The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 22 31 16
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -15
Permanent jobs citing Finance 53 39 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 8.893% 6.655% 8.963%
As % of the General category 41.41% 24.68% 31.29%
Number of salaries quoted 51 38 41
Average salary £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,250 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
128 158 163
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 21.48% 26.96% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 112 138 132
Average salary £35,079 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.30% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £26,900
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £64,000 £63,250
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Finance
West Midlands

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Salary Histogram

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

Staffordshire Finance Salary Histogram

Finance
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cannock - 10 £35,000 -
Burton-upon-Trent -7 8 £28,750 -17.85%
Stoke-on-Trent +11 6 £39,500 +1.93%
Stafford -1 6 £25,000 -41.17%
Tamworth - 2 - -
Finance
West Midlands

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 28 (28.28%) .NET
2 26 (26.26%) Degree
3 24 (24.24%) C#
3 24 (24.24%) Windows
4 22 (22.22%) SQL Server
5 21 (21.21%) ASP.NET
5 21 (21.21%) Project Management
6 18 (18.18%) Telecoms
6 18 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 18 (18.18%) Retail
7 17 (17.17%) QA
7 17 (17.17%) PRINCE2
8 15 (15.15%) E-Commerce
8 15 (15.15%) MVC
8 15 (15.15%) Change Management
9 14 (14.14%) SharePoint
9 14 (14.14%) SQL
10 13 (13.13%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (12.12%) TDD
11 12 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (12.12%) WinForms
12 11 (11.11%) Scrum
12 11 (11.11%) MS Project
12 11 (11.11%) MCP
12 11 (11.11%) MCAD
12 11 (11.11%) MCSD
12 11 (11.11%) ERP
12 11 (11.11%) NUnit
12 11 (11.11%) MCTS

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 28 (28.28%) .NET
2 21 (21.21%) ASP.NET
3 12 (12.12%) WinForms
4 11 (11.11%) Spring.NET
4 11 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
4 11 (11.11%) WCF
4 11 (11.11%) WPF
4 11 (11.11%) Castle Windsor
4 11 (11.11%) Ninject
4 11 (11.11%) Razor View Engine
4 11 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 11 (11.11%) Unity DI Container
5 9 (9.091%) .NET Framework
6 6 (6.061%) ASP
7 3 (3.030%) HTML
7 3 (3.030%) CSS
7 3 (3.030%) XML
8 2 (2.020%) Web Services
9 1 (1.010%) XHTML
9 1 (1.010%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 14 (14.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.030%) CMS
3 2 (2.020%) IIS
4 1 (1.010%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.010%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.010%) Confluence
4 1 (1.010%) Lync
Applications
1 11 (11.11%) MS Project
2 10 (10.10%) MS Visio
2 10 (10.10%) MS Excel
2 10 (10.10%) MS Office
3 2 (2.020%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (5.051%) JDE OneWorld
2 4 (4.040%) SAP CO
2 4 (4.040%) SAP FI
2 4 (4.040%) SAP MM
2 4 (4.040%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (2.020%) SAP QM
3 2 (2.020%) SAP SCM
3 2 (2.020%) SAP SD
3 2 (2.020%) SAP APO
3 2 (2.020%) SAP PP
4 1 (1.010%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.010%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.081%) Intranet
2 5 (5.051%) Wireless
3 4 (4.040%) Firewall
3 4 (4.040%) WAN
3 4 (4.040%) DNS
3 4 (4.040%) LAN
3 4 (4.040%) SAN
4 2 (2.020%) NetScaler
4 2 (2.020%) Network Security
4 2 (2.020%) NAS
4 2 (2.020%) VLAN
4 2 (2.020%) Internet
4 2 (2.020%) MPLS
4 2 (2.020%) DHCP
4 2 (2.020%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.020%) SNMP
4 2 (2.020%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.020%) LDAP
4 2 (2.020%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.081%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.061%) MS Access
4 5 (5.051%) Data Mining
4 5 (5.051%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (5.051%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (4.040%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (4.040%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.030%) MySQL
6 3 (3.030%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.010%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 11 (11.11%) NUnit
1 11 (11.11%) MSTest
1 11 (11.11%) Rhino Mocks
1 11 (11.11%) Moq
2 2 (2.020%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (1.010%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.010%) JIRA
3 1 (1.010%) Subversion
3 1 (1.010%) FishEye
General
1 18 (18.18%) Telecoms
1 18 (18.18%) Retail
2 10 (10.10%) Marketing
3 7 (7.071%) Billing
4 2 (2.020%) Games
4 2 (2.020%) Automotive
5 1 (1.010%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.010%) Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (29.29%) Developer
2 25 (25.25%) Analyst
3 16 (16.16%) .NET Developer
4 15 (15.15%) Project Manager
5 11 (11.11%) Business Analyst
6 10 (10.10%) Graduate
7 7 (7.071%) Technical Support
8 5 (5.051%) Designer
8 5 (5.051%) Audit Analyst
8 5 (5.051%) Business Manager
8 5 (5.051%) Telecoms Analyst
8 5 (5.051%) Functional Analyst
8 5 (5.051%) JDE Business Analyst
9 4 (4.040%) Business Project Manager
9 4 (4.040%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (4.040%) Change Manager
9 4 (4.040%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (4.040%) Senior Designer
9 4 (4.040%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 4 (4.040%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.11%) Inversion of Control
2 5 (5.051%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.020%) Statistics
4 1 (1.010%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.24%) Windows
2 3 (3.030%) Windows 8
3 2 (2.020%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (2.020%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.21%) Project Management
2 18 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (17.17%) PRINCE2
4 15 (15.15%) E-Commerce
4 15 (15.15%) MVC
4 15 (15.15%) Change Management
5 13 (13.13%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (12.12%) TDD
7 11 (11.11%) Scrum
7 11 (11.11%) ERP
7 11 (11.11%) Kanban
7 11 (11.11%) Dependency Injection
7 11 (11.11%) MVVM
7 11 (11.11%) Web Application Development
8 10 (10.10%) Business Development
8 10 (10.10%) OO
9 8 (8.081%) Data Analysis
9 8 (8.081%) CRM
10 7 (7.071%) Migration
10 7 (7.071%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.24%) C#
2 14 (14.14%) SQL
3 10 (10.10%) VBA
4 9 (9.091%) T-SQL
4 9 (9.091%) VB.NET
5 8 (8.081%) VB6
5 8 (8.081%) VB
6 3 (3.030%) Java
6 3 (3.030%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.020%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (26.26%) Degree
2 12 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (11.11%) MCP
3 11 (11.11%) MCAD
3 11 (11.11%) MCSD
3 11 (11.11%) MCTS
4 6 (6.061%) ISEB
5 3 (3.030%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.010%) CCA
6 1 (1.010%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.010%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.17%) QA
2 3 (3.030%) SLA
3 2 (2.020%) BS7799
3 2 (2.020%) TickIT
4 1 (1.010%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.010%) COBIT
System Software
1 7 (7.071%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.040%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.020%) ISA Server
4 1 (1.010%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (1.010%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (2.020%) Backup Exec
2 1 (1.010%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 18 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.081%) SAP
3 7 (7.071%) Citrix
4 5 (5.051%) VMware
4 5 (5.051%) JD Edwards
5 3 (3.030%) Cisco
5 3 (3.030%) Business Objects
5 3 (3.030%) Sage
5 3 (3.030%) hybris
6 2 (2.020%) Infor
6 2 (2.020%) IBM
6 2 (2.020%) NetApp
6 2 (2.020%) Veritas
7 1 (1.010%) Pegasus
7 1 (1.010%) Oracle
7 1 (1.010%) Symantec
7 1 (1.010%) Atlassian
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