The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sophis products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sophis over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors for the England region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Sophis.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sophis
Rank 833 852 779
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -73
Permanent jobs citing Sophis 11 18 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.011% 0.016% 0.060%
As % of the Vendors category 0.023% 0.034% 0.129%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 56
Average salary £80,000 £65,500 £80,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.13% -18.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £63,750
10% offered a salary of more than £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary - - £42,500
All Vendors
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
48039 53684 53629
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 47.83% 47.21% 46.53%
Number of salaries quoted 39758 45652 44803
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sophis
UK

Sophis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Sophis across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

England Sophis Jobs Demand Trend

Sophis
Salary Trend

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

England Sophis Salary Trend

Sophis
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Sophis across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England Sophis Salary Histogram

Sophis
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sophis within the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +37 11 £80,000 +22.13%
Sophis
UK

Sophis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Sophis 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 Sophis.

1 19 (59.38%) Murex
1 19 (59.38%) Calypso
1 19 (59.38%) Front Office
2 16 (50.00%) Front Arena
3 15 (46.88%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (46.88%) Finance
3 15 (46.88%) Project Management
3 15 (46.88%) SQL
4 14 (43.75%) Banking
5 13 (40.63%) Investment Banking
6 11 (34.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (31.25%) Programme Management
8 9 (28.13%) SunGard
8 9 (28.13%) Java
8 9 (28.13%) Multithreading
9 8 (25.00%) Financial Modelling
9 8 (25.00%) RESTful
9 8 (25.00%) JDBC
9 8 (25.00%) Middleware
9 8 (25.00%) Hibernate
9 8 (25.00%) Spring
10 7 (21.88%) Business Analysis
10 7 (21.88%) Derivative
10 7 (21.88%) Equity Derivative
10 7 (21.88%) Risk Management
11 6 (18.75%) PRINCE2
11 6 (18.75%) Oracle
11 6 (18.75%) Degree
11 6 (18.75%) Equities
11 6 (18.75%) Sophis RISQUE

Sophis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (25.00%) JDBC
1 8 (25.00%) Middleware
1 8 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 8 (25.00%) Spring
1 8 (25.00%) RESTful
2 5 (15.63%) .NET
3 3 (9.375%) .NET Framework
3 3 (9.375%) WCF
3 3 (9.375%) WPF
4 2 (6.250%) WinForms
5 1 (3.125%) Ajax
5 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.125%) COM
5 1 (3.125%) XML
5 1 (3.125%) Silverlight
5 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
5 1 (3.125%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 4 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.250%) MS Office
3 1 (3.125%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (50.00%) Front Arena
2 6 (18.75%) Sophis RISQUE
3 2 (6.250%) Kondor+
3 2 (6.250%) ION MarketView
4 1 (3.125%) assyst
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (3.125%) Global One
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.375%) TOAD
3 2 (6.250%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.125%) OLAP
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (3.125%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.125%) MSBuild
2 1 (3.125%) Ant
2 1 (3.125%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.125%) WinRunner
2 1 (3.125%) TestDirector
2 1 (3.125%) MSI
2 1 (3.125%) InstallShield
2 1 (3.125%) Subversion
General
1 19 (59.38%) Front Office
2 15 (46.88%) Finance
3 14 (43.75%) Banking
4 13 (40.63%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.125%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.125%) Legal
5 1 (3.125%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Developer
2 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Programme Manager
3 7 (21.88%) Software Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Business Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Project Manager
4 6 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Java Software Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Manager
6 4 (12.50%) Agile Java Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Business Project Manager
6 4 (12.50%) Business Manager
7 3 (9.375%) Senior IT Programme Manager
7 3 (9.375%) Head of IT
7 3 (9.375%) Equity Derivatives Business Analyst
7 3 (9.375%) C# Developer
7 3 (9.375%) Senior Programme Manager
7 3 (9.375%) IT Programme Manager
7 3 (9.375%) Programme Director
8 2 (6.250%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (21.88%) Derivative
2 7 (21.88%) Equity Derivative
3 6 (18.75%) Equities
4 4 (12.50%) Wiki
4 4 (12.50%) Credit Risk
5 2 (6.250%) Client/Server
5 2 (6.250%) Fixed Income
5 2 (6.250%) Hedge funds
5 2 (6.250%) Computer Science
6 1 (3.125%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.125%) Market Risk
6 1 (3.125%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.250%) UNIX
1 2 (6.250%) Windows
2 1 (3.125%) Windows XP
2 1 (3.125%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Project Management
1 15 (46.88%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (31.25%) Programme Management
3 9 (28.13%) Multithreading
4 8 (25.00%) Financial Modelling
5 7 (21.88%) Business Analysis
5 7 (21.88%) Risk Management
6 6 (18.75%) PRINCE2
7 4 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (12.50%) Analytics
8 3 (9.375%) Time Management
8 3 (9.375%) Test Strategy
8 3 (9.375%) Use Case
8 3 (9.375%) Greeks
8 3 (9.375%) Waterfall
8 3 (9.375%) Change Management
8 3 (9.375%) GAP Analysis
8 3 (9.375%) CAD
8 3 (9.375%) Logistics
9 2 (6.250%) OO
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) SQL
2 9 (28.13%) Java
3 5 (15.63%) C#
4 3 (9.375%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.250%) C++
5 2 (6.250%) VB
5 2 (6.250%) VBA
5 2 (6.250%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.125%) VBScript
6 1 (3.125%) Python
6 1 (3.125%) VB6
6 1 (3.125%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 3 (9.375%) PMP
2 3 (9.375%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.250%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) COBIT
1 1 (3.125%) QA
1 1 (3.125%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (59.38%) Murex
1 19 (59.38%) Calypso
2 9 (28.13%) SunGard
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 3 (9.375%) Bloomberg
6 2 (6.250%) Charles River
6 2 (6.250%) ION Trading
7 1 (3.125%) GoldenSource
7 1 (3.125%) Capita
7 1 (3.125%) Misys
7 1 (3.125%) Fidessa