City of London Analyst Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT jobs within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Armagh County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Humberside Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Drayton Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Ormskirk Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Ripon Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Rutland Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	4
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	4058	4801
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.245 %	2.013 %
As % of the category below	23.28 %	27.16 %
Salaries quoted	3442	3484
Average minimum salary	£44,065	£48,354
Average salary	£48,490	£52,313
% change on same period last year	-7.30 %
Average maximum salary	£52,916	£56,273
UK excluding London average salary	£33,351	£33,820
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	17430	17677
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	9.645 %	7.413 %
Salaries quoted	14833	13353
Average minimum salary	£48,003	£51,011
Average salary	£52,923	£55,586
% change on same period last year	-4.79 %
Average maximum salary	£57,842	£60,162
UK excluding London average salary	£38,058	£39,448
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Analyst London

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Analyst across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Analyst across the City of London region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Analyst across the City of London region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Analyst in their job title 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 with Analyst in their job title.

1 3354 (38.51 %) Finance 2 2341 (26.88 %) SQL 3 1952 (22.41 %) Banking 4 1483 (17.03 %) Windows 5 1222 (14.03 %) Front Office 6 1112 (12.77 %) Insurance 7 1076 (12.35 %) Business Analysis 8 1071 (12.30 %) UNIX 9 1024 (11.76 %) Derivative 10 1008 (11.57 %) SQL Server 11 907 (10.41 %) Java 12 905 (10.39 %) Investment Banking 13 877 (10.07 %) Oracle 14 848 (9.736 %) Microsoft 15 734 (8.427 %) C#

15 734 (8.427 %) .NET 16 720 (8.266 %) Degree 17 705 (8.094 %) MS Office 18 678 (7.784 %) Active Directory 19 645 (7.405 %) MS Excel 20 626 (7.187 %) Project Management 21 585 (6.716 %) Equities 22 558 (6.406 %) Asset Management 23 555 (6.372 %) Fixed Income 24 515 (5.913 %) C++ 25 504 (5.786 %) Investment Management 26 503 (5.775 %) Windows Server 2003 27 502 (5.763 %) Sybase 28 490 (5.626 %) Law 29 483 (5.545 %) Back Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Analyst in their job title 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 with Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 734 (8.427 %) .NET 2 342 (3.927 %) XML 3 209 (2.400 %) ASP.NET 4 164 (1.883 %) HTML 5 163 (1.871 %) ASP 6 139 (1.596 %) J2EE 7 111 (1.274 %) FIX Protocol 8 105 (1.206 %) Middleware 9 95 (1.091 %) WebServices 10 88 (1.010 %) WebSphere 11 82 (0.941 %) WinForms 12 75 (0.861 %) Hibernate 13 73 (0.838 %) CSS 14 63 (0.723 %) .NET Framework 15 58 (0.666 %) XSLT 16 56 (0.643 %) Spring 17 49 (0.563 %) XSL 18 36 (0.413 %) AJAX 19 29 (0.333 %) JMS 20 23 (0.264 %) STL	Application Platforms 1 294 (3.375 %) MS Exchange 2 206 (2.365 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 148 (1.699 %) IIS 4 144 (1.653 %) SAS 5 133 (1.527 %) SharePoint 6 101 (1.160 %) Lotus Notes 7 65 (0.746 %) Apache 8 63 (0.723 %) WebLogic 9 57 (0.654 %) MQSeries 10 49 (0.563 %) Tomcat 11 45 (0.517 %) Exchange Server 2000 12 37 (0.425 %) CMS 13 36 (0.413 %) WorkSite 14 31 (0.356 %) Rendezvous 15 24 (0.276 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 16 23 (0.264 %) JBoss 16 23 (0.264 %) Exchange Server 2007 17 22 (0.253 %) WebSphere Application Server 18 17 (0.195 %) Documentum 19 15 (0.172 %) ESB
Applications 1 705 (8.094 %) MS Office 2 645 (7.405 %) MS Excel 3 136 (1.561 %) MS Visio 4 124 (1.424 %) MS PowerPoint 5 74 (0.850 %) MS Project 6 60 (0.689 %) Spreadsheet 7 48 (0.551 %) SPSS 8 30 (0.344 %) DeltaView 9 23 (0.264 %) CA Clarity 10 18 (0.207 %) MATLAB 11 8 (0.092 %) Acrobat 12 5 (0.057 %) Photoshop 13 3 (0.034 %) S-PLUS 13 3 (0.034 %) AutoCAD 14 2 (0.023 %) InfoPath 15 1 (0.011 %) ArcView 15 1 (0.011 %) Open Workbench	Business Applications 1 58 (0.666 %) Capstone 2 31 (0.356 %) Endur 3 30 (0.344 %) Summit 4 26 (0.299 %) RMDS 5 25 (0.287 %) Minerva 6 22 (0.253 %) Oracle EBS 7 20 (0.230 %) SAP CRM 7 20 (0.230 %) Beauchamp 8 19 (0.218 %) Beauchamp Fund Manager 9 17 (0.195 %) Dynamics GP 10 16 (0.184 %) FRONT ARENA 10 16 (0.184 %) SAP FI/CO 10 16 (0.184 %) SAP CO 10 16 (0.184 %) SAP FI 11 15 (0.172 %) Great Plains 11 15 (0.172 %) Eagle PACE 12 14 (0.161 %) Oracle Financials 13 13 (0.149 %) Tesseract 14 12 (0.138 %) HiPortfolio 15 10 (0.115 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 252 (2.893 %) Internet 2 207 (2.377 %) TCP/IP 3 163 (1.871 %) Firewall 4 159 (1.825 %) WAN 5 150 (1.722 %) SAN 6 135 (1.550 %) LAN 7 112 (1.286 %) VPN 8 110 (1.263 %) Intranet 9 86 (0.987 %) DNS 10 64 (0.735 %) DHCP 11 55 (0.631 %) VoIP 12 46 (0.528 %) Cisco PIX 13 29 (0.333 %) SMS 14 28 (0.321 %) Network Security 15 27 (0.310 %) BSS 16 23 (0.264 %) Wireless 17 20 (0.230 %) Wi-Fi 17 20 (0.230 %) SSL 17 20 (0.230 %) 3G 18 17 (0.195 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1008 (11.57 %) SQL Server 2 260 (2.985 %) Datawarehouse 3 223 (2.560 %) RDBMS 4 215 (2.468 %) BusinessObjects 5 188 (2.158 %) SQL Server 2005 6 159 (1.825 %) ETL 7 151 (1.734 %) SQL Server 2000 8 112 (1.286 %) Crystal Reports 9 91 (1.045 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 65 (0.746 %) DTS 11 64 (0.735 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 60 (0.689 %) MySQL 13 57 (0.654 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 14 54 (0.620 %) MS Access 15 50 (0.574 %) Oracle Reports 16 48 (0.551 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 37 (0.425 %) Oracle 10g 18 35 (0.402 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 19 34 (0.390 %) Data Mining 20 33 (0.379 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 120 (1.378 %) TestDirector 2 96 (1.102 %) QuickTest Pro 3 65 (0.746 %) LoadRunner 3 65 (0.746 %) WinRunner 4 39 (0.448 %) PowerBuilder 5 35 (0.402 %) ClearCase 5 35 (0.402 %) Selenium 6 34 (0.390 %) Visual Studio 7 31 (0.356 %) Oracle Forms 8 29 (0.333 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 28 (0.321 %) Dreamweaver 10 20 (0.230 %) Ant 11 19 (0.218 %) Flash 11 19 (0.218 %) RequisitePro 12 17 (0.195 %) FitNesse 13 16 (0.184 %) JUnit 13 16 (0.184 %) ClearQuest 14 15 (0.172 %) FrontPage 14 15 (0.172 %) JIRA 15 14 (0.161 %) Eclipse	General 1 3354 (38.51 %) Finance 2 1952 (22.41 %) Banking 3 1222 (14.03 %) Front Office 4 1112 (12.77 %) Insurance 5 905 (10.39 %) Investment Banking 6 490 (5.626 %) Law 7 483 (5.545 %) Back Office 8 429 (4.925 %) Legal 9 316 (3.628 %) Financial Institution 10 235 (2.698 %) Marketing 11 220 (2.526 %) Education 11 220 (2.526 %) Pensions 12 218 (2.503 %) Retail 13 205 (2.354 %) Telecoms 14 175 (2.009 %) Health 15 72 (0.827 %) Billing 16 43 (0.494 %) Government 17 38 (0.436 %) Publishing 18 33 (0.379 %) Private Banking 19 29 (0.333 %) FMCG
Miscellaneous 1 1024 (11.76 %) Derivative 2 585 (6.716 %) Equities 3 555 (6.372 %) Fixed Income 4 445 (5.109 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 258 (2.962 %) Equity Derivative 6 197 (2.262 %) Mathematics 7 167 (1.917 %) Credit Derivative 8 162 (1.860 %) Blackberry 9 132 (1.515 %) Management Information System 9 132 (1.515 %) Computer Science 10 129 (1.481 %) Credit Risk 11 93 (1.068 %) AS400 12 92 (1.056 %) Market Risk 13 82 (0.941 %) Statistics 14 79 (0.907 %) Multithreading 15 55 (0.631 %) PDA 16 48 (0.551 %) Physics 17 46 (0.528 %) Interest Rate Derivative 18 39 (0.448 %) Client/Server 19 37 (0.425 %) Data Extraction	Operating Systems 1 1483 (17.03 %) Windows 2 1071 (12.30 %) UNIX 3 503 (5.775 %) Windows Server 2003 4 479 (5.499 %) Windows XP 5 345 (3.961 %) Linux 6 266 (3.054 %) Windows 2000 7 214 (2.457 %) Solaris 8 112 (1.286 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 64 (0.735 %) Windows Vista 10 63 (0.723 %) VMS 11 51 (0.586 %) Windows NT 12 45 (0.517 %) Red Hat Linux 13 31 (0.356 %) OpenVMS 14 25 (0.287 %) NetWare 15 17 (0.195 %) AIX 16 16 (0.184 %) HPUX 17 7 (0.080 %) Mac OS X 18 6 (0.069 %) SUSE 19 5 (0.057 %) FreeBSD 19 5 (0.057 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 1076 (12.35 %) Business Analysis 2 626 (7.187 %) Project Management 3 558 (6.406 %) Asset Management 4 504 (5.786 %) Investment Management 5 443 (5.086 %) UML 6 406 (4.661 %) ITIL 7 402 (4.615 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 359 (4.122 %) OO 9 322 (3.697 %) Risk Management 10 293 (3.364 %) Data Analysis 11 268 (3.077 %) PRINCE2 12 243 (2.790 %) Data Modelling 13 219 (2.514 %) Business Intelligence 14 202 (2.319 %) Systems Analysis 15 191 (2.193 %) Use Case 16 176 (2.021 %) RUP 17 174 (1.998 %) Fund Management 18 173 (1.986 %) Algorithmic Trading 19 169 (1.940 %) Test Scripting 20 167 (1.917 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 2341 (26.88 %) SQL 2 907 (10.41 %) Java 3 734 (8.427 %) C# 4 515 (5.913 %) C++ 5 451 (5.178 %) VBA 6 419 (4.811 %) VB 7 274 (3.146 %) Perl 8 170 (1.952 %) Transact-SQL 9 163 (1.871 %) Shell Script 10 156 (1.791 %) C 11 152 (1.745 %) VB.NET 12 139 (1.596 %) PL/SQL 13 135 (1.550 %) JavaScript 14 105 (1.206 %) VB6 15 95 (1.091 %) VBScript 16 63 (0.723 %) Python 17 61 (0.700 %) RPG 18 34 (0.390 %) VC++ 19 29 (0.333 %) ABAP 20 21 (0.241 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 720 (8.266 %) Degree 2 222 (2.549 %) Microsoft Certification 3 198 (2.273 %) ISEB 4 149 (1.711 %) MCSE 5 106 (1.217 %) Cisco Certification 6 99 (1.137 %) MCP 7 97 (1.114 %) CCNA 8 89 (1.022 %) ITIL Certification 9 53 (0.608 %) MOS 10 44 (0.505 %) CCNP 10 44 (0.505 %) PhD 11 41 (0.471 %) CISSP 12 31 (0.356 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 29 (0.333 %) MCSA 14 20 (0.230 %) CISM 15 17 (0.195 %) ACCA 15 17 (0.195 %) CIMA 15 17 (0.195 %) CFA 15 17 (0.195 %) A+ Certification 16 10 (0.115 %) Citrix Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 396 (4.546 %) QA 2 92 (1.056 %) SLA 3 34 (0.390 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 33 (0.379 %) Basel II 5 24 (0.276 %) MiFID 6 16 (0.184 %) HL7 6 16 (0.184 %) ISO27001 7 14 (0.161 %) BS7799 8 9 (0.103 %) COBIT 9 7 (0.080 %) ISO/IEC 20000 10 5 (0.057 %) ISO17799 10 5 (0.057 %) GAAP 11 4 (0.046 %) IAS 39 12 1 (0.011 %) COSO
System Software 1 678 (7.784 %) Active Directory 2 34 (0.390 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 33 (0.379 %) Backup Exec 4 31 (0.356 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 28 (0.321 %) NetBackup 6 26 (0.299 %) VMware ESX 7 24 (0.276 %) MetaFrame 8 22 (0.253 %) ISA Server 9 16 (0.184 %) Terminal Server 10 13 (0.149 %) Terminal Services 11 4 (0.046 %) NDS 12 3 (0.034 %) MSMQ 12 3 (0.034 %) MailMarshal 13 2 (0.023 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 13 2 (0.023 %) VMware Workstation 13 2 (0.023 %) Oracle RMAN 13 2 (0.023 %) Snort 13 2 (0.023 %) Orbix 13 2 (0.023 %) VMware GSX 14 1 (0.011 %) Cronacle	Systems Management 1 31 (0.356 %) MOM 2 24 (0.276 %) Tivoli 3 20 (0.230 %) OpenView 3 20 (0.230 %) CONTROL-M 4 16 (0.184 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 14 (0.161 %) AutoSys 6 10 (0.115 %) Legato 7 9 (0.103 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 8 (0.092 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 8 (0.092 %) ServiceCenter 8 8 (0.092 %) ZENworks 9 7 (0.080 %) CiscoWorks 10 6 (0.069 %) Netcool 10 6 (0.069 %) MAILsweeper 10 6 (0.069 %) DameWare 11 5 (0.057 %) MIMEsweeper 12 4 (0.046 %) Tivoli Monitoring 12 4 (0.046 %) OVSD 13 3 (0.034 %) SCCM 14 2 (0.023 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 877 (10.07 %) Oracle 2 848 (9.736 %) Microsoft 3 502 (5.763 %) Sybase 4 283 (3.249 %) Bloomberg 5 275 (3.157 %) Reuters 6 267 (3.065 %) Citrix 7 215 (2.468 %) Business Objects 8 195 (2.239 %) Cisco 9 183 (2.101 %) VMware 10 120 (1.378 %) HP 11 116 (1.332 %) LatentZero 12 110 (1.263 %) SAP 13 103 (1.183 %) Lotus 14 94 (1.079 %) Fidessa 14 94 (1.079 %) GL TRADE 15 79 (0.907 %) Remedy 16 72 (0.827 %) Cognos 17 70 (0.804 %) Interwoven 18 65 (0.746 %) IBM 19 62 (0.712 %) Charles River