The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance 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 terms in our General category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 441 483 622
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 41.18% 35.46% 39.64%
As % of the General category 76.83% 74.42% 71.99%
Number of salaries quoted 208 301 460
Average salary £44,250 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,700 £28,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,300 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
574 649 864
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 53.59% 47.65% 55.07%
Number of salaries quoted 286 428 625
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £28,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £62,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Finance
Scotland

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Finance across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Edinburgh Finance Jobs Demand Trend

Finance
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh Finance Salary Histogram

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 218 (24.41%) Banking
2 206 (23.07%) SQL
3 163 (18.25%) .NET
4 155 (17.36%) C#
5 151 (16.91%) Project Management
6 145 (16.24%) Degree
7 142 (15.90%) Microsoft
8 128 (14.33%) Oracle
9 121 (13.55%) SQL Server
9 121 (13.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 119 (13.33%) Java
11 91 (10.19%) ASP.NET
12 88 (9.854%) SAS
13 86 (9.630%) MS Excel
13 86 (9.630%) Business Analysis
14 83 (9.295%) Retail
15 78 (8.735%) JavaScript
16 72 (8.063%) XML
17 68 (7.615%) HTML
18 67 (7.503%) Web Services
18 67 (7.503%) Linux
19 65 (7.279%) Windows
19 65 (7.279%) ISEB
20 62 (6.943%) Data Warehouse
21 61 (6.831%) Scrum
22 60 (6.719%) Business Intelligence
23 59 (6.607%) UNIX
24 58 (6.495%) CSS
25 57 (6.383%) Mainframe
26 54 (6.047%) Agile Software Development

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 163 (18.25%) .NET
2 91 (10.19%) ASP.NET
3 72 (8.063%) XML
4 68 (7.615%) HTML
5 67 (7.503%) Web Services
6 58 (6.495%) CSS
7 46 (5.151%) J2EE
8 38 (4.255%) jQuery
9 37 (4.143%) .NET Framework
10 36 (4.031%) Ajax
11 32 (3.583%) WebSphere
12 30 (3.359%) Middleware
13 25 (2.800%) XSLT
14 23 (2.576%) WCF
15 20 (2.240%) JSP
15 20 (2.240%) JSF
16 17 (1.904%) HTML5
17 16 (1.792%) SOAP
17 16 (1.792%) Hibernate
17 16 (1.792%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 88 (9.854%) SAS
2 35 (3.919%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.688%) Apache
4 18 (2.016%) CMS
5 17 (1.904%) WebSphere Application Server
6 16 (1.792%) Tomcat
7 14 (1.568%) WebSphere Portal
8 13 (1.456%) MQSeries
9 12 (1.344%) IIS
10 9 (1.008%) MS Exchange
11 8 (0.896%) TeamSite
11 8 (0.896%) BizTalk Server
12 7 (0.784%) Windows Azure
13 6 (0.672%) IBM HTTP Server
14 5 (0.560%) Amazon AWS
14 5 (0.560%) Umbraco
14 5 (0.560%) WebSphere Process Server
14 5 (0.560%) Lotus Notes
15 4 (0.448%) WebLogic
15 4 (0.448%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 86 (9.630%) MS Excel
2 37 (4.143%) MS Office
3 22 (2.464%) MS PowerPoint
4 18 (2.016%) MS Project
5 8 (0.896%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.672%) SPSS
7 4 (0.448%) FrameMaker
7 4 (0.448%) RoboHelp
8 2 (0.224%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (2.128%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (1.008%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (0.896%) Oracle Applications
3 8 (0.896%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (0.784%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (0.448%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.448%) Hyperion Planning
6 3 (0.336%) HFM
7 2 (0.224%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.224%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.224%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.112%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.112%) MultiFonds
8 1 (0.112%) Oracle iRecruitment
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.031%) Internet
2 32 (3.583%) Unified Communications
3 23 (2.576%) Intranet
4 18 (2.016%) Firewall
5 13 (1.456%) Network Security
6 9 (1.008%) HTTP
7 8 (0.896%) VoIP
8 7 (0.784%) SAN
8 7 (0.784%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.560%) DNS
10 4 (0.448%) WAN
11 2 (0.224%) DHCP
11 2 (0.224%) FTP
11 2 (0.224%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.224%) Wireless
11 2 (0.224%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.112%) Wireless Security
12 1 (0.112%) VLAN
12 1 (0.112%) IPsec
12 1 (0.112%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (13.55%) SQL Server
2 62 (6.943%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (3.135%) SQL Server 2005
4 21 (2.352%) SQL Server 2008
4 21 (2.352%) RDBMS
5 18 (2.016%) Oracle 11g
6 17 (1.904%) Data Mining
7 15 (1.680%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 13 (1.456%) Oracle BI EE
9 12 (1.344%) Base SAS
10 11 (1.232%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.232%) Oracle 10g
11 9 (1.008%) MS Access
11 9 (1.008%) OLAP
12 8 (0.896%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.672%) MySQL
13 6 (0.672%) DB2
13 6 (0.672%) PowerCenter
13 6 (0.672%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.560%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (3.695%) Visual Studio
2 19 (2.128%) Team Foundation Server
3 17 (1.904%) JUnit
4 14 (1.568%) Eclipse
5 13 (1.456%) Subversion
6 10 (1.120%) Selenium
7 9 (1.008%) QuickTest Pro
8 7 (0.784%) Jenkins
9 6 (0.672%) Maven
9 6 (0.672%) JIRA
10 5 (0.560%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.448%) Log4j
11 4 (0.448%) Fiddler
11 4 (0.448%) Canoo WebTest
12 3 (0.336%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.224%) TestDirector
13 2 (0.224%) NUnit
13 2 (0.224%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.224%) Talend Open Studio
13 2 (0.224%) Axure RP
General
1 218 (24.41%) Banking
2 83 (9.295%) Retail
3 42 (4.703%) Financial Institution
4 38 (4.255%) Retail Banking
5 28 (3.135%) Telecoms
6 23 (2.576%) Investment Banking
7 17 (1.904%) French Language
7 17 (1.904%) German Language
8 15 (1.680%) Advertising
8 15 (1.680%) Front Office
9 12 (1.344%) Back Office
10 11 (1.232%) Games
11 8 (0.896%) Marketing
12 7 (0.784%) Legal
12 7 (0.784%) Publishing
13 3 (0.336%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.224%) International Banking
14 2 (0.224%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.112%) Wholesale Banking
15 1 (0.112%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 252 (28.22%) Analyst
2 163 (18.25%) Developer
3 97 (10.86%) Project Manager
4 92 (10.30%) Consultant
5 91 (10.19%) Business Analyst
6 58 (6.495%) .NET Developer
7 54 (6.047%) Architect
8 42 (4.703%) Senior Developer
9 37 (4.143%) Senior Analyst
10 30 (3.359%) C# Developer
10 30 (3.359%) Technical Analyst
10 30 (3.359%) Infrastructure Manager
10 30 (3.359%) C# .NET Developer
11 29 (3.247%) Senior Consultant
12 27 (3.024%) Software Engineer
13 25 (2.800%) Team Leader
14 24 (2.688%) ASP.NET Developer
15 22 (2.464%) Java Developer
16 21 (2.352%) Software Developer
17 20 (2.240%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.383%) Mainframe
2 45 (5.039%) Computer Science
3 35 (3.919%) Credit Risk
4 24 (2.688%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.352%) PMI
6 15 (1.680%) Mathematics
7 10 (1.120%) Open Source
8 9 (1.008%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.008%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (0.784%) Derivative
9 7 (0.784%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (0.672%) Economics
10 6 (0.672%) Equities
10 6 (0.672%) Replication
10 6 (0.672%) Statistics
10 6 (0.672%) iSeries
10 6 (0.672%) SWIFT
11 5 (0.560%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.560%) Clustering
12 4 (0.448%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 67 (7.503%) Linux
2 65 (7.279%) Windows
3 59 (6.607%) UNIX
4 13 (1.456%) Windows Server 2008
5 12 (1.344%) AIX
6 9 (1.008%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (0.560%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.560%) Android
7 5 (0.560%) zOS
8 4 (0.448%) Solaris
9 3 (0.336%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.336%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.336%) Windows 2000
10 2 (0.224%) Windows XP
10 2 (0.224%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.112%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (16.91%) Project Management
2 121 (13.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (9.630%) Business Analysis
4 61 (6.831%) Scrum
5 60 (6.719%) Business Intelligence
6 54 (6.047%) Agile Software Development
7 52 (5.823%) PRINCE2
8 48 (5.375%) Software Engineering
9 45 (5.039%) ITIL
9 45 (5.039%) UML
10 41 (4.591%) Asset Management
11 37 (4.143%) Risk Management
12 36 (4.031%) MVC
12 36 (4.031%) User Acceptance Testing
12 36 (4.031%) Analytics
13 34 (3.807%) TDD
14 32 (3.583%) Service Delivery
14 32 (3.583%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (3.471%) Change Management
16 30 (3.359%) OO
Programming Languages
1 206 (23.07%) SQL
2 155 (17.36%) C#
3 119 (13.33%) Java
4 78 (8.735%) JavaScript
5 51 (5.711%) PL/SQL
6 29 (3.247%) Perl
7 27 (3.024%) Python
8 22 (2.464%) VB.NET
9 16 (1.792%) C++
10 14 (1.568%) T-SQL
11 13 (1.456%) Korn
11 13 (1.456%) PHP
12 11 (1.232%) Bash shell
12 11 (1.232%) VB
13 10 (1.120%) VBA
14 6 (0.672%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.560%) XPath
15 5 (0.560%) Ruby
15 5 (0.560%) XQuery
16 4 (0.448%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 145 (16.24%) Degree
2 65 (7.279%) ISEB
3 23 (2.576%) CISA
4 22 (2.464%) PMI Certification
5 19 (2.128%) CISSP
6 17 (1.904%) ISTQB
7 15 (1.680%) CISM
8 12 (1.344%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (1.344%) ISEB Practitioner
8 12 (1.344%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (1.120%) Sun Certification
10 8 (0.896%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.784%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 6 (0.672%) Security Cleared
13 5 (0.560%) QiCA
13 5 (0.560%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.448%) CCNA
14 4 (0.448%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.448%) PhD
14 4 (0.448%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.807%) QA
2 22 (2.464%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 15 (1.680%) Basel II
4 12 (1.344%) Solvency II
5 10 (1.120%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.784%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.672%) COBIT
8 4 (0.448%) COSO
9 2 (0.224%) SLA
9 2 (0.224%) GAAP
9 2 (0.224%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.224%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (2.016%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.680%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.560%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.448%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.336%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.224%) Xen
6 2 (0.224%) XenApp
6 2 (0.224%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.112%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.112%) vSphere
7 1 (0.112%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.112%) Squid
7 1 (0.112%) VMware ESX
7 1 (0.112%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 15 (1.680%) HP Quality Center
2 9 (1.008%) Tivoli
3 8 (0.896%) SCOM
4 6 (0.672%) SCCM
5 5 (0.560%) Puppet
5 5 (0.560%) Munin
5 5 (0.560%) Nagios
6 4 (0.448%) Backup Exec
6 4 (0.448%) Data Guard
6 4 (0.448%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 4 (0.448%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 3 (0.336%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (0.336%) BMC PATROL
7 3 (0.336%) Legato
7 3 (0.336%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (0.336%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (0.336%) OpenView
8 2 (0.224%) WebInspect
8 2 (0.224%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.224%) WMI
Vendors
1 142 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 128 (14.33%) Oracle
3 35 (3.919%) Business Objects
4 25 (2.800%) IBM
5 21 (2.352%) VMware
6 17 (1.904%) JBoss
7 16 (1.792%) Informatica
7 16 (1.792%) Teradata
8 12 (1.344%) HP
8 12 (1.344%) Citrix
9 11 (1.232%) Symantec
10 9 (1.008%) Hyperion
11 8 (0.896%) SAP
12 6 (0.672%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.672%) Fujitsu
13 5 (0.560%) Pegasus
13 5 (0.560%) Lotus
13 5 (0.560%) EMC
13 5 (0.560%) Adobe
13 5 (0.560%) Cisco
Edinburgh, Scotland
My client, a highly regarded financial services organisation, is seeking a Portfolio Optimisation Analyst to join their growing team in Edinburgh. The job requires experience in an analytical...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
You'll be required to define new system requirements, manage system enhancements and conduct UAT... To be considered for this role you'll have experience in Business Analysis...
Search Consultancy
Salary: excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
My client, a highly regarded financial institution, is seeking a C# Web Developer to join their expanding team in Edinburgh. The job requires C# coding experience and extensive...
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Undertake database design work, primarily on Microsoft SQL server... The candidate should be able to demonstrate: Excellent knowledge of software development using C# and ASP.NET and Microsoft ...
Change Recruitment Group
Salary: £40000 per annum + Excellent company benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
The role requires someone with proven experience of/in design, build, document ETL components and reusable patterns & frameworks Key skills required include ETL using the informatica product stack...
Vertical IT
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
London / Edinburgh. Excellent opportunity for an experienced. Statistical Modelling analyst. with a leading client in London or Edinburgh / London. Role Profile: To provide clients with insight on their...
MBN Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Unspecified £excellent doe
Posted: 24 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland, Lothian
As well as excellent C# and ASP.Net you should have strong SQL skills, ideally some experience of web based development and some knowledge of Javascript/JQuery. SQL...
ITS Ingenium
Salary: £0 - £43,000 per year + Benefits Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
The job requires a mix of Financial / Statistical Modelling experience and Database skills including SAS/SQL... They will provide first class documents and presentation materials of relevant findings...
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
To join their Internal / External, Market Risk and Compliance Control Monitoring Reporting function they are seeking someone who can manage the function in terms of people and processes.....
Real Staffing
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + bonus and flexible benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
The candidates responsibilities include understanding risk analytics on our fixed income, equity and alternatives products to help our clients and portfolio managers understand their portfolio exposures, strategy, risk...
Michael Page
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per year
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Real Staffing Group are currently working with a Financial Services organisation in the search for an Operational Risk Analyst. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward...
Real Staffing
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will be able to demonstrate a strong technical understanding of ASP.NET, C#, HTML / DHTML, AJAX and CSS and you will be able to communicate effectively with...
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Company The client is seeking a successful ASP.NET/C# Developer to work on software for financial applications within their securities team... The Position This position requires...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £38000 - £48000 per annum + bonuses + benefites
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
This role will see you acting as the liaison between Risk, Business Analysis, decision support and Commercial. The portfolio you will performing this analysis around will be Credit...
Real Staffing
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Required knowledge, skills and experience: Significant experience developing enterprise scale ASP.NET C# web applications... Experience of the following tools and technologies are essential: Microsoft .NET 4.0...
Resource Management
Salary: £36000 - £44000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Working with the latest .NET tools and technologies in an agile environment, this is an opportunity for you to use your testing skills to help deliver high quality...
Change Recruitment Group
Posted: 24 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Working in a super agile team, in a pair programming environment, you will be responsible for the development of new web applications for a Global Provider of Software...
TEKsystems
Salary: £25000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh & Lothians
Min 5 yrs SQL Server BI including 2005 and 2008 - SSIS/SSAS/SSRS/ T-SQL/MDX - Dimensional modelling skills - SharePoint 2010 BI including Performance Point Services - Experience of...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 10 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Avaloq Innovation Ltd are currently recruiting for a Senior Software Engineer (Software, Developer, Software Engineer)... Avaloq, a Swiss-originated software development company has been successfully providing major banks...
Avaloq
Salary: £45,000 - £60,000 per year
Posted: 25 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Today over 75 retail, wealth management and universal banks in 20 countries rely on Avaloq as a competent innovation partner and advisor.Duties of the Senior Business Analyst...
Avaloq
Salary: £45,000 - £65,000+ DOE
Posted: 25 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
The job requires previous Senior / Lead Project Management experience within Wholesale / Commercial banking.The successful applicant will use established project methodologies to lead, manage and control the delivery...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will have skills in cross-platform Java, JavaScript / AJAX, HTML5, XHTML and CSS. You will have an excellent understanding of agile methodology. The ideal candidate will also...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
My client, a highly regarded financial organisation, is looking for a number of Senior Technical Business Analysts to join their Edinburgh team. The job requires Technical Business Analysis...
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Java web developers are needed to join a leading financial software house based in central Edinburgh. Due to recent success my client are currently looking to hire several...
Oho Group Ltd.
Salary: £28000 to £45000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
You will have the following skills; Strong communication, influencing skills and the ability to manage small teams Analytical mind, with strong planning and project management skills Capable of...
Sanderson
Salary: £23970 - £39480 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013