The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT jobs advertised for the Knutsford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 23 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 Knutsford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 52 67 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 34.67% 37.22% 55.74%
As % of the General category 98.11% 53.17% 70.10%
Number of salaries quoted 50 56 50
Average salary £44,000 £46,000 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% +13.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £31,250
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,500 £61,100
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
Knutsford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
53 126 97
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 35.33% 70.00% 79.51%
Number of salaries quoted 51 110 70
Average salary £44,000 £47,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.36% +21.79%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
10% offered a salary of more than £110,000 £54,700 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Finance
Cheshire

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the Knutsford region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Knutsford Finance Salary Histogram

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 60 (36.81%) AIX
2 55 (33.74%) Linux
3 53 (32.52%) UNIX
4 44 (26.99%) IBM
5 40 (24.54%) SAN
6 38 (23.31%) Change Management
7 33 (20.25%) HP
8 30 (18.40%) Windows
9 28 (17.18%) ITIL
10 27 (16.56%) WebSphere
11 25 (15.34%) SQL
12 24 (14.72%) WebSphere MQ
13 23 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (13.50%) Oracle
15 21 (12.88%) C
16 20 (12.27%) Disaster Recovery
16 20 (12.27%) Replication
16 20 (12.27%) Clustering
16 20 (12.27%) Tivoli
16 20 (12.27%) Red Hat
16 20 (12.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 20 (12.27%) Configuration Management
16 20 (12.27%) Mainframe
16 20 (12.27%) Perl
16 20 (12.27%) PHP
16 20 (12.27%) EMC
16 20 (12.27%) EMC NetWorker
16 20 (12.27%) Brocade
16 20 (12.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 20 (12.27%) High Availability

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 27 (16.56%) WebSphere
2 9 (5.521%) .NET
3 5 (3.067%) HTML5
3 5 (3.067%) COM
3 5 (3.067%) Middleware
4 4 (2.454%) J2EE
5 3 (1.840%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.227%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.227%) JSP
6 2 (1.227%) XML
6 2 (1.227%) JMS
6 2 (1.227%) Spring
7 1 (0.613%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.613%) JNDI
7 1 (0.613%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (0.613%) WSDL
7 1 (0.613%) XSD
7 1 (0.613%) EJB
7 1 (0.613%) JDBC
7 1 (0.613%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 24 (14.72%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (2.454%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (1.840%) CICS
4 2 (1.227%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.227%) MS Exchange
4 2 (1.227%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.613%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (2.454%) MS Office
1 4 (2.454%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.227%) Acrobat
2 2 (1.227%) MS Project
2 2 (1.227%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.227%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (2.454%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.613%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 40 (24.54%) SAN
2 9 (5.521%) HTTP
3 2 (1.227%) Firewall
3 2 (1.227%) LAN
3 2 (1.227%) WAN
4 1 (0.613%) ATM
4 1 (0.613%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.613%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.454%) DB2
2 2 (1.227%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.613%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (0.613%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.613%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (4.294%) LoadRunner
2 4 (2.454%) MSI
3 1 (0.613%) Subversion
3 1 (0.613%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.613%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (7.975%) Banking
2 7 (4.294%) Financial Institution
3 3 (1.840%) Telecoms
3 3 (1.840%) Legal
4 2 (1.227%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (0.613%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (17.79%) Administrator
2 26 (15.95%) Systems Administrator
3 21 (12.88%) Consultant
4 20 (12.27%) Analyst
4 20 (12.27%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 20 (12.27%) Linux Administrator
5 18 (11.04%) Storage Consultant
6 17 (10.43%) UNIX Administrator
7 16 (9.816%) Team Leader
8 15 (9.202%) Tivoli Consultant
8 15 (9.202%) Backup Consultant
9 14 (8.589%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 14 (8.589%) Project Manager
10 11 (6.748%) UNIX Team Leader
11 9 (5.521%) Senior Manager
11 9 (5.521%) Developer
11 9 (5.521%) Test Analyst
11 9 (5.521%) Agile Project Manager
11 9 (5.521%) Lead Test Analyst
11 9 (5.521%) Contracts Manager
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.27%) Replication
1 20 (12.27%) Clustering
1 20 (12.27%) Mainframe
2 4 (2.454%) Blackberry
3 3 (1.840%) PKI
3 3 (1.840%) Cryptography
4 2 (1.227%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (0.613%) Online Banking
5 1 (0.613%) VSAM
5 1 (0.613%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.613%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.613%) PMI
5 1 (0.613%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 60 (36.81%) AIX
2 55 (33.74%) Linux
3 53 (32.52%) UNIX
4 30 (18.40%) Windows
5 20 (12.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (5.521%) HPUX
6 9 (5.521%) Solaris
7 5 (3.067%) Android
7 5 (3.067%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.227%) zOS
9 1 (0.613%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.613%) VMS
9 1 (0.613%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (23.31%) Change Management
2 28 (17.18%) ITIL
3 23 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (12.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (12.27%) Configuration Management
4 20 (12.27%) High Availability
5 16 (9.816%) Supplier Management
6 13 (7.975%) Problem Management
7 12 (7.362%) Agile Software Development
7 12 (7.362%) Project Management
8 11 (6.748%) Performance Management
9 10 (6.135%) Waterfall
9 10 (6.135%) RUP
9 10 (6.135%) PRINCE2
9 10 (6.135%) PRINCE
9 10 (6.135%) Workflow
10 9 (5.521%) Test Scripting
10 9 (5.521%) Integration Testing
11 8 (4.908%) Incident Management
11 8 (4.908%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.34%) SQL
2 21 (12.88%) C
3 20 (12.27%) Perl
3 20 (12.27%) PHP
4 16 (9.816%) Java
5 3 (1.840%) C#
6 2 (1.227%) JCL
6 2 (1.227%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.227%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.227%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.613%) REXX
7 1 (0.613%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.613%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (0.613%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (0.613%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.748%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.613%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 20 (12.27%) Tivoli
1 20 (12.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 20 (12.27%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (0.613%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (0.613%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 44 (26.99%) IBM
2 33 (20.25%) HP
3 22 (13.50%) Oracle
4 20 (12.27%) Red Hat
4 20 (12.27%) EMC
4 20 (12.27%) Brocade
5 12 (7.362%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.227%) Cisco
6 2 (1.227%) Adobe
6 2 (1.227%) Sun
7 1 (0.613%) JBoss
7 1 (0.613%) Citrix
Knutsford, North West
IT Support Analyst - MS Office, Access, MI Reports - Knutsford - upto £27kMarket leading Financial Services organisation has a fantastic opportunity for an IT Support Analyst to provide internal support...
Salary: £23000 - £27000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013
Knutsford, North West
The role would focus on user support (mainly by telephone) and be in a Microsoft environment (Windows 7, Office 2010/2013, Windows Servers, Office 365 - Email, SharePoint, Lync).
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £17000 - £19000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Knutsford, Cheshire
The role would focus on user support (mainly by telephone) and be in a Microsoft environment (Windows 7, Office 2010/2013, Windows Servers, Office 365 - Email, SharePoint, Lync).
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £17000 - £19000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Knutsford, Cheshire
You will have a working awareness of enterprise IT environments and some level of awareness of middleware technologies such as Websphere, web servers, Unix, Linux, SSL encryption etc.
Reed Technology
Salary: £42000 - £50000 per annum + Flexible bens package
Posted: 22 May 2013