The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 13 16 24
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 50 22 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 14.79% 14.10% 13.10%
As % of the General category 65.79% 42.31% 51.56%
Number of salaries quoted 26 19 33
Average salary £39,750 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.62% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £31,000 £25,100
10% offered a salary of more than £56,250 £46,200 £44,800
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
76 52 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 22.49% 33.33% 25.40%
Number of salaries quoted 50 47 62
Average salary £37,500 £29,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.31% -17.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £22,807 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £42,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Finance
Cheshire

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the Chester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Chester Finance Salary Histogram

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 23 (27.06%) Financial Institution
2 22 (25.88%) UNIX
3 21 (24.71%) Risk Management
4 19 (22.35%) SQL
5 17 (20.00%) Banking
6 15 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
6 15 (17.65%) Windows
7 14 (16.47%) Linux
7 14 (16.47%) HTTP
8 13 (15.29%) Asset Management
9 11 (12.94%) Retail
9 11 (12.94%) JCL
9 11 (12.94%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (12.94%) E-Commerce
10 10 (11.76%) MS Excel
10 10 (11.76%) ETL
10 10 (11.76%) IBM
10 10 (11.76%) MS Office
10 10 (11.76%) Oracle
10 10 (11.76%) Investment Banking
10 10 (11.76%) Retail Banking
10 10 (11.76%) Private Banking
10 10 (11.76%) Online Banking
10 10 (11.76%) Wealth Management
10 10 (11.76%) Investment Management
11 9 (10.59%) ITIL
11 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
11 9 (10.59%) Mainframe
12 8 (9.412%) HP
12 8 (9.412%) XML

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 8 (9.412%) XML
1 8 (9.412%) .NET
1 8 (9.412%) ISPF
2 7 (8.235%) Spring
2 7 (8.235%) SOAP
2 7 (8.235%) Web Services
3 6 (7.059%) CSS
4 4 (4.706%) Hibernate
4 4 (4.706%) HTML
4 4 (4.706%) Ajax
5 3 (3.529%) ODBC
6 2 (2.353%) CSS3
6 2 (2.353%) JAX-RPC
6 2 (2.353%) WSDL
6 2 (2.353%) JSP
6 2 (2.353%) Servlets
6 2 (2.353%) XSLT
6 2 (2.353%) Java EE
6 2 (2.353%) WebSphere
6 2 (2.353%) Apache Axis
Application Platforms
1 6 (7.059%) SAS
2 4 (4.706%) CICS
2 4 (4.706%) MQSeries
3 3 (3.529%) Apache
4 1 (1.176%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.176%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.176%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (11.76%) MS Excel
1 10 (11.76%) MS Office
2 5 (5.882%) MS PowerPoint
3 4 (4.706%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.706%) Maximo
2 3 (3.529%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.353%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.47%) HTTP
2 7 (8.235%) SAN
3 5 (5.882%) NAS
4 4 (4.706%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.529%) Ethernet
5 3 (3.529%) Firewall
6 1 (1.176%) Network Security
6 1 (1.176%) IMAP
6 1 (1.176%) LDAP
6 1 (1.176%) ATM
6 1 (1.176%) SMTP
6 1 (1.176%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (9.412%) DB2
3 5 (5.882%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.882%) OLTP
4 4 (4.706%) Base SAS
4 4 (4.706%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.706%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.529%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (3.529%) DataStage
6 2 (2.353%) Data Mart
7 1 (1.176%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (1.176%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (1.176%) IDMS
7 1 (1.176%) MySQL
7 1 (1.176%) OLAP
7 1 (1.176%) VLDB
7 1 (1.176%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (1.176%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (5.882%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.706%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 4 (4.706%) ChangeMan
2 4 (4.706%) Subversion
3 1 (1.176%) Selenium
3 1 (1.176%) Eclipse
General
1 23 (27.06%) Financial Institution
2 17 (20.00%) Banking
3 11 (12.94%) Retail
4 10 (11.76%) Investment Banking
4 10 (11.76%) Retail Banking
4 10 (11.76%) Private Banking
5 5 (5.882%) Advertising
6 4 (4.706%) Military
7 2 (2.353%) Automotive
7 2 (2.353%) Legal
7 2 (2.353%) Local Government
8 1 (1.176%) Marketing
8 1 (1.176%) Billing
8 1 (1.176%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.176%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Developer
2 13 (15.29%) Analyst
2 13 (15.29%) Consultant
3 8 (9.412%) Administrator
3 8 (9.412%) Service Manager
4 6 (7.059%) Incident Analyst
5 5 (5.882%) Windows Administrator
5 5 (5.882%) .NET Developer
5 5 (5.882%) SQL DBA
5 5 (5.882%) Client Services Manager
5 5 (5.882%) SQL Developer
5 5 (5.882%) Software Engineer
5 5 (5.882%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.882%) DBA
6 4 (4.706%) Management Consultant
6 4 (4.706%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (4.706%) Mainframe Consultant
6 4 (4.706%) Teradata Consultant
6 4 (4.706%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (4.706%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Online Banking
2 9 (10.59%) Mainframe
3 5 (5.882%) Replication
4 4 (4.706%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (4.706%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.706%) Clustering
4 4 (4.706%) SCADA
4 4 (4.706%) LPAR
4 4 (4.706%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 3 (3.529%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.176%) iPhone
6 1 (1.176%) Data Integration
6 1 (1.176%) iSeries
6 1 (1.176%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.176%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.88%) UNIX
2 15 (17.65%) Windows
3 14 (16.47%) Linux
4 7 (8.235%) AIX
5 6 (7.059%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (4.706%) zOS
6 4 (4.706%) MVS
7 3 (3.529%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.529%) Solaris
8 2 (2.353%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (2.353%) Fedora
8 2 (2.353%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.353%) Android
8 2 (2.353%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (2.353%) CentOS
9 1 (1.176%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.176%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.71%) Risk Management
2 15 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (15.29%) Asset Management
4 11 (12.94%) E-Commerce
5 10 (11.76%) ETL
5 10 (11.76%) Wealth Management
5 10 (11.76%) Investment Management
6 9 (10.59%) ITIL
7 7 (8.235%) Unit Testing
8 6 (7.059%) Service Management
8 6 (7.059%) Migration
8 6 (7.059%) OO
8 6 (7.059%) Incident Management
9 5 (5.882%) TDD
9 5 (5.882%) OOP
9 5 (5.882%) Project Management
9 5 (5.882%) High Availability
10 4 (4.706%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (4.706%) Scrum
10 4 (4.706%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.35%) SQL
2 11 (12.94%) JCL
3 7 (8.235%) C
3 7 (8.235%) Java
3 7 (8.235%) Shell Script
4 5 (5.882%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.882%) C#
5 4 (4.706%) VBScript
5 4 (4.706%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.529%) COBOL
6 3 (3.529%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.529%) Perl
6 3 (3.529%) Embedded C
7 2 (2.353%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.353%) XPath
7 2 (2.353%) SAS Macro
8 1 (1.176%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 5 (5.882%) Degree
2 4 (4.706%) HND
3 3 (3.529%) BC Cleared
3 3 (3.529%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.353%) ISEB
4 2 (2.353%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 2 (2.353%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.176%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.176%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.882%) SLA
2 1 (1.176%) QA
2 1 (1.176%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (4.706%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (4.706%) Tivoli
1 4 (4.706%) CA Endevor
1 4 (4.706%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (3.529%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 10 (11.76%) IBM
1 10 (11.76%) Oracle
2 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.412%) HP
4 7 (8.235%) Teradata
4 7 (8.235%) EMC
5 4 (4.706%) Ab Initio
6 3 (3.529%) Siebel
6 3 (3.529%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.529%) BMC
7 2 (2.353%) Hitachi
7 2 (2.353%) Sun
8 1 (1.176%) Cisco
8 1 (1.176%) Citrix
8 1 (1.176%) Juniper
8 1 (1.176%) TIBCO
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