Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance 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.

LinkFinancial
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank222
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads162201988743736
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK20.60 %19.68 %21.64 %
As % of the General category40.48 %40.06 %42.97 %
Salaries quoted127981629434324
Average salary£50,000£47,500£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.260 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£29,500£29,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£72,500£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,500£40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.230 %+1.250 %
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 %-

Finance
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Finance within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Finance Demand Trend

Finance
Salary Trend

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

Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 within the UK.

Finance Salary Histogram

Finance
Top 30 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 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
EnglandNo change015394£50,000+5.26 %
LondonDown-110215£57,500+4.54 %
City of LondonNo change03900£57,500+4.54 %
South EastDown-31913£45,000-
North WestUp+2883£40,000-3.61 %
South WestDown-1654£35,000-11.39 %
SurreyDown-3592£45,000-
East of EnglandDown-3519£40,000-5.88 %
BerkshireDown-4461£47,500+11.76 %
CheshireUp+5448£42,500+6.25 %
ScotlandUp+5371£42,500+6.25 %
West MidlandsUp+1366£35,000-6.66 %
YorkshireDown-7355£35,000-1.40 %
East MidlandsUp+3353£38,000-1.29 %
Docklands, LondonNo change0283£62,500+4.16 %
ManchesterDown-8269£36,732-18.37 %
HertfordshireUp+2248£42,500-0.29 %
HampshireDown-2246£40,000-11.11 %
West YorkshireDown-6216£40,000+14.28 %
WiltshireDown-1179£40,000-
EdinburghUp+2177£45,000+14.64 %
BristolUp+1175£32,500-14.47 %
WalesUp+9157£34,000+5.65 %
South WalesUp+7151£34,000+5.65 %
LeedsDown-7149£40,000+7.38 %
BuckinghamshireDown-5142£40,000-15.34 %
Canary WharfNo change0136£65,000+12.06 %
SloughUp+3126£50,000+11.11 %
ReadingDown-6118£40,000-
NottinghamshireDown-1110£35,000-6.66 %

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

16340 (20.28 %)Banking
25691 (18.20 %)SQL
34608 (14.74 %)Java
44597 (14.70 %).NET
54451 (14.24 %)C#
64136 (13.23 %)SQL Server
73802 (12.16 %)Oracle
83641 (11.65 %)UNIX
93561 (11.39 %)Windows
103424 (10.95 %)Degree
113186 (10.19 %)C++
123056 (9.774 %)Project Management
132582 (8.258 %)Microsoft
142393 (7.654 %)Investment Banking
152372 (7.587 %)Derivative
162251 (7.200 %)Front Office
171878 (6.007 %)Insurance
181873 (5.991 %)Linux
191827 (5.843 %)XML
201767 (5.652 %)OO
211758 (5.623 %)Pensions
221666 (5.328 %)Retail
231648 (5.271 %)ASP.NET
241532 (4.900 %)MS Excel
251521 (4.865 %)Financial Institution
261486 (4.753 %)Business Intelligence
271485 (4.750 %)SAP
281480 (4.734 %)Agile Software Development
291427 (4.564 %)C
301351 (4.321 %)Business Analysis

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14597 (14.70 %).NET
21827 (5.843 %)XML
31648 (5.271 %)ASP.NET
41132 (3.621 %)J2EE
5900 (2.879 %)HTML
6867 (2.773 %)Spring
7823 (2.632 %)WinForms
8790 (2.527 %)WPF
9773 (2.472 %)Web Services
10696 (2.226 %)CSS
11587 (1.877 %)AJAX
12573 (1.833 %).NET Framework
13534 (1.708 %)STL
14516 (1.650 %)WebSphere
15515 (1.647 %)WCF
16500 (1.599 %)Middleware
17430 (1.375 %)Hibernate
18424 (1.356 %)Silverlight
19411 (1.315 %)ASP
20396 (1.267 %)Adobe Flex
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1707 (2.261 %)SharePoint
2525 (1.679 %)SAS
3477 (1.526 %)MS Exchange
4348 (1.113 %)IIS
5306 (0.979 %)Exchange Server 2003
6295 (0.944 %)Apache
7270 (0.864 %)WebLogic
8264 (0.844 %)Exchange Server 2007
9261 (0.835 %)Tomcat
10249 (0.796 %)SharePoint Server 2007
11243 (0.777 %)CMS
12204 (0.652 %)WebSphere MQ
13199 (0.636 %)BizTalk Server
14178 (0.569 %)MQSeries
15139 (0.445 %)Oracle Workflow
16122 (0.390 %)Rendezvous
17103 (0.329 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1894 (0.301 %)WebSphere Application Server
1986 (0.275 %)Lotus Notes
2071 (0.227 %)ESB
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11532 (4.900 %)MS Excel
2698 (2.232 %)MS Office
3634 (2.028 %)MS Visio
4266 (0.851 %)MS Project
5258 (0.825 %)MS PowerPoint
6179 (0.573 %)Adobe Illustrator
7145 (0.464 %)MATLAB
8144 (0.461 %)Photoshop
9123 (0.393 %)Spreadsheet
1087 (0.278 %)SPSS
1182 (0.262 %)CA Clarity
1233 (0.106 %)Fireworks
1324 (0.077 %)S-PLUS
1419 (0.061 %)Acrobat
1515 (0.048 %)InfoPath
1612 (0.038 %)ImageReady
179 (0.029 %)FrameMaker
188 (0.026 %)Stata
196 (0.019 %)Paint Shop Pro
204 (0.013 %)PrintSoft PReS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1340 (1.087 %)Oracle EBS
2323 (1.033 %)Oracle Financials
3270 (0.864 %)SAP FI
4252 (0.806 %)SAP CO
4252 (0.806 %)SAP FI/CO
5245 (0.784 %)Oracle Applications
6196 (0.627 %)Dynamics AX
7190 (0.608 %)RMDS
8186 (0.595 %)Dynamics CRM
9167 (0.534 %)Oracle EBS R12
10149 (0.477 %)HFM
11145 (0.464 %)Axapta
12138 (0.441 %)Oracle 11i
13116 (0.371 %)Microsoft CRM
14112 (0.358 %)Hyperion Planning
15103 (0.329 %)SAP BPC
1697 (0.310 %)Cognos Planning
1697 (0.310 %)Navision
1787 (0.278 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1886 (0.275 %)Summit
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1861 (2.754 %)Internet
2725 (2.319 %)TCP/IP
3530 (1.695 %)Firewall
4515 (1.647 %)WAN
5506 (1.618 %)LAN
6461 (1.474 %)SAN
7267 (0.854 %)Intranet
8229 (0.732 %)OSPF
9225 (0.720 %)VPN
10190 (0.608 %)DNS
10190 (0.608 %)BGP
11181 (0.579 %)VoIP
12156 (0.499 %)HTTP
13127 (0.406 %)MPLS
14111 (0.355 %)SSL
15100 (0.320 %)EIGRP
15100 (0.320 %)Network Security
1689 (0.285 %)LDAP
1689 (0.285 %)DHCP
1787 (0.278 %)Cisco ASA
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14136 (13.23 %)SQL Server
21212 (3.876 %)SQL Server 2005
31096 (3.505 %)Datawarehouse
4602 (1.925 %)BusinessObjects
5565 (1.807 %)ETL
6558 (1.785 %)RDBMS
7548 (1.753 %)SQL Server Integration Services
8540 (1.727 %)SQL Server 2008
9535 (1.711 %)SQL Server 2000
10511 (1.634 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
11368 (1.177 %)Oracle 10g
12351 (1.123 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
13327 (1.046 %)MySQL
14322 (1.030 %)Crystal Reports
15289 (0.924 %)Oracle 8/8i
16270 (0.864 %)DB2
17257 (0.822 %)Oracle Reports
18205 (0.656 %)OLAP
19201 (0.643 %)SAP BW
20181 (0.579 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1402 (1.286 %)QuickTest Pro
2376 (1.203 %)Visual Studio
3229 (0.732 %)Subversion
4198 (0.633 %)JUnit
5196 (0.627 %)Ant
6161 (0.515 %)Eclipse
7158 (0.505 %)TestDirector
8157 (0.502 %)Selenium
9148 (0.473 %)Maven
10134 (0.429 %)LoadRunner
11114 (0.365 %)NUnit
11114 (0.365 %)Oracle Forms
12107 (0.342 %)WinRunner
1384 (0.269 %)ClearCase
1473 (0.233 %)FitNesse
1562 (0.198 %)ERwin
1642 (0.134 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1642 (0.134 %)Expression Blend
1741 (0.131 %)Team Foundation Server
1840 (0.128 %)Bugzilla
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16340 (20.28 %)Banking
22393 (7.654 %)Investment Banking
32251 (7.200 %)Front Office
41878 (6.007 %)Insurance
51758 (5.623 %)Pensions
61666 (5.328 %)Retail
71521 (4.865 %)Financial Institution
81035 (3.310 %)Health
91028 (3.288 %)Marketing
10901 (2.882 %)Telecoms
11878 (2.808 %)Back Office
12831 (2.658 %)Education
13657 (2.101 %)Government
14422 (1.350 %)Legal
15398 (1.273 %)Retail Banking
16367 (1.174 %)Games
17358 (1.145 %)Manufacturing
18222 (0.710 %)Law
19204 (0.652 %)Billing
20167 (0.534 %)General Ledger
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17955 (25.44 %)Developer
26280 (20.09 %)Analyst
32442 (7.810 %)Consultant
42261 (7.231 %)Business Analyst
52028 (6.486 %)Project Manager
61858 (5.943 %)Architect
71756 (5.616 %)C# Developer
81579 (5.050 %)Java Developer
91362 (4.356 %)Senior Developer
101199 (3.835 %)Support Analyst
111154 (3.691 %).NET Developer
121072 (3.429 %)C++ Developer
13925 (2.958 %)Applications Support
14782 (2.501 %)Senior Analyst
15759 (2.428 %)Administrator
16692 (2.213 %)Team Leader
17654 (2.092 %)Programmer
18602 (1.925 %)Senior Manager
19544 (1.740 %)DBA
20478 (1.529 %)Software Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12372 (7.587 %)Derivative
21332 (4.260 %)Fixed Income
31243 (3.976 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4973 (3.112 %)Equities
5964 (3.083 %)Computer Science
6913 (2.920 %)Client/Server
7846 (2.706 %)Multithreading
8801 (2.562 %)Mathematics
9490 (1.567 %)Management Information System
10438 (1.401 %)Credit Risk
11369 (1.180 %)Equity Derivative
12306 (0.979 %)Credit Derivative
13281 (0.899 %)Blackberry
14263 (0.841 %)Mainframe
15240 (0.768 %)PMI
16231 (0.739 %)N-Tier
17225 (0.720 %)Physics
18220 (0.704 %)Statistics
19212 (0.678 %)Interest Rate Derivative
20210 (0.672 %)Replication
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13641 (11.65 %)UNIX
23561 (11.39 %)Windows
31873 (5.991 %)Linux
4786 (2.514 %)Solaris
5683 (2.184 %)Windows Server 2003
6503 (1.609 %)Windows XP
7324 (1.036 %)Windows 2000
8236 (0.755 %)Red Hat Linux
9227 (0.726 %)Windows Server 2008
10182 (0.582 %)Windows Vista
11173 (0.553 %)AIX
12120 (0.384 %)HPUX
13109 (0.349 %)Windows NT
1485 (0.272 %)Windows 2000 Server
1583 (0.265 %)VMS
1641 (0.131 %)Windows 7
1736 (0.115 %)Android
1834 (0.109 %)CentOS
1929 (0.093 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1929 (0.093 %)Windows Mobile
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13056 (9.774 %)Project Management
21767 (5.652 %)OO
31486 (4.753 %)Business Intelligence
41480 (4.734 %)Agile Software Development
51351 (4.321 %)Business Analysis
61349 (4.315 %)PRINCE2
71335 (4.270 %)Risk Management
81239 (3.963 %)ITIL
9948 (3.032 %)Change Management
10879 (2.811 %)ERP
11846 (2.706 %)CRM
12836 (2.674 %)UML
13823 (2.632 %)E-Commerce
14821 (2.626 %)Stakeholder Management
15754 (2.412 %)Electronic Trading
16705 (2.255 %)Workflow
17700 (2.239 %)Investment Management
18683 (2.184 %)Scrum
19650 (2.079 %)Asset Management
20637 (2.037 %)Service Delivery
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15691 (18.20 %)SQL
24608 (14.74 %)Java
34451 (14.24 %)C#
43186 (10.19 %)C++
51427 (4.564 %)C
61106 (3.537 %)JavaScript
7924 (2.955 %)Perl
8918 (2.936 %)VB
9805 (2.575 %)T-SQL
10772 (2.469 %)VB.NET
11763 (2.440 %)VBA
12620 (1.983 %)PL/SQL
13545 (1.743 %)Shell Script
14502 (1.606 %)Python
15347 (1.110 %)PHP
16277 (0.886 %)VB6
17248 (0.793 %)VBScript
18188 (0.601 %)Bash shell
19181 (0.579 %)VC++
20169 (0.541 %)Korn
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13424 (10.95 %)Degree
2588 (1.881 %)ISEB
3551 (1.762 %)Microsoft Certification
4358 (1.145 %)PMI Certification
5317 (1.014 %)Cisco Certification
6287 (0.918 %)Security Cleared
7284 (0.908 %)PhD
8283 (0.905 %)MCSE
9263 (0.841 %)PRINCE2 Certification
10214 (0.684 %)ACCA
11198 (0.633 %)MCP
12197 (0.630 %)ITIL Certification
13195 (0.624 %)CIMA
14186 (0.595 %)PMP
15170 (0.544 %)MCTS
16154 (0.493 %)CISSP
17145 (0.464 %)MCSD
18139 (0.445 %)CCNA
19134 (0.429 %)CCNP
20130 (0.416 %)MCAD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11005 (3.214 %)QA
2392 (1.254 %)SLA
3228 (0.729 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
4153 (0.489 %)Basel II
5107 (0.342 %)ISO27001
681 (0.259 %)PCI DSS
759 (0.189 %)COBIT
824 (0.077 %)GAAP
920 (0.064 %)ISO9001
1014 (0.045 %)IAS 39
1113 (0.042 %)BS25999
1113 (0.042 %)ISO9000
1113 (0.042 %)MiFID
1210 (0.032 %)GxP
139 (0.029 %)HIPAA
148 (0.026 %)WAI
148 (0.026 %)IAS 32
157 (0.022 %)ISO17799
157 (0.022 %)BS7799
164 (0.013 %)WCAG
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1741 (2.370 %)Active Directory
2161 (0.515 %)VMware Infrastructure
3144 (0.461 %)Oracle RAC
4122 (0.390 %)MSMQ
592 (0.294 %)Oracle RMAN
660 (0.192 %)Citrix Presentation Server
758 (0.186 %)ISA Server
852 (0.166 %)VMware ESX
948 (0.154 %)XenApp
1045 (0.144 %)NetBackup
1144 (0.141 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1240 (0.128 %)NFS
1332 (0.102 %)Terminal Services
1429 (0.093 %)Terminal Server
1526 (0.083 %)Veritas Volume Manager
1624 (0.077 %)MetaFrame
1722 (0.070 %)XenServer
1821 (0.067 %)Sendmail
1821 (0.067 %)Backup Exec
1911 (0.035 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1126 (0.403 %)Tivoli
287 (0.278 %)Data Guard
376 (0.243 %)SCCM
472 (0.230 %)MOM
568 (0.217 %)HP Quality Center
666 (0.211 %)SCOM
752 (0.166 %)OpenView
846 (0.147 %)CONTROL-M
939 (0.125 %)AutoSys
1031 (0.099 %)EMC NetWorker
1130 (0.096 %)WSUS
1229 (0.093 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1327 (0.086 %)McAfee ePO
1327 (0.086 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1327 (0.086 %)Norton AntiVirus
1426 (0.083 %)CiscoWorks
1524 (0.077 %)MSI
1621 (0.067 %)BMC PATROL
1720 (0.064 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1817 (0.054 %)Netcool
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13802 (12.16 %)Oracle
22582 (8.258 %)Microsoft
31485 (4.750 %)SAP
4811 (2.594 %)Sybase
5800 (2.559 %)Cisco
6602 (1.925 %)Business Objects
7557 (1.781 %)HP
8520 (1.663 %)IBM
9511 (1.634 %)Cognos
10500 (1.599 %)Citrix
11465 (1.487 %)Reuters
12435 (1.391 %)Bloomberg
13394 (1.260 %)VMware
14368 (1.177 %)Hyperion
15364 (1.164 %)TIBCO
16338 (1.081 %)Sun
17296 (0.947 %)Adobe
18266 (0.851 %)Red Hat
19208 (0.665 %)Agresso
20207 (0.662 %)JBoss