The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Investment Banking over the 3 months to 21 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Investment Banking
Rank 58 75 -
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 1 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.217% 0.597% -
As % of the General category 0.571% 2.222% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
Average salary £25,000 £22,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -
All of the General Category
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
175 180 157
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 38.04% 26.87% 34.51%
Number of salaries quoted 148 170 112
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £61,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Investment Banking
North West

Investment Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Investment Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Investment Banking
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside Investment Banking Salary Trend

Investment Banking
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 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
Liverpool +10 1 £25,000 +11.11%
Investment Banking
North West

Investment Banking
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Open Text
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) IIS
3 2 (40.00%) Vignette
3 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Fidessa
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) Extranet
3 2 (40.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (40.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (40.00%) Content Management
3 2 (40.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (20.00%) Asset Management

Investment Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (40.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior QA Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Quality Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Manager
2 1 (20.00%) QA Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Content Management
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Open Text
1 2 (40.00%) Vignette
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Fidessa
1 2 (40.00%) Bloomberg