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The table below looks at the demand for Derivatives skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Derivative over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkDerivatives
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank179
Rank change on same period last yearDown-8
Matching permanent IT job ads17572736
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.017 %1.177 %
As % of the category below29.35 %42.11 %
Salaries quoted14742020
Average minimum salary£60,880£58,943
Average salary£69,563£66,193
% change on same period last year+5.09 %
Average maximum salary£78,246£73,443
UK excluding London average salary£55,278£53,709
% change on same period last year+2.92 %
City of London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads59866497
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled3.465 %2.796 %
Salaries quoted50704747
Average minimum salary£55,202£56,193
Average salary£62,787£62,681
% change on same period last year+0.16 %
Average maximum salary£70,372£69,170
UK excluding London average salary£37,701£39,528
% change on same period last year-4.62 %
Derivative LondonDerivative
London

Derivative
Demand Trend

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

City of London Derivative Demand Trend

Derivative
Salary Trend

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

City of London Derivative Salary Trend

Derivative
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Derivative across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

City of London Derivative Salary Histogram

Derivative
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Derivative 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 Derivative.

11734 (45.68 %)Front Office
21718 (45.26 %)Finance
31678 (44.20 %)Banking
41313 (34.59 %)Java
51165 (30.69 %)C++
6968 (25.50 %)Equity Derivative
7941 (24.79 %)C#
8939 (24.74 %)SQL
9906 (23.87 %)Investment Banking
10800 (21.07 %)Fixed Income
11751 (19.78 %)UNIX
12718 (18.91 %)Equities
13628 (16.54 %)Credit Derivative
14627 (16.52 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
15561 (14.78 %)OO
16553 (14.57 %)Oracle
17540 (14.23 %)Windows
18493 (12.99 %)Degree
19492 (12.96 %).NET
20461 (12.14 %)VBA
21450 (11.85 %)Risk Management
22372 (9.800 %)Sybase
23345 (9.089 %)SQL Server
23345 (9.089 %)Project Management
24327 (8.614 %)XML
25303 (7.982 %)J2EE
26257 (6.770 %)Spring
27251 (6.612 %)Interest Rate Derivative
28248 (6.533 %)Back Office
29233 (6.138 %)Business Analysis

Derivative
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Derivative 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 Derivative. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1492 (12.96 %).NET
2327 (8.614 %)XML
3303 (7.982 %)J2EE
4257 (6.770 %)Spring
5157 (4.136 %)Hibernate
6154 (4.057 %)JMS
7145 (3.820 %)WinForms
8110 (2.898 %)STL
984 (2.213 %)WebServices
1081 (2.134 %)ASP.NET
1170 (1.844 %)J2SE
1268 (1.791 %)MFC
1365 (1.712 %)JDBC
1455 (1.449 %)AJAX
1554 (1.423 %)Middleware
1652 (1.370 %)Swing
1652 (1.370 %).NET Framework
1747 (1.238 %)Oracle Coherence
1844 (1.159 %)JSP
1941 (1.080 %)ASP
City of London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
187 (2.292 %)JBoss
240 (1.054 %)MQSeries
336 (0.948 %)WebLogic
421 (0.553 %)Apache
517 (0.448 %)BizTalk Server
612 (0.316 %)Tomcat
77 (0.184 %)WebSphere MQ
86 (0.158 %)WebLogic Portal
86 (0.158 %)SonicMQ
86 (0.158 %)SharePoint
95 (0.132 %)IIS
95 (0.132 %)Oracle Workflow
104 (0.105 %)WebSphere Application Server
104 (0.105 %)MS Exchange
104 (0.105 %)SharePoint Portal Server
113 (0.079 %)SAS
122 (0.053 %)Oracle Application Server
122 (0.053 %)Rendezvous
122 (0.053 %)TIBCO EMS
122 (0.053 %)CMS
City of London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
187 (2.292 %)MS Excel
274 (1.949 %)Spreadsheet
331 (0.817 %)MS Visio
331 (0.817 %)MS Office
49 (0.237 %)MS Project
57 (0.184 %)MATLAB
57 (0.184 %)CA Clarity
65 (0.132 %)MS PowerPoint
74 (0.105 %)Photoshop
82 (0.053 %)FreeHand
82 (0.053 %)Adobe Illustrator
City of London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
137 (0.975 %)Summit
226 (0.685 %)SAP ERP
316 (0.421 %)FRONT ARENA
413 (0.342 %)Sophis VALUE
510 (0.263 %)Endur
68 (0.211 %)Temenos T24
77 (0.184 %)RMDS
77 (0.184 %)Capstone
86 (0.158 %)Tesseract
86 (0.158 %)Minerva
86 (0.158 %)Kondor+
95 (0.132 %)HiPortfolio
95 (0.132 %)Murex MxG2000
104 (0.105 %)Misys Equation
104 (0.105 %)Misys Midas
104 (0.105 %)Temenos Globus
113 (0.079 %)Oracle Financials
113 (0.079 %)Findur
113 (0.079 %)SimCorp Dimension
122 (0.053 %)Sentinel
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
155 (1.449 %)TCP/IP
222 (0.580 %)LAN
321 (0.553 %)WAN
418 (0.474 %)VPN
58 (0.211 %)VoIP
58 (0.211 %)SAN
58 (0.211 %)Intranet
58 (0.211 %)Internet
67 (0.184 %)Firewall
67 (0.184 %)SSH
67 (0.184 %)SSL
67 (0.184 %)FTP
67 (0.184 %)HTTP
76 (0.158 %)MPLS
84 (0.105 %)OSPF
84 (0.105 %)BGP
84 (0.105 %)VLAN
93 (0.079 %)Cisco PIX
102 (0.053 %)LDAP
102 (0.053 %)NetScreen
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1345 (9.089 %)SQL Server
2164 (4.320 %)RDBMS
363 (1.660 %)SQL Server 2005
441 (1.080 %)SQL Server 2000
525 (0.659 %)Oracle 8/8i
618 (0.474 %)Crystal Reports
717 (0.448 %)Oracle 10g
717 (0.448 %)Reference Data
816 (0.421 %)Data Mart
915 (0.395 %)SQL Server Integration Services
915 (0.395 %)Datawarehouse
915 (0.395 %)DTS
1012 (0.316 %)Oracle 9i
1012 (0.316 %)DB2
1110 (0.263 %)Data Cleansing
129 (0.237 %)ETL
137 (0.184 %)Data Mining
137 (0.184 %)Sybase ASE
137 (0.184 %)DB2 UDB
137 (0.184 %)BusinessObjects
City of London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
163 (1.660 %)TestDirector
244 (1.159 %)JUnit
335 (0.922 %)ClearCase
433 (0.869 %)Ant
528 (0.738 %)Eclipse
619 (0.501 %)WinRunner
717 (0.448 %)QuickTest Pro
812 (0.316 %)Subversion
910 (0.263 %)NUnit
910 (0.263 %)FitNesse
109 (0.237 %)Selenium
118 (0.211 %)Oracle Forms
127 (0.184 %)Visual Studio
127 (0.184 %)Rational Rose
127 (0.184 %)Rational Robot
136 (0.158 %)RequisitePro
145 (0.132 %)Flash
154 (0.105 %)ClearQuest
163 (0.079 %)LoadRunner
172 (0.053 %)CruiseControl
City of London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11734 (45.68 %)Front Office
21718 (45.26 %)Finance
31678 (44.20 %)Banking
4906 (23.87 %)Investment Banking
5248 (6.533 %)Back Office
6124 (3.267 %)Financial Institution
788 (2.318 %)Education
877 (2.028 %)Pensions
964 (1.686 %)Health
1044 (1.159 %)Telecoms
1139 (1.027 %)Marketing
1230 (0.790 %)Games
1322 (0.580 %)Legal
1418 (0.474 %)Retail
1513 (0.342 %)Construction
1611 (0.290 %)Electric
1710 (0.263 %)Government
187 (0.184 %)Insurance
195 (0.132 %)Retail Banking
203 (0.079 %)Private Banking
City of London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
11798 (47.37 %)Developer
2914 (24.08 %)Analyst
3632 (16.65 %)Java Developer
4435 (11.46 %)Business Analyst
5398 (10.48 %)C# Developer
6380 (10.01 %)C++ Developer
7216 (5.690 %)Senior Developer
8196 (5.163 %)Team Leader
9189 (4.979 %)Project Manager
10187 (4.926 %)Support Analyst
11166 (4.373 %)Applications Support
12145 (3.820 %)Front Office Developer
13138 (3.635 %)Consultant
14131 (3.451 %)Analyst Developer
15109 (2.871 %).NET Developer
16103 (2.713 %)Excel Developer
1796 (2.529 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1888 (2.318 %)C++ Team Leader
1985 (2.239 %)Equity Derivatives Business Analyst
2084 (2.213 %)Junior
City of London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1968 (25.50 %)Equity Derivative
2800 (21.07 %)Fixed Income
3718 (18.91 %)Equities
4628 (16.54 %)Credit Derivative
5627 (16.52 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
6251 (6.612 %)Interest Rate Derivative
7208 (5.479 %)Multithreading
8172 (4.531 %)Mathematics
9137 (3.609 %)Exotic Derivative
10122 (3.214 %)Computer Science
1190 (2.371 %)Market Risk
1288 (2.318 %)Credit Risk
1373 (1.923 %)Physics
1459 (1.554 %)Client/Server
1537 (0.975 %)DTCC
1636 (0.948 %)Grid Computing
1733 (0.869 %)Management Information System
1733 (0.869 %)N-Tier
1828 (0.738 %)Hybrid Derivative
1927 (0.711 %)Statistics
City of London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1751 (19.78 %)UNIX
2540 (14.23 %)Windows
3207 (5.453 %)Linux
4125 (3.293 %)Solaris
582 (2.160 %)Windows XP
657 (1.502 %)Windows NT
744 (1.159 %)Windows 2000
838 (1.001 %)Windows Server 2003
919 (0.501 %)VMS
1011 (0.290 %)Windows Vista
114 (0.105 %)Red Hat Linux
123 (0.079 %)Windows 2000 Server
123 (0.079 %)SUSE
123 (0.079 %)HPUX
131 (0.026 %)OS/400
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1561 (14.78 %)OO
2450 (11.85 %)Risk Management
3345 (9.089 %)Project Management
4233 (6.138 %)Business Analysis
5188 (4.953 %)Asset Management
6174 (4.584 %)Agile Software Development
7154 (4.057 %)Electronic Trading
8152 (4.004 %)Investment Management
9144 (3.793 %)Algorithmic Trading
10143 (3.767 %)User Acceptance Testing
11139 (3.662 %)UML
12109 (2.871 %)OOD
13108 (2.845 %)RAD
13108 (2.845 %)Software Engineering
1484 (2.213 %)Migration
1581 (2.134 %)OOA/OOD
1675 (1.976 %)Fund Management
1767 (1.765 %)Use Case
1860 (1.581 %)Unit Testing
1957 (1.502 %)Workflow
City of London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11313 (34.59 %)Java
21165 (30.69 %)C++
3941 (24.79 %)C#
4939 (24.74 %)SQL
5461 (12.14 %)VBA
6190 (5.005 %)VB
7141 (3.714 %)Perl
8111 (2.924 %)VC++
981 (2.134 %)C
1080 (2.107 %)VB.NET
1174 (1.949 %)Python
1253 (1.396 %)Shell Script
1351 (1.344 %)VB6
1445 (1.185 %)PL/SQL
1542 (1.106 %)JavaScript
1636 (0.948 %)Lua
1734 (0.896 %)Ruby
1827 (0.711 %)Tcl
1925 (0.659 %)Delphi
2020 (0.527 %)Transact-SQL
City of London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1493 (12.99 %)Degree
273 (1.923 %)ISEB
352 (1.370 %)PhD
412 (0.316 %)CCNP
412 (0.316 %)Cisco Certification
510 (0.263 %)Postgraduate
67 (0.184 %)ISEB Practitioner
67 (0.184 %)PRINCE2 Certification
74 (0.105 %)ITIL Certification
83 (0.079 %)CCIE
92 (0.053 %)ACCA
92 (0.053 %)CIMA
101 (0.026 %)MBA
101 (0.026 %)CCNA
101 (0.026 %)ISTQB
101 (0.026 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1127 (3.346 %)QA
235 (0.922 %)IAS 39
327 (0.711 %)MiFID
410 (0.263 %)Basel II
410 (0.263 %)SLA
56 (0.158 %)ISO/IEC 20000
64 (0.105 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
73 (0.079 %)COBIT
City of London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
112 (0.316 %)Active Directory
211 (0.290 %)AquaLogic
35 (0.132 %)ISA Server
43 (0.079 %)NFS
52 (0.053 %)NetBackup
61 (0.026 %)MSMQ
61 (0.026 %)Oracle RAC
61 (0.026 %)Orbix
61 (0.026 %)Samba
City of London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
17 (0.184 %)AutoSys
24 (0.105 %)CiscoWorks
24 (0.105 %)MOM
33 (0.079 %)BMC PATROL
33 (0.079 %)CONTROL-M
33 (0.079 %)NNM
42 (0.053 %)OpenView
City of London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1553 (14.57 %)Oracle
2372 (9.800 %)Sybase
3109 (2.871 %)Microsoft
499 (2.608 %)Murex
589 (2.345 %)TIBCO
681 (2.134 %)Reuters
780 (2.107 %)Bloomberg
870 (1.844 %)DataSynapse
962 (1.633 %)SunGard
1048 (1.264 %)Calypso
1142 (1.106 %)SAP
1142 (1.106 %)Lawson
1241 (1.080 %)Infor
1340 (1.054 %)Sophis
1434 (0.896 %)GL TRADE
1533 (0.869 %)IT2
1632 (0.843 %)Fidessa
1729 (0.764 %)SimCorp
1827 (0.711 %)LatentZero
1926 (0.685 %)PeopleSoft