The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment 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 Investment 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Investment Banking
Rank 84 96 98
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +2
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 11 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.674% 0.312% 0.211%
As % of the General category 2.148% 0.936% 0.616%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 2
Average daily rate £463 £431 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.24% +87.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £320 £134
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £534 £326
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £386 £381
% change year-on-year
+10.03% +1.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year
-31.81% -68.11%
All of the General Category
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
512 748 649
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 31.35% 33.36% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 316 282
Average daily rate £375 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £244 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 49 34
Average hourly rate £37.80 £25.00 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+51.20% -19.35%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Investment Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Investment Banking Daily Rate Trend

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

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

West Midlands Investment Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Investment Banking
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +21 10 £463 +8.82%
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 31 (100.00%) Banking
2 13 (41.94%) Wealth Management
2 13 (41.94%) Finance
3 12 (38.71%) Corporate Banking
3 12 (38.71%) Business Transformation
3 12 (38.71%) Fund Management
4 6 (19.35%) Migration
4 6 (19.35%) Front Office
4 6 (19.35%) EMC
4 6 (19.35%) SAN
4 6 (19.35%) ITIL
4 6 (19.35%) VMware
5 5 (16.13%) Linux
5 5 (16.13%) Oracle
5 5 (16.13%) TCP/IP
5 5 (16.13%) DNS
5 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
6 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.90%) Project Management
6 4 (12.90%) SLA
6 4 (12.90%) Cisco
6 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
6 4 (12.90%) UNIX
6 4 (12.90%) Clustering
6 4 (12.90%) Data Analysis
7 3 (9.677%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (9.677%) Korn
7 3 (9.677%) Equities
7 3 (9.677%) Symmetrix
7 3 (9.677%) EMC TimeFinder

Investment Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (6.452%) Middleware
1 2 (6.452%) JMS
1 2 (6.452%) .NET
1 2 (6.452%) Web Services
1 2 (6.452%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.226%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (6.452%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (6.452%) WebSphere Process Server
2 1 (3.226%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.677%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.677%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.226%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) SAN
2 5 (16.13%) TCP/IP
2 5 (16.13%) DNS
3 3 (9.677%) DHCP
4 2 (6.452%) HTTP
4 2 (6.452%) LDAP
5 1 (3.226%) Junos
5 1 (3.226%) Firewall
5 1 (3.226%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.452%) DB2
General
1 31 (100.00%) Banking
2 13 (41.94%) Finance
3 12 (38.71%) Corporate Banking
4 6 (19.35%) Front Office
5 2 (6.452%) Back Office
6 1 (3.226%) Retail
6 1 (3.226%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.226%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) Business Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Consultant
4 3 (9.677%) SAN Consultant
4 3 (9.677%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 3 (9.677%) Storage Consultant
4 3 (9.677%) SAN Storage Consultant
4 3 (9.677%) EMC Storage Consultant
4 3 (9.677%) Architect
4 3 (9.677%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.452%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Administrator
5 2 (6.452%) CRM Analyst
5 2 (6.452%) Transition Manager
5 2 (6.452%) Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (6.452%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (6.452%) Server Administrator
5 2 (6.452%) WebSphere Administrator
5 2 (6.452%) Service Manager
5 2 (6.452%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Clustering
2 3 (9.677%) Equities
2 3 (9.677%) Symmetrix
2 3 (9.677%) Reference Data
2 3 (9.677%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (3.226%) Derivative
3 1 (3.226%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.226%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) UNIX
3 3 (9.677%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (9.677%) Windows
3 3 (9.677%) AIX
3 3 (9.677%) Solaris
3 3 (9.677%) Windows 2000
3 3 (9.677%) SUSE
3 3 (9.677%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.452%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Wealth Management
2 12 (38.71%) Business Transformation
2 12 (38.71%) Fund Management
3 6 (19.35%) Migration
3 6 (19.35%) ITIL
4 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (12.90%) Project Management
4 4 (12.90%) Data Analysis
5 3 (9.677%) Problem Management
5 3 (9.677%) Test Scripting
5 3 (9.677%) Data Migration
5 3 (9.677%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (9.677%) RDF
5 3 (9.677%) CRM
5 3 (9.677%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.452%) Project Planning
7 1 (3.226%) Business Analysis
7 1 (3.226%) Software Testing
7 1 (3.226%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (3.226%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.677%) Korn
1 3 (9.677%) C
1 3 (9.677%) VB
1 3 (9.677%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.226%) Perl
2 1 (3.226%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.452%) PMP
1 2 (6.452%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.226%) CCSE
2 1 (3.226%) CCNP
2 1 (3.226%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.677%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.677%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 3 (9.677%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (9.677%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 3 (9.677%) EMC TimeFinder
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) EMC
1 6 (19.35%) VMware
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle
3 4 (12.90%) Cisco
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.677%) Sybase
4 3 (9.677%) Sun
4 3 (9.677%) HP
4 3 (9.677%) Citrix
4 3 (9.677%) NetApp
4 3 (9.677%) Veritas
5 2 (6.452%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.452%) IBM
6 1 (3.226%) Blue Coat
6 1 (3.226%) ION Trading
6 1 (3.226%) GoldenSource
6 1 (3.226%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.226%) Juniper
6 1 (3.226%) McAfee