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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 5 14 19
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +5
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Folkestone 30.77% 7.547% 7.843%
As % of the General category 36.36% 17.39% 80.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 4
Average salary - £45,000 £38,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +17.64%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
Folkestone
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
11 23 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Folkestone 84.62% 43.40% 9.804%
Number of salaries quoted 7 21 4
Average salary £35,000 £47,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.53% +49.20%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Finance
Kent

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Folkestone 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 Folkestone region.

Folkestone Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Folkestone 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 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 6 (85.71%) BMC
2 6 (85.71%) Mainframe
3 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
3 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) Apache
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 4 (57.14%) Service Management
4 3 (42.86%) Workflow
4 3 (42.86%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
4 3 (42.86%) Pega
4 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 3 (42.86%) HTML
4 3 (42.86%) .NET
4 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
4 3 (42.86%) HTTP
5 2 (28.57%) JBoss
5 2 (28.57%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) SAS
5 2 (28.57%) DSL
5 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 2 (28.57%) CICS
5 2 (28.57%) PL/1
5 2 (28.57%) J2EE
5 2 (28.57%) VB.NET

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Folkestone 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 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) Java EE
2 2 (28.57%) J2EE
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) XML Messaging
3 1 (14.29%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Apache
2 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) GlassFish
3 2 (28.57%) SAS
3 2 (28.57%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
2 2 (28.57%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) DB2
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (14.29%) Essbase
3 1 (14.29%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Ant
1 2 (28.57%) JUnit
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) JProfiler
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Coordinator
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Release Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Essbase Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Mainframe
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) CMDB
3 1 (14.29%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
1 4 (57.14%) Service Management
2 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
2 3 (42.86%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) AOP
3 2 (28.57%) Matrix Management
3 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) COBOL
2 2 (28.57%) VB.NET
2 2 (28.57%) PL/1
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) BMC
3 3 (42.86%) Pega
4 2 (28.57%) JBoss
5 1 (14.29%) Citrix
5 1 (14.29%) Business Objects
5 1 (14.29%) Hyperion