The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT jobs advertised for the Rickmansworth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 20 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 Rickmansworth region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 73 23 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 55.30% 41.82% 46.15%
As % of the General category 87.95% 67.65% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 57 15 11
Average salary £54,500 £45,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.11% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,700 £36,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,000 £50,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
Rickmansworth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
83 34 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 62.88% 61.82% 76.92%
Number of salaries quoted 67 19 18
Average salary £53,625 £40,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+34.06% -23.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £36,000 £31,700
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Finance
Hertfordshire

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Rickmansworth Finance Jobs Demand Trend

Finance
Salary Trend

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

Rickmansworth Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the Rickmansworth region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Rickmansworth Finance Salary Histogram

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 52 (23.96%) Java
1 52 (23.96%) Oracle
2 48 (22.12%) Solaris
2 48 (22.12%) Project Management
3 45 (20.74%) UNIX
4 43 (19.82%) PRINCE2
5 36 (16.59%) WebLogic
6 30 (13.82%) SQL
7 29 (13.36%) ITIL
8 28 (12.90%) Cisco
9 27 (12.44%) PL/SQL
10 26 (11.98%) Middleware
11 25 (11.52%) UML
12 24 (11.06%) SLA
13 23 (10.60%) Shell Script
13 23 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (9.677%) TCP/IP
15 20 (9.217%) Microsoft
15 20 (9.217%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 18 (8.295%) Service Delivery
16 18 (8.295%) QuickTest Pro
16 18 (8.295%) EMC
17 17 (7.834%) J2EE
17 17 (7.834%) VMware
18 16 (7.373%) Manual Testing
18 16 (7.373%) V-Model
18 16 (7.373%) HP
19 15 (6.912%) MS Project
19 15 (6.912%) MS Excel
19 15 (6.912%) Banking

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 26 (11.98%) Middleware
2 17 (7.834%) J2EE
3 11 (5.069%) WebSphere
4 9 (4.147%) Hibernate
4 9 (4.147%) Spring
5 7 (3.226%) XML
6 6 (2.765%) Web Services
7 4 (1.843%) JMS
8 3 (1.382%) RESTful
9 2 (0.922%) Struts
10 1 (0.461%) SAML
10 1 (0.461%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 36 (16.59%) WebLogic
2 14 (6.452%) Apache
3 7 (3.226%) WebSphere MQ
4 4 (1.843%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (1.843%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.922%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 15 (6.912%) MS Project
1 15 (6.912%) MS Excel
2 12 (5.530%) MS Office
3 8 (3.687%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.922%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.687%) BASE24
2 1 (0.461%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.461%) Pegasus Opera
2 1 (0.461%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.677%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.608%) ATM
3 9 (4.147%) DNS
3 9 (4.147%) SSH
4 7 (3.226%) LDAP
4 7 (3.226%) Firewall
4 7 (3.226%) NAS
5 4 (1.843%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.843%) SSL
5 4 (1.843%) LAN
6 1 (0.461%) FTP
6 1 (0.461%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.461%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.765%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (2.304%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.304%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (2.304%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (1.843%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (1.382%) Big Data
5 2 (0.922%) TOAD
6 1 (0.461%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (8.295%) QuickTest Pro
2 7 (3.226%) Ant
2 7 (3.226%) JIRA
3 6 (2.765%) JUnit
3 6 (2.765%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.765%) ClearQuest
General
1 15 (6.912%) Banking
2 13 (5.991%) Legal
3 2 (0.922%) Financial Institution
4 1 (0.461%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.461%) Retail
4 1 (0.461%) Retail Banking
4 1 (0.461%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (18.89%) Analyst
2 32 (14.75%) Architect
3 22 (10.14%) Business Analyst
4 20 (9.217%) Business Systems Analyst
4 20 (9.217%) Systems Analyst
5 18 (8.295%) Project Manager
6 16 (7.373%) Tester
6 16 (7.373%) Senior Tester
7 15 (6.912%) Infrastructure Manager
7 15 (6.912%) Support Analyst
8 12 (5.530%) UNIX Engineer
9 11 (5.069%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 10 (4.608%) Service Manager
10 10 (4.608%) Senior UNIX Engineer
11 9 (4.147%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.147%) Technical Architect
11 9 (4.147%) Project Planner
11 9 (4.147%) Network Architect
12 8 (3.687%) Technical Support
13 7 (3.226%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.530%) SWIFT
2 11 (5.069%) Client/Server
2 11 (5.069%) Mainframe
3 10 (4.608%) PKI
4 7 (3.226%) Celerra
4 7 (3.226%) CLARiiON
4 7 (3.226%) Symmetrix
5 4 (1.843%) Blackberry
5 4 (1.843%) Computer Science
6 3 (1.382%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.922%) Replication
7 2 (0.922%) PMI
7 2 (0.922%) Clustering
8 1 (0.461%) Cryptography
8 1 (0.461%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 48 (22.12%) Solaris
2 45 (20.74%) UNIX
3 13 (5.991%) Linux
4 10 (4.608%) Windows
5 8 (3.687%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (3.687%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (3.226%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.922%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.922%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.461%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (22.12%) Project Management
2 43 (19.82%) PRINCE2
3 29 (13.36%) ITIL
4 25 (11.52%) UML
5 23 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (8.295%) Service Delivery
7 16 (7.373%) Manual Testing
7 16 (7.373%) V-Model
8 15 (6.912%) Waterfall
8 15 (6.912%) Programme Management
9 13 (5.991%) Service Management
9 13 (5.991%) Resource Management
10 12 (5.530%) Change Control
11 11 (5.069%) Use Case
11 11 (5.069%) Requirements Analysis
11 11 (5.069%) Risk Management
12 9 (4.147%) Change Management
12 9 (4.147%) Integration Testing
13 8 (3.687%) Test Scripting
13 8 (3.687%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.96%) Java
2 30 (13.82%) SQL
3 27 (12.44%) PL/SQL
4 23 (10.60%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.147%) Perl
6 6 (2.765%) AWK
7 3 (1.382%) Bourne shell
7 3 (1.382%) C-shell
7 3 (1.382%) C#
7 3 (1.382%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (9.217%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 10 (4.608%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (4.608%) CCNA
3 9 (4.147%) CCDA
4 8 (3.687%) CISSP
5 6 (2.765%) ISEB
6 4 (1.843%) CCNP
6 4 (1.843%) Degree
7 2 (0.922%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (0.922%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.461%) CISA
8 1 (0.461%) CISM
8 1 (0.461%) MCSE
8 1 (0.461%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.461%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.06%) SLA
2 5 (2.304%) QA
3 2 (0.922%) COBIT
3 2 (0.922%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.461%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (5.069%) vSphere
2 7 (3.226%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 6 (2.765%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.304%) VMware ESX
4 5 (2.304%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.843%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.922%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (5.530%) Tivoli
2 11 (5.069%) HP Quality Center
3 6 (2.765%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.922%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 52 (23.96%) Oracle
2 28 (12.90%) Cisco
3 20 (9.217%) Microsoft
4 18 (8.295%) EMC
5 17 (7.834%) VMware
6 16 (7.373%) HP
7 13 (5.991%) Sun
8 11 (5.069%) IBM
9 7 (3.226%) Brocade
9 7 (3.226%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.765%) CommVault
10 6 (2.765%) Veritas
10 6 (2.765%) Citrix
11 5 (2.304%) Juniper
12 4 (1.843%) VocaLink
12 4 (1.843%) F5
13 2 (0.922%) BEA
14 1 (0.461%) SAP
14 1 (0.461%) Cognos
14 1 (0.461%) Pegasus
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