North West Finance Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Finance' in IT jobs within the North West 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 last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Greenford Guernsey Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haywards Heath Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Humberside Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kings Langley Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Willenhall Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	1
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	2361	3081
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.155 %	1.323 %
As % of the category below	40.06 %	50.02 %
Salaries quoted	2107	2614
Average minimum salary	£38,103	£39,327
Average salary	£43,710	£43,228
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
Average maximum salary	£49,316	£47,129
UK excluding London average salary	£42,760	£43,917
% change on same period last year	-2.63 %
General North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	5894	6160
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.883 %	2.645 %
Salaries quoted	5000	5205
Average minimum salary	£35,750	£37,455
Average salary	£40,468	£41,108
% change on same period last year	-1.55 %
Average maximum salary	£45,186	£44,761
UK excluding London average salary	£40,645	£42,055
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
Finance England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Finance across the North West 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 ads citing Finance across the North West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the North West region over the past 3 months.

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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 Finance within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Manchester	+1	1054	£45,394	-1.31 %
2	Cheshire	-1	808	£44,079	+4.80 %
3	Lancashire	-3	188	£33,471	-11.66 %
4	Merseyside	-4	149	£37,184	-12.60 %
5	Cumbria	+8	9	£46,350	-8.21 %

Finance England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Finance also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Finance.

1 710 (15.39 %) Retail 2 690 (14.96 %) SAP 3 667 (14.46 %) Project Management 4 637 (13.81 %) SQL 5 571 (12.38 %) .NET 6 564 (12.23 %) Banking 7 556 (12.05 %) PRINCE2 8 500 (10.84 %) SQL Server 9 425 (9.213 %) Unix 10 422 (9.148 %) SAP Oil and Gas 11 392 (8.498 %) Windows 12 356 (7.717 %) Degree 13 345 (7.479 %) ITIL 14 334 (7.240 %) Telecoms 15 323 (7.002 %) Pensions

16 313 (6.785 %) Oracle 17 307 (6.655 %) C# 18 303 (6.568 %) Microsoft 19 295 (6.395 %) Insurance 20 261 (5.658 %) MS Excel 21 255 (5.528 %) J2EE 22 251 (5.441 %) ASP.NET 23 248 (5.376 %) Mainframe 24 239 (5.181 %) Java 25 220 (4.769 %) XML 26 214 (4.639 %) Stakeholder Management 27 204 (4.422 %) VB.NET 28 202 (4.379 %) CRM 29 201 (4.357 %) Risk Management 30 199 (4.314 %) Health

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Finance also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Finance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 571 (12.38 %) .NET 2 255 (5.528 %) J2EE 3 251 (5.441 %) ASP.NET 4 220 (4.769 %) XML 5 189 (4.097 %) HTML 6 156 (3.382 %) WebSphere 7 144 (3.122 %) Middleware 8 122 (2.645 %) CSS 9 101 (2.189 %) ASP 10 95 (2.059 %) WebServices 11 39 (0.845 %) JDBC 12 38 (0.824 %) JSP 13 35 (0.759 %) EJB 14 34 (0.737 %) WinForms 15 33 (0.715 %) SAP XI 15 33 (0.715 %) SOAP 16 32 (0.694 %) ISPF 17 31 (0.672 %) .NET Framework 18 27 (0.585 %) ADO 19 26 (0.564 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 132 (2.861 %) SAS 2 63 (1.366 %) MS Exchange 3 62 (1.344 %) CICS 3 62 (1.344 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 51 (1.106 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 33 (0.715 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 33 (0.715 %) NetWeaver 6 28 (0.607 %) SharePoint 7 25 (0.542 %) Apache 8 22 (0.477 %) Tomcat 9 20 (0.434 %) JBoss 10 19 (0.412 %) Lotus Notes 11 18 (0.390 %) WebSphere MQ 12 15 (0.325 %) MQSeries 13 13 (0.282 %) BizTalk Server 13 13 (0.282 %) CMS 14 12 (0.260 %) Exstream Dialogue 15 11 (0.238 %) Exchange Server 5.5 15 11 (0.238 %) Oracle Workflow 16 10 (0.217 %) IIS
Applications 1 261 (5.658 %) MS Excel 2 150 (3.252 %) MS Office 3 44 (0.954 %) MS Visio 4 30 (0.650 %) MS Project 5 25 (0.542 %) MS PowerPoint 6 19 (0.412 %) SPSS 7 13 (0.282 %) Photoshop 8 6 (0.130 %) FrameMaker 8 6 (0.130 %) InfoPath 9 4 (0.087 %) CA Clarity 9 4 (0.087 %) Fireworks 10 2 (0.043 %) PrintSoft PReS 11 1 (0.022 %) MATLAB	Business Applications 1 422 (9.148 %) SAP Oil and Gas 2 115 (2.493 %) SAP FI 3 98 (2.124 %) SAP CO 4 97 (2.103 %) SAP FI/CO 5 77 (1.669 %) Oracle Applications 6 66 (1.431 %) Oracle Financials 7 60 (1.301 %) Oracle 11i 8 58 (1.257 %) Oracle EBS 9 51 (1.106 %) SAP CRM 10 44 (0.954 %) Axapta 11 41 (0.889 %) Dynamics CRM 12 33 (0.715 %) Dynamics AX 13 31 (0.672 %) Dynamics NAV 14 30 (0.650 %) SAP SRM 14 30 (0.650 %) SAP HR 15 29 (0.629 %) SAP R/3 16 28 (0.607 %) SAP PS 16 28 (0.607 %) SAP Retail 17 27 (0.585 %) Navision 18 25 (0.542 %) SAP WM
Communications & Networking 1 110 (2.385 %) Internet 2 85 (1.843 %) TCP/IP 3 79 (1.713 %) Firewall 4 62 (1.344 %) WAN 5 56 (1.214 %) SAN 6 36 (0.780 %) VPN 7 35 (0.759 %) DNS 8 30 (0.650 %) LAN 9 29 (0.629 %) DHCP 10 22 (0.477 %) HTTP 11 20 (0.434 %) Intrusion Detection 12 16 (0.347 %) Intranet 12 16 (0.347 %) WINS 13 14 (0.303 %) Broadband 13 14 (0.303 %) LDAP 13 14 (0.303 %) Wireless 13 14 (0.303 %) VLAN 13 14 (0.303 %) Cisco PIX 14 13 (0.282 %) Network Security 15 11 (0.238 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 500 (10.84 %) SQL Server 2 140 (3.035 %) SQL Server 2005 3 127 (2.753 %) Datawarehouse 4 121 (2.623 %) SQL Server 2000 5 101 (2.189 %) SAP BW 6 79 (1.713 %) DB2 7 71 (1.539 %) Crystal Reports 8 66 (1.431 %) RDBMS 9 49 (1.062 %) BusinessObjects 10 38 (0.824 %) DTS 11 32 (0.694 %) SAP BI 12 31 (0.672 %) Data Mining 13 29 (0.629 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 28 (0.607 %) Oracle 9i 14 28 (0.607 %) Base SAS 15 27 (0.585 %) OLAP 15 27 (0.585 %) ETL 16 24 (0.520 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 23 (0.499 %) MS Access 18 22 (0.477 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 58 (1.257 %) Visual Studio 2 43 (0.932 %) Rational Rose 3 39 (0.845 %) Flash 4 24 (0.520 %) Dreamweaver 5 23 (0.499 %) Oracle Forms 6 19 (0.412 %) QuickTest Pro 7 18 (0.390 %) TestDirector 8 15 (0.325 %) LoadRunner 9 14 (0.303 %) JDeveloper 9 14 (0.303 %) WinRunner 10 13 (0.282 %) Introscope 11 10 (0.217 %) Eclipse 12 5 (0.108 %) JUnit 13 3 (0.065 %) PVCS 13 3 (0.065 %) ClearCase 13 3 (0.065 %) JIRA 14 2 (0.043 %) Log4j 15 1 (0.022 %) NUnit 15 1 (0.022 %) TestPartner 15 1 (0.022 %) jMock	General 1 710 (15.39 %) Retail 2 564 (12.23 %) Banking 3 334 (7.240 %) Telecoms 4 323 (7.002 %) Pensions 5 295 (6.395 %) Insurance 6 199 (4.314 %) Health 7 178 (3.859 %) Manufacturing 8 139 (3.013 %) Marketing 9 121 (2.623 %) Financial Institution 10 111 (2.406 %) Government 11 97 (2.103 %) Legal 12 59 (1.279 %) Education 13 57 (1.236 %) Online Banking 14 55 (1.192 %) Auditing 15 47 (1.019 %) Local Government 16 42 (0.910 %) Retail Banking 17 37 (0.802 %) Back Office 18 33 (0.715 %) Pharmaceutical 19 25 (0.542 %) Investment Banking 20 22 (0.477 %) Law
Job Titles 1 931 (20.18 %) Consultant 2 863 (18.71 %) Analyst 3 680 (14.74 %) Project Manager 4 516 (11.19 %) SAP Consultant 5 498 (10.80 %) Developer 6 244 (5.289 %) Architect 7 236 (5.116 %) Business Analyst 8 155 (3.360 %) .NET Developer 9 150 (3.252 %) Administrator 10 142 (3.078 %) Senior Consultant 11 119 (2.580 %) Programme Manager 12 113 (2.450 %) Senior SAP Consultant 13 102 (2.211 %) Senior Manager 14 101 (2.189 %) IT Manager 15 99 (2.146 %) Programmer 16 98 (2.124 %) Team Leader 17 96 (2.081 %) Systems Analyst 18 87 (1.886 %) Oracle Consultant 19 86 (1.864 %) Solutions Architect 20 83 (1.799 %) Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 248 (5.376 %) Mainframe 2 104 (2.254 %) PMI 3 85 (1.843 %) Management Information System 4 51 (1.106 %) Credit Risk 5 47 (1.019 %) PKI 6 38 (0.824 %) Blackberry 7 35 (0.759 %) IBM Mainframe 8 34 (0.737 %) Clustering 9 33 (0.715 %) Mathematics 10 27 (0.585 %) AS400 11 23 (0.499 %) Client/Server 12 22 (0.477 %) Tandem 13 21 (0.455 %) Data Integration 14 19 (0.412 %) Asset Management 14 19 (0.412 %) E-Learning 14 19 (0.412 %) HACMP 15 17 (0.369 %) N-Tier 16 16 (0.347 %) Thin Client 16 16 (0.347 %) Fat Client 17 14 (0.303 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 425 (9.213 %) Unix 2 392 (8.498 %) Windows 3 153 (3.317 %) AIX 4 101 (2.189 %) Solaris 5 87 (1.886 %) Linux 6 65 (1.409 %) HPUX 7 61 (1.322 %) Windows 2000 8 54 (1.171 %) zOS 9 34 (0.737 %) MVS 10 31 (0.672 %) Windows XP 11 20 (0.434 %) VMS 11 20 (0.434 %) Windows NT 12 9 (0.195 %) Windows Server 2003 13 1 (0.022 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 667 (14.46 %) Project Management 2 556 (12.05 %) PRINCE2 3 345 (7.479 %) ITIL 4 214 (4.639 %) Stakeholder Management 5 202 (4.379 %) CRM 6 201 (4.357 %) Risk Management 7 192 (4.162 %) Service Delivery 8 190 (4.119 %) OO 9 174 (3.772 %) Business Intelligence 10 169 (3.664 %) Supplier Management 11 149 (3.230 %) Business Analysis 12 143 (3.100 %) UML 13 139 (3.013 %) Information Security 14 126 (2.731 %) Resource Management 15 123 (2.666 %) Change Management 16 104 (2.254 %) ERP 17 98 (2.124 %) SOA 17 98 (2.124 %) Service Management 18 87 (1.886 %) RUP 18 87 (1.886 %) Project Planning
Programming Languages 1 637 (13.81 %) SQL 2 307 (6.655 %) C# 3 239 (5.181 %) Java 4 204 (4.422 %) VB.NET 5 198 (4.292 %) VB 6 178 (3.859 %) C 7 107 (2.320 %) Transact-SQL 8 100 (2.168 %) JavaScript 8 100 (2.168 %) C++ 9 61 (1.322 %) JCL 10 54 (1.171 %) VB6 10 54 (1.171 %) COBOL 11 50 (1.084 %) VBA 12 43 (0.932 %) PL/SQL 13 34 (0.737 %) PHP 14 25 (0.542 %) Delphi 15 21 (0.455 %) Perl 16 19 (0.412 %) VC++ 16 19 (0.412 %) SAS Macro 17 18 (0.390 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 356 (7.717 %) Degree 2 132 (2.861 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 113 (2.450 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 104 (2.254 %) Microsoft Certification 5 75 (1.626 %) CISSP 6 60 (1.301 %) ISEB 7 52 (1.127 %) MCSE 8 50 (1.084 %) ITIL Certification 9 40 (0.867 %) PMI Certification 10 37 (0.802 %) Oracle Certification 11 35 (0.759 %) ACCA 12 33 (0.715 %) MCP 13 32 (0.694 %) CIMA 14 28 (0.607 %) PMP 15 25 (0.542 %) MCAD 16 15 (0.325 %) MCSA 17 13 (0.282 %) MBA 18 8 (0.173 %) Cisco Certification 19 7 (0.152 %) CCNP 19 7 (0.152 %) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 93 (2.016 %) SLA 2 48 (1.041 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 48 (1.041 %) QA 3 39 (0.845 %) Basel II 4 22 (0.477 %) COBIT 5 15 (0.325 %) ISO27001 6 11 (0.238 %) BS15000 6 11 (0.238 %) BS7799 6 11 (0.238 %) ISO17799 7 2 (0.043 %) TickIT 7 2 (0.043 %) ISO9001 8 1 (0.022 %) MiFID 8 1 (0.022 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 117 (2.536 %) Active Directory 2 43 (0.932 %) RACF 3 7 (0.152 %) Terminal Services 3 7 (0.152 %) MSMQ 4 5 (0.108 %) NetBackup 5 4 (0.087 %) VMware ESX 5 4 (0.087 %) Oracle RMAN 5 4 (0.087 %) Oracle RAC 6 3 (0.065 %) Backup Exec 6 3 (0.065 %) MetaFrame 7 2 (0.043 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 7 2 (0.043 %) ISA Server 8 1 (0.022 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 54 (1.171 %) Tivoli 2 24 (0.520 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 23 (0.499 %) OMEGAMON 4 19 (0.412 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 18 (0.390 %) ServiceCenter 6 14 (0.303 %) OpenView 7 6 (0.130 %) AssetCenter 7 6 (0.130 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 8 3 (0.065 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 9 2 (0.043 %) CiscoWorks 9 2 (0.043 %) Tivoli Monitoring 9 2 (0.043 %) DameWare 9 2 (0.043 %) WSUS 10 1 (0.022 %) Legato 10 1 (0.022 %) BMC PATROL 10 1 (0.022 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 690 (14.96 %) SAP 2 313 (6.785 %) Oracle 3 303 (6.568 %) Microsoft 4 140 (3.035 %) IBM 5 78 (1.691 %) Citrix 6 62 (1.344 %) HP 7 49 (1.062 %) Business Objects 8 39 (0.845 %) Cisco 9 36 (0.780 %) Sage 10 28 (0.607 %) Sun 10 28 (0.607 %) Cognos 10 28 (0.607 %) Siebel 11 24 (0.520 %) Red Hat 12 22 (0.477 %) Retek 13 21 (0.455 %) Remedy 13 21 (0.455 %) Compuware 13 21 (0.455 %) CA 13 21 (0.455 %) Teradata 14 19 (0.412 %) Informatica 14 19 (0.412 %) Lotus