England Finance Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Finance' in IT jobs within the England region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Greenford Guernsey Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haywards Heath Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kidderminster Kings Langley Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Widnes Wigan Willenhall Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	2
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	42360	49722
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	20.72 %	21.35 %
As % of the category below	41.90 %	42.75 %
Salaries quoted	34163	38709
Average minimum salary	£45,656	£46,419
Average salary	£49,955	£50,673
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Average maximum salary	£54,255	£54,926
UK excluding London average salary	£42,760	£43,917
% change on same period last year	-2.63 %
General England
Matching permanent IT job ads	101103	116320
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	49.46 %	49.95 %
Salaries quoted	82249	91443
Average minimum salary	£43,907	£46,297
Average salary	£48,257	£50,686
% change on same period last year	-4.79 %
Average maximum salary	£52,606	£55,074
UK excluding London average salary	£40,645	£42,055
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
Finance UK

Finance
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Finance across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Finance
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the England region over the past 3 months.

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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 Finance within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	London	+1	25472	£55,438	-0.53 %
2	South East	-3	5987	£43,807	-4.38 %
3	North West	-1	2361	£43,710	+1.11 %
4	Yorkshire	+1	2142	£36,675	-0.87 %
5	South West	-3	1991	£39,461	+2.93 %
6	East of England	-4	1786	£42,417	-2.65 %
7	West Midlands	+3	1275	£39,002	-0.52 %
8	East Midlands	-4	835	£43,351	+12.94 %
9	Midlands	0	293	£53,633	-3.94 %
10	North East	0	162	£37,433	-3.64 %
11	South Coast	+10	22	£56,672	+20.21 %
12	Humberside	-	3	£27,000	-

Finance UK

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Finance 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 Finance.

1 17055 (20.27 %) Banking 2 16958 (20.15 %) SQL 3 12119 (14.40 %) Java 4 12050 (14.32 %) Oracle 5 11364 (13.51 %) SQL Server 6 11288 (13.42 %) .NET 7 10950 (13.01 %) Unix 8 10060 (11.96 %) C# 9 9988 (11.87 %) Degree 10 9742 (11.58 %) Windows 11 8642 (10.27 %) Project Management 12 7724 (9.180 %) C++ 13 7000 (8.319 %) Microsoft 14 6683 (7.943 %) XML 15 5898 (7.010 %) Derivative

16 5751 (6.835 %) Investment Banking 17 5457 (6.485 %) Front Office 18 5130 (6.097 %) Insurance 19 4931 (5.860 %) J2EE 20 4879 (5.799 %) ASP.NET 21 4762 (5.659 %) Financial Institution 22 4729 (5.620 %) OO 23 4664 (5.543 %) MS Excel 24 4453 (5.292 %) Retail 25 4272 (5.077 %) Linux 26 4000 (4.754 %) SAP 27 3990 (4.742 %) PRINCE2 28 3940 (4.683 %) Pensions 29 3798 (4.514 %) VB 30 3679 (4.372 %) Business Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Finance 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 Finance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11288 (13.42 %) .NET 2 6683 (7.943 %) XML 3 4931 (5.860 %) J2EE 4 4879 (5.799 %) ASP.NET 5 3147 (3.740 %) HTML 6 2459 (2.922 %) WebServices 7 2207 (2.623 %) Spring 8 2070 (2.460 %) WebSphere 9 1719 (2.043 %) CSS 10 1692 (2.011 %) ASP 11 1690 (2.009 %) Hibernate 12 1532 (1.821 %) JSP 13 1516 (1.802 %) WinForms 14 1364 (1.621 %) AJAX 15 1324 (1.574 %) .NET Framework 16 1262 (1.500 %) Middleware 17 1086 (1.291 %) STL 18 952 (1.131 %) JDBC 19 939 (1.116 %) JMS 20 879 (1.045 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 1379 (1.639 %) MS Exchange 2 1356 (1.612 %) SAS 3 1353 (1.608 %) WebLogic 4 1178 (1.400 %) IIS 5 1075 (1.278 %) SharePoint 6 898 (1.067 %) Apache 7 888 (1.055 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 713 (0.847 %) Tomcat 9 595 (0.707 %) MQSeries 10 566 (0.673 %) BizTalk Server 11 527 (0.626 %) JBoss 12 479 (0.569 %) WebSphere Application Server 13 446 (0.530 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 391 (0.465 %) CMS 15 379 (0.450 %) Lotus Notes 16 356 (0.423 %) Oracle Workflow 17 337 (0.401 %) WebSphere MQ 18 320 (0.380 %) SharePoint Server 2007 19 316 (0.376 %) CICS 20 196 (0.233 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 4664 (5.543 %) MS Excel 2 2937 (3.491 %) MS Office 3 1111 (1.320 %) MS Visio 4 994 (1.181 %) MS Project 5 545 (0.648 %) MS PowerPoint 6 365 (0.434 %) SPSS 7 321 (0.381 %) Photoshop 8 237 (0.282 %) MATLAB 9 127 (0.151 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 111 (0.132 %) CA Clarity 11 73 (0.087 %) Fireworks 12 54 (0.064 %) S-PLUS 13 43 (0.051 %) Acrobat 14 36 (0.043 %) PrintSoft PReS 15 30 (0.036 %) RoboHelp 16 29 (0.034 %) FreeHand 17 28 (0.033 %) QuarkXPress 18 26 (0.031 %) Paint Shop Pro 19 14 (0.017 %) InfoPath 20 12 (0.014 %) InDesign	Business Applications 1 1236 (1.469 %) Oracle Financials 2 1013 (1.204 %) SAP FI 3 928 (1.103 %) SAP CO 4 922 (1.096 %) SAP FI/CO 5 790 (0.939 %) Oracle Applications 6 785 (0.933 %) Oracle EBS 7 667 (0.793 %) Oracle 11i 8 546 (0.649 %) SAP Oil and Gas 9 401 (0.477 %) Dynamics AX 10 368 (0.437 %) Axapta 11 304 (0.361 %) Navision 12 259 (0.308 %) SAP HR 13 231 (0.275 %) Summit 14 206 (0.245 %) Dynamics NAV 15 199 (0.237 %) HFM 16 197 (0.234 %) Dynamics CRM 17 191 (0.227 %) RMDS 18 185 (0.220 %) Great Plains 19 182 (0.216 %) Oracle HRMS 20 160 (0.190 %) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking 1 2301 (2.735 %) Internet 2 1878 (2.232 %) TCP/IP 3 1557 (1.850 %) WAN 4 1477 (1.755 %) Firewall 5 1256 (1.493 %) SAN 6 1245 (1.480 %) LAN 7 906 (1.077 %) VPN 8 704 (0.837 %) DNS 9 628 (0.746 %) Intranet 10 515 (0.612 %) VoIP 11 493 (0.586 %) WINS 12 449 (0.534 %) BGP 13 394 (0.468 %) OSPF 14 387 (0.460 %) DHCP 15 384 (0.456 %) MPLS 16 319 (0.379 %) Network Security 17 242 (0.288 %) Cisco IOS 18 235 (0.279 %) HTTP 19 193 (0.229 %) IP Telephony 20 189 (0.225 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11364 (13.51 %) SQL Server 2 2897 (3.443 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2466 (2.931 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2173 (2.583 %) RDBMS 5 2071 (2.461 %) Datawarehouse 6 1602 (1.904 %) Oracle 10g 7 1387 (1.648 %) BusinessObjects 8 1287 (1.530 %) DB2 9 1208 (1.436 %) Oracle 9i 10 1045 (1.242 %) SQL Server 7 11 954 (1.134 %) Crystal Reports 12 926 (1.101 %) ETL 13 885 (1.052 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 881 (1.047 %) MySQL 15 799 (0.950 %) Oracle Reports 16 641 (0.762 %) DTS 17 596 (0.708 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 18 557 (0.662 %) OLAP 19 478 (0.568 %) SAP BW 20 445 (0.529 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 1171 (1.392 %) TestDirector 2 1063 (1.263 %) Visual Studio 3 605 (0.719 %) JUnit 4 575 (0.683 %) QuickTest Pro 5 574 (0.682 %) Eclipse 6 553 (0.657 %) Ant 7 495 (0.588 %) Oracle Forms 8 445 (0.529 %) WinRunner 9 436 (0.518 %) ClearCase 10 374 (0.444 %) Flash 11 321 (0.381 %) Subversion 12 287 (0.341 %) LoadRunner 13 239 (0.284 %) VSS/SourceSafe 14 223 (0.265 %) Rational Rose 15 176 (0.209 %) Dreamweaver 16 153 (0.182 %) NUnit 17 109 (0.130 %) PowerBuilder 18 106 (0.126 %) PVCS 19 94 (0.112 %) CruiseControl 20 85 (0.101 %) MorphX	General 1 17055 (20.27 %) Banking 2 5751 (6.835 %) Investment Banking 3 5457 (6.485 %) Front Office 4 5130 (6.097 %) Insurance 5 4762 (5.659 %) Financial Institution 6 4453 (5.292 %) Retail 7 3940 (4.683 %) Pensions 8 3052 (3.627 %) Telecoms 9 2650 (3.149 %) Health 10 2438 (2.897 %) Marketing 11 2345 (2.787 %) Back Office 12 2006 (2.384 %) Education 13 1349 (1.603 %) Government 14 1333 (1.584 %) Manufacturing 15 1307 (1.553 %) Legal 16 817 (0.971 %) Games 17 747 (0.888 %) Retail Banking 18 616 (0.732 %) Law 19 598 (0.711 %) Billing 20 537 (0.638 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 20462 (24.32 %) Developer 2 19400 (23.06 %) Analyst 3 8219 (9.768 %) Consultant 4 6810 (8.093 %) Business Analyst 5 6377 (7.579 %) Project Manager 6 4819 (5.727 %) Java Developer 7 3513 (4.175 %) C# Developer 8 3318 (3.943 %) .NET Developer 9 3269 (3.885 %) Support Analyst 10 3051 (3.626 %) Architect 11 2622 (3.116 %) C++ Developer 12 2459 (2.922 %) DBA 13 2457 (2.920 %) Administrator 14 2447 (2.908 %) Senior Developer 15 2198 (2.612 %) Programmer 16 2042 (2.427 %) Applications Support 17 1886 (2.241 %) Senior Analyst 18 1819 (2.162 %) Team Leader 19 1768 (2.101 %) SAP Consultant 20 1618 (1.923 %) Systems Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 5898 (7.010 %) Derivative 2 2976 (3.537 %) Equities 3 2952 (3.508 %) Fixed Income 4 2659 (3.160 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 2237 (2.659 %) Asset Management 6 1754 (2.085 %) Computer Science 7 1552 (1.845 %) Mathematics 8 1543 (1.834 %) Multithreading 9 1173 (1.394 %) Mainframe 10 1093 (1.299 %) Equity Derivative 11 953 (1.133 %) Management Information System 12 945 (1.123 %) Credit Risk 13 895 (1.064 %) Credit Derivative 14 881 (1.047 %) Client/Server 15 640 (0.761 %) Fund Management 16 591 (0.702 %) Blackberry 17 590 (0.701 %) AS400 18 587 (0.698 %) Replication 19 555 (0.660 %) Clustering 20 532 (0.632 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 10950 (13.01 %) Unix 2 9742 (11.58 %) Windows 3 4272 (5.077 %) Linux 4 2901 (3.448 %) Solaris 5 1443 (1.715 %) Windows 2000 6 1197 (1.423 %) AIX 7 1043 (1.240 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1039 (1.235 %) Windows XP 9 860 (1.022 %) Windows NT 10 437 (0.519 %) HPUX 11 334 (0.397 %) VMS 12 209 (0.248 %) MVS 13 93 (0.111 %) zOS 14 76 (0.090 %) OpenVMS 15 65 (0.077 %) SUSE 16 32 (0.038 %) OS/400 17 30 (0.036 %) Windows Vista 18 29 (0.034 %) OS/390 19 27 (0.032 %) Mac OS X 20 21 (0.025 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 8642 (10.27 %) Project Management 2 4729 (5.620 %) OO 3 3990 (4.742 %) PRINCE2 4 3679 (4.372 %) Business Analysis 5 3212 (3.817 %) ITIL 6 3120 (3.708 %) UML 7 3114 (3.701 %) Risk Management 8 2452 (2.914 %) Business Intelligence 9 2124 (2.524 %) CRM 10 1988 (2.363 %) ERP 11 1922 (2.284 %) Change Management 12 1710 (2.032 %) Investment Management 13 1685 (2.003 %) Service Delivery 14 1663 (1.976 %) E-Commerce 15 1627 (1.934 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 1516 (1.802 %) Agile Software Development 17 1391 (1.653 %) Data Modelling 18 1277 (1.518 %) Stakeholder Management 19 1274 (1.514 %) Web Development 20 1257 (1.494 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 16958 (20.15 %) SQL 2 12119 (14.40 %) Java 3 10060 (11.96 %) C# 4 7724 (9.180 %) C++ 5 3798 (4.514 %) VB 6 2858 (3.397 %) JavaScript 7 2804 (3.332 %) VB.NET 8 2547 (3.027 %) VBA 9 2516 (2.990 %) C 10 2296 (2.729 %) Perl 11 2143 (2.547 %) PL/SQL 12 1800 (2.139 %) Transact-SQL 13 1563 (1.858 %) Shell Script 14 1128 (1.341 %) VB6 15 986 (1.172 %) VC++ 16 721 (0.857 %) PHP 17 611 (0.726 %) DHTML 18 597 (0.710 %) VBScript 19 565 (0.671 %) COBOL 20 476 (0.566 %) Python	Qualifications 1 9988 (11.87 %) Degree 2 1946 (2.313 %) ISEB 3 1598 (1.899 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1081 (1.285 %) Cisco Certification 5 853 (1.014 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 814 (0.967 %) MCSE 7 704 (0.837 %) ACCA 8 585 (0.695 %) CIMA 9 542 (0.644 %) CCNA 10 497 (0.591 %) ITIL Certification 11 477 (0.567 %) MCP 12 471 (0.560 %) CCNP 13 349 (0.415 %) CCIE 14 345 (0.410 %) PhD 15 344 (0.409 %) CISSP 16 328 (0.390 %) PMI Certification 17 312 (0.371 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 18 301 (0.358 %) MCSD 19 278 (0.330 %) CISA 20 260 (0.309 %) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2364 (2.810 %) QA 2 1145 (1.361 %) SLA 3 766 (0.910 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 613 (0.729 %) Basel II 5 201 (0.239 %) COBIT 6 195 (0.232 %) MiFID 7 186 (0.221 %) ISO27001 8 103 (0.122 %) ISO17799 9 87 (0.103 %) BS7799 10 59 (0.070 %) ISO9000 11 54 (0.064 %) ISO8583 12 39 (0.046 %) WCAG 12 39 (0.046 %) PCI DSS 13 36 (0.043 %) GAAP 14 35 (0.042 %) IAS 39 15 31 (0.037 %) ISO9001 16 23 (0.027 %) WAI 17 20 (0.024 %) BS25999 18 13 (0.015 %) BS15000 19 9 (0.011 %) Prudential Sourcebook	System Software 1 2195 (2.609 %) Active Directory 2 524 (0.623 %) Oracle RAC 3 418 (0.497 %) Oracle RMAN 4 321 (0.381 %) NetBackup 5 119 (0.141 %) MSMQ 6 117 (0.139 %) NFS 7 112 (0.133 %) Backup Exec 8 110 (0.131 %) VMware ESX 9 70 (0.083 %) ISA Server 10 69 (0.082 %) Terminal Services 11 64 (0.076 %) AquaLogic 12 60 (0.071 %) MetaFrame 13 57 (0.068 %) Samba 14 51 (0.061 %) RACF 15 48 (0.057 %) Citrix Presentation Server 16 24 (0.029 %) Terminal Server 17 22 (0.026 %) LiteSpeed 18 21 (0.025 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 19 20 (0.024 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 20 18 (0.021 %) Xen
Systems Management 1 393 (0.467 %) Tivoli 2 240 (0.285 %) OpenView 3 159 (0.189 %) AutoSys 4 156 (0.185 %) CONTROL-M 5 135 (0.160 %) BMC PATROL 6 92 (0.109 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 7 86 (0.102 %) MOM 8 85 (0.101 %) CiscoWorks 9 73 (0.087 %) Legato 10 71 (0.084 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 71 (0.084 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 11 60 (0.071 %) Norton AntiVirus 12 47 (0.056 %) Oracle Statspack 13 46 (0.055 %) OMEGAMON 13 46 (0.055 %) MAILsweeper 14 44 (0.052 %) SCOM 15 43 (0.051 %) Unicenter 16 39 (0.046 %) CA SiteMinder 16 39 (0.046 %) OpenView Configuration Management 17 38 (0.045 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 12050 (14.32 %) Oracle 2 7000 (8.319 %) Microsoft 3 4000 (4.754 %) SAP 4 3662 (4.352 %) Sybase 5 2368 (2.814 %) Cisco 6 1518 (1.804 %) IBM 7 1387 (1.648 %) Business Objects 8 1223 (1.453 %) Citrix 9 1195 (1.420 %) Bloomberg 10 1143 (1.358 %) HP 11 1129 (1.342 %) Reuters 12 1015 (1.206 %) Sun 13 900 (1.070 %) Cognos 14 680 (0.808 %) VMware 15 649 (0.771 %) CheckPoint 16 623 (0.740 %) TIBCO 17 593 (0.705 %) VERITAS 18 581 (0.690 %) Red Hat 19 574 (0.682 %) Remedy 20 551 (0.655 %) Hyperion