England Reuters Jobs

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Reuters products and/or services in IT jobs within the England region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Reuters over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Canary Wharf Channel Islands City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Epsom Guernsey Guildford Hertfordshire Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Merseyside North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Somerset South East South West Street Surrey Swindon UK Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	338	287
Rank change on same period last year	-51
Matching permanent IT job ads	935	1408
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.492 %	0.578 %
As % of the category below	1.225 %	1.438 %
Salaries quoted	656	917
Average minimum salary	£45,243	£49,108
Average salary	£49,847	£52,418
% change on same period last year	-4.90 %
Average maximum salary	£54,452	£55,727
UK excluding London average salary	£49,931	£37,752
% change on same period last year	+32.25 %
Vendors England
Matching permanent IT job ads	76323	97883
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	40.19 %	40.15 %
Salaries quoted	63316	76860
Average minimum salary	£40,055	£41,977
Average salary	£43,749	£45,783
% change on same period last year	-4.44 %
Average maximum salary	£47,442	£49,589
UK excluding London average salary	£39,811	£42,044
% change on same period last year	-5.31 %
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These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Reuters Group PLC.

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Reuters across the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 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 Reuters within the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 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	863	£49,883	-5.19 %
South East	+65	52	£44,694	-7.64 %
South West	+10	7	£47,583	+73.03 %
East of England	+13	4	£29,500	-21.33 %
West Midlands	-8	4	£70,625	+106.95 %
East Midlands	+21	2	-	-
Yorkshire	+11	1	£35,000	-
North West	+15	1	£33,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing Reuters 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 Reuters.

1 1408 (72.43 %) Bloomberg 2 1030 (52.98 %) Finance 3 697 (35.85 %) Windows 4 518 (26.65 %) Banking 5 439 (22.58 %) UNIX 6 432 (22.22 %) SQL 7 324 (16.67 %) Front Office 8 301 (15.48 %) Microsoft 9 264 (13.58 %) Derivative 10 240 (12.35 %) .NET 10 240 (12.35 %) Windows XP 11 239 (12.29 %) Equities 12 238 (12.24 %) Java 13 231 (11.88 %) Active Directory 14 211 (10.85 %) VBA

15 207 (10.65 %) Linux 16 202 (10.39 %) MS Office 17 196 (10.08 %) SQL Server 18 194 (9.979 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 18 194 (9.979 %) Degree 19 189 (9.722 %) MS Excel 20 186 (9.568 %) C# 21 176 (9.053 %) TCP/IP 22 174 (8.951 %) Solaris 22 174 (8.951 %) Agile Software Development 23 172 (8.848 %) MS Exchange 24 168 (8.642 %) Windows 2000 25 166 (8.539 %) Investment Banking 26 153 (7.870 %) Fixed Income 27 142 (7.305 %) C++

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing Reuters 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 Reuters. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 240 (12.35 %) .NET 2 71 (3.652 %) XML 3 64 (3.292 %) ASP.NET 4 63 (3.241 %) J2EE 5 47 (2.418 %) ADO.NET 6 37 (1.903 %) MVC 7 33 (1.698 %) Spring 8 31 (1.595 %) WebSphere 9 28 (1.440 %) WinForms 10 26 (1.337 %) FIX Protocol 10 26 (1.337 %) ATL 11 25 (1.286 %) COM+ 11 25 (1.286 %) RSS 11 25 (1.286 %) Java RMI 12 23 (1.183 %) XSL 12 23 (1.183 %) Hibernate 13 22 (1.132 %) CORBA 13 22 (1.132 %) JMX 13 22 (1.132 %) Struts 14 20 (1.029 %) STL	Application Platforms 1 172 (8.848 %) MS Exchange 2 130 (6.687 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 79 (4.064 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 32 (1.646 %) WebLogic 5 28 (1.440 %) JBoss 6 26 (1.337 %) Lotus Notes 7 23 (1.183 %) MQSeries 8 20 (1.029 %) SharePoint 9 17 (0.874 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 13 (0.669 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 7 (0.360 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 12 6 (0.309 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 6 (0.309 %) Apache 12 6 (0.309 %) MTS 13 5 (0.257 %) SAS 14 4 (0.206 %) IIS 15 3 (0.154 %) Rendezvous 16 2 (0.103 %) Live Communications Server 16 2 (0.103 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 202 (10.39 %) MS Office 2 189 (9.722 %) MS Excel 3 29 (1.492 %) Spreadsheet 4 8 (0.412 %) MS PowerPoint 5 7 (0.360 %) MS Visio 6 3 (0.154 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 137 (7.047 %) RMDS 2 62 (3.189 %) Kondor+ 3 33 (1.698 %) Endur 4 18 (0.926 %) Misys Midas 5 17 (0.874 %) Misys Opics 6 15 (0.772 %) Summit 7 9 (0.463 %) Minerva 7 9 (0.463 %) SoftGrid 8 7 (0.360 %) assyst 9 6 (0.309 %) Beauchamp 10 5 (0.257 %) Capstone 10 5 (0.257 %) Tesseract 11 3 (0.154 %) FRONT ARENA 11 3 (0.154 %) Advent Geneva 12 2 (0.103 %) Oracle EBS 12 2 (0.103 %) HiPortfolio 13 1 (0.051 %) Navision 13 1 (0.051 %) Temenos Globus 13 1 (0.051 %) FLEXCUBE 13 1 (0.051 %) ADP Wilco Gloss
Communications & Networking 1 176 (9.053 %) TCP/IP 2 76 (3.909 %) WAN 3 71 (3.652 %) VPN 4 69 (3.549 %) DNS 4 69 (3.549 %) LAN 5 54 (2.778 %) DHCP 5 54 (2.778 %) Internet 5 54 (2.778 %) Firewall 6 33 (1.698 %) VoIP 7 28 (1.440 %) Intranet 8 21 (1.080 %) Wireless 9 17 (0.874 %) SAN 10 9 (0.463 %) IP Telephony 10 9 (0.463 %) SNMP 11 8 (0.412 %) PBX 11 8 (0.412 %) VLAN 11 8 (0.412 %) Cisco IPT 12 7 (0.360 %) SMTP 13 6 (0.309 %) NetScreen 13 6 (0.309 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 196 (10.08 %) SQL Server 2 77 (3.961 %) SQL Server 2005 3 69 (3.549 %) SQL Server 2000 4 68 (3.498 %) Reference Data 5 34 (1.749 %) RDBMS 6 23 (1.183 %) SQL Server 7 7 16 (0.823 %) Oracle 10g 8 13 (0.669 %) MySQL 9 12 (0.617 %) Datawarehouse 10 11 (0.566 %) Oracle 9i 10 11 (0.566 %) Crystal Reports 10 11 (0.566 %) BusinessObjects 11 9 (0.463 %) KDB 12 7 (0.360 %) ETL 13 6 (0.309 %) Data Mining 14 5 (0.257 %) Sybase ASE 15 4 (0.206 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 4 (0.206 %) SQL Server Integration Services 15 4 (0.206 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 15 4 (0.206 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 31 (1.595 %) Visual Studio 2 27 (1.389 %) Eclipse 3 22 (1.132 %) CruiseControl 3 22 (1.132 %) Subversion 4 13 (0.669 %) Ant 4 13 (0.669 %) JUnit 5 12 (0.617 %) XDE 6 10 (0.514 %) NUnit 7 6 (0.309 %) MSI 7 6 (0.309 %) InstallShield 8 5 (0.257 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 4 (0.206 %) Oracle Forms 9 4 (0.206 %) IntelliJ 10 2 (0.103 %) TestDirector 11 1 (0.051 %) ClearCase	General 1 1030 (52.98 %) Finance 2 518 (26.65 %) Banking 3 324 (16.67 %) Front Office 4 166 (8.539 %) Investment Banking 5 121 (6.224 %) Back Office 6 105 (5.401 %) Financial Institution 7 75 (3.858 %) Telecoms 8 62 (3.189 %) Health 9 35 (1.800 %) Pensions 9 35 (1.800 %) Education 10 17 (0.874 %) Insurance 11 15 (0.772 %) Legal 12 13 (0.669 %) International Banking 13 12 (0.617 %) Retail 14 8 (0.412 %) Auditing 15 7 (0.360 %) Construction 16 5 (0.257 %) Marketing 17 4 (0.206 %) Government 18 3 (0.154 %) Wholesale Banking 19 1 (0.051 %) Law
Job Titles 1 610 (31.38 %) Analyst 2 355 (18.26 %) Support Analyst 3 296 (15.23 %) Developer 4 184 (9.465 %) Desktop Support 5 158 (8.128 %) Applications Support 6 101 (5.195 %) Support Engineer 6 101 (5.195 %) Data Analyst 7 94 (4.835 %) Business Analyst 8 86 (4.424 %) Architect 9 85 (4.372 %) Market Analyst 10 84 (4.321 %) Market Data Analyst 11 81 (4.167 %) Administrator 12 73 (3.755 %) Applications Support Analyst 13 70 (3.601 %) Desktop Analyst 14 68 (3.498 %) Desktop Support Analyst 15 63 (3.241 %) Senior Developer 16 51 (2.623 %) Senior Analyst 16 51 (2.623 %) C# Developer 17 49 (2.521 %) Consultant 18 48 (2.469 %) Technical Support	Miscellaneous 1 264 (13.58 %) Derivative 2 239 (12.29 %) Equities 3 194 (9.979 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 153 (7.870 %) Fixed Income 5 117 (6.019 %) Blackberry 6 56 (2.881 %) Mathematics 7 40 (2.058 %) Equity Derivative 8 31 (1.595 %) PDA 9 27 (1.389 %) N-Tier 10 26 (1.337 %) Management Information System 11 25 (1.286 %) Statistics 12 17 (0.874 %) Taxonomies 13 15 (0.772 %) Computer Science 13 15 (0.772 %) Swaptions 14 13 (0.669 %) Credit Derivative 15 11 (0.566 %) Energy Derivatives 16 10 (0.514 %) German Language 16 10 (0.514 %) Multithreading 17 7 (0.360 %) Market Risk 17 7 (0.360 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 697 (35.85 %) Windows 2 439 (22.58 %) UNIX 3 240 (12.35 %) Windows XP 4 207 (10.65 %) Linux 5 174 (8.951 %) Solaris 6 168 (8.642 %) Windows 2000 7 90 (4.630 %) Windows Server 2003 8 83 (4.270 %) Windows NT 9 19 (0.977 %) SUSE 10 9 (0.463 %) Windows CE 11 7 (0.360 %) HPUX 12 6 (0.309 %) VMS 13 5 (0.257 %) AIX 13 5 (0.257 %) Fedora 14 4 (0.206 %) Ubuntu 15 1 (0.051 %) Windows Vista 15 1 (0.051 %) Debian 15 1 (0.051 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 174 (8.951 %) Agile Software Development 2 136 (6.996 %) Project Management 3 131 (6.739 %) Scrum 4 101 (5.195 %) Electronic Trading 5 97 (4.990 %) Risk Management 6 95 (4.887 %) Investment Management 7 84 (4.321 %) Asset Management 8 72 (3.704 %) ITIL 9 61 (3.138 %) Business Analysis 10 55 (2.829 %) B2B 10 55 (2.829 %) B2C 10 55 (2.829 %) E-business 11 52 (2.675 %) RAD 11 52 (2.675 %) Algorithmic Trading 12 42 (2.160 %) Service Delivery 13 41 (2.109 %) Disaster Recovery 14 38 (1.955 %) Fund Management 15 32 (1.646 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 29 (1.492 %) OO 17 25 (1.286 %) BCP
Programming Languages 1 432 (22.22 %) SQL 2 238 (12.24 %) Java 3 211 (10.85 %) VBA 4 186 (9.568 %) C# 5 142 (7.305 %) C++ 6 111 (5.710 %) VB 7 90 (4.630 %) Perl 8 55 (2.829 %) VB.NET 9 45 (2.315 %) C 10 42 (2.160 %) Transact-SQL 11 32 (1.646 %) Shell Script 12 31 (1.595 %) PHP 13 23 (1.183 %) VBScript 14 21 (1.080 %) JavaScript 15 20 (1.029 %) Korn 16 17 (0.874 %) VC++ 17 16 (0.823 %) VB6 18 11 (0.566 %) Python 19 7 (0.360 %) AWK 20 5 (0.257 %) Jython	Qualifications 1 194 (9.979 %) Degree 2 109 (5.607 %) Microsoft Certification 3 84 (4.321 %) MCSE 4 42 (2.160 %) MCP 5 27 (1.389 %) Cisco Certification 6 22 (1.132 %) CCNA 7 14 (0.720 %) CNE 7 14 (0.720 %) Novell Certification 8 11 (0.566 %) CCNP 8 11 (0.566 %) MCSA 9 9 (0.463 %) HNC 9 9 (0.463 %) HND 9 9 (0.463 %) MCT 10 7 (0.360 %) ISEB 11 6 (0.309 %) MCDBA 11 6 (0.309 %) ITIL Certification 11 6 (0.309 %) CISA 11 6 (0.309 %) RHCT 12 3 (0.154 %) MCDST 13 2 (0.103 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 70 (3.601 %) QA 2 23 (1.183 %) SLA 3 4 (0.206 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 1 (0.051 %) Basel II	System Software 1 231 (11.88 %) Active Directory 2 26 (1.337 %) Backup Exec 3 15 (0.772 %) MetaFrame 4 12 (0.617 %) NetBackup 5 10 (0.514 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 7 (0.360 %) NFS 7 5 (0.257 %) ISA Server 8 3 (0.154 %) VMware ESX 9 2 (0.103 %) MailMarshal 9 2 (0.103 %) Oracle RAC 10 1 (0.051 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 19 (0.977 %) ServiceCenter 2 18 (0.926 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 15 (0.772 %) OpenView 4 11 (0.566 %) DameWare 5 7 (0.360 %) WSUS 6 6 (0.309 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 6 (0.309 %) Unicenter 6 6 (0.309 %) Tivoli 6 6 (0.309 %) BMC PATROL 7 5 (0.257 %) AutoSys 8 4 (0.206 %) ARCserve 8 4 (0.206 %) Legato 9 2 (0.103 %) AppManager 9 2 (0.103 %) OVSD 9 2 (0.103 %) HP Data Protector 10 1 (0.051 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 1408 (72.43 %) Bloomberg 2 301 (15.48 %) Microsoft 3 115 (5.916 %) Fidessa 4 111 (5.710 %) Oracle 5 107 (5.504 %) Sybase 5 107 (5.504 %) GL TRADE 6 99 (5.093 %) Cisco 7 90 (4.630 %) HP 8 81 (4.167 %) CQG 9 62 (3.189 %) TIBCO 10 60 (3.086 %) SunGard 11 58 (2.984 %) Citrix 12 55 (2.829 %) Sun 13 50 (2.572 %) Misys 13 50 (2.572 %) Patsystems 13 50 (2.572 %) Wall Street Systems 14 46 (2.366 %) EasyScreen 15 45 (2.315 %) Murex 16 42 (2.160 %) Remedy 17 40 (2.058 %) VERITAS