The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Banking over the 3 months to 20 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 terms in our General category for the West Midlands 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Banking
Rank 51 36 56
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +20
Contract jobs citing Banking 45 78 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 2.630% 3.490% 2.226%
As % of the General category 8.380% 10.39% 6.456%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 63 33
Average daily rate £438 £395 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.75% -12.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £275 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £598 £525 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £388
% change year-on-year
- +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £17.00 - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £22.25 £21.75
% change year-on-year
-6.74% +2.29%
All of the General Category
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
537 751 666
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 31.39% 33.60% 34.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 340 291
Average daily rate £375 £375 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 38 32
Average hourly rate £31.75 £29.50 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.62% -3.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.74 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.40 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Banking
England

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Birmingham -9 31 £425 +11.98% 14
Coventry 0 3 - - 1
Staffordshire +10 1 £90 -
Worcestershire - - - - 3
Wolverhampton - - - -
Banking
England

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 38 (58.46%) Finance
2 19 (29.23%) Investment Banking
3 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (18.46%) Retail
4 11 (16.92%) Financial Institution
4 11 (16.92%) Retail Banking
5 10 (15.38%) Project Management
5 10 (15.38%) Front Office
6 8 (12.31%) Migration
7 7 (10.77%) Windows
8 6 (9.231%) Equities
8 6 (9.231%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (7.692%) Test Scripting
9 5 (7.692%) Electronic Trading
9 5 (7.692%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (7.692%) Derivative
9 5 (7.692%) ISTQB
9 5 (7.692%) Cash Management
9 5 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
9 5 (7.692%) Fixed Income
9 5 (7.692%) Back Office
9 5 (7.692%) Active Directory
9 5 (7.692%) ISEB
9 5 (7.692%) Perl
9 5 (7.692%) MS Office
9 5 (7.692%) UNIX
10 4 (6.154%) SQL
10 4 (6.154%) Oracle
10 4 (6.154%) SQL Server
10 4 (6.154%) CRM

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 5 (7.692%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (4.615%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.077%) .NET
3 2 (3.077%) Web Services
3 2 (3.077%) JMS
3 2 (3.077%) Middleware
4 1 (1.538%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.538%) Spring
4 1 (1.538%) JSP
4 1 (1.538%) XML
4 1 (1.538%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.077%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.077%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (3.077%) WebSphere Process Server
1 2 (3.077%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (1.538%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.538%) SAS
2 1 (1.538%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.538%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.538%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.538%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (7.692%) MS Office
2 2 (3.077%) MS Project
2 2 (3.077%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.077%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.538%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.154%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.615%) ION MarketView
3 1 (1.538%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.538%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.538%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.538%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.615%) HTTP
1 3 (4.615%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.077%) LDAP
2 2 (3.077%) ATM
2 2 (3.077%) DNS
3 1 (1.538%) 3G
3 1 (1.538%) SSL
3 1 (1.538%) VPN
3 1 (1.538%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.538%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.154%) SQL Server
1 4 (6.154%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (4.615%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.077%) DB2
4 1 (1.538%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 38 (58.46%) Finance
2 19 (29.23%) Investment Banking
3 12 (18.46%) Retail
4 11 (16.92%) Financial Institution
4 11 (16.92%) Retail Banking
5 10 (15.38%) Front Office
6 5 (7.692%) Back Office
7 2 (3.077%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.077%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.538%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.538%) Marketing
8 1 (1.538%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (41.54%) Analyst
2 11 (16.92%) Project Manager
3 10 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 6 (9.231%) Test Analyst
4 6 (9.231%) Support Analyst
4 6 (9.231%) Administrator
5 5 (7.692%) Server Administrator
6 4 (6.154%) Architect
6 4 (6.154%) Consultant
7 3 (4.615%) DBA
7 3 (4.615%) SQL Server DBA
7 3 (4.615%) SQL DBA
8 2 (3.077%) Instructional Designer
8 2 (3.077%) CRM Business Analyst
8 2 (3.077%) Business Project Manager
8 2 (3.077%) Business Manager
8 2 (3.077%) Developer
8 2 (3.077%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.077%) Change Manager
8 2 (3.077%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.231%) Equities
2 5 (7.692%) Derivative
2 5 (7.692%) Fixed Income
3 4 (6.154%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.615%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.615%) Clustering
4 3 (4.615%) Replication
5 2 (3.077%) EPoS
5 2 (3.077%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.538%) PDA
6 1 (1.538%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.538%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.538%) Data Extraction
6 1 (1.538%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Windows
2 5 (7.692%) UNIX
3 4 (6.154%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (4.615%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.077%) Linux
5 2 (3.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.538%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.538%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (15.38%) Project Management
3 8 (12.31%) Migration
4 6 (9.231%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (7.692%) Test Scripting
5 5 (7.692%) Electronic Trading
5 5 (7.692%) Cash Management
6 4 (6.154%) CRM
6 4 (6.154%) Data Analysis
6 4 (6.154%) Business Analysis
7 3 (4.615%) Requirements Analysis
7 3 (4.615%) Wealth Management
7 3 (4.615%) Data Migration
8 2 (3.077%) PRINCE2
8 2 (3.077%) Asset Management
8 2 (3.077%) GAP Analysis
8 2 (3.077%) Service Delivery
8 2 (3.077%) Test Strategy
8 2 (3.077%) Master Data Management
9 1 (1.538%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.692%) Perl
2 4 (6.154%) SQL
3 3 (4.615%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.077%) Java
5 1 (1.538%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (7.692%) ISTQB
1 5 (7.692%) ISEB
2 1 (1.538%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.538%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.538%) Degree
2 1 (1.538%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 5 (7.692%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (3.077%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.538%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (1.538%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (1.538%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (6.154%) Oracle
2 3 (4.615%) ION Trading
3 2 (3.077%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.077%) IBM
3 2 (3.077%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.538%) Teradata
4 1 (1.538%) GoldenSource
4 1 (1.538%) Symantec
4 1 (1.538%) Citrix
4 1 (1.538%) SAP
Birmingham, West Midlands
Strong stakeholder management... Key Words: PMO, PMO Analyst, Project Management Office, Programme Management Office, Project, Planning, Birmingham, Banking, Monthly, Month, Report, Reporting, MI, Excel, Support, Analyst, Data, Management,...
Orgtel
Rate: £250 per day
Posted: 10 June 2013
West Midlands
You will meet the following requirements: Experience with various scorecard behavioural models. Manipulation of data in order to track performance, deliver insights & implement continuous improvements. Come form a...
Orgtel
Rate: £450 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Experience with managing the production of management information on highest risk customers and the Financial Crime Customer Risk Assessment Model to support senior management of Highest Risk... Has...
Orgtel
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Our client is looking for a Test Analyst to work within The Transactional Banking Transformation Programme who are looking to deliver Trade Simplification.
Sanderson
Posted: 17 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Log shipping / Mirroring / Replication / Clustering/DB Backup/ DB Restoring. Good understanding of Windows Server operating system (2003 / 2008) and related storage / network infrastructures... T-SQL including stored procedures...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £285 to £300 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £300.00 - £330.00 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Aston Carter
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
West Midlands
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £390.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £300 - £340 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Sanderson
Rate: £290 - £340 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
West Midlands
Orgtel
Rate: £400 - £450 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £300.00 - £340.00 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
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