Finance IT Contracts in Watford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 22 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 Watford 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 10 42 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 13.51% 40.00% 36.49%
As % of the General category 38.46% 63.64% 61.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 9
Average daily rate - £358 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +2.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All of the General Category
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 26 66 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 35.14% 62.86% 59.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 17
Average daily rate £500 £375 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +2.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £322 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £454 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £14.75 £11.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +31.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Finance
Hertfordshire

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Finance Jobs Demand Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Trend

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

Watford Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Watford Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing Finance 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 Finance.

1 42 (72.41%) E-Commerce
1 42 (72.41%) Retail
2 30 (51.72%) Java
3 29 (50.00%) Project Management
4 27 (46.55%) Games
5 25 (43.10%) Time Management
6 22 (37.93%) J2EE
7 21 (36.21%) IBM
7 21 (36.21%) WebSphere
8 18 (31.03%) JavaScript
9 17 (29.31%) HTML
9 17 (29.31%) SQL
10 14 (24.14%) XHTML
10 14 (24.14%) JSP
10 14 (24.14%) JSTL
11 12 (20.69%) Waterfall
11 12 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (20.69%) Change Control
12 9 (15.52%) MQSeries
12 9 (15.52%) XML
12 9 (15.52%) UNIX
12 9 (15.52%) DB2
12 9 (15.52%) Manufacturing
13 8 (13.79%) Change Management
13 8 (13.79%) CSS
13 8 (13.79%) W3C
13 8 (13.79%) Semantic HTML
14 7 (12.07%) Internet
14 7 (12.07%) JUnit
14 7 (12.07%) Linux

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing Finance 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 Finance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (37.93%) J2EE
2 21 (36.21%) WebSphere
3 17 (29.31%) HTML
4 14 (24.14%) XHTML
4 14 (24.14%) JSP
4 14 (24.14%) JSTL
5 9 (15.52%) XML
6 8 (13.79%) CSS
6 8 (13.79%) Semantic HTML
7 7 (12.07%) Ajax
8 6 (10.34%) XMLBeans
8 6 (10.34%) XSLT
8 6 (10.34%) Servlets
8 6 (10.34%) Struts
8 6 (10.34%) JDBC
8 6 (10.34%) EJB
8 6 (10.34%) JMS
9 3 (5.172%) Flash
10 1 (1.724%) Hibernate
10 1 (1.724%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 9 (15.52%) MQSeries
2 6 (10.34%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (3.448%) Apache
4 1 (1.724%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.172%) MS Project
2 2 (3.448%) MS Office
2 2 (3.448%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.448%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) Internet
2 6 (10.34%) HTTP
3 2 (3.448%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) DB2
2 6 (10.34%) RDBMS
3 3 (5.172%) DbVisualizer
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) JUnit
2 6 (10.34%) Subversion
2 6 (10.34%) Log4j
2 6 (10.34%) Ant
2 6 (10.34%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 6 (10.34%) Eclipse
3 4 (6.897%) LoadRunner
4 3 (5.172%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (1.724%) Maven
5 1 (1.724%) FitNesse
5 1 (1.724%) Checkstyle
5 1 (1.724%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.724%) JProfiler
5 1 (1.724%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.724%) Gradle
5 1 (1.724%) Jenkins
General
1 42 (72.41%) Retail
2 27 (46.55%) Games
3 9 (15.52%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.448%) Spanish Language
4 2 (3.448%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.724%) Legal
5 1 (1.724%) Billing
5 1 (1.724%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Project Manager
2 15 (25.86%) Developer
3 12 (20.69%) E-Commerce Manager
3 12 (20.69%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 10 (17.24%) Analyst
5 8 (13.79%) Front-End Developer
5 8 (13.79%) Business Analyst
6 7 (12.07%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 7 (12.07%) J2EE Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Java Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Programme Manager
8 4 (6.897%) Senior Manager
8 4 (6.897%) Senior Project Manager
9 3 (5.172%) Tester
10 2 (3.448%) IT Technician
10 2 (3.448%) Consultant
10 2 (3.448%) Technical Consultant
11 1 (1.724%) Service Manager
11 1 (1.724%) Administrator
11 1 (1.724%) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) W3C
2 6 (10.34%) Web 2.0
3 2 (3.448%) Blackberry
3 2 (3.448%) PMI
3 2 (3.448%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.52%) UNIX
2 7 (12.07%) Linux
3 6 (10.34%) HPUX
3 6 (10.34%) Solaris
4 2 (3.448%) Windows 7
4 2 (3.448%) Windows
5 1 (1.724%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (72.41%) E-Commerce
2 29 (50.00%) Project Management
3 25 (43.10%) Time Management
4 12 (20.69%) Waterfall
4 12 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (20.69%) Change Control
5 8 (13.79%) Change Management
6 7 (12.07%) Risk Management
6 7 (12.07%) Programme Management
7 6 (10.34%) Content Management
7 6 (10.34%) UML
7 6 (10.34%) OO
7 6 (10.34%) RAD
8 4 (6.897%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (5.172%) Regression Testing
9 3 (5.172%) Automated Testing
9 3 (5.172%) ITIL
9 3 (5.172%) PRINCE2
9 3 (5.172%) System Testing
10 2 (3.448%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 30 (51.72%) Java
2 18 (31.03%) JavaScript
3 17 (29.31%) SQL
4 6 (10.34%) XPath
4 6 (10.34%) Perl
4 6 (10.34%) Bash shell
5 1 (1.724%) Groovy
5 1 (1.724%) PHP
5 1 (1.724%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (3.448%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.724%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.724%) COBIT
1 1 (1.724%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.448%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) IBM
2 6 (10.34%) Blue Martini
2 6 (10.34%) ATG
2 6 (10.34%) Interwoven
2 6 (10.34%) Elastic Path
3 3 (5.172%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.172%) HP
4 1 (1.724%) Red Hat
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