London Investment Banking Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Investment Banking' in IT jobs within the London region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Investment Banking over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Godalming Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northolt Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stirling Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	9
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching permanent IT job ads	4888	14746
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.580 %	6.038 %
As % of the category below	10.15 %	20.36 %
Salaries quoted	3709	10344
Average minimum salary	£57,678	£58,019
Average salary	£63,633	£64,041
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum salary	£69,587	£70,063
UK excluding London average salary	£49,151	£51,371
% change on same period last year	-4.32 %
General London
Matching permanent IT job ads	48136	72437
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	25.41 %	29.66 %
Salaries quoted	39892	55007
Average minimum salary	£48,957	£51,407
Average salary	£53,838	£56,567
% change on same period last year	-4.82 %
Average maximum salary	£58,718	£61,728
UK excluding London average salary	£40,890	£42,387
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Investment Banking across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Investment Banking across the London region over the 3 months to 25 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 Investment Banking within the London region over the 3 months to 25 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
City of London	-10	1885	£65,869	-1.79 %
Docklands, London	+3	310	£63,886	+6.15 %
Canary Wharf	+2	300	£60,169	-6.36 %
Bromley	+2	12	£26,042	-67.44 %
Croydon	-5	5	-	-
Twickenham	-	3	£55,000	-
Wimbledon	-	3	£42,167	-
Northolt	-	1	£45,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the London region citing Investment Banking 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 Investment Banking.

1 11521 (100.00 %) Banking 2 4800 (41.66 %) Finance 3 3115 (27.04 %) SQL 4 3006 (26.09 %) Front Office 5 2931 (25.44 %) Derivative 6 2784 (24.16 %) Java 7 2344 (20.35 %) C# 8 2254 (19.56 %) UNIX 9 1792 (15.55 %) C++ 10 1624 (14.10 %) .NET 11 1565 (13.58 %) Oracle 12 1477 (12.82 %) SQL Server 13 1392 (12.08 %) Windows 14 1195 (10.37 %) Fixed Income 15 1176 (10.21 %) Degree

16 1154 (10.02 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 17 1123 (9.747 %) Sybase 18 1108 (9.617 %) Equities 19 985 (8.550 %) Project Management 20 964 (8.367 %) OO 21 940 (8.159 %) XML 22 906 (7.864 %) Equity Derivative 23 866 (7.517 %) Back Office 24 856 (7.430 %) Linux 25 766 (6.649 %) VBA 26 726 (6.302 %) Asset Management 27 714 (6.197 %) Perl 28 698 (6.059 %) Risk Management 29 686 (5.954 %) Business Analysis 30 680 (5.902 %) J2EE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the London region citing Investment Banking 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 Investment Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1624 (14.10 %) .NET 2 940 (8.159 %) XML 3 680 (5.902 %) J2EE 4 441 (3.828 %) ASP.NET 5 414 (3.593 %) WinForms 6 393 (3.411 %) Spring 7 287 (2.491 %) Hibernate 8 257 (2.231 %) Swing 9 242 (2.101 %) WebServices 10 234 (2.031 %) Middleware 11 231 (2.005 %) JSP 12 220 (1.910 %) JMS 13 212 (1.840 %) .NET Framework 14 205 (1.779 %) HTML 15 204 (1.771 %) STL 16 158 (1.371 %) J2SE 17 152 (1.319 %) ASP 18 143 (1.241 %) XSLT 18 143 (1.241 %) WebSphere 19 129 (1.120 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 166 (1.441 %) WebLogic 2 123 (1.068 %) MS Exchange 3 116 (1.007 %) MQSeries 3 116 (1.007 %) Apache 4 115 (0.998 %) SharePoint 5 110 (0.955 %) Tomcat 6 104 (0.903 %) IIS 7 102 (0.885 %) JBoss 8 84 (0.729 %) BizTalk Server 9 76 (0.660 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 47 (0.408 %) TIBCO EMS 11 43 (0.373 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 38 (0.330 %) Rendezvous 13 33 (0.286 %) WebSphere MQ 14 32 (0.278 %) Exchange Server 2000 15 31 (0.269 %) SAS 16 27 (0.234 %) Exchange Server 2007 17 25 (0.217 %) Lotus Notes 17 25 (0.217 %) Oracle Workflow 18 24 (0.208 %) CMS
Applications 1 666 (5.781 %) MS Excel 2 278 (2.413 %) MS Office 3 107 (0.929 %) Spreadsheet 4 105 (0.911 %) MS Visio 5 64 (0.556 %) MS Project 6 40 (0.347 %) MS PowerPoint 7 19 (0.165 %) CA Clarity 8 11 (0.095 %) Photoshop 8 11 (0.095 %) MATLAB 9 5 (0.043 %) Acrobat 9 5 (0.043 %) InfoPath 10 4 (0.035 %) S-PLUS 11 3 (0.026 %) PrintSoft PReS 12 2 (0.017 %) DeltaView 12 2 (0.017 %) Adobe Illustrator 12 2 (0.017 %) SPSS 13 1 (0.009 %) FrameMaker 13 1 (0.009 %) FreeHand	Business Applications 1 74 (0.642 %) Summit 2 71 (0.616 %) Endur 3 37 (0.321 %) Capstone 4 30 (0.260 %) HiPortfolio 5 29 (0.252 %) RMDS 6 21 (0.182 %) Eagle PACE 7 19 (0.165 %) Findur 8 16 (0.139 %) Minerva 9 13 (0.113 %) SalesLogix 10 12 (0.104 %) Global One 11 11 (0.095 %) Tesseract 11 11 (0.095 %) SAP CO 11 11 (0.095 %) SAP FI/CO 11 11 (0.095 %) FRONT ARENA 11 11 (0.095 %) SAP FI 12 9 (0.078 %) Temenos T24 13 8 (0.069 %) Sophis RISQUE 14 7 (0.061 %) FLEXCUBE 14 7 (0.061 %) BusinessWorks 14 7 (0.061 %) LongView
Communications & Networking 1 163 (1.415 %) TCP/IP 2 150 (1.302 %) SAN 3 125 (1.085 %) Internet 4 98 (0.851 %) Firewall 5 92 (0.799 %) LAN 6 86 (0.746 %) WAN 7 61 (0.529 %) HTTP 8 47 (0.408 %) VPN 9 46 (0.399 %) DNS 9 46 (0.399 %) Intranet 10 31 (0.269 %) FTP 11 28 (0.243 %) DHCP 12 27 (0.234 %) VoIP 13 18 (0.156 %) MPLS 14 17 (0.148 %) PBX 15 15 (0.130 %) OSPF 15 15 (0.130 %) BGP 15 15 (0.130 %) Network Security 16 14 (0.122 %) IP Telephony 16 14 (0.122 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1477 (12.82 %) SQL Server 2 418 (3.628 %) RDBMS 3 375 (3.255 %) SQL Server 2000 4 312 (2.708 %) SQL Server 2005 5 241 (2.092 %) Oracle 10g 6 222 (1.927 %) Datawarehouse 7 209 (1.814 %) SQL Server 7 8 162 (1.406 %) Oracle 9i 9 127 (1.102 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 122 (1.059 %) Reference Data 11 104 (0.903 %) ETL 12 94 (0.816 %) DTS 13 90 (0.781 %) BusinessObjects 14 75 (0.651 %) SQL Server Integration Services 15 61 (0.529 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 16 49 (0.425 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 17 38 (0.330 %) KDB 17 38 (0.330 %) Crystal Reports 18 37 (0.321 %) DB2 19 35 (0.304 %) Sybase ASE
Development Applications 1 196 (1.701 %) TestDirector 2 100 (0.868 %) ClearCase 3 88 (0.764 %) Eclipse 4 81 (0.703 %) JUnit 5 79 (0.686 %) QuickTest Pro 6 67 (0.582 %) NUnit 7 53 (0.460 %) ClearQuest 8 52 (0.451 %) Visual Studio 8 52 (0.451 %) Ant 9 50 (0.434 %) LoadRunner 10 48 (0.417 %) WinRunner 11 38 (0.330 %) Subversion 12 31 (0.269 %) Dreamweaver 13 30 (0.260 %) JIRA 14 23 (0.200 %) CruiseControl 15 18 (0.156 %) VSS/SourceSafe 16 17 (0.148 %) PowerBuilder 17 16 (0.139 %) Oracle Forms 18 15 (0.130 %) Flash 19 10 (0.087 %) Rational Rose	General 1 11521 (100.00 %) Banking 2 4800 (41.66 %) Finance 3 3006 (26.09 %) Front Office 4 866 (7.517 %) Back Office 5 353 (3.064 %) Retail 6 301 (2.613 %) Education 7 277 (2.404 %) Financial Institution 8 212 (1.840 %) Retail Banking 9 204 (1.771 %) Insurance 10 164 (1.423 %) Telecoms 11 121 (1.050 %) Private Banking 12 119 (1.033 %) Health 13 116 (1.007 %) Pensions 14 100 (0.868 %) Marketing 15 87 (0.755 %) Legal 16 70 (0.608 %) Corporate Banking 17 62 (0.538 %) Government 18 54 (0.469 %) Games 19 46 (0.399 %) General Ledger 20 29 (0.252 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 4039 (35.06 %) Developer 2 2899 (25.16 %) Analyst 3 1249 (10.84 %) Business Analyst 4 1154 (10.02 %) Java Developer 5 1031 (8.949 %) C# Developer 6 775 (6.727 %) Project Manager 7 682 (5.920 %) C++ Developer 8 553 (4.800 %) Support Analyst 9 487 (4.227 %) Architect 10 481 (4.175 %) Applications Support 11 466 (4.045 %) Investment Banking Business Analyst 12 413 (3.585 %) DBA 13 366 (3.177 %) Banking Business Analyst 14 360 (3.125 %) Senior Developer 15 319 (2.769 %) Team Leader 16 318 (2.760 %) Programmer 17 312 (2.708 %) .NET Developer 18 310 (2.691 %) Consultant 19 301 (2.613 %) SQL Developer 20 281 (2.439 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2931 (25.44 %) Derivative 2 1195 (10.37 %) Fixed Income 3 1154 (10.02 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 1108 (9.617 %) Equities 5 906 (7.864 %) Equity Derivative 6 446 (3.871 %) Credit Derivative 7 356 (3.090 %) Credit Risk 8 306 (2.656 %) Multithreading 9 298 (2.587 %) Computer Science 10 270 (2.344 %) Market Risk 11 257 (2.231 %) Interest Rate Derivative 12 162 (1.406 %) Mathematics 13 115 (0.998 %) N-Tier 14 103 (0.894 %) Client/Server 15 101 (0.877 %) Management Information System 16 92 (0.799 %) Grid Computing 17 76 (0.660 %) Exotic Derivative 18 64 (0.556 %) VAX 19 63 (0.547 %) Replication 19 63 (0.547 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 2254 (19.56 %) UNIX 2 1392 (12.08 %) Windows 3 856 (7.430 %) Linux 4 416 (3.611 %) Solaris 5 261 (2.265 %) Windows Server 2003 6 182 (1.580 %) Windows NT 7 173 (1.502 %) Windows 2000 8 88 (0.764 %) Windows XP 9 50 (0.434 %) AIX 10 45 (0.391 %) HPUX 11 37 (0.321 %) SUSE 12 18 (0.156 %) VMS 13 4 (0.035 %) OpenVMS 14 2 (0.017 %) zOS 15 1 (0.009 %) Debian 15 1 (0.009 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 985 (8.550 %) Project Management 2 964 (8.367 %) OO 3 726 (6.302 %) Asset Management 4 698 (6.059 %) Risk Management 5 686 (5.954 %) Business Analysis 6 365 (3.168 %) Investment Management 7 342 (2.968 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 314 (2.725 %) ITIL 9 306 (2.656 %) UML 10 234 (2.031 %) Agile Software Development 11 216 (1.875 %) Electronic Trading 12 213 (1.849 %) Data Modelling 13 202 (1.753 %) Algorithmic Trading 14 200 (1.736 %) PRINCE2 15 197 (1.710 %) Change Management 16 196 (1.701 %) Workflow 17 187 (1.623 %) E-Commerce 18 185 (1.606 %) Migration 19 163 (1.415 %) RAD 20 162 (1.406 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 3115 (27.04 %) SQL 2 2784 (24.16 %) Java 3 2344 (20.35 %) C# 4 1792 (15.55 %) C++ 5 766 (6.649 %) VBA 6 714 (6.197 %) Perl 7 664 (5.763 %) VB 8 353 (3.064 %) Shell Script 9 317 (2.751 %) PL/SQL 10 254 (2.205 %) Transact-SQL 11 241 (2.092 %) C 12 191 (1.658 %) VC++ 13 172 (1.493 %) JavaScript 14 151 (1.311 %) Python 15 147 (1.276 %) VB.NET 16 134 (1.163 %) VB6 17 69 (0.599 %) VBScript 18 52 (0.451 %) PHP 19 37 (0.321 %) Korn 20 36 (0.312 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 1176 (10.21 %) Degree 2 187 (1.623 %) Microsoft Certification 3 119 (1.033 %) ISEB 4 103 (0.894 %) MCSE 5 72 (0.625 %) MCP 6 68 (0.590 %) PhD 6 68 (0.590 %) Cisco Certification 7 54 (0.469 %) PMP 8 53 (0.460 %) PMI Certification 9 45 (0.391 %) ITIL Certification 10 42 (0.365 %) CISA 11 38 (0.330 %) CCNA 12 33 (0.286 %) A+ Certification 13 32 (0.278 %) RHCE 14 30 (0.260 %) ISEB Practitioner 15 29 (0.252 %) MCSD 16 28 (0.243 %) MCAD 17 27 (0.234 %) CISSP 18 26 (0.226 %) PRINCE2 Certification 18 26 (0.226 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 226 (1.962 %) QA 2 107 (0.929 %) Basel II 3 97 (0.842 %) SLA 4 91 (0.790 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 40 (0.347 %) MiFID 6 11 (0.095 %) COBIT 7 9 (0.078 %) ISO17799 8 6 (0.052 %) ISO27001 9 5 (0.043 %) BS25999 9 5 (0.043 %) ISO/IEC 20000 9 5 (0.043 %) IAS 39 10 3 (0.026 %) Prudential Sourcebook 11 2 (0.017 %) GAAP 11 2 (0.017 %) ISO9001 12 1 (0.009 %) BS7799	System Software 1 217 (1.884 %) Active Directory 2 99 (0.859 %) Oracle RAC 3 62 (0.538 %) Oracle RMAN 4 48 (0.417 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 36 (0.312 %) NetBackup 6 28 (0.243 %) NFS 7 24 (0.208 %) VMware ESX 8 19 (0.165 %) MSMQ 9 14 (0.122 %) AquaLogic 10 12 (0.104 %) Xen 10 12 (0.104 %) Orbix 10 12 (0.104 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 11 9 (0.078 %) Terminal Services 12 7 (0.061 %) MailMarshal 13 6 (0.052 %) ISA Server 14 5 (0.043 %) MetaFrame 15 4 (0.035 %) Citrix Presentation Server 16 3 (0.026 %) LiteSpeed 16 3 (0.026 %) Samba 17 2 (0.017 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 53 (0.460 %) AutoSys 2 44 (0.382 %) CONTROL-M 3 25 (0.217 %) Tivoli 4 23 (0.200 %) OpenView 5 22 (0.191 %) MOM 6 19 (0.165 %) Netcool 7 17 (0.148 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 8 9 (0.078 %) DameWare 8 9 (0.078 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 9 (0.078 %) CiscoWorks 9 8 (0.069 %) Unicenter 9 8 (0.069 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 9 8 (0.069 %) BMC PATROL 9 8 (0.069 %) Netcool/Proviso 9 8 (0.069 %) Netcool/Webtop 10 6 (0.052 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 10 6 (0.052 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 11 5 (0.043 %) ServiceCenter 12 4 (0.035 %) WSUS 13 2 (0.017 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 1565 (13.58 %) Oracle 2 1123 (9.747 %) Sybase 3 511 (4.435 %) Microsoft 4 263 (2.283 %) TIBCO 5 210 (1.823 %) Murex 6 190 (1.649 %) Bloomberg 7 167 (1.450 %) Reuters 8 162 (1.406 %) Red Hat 9 153 (1.328 %) Calypso 10 149 (1.293 %) Cisco 11 116 (1.007 %) HP 12 110 (0.955 %) OpenLink 13 109 (0.946 %) VERITAS 14 108 (0.937 %) Sun 15 102 (0.885 %) VMware 16 92 (0.799 %) LatentZero 17 90 (0.781 %) Business Objects 18 88 (0.764 %) Cognos 19 86 (0.746 %) IBM 20 82 (0.712 %) Citrix