Manchester Finance Jobs

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Finance' in IT jobs within the Manchester 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 Finance over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Coatbridge Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Daresbury Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Greenford Greenwich Guernsey Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hungerford Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Ormskirk Orpington Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Pewsey Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Romsey Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	6
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	890	1126
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.492 %	0.472 %
As % of the category below	40.18 %	41.50 %
Salaries quoted	812	1001
Average minimum salary	£39,859	£43,307
Average salary	£47,586	£47,914
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Average maximum salary	£55,313	£52,520
UK excluding London average salary	£43,487	£44,178
% change on same period last year	-1.56 %
General Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	2215	2713
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.226 %	1.138 %
Salaries quoted	1948	2345
Average minimum salary	£37,038	£39,798
Average salary	£42,902	£44,607
% change on same period last year	-3.82 %
Average maximum salary	£48,767	£49,416
UK excluding London average salary	£41,138	£41,972
% change on same period last year	-1.98 %
Finance North West

Finance
Demand Trend

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

Finance
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Stockport	+24	51	£37,924	+24.06 %
Altrincham	-5	22	£33,475	+49.60 %
Bolton	-7	12	£31,545	+6.03 %
Salford	+10	12	£28,000	-30.00 %
Wigan	+9	10	£31,125	-22.18 %
Sale	-	9	£60,000	-
Bury	+6	8	£35,438	+1.25 %
Cheadle	+1	2	£20,000	+42.85 %
Oldham	-13	1	£35,000	-21.12 %

Finance North West

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 631 (31.82 %) SAP 2 623 (31.42 %) Retail 3 418 (21.08 %) SAP Oil and Gas 4 326 (16.44 %) .NET 5 266 (13.41 %) Banking 5 266 (13.41 %) SQL Server 6 259 (13.06 %) Project Management 7 240 (12.10 %) Degree 8 231 (11.65 %) SQL 9 216 (10.89 %) Insurance 10 178 (8.976 %) Oracle 11 160 (8.069 %) CRM 12 158 (7.968 %) SAP BW 13 154 (7.766 %) Microsoft 14 150 (7.564 %) ASP.NET

15 141 (7.110 %) Business Intelligence 16 140 (7.060 %) PRINCE2 17 138 (6.959 %) J2EE 18 117 (5.900 %) C# 18 117 (5.900 %) MS Excel 19 112 (5.648 %) Java 20 109 (5.497 %) OO 21 106 (5.345 %) Windows 21 106 (5.345 %) VB.NET 22 105 (5.295 %) UML 23 99 (4.992 %) XML 24 93 (4.690 %) Internet 24 93 (4.690 %) Telecoms 25 91 (4.589 %) SAP FI 26 87 (4.387 %) VB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 1 326 (16.44 %) .NET 2 150 (7.564 %) ASP.NET 3 138 (6.959 %) J2EE 4 99 (4.992 %) XML 5 83 (4.186 %) WebSphere 6 54 (2.723 %) WebServices 7 39 (1.967 %) HTML 8 36 (1.815 %) ASP 9 30 (1.513 %) CSS 10 29 (1.462 %) XSLT 11 26 (1.311 %) SAP XI 12 22 (1.109 %) EDI 13 20 (1.009 %) JSP 14 16 (0.807 %) JDBC 14 16 (0.807 %) ADO 15 14 (0.706 %) Spring 16 13 (0.656 %) ISPF 16 13 (0.656 %) Servlets 17 12 (0.605 %) XHTML 17 12 (0.605 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 45 (2.269 %) SAS 2 34 (1.715 %) MS Exchange 3 32 (1.614 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 31 (1.563 %) NetWeaver 5 20 (1.009 %) CICS 6 19 (0.958 %) Tomcat 7 18 (0.908 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 14 (0.706 %) JBoss 9 11 (0.555 %) Apache 10 10 (0.504 %) IIS 10 10 (0.504 %) Lotus Notes 10 10 (0.504 %) Oracle Workflow 11 9 (0.454 %) SharePoint 12 7 (0.353 %) WebSphere MQ 12 7 (0.353 %) WebLogic 13 6 (0.303 %) Lotus Domino 14 4 (0.202 %) CMS 14 4 (0.202 %) Exstream Dialogue 14 4 (0.202 %) SharePoint Server 2007 15 3 (0.151 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 117 (5.900 %) MS Excel 2 42 (2.118 %) MS Office 3 25 (1.261 %) MS Visio 4 16 (0.807 %) SPSS 5 15 (0.756 %) MS Project 6 7 (0.353 %) CA Clarity 7 4 (0.202 %) MS PowerPoint 7 4 (0.202 %) MATLAB 8 1 (0.050 %) FrameMaker 8 1 (0.050 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 418 (21.08 %) SAP Oil and Gas 2 91 (4.589 %) SAP FI 3 77 (3.883 %) SAP FI/CO 3 77 (3.883 %) SAP CO 4 70 (3.530 %) Oracle EBS 5 62 (3.127 %) Oracle Financials 6 40 (2.017 %) SAP CRM 7 38 (1.916 %) SAP IS-U 8 33 (1.664 %) SAP HR 9 30 (1.513 %) SAP Retail 9 30 (1.513 %) SAP SRM 10 29 (1.462 %) Dynamics NAV 10 29 (1.462 %) Oracle Applications 11 27 (1.362 %) Dynamics CRM 11 27 (1.362 %) Oracle 11i 12 23 (1.160 %) Axapta 13 22 (1.109 %) Navision 13 22 (1.109 %) Dynamics AX 14 15 (0.756 %) SAP SD 15 14 (0.706 %) SAP QM
Communications & Networking 1 93 (4.690 %) Internet 2 43 (2.168 %) WAN 3 34 (1.715 %) VPN 4 28 (1.412 %) Firewall 5 24 (1.210 %) Wireless 5 24 (1.210 %) VLAN 5 24 (1.210 %) Cisco PIX 6 16 (0.807 %) TCP/IP 6 16 (0.807 %) Intranet 7 15 (0.756 %) LAN 8 13 (0.656 %) SAN 9 8 (0.403 %) DNS 9 8 (0.403 %) DHCP 9 8 (0.403 %) MPLS 10 5 (0.252 %) VoIP 10 5 (0.252 %) PPP 11 2 (0.101 %) LDAP 11 2 (0.101 %) Ethernet 11 2 (0.101 %) SSH 12 1 (0.050 %) Intrusion Detection	Database & Business Intelligence 1 266 (13.41 %) SQL Server 2 158 (7.968 %) SAP BW 3 35 (1.765 %) RDBMS 4 30 (1.513 %) SAP BI 5 28 (1.412 %) Datawarehouse 6 25 (1.261 %) Crystal Reports 7 21 (1.059 %) Oracle Reports 8 20 (1.009 %) SQL Server 2005 9 19 (0.958 %) DB2 9 19 (0.958 %) MySQL 10 18 (0.908 %) BusinessObjects 11 14 (0.706 %) Oracle Discoverer 11 14 (0.706 %) SQL Server 2000 12 11 (0.555 %) SQLPlus 12 11 (0.555 %) OLAP 13 10 (0.504 %) ETL 14 6 (0.303 %) MS Access 15 5 (0.252 %) Oracle 10g 16 4 (0.202 %) Data Cleansing 17 3 (0.151 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 42 (2.118 %) Visual Studio 2 33 (1.664 %) Rational Rose 3 20 (1.009 %) WinRunner 3 20 (1.009 %) TestDirector 4 18 (0.908 %) QuickTest Pro 5 15 (0.756 %) LoadRunner 6 9 (0.454 %) Eclipse 7 5 (0.252 %) WebSpeed 8 4 (0.202 %) Oracle Forms 8 4 (0.202 %) Ant 8 4 (0.202 %) JUnit 9 3 (0.151 %) Flash 10 2 (0.101 %) Dreamweaver 10 2 (0.101 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 1 (0.050 %) RequisitePro 11 1 (0.050 %) ProC 11 1 (0.050 %) Rational Robot	General 1 623 (31.42 %) Retail 2 266 (13.41 %) Banking 3 216 (10.89 %) Insurance 4 93 (4.690 %) Telecoms 5 84 (4.236 %) Pensions 6 75 (3.782 %) Manufacturing 7 68 (3.429 %) Health 8 65 (3.278 %) Retail Banking 9 55 (2.774 %) Online Banking 10 51 (2.572 %) Marketing 11 47 (2.370 %) Legal 12 38 (1.916 %) Education 13 37 (1.866 %) Automotive 14 35 (1.765 %) Government 15 27 (1.362 %) Investment Banking 16 26 (1.311 %) Financial Institution 17 25 (1.261 %) Back Office 18 23 (1.160 %) Games 19 11 (0.555 %) Construction 20 10 (0.504 %) Law
Job Titles 1 637 (32.12 %) Consultant 2 470 (23.70 %) SAP Consultant 3 409 (20.63 %) Analyst 4 295 (14.88 %) Senior Consultant 5 279 (14.07 %) Senior SAP Consultant 6 234 (11.80 %) Developer 7 209 (10.54 %) Project Manager 8 163 (8.220 %) Business Analyst 9 100 (5.043 %) Architect 10 88 (4.438 %) Systems Analyst 10 88 (4.438 %) .NET Developer 11 69 (3.480 %) SAP BW Consultant 12 68 (3.429 %) Solutions Architect 13 60 (3.026 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 13 60 (3.026 %) SAP BI Consultant 14 55 (2.774 %) SAP Manager 15 51 (2.572 %) SAP FI/CO Consultant 16 46 (2.320 %) Support Analyst 16 46 (2.320 %) SAP Architect 17 45 (2.269 %) Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 46 (2.320 %) Management Information System 2 26 (1.311 %) Credit Risk 3 23 (1.160 %) N-Tier 3 23 (1.160 %) Mainframe 4 17 (0.857 %) Data Extraction 5 14 (0.706 %) PKI 6 13 (0.656 %) Mathematics 7 10 (0.504 %) Computer Science 8 8 (0.403 %) Statistics 9 7 (0.353 %) Blackberry 9 7 (0.353 %) PMI 10 6 (0.303 %) Clustering 11 5 (0.252 %) IBM Mainframe 11 5 (0.252 %) Video Conferencing 12 4 (0.202 %) Data Conversion 12 4 (0.202 %) Data Integration 12 4 (0.202 %) HACMP 13 3 (0.151 %) NHS 13 3 (0.151 %) Economics 14 2 (0.101 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 106 (5.345 %) Windows 2 54 (2.723 %) UNIX 3 48 (2.421 %) Windows Server 2003 4 35 (1.765 %) Windows XP 5 34 (1.715 %) Linux 6 24 (1.210 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 21 (1.059 %) zOS 8 13 (0.656 %) MVS 9 12 (0.605 %) AIX 10 11 (0.555 %) Solaris 11 6 (0.303 %) Windows 2000 11 6 (0.303 %) Windows Vista 12 2 (0.101 %) VMS 13 1 (0.050 %) Windows Server 2008 13 1 (0.050 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 259 (13.06 %) Project Management 2 160 (8.069 %) CRM 3 141 (7.110 %) Business Intelligence 4 140 (7.060 %) PRINCE2 5 109 (5.497 %) OO 6 105 (5.295 %) UML 7 84 (4.236 %) Business Analysis 8 73 (3.681 %) Logistics 9 68 (3.429 %) PLM 10 66 (3.328 %) ERP 11 58 (2.925 %) SOA 12 55 (2.774 %) RUP 13 53 (2.673 %) Data Modelling 14 48 (2.421 %) OOD 15 39 (1.967 %) Data Analysis 16 38 (1.916 %) Migration 16 38 (1.916 %) Risk Management 17 36 (1.815 %) Workflow 18 35 (1.765 %) Software Testing 19 34 (1.715 %) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages 1 231 (11.65 %) SQL 2 117 (5.900 %) C# 3 112 (5.648 %) Java 4 106 (5.345 %) VB.NET 5 87 (4.387 %) VB 6 56 (2.824 %) Transact-SQL 7 46 (2.320 %) C++ 8 31 (1.563 %) JavaScript 9 26 (1.311 %) JCL 10 22 (1.109 %) COBOL 11 21 (1.059 %) PL/SQL 11 21 (1.059 %) ABAP 12 18 (0.908 %) VBA 12 18 (0.908 %) C 13 17 (0.857 %) VB6 14 13 (0.656 %) PHP 15 11 (0.555 %) Assembly Language 16 9 (0.454 %) PHP5 17 7 (0.353 %) X++ 18 6 (0.303 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 240 (12.10 %) Degree 2 68 (3.429 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 34 (1.715 %) CISSP 4 31 (1.563 %) Microsoft Certification 5 29 (1.462 %) ISEB 6 22 (1.109 %) CIMA 7 21 (1.059 %) ACCA 8 15 (0.756 %) MCSE 9 9 (0.454 %) Sun Certification 10 7 (0.353 %) MCP 10 7 (0.353 %) PMI Certification 10 7 (0.353 %) MCTS 11 6 (0.303 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 11 6 (0.303 %) SAP Certification 11 6 (0.303 %) MCAD 11 6 (0.303 %) MCSD 12 4 (0.202 %) PMP 13 3 (0.151 %) ITIL Certification 13 3 (0.151 %) Cisco Certification 14 2 (0.101 %) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 41 (2.068 %) QA 2 21 (1.059 %) SLA 3 17 (0.857 %) Basel II 4 11 (0.555 %) GAAP 5 3 (0.151 %) ISO9000 5 3 (0.151 %) ISO9001 6 2 (0.101 %) TickIT 7 1 (0.050 %) GMP	System Software 1 58 (2.925 %) Active Directory 2 15 (0.756 %) RACF 3 7 (0.353 %) VMware ESX 3 7 (0.353 %) Terminal Services 3 7 (0.353 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 6 (0.303 %) MSMQ 5 3 (0.151 %) ISA Server 6 2 (0.101 %) Oracle RMAN 6 2 (0.101 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 11 (0.555 %) OMEGAMON 2 3 (0.151 %) Tivoli 2 3 (0.151 %) DameWare 3 2 (0.101 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 1 (0.050 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (0.050 %) OpenView 4 1 (0.050 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 631 (31.82 %) SAP 2 178 (8.976 %) Oracle 3 154 (7.766 %) Microsoft 4 38 (1.916 %) Cisco 5 35 (1.765 %) IBM 6 31 (1.563 %) VMware 7 18 (0.908 %) Business Objects 8 17 (0.857 %) JD Edwards 9 16 (0.807 %) HP 10 12 (0.605 %) Informatica 11 11 (0.555 %) CA 11 11 (0.555 %) Compuware 11 11 (0.555 %) PeopleSoft 11 11 (0.555 %) Sage 11 11 (0.555 %) TIBCO 12 10 (0.504 %) Lotus 12 10 (0.504 %) Sun 13 9 (0.454 %) Citrix 13 9 (0.454 %) Agresso 14 8 (0.403 %) Google