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The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Reuters products and/or services in IT contracts across the UK with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Reuters over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkReuters
Location
3 months to
5 Sep 2008
Same period last year
Rank256279
Rank change on same period last yearUp+23
Matching contract IT job ads402516
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.543 %0.509 %
As % of the category below1.260 %1.165 %
Daily rates quoted188207
Average minimum daily rate£390£359
Average daily rate£429£386
% change on same period last year+11.26 %
Average maximum daily rate£468£413
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£236
% change on same period last year+26.98 %
Hourly rates quoted2444
Average minimum hourly rate£19.40£21.57
Average hourly rate£21.29£23.05
% change on same period last year-7.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate£23.18£24.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£21.65
% change on same period last year-
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
UK
Matching contract IT job ads3190044305
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled43.12 %43.69 %
Daily rates quoted951912677
Average minimum daily rate£378£389
Average daily rate£403£413
% change on same period last year-2.43 %
Average maximum daily rate£428£437
UK excluding London average daily rate£361£358
% change on same period last year+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted28173894
Average minimum hourly rate£22.76£23.77
Average hourly rate£24.32£25.30
% change on same period last year-3.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.87£26.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.29£24.78
% change on same period last year-1.97 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Reuters Group PLC.

Reuters
Demand Trend

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

Reuters Demand Trend

Reuters
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Reuters within the UK over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Reuters Daily Rate Histogram

Reuters
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Reuters within the UK over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Reuters Hourly Rate Histogram

Reuters
Top 12 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 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+15399£429+10.89 %
LondonUp+24396£431+11.19 %
City of LondonDown-10163£449+14.43 %
Docklands, LondonUp+2324£401-0.48 %
Canary WharfUp+209£379-13.82 %
West YorkshireNew entry-2£300-
YorkshireNew entry-2£300-
LeedsNew entry-2£300-
BirminghamNew entry-1£300-
SurreyUp+61--
South EastUp+421--
West MidlandsNew entry-1£300-

Reuters
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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.

1531 (72.24 %)Bloomberg
2280 (38.10 %)Banking
3266 (36.19 %)Finance
4190 (25.85 %)Windows
5187 (25.44 %)Investment Banking
6157 (21.36 %)SQL
7156 (21.22 %)UNIX
7156 (21.22 %)Front Office
8125 (17.01 %)C#
9112 (15.24 %)SQL Server
10103 (14.01 %)VBA
11100 (13.61 %)Equities
1298 (13.33 %)Microsoft
1397 (13.20 %)RMDS
1493 (12.65 %)Linux
1590 (12.24 %)Windows XP
1689 (12.11 %)Derivative
1780 (10.88 %)MS Office
1878 (10.61 %)Investment Management
1977 (10.48 %)Fixed Income
1977 (10.48 %).NET
2075 (10.20 %)Active Directory
2173 (9.932 %)Oracle
2268 (9.252 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
2365 (8.844 %)VB
2460 (8.163 %)Electronic Trading
2558 (7.891 %)Shell Script
2657 (7.755 %)Sybase
2657 (7.755 %)MS Excel
2753 (7.211 %)Solaris

Reuters
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
177 (10.48 %).NET
226 (3.537 %)XML
321 (2.857 %)Spring
415 (2.041 %)XSLT
57 (0.952 %)ATL
57 (0.952 %)EJB
57 (0.952 %)Java EE
57 (0.952 %)FIX Protocol
57 (0.952 %)Hibernate
57 (0.952 %)EJB 3.0
65 (0.680 %)Middleware
65 (0.680 %)COM
65 (0.680 %)J2EE
74 (0.544 %)J2SE
74 (0.544 %)Application Packaging
83 (0.408 %)ASP
92 (0.272 %)ASP.NET
92 (0.272 %)Java RMI
92 (0.272 %)CORBA
92 (0.272 %)STL
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
134 (4.626 %)MS Exchange
223 (3.129 %)Lotus Notes
318 (2.449 %)Rendezvous
417 (2.313 %)Exchange Server 2003
514 (1.905 %)MTS
68 (1.088 %)SharePoint
75 (0.680 %)IIS
84 (0.544 %)MQSeries
93 (0.408 %)Exchange Server 2000
93 (0.408 %)Office Communications Server
102 (0.272 %)Exchange Server 2007
102 (0.272 %)Oracle Workflow
102 (0.272 %)Exchange Server 5.5
111 (0.136 %)JBoss
111 (0.136 %)WebLogic
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
180 (10.88 %)MS Office
257 (7.755 %)MS Excel
322 (2.993 %)Spreadsheet
44 (0.544 %)MS PowerPoint
44 (0.544 %)MS Visio
53 (0.408 %)Acrobat
53 (0.408 %)MS Project
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
197 (13.20 %)RMDS
25 (0.680 %)Kondor+
25 (0.680 %)Endur
25 (0.680 %)Oracle EBS
34 (0.544 %)HiPortfolio
43 (0.408 %)Minerva
52 (0.272 %)Summit
52 (0.272 %)Capstone
52 (0.272 %)FENICS FX
52 (0.272 %)Temenos Globus
61 (0.136 %)FRONT ARENA
61 (0.136 %)InvestOne
61 (0.136 %)Tesseract
61 (0.136 %)Sentinel
61 (0.136 %)Decalog
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
148 (6.531 %)TCP/IP
227 (3.673 %)DNS
227 (3.673 %)Firewall
325 (3.401 %)LAN
424 (3.265 %)Internet
520 (2.721 %)WAN
520 (2.721 %)DHCP
612 (1.633 %)SAN
79 (1.224 %)VPN
85 (0.680 %)Ethernet
85 (0.680 %)PBX
85 (0.680 %)VoIP
85 (0.680 %)VLAN
94 (0.544 %)Cisco PIX
94 (0.544 %)Wireless
94 (0.544 %)SNMP
103 (0.408 %)Intranet
103 (0.408 %)Cisco IPT
112 (0.272 %)SMS
121 (0.136 %)GPRS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1112 (15.24 %)SQL Server
222 (2.993 %)SQL Server 2005
319 (2.585 %)Oracle 8/8i
416 (2.177 %)Oracle 10g
514 (1.905 %)Reference Data
612 (1.633 %)Sybase ASE
79 (1.224 %)RDBMS
87 (0.952 %)Datawarehouse
87 (0.952 %)DTS
95 (0.680 %)ETL
102 (0.272 %)Data Mart
102 (0.272 %)BusinessObjects
102 (0.272 %)SQL Server 2000
102 (0.272 %)MySQL
102 (0.272 %)Data Mining
102 (0.272 %)Crystal Reports
102 (0.272 %)Oracle Reports
102 (0.272 %)SQL Server Integration Services
111 (0.136 %)BusinessObjects XI
111 (0.136 %)BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
17 (0.952 %)ClearCase
25 (0.680 %)NUnit
33 (0.408 %)Visual Studio
33 (0.408 %)TestDirector
33 (0.408 %)XDE
42 (0.272 %)PowerBuilder
51 (0.136 %)MSI
51 (0.136 %)InstallShield
51 (0.136 %)VSS/SourceSafe
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1280 (38.10 %)Banking
2266 (36.19 %)Finance
3187 (25.44 %)Investment Banking
4156 (21.22 %)Front Office
538 (5.170 %)Back Office
633 (4.490 %)Retail
732 (4.354 %)Retail Banking
827 (3.673 %)Financial Institution
915 (2.041 %)Education
107 (0.952 %)Telecoms
116 (0.816 %)Marketing
116 (0.816 %)Insurance
124 (0.544 %)Legal
132 (0.272 %)Law
141 (0.136 %)Health
141 (0.136 %)Construction
141 (0.136 %)Publishing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1239 (32.52 %)Analyst
2130 (17.69 %)Support Analyst
3112 (15.24 %)Developer
483 (11.29 %)Desktop Support
568 (9.252 %)Applications Support
663 (8.571 %)Business Analyst
739 (5.306 %)Desktop Support Analyst
739 (5.306 %)Desktop Analyst
836 (4.898 %)Data Analyst
935 (4.762 %)Administrator
1032 (4.354 %)Trainee
1130 (4.082 %)Java Developer
1228 (3.810 %)C# Developer
1228 (3.810 %)Market Analyst
1326 (3.537 %)Market Data Analyst
1326 (3.537 %)Excel Developer
1425 (3.401 %)Applications Specialist
1521 (2.857 %)Support Engineer
1521 (2.857 %)Applications Support Analyst
1619 (2.585 %)Project Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1100 (13.61 %)Equities
289 (12.11 %)Derivative
377 (10.48 %)Fixed Income
468 (9.252 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
537 (5.034 %)Blackberry
634 (4.626 %)Credit Derivative
718 (2.449 %)French Language
811 (1.497 %)SecurID
99 (1.224 %)Equity Derivative
105 (0.680 %)Client/Server
105 (0.680 %)VWAP
114 (0.544 %)Market Risk
114 (0.544 %)Clustering
123 (0.408 %)Mathematics
123 (0.408 %)Multithreading
123 (0.408 %)Japanese Language
123 (0.408 %)Data Integration
132 (0.272 %)Credit Risk
132 (0.272 %)Greek Language
132 (0.272 %)PDA
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1190 (25.85 %)Windows
2156 (21.22 %)UNIX
393 (12.65 %)Linux
490 (12.24 %)Windows XP
553 (7.211 %)Solaris
634 (4.626 %)Windows Server 2003
732 (4.354 %)Windows 2000
88 (1.088 %)AIX
88 (1.088 %)Windows Vista
95 (0.680 %)Windows 2000 Server
95 (0.680 %)Windows NT
104 (0.544 %)HPUX
104 (0.544 %)Red Hat Linux
111 (0.136 %)VMS
111 (0.136 %)OpenVMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
178 (10.61 %)Investment Management
260 (8.163 %)Electronic Trading
350 (6.803 %)E-Commerce
449 (6.667 %)ITIL
544 (5.986 %)Asset Management
634 (4.626 %)Scrum
634 (4.626 %)Algorithmic Trading
732 (4.354 %)Risk Management
831 (4.218 %)Project Management
927 (3.673 %)Agile Software Development
1024 (3.265 %)Migration
1122 (2.993 %)OO
1220 (2.721 %)RAD
1319 (2.585 %)Extreme Programming
1417 (2.313 %)Web Design
1417 (2.313 %)Data Modelling
1516 (2.177 %)Validation
1615 (2.041 %)Risk Analysis
1714 (1.905 %)RDF
1810 (1.361 %)Fund Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1157 (21.36 %)SQL
2125 (17.01 %)C#
3103 (14.01 %)VBA
465 (8.844 %)VB
558 (7.891 %)Shell Script
653 (7.211 %)C++
747 (6.395 %)Java
844 (5.986 %)Perl
934 (4.626 %)C
1019 (2.585 %)VBScript
1117 (2.313 %)Tcl
127 (0.952 %)VC++
135 (0.680 %)VB6
144 (0.544 %)AWK
144 (0.544 %)PowerShell
153 (0.408 %)Korn
161 (0.136 %)DCL
161 (0.136 %)Python
161 (0.136 %)Transact-SQL
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
140 (5.442 %)Microsoft Certification
226 (3.537 %)MCSE
316 (2.177 %)MCP
414 (1.905 %)Degree
57 (0.952 %)MCSA
66 (0.816 %)Cisco Certification
75 (0.680 %)CCNA
84 (0.544 %)CNA
84 (0.544 %)CNE
84 (0.544 %)Novell Certification
84 (0.544 %)MCAD
93 (0.408 %)MCTS
93 (0.408 %)RHCE
93 (0.408 %)ISEB
102 (0.272 %)CCA
102 (0.272 %)Citrix Certification
102 (0.272 %)CCEA
102 (0.272 %)CISSP
102 (0.272 %)ITIL Certification
102 (0.272 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
14 (0.544 %)SLA
22 (0.272 %)QA
31 (0.136 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
31 (0.136 %)MiFID
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
175 (10.20 %)Active Directory
25 (0.680 %)NetBackup
34 (0.544 %)NFS
34 (0.544 %)VMware ESX
43 (0.408 %)Terminal Server
43 (0.408 %)Samba
52 (0.272 %)VMware Infrastructure
61 (0.136 %)MetaFrame
61 (0.136 %)Backup Exec
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
17 (0.952 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
26 (0.816 %)OpenView
26 (0.816 %)BMC PATROL
26 (0.816 %)HP Data Protector
35 (0.680 %)CONTROL-M
35 (0.680 %)Norton AntiVirus
44 (0.544 %)Tivoli
53 (0.408 %)DameWare
53 (0.408 %)WSUS
62 (0.272 %)AutoSys
71 (0.136 %)CiscoWorks
71 (0.136 %)Unicenter
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1531 (72.24 %)Bloomberg
298 (13.33 %)Microsoft
373 (9.932 %)Oracle
457 (7.755 %)Sybase
551 (6.939 %)Cisco
631 (4.218 %)TIBCO
730 (4.082 %)HP
823 (3.129 %)Lotus
919 (2.585 %)Citrix
1018 (2.449 %)Remedy
1117 (2.313 %)Mitel
1216 (2.177 %)Tradeweb
1216 (2.177 %)Cognotec
1216 (2.177 %)CheckPoint
1315 (2.041 %)Murex
1414 (1.905 %)Telerate
1512 (1.633 %)Red Hat
1610 (1.361 %)VERITAS
1610 (1.361 %)CQG
1610 (1.361 %)VMware