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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 9 14 13
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6 11 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 12.24% 12.36% 12.00%
As % of the General category 54.55% 35.48% 56.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 7
Average salary £32,000 £50,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.00% +56.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,250 £48,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £52,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
Swansea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
11 31 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 22.45% 34.83% 21.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11 22 14
Average salary £35,000 £36,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.10% +21.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £26,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £47,500 £40,200
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Finance
West Wales

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swansea 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 Swansea region.

Swansea Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Salary Histogram

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

Swansea Finance Salary Histogram

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 7 (53.85%) C#
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
1 7 (53.85%) MS Excel
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) .NET
3 4 (30.77%) ActionScript
3 4 (30.77%) ASP.NET
3 4 (30.77%) CSS
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) HTML
3 4 (30.77%) Flash
3 4 (30.77%) Internet
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) Kanban
3 4 (30.77%) Open Source
4 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
4 3 (23.08%) MS Office
4 3 (23.08%) OO
5 2 (15.38%) MCSE
5 2 (15.38%) Windows
5 2 (15.38%) Windows 2000
5 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (15.38%) Novell
5 2 (15.38%) Uniface
5 2 (15.38%) PHP
5 2 (15.38%) VB
5 2 (15.38%) Web Services
5 2 (15.38%) MCP
5 2 (15.38%) SQL Server

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 6 (46.15%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) ASP.NET
2 4 (30.77%) CSS
2 4 (30.77%) HTML
2 4 (30.77%) Flash
3 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
4 2 (15.38%) Web Services
4 2 (15.38%) NHibernate
4 2 (15.38%) WCF
4 2 (15.38%) jQuery
5 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (7.692%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (53.85%) MS Excel
2 3 (23.08%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Internet
2 1 (7.692%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (7.692%) Essbase
2 1 (7.692%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.692%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (15.38%) Retail
1 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.692%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) C# .NET Developer
2 3 (23.08%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Applications Support
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) C# Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior C# Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Graduate Java Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Support Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Open Source
2 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows 2000
1 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Scrum
1 4 (30.77%) Kanban
2 3 (23.08%) OO
3 2 (15.38%) User Experience Design
4 1 (7.692%) Analytics
4 1 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Financial Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Quantitative Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) MVC
4 1 (7.692%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C#
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) ActionScript
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Uniface
3 2 (15.38%) PHP
3 2 (15.38%) VB
3 2 (15.38%) VB6
4 1 (7.692%) VBA
4 1 (7.692%) VB.NET
4 1 (7.692%) Java
4 1 (7.692%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) MCSE
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (15.38%) MCP
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.692%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Novell
2 2 (15.38%) Fujitsu
3 1 (7.692%) Cognos