 5 (1.634%) Java SE
10 5 (1.634%) REST
11 4 (1.307%) HTML
12 3 (0.980%) J2SE
12 3 (0.980%) J2EE
12 3 (0.980%) ADO
Application Platforms
1 30 (9.804%) Rendezvous
2 20 (6.536%) Lotus Notes
3 11 (3.595%) MQSeries
4 10 (3.268%) MTS
5 7 (2.288%) Progress Apama
6 6 (1.961%) BizTalk Server
6 6 (1.961%) IIS
7 5 (1.634%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 5 (1.634%) TIBCO EMS
8 3 (0.980%) Confluence
8 3 (0.980%) MS Exchange
9 1 (0.327%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.327%) WebLogic
Applications
1 40 (13.07%) MS Office
2 31 (10.13%) MS Excel
3 2 (0.654%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.327%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (14.71%) RMDS
2 26 (8.497%) ION MarketView
3 16 (5.229%) 3000 Xtra
4 10 (3.268%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.634%) Eagle PACE
6 4 (1.307%) LatentZero
6 4 (1.307%) Tesseract
6 4 (1.307%) Minerva
6 4 (1.307%) Sentinel
7 2 (0.654%) Summit
8 1 (0.327%) Murex MxG2000
8 1 (0.327%) LongView
8 1 (0.327%) Capstone
8 1 (0.327%) TradeThru
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.516%) Firewall
2 20 (6.536%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.595%) HTTP
4 7 (2.288%) DNS
5 4 (1.307%) LAN
5 4 (1.307%) WAN
6 3 (0.980%) VPN
6 3 (0.980%) SSL
6 3 (0.980%) Internet
6 3 (0.980%) Network Security
7 2 (0.654%) 3G
7 2 (0.654%) SAN
7 2 (0.654%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.654%) DHCP
8 1 (0.327%) SMS
8 1 (0.327%) VoIP
8 1 (0.327%) SNMP
8 1 (0.327%) MPLS
8 1 (0.327%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.327%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (3.922%) OLAP
4 10 (3.268%) SQL Server 2012
5 8 (2.614%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (1.634%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (1.634%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.307%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (1.307%) Oracle 8/8i
8 3 (0.980%) MS Access
8 3 (0.980%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.980%) DTS
8 3 (0.980%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.654%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.654%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.654%) Oracle 10g
9 2 (0.654%) SQL Server 7
9 2 (0.654%) SQL Server 2000
10 1 (0.327%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.327%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.268%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (2.614%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 4 (1.307%) JIRA
3 4 (1.307%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.654%) MSI
5 1 (0.327%) NUnit
5 1 (0.327%) Subversion
5 1 (0.327%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.327%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.327%) ReSharper
5 1 (0.327%) TeamCity
General
1 127 (41.50%) Finance
2 113 (36.93%) Banking
3 91 (29.74%) Front Office
4 78 (25.49%) Investment Banking
5 11 (3.595%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.614%) Back Office
7 5 (1.634%) Retail
8 4 (1.307%) Legal
9 3 (0.980%) French Language
10 1 (0.327%) German Language
10 1 (0.327%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.327%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.327%) Billing
10 1 (0.327%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 134 (43.79%) Analyst
2 82 (26.80%) Developer
3 52 (16.99%) Support Analyst
4 49 (16.01%) Business Analyst
5 22 (7.190%) Desktop Support
6 16 (5.229%) Java Developer
7 15 (4.902%) C# Developer
7 15 (4.902%) Applications Support
7 15 (4.902%) Linux Engineer
8 14 (4.575%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 14 (4.575%) Data Analyst
9 13 (4.248%) Database Developer
10 12 (3.922%) Sybase Developer
10 12 (3.922%) Applications Support Analyst
10 12 (3.922%) Desktop Support Analyst
10 12 (3.922%) Market Analyst
10 12 (3.922%) Desktop Analyst
11 11 (3.595%) Market Data Analyst
11 11 (3.595%) Support Engineer
11 11 (3.595%) Front Office Developer
Miscellaneous
1 81 (26.47%) Fixed Income
2 45 (14.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 44 (14.38%) Derivative
4 37 (12.09%) Equities
5 24 (7.843%) Blackberry
6 13 (4.248%) Hedge funds
7 11 (3.595%) Credit Derivative
8 7 (2.288%) Computer Science
8 7 (2.288%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (1.634%) Grid Computing
10 4 (1.307%) Statistics
10 4 (1.307%) Inversion of Control
11 3 (0.980%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.980%) Market Risk
11 3 (0.980%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.980%) PDA
12 2 (0.654%) Mathematics
12 2 (0.654%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.654%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.654%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 96 (31.37%) Windows
2 60 (19.61%) UNIX
3 33 (10.78%) Linux
4 26 (8.497%) Windows XP
4 26 (8.497%) Windows 7
5 19 (6.209%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (5.229%) Windows Server 2003
7 13 (4.248%) Windows 2000
8 11 (3.595%) Windows NT
9 6 (1.961%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (1.634%) Solaris
11 4 (1.307%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (20.92%) Electronic Trading
2 35 (11.44%) Agile Software Development
3 30 (9.804%) Project Management
4 28 (9.150%) Change Management
5 24 (7.843%) ITIL
6 18 (5.882%) Scrum
7 17 (5.556%) TDD
7 17 (5.556%) Incident Management
8 15 (4.902%) Capacity Management
9 14 (4.575%) Multithreading
10 13 (4.248%) OO
11 12 (3.922%) Migration
11 12 (3.922%) Data Management
11 12 (3.922%) AOP
12 11 (3.595%) Business Analysis
12 11 (3.595%) Algorithmic Trading
12 11 (3.595%) Release Management
12 11 (3.595%) OOP
13 10 (3.268%) Refactoring
13 10 (3.268%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 84 (27.45%) C#
2 82 (26.80%) SQL
3 77 (25.16%) Java
4 41 (13.40%) C++
5 31 (10.13%) VBA
6 19 (6.209%) VBScript
7 18 (5.882%) Perl
8 14 (4.575%) Python
9 13 (4.248%) VB
10 11 (3.595%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.268%) VB6
12 5 (1.634%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.307%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.980%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.654%) C
15 2 (0.654%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.327%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 22 (7.190%) Degree
2 10 (3.268%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (2.941%) MCSE
4 6 (1.961%) MCP
5 4 (1.307%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.980%) MCSA
6 3 (0.980%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.654%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.327%) MBA
8 1 (0.327%) CCNP
8 1 (0.327%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.288%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (1.634%) SLA
3 2 (0.654%) QA
System Software
1 28 (9.150%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.614%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.288%) XenDesktop
4 6 (1.961%) XenApp
5 3 (0.980%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.654%) vSphere
6 2 (0.654%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.327%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.327%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (1.307%) Zenoss
2 3 (0.980%) SCCM
3 2 (0.654%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (0.654%) DameWare
4 1 (0.327%) WSUS
4 1 (0.327%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.327%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (0.327%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 243 (79.41%) Bloomberg
2 44 (14.38%) Microsoft
3 38 (12.42%) Oracle
3 38 (12.42%) Sybase
4 35 (11.44%) TIBCO
5 27 (8.824%) Citrix
6 26 (8.497%) ION Trading
7 25 (8.170%) MarketAxess
7 25 (8.170%) eSpeed
8 21 (6.863%) Red Hat
9 20 (6.536%) Lotus
10 18 (5.882%) Fidessa
11 15 (4.902%) Cadis
12 12 (3.922%) Trayport
13 11 (3.595%) Tradeweb
14 10 (3.268%) HP
15 9 (2.941%) Cisco
15 9 (2.941%) VMware
16 8 (2.614%) Caplin
16 8 (2.614%) 29West
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