The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Banking over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category.

Banking
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank241312
Rank change year-on-year
Down-11Down-1
Matching permanent IT job ads86141319811132
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK7.108 %10.82 %11.69 %
As % of the General category15.79 %22.37 %24.02 %
Number of salaries quoted6996105648913
Average salary£62,500£65,000£67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84 %-3.70 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£37,500£37,500£40,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£90,000£90,000£90,000
UK excluding London average salary£50,000£45,000£46,000
% change year-on-year
+11.11 %-2.17 %
IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
545465899946348
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK45.01 %48.35 %48.67 %
Number of salaries quoted458734818537517
Average salary£50,000£52,500£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£85,000£85,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£41,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.65 %+2.50 %

Banking
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Banking within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Banking Demand Trend

Banking
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Banking within the UK.

Banking Salary Trend

Banking
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Banking over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Banking Salary Histogram

Banking
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-128124£62,500-3.84 %
LondonDown-86975£65,000-3.70 %
City of LondonDown-32199£62,500-7.40 %
South EastDown-70311£50,000-4.76 %
North WestDown-18284£54,000+8.00 %
ScotlandDown-7278£45,000-
ManchesterDown-15153£52,500+5.00 %
Canary WharfNo change0152£72,500+7.40 %
EdinburghDown-5151£55,000+22.22 %
East of EnglandDown-56150£50,000+17.64 %
Docklands, LondonNo change0122£69,000-3.49 %
CheshireUp+9120£58,500+48.10 %
YorkshireDown-13114£45,000+16.12 %
SurreyDown-49109£55,000-
South WestDown-60102£42,500-5.55 %
East MidlandsDown-5101£42,000+5.00 %
HertfordshireDown-2085£50,000+11.11 %
GlasgowDown-680£40,000-11.11 %
West YorkshireUp+570£50,000+25.00 %
BerkshireDown-5468£51,500+3.00 %
BristolUp+660£41,250-8.33 %
KnutsfordDown-159£52,000+33.33 %
West MidlandsDown-1350£47,500+13.09 %
BuckinghamshireNo change045£45,000-
Northern IrelandUp+1742£37,500-11.76 %
County AntrimUp+2041£37,500-11.76 %
BelfastUp+1741£37,500-11.76 %
LeedsNo change039£55,000+37.50 %
NorthamptonshireDown-1038£42,000+12.75 %
NottinghamshireUp+1437£40,000-

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing 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 Banking.

110864 (64.43 %)Finance
25827 (34.56 %)Investment Banking
34009 (23.78 %)Java
43831 (22.72 %)SQL
52902 (17.21 %)Oracle
62744 (16.27 %)C#
72305 (13.67 %).NET
82184 (12.95 %)Degree
92167 (12.85 %)SQL Server
102147 (12.73 %)Retail
112103 (12.47 %)UNIX
121844 (10.94 %)Front Office
131772 (10.51 %)Windows
141743 (10.34 %)Project Management
151484 (8.801 %)Microsoft
161363 (8.083 %)Agile Software Development
171275 (7.561 %)J2EE
181239 (7.348 %)Linux
191223 (7.253 %)Business Analysis
201215 (7.206 %)Derivative
211188 (7.045 %)C++
221149 (6.814 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
231111 (6.589 %)Business Intelligence
241078 (6.393 %)OO
251071 (6.352 %)XML
261037 (6.150 %)Data Warehouse
271013 (6.008 %)Retail Banking
281004 (5.954 %)Multithreading
29998 (5.919 %)Risk Management
30994 (5.895 %)Stakeholder Management

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing 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 Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12305 (13.67 %).NET
21275 (7.561 %)J2EE
31071 (6.352 %)XML
4972 (5.764 %)ASP.NET
5829 (4.916 %)Spring
6771 (4.572 %)Web Services
7662 (3.926 %)WPF
8614 (3.641 %)WCF
9613 (3.635 %)Hibernate
10582 (3.452 %)Middleware
11530 (3.143 %)WebSphere
12528 (3.131 %)HTML
13405 (2.402 %)CSS
14390 (2.313 %)WinForms
15369 (2.188 %)ASP.NET MVC
16323 (1.916 %)SOAP
17304 (1.803 %)JMS
17304 (1.803 %).NET Framework
18280 (1.661 %)Ajax
19238 (1.411 %)NHibernate
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1403 (2.390 %)SharePoint
2362 (2.147 %)SAS
3347 (2.058 %)WebLogic
4279 (1.655 %)Apache
5213 (1.263 %)Tomcat
6198 (1.174 %)ESB
7193 (1.145 %)MS Exchange
8159 (0.943 %)WebSphere MQ
9149 (0.884 %)Oracle Coherence
10136 (0.807 %)IIS
11110 (0.652 %)SharePoint Server
12102 (0.605 %)BizTalk Server
13101 (0.599 %)Exchange Server 2010
14100 (0.593 %)CMS
1597 (0.575 %)MQSeries
1696 (0.569 %)WebSphere Application Server
1794 (0.557 %)TIBCO EMS
1865 (0.385 %)Rendezvous
1964 (0.380 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
2054 (0.320 %)Exchange Server 2007
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1953 (5.652 %)MS Excel
2484 (2.870 %)MS Visio
3481 (2.853 %)MS Office
4219 (1.299 %)MS PowerPoint
5218 (1.293 %)MS Project
667 (0.397 %)Spreadsheet
762 (0.368 %)MATLAB
841 (0.243 %)Photoshop
932 (0.190 %)Mingle
1020 (0.119 %)Adobe Illustrator
1113 (0.077 %)DOC1
1113 (0.077 %)SPSS
1210 (0.059 %)InDesign
134 (0.024 %)S-PLUS
134 (0.024 %)Pro/ENGINEER
134 (0.024 %)Stata
134 (0.024 %)Maple
143 (0.018 %)Acrobat
143 (0.018 %)InfoPath
152 (0.012 %)Paint Shop Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1118 (0.700 %)Summit
2111 (0.658 %)SAP FI
3102 (0.605 %)SAP CO
3102 (0.605 %)SAP FI/CO
498 (0.581 %)Oracle BPM
590 (0.534 %)Oracle EBS
681 (0.480 %)Dynamics CRM
681 (0.480 %)Temenos T24
761 (0.362 %)SAP ERP
850 (0.297 %)Oracle Financials
947 (0.279 %)SAP R/3
1045 (0.267 %)ION MarketView
1045 (0.267 %)Hyperion Planning
1142 (0.249 %)HFM
1142 (0.249 %)RMDS
1238 (0.225 %)Finacle
1333 (0.196 %)Sword FircoSoft
1333 (0.196 %)FLEXCUBE
1427 (0.160 %)SAP Oil and Gas
1526 (0.154 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1645 (3.825 %)Internet
2372 (2.206 %)SAN
3321 (1.904 %)TCP/IP
4301 (1.785 %)Firewall
5222 (1.317 %)WAN
6200 (1.186 %)BGP
7185 (1.097 %)OSPF
8182 (1.079 %)LAN
9170 (1.008 %)VPN
10158 (0.937 %)DNS
11136 (0.807 %)Network Security
12132 (0.783 %)EIGRP
13122 (0.724 %)SSL
14121 (0.718 %)LDAP
15119 (0.706 %)MPLS
16111 (0.658 %)DHCP
1798 (0.581 %)Cisco ASA
1891 (0.540 %)Intranet
1989 (0.528 %)VoIP
2082 (0.486 %)HTTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12167 (12.85 %)SQL Server
21037 (6.150 %)Data Warehouse
3604 (3.582 %)SQL Server Integration Services
4601 (3.564 %)ETL
5567 (3.363 %)SQL Server 2008
6469 (2.781 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
7373 (2.212 %)SQL Server 2005
8314 (1.862 %)DB2
9286 (1.696 %)DataStage
10285 (1.690 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
11261 (1.548 %)Oracle 10g
12226 (1.340 %)RDBMS
13207 (1.228 %)BusinessObjects
14204 (1.210 %)Oracle 8/8i
15188 (1.115 %)Oracle 11g
16152 (0.901 %)Oracle Exadata
17139 (0.824 %)QualityStage
18127 (0.753 %)OLTP
19125 (0.741 %)OLAP
20109 (0.646 %)Oracle Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1373 (2.212 %)Subversion
2313 (1.856 %)JUnit
3237 (1.406 %)Maven
4234 (1.388 %)Ant
5231 (1.370 %)QuickTest Pro
6218 (1.293 %)NUnit
7199 (1.180 %)Visual Studio
8178 (1.056 %)Selenium
9161 (0.955 %)JIRA
10142 (0.842 %)Rhino Mocks
11127 (0.753 %)Eclipse
12125 (0.741 %)LoadRunner
13106 (0.629 %)TeamCity
1497 (0.575 %)ClearCase
1587 (0.516 %)CruiseControl
1665 (0.385 %)Hudson
1763 (0.374 %)Oracle Forms
1856 (0.332 %)Team Foundation Server
1950 (0.297 %)FitNesse
1950 (0.297 %)Moq
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
110864 (64.43 %)Finance
25827 (34.56 %)Investment Banking
32147 (12.73 %)Retail
41844 (10.94 %)Front Office
51013 (6.008 %)Retail Banking
6937 (5.557 %)Telecoms
7776 (4.602 %)Back Office
8476 (2.823 %)Financial Institution
9411 (2.437 %)Manufacturing
10370 (2.194 %)Legal
11366 (2.171 %)Marketing
12293 (1.738 %)Games
13211 (1.251 %)Corporate Banking
14187 (1.109 %)Private Banking
15181 (1.073 %)Law
16179 (1.062 %)General Ledger
17174 (1.032 %)German Language
18169 (1.002 %)French Language
19158 (0.937 %)Wholesale Banking
20129 (0.765 %)International Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14139 (24.55 %)Developer
23618 (21.46 %)Analyst
31901 (11.27 %)Architect
41756 (10.41 %)Business Analyst
51384 (8.208 %)Java Developer
61322 (7.840 %)Project Manager
71142 (6.773 %)Consultant
8967 (5.735 %)C# Developer
9657 (3.896 %)Support Analyst
10631 (3.742 %).NET Developer
11565 (3.351 %)Senior Developer
12561 (3.327 %)Applications Support
13557 (3.303 %)Solutions Architect
14490 (2.906 %)Senior Analyst
15468 (2.775 %)Banking Business Analyst
16403 (2.390 %)C# .NET Developer
17382 (2.265 %)Programme Manager
18376 (2.230 %)Technical Architect
19302 (1.791 %)C++ Developer
20301 (1.785 %)Test Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11215 (7.206 %)Derivative
21149 (6.814 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3892 (5.290 %)Fixed Income
4786 (4.661 %)Hedge funds
5687 (4.074 %)Equities
6669 (3.968 %)Computer Science
7503 (2.983 %)Credit Risk
8378 (2.242 %)Market Risk
9343 (2.034 %)Mathematics
10324 (1.921 %)SWIFT
11276 (1.637 %)Management Information System
12271 (1.607 %)Blackberry
13255 (1.512 %)Equity Derivative
14244 (1.447 %)Online Banking
15235 (1.394 %)Open Source
16176 (1.044 %)Credit Derivative
17168 (0.996 %)Mainframe
18161 (0.955 %)N-Tier
19144 (0.854 %)Reference Data
20133 (0.789 %)Clustering
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12103 (12.47 %)UNIX
21772 (10.51 %)Windows
31239 (7.348 %)Linux
4500 (2.965 %)Solaris
5350 (2.076 %)Windows Server 2008
6266 (1.578 %)Windows Server 2003
7238 (1.411 %)Windows 7
8231 (1.370 %)Windows XP
9173 (1.026 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10135 (0.801 %)Android
11106 (0.629 %)Apple iOS
1293 (0.552 %)AIX
1337 (0.219 %)HPUX
1436 (0.213 %)SUSE
1534 (0.202 %)Windows Vista
1630 (0.178 %)Windows 2000 Server
1727 (0.160 %)Windows 2000
1822 (0.130 %)Windows Phone 7
1913 (0.077 %)MVS
2012 (0.071 %)Ubuntu
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11743 (10.34 %)Project Management
21363 (8.083 %)Agile Software Development
31223 (7.253 %)Business Analysis
41111 (6.589 %)Business Intelligence
51078 (6.393 %)OO
61004 (5.954 %)Multithreading
7998 (5.919 %)Risk Management
8994 (5.895 %)Stakeholder Management
9950 (5.634 %)Scrum
10864 (5.124 %)E-Commerce
11852 (5.053 %)TDD
12771 (4.572 %)ITIL
13727 (4.311 %)PRINCE2
14718 (4.258 %)Change Management
15683 (4.051 %)UML
16601 (3.564 %)MVC
17540 (3.202 %)User Acceptance Testing
18527 (3.125 %)SOA
19518 (3.072 %)Data Modelling
20479 (2.841 %)CRM
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14009 (23.78 %)Java
23831 (22.72 %)SQL
32744 (16.27 %)C#
41188 (7.045 %)C++
5584 (3.463 %)Perl
6549 (3.256 %)JavaScript
7509 (3.019 %)PL/SQL
8422 (2.503 %)T-SQL
9388 (2.301 %)C
10371 (2.200 %)Python
11365 (2.165 %)Shell Script
12324 (1.921 %)VBA
13207 (1.228 %)VB.NET
14154 (0.913 %)VB
15108 (0.640 %)Scala
16106 (0.629 %)VBScript
1797 (0.575 %)Ruby
1889 (0.528 %)Bash shell
1976 (0.451 %)Korn
2069 (0.409 %)RPG
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12184 (12.95 %)Degree
2379 (2.248 %)ISEB
3337 (1.999 %)Cisco Certification
4328 (1.945 %)Microsoft Certification
5219 (1.299 %)MCP
6199 (1.180 %)CCIE
7198 (1.174 %)MCTS
8184 (1.091 %)PMI Certification
9171 (1.014 %)MCSD
10170 (1.008 %)MCAD
11169 (1.002 %)CCNP
12146 (0.866 %)PRINCE2 Certification
13130 (0.771 %)MBA
14129 (0.765 %)CCNA
15125 (0.741 %)ITIL Certification
16116 (0.688 %)PMP
17101 (0.599 %)ISTQB
17101 (0.599 %)MCSE
18100 (0.593 %)CISSP
1989 (0.528 %)Security Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1862 (5.112 %)QA
2163 (0.967 %)Basel II
3155 (0.919 %)SLA
4149 (0.884 %)Basel III
5108 (0.640 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
694 (0.557 %)Data Quality
789 (0.528 %)ISO/IEC 27001
869 (0.409 %)ISO 9001
968 (0.403 %)Solvency II
1064 (0.380 %)PCI DSS
1064 (0.380 %)COBIT
1126 (0.154 %)FATCA
1220 (0.119 %)ISO 8583
1318 (0.107 %)MiFID
1410 (0.059 %)COSO
159 (0.053 %)IAS 39
166 (0.036 %)BS7799
166 (0.036 %)GAAP
174 (0.024 %)ISO 14001
183 (0.018 %)Val IT
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1481 (2.853 %)Active Directory
2223 (1.323 %)VMware Infrastructure
389 (0.528 %)Oracle RMAN
470 (0.415 %)VMware ESX
567 (0.397 %)Oracle RAC
663 (0.374 %)XenApp
742 (0.249 %)vSphere
838 (0.225 %)NFS
936 (0.213 %)XenDesktop
1023 (0.136 %)Veritas Volume Manager
1119 (0.113 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1218 (0.107 %)VMware ESXi
1316 (0.095 %)MetaFrame
1316 (0.095 %)Hyper-V
1414 (0.083 %)Xen
1511 (0.065 %)ISA Server
1511 (0.065 %)Terminal Server
1511 (0.065 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1610 (0.059 %)Terminal Services
179 (0.053 %)VMware Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1239 (1.417 %)HP Quality Center
294 (0.557 %)Tivoli
373 (0.433 %)Data Guard
458 (0.344 %)NetBackup
555 (0.326 %)Nagios
642 (0.249 %)Control-M
738 (0.225 %)SCCM
836 (0.213 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
935 (0.208 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1024 (0.142 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1121 (0.125 %)BladeLogic
1220 (0.119 %)SCOM
1220 (0.119 %)Puppet
1318 (0.107 %)Nessus
1318 (0.107 %)CA Wily
1417 (0.101 %)CiscoWorks
1417 (0.101 %)OpenView
1516 (0.095 %)BMC PATROL
1516 (0.095 %)Backup Exec
1612 (0.071 %)Splunk
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12902 (17.21 %)Oracle
21484 (8.801 %)Microsoft
3657 (3.896 %)SAP
4619 (3.671 %)IBM
5589 (3.493 %)Cisco
6509 (3.019 %)Sybase
7428 (2.538 %)TIBCO
8407 (2.414 %)Business Objects
9375 (2.224 %)VMware
10328 (1.945 %)HP
11306 (1.815 %)Bloomberg
12292 (1.732 %)Teradata
13281 (1.666 %)Reuters
14270 (1.601 %)Citrix
15263 (1.560 %)Sun
16227 (1.346 %)Informatica
17226 (1.340 %)Red Hat
17226 (1.340 %)JBoss
18178 (1.056 %)Murex
19147 (0.872 %)DataSynapse