The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Banking 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 terms in our General category for the Wales region.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Banking
Rank 14 10 28
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +18
Contract jobs citing Banking 37 61 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 8.685% 10.70% 5.152%
As % of the General category 25.87% 26.87% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 53 21
Average daily rate £375 £390 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £390 £385
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £22.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.68% +15.78%
All of the General Category
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
143 227 216
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 33.57% 39.82% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 153 123
Average daily rate £390 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.63% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £277 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.25 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.59% +22.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Banking
UK

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Banking across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Wales Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Banking across the Wales region.

Wales Banking Daily Rate Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Banking across the Wales region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Wales Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Banking across the Wales region.

Wales Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Banking
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Wales region 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
South Wales -5 36 £375 -4.58%
Banking
UK

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Banking 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 Banking.

1 51 (71.83%) Finance
2 30 (42.25%) Retail
3 29 (40.85%) Retail Banking
4 22 (30.99%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (26.76%) Project Management
6 14 (19.72%) Microsoft
6 14 (19.72%) Migration
7 11 (15.49%) Business Analysis
8 10 (14.08%) AS400
8 10 (14.08%) SQL
8 10 (14.08%) MS Office
8 10 (14.08%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (12.68%) Windows
9 9 (12.68%) MS Project
10 7 (9.859%) SQL Server
10 7 (9.859%) Mainframe
11 6 (8.451%) IBM
11 6 (8.451%) Change Management
11 6 (8.451%) WebSphere
11 6 (8.451%) iSeries
12 5 (7.042%) ETL
12 5 (7.042%) ISEB
12 5 (7.042%) UNIX
13 4 (5.634%) IIS
13 4 (5.634%) .NET
13 4 (5.634%) T-SQL
13 4 (5.634%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (5.634%) Incident Management
13 4 (5.634%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 4 (5.634%) User Acceptance Testing

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Banking 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 Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (8.451%) WebSphere
2 4 (5.634%) .NET
3 1 (1.408%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.408%) jQuery
3 1 (1.408%) J2EE
3 1 (1.408%) HTML
3 1 (1.408%) CSS
3 1 (1.408%) XML
3 1 (1.408%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.634%) IIS
2 3 (4.225%) SAS
3 1 (1.408%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.408%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (14.08%) MS Office
2 9 (12.68%) MS Project
3 2 (2.817%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.817%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.408%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.817%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (1.408%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.225%) Internet
2 1 (1.408%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.408%) DNS
2 1 (1.408%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (9.859%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.634%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (4.225%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (4.225%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.817%) DB2
5 2 (2.817%) Data Mart
5 2 (2.817%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.408%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.408%) BODI
6 1 (1.408%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.408%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.408%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.408%) OLTP
6 1 (1.408%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 2 (2.817%) TestDirector
2 1 (1.408%) Oracle Forms
General
1 51 (71.83%) Finance
2 30 (42.25%) Retail
3 29 (40.85%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.408%) Marketing
4 1 (1.408%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 37 (52.11%) Analyst
2 20 (28.17%) Business Analyst
3 13 (18.31%) Project Manager
4 8 (11.27%) Applications Support
5 7 (9.859%) Applications Support Analyst
5 7 (9.859%) Support Analyst
6 5 (7.042%) Banking Business Analyst
6 5 (7.042%) Developer
7 3 (4.225%) Financial Business Analyst
7 3 (4.225%) Financial Services Business Analyst
7 3 (4.225%) PMO Analyst
7 3 (4.225%) Environment Analyst
7 3 (4.225%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (4.225%) Business Manager
7 3 (4.225%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.225%) Test Analyst
8 2 (2.817%) Senior Manager
8 2 (2.817%) Implementation Manager
8 2 (2.817%) Business Project Manager
8 2 (2.817%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) AS400
2 7 (9.859%) Mainframe
3 6 (8.451%) iSeries
4 2 (2.817%) Clustering
5 1 (1.408%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.408%) Physics
5 1 (1.408%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.408%) LPAR
5 1 (1.408%) DLPAR
5 1 (1.408%) Statistics
5 1 (1.408%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.408%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) Windows
2 5 (7.042%) UNIX
3 3 (4.225%) AIX
3 3 (4.225%) OS/400
4 1 (1.408%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.408%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.99%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (26.76%) Project Management
3 14 (19.72%) Migration
4 11 (15.49%) Business Analysis
5 6 (8.451%) Change Management
6 5 (7.042%) ETL
7 4 (5.634%) Incident Management
7 4 (5.634%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (5.634%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (4.225%) Test Scripting
8 3 (4.225%) Risk Analysis
8 3 (4.225%) Change Control
8 3 (4.225%) Data Analysis
8 3 (4.225%) Automated Testing
8 3 (4.225%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (4.225%) UML
8 3 (4.225%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (2.817%) OO
9 2 (2.817%) E-Commerce
9 2 (2.817%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.08%) SQL
2 4 (5.634%) T-SQL
3 3 (4.225%) COBOL
3 3 (4.225%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.817%) VB
4 2 (2.817%) Java
4 2 (2.817%) RPG
5 1 (1.408%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.408%) Perl
5 1 (1.408%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.042%) ISEB
2 2 (2.817%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (2.817%) Degree
3 1 (1.408%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.817%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.817%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.408%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.408%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.451%) IBM
3 3 (4.225%) Cognos
4 2 (2.817%) Oracle
4 2 (2.817%) Rackspace
5 1 (1.408%) SAP
5 1 (1.408%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.408%) HP
5 1 (1.408%) EMC