South West Finance Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Finance' in IT jobs within the South 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 Dudley 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 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 Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kidderminster 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 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 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 Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford 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 Weybridge Whyteleafe Widnes 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	6	3
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	1991	1826
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.974 %	0.784 %
As % of the category below	33.11 %	39.92 %
Salaries quoted	1542	1501
Average minimum salary	£36,009	£35,172
Average salary	£39,461	£38,334
% change on same period last year	+2.93 %
Average maximum salary	£42,913	£41,497
UK excluding London average salary	£42,760	£43,917
% change on same period last year	-2.63 %
General South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	6014	4574
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.942 %	1.964 %
Salaries quoted	4609	3703
Average minimum salary	£34,022	£34,905
Average salary	£37,476	£38,182
% change on same period last year	-1.84 %
Average maximum salary	£40,931	£41,458
UK excluding London average salary	£40,645	£42,055
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
Finance England

Finance
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the South 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 South 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	Bristol	-3	599	£36,040	-1.49 %
2	Dorset	-1	496	£49,061	+14.48 %
3	Gloucestershire	+2	383	£37,165	+2.28 %
4	Wiltshire	-5	271	£43,472	+14.95 %
5	Somerset	-1	94	£36,055	+4.07 %
6	Devon	-16	44	£29,803	-17.96 %
7	Cornwall	-1	11	£26,429	-20.26 %
8	Avon	-15	5	£61,900	+117.59 %

Finance England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South 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.

1 791 (20.84 %) SQL 2 633 (16.68 %) Oracle 3 563 (14.83 %) Banking 4 527 (13.88 %) SQL Server 5 479 (12.62 %) Java 6 451 (11.88 %) Pensions 7 444 (11.70 %) .NET 8 386 (10.17 %) Microsoft 9 355 (9.352 %) Project Management 10 321 (8.456 %) C# 11 275 (7.244 %) XML 12 261 (6.876 %) Insurance 13 260 (6.849 %) PRINCE2 14 257 (6.770 %) OO 15 254 (6.691 %) Business Analysis

16 250 (6.586 %) UML 17 238 (6.270 %) Unix 17 238 (6.270 %) Windows 18 237 (6.243 %) Degree 19 235 (6.191 %) ASP.NET 20 218 (5.743 %) MS Excel 21 213 (5.611 %) ISEB 22 201 (5.295 %) Systems Analysis 23 197 (5.190 %) Investment Banking 24 194 (5.111 %) Health 25 184 (4.847 %) HTML 26 175 (4.610 %) SAP 27 161 (4.241 %) C 28 158 (4.162 %) C++ 29 154 (4.057 %) WebSphere

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South 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 1 444 (11.70 %) .NET 2 275 (7.244 %) XML 3 235 (6.191 %) ASP.NET 4 184 (4.847 %) HTML 5 154 (4.057 %) WebSphere 6 153 (4.031 %) J2EE 7 138 (3.635 %) WebServices 8 95 (2.503 %) CSS 9 87 (2.292 %) Middleware 10 81 (2.134 %) XSLT 11 79 (2.081 %) .NET Framework 12 72 (1.897 %) ASP 13 46 (1.212 %) Spring 14 45 (1.185 %) Windows SharePoint Services 15 40 (1.054 %) JDBC 16 38 (1.001 %) XHTML 16 38 (1.001 %) Hibernate 17 32 (0.843 %) Swing 17 32 (0.843 %) JSP 18 30 (0.790 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 74 (1.949 %) SAS 2 67 (1.765 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 63 (1.660 %) WebLogic 4 52 (1.370 %) IIS 5 43 (1.133 %) SharePoint 6 35 (0.922 %) Apache 7 31 (0.817 %) Oracle Application Server 8 30 (0.790 %) WebSphere MQ 9 27 (0.711 %) JBoss 10 26 (0.685 %) MS Exchange 11 25 (0.659 %) MQSeries 12 23 (0.606 %) CMS 13 20 (0.527 %) Tomcat 14 16 (0.421 %) NetWeaver 14 16 (0.421 %) BizTalk Server 15 12 (0.316 %) Exchange Server 2007 16 9 (0.237 %) Site Server 17 8 (0.211 %) ColdFusion 17 8 (0.211 %) Lotus Notes 17 8 (0.211 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 218 (5.743 %) MS Excel 2 122 (3.214 %) MS Office 3 59 (1.554 %) MS Project 4 52 (1.370 %) MS Visio 5 40 (1.054 %) MS PowerPoint 6 7 (0.184 %) SPSS 7 6 (0.158 %) Photoshop 8 5 (0.132 %) Fireworks 9 4 (0.105 %) CA Clarity 10 2 (0.053 %) MATLAB 10 2 (0.053 %) FrameMaker 10 2 (0.053 %) Acrobat 10 2 (0.053 %) RoboHelp	Business Applications 1 47 (1.238 %) Oracle Applications 2 42 (1.106 %) Oracle EBS 3 38 (1.001 %) Dynamics AX 3 38 (1.001 %) Axapta 4 34 (0.896 %) SAP FI 4 34 (0.896 %) SAP FI/CO 4 34 (0.896 %) SAP CO 5 27 (0.711 %) Navision 6 26 (0.685 %) Oracle Financials 7 25 (0.659 %) Endur 8 22 (0.580 %) Summit 9 16 (0.421 %) SAP Business One 10 12 (0.316 %) HiPortfolio 11 10 (0.263 %) SAP R/3 12 6 (0.158 %) AWD 12 6 (0.158 %) GoldMine 13 5 (0.132 %) HFM 14 4 (0.105 %) Line 500 15 3 (0.079 %) SAP Oil and Gas 15 3 (0.079 %) SAP APO
Communications & Networking 1 70 (1.844 %) Internet 2 62 (1.633 %) WINS 3 43 (1.133 %) SAN 4 36 (0.948 %) LAN 5 34 (0.896 %) Firewall 6 32 (0.843 %) WAN 7 30 (0.790 %) HTTP 8 25 (0.659 %) TCP/IP 9 21 (0.553 %) Wireless 10 19 (0.501 %) VoIP 11 18 (0.474 %) VPN 12 15 (0.395 %) Intranet 13 13 (0.342 %) Network Security 14 11 (0.290 %) 3G 15 10 (0.263 %) UMTS 15 10 (0.263 %) CDMA 15 10 (0.263 %) GPRS 16 8 (0.211 %) LDAP 16 8 (0.211 %) HSDPA 16 8 (0.211 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 527 (13.88 %) SQL Server 2 130 (3.425 %) BusinessObjects 3 113 (2.977 %) SQL Server 2000 4 101 (2.661 %) SQL Server 2005 5 88 (2.318 %) RDBMS 6 82 (2.160 %) Crystal Reports 7 74 (1.949 %) Datawarehouse 8 59 (1.554 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 53 (1.396 %) ETL 10 51 (1.344 %) SQL Server 7 11 37 (0.975 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 36 (0.948 %) Oracle 10g 13 33 (0.869 %) Oracle Reports 14 27 (0.711 %) Oracle 9i 14 27 (0.711 %) DB2 14 27 (0.711 %) OLAP 15 24 (0.632 %) SQL Server Integration Services 16 23 (0.606 %) MS Access 16 23 (0.606 %) GIS 17 22 (0.580 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 132 (3.477 %) TestDirector 2 84 (2.213 %) WinRunner 3 73 (1.923 %) Visual Studio 4 72 (1.897 %) Eclipse 5 60 (1.581 %) PowerBuilder 6 49 (1.291 %) QuickTest Pro 7 42 (1.106 %) Ant 8 29 (0.764 %) ClearCase 9 28 (0.738 %) Flash 9 28 (0.738 %) Subversion 10 24 (0.632 %) JUnit 11 21 (0.553 %) Oracle Forms 12 15 (0.395 %) LoadRunner 13 6 (0.158 %) Dreamweaver 14 5 (0.132 %) JDeveloper 14 5 (0.132 %) SilkTest 15 4 (0.105 %) FrontPage 15 4 (0.105 %) JBuilder 16 3 (0.079 %) VSS/SourceSafe 16 3 (0.079 %) ClearQuest	General 1 563 (14.83 %) Banking 2 451 (11.88 %) Pensions 3 261 (6.876 %) Insurance 4 197 (5.190 %) Investment Banking 5 194 (5.111 %) Health 6 136 (3.583 %) Marketing 7 99 (2.608 %) Retail 8 76 (2.002 %) Telecoms 9 74 (1.949 %) Billing 10 70 (1.844 %) Back Office 11 64 (1.686 %) Government 12 60 (1.581 %) Financial Institution 13 55 (1.449 %) Manufacturing 14 53 (1.396 %) Education 15 37 (0.975 %) General Ledger 16 36 (0.948 %) Front Office 17 32 (0.843 %) Retail Banking 18 31 (0.817 %) Multimedia 19 22 (0.580 %) Legal 20 17 (0.448 %) Games
Job Titles 1 1221 (32.17 %) Analyst 2 704 (18.55 %) Developer 3 562 (14.81 %) Business Analyst 4 355 (9.352 %) Project Manager 5 292 (7.692 %) Consultant 6 209 (5.506 %) Systems Analyst 7 156 (4.110 %) Applications Developer 8 149 (3.925 %) Test Analyst 9 145 (3.820 %) Support Analyst 10 140 (3.688 %) Architect 11 128 (3.372 %) Software Engineer 11 128 (3.372 %) .NET Developer 12 119 (3.135 %) Tester 13 100 (2.634 %) Business Systems Analyst 14 97 (2.555 %) Test Manager 15 92 (2.424 %) Senior Analyst 16 89 (2.345 %) Web Developer 17 88 (2.318 %) C# Developer 18 82 (2.160 %) Applications Support 19 78 (2.055 %) Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 88 (2.318 %) Management Information System 2 78 (2.055 %) AS400 3 75 (1.976 %) Client/Server 4 68 (1.791 %) Computer Science 5 67 (1.765 %) Equities 6 62 (1.633 %) Mainframe 7 49 (1.291 %) Derivative 8 45 (1.185 %) Fixed Income 9 25 (0.659 %) Symmetrix 10 23 (0.606 %) Asset Management 10 23 (0.606 %) PMI 11 20 (0.527 %) Mathematics 12 19 (0.501 %) Credit Risk 13 18 (0.474 %) N-Tier 13 18 (0.474 %) CLARiiON 14 16 (0.421 %) Replication 14 16 (0.421 %) Physics 15 14 (0.369 %) Statistics 16 10 (0.263 %) Smartcard 17 9 (0.237 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 238 (6.270 %) Unix 1 238 (6.270 %) Windows 2 89 (2.345 %) Solaris 3 46 (1.212 %) AIX 4 36 (0.948 %) Windows 2000 5 30 (0.790 %) Windows XP 6 24 (0.632 %) Linux 7 18 (0.474 %) Windows NT 7 18 (0.474 %) Windows Server 2003 8 7 (0.184 %) HPUX 9 6 (0.158 %) Windows Vista 10 5 (0.132 %) NetWare 10 5 (0.132 %) OS/390 11 4 (0.105 %) OpenVMS 12 3 (0.079 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 355 (9.352 %) Project Management 2 260 (6.849 %) PRINCE2 3 257 (6.770 %) OO 4 254 (6.691 %) Business Analysis 5 250 (6.586 %) UML 6 201 (5.295 %) Systems Analysis 7 134 (3.530 %) ITIL 8 124 (3.267 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 122 (3.214 %) Business Intelligence 10 113 (2.977 %) OOA/OOD 11 109 (2.871 %) Change Management 12 106 (2.792 %) Use Case 13 105 (2.766 %) ERP 14 103 (2.713 %) RUP 14 103 (2.713 %) Service Delivery 15 99 (2.608 %) CRM 16 94 (2.476 %) Test Management 17 92 (2.424 %) Wealth Management 18 88 (2.318 %) RAD 19 83 (2.187 %) Risk Management
Programming Languages 1 791 (20.84 %) SQL 2 479 (12.62 %) Java 3 321 (8.456 %) C# 4 161 (4.241 %) C 5 158 (4.162 %) C++ 6 146 (3.846 %) VB.NET 7 133 (3.504 %) JavaScript 8 128 (3.372 %) VB 9 106 (2.792 %) Transact-SQL 10 79 (2.081 %) PL/SQL 11 70 (1.844 %) VBA 12 62 (1.633 %) Shell Script 13 47 (1.238 %) XPath 14 45 (1.185 %) RPG 14 45 (1.185 %) PHP 15 44 (1.159 %) VB6 16 43 (1.133 %) Perl 17 33 (0.869 %) VC++ 18 30 (0.790 %) Delphi 19 25 (0.659 %) X++	Qualifications 1 237 (6.243 %) Degree 2 213 (5.611 %) ISEB 3 66 (1.739 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 42 (1.106 %) Microsoft Certification 5 22 (0.580 %) MCAD 6 21 (0.553 %) CIMA 7 20 (0.527 %) MCSD 7 20 (0.527 %) ITIL Certification 8 19 (0.501 %) ACCA 9 17 (0.448 %) PMI Certification 10 15 (0.395 %) PMP 11 14 (0.369 %) CISA 12 12 (0.316 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 13 11 (0.290 %) CIPD 14 9 (0.237 %) ISEB Practitioner 14 9 (0.237 %) QiCA 14 9 (0.237 %) SAP Certification 14 9 (0.237 %) MCP 15 8 (0.211 %) Cisco Certification 16 7 (0.184 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 120 (3.161 %) QA 2 47 (1.238 %) SLA 3 27 (0.711 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 14 (0.369 %) Basel II 5 13 (0.342 %) ISO17799 6 6 (0.158 %) ISO9000 7 5 (0.132 %) WAI 8 4 (0.105 %) ISO27001 9 2 (0.053 %) BS15000 10 1 (0.026 %) MiFID 10 1 (0.026 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 56 (1.475 %) Active Directory 2 16 (0.421 %) Oracle RAC 3 15 (0.395 %) NetBackup 4 13 (0.342 %) VMware ESX 5 7 (0.184 %) NFS 6 5 (0.132 %) Oracle RMAN 7 1 (0.026 %) AquaLogic 7 1 (0.026 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 7 1 (0.026 %) Orbix
Systems Management 1 55 (1.449 %) AutoSys 2 49 (1.291 %) Tivoli 3 9 (0.237 %) CA SiteMinder 4 7 (0.184 %) Foglight 5 6 (0.158 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 6 4 (0.105 %) Netcool 6 4 (0.105 %) Netcool/Proviso 7 3 (0.079 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 2 (0.053 %) Tivoli Monitoring 9 1 (0.026 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 9 1 (0.026 %) Netcool/Webtop 9 1 (0.026 %) Netcool/OMNIbus	Vendors 1 633 (16.68 %) Oracle 2 386 (10.17 %) Microsoft 3 175 (4.610 %) SAP 4 138 (3.635 %) Sybase 5 130 (3.425 %) Business Objects 6 101 (2.661 %) IBM 7 48 (1.264 %) Cisco 8 33 (0.869 %) Cognos 9 31 (0.817 %) Bloomberg 10 30 (0.790 %) EMC 11 29 (0.764 %) BEA 12 28 (0.738 %) OpenLink 13 25 (0.659 %) Brocade 13 25 (0.659 %) Citrix 14 21 (0.553 %) HP 14 21 (0.553 %) Sage 15 20 (0.527 %) Informatica 16 18 (0.474 %) Sun 17 17 (0.448 %) GigaSpaces 17 17 (0.448 %) VMware