The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of thinkFolio 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 thinkFolio over the 3 months to 24 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 thinkFolio Limited.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
thinkFolio
Rank 488 505 526
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +21
Contract jobs citing thinkFolio 41 79 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.088% 0.135% 0.095%
As % of the Vendors category 0.188% 0.292% 0.204%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 53 44
Average daily rate £463 £550 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.90% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £553 £735 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
+37.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21803 27081 28409
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.00% 46.44% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11623 13840 14202
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £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 1174 1312 1605
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.22 £11.50 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

thinkFolio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

thinkFolio Jobs Demand Trend

thinkFolio
Daily Rate Trend

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

thinkFolio Daily Rate Trend

thinkFolio
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing thinkFolio within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

thinkFolio Daily Rate Histogram

thinkFolio
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 thinkFolio within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +17 36 £463 -21.27%
London +11 35 £450 -23.40%
City of London +14 19 £475 -17.39%
Scotland -17 5 - -
Edinburgh 0 1 - -

thinkFolio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing thinkFolio 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 thinkFolio.

1 80 (78.43%) Asset Management
2 61 (59.80%) Investment Management
3 41 (40.20%) LatentZero
4 39 (38.24%) Front Office
5 33 (32.35%) Fixed Income
6 32 (31.37%) SQL
7 30 (29.41%) Finance
8 28 (27.45%) Fund Management
8 28 (27.45%) Cadis
9 24 (23.53%) Derivative
10 23 (22.55%) Charles River
11 20 (19.61%) SQL Server
12 19 (18.63%) Business Analysis
13 15 (14.71%) Eagle PACE
13 15 (14.71%) Sentinel
13 15 (14.71%) Equities
14 14 (13.73%) Agile Software Development
15 13 (12.75%) Tesseract
15 13 (12.75%) Minerva
15 13 (12.75%) User Acceptance Testing
15 13 (12.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (12.75%) .NET
15 13 (12.75%) C#
16 11 (10.78%) VBA
17 10 (9.804%) ASP.NET
17 10 (9.804%) Project Management
17 10 (9.804%) Banking
17 10 (9.804%) Investment Banking
18 9 (8.824%) Capstone
18 9 (8.824%) SQL Server 2005

thinkFolio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing thinkFolio 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 thinkFolio. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (12.75%) .NET
2 10 (9.804%) ASP.NET
3 5 (4.902%) XML
3 5 (4.902%) WinForms
3 5 (4.902%) .NET Framework
4 4 (3.922%) Web Services
4 4 (3.922%) ASP
5 2 (1.961%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.980%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.961%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (0.980%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.941%) MS Project
1 3 (2.941%) MS Office
2 2 (1.961%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.980%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.980%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (40.20%) LatentZero
2 15 (14.71%) Eagle PACE
2 15 (14.71%) Sentinel
3 13 (12.75%) Tesseract
3 13 (12.75%) Minerva
4 9 (8.824%) Capstone
5 8 (7.843%) LongView
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.863%) HTTP
2 5 (4.902%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.61%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.824%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (3.922%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (3.922%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (3.922%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.980%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.980%) DTS
4 1 (0.980%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (2.941%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.980%) Subversion
General
1 39 (38.24%) Front Office
2 30 (29.41%) Finance
3 10 (9.804%) Banking
3 10 (9.804%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.922%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 68 (66.67%) Analyst
2 46 (45.10%) Business Analyst
3 17 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 16 (15.69%) Developer
5 9 (8.824%) .NET Developer
5 9 (8.824%) C# Developer
5 9 (8.824%) Project Manager
6 8 (7.843%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (5.882%) Financial Services Business Analyst
7 6 (5.882%) SQL Developer
7 6 (5.882%) Financial Business Analyst
8 5 (4.902%) Test Manager
8 5 (4.902%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.922%) Systems Developer
9 4 (3.922%) Support Analyst
10 3 (2.941%) Applications Support
10 3 (2.941%) Business Project Manager
10 3 (2.941%) Business Manager
10 3 (2.941%) Agile Test Analyst
11 2 (1.961%) Project Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 33 (32.35%) Fixed Income
2 24 (23.53%) Derivative
3 15 (14.71%) Equities
4 13 (12.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.961%) Swaptions
6 1 (0.980%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.980%) Data Extraction
6 1 (0.980%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.980%) Windows
1 1 (0.980%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (0.980%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (78.43%) Asset Management
2 61 (59.80%) Investment Management
3 28 (27.45%) Fund Management
4 19 (18.63%) Business Analysis
5 14 (13.73%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (12.75%) User Acceptance Testing
7 10 (9.804%) Project Management
8 8 (7.843%) Portfolio Management
9 7 (6.863%) Software Testing
10 5 (4.902%) ETL
10 5 (4.902%) UML
10 5 (4.902%) Test Scripting
11 4 (3.922%) Data Management
11 4 (3.922%) Data Analysis
11 4 (3.922%) Stakeholder Management
12 3 (2.941%) RAD
12 3 (2.941%) Workflow
12 3 (2.941%) Migration
12 3 (2.941%) Unit Testing
12 3 (2.941%) Fund Accounting
Programming Languages
1 32 (31.37%) SQL
2 13 (12.75%) C#
3 11 (10.78%) VBA
4 6 (5.882%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.980%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.980%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (2.941%) ISEB
2 2 (1.961%) Degree
2 2 (1.961%) PMP
2 2 (1.961%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.961%) QA
1 2 (1.961%) SLA
Systems Management
1 8 (7.843%) Control-M
2 4 (3.922%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 28 (27.45%) Cadis
2 23 (22.55%) Charles River
3 9 (8.824%) Bloomberg
4 6 (5.882%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.902%) Reuters
5 5 (4.902%) Twitter
6 4 (3.922%) StatPro
6 4 (3.922%) Fidessa
7 3 (2.941%) SunGard
7 3 (2.941%) Informatica
8 2 (1.961%) Oracle