The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Banking over the 3 months to 21 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Banking
Rank 48 31 40
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +9
Permanent jobs citing Banking 77 120 91
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 4.271% 6.126% 5.562%
As % of the General category 13.21% 16.15% 18.53%
Number of salaries quoted 45 99 80
Average salary £50,000 £58,500 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.52% +48.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £39,000 £31,250
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +11.11%
All of the General Category
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
583 743 491
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 32.33% 37.93% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 439 653 422
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,900 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £62,700
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Banking
North West

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Banking Salary Trend

Banking
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Banking across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cheshire Banking Salary Histogram

Banking
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Knutsford -17 12 £42,500 -18.26%
Chester -8 11 £32,000 -1.53%
Wilmslow - 3 £30,000 -
Warrington - 2 - -
Banking
North West

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 104 (65.00%) Finance
2 47 (29.38%) Risk Management
3 46 (28.75%) UNIX
4 45 (28.13%) ITIL
5 40 (25.00%) Java
5 40 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 38 (23.75%) Windows
7 33 (20.63%) Project Management
8 32 (20.00%) SQL
9 31 (19.38%) Linux
10 29 (18.13%) Incident Management
11 27 (16.88%) Oracle
12 26 (16.25%) WebSphere
13 25 (15.63%) Financial Institution
14 24 (15.00%) Mainframe
15 23 (14.38%) Problem Management
16 21 (13.13%) Retail
16 21 (13.13%) DB2
17 17 (10.63%) MS Excel
18 16 (10.00%) Change Management
18 16 (10.00%) Management Information System
18 16 (10.00%) Online Banking
19 15 (9.375%) Retail Banking
19 15 (9.375%) SQL Server
19 15 (9.375%) .NET
19 15 (9.375%) J2EE
19 15 (9.375%) IBM
20 14 (8.750%) Microsoft
20 14 (8.750%) JSP
20 14 (8.750%) AIX

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 26 (16.25%) WebSphere
2 15 (9.375%) .NET
2 15 (9.375%) J2EE
3 14 (8.750%) JSP
4 11 (6.875%) JDBC
5 9 (5.625%) Middleware
5 9 (5.625%) Struts
5 9 (5.625%) JMS
6 8 (5.000%) Web Services
7 7 (4.375%) Hibernate
7 7 (4.375%) JNDI
8 6 (3.750%) HTML
8 6 (3.750%) Ajax
8 6 (3.750%) ISPF
9 5 (3.125%) Servlets
9 5 (3.125%) HTML5
10 4 (2.500%) Stripes Framework
10 4 (2.500%) CSS
10 4 (2.500%) JSTL
10 4 (2.500%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 5 (3.125%) Tomcat
1 5 (3.125%) CICS
2 4 (2.500%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (1.875%) ESB
3 3 (1.875%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 3 (1.875%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.875%) MQSeries
3 3 (1.875%) Gentran
4 2 (1.250%) SAS
4 2 (1.250%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.625%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.625%) Apache
Applications
1 17 (10.63%) MS Excel
2 11 (6.875%) MS Office
3 4 (2.500%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.250%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.625%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.500%) BASE24
2 3 (1.875%) Maximo
2 3 (1.875%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (0.625%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.750%) Internet
2 5 (3.125%) FTP
3 4 (2.500%) SSL
3 4 (2.500%) SMS
4 2 (1.250%) Network Security
4 2 (1.250%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.250%) LDAP
4 2 (1.250%) Firewall
5 1 (0.625%) ATM
5 1 (0.625%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.13%) DB2
2 15 (9.375%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.125%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.500%) Oracle 10g
4 4 (2.500%) Oracle 9i
5 3 (1.875%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.250%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.250%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.625%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.625%) MS Access
7 1 (0.625%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.625%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (5.000%) LoadRunner
2 4 (2.500%) TortoiseSVN
2 4 (2.500%) NetBeans IDE
2 4 (2.500%) Eclipse
2 4 (2.500%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 4 (2.500%) Subversion
2 4 (2.500%) NetBeans
3 3 (1.875%) ChangeMan
4 2 (1.250%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.625%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.625%) ClearCase
General
1 104 (65.00%) Finance
2 25 (15.63%) Financial Institution
3 21 (13.13%) Retail
4 15 (9.375%) Retail Banking
5 14 (8.750%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (6.875%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.000%) Private Banking
8 3 (1.875%) Legal
9 2 (1.250%) Local Government
9 2 (1.250%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.625%) Games
10 1 (0.625%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (16.88%) Applications Support
2 23 (14.38%) Analyst
3 21 (13.13%) Architect
3 21 (13.13%) Project Manager
4 19 (11.88%) Applications Specialist
4 19 (11.88%) Support Specialist
4 19 (11.88%) Applications Support Specialist
5 13 (8.125%) Developer
6 11 (6.875%) Consultant
7 10 (6.250%) Support Engineer
8 8 (5.000%) Integration Architect
8 8 (5.000%) Technical Support
8 8 (5.000%) Technical Support Engineer
8 8 (5.000%) Technical Engineer
9 7 (4.375%) Service Manager
10 6 (3.750%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.125%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (3.125%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.125%) Applications Support Analyst
11 5 (3.125%) Incident Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.00%) Mainframe
2 16 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 16 (10.00%) Online Banking
3 11 (6.875%) PMI
4 6 (3.750%) Tandem
5 5 (3.125%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.125%) IBM Mainframe
6 4 (2.500%) Social Media
6 4 (2.500%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (2.500%) Cryptography
7 3 (1.875%) Statistics
7 3 (1.875%) LPAR
8 2 (1.250%) SWIFT
8 2 (1.250%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.250%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.625%) AS400
9 1 (0.625%) PKI
9 1 (0.625%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.625%) iSeries
9 1 (0.625%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 46 (28.75%) UNIX
2 38 (23.75%) Windows
3 31 (19.38%) Linux
4 14 (8.750%) AIX
5 9 (5.625%) Android
5 9 (5.625%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.500%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (2.500%) VMS
6 4 (2.500%) OpenVMS
7 3 (1.875%) zOS
7 3 (1.875%) MVS
8 2 (1.250%) Windows NT
9 1 (0.625%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.625%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.625%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.625%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (29.38%) Risk Management
2 45 (28.13%) ITIL
3 40 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (20.63%) Project Management
5 29 (18.13%) Incident Management
6 23 (14.38%) Problem Management
7 16 (10.00%) Change Management
8 14 (8.750%) Performance Management
9 13 (8.125%) Test Management
10 12 (7.500%) PRINCE2
11 11 (6.875%) Service Management
11 11 (6.875%) Information Security
12 10 (6.250%) ITSM
12 10 (6.250%) Migration
13 9 (5.625%) Technical Architecture
13 9 (5.625%) Asset Management
13 9 (5.625%) Agile Software Development
14 8 (5.000%) Data Architecture
14 8 (5.000%) Performance Testing
14 8 (5.000%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.00%) Java
2 32 (20.00%) SQL
3 8 (5.000%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.750%) JCL
5 5 (3.125%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.500%) COBOL
6 4 (2.500%) C
6 4 (2.500%) C#
6 4 (2.500%) Perl
7 3 (1.875%) C++
8 2 (1.250%) SAS Macro
8 2 (1.250%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (6.875%) PMI Certification
2 10 (6.250%) Degree
3 5 (3.125%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (2.500%) CISSP
4 4 (2.500%) QiCA
4 4 (2.500%) CISM
5 3 (1.875%) CISA
5 3 (1.875%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.250%) SCJA
6 2 (1.250%) CEH
6 2 (1.250%) SCJP
7 1 (0.625%) MCTS
7 1 (0.625%) MCSE
7 1 (0.625%) CCIE
7 1 (0.625%) CCNP
7 1 (0.625%) CCNA
7 1 (0.625%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.625%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.500%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (1.875%) QA
2 3 (1.875%) Basel III
3 2 (1.250%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.250%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.875%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.625%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.000%) Tivoli
2 3 (1.875%) CA Endevor
2 3 (1.875%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (1.875%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (0.625%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.625%) SCCM
3 1 (0.625%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 27 (16.88%) Oracle
2 15 (9.375%) IBM
3 14 (8.750%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.625%) HP
5 5 (3.125%) Citrix
6 4 (2.500%) SAP
7 3 (1.875%) Axway
7 3 (1.875%) JBoss
7 3 (1.875%) EMC
7 3 (1.875%) Hyperion
8 2 (1.250%) Wall Street Systems
8 2 (1.250%) Pega
8 2 (1.250%) Fujitsu
9 1 (0.625%) Altiris
9 1 (0.625%) LANDesk
9 1 (0.625%) Sybase
9 1 (0.625%) Chordiant
9 1 (0.625%) Siebel
9 1 (0.625%) Cisco
9 1 (0.625%) Nortel
Cheshire, North West
The successful candidate will have proven application support experience within a live environment & experience of some/all of the following skills: UNIX Scripting, Linux, Java, .NET, SQL, Oracle,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 18 May 2013
Cheshire
The successful candidate will have proven application support experience within a live environment & experience of some/all of the following skills: UNIX Scripting, Linux, Java, .NET, SQL, Oracle,...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cheshire
The successful Application Support Engineer (ITIL, Java, MQ, Unix, Linux) will have: - Extensive application support experience (Unix, Linux, Oracle, Java, MQ Messaging, Citrix) - ITIL is a must have -...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Market-Leading Package
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
Lead Application Support Specialist - ITIL, UNIX Scripting, Linux, SQL, Java, Incident Management, Problem Management - This is an excellent opportunity to progress a challenging, varied and stable career working...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent package
Posted: 3 May 2013
Cheshire
Service Manager, with excellent Information Security experience, required by market leading financial services client based in Cheshire. This company is renowned for offering diverse and exciting careers within...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cheshire
Service Operation Manager (ITIL, Delivery, Banking) A leading global bank is searching for a Service Operation Manager (ITIL, Delivery, Banking) to join the Operations Team of their Corporate...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum + Overtime/On-Call, Banking Bonus and benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cheshire
A leading global bank is searching for a Security Solutions Consultant (Banking, Risk, Assurance , PCI) to assume a client facing role within its information security practice... - Relevant industry...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: £55,000 per annum + Banking Bonus and Flexible Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cheshire
A leading global financial organisation is searching for an outstanding candidate for the position of Senior Service Manager (Authentication, Security, Banking ) to join their Global Information Security practice... )...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum + Banking Bonus and Comprehensive Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013