The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT jobs advertised for the Bolton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance 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 Bolton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 34 27 20
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2 16 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 1.681% 11.51% 3.448%
As % of the General category 7.143% 84.21% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 2
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £24,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% +44.32%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
Bolton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
28 19 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 23.53% 13.67% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26 19 8
Average salary £35,000 £33,750 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.70% +14.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,750 £20,000 £22,200
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £32,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Finance
Manchester

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bolton Finance Jobs Demand Trend

Finance
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Finance across the Bolton region.

Bolton Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Finance.

1 3 (37.50%) Back Office
1 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
1 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Analysis
1 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (37.50%) User Stories
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Product Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) Statistics
2 2 (25.00%) Operations Research
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) SAS
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) Postgraduate
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Intel

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Finance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SAS
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) OLAP
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (37.50%) Back Office
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Marketing Data Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Marketing Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Business Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (12.50%) MI Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Statistics
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
1 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Analysis
1 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (37.50%) User Stories
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Product Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) Operations Research
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Postgraduate
2 1 (12.50%) HNC
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Citrix Presentation Server
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Intel
1 1 (12.50%) Citrix
1 1 (12.50%) Sophos
1 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
1 1 (12.50%) Fujitsu