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 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.

Financial
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank222
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads283903103922680
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK23.43 %25.44 %23.82 %
As % of the General category52.05 %52.61 %48.93 %
Number of salaries quoted236852494718043
Average salary£52,250£52,500£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.47 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£31,500£31,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£82,500£82,500
UK excluding London average salary£45,000£42,500£42,500
% change year-on-year
+5.88 %-
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 %

Finance
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 21 May 2012 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 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
EnglandNo change026510£52,500-2.77 %
LondonDown-116325£57,500-4.16 %
City of LondonNo change05089£57,500-8.00 %
South EastNo change04291£47,500+5.55 %
SurreyUp+11550£50,000+11.11 %
East of EnglandDown-21426£45,000+5.88 %
North WestDown-11151£40,000-2.43 %
South WestNo change0970£40,000-4.19 %
ScotlandDown-1910£43,750+2.94 %
BerkshireDown-2883£45,000-10.00 %
YorkshireDown-3800£38,000+2.70 %
West MidlandsNo change0722£42,500+8.97 %
ManchesterUp+3625£37,500-6.25 %
HampshireUp+2620£44,000+2.32 %
East MidlandsNo change0524£41,500+10.66 %
HertfordshireUp+3487£47,500-3.06 %
West YorkshireDown-6482£40,000+6.66 %
EdinburghNo change0481£45,000-
CambridgeshireUp+5386£42,500+6.25 %
CheshireUp+6365£42,500+2.40 %
ReadingUp+1353£47,500-7.31 %
BristolUp+6336£40,000+6.66 %
BuckinghamshireUp+3326£45,000+5.88 %
WalesNo change0296£35,000-12.50 %
LeedsDown-8287£40,000+14.28 %
BirminghamUp+3274£47,500+30.13 %
EssexDown-8272£45,000+5.88 %
South WalesUp+1268£35,000-12.50 %
Milton KeynesUp+5246£50,000+11.11 %
GlasgowDown-1243£40,000-2.43 %

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, 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.

113598 (24.32 %)SQL
210864 (19.43 %)Banking
39593 (17.16 %)Java
49141 (16.35 %)Oracle
59123 (16.32 %).NET
68675 (15.52 %)SQL Server
78558 (15.31 %)C#
88127 (14.54 %)Degree
97293 (13.04 %)Microsoft
106520 (11.66 %)Windows
116473 (11.58 %)Project Management
124862 (8.696 %)UNIX
134550 (8.138 %)MS Excel
144430 (7.923 %)Agile Software Development
154138 (7.401 %)XML
164093 (7.320 %)Linux
174036 (7.218 %)ASP.NET
184000 (7.154 %)Retail
193790 (6.778 %)OO
203658 (6.542 %)Business Intelligence
213642 (6.514 %)JavaScript
223585 (6.412 %)C++
233359 (6.008 %)HTML
243358 (6.006 %)Business Analysis
253341 (5.975 %)Investment Banking
263181 (5.689 %)Telecoms
273123 (5.585 %)ITIL
283015 (5.392 %)SAP
293007 (5.378 %)PRINCE2
302925 (5.231 %)CSS

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, 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
19123 (16.32 %).NET
24138 (7.401 %)XML
34036 (7.218 %)ASP.NET
43359 (6.008 %)HTML
52925 (5.231 %)CSS
62910 (5.205 %)J2EE
72453 (4.387 %)Web Services
81962 (3.509 %)Spring
91877 (3.357 %)WCF
101652 (2.955 %)Ajax
111561 (2.792 %)jQuery
121504 (2.690 %)WPF
131484 (2.654 %)Hibernate
141169 (2.091 %)WebSphere
151149 (2.055 %)WinForms
161118 (2.000 %).NET Framework
17972 (1.738 %)Middleware
18938 (1.678 %)ASP.NET MVC
19738 (1.320 %)SOAP
20693 (1.239 %)Silverlight
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12041 (3.650 %)SharePoint
21067 (1.908 %)Apache
31048 (1.874 %)IIS
4906 (1.620 %)WebLogic
4906 (1.620 %)SAS
5901 (1.611 %)MS Exchange
6861 (1.540 %)Tomcat
7574 (1.027 %)CMS
8427 (0.764 %)SharePoint 2010
9378 (0.676 %)SharePoint Server
10357 (0.638 %)ESB
11354 (0.633 %)BizTalk Server
12344 (0.615 %)Oracle Workflow
13343 (0.613 %)Exchange Server 2010
14324 (0.579 %)Exchange Server 2007
15282 (0.504 %)WebSphere Application Server
16256 (0.458 %)Exchange Server 2003
17208 (0.372 %)WebSphere MQ
18199 (0.356 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
19177 (0.317 %)Oracle Coherence
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14550 (8.138 %)MS Excel
21993 (3.564 %)MS Office
31623 (2.903 %)MS Visio
4776 (1.388 %)MS Project
5756 (1.352 %)MS PowerPoint
6313 (0.560 %)Photoshop
7250 (0.447 %)MATLAB
8213 (0.381 %)Spreadsheet
9104 (0.186 %)SPSS
1094 (0.168 %)Adobe Illustrator
1144 (0.079 %)Fireworks
1233 (0.059 %)PowerPivot
1328 (0.050 %)InfoPath
1427 (0.048 %)Mingle
1427 (0.048 %)S-PLUS
1519 (0.034 %)InDesign
1614 (0.025 %)RoboHelp
1614 (0.025 %)Office 365
1712 (0.021 %)Acrobat
1811 (0.020 %)OmniGraffle
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11177 (2.105 %)Oracle EBS
21038 (1.856 %)Oracle EBS R12
3977 (1.747 %)Oracle Financials
4841 (1.504 %)SAP FI
5809 (1.447 %)SAP CO
6793 (1.418 %)SAP FI/CO
7549 (0.982 %)Oracle Applications
8450 (0.805 %)Dynamics CRM
9396 (0.708 %)Dynamics AX
10374 (0.669 %)HFM
11310 (0.554 %)Oracle 11i
12264 (0.472 %)Dynamics NAV
13236 (0.422 %)Hyperion Planning
14210 (0.376 %)SAP BPC
15209 (0.374 %)Oracle ERP
16177 (0.317 %)Oracle BPM
17174 (0.311 %)SAP ERP
18171 (0.306 %)Oracle iProcurement
19163 (0.292 %)SAP Oil and Gas
20137 (0.245 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11467 (2.624 %)Internet
21263 (2.259 %)TCP/IP
31179 (2.109 %)Firewall
41161 (2.076 %)SAN
5868 (1.552 %)WAN
6845 (1.511 %)LAN
7603 (1.078 %)DNS
8580 (1.037 %)VPN
9559 (1.000 %)HTTP
10407 (0.728 %)DHCP
11396 (0.708 %)Network Security
12370 (0.662 %)VoIP
13369 (0.660 %)BGP
14366 (0.655 %)Intranet
15337 (0.603 %)OSPF
16288 (0.515 %)MPLS
17274 (0.490 %)NAS
18264 (0.472 %)SSL
19256 (0.458 %)Wireless
20241 (0.431 %)Cisco ASA
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
18675 (15.52 %)SQL Server
22506 (4.482 %)Data Warehouse
32132 (3.813 %)SQL Server 2008
41719 (3.074 %)SQL Server Integration Services
51717 (3.071 %)SQL Server 2005
61686 (3.015 %)ETL
71522 (2.722 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
81001 (1.790 %)MySQL
9987 (1.765 %)RDBMS
10857 (1.533 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
11699 (1.250 %)DB2
12674 (1.205 %)Oracle Reports
13660 (1.180 %)Oracle 10g
14654 (1.170 %)Oracle 8/8i
15556 (0.994 %)Oracle 11g
16464 (0.830 %)BusinessObjects
17406 (0.726 %)Oracle BI EE
18392 (0.701 %)Crystal Reports
19367 (0.656 %)DataStage
20353 (0.631 %)SQL Server 2000
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11134 (2.028 %)Subversion
21129 (2.019 %)Visual Studio
3830 (1.484 %)Selenium
4658 (1.177 %)QuickTest Pro
5647 (1.157 %)JUnit
6609 (1.089 %)Eclipse
7595 (1.064 %)Maven
8576 (1.030 %)Team Foundation Server
9571 (1.021 %)NUnit
10479 (0.857 %)Ant
11341 (0.610 %)JIRA
12334 (0.597 %)Oracle Forms
13316 (0.565 %)LoadRunner
14288 (0.515 %)Rhino Mocks
15210 (0.376 %)FitNesse
16198 (0.354 %)TeamCity
17174 (0.311 %)Hudson
17174 (0.311 %)Cucumber
18164 (0.293 %)Git (software)
19144 (0.258 %)TestDirector
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
110864 (19.43 %)Banking
24000 (7.154 %)Retail
33341 (5.975 %)Investment Banking
43181 (5.689 %)Telecoms
52445 (4.373 %)Front Office
62257 (4.037 %)Marketing
71968 (3.520 %)Financial Institution
81756 (3.141 %)Back Office
91446 (2.586 %)Manufacturing
101315 (2.352 %)Legal
11743 (1.329 %)Games
12687 (1.229 %)General Ledger
13658 (1.177 %)Retail Banking
14645 (1.154 %)Advertising
15609 (1.089 %)Law
16456 (0.816 %)Billing
17408 (0.730 %)Publishing
18321 (0.574 %)French Language
19320 (0.572 %)Pharmaceutical
20268 (0.479 %)German Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
114151 (25.31 %)Developer
211407 (20.40 %)Analyst
35407 (9.670 %)Consultant
44608 (8.241 %)Business Analyst
54200 (7.512 %)Project Manager
63954 (7.072 %)Architect
73006 (5.376 %)Java Developer
82949 (5.274 %)C# Developer
92823 (5.049 %).NET Developer
102059 (3.683 %)Support Analyst
112047 (3.661 %)Senior Developer
121665 (2.978 %)C# .NET Developer
131359 (2.431 %)Applications Support
141339 (2.395 %)Administrator
151322 (2.364 %)Senior Analyst
161103 (1.973 %)Junior
171099 (1.966 %)Test Analyst
181086 (1.942 %)Senior Manager
191071 (1.915 %)Solutions Architect
201010 (1.806 %)C++ Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12455 (4.391 %)Computer Science
22312 (4.135 %)Derivative
32217 (3.965 %)Hedge funds
41613 (2.885 %)Mathematics
51463 (2.617 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
61299 (2.323 %)Fixed Income
71272 (2.275 %)Management Information System
81061 (1.898 %)Equities
9719 (1.286 %)Open Source
10610 (1.091 %)Credit Risk
11595 (1.064 %)Statistics
12577 (1.032 %)Blackberry
13490 (0.876 %)Clustering
14474 (0.848 %)N-Tier
15450 (0.805 %)Physics
16446 (0.798 %)Client/Server
17439 (0.785 %)SWIFT
18430 (0.769 %)Market Risk
19428 (0.765 %)Spread Betting
20419 (0.749 %)Social Media
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16520 (11.66 %)Windows
24862 (8.696 %)UNIX
34093 (7.320 %)Linux
41347 (2.409 %)Windows Server 2008
51208 (2.160 %)Windows Server 2003
61085 (1.941 %)Solaris
7759 (1.357 %)Windows XP
8722 (1.291 %)Windows 7
9598 (1.070 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10456 (0.816 %)AIX
11310 (0.554 %)Android
12249 (0.445 %)Apple iOS
13199 (0.356 %)Windows Vista
14157 (0.281 %)HPUX
15106 (0.190 %)Windows 2000
16103 (0.184 %)CentOS
17102 (0.182 %)Windows 2000 Server
1882 (0.147 %)Debian
1976 (0.136 %)Ubuntu
2073 (0.131 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16473 (11.58 %)Project Management
24430 (7.923 %)Agile Software Development
33790 (6.778 %)OO
43658 (6.542 %)Business Intelligence
53358 (6.006 %)Business Analysis
63123 (5.585 %)ITIL
73007 (5.378 %)PRINCE2
82758 (4.933 %)Stakeholder Management
92688 (4.807 %)Scrum
102485 (4.444 %)E-Commerce
112473 (4.423 %)Risk Management
122283 (4.083 %)CRM
132258 (4.038 %)TDD
142119 (3.790 %)Change Management
152023 (3.618 %)Multithreading
161940 (3.470 %)MVC
171908 (3.412 %)UML
181875 (3.353 %)ERP
191788 (3.198 %)Service Delivery
201553 (2.778 %)User Acceptance Testing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
113598 (24.32 %)SQL
29593 (17.16 %)Java
38558 (15.31 %)C#
43642 (6.514 %)JavaScript
53585 (6.412 %)C++
61766 (3.158 %)T-SQL
71617 (2.892 %)Perl
81495 (2.674 %)PL/SQL
91283 (2.295 %)VB.NET
101250 (2.236 %)C
111177 (2.105 %)Python
121168 (2.089 %)VBA
131100 (1.967 %)VB
141044 (1.867 %)PHP
15935 (1.672 %)Shell Script
16418 (0.748 %)Ruby
17414 (0.740 %)Bash shell
18391 (0.699 %)VBScript
19355 (0.635 %)PowerShell
20318 (0.569 %)VB6
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
18127 (14.54 %)Degree
21445 (2.584 %)ISEB
31367 (2.445 %)Microsoft Certification
4962 (1.721 %)Cisco Certification
5881 (1.576 %)Security Cleared
6641 (1.146 %)PRINCE2 Certification
7639 (1.143 %)MCP
8633 (1.132 %)PMI Certification
9629 (1.125 %)CIMA
10563 (1.007 %)ACCA
11527 (0.943 %)CCNA
12525 (0.939 %)MCSE
13489 (0.875 %)ITIL Certification
14454 (0.812 %)MCTS
15426 (0.762 %)SC Cleared
16419 (0.749 %)CISSP
17405 (0.724 %)PMP
18402 (0.719 %)CCNP
19361 (0.646 %)MCSD
20355 (0.635 %)MCAD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12761 (4.938 %)QA
2891 (1.594 %)SLA
3373 (0.667 %)ISO/IEC 27001
4316 (0.565 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
5282 (0.504 %)Basel II
5282 (0.504 %)Solvency II
6281 (0.503 %)Data Quality
7279 (0.499 %)PCI DSS
8221 (0.395 %)COBIT
9192 (0.343 %)ISO 9001
10160 (0.286 %)Basel III
1140 (0.072 %)ISO/IEC 17799
1239 (0.070 %)ISO 9000
1336 (0.064 %)WAI
1434 (0.061 %)FATCA
1533 (0.059 %)COSO
1627 (0.048 %)MiFID
1724 (0.043 %)GAAP
1822 (0.039 %)IAS 39
1917 (0.030 %)ISO 8583
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11867 (3.339 %)Active Directory
21044 (1.867 %)VMware Infrastructure
3339 (0.606 %)VMware ESX
4283 (0.506 %)vSphere
5256 (0.458 %)XenApp
6179 (0.320 %)Hyper-V
7159 (0.284 %)XenDesktop
8153 (0.274 %)Oracle RMAN
9147 (0.263 %)Oracle RAC
10100 (0.179 %)VMware ESXi
1186 (0.154 %)XenServer
1273 (0.131 %)NFS
1360 (0.107 %)Terminal Services
1458 (0.104 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1458 (0.104 %)Xen
1545 (0.080 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1545 (0.080 %)MetaFrame
1642 (0.075 %)ISA Server
1739 (0.070 %)Samba
1836 (0.064 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1579 (1.036 %)HP Quality Center
2234 (0.419 %)SCCM
3219 (0.392 %)Tivoli
4216 (0.386 %)NetBackup
5136 (0.243 %)Backup Exec
6131 (0.234 %)SCOM
7116 (0.207 %)Data Guard
8105 (0.188 %)Nagios
989 (0.159 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1084 (0.150 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1171 (0.127 %)OpenView
1270 (0.125 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1367 (0.120 %)Nessus
1464 (0.114 %)Control-M
1560 (0.107 %)WSUS
1658 (0.104 %)BMC PATROL
1750 (0.089 %)Puppet
1848 (0.086 %)EMC NetWorker
1934 (0.061 %)Tivoli Monitoring
2032 (0.057 %)MOM
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
19141 (16.35 %)Oracle
27293 (13.04 %)Microsoft
33015 (5.392 %)SAP
42070 (3.702 %)Cisco
51819 (3.253 %)VMware
61293 (2.313 %)IBM
71091 (1.951 %)Business Objects
81038 (1.856 %)HP
9956 (1.710 %)Citrix
10869 (1.554 %)Sybase
11790 (1.413 %)JBoss
12748 (1.338 %)Red Hat
13724 (1.295 %)Cognos
14713 (1.275 %)Hyperion
15563 (1.007 %)TIBCO
16524 (0.937 %)Sun
17517 (0.925 %)Informatica
18437 (0.782 %)Bloomberg
19431 (0.771 %)CheckPoint
20423 (0.757 %)EMC