South West Investment Banking Jobs

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Investment Banking' 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 Investment Banking over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire City of London Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Ipswich Jersey Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stirling Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	217	84
Rank change on same period last year	-133
Matching permanent IT job ads	32	244
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.107 %
As % of the category below	0.638 %	4.974 %
Salaries quoted	23	217
Average minimum salary	£44,739	£52,881
Average salary	£51,276	£53,415
% change on same period last year	-4.00 %
Average maximum salary	£57,813	£53,949
UK excluding London average salary	£46,943	£51,912
% change on same period last year	-9.57 %
General South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	5017	4906
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.932 %	2.156 %
Salaries quoted	4362	4186
Average minimum salary	£35,386	£37,213
Average salary	£38,752	£39,917
% change on same period last year	-2.91 %
Average maximum salary	£42,119	£42,620
UK excluding London average salary	£41,305	£41,808
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Investment Banking 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 citing Investment Banking across the South West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Investment Banking across the South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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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 South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Somerset	-13	13	£44,038	-16.38 %
Wiltshire	-12	9	-	-
Bristol	+1	6	£55,417	+73.17 %
Dorset	-64	4	£68,588	+27.64 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the South 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 60 (100.00 %) Banking 2 36 (60.00 %) Finance 3 27 (45.00 %) SQL 4 14 (23.33 %) Project Management 4 14 (23.33 %) Oracle 4 14 (23.33 %) .NET 5 11 (18.33 %) Back Office 6 10 (16.67 %) SQL Server 6 10 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 7 9 (15.00 %) Java 7 9 (15.00 %) Front Office 8 8 (13.33 %) UNIX 9 7 (11.67 %) VB.NET 9 7 (11.67 %) Fixed Income 10 6 (10.00 %) Business Analysis

11 5 (8.333 %) OpenLink 11 5 (8.333 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 5 (8.333 %) VBA 11 5 (8.333 %) Sybase 11 5 (8.333 %) Spreadsheet 12 4 (6.667 %) Equities 12 4 (6.667 %) Publishing 12 4 (6.667 %) Technical Architecture 12 4 (6.667 %) QA 12 4 (6.667 %) Derivative 12 4 (6.667 %) J2EE 12 4 (6.667 %) JavaScript 12 4 (6.667 %) ASP 12 4 (6.667 %) ASP.NET 12 4 (6.667 %) MQSeries

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the South 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 14 (23.33 %) .NET 2 4 (6.667 %) J2EE 2 4 (6.667 %) ASP 2 4 (6.667 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (5.000 %) XML 4 2 (3.333 %) Middleware 5 1 (1.667 %) WebSphere 5 1 (1.667 %) HTML 5 1 (1.667 %) JSP 5 1 (1.667 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 4 (6.667 %) MQSeries 2 3 (5.000 %) WebLogic 3 2 (3.333 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (8.333 %) Spreadsheet 2 4 (6.667 %) MS Excel 3 2 (3.333 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (1.667 %) MS Project 4 1 (1.667 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.667 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.000 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.667 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2 5 (8.333 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 3 (5.000 %) RDBMS 4 2 (3.333 %) Reference Data 5 1 (1.667 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (1.667 %) Sybase ASE 5 1 (1.667 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (1.667 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 3 (5.000 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 (3.333 %) TestDirector	General 1 60 (100.00 %) Banking 2 36 (60.00 %) Finance 3 11 (18.33 %) Back Office 4 9 (15.00 %) Front Office 5 4 (6.667 %) Publishing 6 3 (5.000 %) Retail 7 2 (3.333 %) Pensions 7 2 (3.333 %) Music 7 2 (3.333 %) Music Industry 7 2 (3.333 %) Health 7 2 (3.333 %) Marketing 8 1 (1.667 %) Pharmaceutical 8 1 (1.667 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 19 (31.67 %) Analyst 2 16 (26.67 %) Developer 3 13 (21.67 %) Business Analyst 4 6 (10.00 %) Project Manager 5 5 (8.333 %) Programme Manager 5 5 (8.333 %) Front Office Developer 5 5 (8.333 %) VBA Developer 5 5 (8.333 %) IT Business Analyst 5 5 (8.333 %) Excel Developer 5 5 (8.333 %) Excel Specialist 5 5 (8.333 %) Excel VBA Developer 5 5 (8.333 %) Banking Business Analyst 6 4 (6.667 %) ASP Developer 6 4 (6.667 %) .NET Developer 6 4 (6.667 %) VB.NET Developer 6 4 (6.667 %) Applications Developer 6 4 (6.667 %) Senior Manager 7 3 (5.000 %) Solutions Architect 7 3 (5.000 %) Architect 7 3 (5.000 %) Business Systems Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 7 (11.67 %) Fixed Income 2 4 (6.667 %) Equities 2 4 (6.667 %) Derivative 3 3 (5.000 %) N-Tier 3 3 (5.000 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 2 (3.333 %) Economics 4 2 (3.333 %) Credit Risk 5 1 (1.667 %) Client/Server 5 1 (1.667 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 8 (13.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (1.667 %) AIX 2 1 (1.667 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (23.33 %) Project Management 2 10 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (10.00 %) Business Analysis 4 4 (6.667 %) Configuration Management 4 4 (6.667 %) Technical Architecture 5 3 (5.000 %) Six Sigma 5 3 (5.000 %) Change Management 6 2 (3.333 %) Workflow 6 2 (3.333 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (3.333 %) Data Management 6 2 (3.333 %) Data Analysis 6 2 (3.333 %) Process Management 6 2 (3.333 %) UML 6 2 (3.333 %) OO 6 2 (3.333 %) RUP 6 2 (3.333 %) Data Modelling 6 2 (3.333 %) Wealth Management 6 2 (3.333 %) Test Management 7 1 (1.667 %) Integration Testing 7 1 (1.667 %) Fund Management
Programming Languages 1 27 (45.00 %) SQL 2 9 (15.00 %) Java 3 7 (11.67 %) VB.NET 4 5 (8.333 %) VBA 5 4 (6.667 %) JavaScript 6 3 (5.000 %) C# 6 3 (5.000 %) VB6 6 3 (5.000 %) VB 7 2 (3.333 %) C++ 8 1 (1.667 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (6.667 %) PMP 1 4 (6.667 %) PMI Certification 2 3 (5.000 %) Degree 3 2 (3.333 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (6.667 %) QA 2 3 (5.000 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 1 (1.667 %) Basel II	System Software 1 1 (1.667 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 1 (1.667 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 14 (23.33 %) Oracle 2 5 (8.333 %) Sybase 2 5 (8.333 %) OpenLink 3 4 (6.667 %) Microsoft 4 2 (3.333 %) BEA 5 1 (1.667 %) SAP