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The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 19 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 Bristol region.

 Financial
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank10105
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Down-5
Matching permanent IT job ads173244471
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol12.31 %13.67 %16.05 %
As % of the General category32.77 %33.20 %32.80 %
Salaries quoted163204408
Average salary£35,000£40,000£34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50 %+15.94 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£22,951
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£50,000£48,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£41,500£40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.400 %+3.750 %
Bristol IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
5287351436
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol37.58 %41.18 %48.94 %
Salaries quoted4776211261
Average salary£35,000£35,000£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+7.690 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£24,850£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£45,000£47,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.260 %+1.330 %
Finance South WestFinance
South West

Finance
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Finance across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Bristol Finance Demand Trend

Finance
Salary Trend

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

Bristol Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Bristol Finance Salary Histogram

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Bristol 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.

1108 (33.13 %)SQL
284 (25.77 %)SQL Server
373 (22.39 %)C#
458 (17.79 %).NET
556 (17.18 %)Sybase
642 (12.88 %)Windows
741 (12.58 %)Change Management
836 (11.04 %)Pensions
935 (10.74 %)UNIX
935 (10.74 %)VB
1033 (10.12 %)ITIL
1033 (10.12 %)SAS
1033 (10.12 %)Business Intelligence
1033 (10.12 %)Degree
1132 (9.816 %)Microsoft
1229 (8.896 %)Project Management
1229 (8.896 %)Oracle
1328 (8.589 %)Solaris
1427 (8.282 %)VB6
1526 (7.975 %)MS Excel
1625 (7.669 %)Banking
1625 (7.669 %)Telecoms
1724 (7.362 %)Java
1823 (7.055 %)Insurance
1823 (7.055 %)Load Balancing
1922 (6.748 %)Firewall
2020 (6.135 %)Agile Software Development
2118 (5.521 %)J2EE
2217 (5.215 %)MySQL
2217 (5.215 %)Health

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Bristol 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.

Bristol IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
158 (17.79 %).NET
218 (5.521 %)J2EE
315 (4.601 %)ASP.NET
414 (4.294 %)JSP
414 (4.294 %)Servlets
513 (3.988 %)JDBC
513 (3.988 %)XML
611 (3.374 %)Web Services
78 (2.454 %)CSS
78 (2.454 %)XSL
78 (2.454 %)HTML
78 (2.454 %).NET Framework
85 (1.534 %)Spring
85 (1.534 %)ASP
94 (1.227 %)DHTML
103 (0.920 %)WinForms
112 (0.613 %)ASP.NET MVC
112 (0.613 %)AJAX
112 (0.613 %)NHibernate
112 (0.613 %)MDX
Bristol IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
133 (10.12 %)SAS
28 (2.454 %)BizTalk Server
33 (0.920 %)Oracle Workflow
33 (0.920 %)Lotus Notes
33 (0.920 %)Lotus Domino
33 (0.920 %)MS Exchange
42 (0.613 %)ESB
51 (0.307 %)SharePoint Server 2007
51 (0.307 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
51 (0.307 %)IIS
51 (0.307 %)SharePoint
Bristol IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
126 (7.975 %)MS Excel
214 (4.294 %)Spreadsheet
34 (1.227 %)MS Office
41 (0.307 %)MS Project
41 (0.307 %)MS PowerPoint
Bristol IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (0.920 %)Oracle Financials
21 (0.307 %)SAP FI
21 (0.307 %)SAP FI/CO
21 (0.307 %)SAP CO
21 (0.307 %)Academy Housing
21 (0.307 %)arcHouse
Bristol IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
122 (6.748 %)Firewall
26 (1.840 %)Extranet
34 (1.227 %)TCP/IP
43 (0.920 %)IP Telephony
52 (0.613 %)DNS
52 (0.613 %)PBX
52 (0.613 %)VoIP
61 (0.307 %)WAN
61 (0.307 %)Intranet
61 (0.307 %)LAN
Bristol IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
184 (25.77 %)SQL Server
217 (5.215 %)MySQL
314 (4.294 %)Datawarehouse
412 (3.681 %)OLAP
510 (3.067 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
67 (2.147 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
76 (1.840 %)SQL Server 2005
76 (1.840 %)RDBMS
84 (1.227 %)Oracle 11g
93 (0.920 %)SAS Enterprise Guide
93 (0.920 %)SQL Server 2000
102 (0.613 %)BusinessObjects
102 (0.613 %)SQL Server Integration Services
102 (0.613 %)DB2
102 (0.613 %)Oracle 8/8i
102 (0.613 %)SQL Server 2008
111 (0.307 %)Base SAS
111 (0.307 %)MS Access
111 (0.307 %)Ingres
111 (0.307 %)Data Mining
Bristol IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
115 (4.601 %)Eclipse
22 (0.613 %)TestDirector
22 (0.613 %)NUnit
22 (0.613 %)Subversion
22 (0.613 %)Team Foundation Server
22 (0.613 %)Visual Studio
Bristol IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
136 (11.04 %)Pensions
225 (7.669 %)Banking
225 (7.669 %)Telecoms
323 (7.055 %)Insurance
417 (5.215 %)Health
511 (3.374 %)Retail
511 (3.374 %)Marketing
68 (2.454 %)Billing
68 (2.454 %)Back Office
74 (1.227 %)Law
74 (1.227 %)International Banking
83 (0.920 %)Investment Banking
92 (0.613 %)Music
92 (0.613 %)Legal
92 (0.613 %)Financial Institution
101 (0.307 %)Front Office
101 (0.307 %)Construction
101 (0.307 %)Government
101 (0.307 %)Manufacturing
101 (0.307 %)Retail Banking
Bristol IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1138 (42.33 %)Analyst
267 (20.55 %)Developer
349 (15.03 %)Support Analyst
443 (13.19 %)Project Manager
540 (12.27 %)Programmer
634 (10.43 %)Analyst Programmer
634 (10.43 %)Applications Support
721 (6.442 %)Business Analyst
721 (6.442 %)C# Developer
820 (6.135 %)Project Analyst
820 (6.135 %)Applications Developer
919 (5.828 %)Administrator
919 (5.828 %)Applications Support Analyst
1016 (4.908 %)MI Analyst
1115 (4.601 %)SAS Analyst
1115 (4.601 %)SAS Programmer
1214 (4.294 %)SAS Analyst Programmer
1313 (3.988 %)Change Manager
1313 (3.988 %)Consultant
1411 (3.374 %)Business Manager
Bristol IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (1.227 %)CMDB
14 (1.227 %)Credit Risk
14 (1.227 %)Mathematics
23 (0.920 %)Computer Science
23 (0.920 %)FMCG
23 (0.920 %)Management Information System
23 (0.920 %)AS400
32 (0.613 %)Equities
32 (0.613 %)Client/Server
41 (0.307 %)NHS
41 (0.307 %)Mainframe
41 (0.307 %)NPfIT
41 (0.307 %)Statistics
41 (0.307 %)Informatics
41 (0.307 %)Replication
41 (0.307 %)IBM Mainframe
41 (0.307 %)Data Conversion
Bristol IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
142 (12.88 %)Windows
235 (10.74 %)UNIX
328 (8.589 %)Solaris
48 (2.454 %)Linux
55 (1.534 %)Windows 7
62 (0.613 %)Windows Server 2003
62 (0.613 %)Windows 2000 Server
62 (0.613 %)Red Hat Linux
71 (0.307 %)Windows XP
71 (0.307 %)OS/400
Bristol IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
141 (12.58 %)Change Management
233 (10.12 %)ITIL
233 (10.12 %)Business Intelligence
329 (8.896 %)Project Management
423 (7.055 %)Load Balancing
520 (6.135 %)Agile Software Development
615 (4.601 %)PRINCE2
711 (3.374 %)Business Analysis
810 (3.067 %)Configuration Management
98 (2.454 %)Migration
98 (2.454 %)Stakeholder Management
107 (2.147 %)Data Migration
116 (1.840 %)Web Development
116 (1.840 %)Release Management
125 (1.534 %)Data Analysis
125 (1.534 %)ERP
134 (1.227 %)Workflow
134 (1.227 %)Test Scripting
143 (0.920 %)Manual Testing
143 (0.920 %)Product Marketing
Bristol IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1108 (33.13 %)SQL
273 (22.39 %)C#
335 (10.74 %)VB
427 (8.282 %)VB6
524 (7.362 %)Java
613 (3.988 %)PHP
712 (3.681 %)VB.NET
811 (3.374 %)VBA
99 (2.761 %)C
107 (2.147 %)JavaScript
107 (2.147 %)C++
113 (0.920 %)T-SQL
113 (0.920 %)LotusScript
113 (0.920 %)Formula Language
122 (0.613 %)COBOL
131 (0.307 %)RPG
Bristol IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
133 (10.12 %)Degree
210 (3.067 %)PMP
210 (3.067 %)PMI Certification
37 (2.147 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
44 (1.227 %)ISEB
53 (0.920 %)Security Cleared
53 (0.920 %)PhD
62 (0.613 %)Microsoft Certification
62 (0.613 %)PRINCE2 Certification
62 (0.613 %)MCP
62 (0.613 %)MCSE
71 (0.307 %)ISEB Practitioner
Bristol IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
14 (1.227 %)SLA
14 (1.227 %)QA
Bristol IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15 (1.534 %)Active Directory
22 (0.613 %)MetaFrame
22 (0.613 %)VMware Infrastructure
Bristol IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (0.613 %)OpenView
12 (0.613 %)NetBackup
21 (0.307 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
Bristol IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
156 (17.18 %)Sybase
232 (9.816 %)Microsoft
329 (8.896 %)Oracle
48 (2.454 %)Sun
57 (2.147 %)Citrix
63 (0.920 %)Lotus
63 (0.920 %)HP
63 (0.920 %)Cisco
63 (0.920 %)SAP
63 (0.920 %)Primavera
72 (0.613 %)VMware
72 (0.613 %)Cognos
72 (0.613 %)Business Objects
72 (0.613 %)IBM
72 (0.613 %)Red Hat
72 (0.613 %)Agresso
72 (0.613 %)Sage
72 (0.613 %)Symantec
72 (0.613 %)Avaya
81 (0.307 %)Juniper