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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Banking
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Permanent jobs citing Banking 112 154 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 37.21% 46.39% 27.64%
As % of the General category 44.62% 55.40% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 67 140 42
Average salary £85,000 £72,500 £68,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.24% +5.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £40,500
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £100,000 £99,500
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +11.11%
All of the General Category
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
251 278 168
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 83.39% 83.73% 84.42%
Number of salaries quoted 196 227 131
Average salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £47,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £115,000 £90,000 £92,250
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Banking
London

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Banking
Salary Trend

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

Canary Wharf Banking Salary Trend

Banking
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Banking across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Banking Salary Histogram

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Banking.

1 152 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 142 (46.71%) Finance
3 108 (35.53%) SQL
4 98 (32.24%) Degree
5 82 (26.97%) C#
6 73 (24.01%) OO
7 70 (23.03%) Java
8 68 (22.37%) Oracle
9 67 (22.04%) Project Management
10 58 (19.08%) UML
11 53 (17.43%) Data Modelling
12 52 (17.11%) SQL Server
13 47 (15.46%) Stress Testing
14 46 (15.13%) Technical Architecture
15 43 (14.14%) UNIX
16 42 (13.82%) Risk Management
17 39 (12.83%) Back Office
18 36 (11.84%) .NET
19 35 (11.51%) Windows
19 35 (11.51%) ETL
20 34 (11.18%) Basel III
21 33 (10.86%) Scrum
21 33 (10.86%) Business Analysis
22 32 (10.53%) Market Risk
23 31 (10.20%) Credit Risk
23 31 (10.20%) Multithreading
23 31 (10.20%) Front Office
24 29 (9.539%) XML
25 27 (8.882%) Integration Testing
26 24 (7.895%) TDD

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 36 (11.84%) .NET
2 29 (9.539%) XML
3 19 (6.250%) WCF
4 18 (5.921%) .NET Framework
5 15 (4.934%) HTML
6 13 (4.276%) Middleware
6 13 (4.276%) WebSphere
7 11 (3.618%) Software Packaging
8 9 (2.961%) XSLT
9 6 (1.974%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (1.645%) WPF
11 3 (0.987%) J2SE
11 3 (0.987%) STL
11 3 (0.987%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 2 (0.658%) Java Concurrency
12 2 (0.658%) Guice
12 2 (0.658%) WinForms
13 1 (0.329%) Spring
13 1 (0.329%) J2EE
13 1 (0.329%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 9 (2.961%) WebLogic
1 9 (2.961%) IIS
1 9 (2.961%) Apache
2 4 (1.316%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.987%) SAS
3 3 (0.987%) Tuxedo
4 2 (0.658%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.329%) TPMS
5 1 (0.329%) GemFire
5 1 (0.329%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (0.329%) MQSeries
Applications
1 18 (5.921%) MS Excel
2 10 (3.289%) MS PowerPoint
3 7 (2.303%) MS Office
4 5 (1.645%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.658%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.961%) RMDS
2 2 (0.658%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.329%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.237%) FTP
2 9 (2.961%) SAN
2 9 (2.961%) NAS
3 2 (0.658%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.329%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.11%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.908%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (5.921%) TOAD
3 18 (5.921%) SQLPlus
4 14 (4.605%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (1.974%) MS Access
6 5 (1.645%) KDB
6 5 (1.645%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.316%) GIS
7 4 (1.316%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (1.316%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.987%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.658%) MySQL
9 2 (0.658%) Informix
9 2 (0.658%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.658%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.329%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 18 (5.921%) NUnit
1 18 (5.921%) CruiseControl
1 18 (5.921%) TeamCity
1 18 (5.921%) Rhino Mocks
1 18 (5.921%) Moq
2 5 (1.645%) Subversion
3 4 (1.316%) Eclipse
4 3 (0.987%) ClearCase
4 3 (0.987%) LoadRunner
4 3 (0.987%) JIRA
5 2 (0.658%) Git (software)
5 2 (0.658%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.658%) Maven
6 1 (0.329%) Ant
6 1 (0.329%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.329%) Hudson
6 1 (0.329%) Jenkins
General
1 152 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 142 (46.71%) Finance
3 39 (12.83%) Back Office
4 31 (10.20%) Front Office
5 13 (4.276%) Financial Institution
6 6 (1.974%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (0.987%) Publishing
7 3 (0.987%) Retail
8 2 (0.658%) Marketing
8 2 (0.658%) French Language
8 2 (0.658%) Italian Language
8 2 (0.658%) Portuguese Language
8 2 (0.658%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.329%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.329%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (32.57%) Analyst
2 67 (22.04%) Business Analyst
3 57 (18.75%) Banking Business Analyst
4 55 (18.09%) Architect
5 44 (14.47%) Developer
6 30 (9.868%) Project Manager
6 30 (9.868%) Senior Manager
7 28 (9.211%) C# Developer
7 28 (9.211%) Lead Architect
8 26 (8.553%) Market Risk Business Analyst
8 26 (8.553%) Market Risk Analyst
9 19 (6.250%) Lead Developer
9 19 (6.250%) Agile C# Developer
10 18 (5.921%) Lead C# Developer
10 18 (5.921%) Test Manager
10 18 (5.921%) Senior Test Manager
11 15 (4.934%) Technical Architect
11 15 (4.934%) Lead Technical Architect
12 13 (4.276%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.947%) Release Manager
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.53%) Market Risk
2 31 (10.20%) Credit Risk
3 17 (5.592%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (4.276%) Equities
4 13 (4.276%) Derivative
5 6 (1.974%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.974%) PMI
6 5 (1.645%) Computer Science
6 5 (1.645%) SWIFT
7 2 (0.658%) Mathematics
7 2 (0.658%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.658%) AS400
7 2 (0.658%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (0.658%) Statistics
8 1 (0.329%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.329%) Replication
8 1 (0.329%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.329%) CMDB
8 1 (0.329%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.14%) UNIX
2 35 (11.51%) Windows
3 22 (7.237%) Solaris
4 16 (5.263%) Linux
5 4 (1.316%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (1.316%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (1.316%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.987%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.658%) Android
7 2 (0.658%) Windows XP
7 2 (0.658%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (24.01%) OO
2 67 (22.04%) Project Management
3 58 (19.08%) UML
4 53 (17.43%) Data Modelling
5 47 (15.46%) Stress Testing
6 46 (15.13%) Technical Architecture
7 42 (13.82%) Risk Management
8 35 (11.51%) ETL
9 33 (10.86%) Scrum
9 33 (10.86%) Business Analysis
10 31 (10.20%) Multithreading
11 27 (8.882%) Integration Testing
12 24 (7.895%) TDD
12 24 (7.895%) Validation
13 22 (7.237%) Performance Testing
13 22 (7.237%) Agile Software Development
14 21 (6.908%) Change Management
14 21 (6.908%) PRINCE2
15 20 (6.579%) BPEL
16 19 (6.250%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 108 (35.53%) SQL
2 82 (26.97%) C#
3 70 (23.03%) Java
4 15 (4.934%) PL/SQL
5 11 (3.618%) C++
6 9 (2.961%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.961%) VBA
7 7 (2.303%) VB
8 6 (1.974%) VBScript
8 6 (1.974%) VB6
9 4 (1.316%) Perl
10 3 (0.987%) C
10 3 (0.987%) Scala
10 3 (0.987%) Clojure
11 2 (0.658%) C-shell
11 2 (0.658%) Haskell
11 2 (0.658%) F#
11 2 (0.658%) Python
11 2 (0.658%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.658%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 98 (32.24%) Degree
2 7 (2.303%) PMI Certification
3 6 (1.974%) CFA
4 2 (0.658%) PhD
4 2 (0.658%) ISEB
5 1 (0.329%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.329%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.329%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.18%) Basel III
2 14 (4.605%) QA
3 11 (3.618%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.987%) Basel II
5 2 (0.658%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (0.987%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (0.987%) Puppet
2 2 (0.658%) Nagios
2 2 (0.658%) YUM
Vendors
1 68 (22.37%) Oracle
2 12 (3.947%) Sybase
2 12 (3.947%) DataSynapse
3 11 (3.618%) Business Objects
4 9 (2.961%) Cisco
4 9 (2.961%) EMC
4 9 (2.961%) NetApp
4 9 (2.961%) 29West
5 6 (1.974%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.645%) Informatica
7 4 (1.316%) Perforce
7 4 (1.316%) SunGard
7 4 (1.316%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.316%) Teradata
8 2 (0.658%) HP
8 2 (0.658%) Intel
8 2 (0.658%) FatWire
8 2 (0.658%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.329%) Advent
9 1 (0.329%) Murex