The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Contract for Difference in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Contract for Difference over the 3 months to 17 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 Miscellaneous category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Contract for Difference (CFD)
Rank 313 292 282
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -10
Permanent jobs citing Contract for Difference 4 34 54
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.034% 0.259% 0.353%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.083% 0.655% 0.803%
Number of salaries quoted 4 33 44
Average salary £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.52% -13.63%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 - £43,750
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
4842 5190 6722
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 41.48% 39.47% 43.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4176 4753 6083
Average salary £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Contract for Difference
London

Contract for Difference
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Contract for Difference across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

City of London Contract for Difference Jobs Demand Trend

Contract for Difference
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Contract for Difference across the City of London region.

City of London Contract for Difference Salary Trend

Contract for Difference
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Contract for Difference across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Contract for Difference Salary Histogram

Contract for Difference
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Contract for Difference 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Contract for Difference.

1 17 (100.00%) Finance
2 11 (64.71%) Derivative
2 11 (64.71%) Spread Betting
3 9 (52.94%) Banking
3 9 (52.94%) Equities
4 8 (47.06%) Degree
4 8 (47.06%) Project Management
5 7 (41.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (41.18%) SQL
5 7 (41.18%) Investment Banking
5 7 (41.18%) Business Analysis
5 7 (41.18%) Back Office
6 6 (35.29%) Fixed Income
6 6 (35.29%) General Ledger
6 6 (35.29%) Data Analysis
6 6 (35.29%) IT Governance
6 6 (35.29%) C#
6 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (29.41%) CRM
7 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (29.41%) QA
8 4 (23.53%) Ajax
9 3 (17.65%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
9 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
9 3 (17.65%) DNS
9 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
9 3 (17.65%) CSS
9 3 (17.65%) Java
9 3 (17.65%) JavaScript

Contract for Difference
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Contract for Difference also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Contract for Difference. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (23.53%) Ajax
2 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 2 (11.76%) XML
3 2 (11.76%) Spring
3 2 (11.76%) HTML5
3 2 (11.76%) CSS3
3 2 (11.76%) HTML
4 1 (5.882%) Java EE
4 1 (5.882%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) WebLogic
1 1 (5.882%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) Internet
2 2 (11.76%) DHCP
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (5.882%) JIRA
General
1 17 (100.00%) Finance
2 9 (52.94%) Banking
3 7 (41.18%) Investment Banking
3 7 (41.18%) Back Office
4 6 (35.29%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.882%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Test Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Support Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Applications Support
3 3 (17.65%) Applications Support Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Banking Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) IT Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Support
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Graduate
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Derivative
1 11 (64.71%) Spread Betting
2 9 (52.94%) Equities
3 7 (41.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (35.29%) Fixed Income
5 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.76%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Project Management
2 7 (41.18%) Business Analysis
3 6 (35.29%) Data Analysis
3 6 (35.29%) IT Governance
3 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (29.41%) CRM
5 3 (17.65%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
6 2 (11.76%) Web Development
7 1 (5.882%) Web Application Development
7 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (5.882%) OOD
7 1 (5.882%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.882%) Perl
4 1 (5.882%) ECMAScript
4 1 (5.882%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Business Objects
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) Sybase
2 1 (5.882%) JBoss
City, London
Web Developer / UI Programmer (JavaScript UX HTML5 CSS3 AJAX JSP)... Requirements for Web Developer: Strong experience with front end / web technologies: JavaScript (jQuery, YUI, ExtJs, Prototype), AJAX, CSS3,...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £60k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
Web Developer / Front End Programmer (JavaScript HTML CSS Web RIA)... Advocate of agile methodologies - pair programming, test based development - TDD/ BDD... Desirable: Java, Spring, Maven, jQuery, low latency...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £60k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013