The first table below looks at the demand for TradeThru skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TradeThru over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SS&C TradeThru
Rank 552 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing TradeThru 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% - -
As % of the Business Applications category 0.048% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £284 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
4157 5121 5840
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 8.540% 8.819% 9.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 2077 2428 2906
Average daily rate £448 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.55% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £290 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £405
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 55 106
Average hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% +10.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.50 £56.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.75 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+47.00% -13.79%

TradeThru
Jobs Demand Trend

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

TradeThru Jobs Demand Trend

TradeThru
Daily Rate Trend

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

TradeThru Daily Rate Trend

TradeThru
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing TradeThru 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 TradeThru.

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Reuters
1 3 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Testing
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (66.67%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) MSTest
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared

TradeThru
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing TradeThru 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 TradeThru. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Spreadsheet
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (66.67%) MSTest
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Reuters
1 3 (100.00%) Bloomberg