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This section looks at the demand for Foreign Exchange (FX) 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 Foreign Exchange (FX) over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkForeign Exchange (FX)
Location
3 months to 9 May 2008Same period last year
Rank3729
Rank change on same period last yearDown-8
Matching permanent IT job ads9861223
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.481 %0.547 %
As % of the category below12.50 %13.47 %
Salaries quoted816864
Average minimum salary£56,737£61,263
Average salary£64,964£67,397
% change on same period last year-3.61 %
Average maximum salary£73,191£73,531
UK excluding London average salary£47,713£47,609
% change on same period last year+0.21 %
Miscellaneous City of LondonMiscellaneous
City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads78889077
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled3.845 %4.056 %
Salaries quoted64986842
Average minimum salary£55,870£58,727
Average salary£62,195£64,066
% change on same period last year-2.92 %
Average maximum salary£68,519£69,405
UK excluding London average salary£38,604£38,930
% change on same period last year-0.83 %
Foreign Exchange (FX) LondonForeign Exchange (FX)
London

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Foreign Exchange (FX) across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

City of London Foreign Exchange (FX) Demand Trend

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Foreign Exchange (FX) across the City of London region.

City of London Foreign Exchange (FX) Salary Trend

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

City of London Foreign Exchange (FX) Salary Histogram

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing Foreign Exchange (FX) also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Foreign Exchange (FX).

1858 (49.14 %)Finance
2778 (44.56 %)Banking
3705 (40.38 %)Derivative
4658 (37.69 %)Front Office
5655 (37.51 %)Java
6492 (28.18 %)SQL
7473 (27.09 %)Unix
8467 (26.75 %)C++
9438 (25.09 %)Fixed Income
10399 (22.85 %)Investment Banking
11301 (17.24 %)C#
12275 (15.75 %)Equities
13248 (14.20 %)Degree
14220 (12.60 %)OO
15217 (12.43 %)Oracle
16191 (10.94 %)Back Office
17156 (8.935 %)Windows
18152 (8.706 %).NET
19149 (8.534 %)Linux
20145 (8.305 %)Sybase
21143 (8.190 %)Project Management
22135 (7.732 %)Risk Management
23129 (7.388 %)VBA
24117 (6.701 %)SQL Server
25112 (6.415 %)Murex
26106 (6.071 %)Electronic Trading
2794 (5.384 %)XML
2893 (5.326 %)Algorithmic Trading
2987 (4.983 %)Computer Science
3083 (4.754 %)Swing

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing Foreign Exchange (FX) also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Foreign Exchange (FX). Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1152 (8.706 %).NET
294 (5.384 %)XML
383 (4.754 %)Swing
461 (3.494 %)J2EE
543 (2.463 %)Windows SharePoint Services
640 (2.291 %)ASP
640 (2.291 %)J2SE
737 (2.119 %)Middleware
835 (2.005 %)FIX Protocol
933 (1.890 %)JMS
1030 (1.718 %)Spring
1129 (1.661 %)ASP.NET
1129 (1.661 %)HTML
1225 (1.432 %)JDBC
1225 (1.432 %)JSP
1324 (1.375 %)STL
1324 (1.375 %)WinForms
1422 (1.260 %)Hibernate
1519 (1.088 %)Servlets
1614 (0.802 %)XSLT
Application Platforms
130 (1.718 %)MS Exchange
224 (1.375 %)Rendezvous
322 (1.260 %)MQSeries
417 (0.974 %)WebLogic
511 (0.630 %)SmartSockets
511 (0.630 %)Oracle Workflow
610 (0.573 %)TIBCO EMS
78 (0.458 %)BizTalk Server
87 (0.401 %)Exchange Server 2000
87 (0.401 %)SharePoint
94 (0.229 %)IIS
94 (0.229 %)JBoss
103 (0.172 %)Tomcat
103 (0.172 %)WebSphere MQ
111 (0.057 %)Commerce Server
111 (0.057 %)Exchange Server 2003
111 (0.057 %)Apache
111 (0.057 %)SonicMQ
111 (0.057 %)Exchange Server 2007
Applications
128 (1.604 %)MS Excel
212 (0.687 %)MS Project
212 (0.687 %)MS Office
34 (0.229 %)MS Visio
34 (0.229 %)MATLAB
42 (0.115 %)Photoshop
51 (0.057 %)Adobe Illustrator
51 (0.057 %)FreeHand
Business Applications
136 (2.062 %)Misys Opics
232 (1.833 %)Summit
327 (1.546 %)Kondor+
327 (1.546 %)RMDS
414 (0.802 %)Thomson PORTIA
513 (0.745 %)Fidessa
513 (0.745 %)FRONT ARENA
610 (0.573 %)Capstone
610 (0.573 %)Minerva
78 (0.458 %)Tesseract
86 (0.344 %)Advent Geneva
95 (0.286 %)SAP ERP
104 (0.229 %)Sentinel
104 (0.229 %)MarketView
113 (0.172 %)Murex MxG2000
113 (0.172 %)SimCorp Dimension
113 (0.172 %)SunGard AvantGard
122 (0.115 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
131 (0.057 %)InvestOne
131 (0.057 %)Beauchamp
Communications & Networking
116 (0.916 %)Internet
212 (0.687 %)TCP/IP
35 (0.286 %)SSL
43 (0.172 %)HTTP
43 (0.172 %)LAN
43 (0.172 %)WAN
43 (0.172 %)HTTPS
52 (0.115 %)Intranet
52 (0.115 %)Firewall
52 (0.115 %)Network Security
61 (0.057 %)OSPF
61 (0.057 %)DPNSS
61 (0.057 %)X.25
61 (0.057 %)Ethernet
61 (0.057 %)FTP
61 (0.057 %)VoIP
61 (0.057 %)ISDN
61 (0.057 %)WINS
Database & Business Intelligence
1117 (6.701 %)SQL Server
255 (3.150 %)RDBMS
332 (1.833 %)SQL Server 7
418 (1.031 %)Oracle Reports
418 (1.031 %)Reference Data
511 (0.630 %)SQL Server 2005
69 (0.515 %)DTS
78 (0.458 %)SQLPlus
78 (0.458 %)Crystal Reports
78 (0.458 %)TOAD
87 (0.401 %)SQL Server 2000
96 (0.344 %)MySQL
96 (0.344 %)Oracle 8/8i
105 (0.286 %)MS Access
114 (0.229 %)Datawarehouse
114 (0.229 %)Oracle 9i
114 (0.229 %)Data Cleansing
122 (0.115 %)DB2
122 (0.115 %)PostgreSQL
131 (0.057 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
117 (0.974 %)TestDirector
214 (0.802 %)JUnit
312 (0.687 %)Eclipse
411 (0.630 %)ClearCase
59 (0.515 %)NUnit
67 (0.401 %)ClearQuest
76 (0.344 %)QuickTest Pro
76 (0.344 %)LoadRunner
76 (0.344 %)WinRunner
85 (0.286 %)Ant
94 (0.229 %)Flash
103 (0.172 %)CruiseControl
111 (0.057 %)RequisitePro
111 (0.057 %)Visual Studio
111 (0.057 %)Rational Rose
General
1858 (49.14 %)Finance
2778 (44.56 %)Banking
3658 (37.69 %)Front Office
4399 (22.85 %)Investment Banking
5191 (10.94 %)Back Office
647 (2.692 %)Financial Institution
745 (2.577 %)Education
842 (2.405 %)Telecoms
926 (1.489 %)Marketing
1022 (1.260 %)Retail
1111 (0.630 %)Legal
128 (0.458 %)Government
128 (0.458 %)Pensions
137 (0.401 %)Games
146 (0.344 %)Insurance
146 (0.344 %)Retail Banking
155 (0.286 %)Corporate Banking
155 (0.286 %)Law
164 (0.229 %)Health
173 (0.172 %)International Banking
Job Titles
1742 (42.50 %)Developer
2522 (29.90 %)Analyst
3288 (16.49 %)Java Developer
4199 (11.40 %)Business Analyst
5157 (8.992 %)C++ Developer
698 (5.613 %)Consultant
796 (5.498 %)C# Developer
895 (5.441 %)Support Analyst
983 (4.754 %)Senior Developer
983 (4.754 %)Applications Support
1082 (4.696 %)Analyst Developer
1172 (4.124 %)Project Manager
1259 (3.379 %)C++/Java Developer
1356 (3.207 %)Team Leader
1452 (2.978 %)Technical Analyst
1452 (2.978 %)Front Office Developer
1550 (2.864 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
1641 (2.348 %)Applications Support Analyst
1740 (2.291 %)Risk Analyst
1740 (2.291 %)Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1705 (40.38 %)Derivative
2438 (25.09 %)Fixed Income
3275 (15.75 %)Equities
487 (4.983 %)Computer Science
578 (4.467 %)Multithreading
673 (4.181 %)Credit Derivative
772 (4.124 %)Mathematics
772 (4.124 %)Market Risk
871 (4.066 %)Equity Derivative
871 (4.066 %)Asset Management
967 (3.837 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1035 (2.005 %)Credit Risk
1132 (1.833 %)Hybrid Derivative
1226 (1.489 %)Contract for Difference
1325 (1.432 %)Spread Betting
1325 (1.432 %)Physics
1325 (1.432 %)Fund Management
1423 (1.317 %)Stochastic Calculus
1520 (1.145 %)VAX
1615 (0.859 %)Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1473 (27.09 %)Unix
2156 (8.935 %)Windows
3149 (8.534 %)Linux
436 (2.062 %)VMS
436 (2.062 %)OpenVMS
530 (1.718 %)Solaris
627 (1.546 %)Windows NT
723 (1.317 %)Windows XP
89 (0.515 %)HPUX
92 (0.115 %)Windows Server 2003
101 (0.057 %)SUSE
101 (0.057 %)AIX
101 (0.057 %)Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1220 (12.60 %)OO
2143 (8.190 %)Project Management
3135 (7.732 %)Risk Management
4106 (6.071 %)Electronic Trading
593 (5.326 %)Algorithmic Trading
676 (4.353 %)E-Commerce
773 (4.181 %)Business Analysis
861 (3.494 %)Investment Management
959 (3.379 %)OOD
1042 (2.405 %)UML
1042 (2.405 %)Agile Software Development
1140 (2.291 %)Workflow
1234 (1.947 %)User Acceptance Testing
1333 (1.890 %)Validation
1427 (1.546 %)Change Management
1526 (1.489 %)Project Planning
1620 (1.145 %)RAD
1620 (1.145 %)OOA/OOD
1719 (1.088 %)RUP
1719 (1.088 %)Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1655 (37.51 %)Java
2492 (28.18 %)SQL
3467 (26.75 %)C++
4301 (17.24 %)C#
5129 (7.388 %)VBA
659 (3.379 %)VB
738 (2.176 %)Python
836 (2.062 %)C
836 (2.062 %)Perl
928 (1.604 %)VB.NET
1024 (1.375 %)JavaScript
1120 (1.145 %)PL/SQL
1214 (0.802 %)Shell Script
1313 (0.745 %)VC++
149 (0.515 %)Tcl
156 (0.344 %)VB6
156 (0.344 %)Transact-SQL
163 (0.172 %)ActionScript
163 (0.172 %)PHP
172 (0.115 %)VBScript
Qualifications
1248 (14.20 %)Degree
241 (2.348 %)PhD
32 (0.115 %)ISEB
32 (0.115 %)Cisco Certification
32 (0.115 %)Microsoft Certification
32 (0.115 %)PRINCE2 Certification
32 (0.115 %)PMP
32 (0.115 %)PMI Certification
41 (0.057 %)RHCT
41 (0.057 %)MCP
41 (0.057 %)MCSA
41 (0.057 %)MCDBA
41 (0.057 %)A+ Certification
41 (0.057 %)CCIE
41 (0.057 %)CCSP
41 (0.057 %)CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
114 (0.802 %)Basel II
212 (0.687 %)MiFID
39 (0.515 %)IAS 39
47 (0.401 %)QA
53 (0.172 %)GAAP
System Software
14 (0.229 %)Oracle RMAN
21 (0.057 %)Oracle RAC
21 (0.057 %)Active Directory
Systems Management
19 (0.515 %)CONTROL-M
24 (0.229 %)Oracle Statspack
31 (0.057 %)AutoSys
Vendors
1217 (12.43 %)Oracle
2145 (8.305 %)Sybase
3112 (6.415 %)Murex
477 (4.410 %)Reuters
576 (4.353 %)Calypso
667 (3.837 %)Bloomberg
755 (3.150 %)TIBCO
852 (2.978 %)Misys
942 (2.405 %)SunGard
942 (2.405 %)Microsoft
1038 (2.176 %)IT2
1137 (2.119 %)SimCorp
1231 (1.775 %)Wall Street Systems
1322 (1.260 %)Trema
1417 (0.974 %)Actuate
1514 (0.802 %)Temenos
1611 (0.630 %)CQG
179 (0.515 %)LatentZero
188 (0.458 %)GL TRADE
197 (0.401 %)IBM
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