The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 21 20 27
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Finance 42 52 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 8.714% 9.420% 6.477%
As % of the General category 27.27% 31.90% 22.94%
Number of salaries quoted 40 42 17
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £39,290
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -4.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,750 £26,000 £24,300
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
154 163 109
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 31.95% 29.53% 28.24%
Number of salaries quoted 136 139 91
Average salary £33,500 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.63% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £19,500 £22,550
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,250 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Finance
North West

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Salary Histogram

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

Lancashire Finance Salary Histogram

Finance
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Preston +14 21 £41,500 +27.69%
Lancaster +3 6 £40,000 +3.22%
Chorley -3 3 £20,000 -52.94%
Lytham St Annes - 3 £35,000 -
Blackpool -1 1 £70,000 +225.58%
Newton-le-Willows - 1 £37,500 -
Finance
North West

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 30 (34.88%) SQL
2 29 (33.72%) .NET
2 29 (33.72%) SQL Server
3 27 (31.40%) C#
4 18 (20.93%) TDD
4 18 (20.93%) Web Development
5 17 (19.77%) Project Management
5 17 (19.77%) MVC
6 16 (18.60%) E-Commerce
7 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
7 14 (16.28%) Java
8 13 (15.12%) HTML
8 13 (15.12%) CSS
9 12 (13.95%) J2EE
10 10 (11.63%) ERP
10 10 (11.63%) SQL Server 2005
11 9 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (10.47%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (10.47%) WinForms
11 9 (10.47%) WCF
11 9 (10.47%) CRM
11 9 (10.47%) ASP.NET
11 9 (10.47%) Windows
12 8 (9.302%) ITIL
12 8 (9.302%) JavaScript
12 8 (9.302%) CMS
12 8 (9.302%) Agile Software Development
12 8 (9.302%) Content Management
12 8 (9.302%) jQuery
12 8 (9.302%) Umbraco

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 29 (33.72%) .NET
2 13 (15.12%) HTML
2 13 (15.12%) CSS
3 12 (13.95%) J2EE
4 9 (10.47%) ASP.NET MVC
4 9 (10.47%) WinForms
4 9 (10.47%) WCF
4 9 (10.47%) ASP.NET
5 8 (9.302%) jQuery
6 7 (8.140%) Spring
6 7 (8.140%) .NET Framework
6 7 (8.140%) Web Services
7 5 (5.814%) LINQ
8 4 (4.651%) Middleware
8 4 (4.651%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 4 (4.651%) Razor View Engine
8 4 (4.651%) Unity DI Container
8 4 (4.651%) Castle Windsor
8 4 (4.651%) Ninject
8 4 (4.651%) Spring.NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (9.302%) CMS
1 8 (9.302%) Umbraco
2 5 (5.814%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.488%) ESB
4 2 (2.326%) MS Exchange
4 2 (2.326%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.163%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.163%) Apache
5 1 (1.163%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.977%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.488%) MS Office
3 2 (2.326%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.163%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 3 (3.488%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.326%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (2.326%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.326%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.163%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.163%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.163%) SAP xMII
3 1 (1.163%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.163%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.326%) ATM
1 2 (2.326%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.326%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.163%) VLAN
2 1 (1.163%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.163%) Firewall
2 1 (1.163%) Intranet
2 1 (1.163%) HTTP
2 1 (1.163%) SNMP
2 1 (1.163%) VPN
2 1 (1.163%) SSL
2 1 (1.163%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (33.72%) SQL Server
2 10 (11.63%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (6.977%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.814%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.163%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.163%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.163%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.163%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.163%) MySQL
5 1 (1.163%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (8.140%) Maven
1 7 (8.140%) Ant
1 7 (8.140%) JUnit
2 4 (4.651%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (4.651%) Moq
2 4 (4.651%) MSTest
2 4 (4.651%) NUnit
3 1 (1.163%) Selenium
3 1 (1.163%) Cucumber
General
1 5 (5.814%) Billing
2 4 (4.651%) Telecoms
2 4 (4.651%) Retail
3 3 (3.488%) Advertising
4 1 (1.163%) Banking
4 1 (1.163%) Welsh Language
4 1 (1.163%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.163%) Automotive
4 1 (1.163%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (38.37%) Developer
2 18 (20.93%) Analyst
3 13 (15.12%) Senior Developer
4 10 (11.63%) Business Analyst
4 10 (11.63%) C# Developer
4 10 (11.63%) C# .NET Developer
5 9 (10.47%) .NET Developer
6 8 (9.302%) Consultant
6 8 (9.302%) Architect
7 5 (5.814%) VB.NET Developer
7 5 (5.814%) C# Software Developer
7 5 (5.814%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (5.814%) .NET Software Developer
7 5 (5.814%) Programmer
7 5 (5.814%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.651%) Analyst Programmer
8 4 (4.651%) Development Manager
8 4 (4.651%) Report Developer
8 4 (4.651%) J2EE Analyst Programmer
8 4 (4.651%) Senior Crystal Reports Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.651%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (3.488%) iPad
3 2 (2.326%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.326%) Social Network
4 1 (1.163%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.163%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.163%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.163%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.47%) Windows
2 4 (4.651%) UNIX
2 4 (4.651%) Linux
2 4 (4.651%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.488%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (3.488%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (2.326%) OpenVMS
4 2 (2.326%) Solaris
4 2 (2.326%) Windows XP
4 2 (2.326%) Android
4 2 (2.326%) Windows 2000 Server
4 2 (2.326%) Windows 7
4 2 (2.326%) Windows Vista
5 1 (1.163%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.163%) Windows Phone
5 1 (1.163%) SUSE
5 1 (1.163%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.93%) TDD
1 18 (20.93%) Web Development
2 17 (19.77%) Project Management
2 17 (19.77%) MVC
3 16 (18.60%) E-Commerce
4 10 (11.63%) ERP
5 9 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (10.47%) CRM
6 8 (9.302%) ITIL
6 8 (9.302%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (9.302%) Content Management
7 7 (8.140%) PRINCE2
8 6 (6.977%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (6.977%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (6.977%) Change Management
8 6 (6.977%) Logistics
9 5 (5.814%) Resource Management
9 5 (5.814%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (5.814%) Migration
9 5 (5.814%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.88%) SQL
2 27 (31.40%) C#
3 14 (16.28%) Java
4 8 (9.302%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.977%) PL/SQL
5 6 (6.977%) T-SQL
6 5 (5.814%) VB.NET
7 4 (4.651%) Groovy
8 3 (3.488%) Objective-C
9 2 (2.326%) VBA
10 1 (1.163%) AWK
10 1 (1.163%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.163%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (6.977%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (4.651%) MCP
2 4 (4.651%) MCAD
2 4 (4.651%) MCSD
2 4 (4.651%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (4.651%) MCTS
3 3 (3.488%) ISEB
4 2 (2.326%) Degree
5 1 (1.163%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (1.163%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.163%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.163%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.326%) SLA
2 1 (1.163%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.163%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.163%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.326%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (1.163%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.163%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.977%) Oracle
3 5 (5.814%) Cognos
4 4 (4.651%) SAP
4 4 (4.651%) Apple
5 3 (3.488%) VMware
6 2 (2.326%) Business Objects
6 2 (2.326%) Citrix
6 2 (2.326%) HP
7 1 (1.163%) Capita
7 1 (1.163%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.163%) Symantec
7 1 (1.163%) McAfee
7 1 (1.163%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.163%) Compuware
7 1 (1.163%) Red Hat
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