The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 22 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 19 7 17
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +10
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19 31 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 10.56% 21.99% 10.61%
As % of the General category 17.59% 44.29% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16 25 10
Average salary £45,000 £65,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.76% +62.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £43,500 £29,900 £26,050
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £43,250
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
108 70 117
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 60.00% 49.65% 65.36%
Number of salaries quoted 53 53 36
Average salary £45,000 £40,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +1.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £25,300 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £48,000 £72,000
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 St Albans region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the St Albans region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

St Albans Finance Salary Histogram

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 42 (64.62%) MVC
2 37 (56.92%) .NET
3 36 (55.38%) ASP.NET
3 36 (55.38%) C#
4 34 (52.31%) SQL Server
4 34 (52.31%) SQL Server 2008
5 29 (44.62%) TDD
6 28 (43.08%) LINQ
7 25 (38.46%) OO
8 21 (32.31%) ASP.NET MVC
9 19 (29.23%) CSS
9 19 (29.23%) JavaScript
10 16 (24.62%) MCP
10 16 (24.62%) MCAD
10 16 (24.62%) MCSD
10 16 (24.62%) Microsoft
10 16 (24.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (24.62%) Selenium
10 16 (24.62%) WCF
10 16 (24.62%) Silverlight
10 16 (24.62%) Lucene
10 16 (24.62%) MCTS
10 16 (24.62%) NHibernate
10 16 (24.62%) NUnit
10 16 (24.62%) Scrum
10 16 (24.62%) Kanban
10 16 (24.62%) Rhino Mocks
10 16 (24.62%) Cucumber
10 16 (24.62%) BDD
10 16 (24.62%) Castle Windsor

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 37 (56.92%) .NET
2 36 (55.38%) ASP.NET
3 28 (43.08%) LINQ
4 21 (32.31%) ASP.NET MVC
5 19 (29.23%) CSS
6 16 (24.62%) WCF
6 16 (24.62%) Silverlight
6 16 (24.62%) Lucene
6 16 (24.62%) NHibernate
6 16 (24.62%) Castle Windsor
7 15 (23.08%) .NET Framework
8 14 (21.54%) HTML
9 12 (18.46%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 9 (13.85%) Web Services
10 9 (13.85%) Spring MVC
10 9 (13.85%) Spring
10 9 (13.85%) REST
11 6 (9.231%) jQuery
12 5 (7.692%) CSS3
12 5 (7.692%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 6 (9.231%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.615%) IIS
3 1 (1.538%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 6 (9.231%) MS Excel
2 4 (6.154%) PowerPivot
3 2 (3.077%) Photoshop
3 2 (3.077%) Fireworks
3 2 (3.077%) PaintShop Pro
3 2 (3.077%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.538%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.615%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (4.615%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.538%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.38%) Internet
2 2 (3.077%) Broadband
3 1 (1.538%) LAN
3 1 (1.538%) WLAN
3 1 (1.538%) WAN
3 1 (1.538%) DHCP
3 1 (1.538%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.538%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.538%) DNS
3 1 (1.538%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (52.31%) SQL Server
1 34 (52.31%) SQL Server 2008
2 15 (23.08%) SQL Server 2005
3 9 (13.85%) Big Data
3 9 (13.85%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (13.85%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.154%) OLAP
4 4 (6.154%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 4 (6.154%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (6.154%) PerformancePoint
4 4 (6.154%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (4.615%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (4.615%) dBASE
6 2 (3.077%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 16 (24.62%) Selenium
1 16 (24.62%) NUnit
1 16 (24.62%) Rhino Mocks
1 16 (24.62%) Cucumber
2 9 (13.85%) Maven
2 9 (13.85%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.077%) Dreamweaver
3 2 (3.077%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.538%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (16.92%) Banking
2 9 (13.85%) Games
2 9 (13.85%) Telecoms
2 9 (13.85%) Online Betting
3 3 (4.615%) Back Office
4 2 (3.077%) Marketing
5 1 (1.538%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 50 (76.92%) Developer
2 29 (44.62%) .NET Developer
3 10 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 8 (12.31%) Agile Java Developer
4 8 (12.31%) Java Developer
4 8 (12.31%) Senior .NET Developer
5 6 (9.231%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.154%) Web Developer
6 4 (6.154%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.077%) Consultant
7 2 (3.077%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.077%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 2 (3.077%) Administrator
7 2 (3.077%) Business Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.077%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (3.077%) Business Manager
7 2 (3.077%) Business Systems Manager
7 2 (3.077%) Systems Manager
7 2 (3.077%) OBIEE Consultant
8 1 (1.538%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.62%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (13.85%) Online Games
3 3 (4.615%) Spread Betting
4 2 (3.077%) Animation
5 1 (1.538%) iPhone
5 1 (1.538%) Clustering
5 1 (1.538%) W3C
5 1 (1.538%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.231%) Windows
2 1 (1.538%) Android
2 1 (1.538%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (1.538%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (1.538%) NetWare
2 1 (1.538%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.538%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (64.62%) MVC
2 29 (44.62%) TDD
3 25 (38.46%) OO
4 16 (24.62%) Scrum
4 16 (24.62%) Kanban
4 16 (24.62%) BDD
4 16 (24.62%) Scrum-ban
4 16 (24.62%) Web Application Development
5 13 (20.00%) Wealth Management
6 9 (13.85%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (13.85%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (13.85%) Test Automation
7 8 (12.31%) Project Management
8 6 (9.231%) Information Security
8 6 (9.231%) Earned Value Management
9 4 (6.154%) Unit Testing
9 4 (6.154%) Web Development
9 4 (6.154%) Validation
9 4 (6.154%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 36 (55.38%) C#
2 19 (29.23%) JavaScript
3 12 (18.46%) SQL
4 10 (15.38%) Java
5 7 (10.77%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.615%) VB
7 2 (3.077%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.077%) CoffeeScript
8 1 (1.538%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (24.62%) MCP
1 16 (24.62%) MCAD
1 16 (24.62%) MCSD
1 16 (24.62%) Microsoft Certification
1 16 (24.62%) MCTS
2 1 (1.538%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.538%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.538%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.538%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (1.538%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 16 (24.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.692%) Oracle
3 2 (3.077%) Informatica
3 2 (3.077%) Adobe
3 2 (3.077%) Telerik
4 1 (1.538%) VMware
4 1 (1.538%) Northgate
4 1 (1.538%) Citrix