The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Investment Banking over the 3 months to 24 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Investment Banking
Rank 231 221 229
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +8
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 12 26 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.167% 0.366% 0.073%
As % of the General category 0.454% 1.072% 0.227%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 3
Average salary £30,750 £27,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.81% -54.16%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -
All of the General Category
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
2643 2426 2203
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 36.78% 34.18% 32.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2109 2070 1868
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £39,290
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,650 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £63,000 £67,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cheshire +6 10 - -
Merseyside +18 1 £25,000 +11.11%
Manchester -31 1 £36,500 +21.66%
Investment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 20 (100.00%) Banking
2 17 (85.00%) Finance
3 11 (55.00%) Asset Management
4 10 (50.00%) Retail
4 10 (50.00%) Financial Institution
4 10 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 10 (50.00%) Private Banking
4 10 (50.00%) Online Banking
4 10 (50.00%) Retail Banking
4 10 (50.00%) Wealth Management
4 10 (50.00%) Investment Management
5 9 (45.00%) Windows
5 9 (45.00%) MS Excel
6 8 (40.00%) DB2
6 8 (40.00%) ITIL
6 8 (40.00%) JCL
6 8 (40.00%) ISPF
7 6 (30.00%) Incident Management
7 6 (30.00%) Mainframe
7 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
7 6 (30.00%) MS Office
8 5 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
9 4 (20.00%) CA Endevor
9 4 (20.00%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (20.00%) LPAR
9 4 (20.00%) UNIX
9 4 (20.00%) AIX
9 4 (20.00%) MQSeries
9 4 (20.00%) MS Visio
9 4 (20.00%) Tivoli

Investment Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 8 (40.00%) ISPF
2 1 (5.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) MQSeries
1 4 (20.00%) CICS
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (45.00%) MS Excel
2 6 (30.00%) MS Office
3 5 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
4 4 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Maximo
2 1 (5.000%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Extranet
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.000%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) ChangeMan
General
1 20 (100.00%) Banking
2 17 (85.00%) Finance
3 10 (50.00%) Retail
3 10 (50.00%) Financial Institution
3 10 (50.00%) Private Banking
3 10 (50.00%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Analyst
2 8 (40.00%) Consultant
3 6 (30.00%) Incident Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Mainframe Consultant
4 4 (20.00%) Management Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support
5 2 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Head of Service Management
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Service Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Quality Manager
6 1 (5.000%) QA Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Online Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Mainframe
3 4 (20.00%) LPAR
4 2 (10.00%) Blackberry
5 1 (5.000%) iSeries
5 1 (5.000%) Credit Risk
5 1 (5.000%) Market Risk
5 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.000%) AS400
5 1 (5.000%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) UNIX
2 4 (20.00%) AIX
2 4 (20.00%) zOS
2 4 (20.00%) MVS
3 2 (10.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Asset Management
2 10 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 10 (50.00%) Wealth Management
2 10 (50.00%) Investment Management
3 8 (40.00%) ITIL
4 6 (30.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.00%) Data Management
6 2 (10.00%) Content Management
6 2 (10.00%) ITSM
6 2 (10.00%) Service Management
6 2 (10.00%) Project Management
6 2 (10.00%) Change Management
7 1 (5.000%) Time Management
7 1 (5.000%) Data Entry
7 1 (5.000%) Test Strategy
7 1 (5.000%) Problem Management
7 1 (5.000%) Test Scripting
7 1 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.000%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) JCL
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.000%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) CA Endevor
1 4 (20.00%) OMEGAMON
1 4 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Vignette
2 2 (10.00%) Fidessa
2 2 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 2 (10.00%) Open Text
3 1 (5.000%) Remedy
3 1 (5.000%) HP
Manchester, Lancashire
Suitable applicants will possess an IT or numerical science degree or equivalent experience, have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate the potential to build successful careers...
FDM Group
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 29 April 2013
Manchester, North West
They will then be employed by FDM as Application Support Analysts, responsible for representing the organisation on client sites as IT Consultants, supporting clients for a minimum of...
FDM
Salary: £21,000 - £24,000 per year
Posted: 25 May 2013