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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 9 February 2010 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.

LinkBanking
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank142616
Rank change year-on-year
Up+12Down-10
Matching permanent IT job ads7129520017155
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK9.054 %5.145 %8.489 %
As % of the General category17.79 %10.48 %16.85 %
Salaries quoted5578402813180
Average salary£65,000£60,000£57,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.330 %+5.260 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£35,000£35,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£90,000£80,000£80,000
UK excluding London average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
4007249639101790
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK50.89 %49.11 %50.37 %
Salaries quoted326614129381674
Average salary£47,500£42,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.76 %-5.550 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,000£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£70,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£38,500£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.660 %-

Banking
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 9 February 2010 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 9 February 2010. 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
EnglandUp+136918£65,000+8.33 %
LondonUp+66298£70,000+12.00 %
City of LondonUp+22228£65,000-
Docklands, LondonUp+1199£65,000-7.14 %
South EastDown-25186£45,000-10.00 %
ScotlandUp+2498£50,000-
North WestUp+794£47,000+17.50 %
East MidlandsUp+2092£42,000+15.06 %
South WestUp+574£41,500-12.63 %
SurreyDown-873£45,000-30.76 %
Canary WharfNo change064£60,000+9.09 %
East of EnglandUp+1257£35,000-33.33 %
YorkshireDown-2151£35,000-
EdinburghUp+1448£47,750-9.04 %
NorthamptonshireUp+348£43,750+9.37 %
CheshireDown-441£43,500+10.12 %
West MidlandsUp+3439£37,500+25.00 %
CroydonUp+1939£55,000+10.00 %
NorthamptonDown-137£42,000+5.00 %
WiltshireUp+1831£40,000-
West YorkshireUp+631£44,000+10.00 %
HertfordshireUp+1330£45,000-14.28 %
GlasgowUp+427£57,500+17.94 %
SwindonUp+1525£40,000+6.66 %
M4 CorridorNo change025£35,000-41.66 %
SomersetUp+3719£45,000-18.18 %
BirminghamUp+2419£35,500+18.33 %
BathUp+4418£45,000-43.75 %
WokingNew entry-17£50,000-
ManchesterDown-1416£56,250-6.25 %

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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.

16340 (48.77 %)Finance
25836 (44.89 %)Investment Banking
33248 (24.98 %)Java
42690 (20.69 %)SQL
52648 (20.37 %)C#
62423 (18.64 %)Front Office
72364 (18.18 %)Derivative
82028 (15.60 %).NET
92021 (15.55 %)UNIX
101688 (12.98 %)C++
111514 (11.65 %)Windows
121487 (11.44 %)Oracle
131441 (11.08 %)Fixed Income
141389 (10.68 %)SQL Server
151293 (9.946 %)Degree
161236 (9.508 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
171232 (9.477 %)Project Management
18991 (7.623 %)XML
19963 (7.408 %)Sybase
20935 (7.192 %)Linux
21931 (7.162 %)Retail
22896 (6.892 %)Risk Management
23859 (6.608 %)Equities
24835 (6.423 %)OO
25714 (5.492 %)Microsoft
26702 (5.400 %)Spring
27690 (5.308 %)WinForms
28673 (5.177 %)Back Office
29658 (5.062 %)Agile Software Development
29658 (5.062 %)J2EE

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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
12028 (15.60 %).NET
2991 (7.623 %)XML
3702 (5.400 %)Spring
4690 (5.308 %)WinForms
5658 (5.062 %)J2EE
6616 (4.738 %)WPF
7479 (3.685 %)ASP.NET
8434 (3.338 %)Hibernate
9343 (2.638 %)Middleware
9343 (2.638 %).NET Framework
10303 (2.331 %)WCF
11256 (1.969 %)Web Services
12201 (1.546 %)JDBC
13196 (1.508 %)WebSphere
14192 (1.477 %)Swing
15190 (1.462 %)AJAX
16189 (1.454 %)STL
17186 (1.431 %)HTML
18181 (1.392 %)Adobe Flex
19170 (1.308 %)JMS
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1192 (1.477 %)SAS
2174 (1.338 %)WebLogic
3161 (1.238 %)MQSeries
4151 (1.162 %)MS Exchange
5129 (0.992 %)SharePoint
6114 (0.877 %)Tomcat
7111 (0.854 %)Apache
8102 (0.785 %)IIS
987 (0.669 %)Rendezvous
1086 (0.662 %)Exchange Server 2003
1175 (0.577 %)TIBCO EMS
1274 (0.569 %)WebSphere MQ
1361 (0.469 %)Exchange Server 2007
1445 (0.346 %)CMS
1543 (0.331 %)BizTalk Server
1636 (0.277 %)Lotus Notes
1636 (0.277 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1731 (0.238 %)Oracle Workflow
1824 (0.185 %)SmartSockets
1915 (0.115 %)Exchange Server 2000
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1468 (3.600 %)MS Excel
2240 (1.846 %)MS Visio
3236 (1.815 %)MS Office
497 (0.746 %)MS PowerPoint
588 (0.677 %)MS Project
637 (0.285 %)MATLAB
735 (0.269 %)Spreadsheet
832 (0.246 %)Adobe Illustrator
917 (0.131 %)SPSS
1012 (0.092 %)Photoshop
1012 (0.092 %)CA Clarity
116 (0.046 %)Stata
122 (0.015 %)Fireworks
122 (0.015 %)Acrobat
131 (0.008 %)Open Workbench
131 (0.008 %)S-PLUS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
180 (0.615 %)Summit
264 (0.492 %)RMDS
342 (0.323 %)Front Arena
434 (0.262 %)Dynamics CRM
531 (0.238 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
531 (0.238 %)Oracle Applications
629 (0.223 %)SAP FI
728 (0.215 %)SAP FI/CO
728 (0.215 %)SAP CO
827 (0.208 %)Endur
925 (0.192 %)ION MarketView
1023 (0.177 %)3000 Xtra
1119 (0.146 %)Temenos T24
1218 (0.138 %)Oracle Financials
1317 (0.131 %)Microsoft CRM
1317 (0.131 %)Oracle EBS
1416 (0.123 %)Loan IQ
1515 (0.115 %)Adaptiv
1614 (0.108 %)TIBCO iProcess
1614 (0.108 %)Kondor+
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1252 (1.938 %)Internet
2211 (1.623 %)TCP/IP
3124 (0.954 %)Firewall
4115 (0.885 %)SAN
4115 (0.885 %)LAN
5104 (0.800 %)WAN
698 (0.754 %)DNS
791 (0.700 %)Intranet
863 (0.485 %)VPN
953 (0.408 %)OSPF
1052 (0.400 %)EIGRP
1151 (0.392 %)VoIP
1249 (0.377 %)DHCP
1249 (0.377 %)BGP
1334 (0.262 %)NetScreen
1432 (0.246 %)HTTP
1529 (0.223 %)Cisco ASA
1529 (0.223 %)LDAP
1529 (0.223 %)SMS
1627 (0.208 %)Extranet
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11389 (10.68 %)SQL Server
2519 (3.992 %)RDBMS
3395 (3.038 %)SQL Server 2005
4379 (2.915 %)Datawarehouse
5195 (1.500 %)ETL
6180 (1.385 %)DB2
7175 (1.346 %)SQL Server Integration Services
8157 (1.208 %)Oracle 10g
9150 (1.154 %)SQL Server 2008
10143 (1.100 %)BusinessObjects
11131 (1.008 %)SQL Server 2000
12127 (0.977 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
13111 (0.854 %)Reference Data
14102 (0.785 %)Oracle 8/8i
1582 (0.631 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1673 (0.562 %)Data Mining
1772 (0.554 %)DTS
1869 (0.531 %)MySQL
1961 (0.469 %)Crystal Reports
2060 (0.462 %)KDB
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1173 (1.331 %)QuickTest Pro
2169 (1.300 %)JUnit
3116 (0.892 %)TestDirector
495 (0.731 %)Ant
592 (0.708 %)ClearCase
686 (0.662 %)Visual Studio
782 (0.631 %)Selenium
869 (0.531 %)Subversion
965 (0.500 %)FitNesse
1061 (0.469 %)NUnit
1153 (0.408 %)LoadRunner
1153 (0.408 %)WinRunner
1252 (0.400 %)Eclipse
1351 (0.392 %)Maven
1436 (0.277 %)Expression Blend
1534 (0.262 %)Oracle Forms
1630 (0.231 %)Bugzilla
1725 (0.192 %)JIRA
1816 (0.123 %)ERwin
1915 (0.115 %)Rational Robot
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16340 (48.77 %)Finance
25836 (44.89 %)Investment Banking
32423 (18.64 %)Front Office
4931 (7.162 %)Retail
5673 (5.177 %)Back Office
6617 (4.746 %)Retail Banking
7510 (3.923 %)Insurance
8389 (2.992 %)Financial Institution
9365 (2.808 %)Pensions
10263 (2.023 %)Telecoms
11239 (1.838 %)Government
12227 (1.746 %)Education
13213 (1.638 %)Health
14152 (1.169 %)Private Banking
15135 (1.038 %)Legal
16112 (0.862 %)Games
17107 (0.823 %)Marketing
17107 (0.823 %)Pharmaceutical
1874 (0.569 %)Online Banking
1962 (0.477 %)Aerospace
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14497 (34.59 %)Developer
22579 (19.84 %)Analyst
31500 (11.54 %)Java Developer
41200 (9.231 %)C# Developer
51150 (8.846 %)Business Analyst
6885 (6.808 %)Project Manager
7867 (6.669 %)Senior Developer
8772 (5.938 %)Architect
9652 (5.015 %)C++ Developer
10603 (4.638 %)Support Analyst
11586 (4.508 %)Applications Support
12560 (4.308 %)Consultant
13406 (3.123 %).NET Developer
14391 (3.008 %)Banking Business Analyst
15369 (2.838 %)Team Leader
16326 (2.508 %)Senior Java Developer
17287 (2.208 %)Senior Analyst
18280 (2.154 %)Senior Manager
19269 (2.069 %)Applications Support Analyst
20254 (1.954 %)Test Manager
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12364 (18.18 %)Derivative
21441 (11.08 %)Fixed Income
31236 (9.508 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4859 (6.608 %)Equities
5611 (4.700 %)Multithreading
6600 (4.615 %)Equity Derivative
7484 (3.723 %)Credit Risk
8326 (2.508 %)Computer Science
9295 (2.269 %)Credit Derivative
10290 (2.231 %)Mathematics
11265 (2.038 %)Interest Rate Derivative
12215 (1.654 %)Client/Server
12215 (1.654 %)Market Risk
13136 (1.046 %)N-Tier
14108 (0.831 %)Blackberry
15100 (0.769 %)Mainframe
1693 (0.715 %)Replication
1782 (0.631 %)Statistics
1863 (0.485 %)Management Information System
1960 (0.462 %)Open Source
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12021 (15.55 %)UNIX
21514 (11.65 %)Windows
3935 (7.192 %)Linux
4417 (3.208 %)Solaris
5177 (1.362 %)Windows Server 2003
6148 (1.138 %)Windows XP
7133 (1.023 %)Windows 2000
8110 (0.846 %)AIX
988 (0.677 %)VMS
1087 (0.669 %)Red Hat Linux
1137 (0.285 %)Windows Server 2008
1137 (0.285 %)Windows NT
1231 (0.238 %)HPUX
1326 (0.200 %)Windows 2000 Server
1420 (0.154 %)Windows Vista
1517 (0.131 %)OpenVMS
1612 (0.092 %)zOS
1612 (0.092 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1711 (0.085 %)Android
1711 (0.085 %)OS/390
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11232 (9.477 %)Project Management
2896 (6.892 %)Risk Management
3835 (6.423 %)OO
4658 (5.062 %)Agile Software Development
5554 (4.262 %)Business Analysis
6448 (3.446 %)ITIL
7399 (3.069 %)PRINCE2
8387 (2.977 %)Electronic Trading
9352 (2.708 %)E-Commerce
10348 (2.677 %)Change Management
11335 (2.577 %)Investment Management
12323 (2.485 %)Business Intelligence
13314 (2.415 %)Data Modelling
13314 (2.415 %)UML
14308 (2.369 %)TDD
15304 (2.338 %)Asset Management
16298 (2.292 %)Scrum
17297 (2.285 %)User Acceptance Testing
18290 (2.231 %)Stakeholder Management
19281 (2.162 %)Workflow
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13248 (24.98 %)Java
22690 (20.69 %)SQL
32648 (20.37 %)C#
41688 (12.98 %)C++
5524 (4.031 %)Perl
6379 (2.915 %)VBA
7356 (2.738 %)C
8296 (2.277 %)Shell Script
9264 (2.031 %)T-SQL
10254 (1.954 %)JavaScript
11235 (1.808 %)VB
12219 (1.685 %)PL/SQL
13207 (1.592 %)Python
14143 (1.100 %)VB.NET
1595 (0.731 %)VBScript
1672 (0.554 %)PHP
1763 (0.485 %)Korn
1857 (0.438 %)Ruby
1950 (0.385 %)Bash shell
2049 (0.377 %)VC++
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11293 (9.946 %)Degree
2305 (2.346 %)Microsoft Certification
3162 (1.246 %)ISEB
4161 (1.238 %)MCP
5128 (0.985 %)MCSE
691 (0.700 %)MCTS
790 (0.692 %)PMI Certification
888 (0.677 %)Cisco Certification
888 (0.677 %)MCSD
983 (0.638 %)MCAD
1081 (0.623 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1157 (0.438 %)PhD
1245 (0.346 %)MBA
1342 (0.323 %)PMP
1342 (0.323 %)ITIL Certification
1342 (0.323 %)MOS
1439 (0.300 %)MCSA
1439 (0.300 %)CCNP
1538 (0.292 %)CISSP
1635 (0.269 %)ISTQB
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1323 (2.485 %)QA
2151 (1.162 %)SLA
3110 (0.846 %)Basel II
447 (0.362 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
512 (0.092 %)MiFID
69 (0.069 %)PCI DSS
76 (0.046 %)ISO27001
85 (0.038 %)IAS 39
93 (0.023 %)COBIT
102 (0.015 %)ISO9001
111 (0.008 %)ISO/IEC 20000
111 (0.008 %)GAAP
111 (0.008 %)BS7799
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1230 (1.769 %)Active Directory
258 (0.446 %)VMware Infrastructure
339 (0.300 %)NetBackup
436 (0.277 %)Oracle RAC
529 (0.223 %)Oracle RMAN
529 (0.223 %)VMware ESX
622 (0.169 %)Citrix Presentation Server
720 (0.154 %)Veritas Volume Manager
815 (0.115 %)XenApp
913 (0.100 %)MSMQ
913 (0.100 %)MetaFrame
1012 (0.092 %)Backup Exec
1012 (0.092 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1111 (0.085 %)NFS
128 (0.062 %)AquaLogic
136 (0.046 %)DFS Replication
144 (0.031 %)Terminal Server
144 (0.031 %)Terminal Services
144 (0.031 %)Veritas File System
153 (0.023 %)Sendmail
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
185 (0.654 %)Tivoli
254 (0.415 %)AutoSys
353 (0.408 %)HP Quality Center
444 (0.338 %)CONTROL-M
525 (0.192 %)Data Guard
616 (0.123 %)Tivoli Monitoring
715 (0.115 %)OpenView
715 (0.115 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
813 (0.100 %)MSI
911 (0.085 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1010 (0.077 %)BMC PATROL
119 (0.069 %)MOM
127 (0.054 %)SCCM
127 (0.054 %)Netcool
136 (0.046 %)Norton AntiVirus
136 (0.046 %)SCOM
136 (0.046 %)EMC NetWorker
136 (0.046 %)Sysprep
145 (0.038 %)Legato
154 (0.031 %)DameWare
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11487 (11.44 %)Oracle
2963 (7.408 %)Sybase
3714 (5.492 %)Microsoft
4334 (2.569 %)TIBCO
5233 (1.792 %)Reuters
6214 (1.646 %)Bloomberg
7210 (1.615 %)HP
7210 (1.615 %)SAP
8191 (1.469 %)Cisco
9189 (1.454 %)IBM
10181 (1.392 %)Citrix
11143 (1.100 %)Business Objects
12140 (1.077 %)Calypso
13138 (1.062 %)Sun
14134 (1.031 %)Murex
15129 (0.992 %)Informatica
16108 (0.831 %)Adobe
17106 (0.815 %)VMware
1898 (0.754 %)Fidessa
1994 (0.723 %)Red Hat