England Derivative Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Derivatives skills within the England 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Derivatives
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brentwood Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands City of London County Antrim Docklands, London Dorset East of England Edinburgh England Essex Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ilford Jersey Kent London Northern Ireland Romford Scotland Slough South East South West Surrey Swindon UK West Midlands Wiltshire Windsor	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	28
Rank change on same period last year	-42
Matching permanent IT job ads	5013	12013
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.698 %	5.008 %
As % of the category below	13.20 %	22.68 %
Salaries quoted	3886	8771
Average minimum salary	£61,002	£61,516
Average salary	£68,866	£68,350
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Average maximum salary	£76,730	£75,183
UK excluding London average salary	£48,980	£52,311
% change on same period last year	-6.36 %
Miscellaneous England
Matching permanent IT job ads	37967	52972
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	20.43 %	22.08 %
Salaries quoted	31291	40304
Average minimum salary	£44,370	£48,238
Average salary	£49,219	£53,252
% change on same period last year	-7.57 %
Average maximum salary	£54,069	£58,266
UK excluding London average salary	£37,872	£39,233
% change on same period last year	-3.46 %
Derivative UK

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Demand Trend

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

Derivative
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Derivative across the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Derivative within the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-11	4911	£69,109	+0.69 %
South East	-28	33	£33,344	-24.39 %
East of England	+35	25	£42,000	-16.52 %
South West	-28	20	£60,000	-4.06 %
West Midlands	+6	11	£45,818	+35.86 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 5461 (45.60 %) Front Office 2 4973 (41.52 %) Finance 3 4785 (39.95 %) Banking 4 3911 (32.65 %) Java 5 3385 (28.26 %) C++ 6 3222 (26.90 %) C# 7 2993 (24.99 %) SQL 8 2981 (24.89 %) Equity Derivative 9 2712 (22.64 %) Investment Banking 10 2367 (19.76 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 11 2279 (19.03 %) Fixed Income 12 2246 (18.75 %) UNIX 13 2161 (18.04 %) Equities 14 1683 (14.05 %) Credit Derivative 15 1573 (13.13 %) Degree

16 1528 (12.76 %) Risk Management 17 1521 (12.70 %) .NET 18 1447 (12.08 %) Oracle 19 1424 (11.89 %) Windows 20 1395 (11.65 %) VBA 21 1372 (11.46 %) OO 22 1163 (9.710 %) XML 23 1129 (9.426 %) Sybase 24 1059 (8.842 %) Project Management 25 977 (8.157 %) SQL Server 26 971 (8.107 %) Interest Rate Derivative 27 900 (7.514 %) Back Office 28 893 (7.456 %) Business Analysis 29 804 (6.713 %) J2EE 30 750 (6.262 %) Spring

Derivative
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the England 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.

Application Development 1 1521 (12.70 %) .NET 2 1163 (9.710 %) XML 3 804 (6.713 %) J2EE 4 750 (6.262 %) Spring 5 444 (3.707 %) Hibernate 6 437 (3.649 %) STL 7 405 (3.381 %) WinForms 8 288 (2.405 %) JMS 9 255 (2.129 %) WebServices 10 246 (2.054 %) JDBC 11 226 (1.887 %) ASP.NET 12 197 (1.645 %) JSP 13 191 (1.595 %) Swing 13 191 (1.595 %) Middleware 14 175 (1.461 %) .NET Framework 15 170 (1.419 %) J2SE 16 134 (1.119 %) Servlets 17 129 (1.077 %) AJAX 18 121 (1.010 %) ASP 19 117 (0.977 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 177 (1.478 %) JBoss 2 112 (0.935 %) Tomcat 3 106 (0.885 %) WebLogic 4 104 (0.868 %) MQSeries 5 96 (0.802 %) Apache 6 50 (0.417 %) BizTalk Server 7 29 (0.242 %) TIBCO EMS 8 28 (0.234 %) CMS 9 26 (0.217 %) Oracle Workflow 10 21 (0.175 %) Rendezvous 11 17 (0.142 %) IIS 12 13 (0.109 %) MS Exchange 13 11 (0.092 %) WebSphere MQ 13 11 (0.092 %) Jetty 13 11 (0.092 %) Resin 14 8 (0.067 %) WebLogic Portal 14 8 (0.067 %) SharePoint 15 7 (0.058 %) SAS 16 6 (0.050 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 17 4 (0.033 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 282 (2.355 %) Spreadsheet 2 250 (2.087 %) MS Excel 3 86 (0.718 %) MS Office 4 57 (0.476 %) MS Visio 5 26 (0.217 %) MATLAB 6 13 (0.109 %) MS Project 7 8 (0.067 %) MS PowerPoint 8 4 (0.033 %) CA Clarity 8 4 (0.033 %) Photoshop 9 2 (0.017 %) Adobe Illustrator 9 2 (0.017 %) FreeHand 10 1 (0.008 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 170 (1.419 %) Summit 2 147 (1.227 %) Endur 3 59 (0.493 %) Capstone 4 41 (0.342 %) Murex MxG2000 5 38 (0.317 %) FRONT ARENA 6 37 (0.309 %) Temenos T24 7 32 (0.267 %) SimCorp Dimension 8 31 (0.259 %) Minerva 9 30 (0.250 %) Findur 10 28 (0.234 %) Tesseract 11 21 (0.175 %) SAP ERP 12 18 (0.150 %) Misys Equation 12 18 (0.150 %) Misys Midas 12 18 (0.150 %) Temenos Globus 13 16 (0.134 %) Thomson PORTIA 14 14 (0.117 %) FLEXCUBE 14 14 (0.117 %) Sophis RISQUE 15 13 (0.109 %) HiPortfolio 16 12 (0.100 %) Kondor+ 17 11 (0.092 %) Global One
Communications & Networking 1 134 (1.119 %) TCP/IP 2 41 (0.342 %) VPN 3 36 (0.301 %) Internet 4 35 (0.292 %) Firewall 5 30 (0.250 %) LAN 6 28 (0.234 %) WAN 7 23 (0.192 %) HTTP 8 22 (0.184 %) Intranet 9 21 (0.175 %) VoIP 10 14 (0.117 %) SAN 11 13 (0.109 %) OSPF 11 13 (0.109 %) BGP 12 12 (0.100 %) MPLS 13 11 (0.092 %) HTTPS 13 11 (0.092 %) SSL 13 11 (0.092 %) SSH 13 11 (0.092 %) iSCSI 14 9 (0.075 %) FTP 15 8 (0.067 %) DNS 16 6 (0.050 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 977 (8.157 %) SQL Server 2 533 (4.450 %) RDBMS 3 148 (1.236 %) SQL Server 2005 4 120 (1.002 %) Reference Data 5 114 (0.952 %) Datawarehouse 6 88 (0.735 %) SQL Server 2000 7 72 (0.601 %) Oracle 10g 8 60 (0.501 %) DTS 9 52 (0.434 %) Crystal Reports 10 45 (0.376 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 39 (0.326 %) Oracle 9i 12 34 (0.284 %) MySQL 13 33 (0.276 %) ETL 14 32 (0.267 %) Oracle Reports 14 32 (0.267 %) OLAP 15 31 (0.259 %) Data Mart 16 30 (0.250 %) BusinessObjects 17 21 (0.175 %) DB2 17 21 (0.175 %) MS Access 18 18 (0.150 %) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications 1 205 (1.712 %) Ant 2 194 (1.620 %) JUnit 3 191 (1.595 %) TestDirector 4 150 (1.252 %) Eclipse 5 125 (1.044 %) ClearCase 6 52 (0.434 %) QuickTest Pro 7 50 (0.417 %) Subversion 8 39 (0.326 %) WinRunner 9 37 (0.309 %) NUnit 10 36 (0.301 %) Visual Studio 11 16 (0.134 %) CruiseControl 12 14 (0.117 %) Rational Rose 12 14 (0.117 %) ClearQuest 13 11 (0.092 %) JIRA 14 10 (0.083 %) Oracle Forms 15 9 (0.075 %) LoadRunner 15 9 (0.075 %) Selenium 15 9 (0.075 %) FitNesse 16 7 (0.058 %) Rational Robot 17 6 (0.050 %) Log4j	General 1 5461 (45.60 %) Front Office 2 4973 (41.52 %) Finance 3 4785 (39.95 %) Banking 4 2712 (22.64 %) Investment Banking 5 900 (7.514 %) Back Office 6 340 (2.839 %) Education 7 304 (2.538 %) Financial Institution 8 235 (1.962 %) Games 9 163 (1.361 %) Pensions 10 161 (1.344 %) Marketing 11 141 (1.177 %) Retail 12 135 (1.127 %) Health 13 125 (1.044 %) Insurance 14 111 (0.927 %) Telecoms 15 71 (0.593 %) Legal 16 49 (0.409 %) Private Banking 17 36 (0.301 %) Construction 18 28 (0.234 %) Retail Banking 19 22 (0.184 %) Government 20 21 (0.175 %) Online Banking
Job Titles 1 5628 (46.99 %) Developer 2 3197 (26.69 %) Analyst 3 1939 (16.19 %) Java Developer 4 1720 (14.36 %) Business Analyst 5 1379 (11.51 %) C# Developer 6 1251 (10.45 %) C++ Developer 7 792 (6.613 %) Senior Developer 8 692 (5.778 %) Project Manager 9 607 (5.068 %) Team Leader 10 601 (5.018 %) Applications Support 11 570 (4.759 %) Support Analyst 12 413 (3.448 %) Excel Developer 13 386 (3.223 %) Senior Analyst 14 366 (3.056 %) VBA Developer 15 353 (2.947 %) Consultant 16 338 (2.822 %) Front Office Developer 17 325 (2.714 %) Analyst Developer 18 317 (2.647 %) Senior Java Developer 19 302 (2.521 %) Excel VBA Developer 20 273 (2.279 %) Applications Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2981 (24.89 %) Equity Derivative 2 2367 (19.76 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 2279 (19.03 %) Fixed Income 4 2161 (18.04 %) Equities 5 1683 (14.05 %) Credit Derivative 6 971 (8.107 %) Interest Rate Derivative 7 623 (5.202 %) Multithreading 8 388 (3.240 %) Computer Science 9 352 (2.939 %) Exotic Derivative 10 346 (2.889 %) Mathematics 11 305 (2.547 %) Market Risk 12 278 (2.321 %) Grid Computing 13 262 (2.188 %) Credit Risk 14 161 (1.344 %) Physics 15 157 (1.311 %) N-Tier 16 155 (1.294 %) Client/Server 17 64 (0.534 %) Swaptions 18 62 (0.518 %) Energy Derivatives 19 59 (0.493 %) Hybrid Derivative 19 59 (0.493 %) DTCC
Operating Systems 1 2246 (18.75 %) UNIX 2 1424 (11.89 %) Windows 3 612 (5.110 %) Linux 4 301 (2.513 %) Solaris 5 137 (1.144 %) Windows XP 6 108 (0.902 %) Windows 2000 7 89 (0.743 %) Windows Server 2003 8 64 (0.534 %) Windows NT 9 52 (0.434 %) VMS 10 28 (0.234 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 26 (0.217 %) Red Hat Linux 12 25 (0.209 %) Windows Vista 13 14 (0.117 %) CentOS 14 8 (0.067 %) AIX 15 3 (0.025 %) HPUX 15 3 (0.025 %) OS/400 16 2 (0.017 %) SUSE 17 1 (0.008 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 1528 (12.76 %) Risk Management 2 1372 (11.46 %) OO 3 1059 (8.842 %) Project Management 4 893 (7.456 %) Business Analysis 5 525 (4.383 %) Asset Management 6 507 (4.233 %) Agile Software Development 7 431 (3.599 %) UML 8 395 (3.298 %) Electronic Trading 9 393 (3.281 %) Algorithmic Trading 10 388 (3.240 %) RAD 11 369 (3.081 %) Investment Management 12 364 (3.039 %) User Acceptance Testing 13 316 (2.638 %) Workflow 14 294 (2.455 %) OOD 15 225 (1.879 %) Migration 16 215 (1.795 %) Software Engineering 17 192 (1.603 %) E-Commerce 18 183 (1.528 %) Unit Testing 19 166 (1.386 %) OOA/OOD 20 155 (1.294 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 3911 (32.65 %) Java 2 3385 (28.26 %) C++ 3 3222 (26.90 %) C# 4 2993 (24.99 %) SQL 5 1395 (11.65 %) VBA 6 557 (4.651 %) VB 7 472 (3.941 %) Perl 8 257 (2.146 %) VC++ 9 203 (1.695 %) C 10 201 (1.678 %) Shell Script 11 175 (1.461 %) Python 12 152 (1.269 %) VB.NET 13 151 (1.261 %) PL/SQL 14 125 (1.044 %) JavaScript 15 119 (0.994 %) VB6 16 64 (0.534 %) Transact-SQL 17 61 (0.509 %) Ruby 18 45 (0.376 %) PHP 19 39 (0.326 %) Tcl 20 37 (0.309 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 1573 (13.13 %) Degree 2 170 (1.419 %) ISEB 3 155 (1.294 %) PhD 4 24 (0.200 %) Postgraduate 4 24 (0.200 %) Cisco Certification 5 23 (0.192 %) CCNP 6 22 (0.184 %) CIMA 6 22 (0.184 %) ISEB Practitioner 7 21 (0.175 %) ITIL Certification 8 18 (0.150 %) ACCA 9 17 (0.142 %) CFA 10 13 (0.109 %) PRINCE2 Certification 11 12 (0.100 %) PMP 11 12 (0.100 %) PMI Certification 12 6 (0.050 %) CCIP 13 5 (0.042 %) CCNA 14 4 (0.033 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 15 3 (0.025 %) Microsoft Certification 16 2 (0.017 %) CISA 16 2 (0.017 %) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 229 (1.912 %) QA 2 38 (0.317 %) IAS 39 3 37 (0.309 %) Basel II 4 31 (0.259 %) SLA 5 22 (0.184 %) MiFID 6 12 (0.100 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 7 6 (0.050 %) ISO/IEC 20000 8 3 (0.025 %) GAAP	System Software 1 33 (0.276 %) Oracle RAC 2 26 (0.217 %) Active Directory 3 23 (0.192 %) Oracle RMAN 4 13 (0.109 %) AquaLogic 4 13 (0.109 %) Samba 5 12 (0.100 %) NFS 6 6 (0.050 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 5 (0.042 %) Terminal Server 7 5 (0.042 %) ISA Server 8 3 (0.025 %) MSMQ 9 2 (0.017 %) NetBackup 10 1 (0.008 %) Orbix 10 1 (0.008 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 61 (0.509 %) AutoSys 2 24 (0.200 %) CONTROL-M 3 14 (0.117 %) MOM 4 6 (0.050 %) CiscoWorks 4 6 (0.050 %) BMC PATROL 5 2 (0.017 %) OpenView 6 1 (0.008 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 6 1 (0.008 %) NNM	Vendors 1 1447 (12.08 %) Oracle 2 1129 (9.426 %) Sybase 3 378 (3.156 %) Murex 4 299 (2.496 %) Microsoft 5 253 (2.112 %) TIBCO 6 240 (2.004 %) Reuters 7 223 (1.862 %) Bloomberg 8 197 (1.645 %) Calypso 9 178 (1.486 %) OpenLink 10 105 (0.877 %) Sophis 11 99 (0.827 %) LatentZero 12 91 (0.760 %) SunGard 13 79 (0.660 %) SimCorp 14 73 (0.610 %) Fidessa 14 73 (0.610 %) Actuate 15 63 (0.526 %) GL TRADE 16 58 (0.484 %) Sun 17 52 (0.434 %) Charles River 18 51 (0.426 %) DataSynapse 19 48 (0.401 %) SAP