Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Banking over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the West Yorkshire region.

 Banking
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank34821
Rank change year-on-year
Up+45Down-27
Matching contract IT job ads1441296
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire13.71 %1.359 %5.278 %
As % of the General category30.06 %3.175 %12.17 %
Daily rates quoted55529
Average daily rate£375£299£435
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.62 %-31.37 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£254£272£325
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£463£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£375£400£400
% change year-on-year
-6.250 %-
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£16.44£16.00
% change year-on-year
+21.67 %+2.730 %
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
479378789
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire45.62 %42.81 %43.38 %
Daily rates quoted207124230
Average daily rate£375£388£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.220 %+10.71 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£255£273
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£493£525£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£375£400
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %-6.250 %
Hourly rates quoted6726
Average hourly rate£11.25£27.50£15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-59.09 %+77.41 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.80£13.00£10.33
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£33.60£35.00£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.00£26.15£27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.220 %-3.140 %
Banking YorkshireBanking
Yorkshire

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.

Banking
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Banking across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

West Yorkshire Banking Demand Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Banking Daily Rate Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Banking across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

West Yorkshire Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
HalifaxUp+688£365-
LeedsUp+1414£388-8.82 %
PudseyDown-31--
BradfordNew entry-1£375-
Banking YorkshireBanking
Yorkshire

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1148 (64.35 %)Finance
2117 (50.87 %)Retail
3107 (46.52 %)Retail Banking
430 (13.04 %)Change Management
529 (12.61 %)Project Management
627 (11.74 %)Stakeholder Management
627 (11.74 %)Business Analysis
724 (10.43 %)MS Project
820 (8.696 %)PRINCE2
820 (8.696 %)Migration
918 (7.826 %)Credit Risk
1017 (7.391 %)MS Office
1116 (6.957 %)MS Excel
1214 (6.087 %)MS PowerPoint
1312 (5.217 %)C
1411 (4.783 %)Microsoft
1411 (4.783 %)Insurance
1510 (4.348 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
1510 (4.348 %)ISEB
169 (3.913 %)Project Planning
169 (3.913 %)Test Management
178 (3.478 %)Test Scripting
178 (3.478 %)User Acceptance Testing
178 (3.478 %)QA
187 (3.043 %)Programme Management
187 (3.043 %)Private Banking
187 (3.043 %)Data Migration
196 (2.609 %)Enterprise Architecture
196 (2.609 %)Wealth Management
196 (2.609 %)Temenos T24

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (0.435 %)ASP
11 (0.435 %)Web Services
11 (0.435 %)HTML
11 (0.435 %)JAX-WS
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15 (2.174 %)SharePoint
23 (1.304 %)SAS
31 (0.435 %)Apache
31 (0.435 %)Tomcat
31 (0.435 %)WebLogic
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
124 (10.43 %)MS Project
217 (7.391 %)MS Office
316 (6.957 %)MS Excel
414 (6.087 %)MS PowerPoint
55 (2.174 %)MS Visio
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (2.609 %)Temenos T24
24 (1.739 %)SAP FI-GL
33 (1.304 %)Oracle General Ledger
41 (0.435 %)SAP FI
41 (0.435 %)Oracle Financials
41 (0.435 %)SAP CO
41 (0.435 %)SAP FI/CO
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (2.174 %)ATM
24 (1.739 %)Internet
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (1.739 %)ETL
23 (1.304 %)Datawarehouse
32 (0.870 %)MS Access
41 (0.435 %)SQL Server
41 (0.435 %)OLAP
41 (0.435 %)Base SAS
41 (0.435 %)SAS Enterprise Guide
41 (0.435 %)SQL Server 2005
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (1.304 %)TestDirector
21 (0.435 %)Eclipse
21 (0.435 %)Ant
21 (0.435 %)JUnit
21 (0.435 %)CheckStyle
21 (0.435 %)Subversion
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1148 (64.35 %)Finance
2117 (50.87 %)Retail
3107 (46.52 %)Retail Banking
411 (4.783 %)Insurance
57 (3.043 %)Private Banking
66 (2.609 %)Advertising
75 (2.174 %)Financial Institution
84 (1.739 %)Health
93 (1.304 %)Pensions
93 (1.304 %)Online Banking
102 (0.870 %)General Ledger
102 (0.870 %)Marketing
111 (0.435 %)Pharmaceutical
111 (0.435 %)Telecoms
111 (0.435 %)Legal
111 (0.435 %)Manufacturing
111 (0.435 %)Construction
111 (0.435 %)Back Office
111 (0.435 %)Corporate Banking
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1110 (47.83 %)Analyst
273 (31.74 %)Business Analyst
344 (19.13 %)Project Manager
430 (13.04 %)Banking Business Analyst
516 (6.957 %)PMO Analyst
613 (5.652 %)Test Manager
710 (4.348 %)Architect
710 (4.348 %)Solutions Architect
89 (3.913 %)Programme Manager
98 (3.478 %)Credit Risk Analyst
98 (3.478 %)Test Analyst
107 (3.043 %)Credit Risk Business Analyst
107 (3.043 %)PMO Manager
116 (2.609 %)Project Analyst
116 (2.609 %)Project Planner
116 (2.609 %)Consultant
124 (1.739 %)Process Analyst
124 (1.739 %)Senior Manager
124 (1.739 %)Implementation Manager
124 (1.739 %)Change Manager
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
118 (7.826 %)Credit Risk
23 (1.304 %)Mainframe
31 (0.435 %)Tandem
31 (0.435 %)NPfIT
31 (0.435 %)Copywriting
31 (0.435 %)iSeries
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15 (2.174 %)UNIX
23 (1.304 %)zOS
23 (1.304 %)Windows
31 (0.435 %)Windows Server 2003
31 (0.435 %)Windows XP
31 (0.435 %)AIX
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
130 (13.04 %)Change Management
229 (12.61 %)Project Management
327 (11.74 %)Stakeholder Management
327 (11.74 %)Business Analysis
420 (8.696 %)PRINCE2
420 (8.696 %)Migration
59 (3.913 %)Project Planning
59 (3.913 %)Test Management
68 (3.478 %)Test Scripting
68 (3.478 %)User Acceptance Testing
77 (3.043 %)Programme Management
77 (3.043 %)Data Migration
86 (2.609 %)Enterprise Architecture
86 (2.609 %)Wealth Management
95 (2.174 %)Data Architecture
104 (1.739 %)ERP
104 (1.739 %)Data Modelling
113 (1.304 %)PRINCE
113 (1.304 %)BPR
113 (1.304 %)Configuration Management
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
112 (5.217 %)C
22 (0.870 %)VBA
31 (0.435 %)REXX
31 (0.435 %)Shell Script
31 (0.435 %)JCL
31 (0.435 %)Java
31 (0.435 %)JavaScript
31 (0.435 %)Perl
31 (0.435 %)SQL
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
110 (4.348 %)ISEB
21 (0.435 %)PRINCE2 Certification
21 (0.435 %)ACCA
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
110 (4.348 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
28 (3.478 %)QA
34 (1.739 %)Basel II
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.435 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 (0.435 %)RACF
11 (0.435 %)Active Directory
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.435 %)Tivoli
11 (0.435 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
11 (0.435 %)CONTROL-M
11 (0.435 %)NetBackup
11 (0.435 %)HP Quality Center
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
111 (4.783 %)Microsoft
26 (2.609 %)Temenos
35 (2.174 %)Oracle
35 (2.174 %)SAP
44 (1.739 %)Casewise
52 (0.870 %)Unisys
52 (0.870 %)IBM
52 (0.870 %)HP
61 (0.435 %)NCR
61 (0.435 %)Teradata
61 (0.435 %)Ab Initio
61 (0.435 %)Netezza