City of London Investment Management Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Investment Management skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Investment Management over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Investment Management
Location Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Blackburn Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Docklands, London East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Hove Kent Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Somerset South East South West Southampton Surrey Swindon Tayside Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	58
Rank change on same period last year	-30
Matching permanent IT job ads	504	593
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.266 %	0.243 %
As % of the category below	4.080 %	5.111 %
Salaries quoted	310	434
Average minimum salary	£54,376	£58,558
Average salary	£58,381	£62,343
% change on same period last year	-6.35 %
Average maximum salary	£62,386	£66,129
UK excluding London average salary	£46,169	£49,095
% change on same period last year	-5.96 %
Processes & Methodologies City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	12352	11603
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	6.521 %	4.751 %
Salaries quoted	10468	8876
Average minimum salary	£50,271	£54,817
Average salary	£55,583	£59,639
% change on same period last year	-6.80 %
Average maximum salary	£60,894	£64,461
UK excluding London average salary	£42,567	£44,524
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
Investment Management London

Investment Management
Demand Trend

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

Investment Management
Salary Trend

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

Investment Management
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Investment Management across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Investment Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Investment Management 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 Investment Management.

1 513 (41.64 %) Finance 2 403 (32.71 %) Front Office 3 373 (30.28 %) Asset Management 4 361 (29.30 %) SQL 5 292 (23.70 %) Banking 6 214 (17.37 %) Oracle 7 213 (17.29 %) Fixed Income 8 196 (15.91 %) Fund Management 9 190 (15.42 %) UNIX 10 181 (14.69 %) SQL Server 11 175 (14.20 %) Derivative 12 174 (14.12 %) .NET 13 154 (12.50 %) Investment Banking 14 152 (12.34 %) Business Analysis 15 146 (11.85 %) Equities

15 146 (11.85 %) Windows 16 138 (11.20 %) Java 17 132 (10.71 %) VB 18 116 (9.416 %) ITIL 19 112 (9.091 %) Degree 20 109 (8.847 %) LatentZero 21 104 (8.442 %) C# 22 103 (8.360 %) Back Office 23 102 (8.279 %) Project Management 24 82 (6.656 %) Sybase 25 78 (6.331 %) Microsoft 26 76 (6.169 %) VBA 27 69 (5.601 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 28 66 (5.357 %) SQL Server 7 29 61 (4.951 %) ASP

Investment Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Investment Management 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 Investment Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 174 (14.12 %) .NET 2 61 (4.951 %) ASP 3 58 (4.708 %) ASP.NET 4 57 (4.627 %) WebSphere 5 55 (4.464 %) Middleware 6 52 (4.221 %) XML 7 50 (4.058 %) J2EE 8 24 (1.948 %) WebServices 9 21 (1.705 %) FIX Protocol 10 19 (1.542 %) HTML 11 17 (1.380 %) Swing 12 12 (0.974 %) WinForms 13 9 (0.731 %) XML Messaging 14 8 (0.649 %) ODBC 15 7 (0.568 %) Hibernate 16 6 (0.487 %) .NET Framework 16 6 (0.487 %) CSS 16 6 (0.487 %) JDBC 17 5 (0.406 %) ASP.NET 2.0 17 5 (0.406 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 39 (3.166 %) MQSeries 2 36 (2.922 %) IIS 3 35 (2.841 %) Tomcat 4 29 (2.354 %) MS Exchange 5 27 (2.192 %) Apache 6 10 (0.812 %) SharePoint 7 9 (0.731 %) JBoss 7 9 (0.731 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 8 (0.649 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 7 (0.568 %) WebSphere Message Broker 10 5 (0.406 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 5 (0.406 %) Documentum 10 5 (0.406 %) WebLogic 11 4 (0.325 %) Lotus Notes 12 3 (0.244 %) SharePoint Portal Server 13 2 (0.162 %) BizTalk Server 13 2 (0.162 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 1 (0.081 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 14 1 (0.081 %) CMS 14 1 (0.081 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 47 (3.815 %) MS Office 2 45 (3.653 %) MS Excel 3 7 (0.568 %) MS Project 3 7 (0.568 %) MATLAB 4 6 (0.487 %) MS Visio 5 4 (0.325 %) MS PowerPoint 6 3 (0.244 %) Spreadsheet 7 1 (0.081 %) Photoshop 7 1 (0.081 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 46 (3.734 %) Capstone 2 15 (1.218 %) SoftGrid 2 15 (1.218 %) Minerva 3 12 (0.974 %) Beauchamp 3 12 (0.974 %) Tesseract 4 10 (0.812 %) SimCorp Dimension 4 10 (0.812 %) Eagle PACE 5 8 (0.649 %) Beauchamp Fund Manager 6 7 (0.568 %) Decalog 7 5 (0.406 %) Summit 7 5 (0.406 %) HiPortfolio 8 4 (0.325 %) Sentinel 9 3 (0.244 %) assyst 9 3 (0.244 %) LongView 10 2 (0.162 %) Sophis RISQUE 10 2 (0.162 %) Sophis VALUE 11 1 (0.081 %) Loan IQ 11 1 (0.081 %) Thomson PORTIA 11 1 (0.081 %) RMDS 11 1 (0.081 %) HiInvest
Communications & Networking 1 28 (2.273 %) WAN 2 25 (2.029 %) Intranet 3 21 (1.705 %) Internet 3 21 (1.705 %) LAN 3 21 (1.705 %) TCP/IP 4 9 (0.731 %) Firewall 5 6 (0.487 %) VPN 6 5 (0.406 %) DNS 7 4 (0.325 %) Wireless 7 4 (0.325 %) IP Telephony 8 3 (0.244 %) SAN 9 2 (0.162 %) LDAP 9 2 (0.162 %) IPX 9 2 (0.162 %) IPX/SPX 9 2 (0.162 %) SSL 9 2 (0.162 %) VoIP 9 2 (0.162 %) DHCP 9 2 (0.162 %) Extranet 10 1 (0.081 %) MPLS 10 1 (0.081 %) OSPF	Database & Business Intelligence 1 181 (14.69 %) SQL Server 2 66 (5.357 %) SQL Server 7 3 47 (3.815 %) BusinessObjects 4 41 (3.328 %) Oracle 10g 4 41 (3.328 %) ETL 5 40 (3.247 %) SQL Server 2000 6 37 (3.003 %) SQL Server 2005 7 29 (2.354 %) Datawarehouse 8 27 (2.192 %) Crystal Reports 8 27 (2.192 %) RDBMS 9 25 (2.029 %) Oracle 9i 10 23 (1.867 %) DTS 11 17 (1.380 %) Oracle Reports 12 12 (0.974 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 11 (0.893 %) OLAP 14 10 (0.812 %) Star Schema 15 8 (0.649 %) SQLPlus 15 8 (0.649 %) Reference Data 16 7 (0.568 %) Data Cleansing 17 3 (0.244 %) Oracle 11g
Development Applications 1 28 (2.273 %) Dreamweaver 2 24 (1.948 %) TestDirector 3 17 (1.380 %) Oracle Forms 4 10 (0.812 %) Ant 5 6 (0.487 %) JUnit 5 6 (0.487 %) Eclipse 6 5 (0.406 %) ClearCase 6 5 (0.406 %) QuickTest Pro 7 3 (0.244 %) JBuilder 7 3 (0.244 %) NUnit 8 2 (0.162 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 2 (0.162 %) LoadRunner 9 1 (0.081 %) PowerBuilder 9 1 (0.081 %) PowerDesigner 9 1 (0.081 %) ERwin 9 1 (0.081 %) InstallShield 9 1 (0.081 %) InterDev 9 1 (0.081 %) Subversion 9 1 (0.081 %) WinRunner	General 1 513 (41.64 %) Finance 2 403 (32.71 %) Front Office 3 292 (23.70 %) Banking 4 154 (12.50 %) Investment Banking 5 103 (8.360 %) Back Office 6 55 (4.464 %) Financial Institution 7 46 (3.734 %) Pensions 8 39 (3.166 %) Retail 9 32 (2.597 %) Health 10 19 (1.542 %) Education 11 13 (1.055 %) Private Banking 12 12 (0.974 %) Insurance 13 6 (0.487 %) Legal 13 6 (0.487 %) Retail Banking 14 5 (0.406 %) Marketing 15 4 (0.325 %) Telecoms 16 2 (0.162 %) Publishing 17 1 (0.081 %) Law 17 1 (0.081 %) Government 17 1 (0.081 %) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles 1 509 (41.31 %) Analyst 2 206 (16.72 %) Developer 3 205 (16.64 %) Business Analyst 4 121 (9.821 %) Applications Support 5 107 (8.685 %) Support Analyst 6 93 (7.549 %) Consultant 7 86 (6.981 %) Senior Analyst 8 75 (6.088 %) Project Manager 9 51 (4.140 %) Technical Analyst 10 50 (4.058 %) Team Leader 10 50 (4.058 %) Support Manager 11 47 (3.815 %) Applications Support Analyst 12 41 (3.328 %) Systems Analyst 13 40 (3.247 %) Implementation Consultant 13 40 (3.247 %) Applications Manager 14 36 (2.922 %) Relationships Manager 14 36 (2.922 %) Senior Business Analyst 15 35 (2.841 %) .NET Developer 16 34 (2.760 %) Technical Support 17 32 (2.597 %) Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 213 (17.29 %) Fixed Income 2 175 (14.20 %) Derivative 3 146 (11.85 %) Equities 4 69 (5.601 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 57 (4.627 %) Equity Derivative 6 33 (2.679 %) Management Information System 7 17 (1.380 %) Replication 7 17 (1.380 %) Mathematics 7 17 (1.380 %) Computer Science 8 13 (1.055 %) Client/Server 9 12 (0.974 %) Statistics 9 12 (0.974 %) Data Extraction 10 6 (0.487 %) N-Tier 11 5 (0.406 %) Blackberry 12 4 (0.325 %) Grid Computing 12 4 (0.325 %) Credit Derivative 13 3 (0.244 %) Clustering 13 3 (0.244 %) VWAP 13 3 (0.244 %) Credit Risk 13 3 (0.244 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 190 (15.42 %) UNIX 2 146 (11.85 %) Windows 3 57 (4.627 %) Windows XP 4 37 (3.003 %) Windows NT 5 17 (1.380 %) Linux 6 16 (1.299 %) Windows 2000 6 16 (1.299 %) Solaris 7 9 (0.731 %) HPUX 8 8 (0.649 %) Windows Server 2003 9 2 (0.162 %) AIX 10 1 (0.081 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 373 (30.28 %) Asset Management 2 196 (15.91 %) Fund Management 3 152 (12.34 %) Business Analysis 4 116 (9.416 %) ITIL 5 102 (8.279 %) Project Management 6 54 (4.383 %) Data Modelling 7 48 (3.896 %) PRINCE2 8 41 (3.328 %) OO 9 30 (2.435 %) Data Management 10 29 (2.354 %) System Testing 11 28 (2.273 %) Data Analysis 12 27 (2.192 %) Migration 13 25 (2.029 %) Risk Management 14 24 (1.948 %) Workflow 15 22 (1.786 %) Agile Software Development 15 22 (1.786 %) Wealth Management 15 22 (1.786 %) Release Management 16 18 (1.461 %) Service Delivery 17 15 (1.218 %) OOD 17 15 (1.218 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis
Programming Languages 1 361 (29.30 %) SQL 2 138 (11.20 %) Java 3 132 (10.71 %) VB 4 104 (8.442 %) C# 5 76 (6.169 %) VBA 6 60 (4.870 %) PL/SQL 7 56 (4.545 %) C++ 8 53 (4.302 %) Perl 9 41 (3.328 %) VB.NET 10 29 (2.354 %) Shell Script 10 29 (2.354 %) C 11 28 (2.273 %) VB6 12 20 (1.623 %) VBScript 13 15 (1.218 %) JavaScript 14 10 (0.812 %) Transact-SQL 15 3 (0.244 %) JCL 16 2 (0.162 %) DHTML 16 2 (0.162 %) PHP 17 1 (0.081 %) AWK 17 1 (0.081 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 112 (9.091 %) Degree 2 32 (2.597 %) Microsoft Certification 3 17 (1.380 %) MCSE 4 15 (1.218 %) MCP 5 13 (1.055 %) Cisco Certification 5 13 (1.055 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 12 (0.974 %) ITIL Certification 6 12 (0.974 %) CCNA 6 12 (0.974 %) ISEB 7 8 (0.649 %) CISSP 7 8 (0.649 %) Novell Certification 7 8 (0.649 %) CISM 8 6 (0.487 %) MCSA 9 5 (0.406 %) A+ Certification 9 5 (0.406 %) Network+ Certification 10 4 (0.325 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 10 4 (0.325 %) CFA 10 4 (0.325 %) CNA 10 4 (0.325 %) CNE 11 3 (0.244 %) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 51 (4.140 %) QA 2 24 (1.948 %) SLA 3 3 (0.244 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 2 (0.162 %) Basel II	System Software 1 41 (3.328 %) Active Directory 2 12 (0.974 %) VMware ESX 3 10 (0.812 %) Oracle RMAN 3 10 (0.812 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 7 (0.568 %) Xen 5 4 (0.325 %) Oracle RAC 5 4 (0.325 %) NetBackup 6 1 (0.081 %) Samba
Systems Management 1 13 (1.055 %) ServiceCenter 2 7 (0.568 %) CONTROL-M 3 5 (0.406 %) DameWare 4 2 (0.162 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 5 1 (0.081 %) OpenView 5 1 (0.081 %) CiscoWorks 5 1 (0.081 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 1 (0.081 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 214 (17.37 %) Oracle 2 109 (8.847 %) LatentZero 3 82 (6.656 %) Sybase 4 78 (6.331 %) Microsoft 5 53 (4.302 %) Bloomberg 6 47 (3.815 %) Business Objects 7 44 (3.571 %) Charles River 8 42 (3.409 %) Reuters 9 30 (2.435 %) HP 10 25 (2.029 %) thinkFolio 11 22 (1.786 %) VMware 12 18 (1.461 %) IBM 13 14 (1.136 %) Remedy 13 14 (1.136 %) Citrix 13 14 (1.136 %) SimCorp 14 13 (1.055 %) Altiris 15 12 (0.974 %) Cisco 15 12 (0.974 %) Sun 16 10 (0.812 %) Red Hat 16 10 (0.812 %) TIBCO