The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 97 199 108
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 41.99% 52.79% 53.73%
As % of the General category 50.79% 61.80% 67.50%
Number of salaries quoted 87 160 81
Average salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.44% +11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £47,500 £43,000
10% offered a salary of more than £117,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
191 322 160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 82.68% 85.41% 79.60%
Number of salaries quoted 157 275 115
Average salary £80,000 £72,500 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.34% +7.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,900 £47,500 £44,600
10% offered a salary of more than £115,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Finance
London

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Salary Histogram

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

Canary Wharf Finance Salary Histogram

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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.

1 102 (40.48%) Banking
2 69 (27.38%) SQL
3 68 (26.98%) Degree
4 55 (21.83%) UNIX
4 55 (21.83%) Investment Banking
5 52 (20.63%) Java
6 47 (18.65%) Linux
7 44 (17.46%) Windows
8 39 (15.48%) C#
8 39 (15.48%) Project Management
9 34 (13.49%) Oracle
10 33 (13.10%) OO
11 30 (11.90%) Multithreading
12 29 (11.51%) Front Office
13 28 (11.11%) PRINCE2
14 27 (10.71%) Shell Script
14 27 (10.71%) QA
15 26 (10.32%) Credit Risk
16 25 (9.921%) .NET
17 24 (9.524%) SQL Server
17 24 (9.524%) C++
17 24 (9.524%) Change Management
17 24 (9.524%) Scrum
18 23 (9.127%) TDD
18 23 (9.127%) Sybase
19 22 (8.730%) XML
19 22 (8.730%) Service Delivery
19 22 (8.730%) Stakeholder Management
19 22 (8.730%) User Acceptance Testing
20 21 (8.333%) Validation

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 Development
1 25 (9.921%) .NET
2 22 (8.730%) XML
3 21 (8.333%) Spring
4 17 (6.746%) WebSphere MQ
4 17 (6.746%) Rendezvous
4 17 (6.746%) Middleware
4 17 (6.746%) WebSphere
5 13 (5.159%) HTML
6 12 (4.762%) WCF
7 10 (3.968%) .NET Framework
8 7 (2.778%) Software Packaging
8 7 (2.778%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 7 (2.778%) STL
9 6 (2.381%) WPF
10 5 (1.984%) Symfony
11 4 (1.587%) Hibernate
11 4 (1.587%) CSS
12 3 (1.190%) JSP
12 3 (1.190%) J2EE
12 3 (1.190%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 18 (7.143%) GemFire
2 17 (6.746%) TIBCO EMS
2 17 (6.746%) MQSeries
3 7 (2.778%) Mathematica
4 2 (0.794%) Lync
4 2 (0.794%) Office Communications Server
4 2 (0.794%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.794%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.397%) Drupal
5 1 (0.397%) TPMS
5 1 (0.397%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.397%) Documentum
5 1 (0.397%) SAS
5 1 (0.397%) TeamSite
5 1 (0.397%) CMS
5 1 (0.397%) Liferay
5 1 (0.397%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.397%) MindAlign
5 1 (0.397%) Joomla!
Applications
1 19 (7.540%) MS Excel
2 8 (3.175%) MS Project
3 3 (1.190%) MS Office
3 3 (1.190%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.397%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.587%) SAP MDM
2 1 (0.397%) RMDS
2 1 (0.397%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.952%) FTP
2 8 (3.175%) HTTP
3 5 (1.984%) Internet
4 3 (1.190%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (1.190%) Network Security
5 2 (0.794%) Firewall
5 2 (0.794%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.397%) Wireless
6 1 (0.397%) DWDM
6 1 (0.397%) MPLS
6 1 (0.397%) OSPF
6 1 (0.397%) BGP
6 1 (0.397%) RTP
6 1 (0.397%) NetScreen
6 1 (0.397%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.397%) DNS
6 1 (0.397%) LDAP
6 1 (0.397%) ISDN
6 1 (0.397%) LAN
6 1 (0.397%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.524%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.937%) Informix
2 20 (7.937%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.746%) Hadoop
4 12 (4.762%) MySQL
5 10 (3.968%) TOAD
5 10 (3.968%) SQLPlus
6 9 (3.571%) SQL Server 2008
7 8 (3.175%) MS Access
7 8 (3.175%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.587%) SAP BW
9 3 (1.190%) SQL Server 2005
10 2 (0.794%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.397%) Big Data
11 1 (0.397%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 12 (4.762%) NUnit
1 12 (4.762%) TeamCity
1 12 (4.762%) Moq
2 10 (3.968%) Rhino Mocks
2 10 (3.968%) CruiseControl
3 6 (2.381%) Maven
4 4 (1.587%) SAP CE
5 3 (1.190%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.190%) JIRA
5 3 (1.190%) Ant
6 2 (0.794%) Selenium
6 2 (0.794%) Subversion
7 1 (0.397%) JUnit
7 1 (0.397%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.397%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.397%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (0.397%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.397%) Git (software)
7 1 (0.397%) JBehave
7 1 (0.397%) WebDriver
General
1 102 (40.48%) Banking
2 55 (21.83%) Investment Banking
3 29 (11.51%) Front Office
4 20 (7.937%) Financial Institution
5 9 (3.571%) Back Office
5 9 (3.571%) Publishing
6 4 (1.587%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (1.587%) French Language
6 4 (1.587%) Italian Language
6 4 (1.587%) Portuguese Language
6 4 (1.587%) Spanish Language
7 3 (1.190%) Marketing
8 2 (0.794%) Retail
9 1 (0.397%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.397%) Games
9 1 (0.397%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.397%) Legal
9 1 (0.397%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.397%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (26.19%) Analyst
2 64 (25.40%) Developer
3 29 (11.51%) Senior Manager
4 26 (10.32%) Business Analyst
5 22 (8.730%) C# Developer
6 18 (7.143%) Banking Business Analyst
7 17 (6.746%) Middleware Engineer
7 17 (6.746%) Project Manager
8 15 (5.952%) Senior Analyst
8 15 (5.952%) Java Developer
9 13 (5.159%) Test Manager
9 13 (5.159%) Senior Test Manager
10 12 (4.762%) C++ Developer
11 11 (4.365%) Senior Project Manager
11 11 (4.365%) Architect
11 11 (4.365%) Support Engineer
12 10 (3.968%) Lead Developer
12 10 (3.968%) Lead C# Developer
12 10 (3.968%) Agile C# Developer
13 9 (3.571%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.32%) Credit Risk
2 13 (5.159%) Market Risk
3 10 (3.968%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.968%) Computer Science
4 7 (2.778%) Physics
4 7 (2.778%) SaaS
5 5 (1.984%) Mathematics
5 5 (1.984%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (1.984%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.587%) PMI
6 4 (1.587%) Open Source
6 4 (1.587%) SWIFT
7 3 (1.190%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.190%) Visualisation
7 3 (1.190%) Tandem
7 3 (1.190%) Derivative
7 3 (1.190%) Statistics
8 2 (0.794%) Equities
9 1 (0.397%) Credit Derivative
9 1 (0.397%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 55 (21.83%) UNIX
2 47 (18.65%) Linux
3 44 (17.46%) Windows
4 16 (6.349%) Solaris
5 11 (4.365%) Windows Server 2003
5 11 (4.365%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (4.365%) Windows 7
6 9 (3.571%) Apple iOS
6 9 (3.571%) Android
7 2 (0.794%) Windows XP
7 2 (0.794%) VMS
8 1 (0.397%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (15.48%) Project Management
2 33 (13.10%) OO
3 30 (11.90%) Multithreading
4 28 (11.11%) PRINCE2
5 24 (9.524%) Change Management
5 24 (9.524%) Scrum
6 23 (9.127%) TDD
7 22 (8.730%) User Acceptance Testing
7 22 (8.730%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (8.730%) Service Delivery
8 21 (8.333%) Validation
9 19 (7.540%) Business Continuity
9 19 (7.540%) Business Analysis
10 18 (7.143%) UML
10 18 (7.143%) ITIL
11 14 (5.556%) Risk Management
11 14 (5.556%) Performance Testing
12 13 (5.159%) Test Strategy
13 12 (4.762%) Release Management
13 12 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 69 (27.38%) SQL
2 52 (20.63%) Java
3 39 (15.48%) C#
4 27 (10.71%) Shell Script
5 24 (9.524%) C++
6 18 (7.143%) JavaScript
7 17 (6.746%) Clojure
8 15 (5.952%) C
9 13 (5.159%) VBA
10 11 (4.365%) PHP
11 7 (2.778%) MATLAB
12 6 (2.381%) VB6
12 6 (2.381%) VBScript
12 6 (2.381%) VB
12 6 (2.381%) Perl
13 5 (1.984%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.587%) Korn
15 2 (0.794%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.397%) Scala
16 1 (0.397%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 68 (26.98%) Degree
2 6 (2.381%) ISEB
3 4 (1.587%) PMI Certification
4 3 (1.190%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.397%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.397%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.397%) CISA
5 1 (0.397%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.71%) QA
2 7 (2.778%) Basel III
3 6 (2.381%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.190%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.397%) Basel II
5 1 (0.397%) SLA
Systems Management
1 9 (3.571%) Nagios
2 2 (0.794%) BladeLogic
3 1 (0.397%) Zenoss
3 1 (0.397%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.397%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (13.49%) Oracle
2 23 (9.127%) Sybase
3 20 (7.937%) DataSynapse
4 17 (6.746%) TIBCO
4 17 (6.746%) IBM
4 17 (6.746%) Sun
5 10 (3.968%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.571%) SolarWinds
7 7 (2.778%) Business Objects
8 5 (1.984%) Capita
8 5 (1.984%) Zend
9 4 (1.587%) Microsoft
9 4 (1.587%) SAP
10 3 (1.190%) Salesforce.com
11 2 (0.794%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.794%) FatWire
11 2 (0.794%) Leostream
12 1 (0.397%) Cadis
12 1 (0.397%) Google
12 1 (0.397%) SimCorp