The first table below looks at the demand for Basel II skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Basel II 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Basel II
Rank 83 82 46
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -36
Permanent jobs citing Basel II 1 8 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.093% 0.587% 3.824%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.205% 8.791% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 47
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £48,750 £53,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-9.30% +19.44%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
83 91 146
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 7.750% 6.681% 9.305%
Number of salaries quoted 43 62 106
Average salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £35,000 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £69,900 £65,000 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
Basel II
Scotland

Basel II
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Basel II across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Edinburgh Basel II Jobs Demand Trend

Basel II
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Basel II across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Basel II Salary Trend

Basel II
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Basel II 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 Basel II.

1 16 (88.89%) Banking
2 15 (83.33%) Business Analysis
2 15 (83.33%) Finance
2 15 (83.33%) ISEB
2 15 (83.33%) SQL
3 14 (77.78%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (77.78%) SAS
3 14 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (66.67%) Data Mining
4 12 (66.67%) Business Objects
4 12 (66.67%) UML
4 12 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (66.67%) Solvency II
5 3 (16.67%) Basel III
6 2 (11.11%) QA
6 2 (11.11%) E-business
6 2 (11.11%) Information Management
6 2 (11.11%) Strategic Management
6 2 (11.11%) CRM
7 1 (5.556%) Regression Testing
7 1 (5.556%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (5.556%) Economics
7 1 (5.556%) FATCA
7 1 (5.556%) Degree

Basel II
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Basel II 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 Basel II. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 14 (77.78%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (77.78%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (66.67%) Data Mining
General
1 16 (88.89%) Banking
2 15 (83.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Business Analyst
1 16 (88.89%) Analyst
2 12 (66.67%) Technical Analyst
2 12 (66.67%) Technical Business Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Banking Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Services Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Risk Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Business Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Data Warehouse Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Economics
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Business Analysis
2 14 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (66.67%) UML
3 12 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) E-business
4 2 (11.11%) Information Management
4 2 (11.11%) Strategic Management
4 2 (11.11%) CRM
5 1 (5.556%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) ISEB
2 1 (5.556%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (66.67%) Solvency II
2 3 (16.67%) Basel III
3 2 (11.11%) QA
4 1 (5.556%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (5.556%) FATCA
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Business Objects