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This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Finance' in IT jobs across the UK together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFinancial
Location
3 months to 9 May 2008Same period last year
Rank22
Rank change on same period last yearNo change0
Matching permanent IT job ads4464150683
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled21.76 %22.65 %
As % of the category below42.05 %43.01 %
Salaries quoted3569439054
Average minimum salary£45,682£46,398
Average salary£49,973£50,625
% change on same period last year-1.28 %
Average maximum salary£54,264£54,852
UK excluding London average salary£42,785£43,845
% change on same period last year-2.41 %
General UKGeneral
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads106173117847
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled51.75 %52.66 %
Salaries quoted8573191989
Average minimum salary£43,998£46,168
Average salary£48,336£50,509
% change on same period last year-4.30 %
Average maximum salary£52,674£54,849
UK excluding London average salary£40,683£41,991
% change on same period last year-3.11 %

Finance
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Finance across 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 ads citing Finance across the UK.

Finance Salary Trend

Finance
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the UK over the past 3 months.

Finance Salary Histogram

Finance
Top 30 Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandNo change042486£50,010-1.24 %
2LondonUp+125584£55,502-0.42 %
3City of LondonNo change08896£56,985-1.47 %
4South EastDown-35931£43,809-4.27 %
5North WestDown-32341£43,793+1.97 %
6YorkshireUp+22169£36,494-1.60 %
7South WestDown-31999£39,484+3.30 %
8East of EnglandDown-31816£42,617-1.85 %
9SurreyDown-11598£43,868-2.53 %
10BerkshireDown-51450£45,671-0.83 %
11West MidlandsUp+21272£39,159-0.15 %
12HampshireDown-11221£41,473-10.27 %
13West YorkshireNo change01068£35,736-6.18 %
14ManchesterUp+21055£45,457-0.39 %
15ScotlandUp+11050£40,574+4.43 %
16East MidlandsDown-4851£43,358+12.69 %
17CheshireNo change0797£44,131+5.73 %
18Docklands, LondonUp+1758£56,596-4.38 %
19LeedsUp+2696£35,238-3.43 %
20HertfordshireDown-4642£44,915+1.14 %
21North YorkshireUp+1620£36,969+1.06 %
22BristolDown-3592£36,126-1.49 %
23DorsetDown-1518£48,648+15.09 %
24South YorkshireUp+13470£36,837+5.04 %
25EssexDown-4459£43,797-4.90 %
26Canary WharfUp+2452£58,340-10.90 %
27BirminghamUp+4450£44,279+13.26 %
28EdinburghUp+1437£39,483+6.45 %
29ReadingDown-5426£46,205+5.53 %
29BuckinghamshireDown-3426£39,165-11.10 %

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing Finance also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Finance.

117636 (19.94 %)SQL
217536 (19.83 %)Banking
312848 (14.53 %)Oracle
412592 (14.24 %)Java
511691 (13.22 %)SQL Server
611536 (13.04 %).NET
711398 (12.89 %)Unix
810300 (11.65 %)Degree
910206 (11.54 %)C#
1010019 (11.33 %)Windows
119166 (10.36 %)Project Management
127884 (8.914 %)C++
137318 (8.274 %)Microsoft
146910 (7.813 %)XML
155918 (6.691 %)Derivative
165886 (6.655 %)Investment Banking
175512 (6.232 %)Front Office
185398 (6.103 %)Insurance
195167 (5.842 %)J2EE
204987 (5.639 %)Financial Institution
214974 (5.624 %)ASP.NET
224881 (5.519 %)MS Excel
234805 (5.433 %)OO
244734 (5.352 %)Retail
254687 (5.299 %)SAP
264419 (4.996 %)Linux
274176 (4.722 %)Pensions
284172 (4.717 %)PRINCE2
293919 (4.431 %)VB
303881 (4.388 %)Business Analysis

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing Finance also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Finance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
111536 (13.04 %).NET
26910 (7.813 %)XML
35167 (5.842 %)J2EE
44974 (5.624 %)ASP.NET
53274 (3.702 %)HTML
62513 (2.841 %)WebServices
72291 (2.590 %)Spring
82142 (2.422 %)WebSphere
91789 (2.023 %)CSS
101749 (1.978 %)Hibernate
111713 (1.937 %)ASP
121587 (1.794 %)JSP
131527 (1.726 %)WinForms
141397 (1.580 %)AJAX
151361 (1.539 %).NET Framework
161303 (1.473 %)Middleware
171090 (1.232 %)STL
18970 (1.097 %)JDBC
19969 (1.096 %)JMS
20945 (1.068 %)XSLT
Application Platforms
11482 (1.676 %)SAS
21415 (1.600 %)MS Exchange
31370 (1.549 %)WebLogic
41208 (1.366 %)IIS
51102 (1.246 %)SharePoint
6925 (1.046 %)Apache
7914 (1.033 %)Exchange Server 2003
8741 (0.838 %)Tomcat
9610 (0.690 %)MQSeries
10579 (0.655 %)BizTalk Server
11557 (0.630 %)JBoss
12485 (0.548 %)WebSphere Application Server
13458 (0.518 %)Exchange Server 2000
14434 (0.491 %)CMS
15418 (0.473 %)Oracle Workflow
16406 (0.459 %)Lotus Notes
17353 (0.399 %)WebSphere MQ
18345 (0.390 %)SharePoint Server 2007
19320 (0.362 %)CICS
20208 (0.235 %)NetWeaver
Applications
14881 (5.519 %)MS Excel
23050 (3.448 %)MS Office
31148 (1.298 %)MS Visio
41046 (1.183 %)MS Project
5553 (0.625 %)MS PowerPoint
6386 (0.436 %)SPSS
7326 (0.369 %)Photoshop
8237 (0.268 %)MATLAB
9129 (0.146 %)Adobe Illustrator
10125 (0.141 %)CA Clarity
1184 (0.095 %)Fireworks
1249 (0.055 %)S-PLUS
1346 (0.052 %)Acrobat
1436 (0.041 %)PrintSoft PReS
1531 (0.035 %)RoboHelp
1531 (0.035 %)FreeHand
1628 (0.032 %)QuarkXPress
1726 (0.029 %)Paint Shop Pro
1815 (0.017 %)InfoPath
1914 (0.016 %)FrameMaker
Business Applications
11424 (1.610 %)Oracle Financials
21177 (1.331 %)SAP FI
31084 (1.226 %)SAP CO
41076 (1.217 %)SAP FI/CO
5938 (1.061 %)Oracle EBS
6923 (1.044 %)Oracle Applications
7782 (0.884 %)Oracle 11i
8569 (0.643 %)SAP Oil and Gas
9476 (0.538 %)Dynamics AX
10454 (0.513 %)Axapta
11335 (0.379 %)Navision
12281 (0.318 %)SAP HR
13232 (0.262 %)Summit
14212 (0.240 %)Dynamics NAV
15210 (0.237 %)HFM
16206 (0.233 %)Great Plains
17204 (0.231 %)Dynamics CRM
18202 (0.228 %)Oracle HRMS
19197 (0.223 %)RMDS
20166 (0.188 %)SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
12351 (2.658 %)Internet
21938 (2.191 %)TCP/IP
31631 (1.844 %)WAN
41525 (1.724 %)Firewall
51313 (1.485 %)LAN
61301 (1.471 %)SAN
7943 (1.066 %)VPN
8732 (0.828 %)DNS
9660 (0.746 %)Intranet
10531 (0.600 %)VoIP
11496 (0.561 %)WINS
12475 (0.537 %)BGP
13417 (0.471 %)OSPF
14397 (0.449 %)MPLS
15388 (0.439 %)DHCP
16341 (0.386 %)Network Security
17251 (0.284 %)Cisco IOS
18236 (0.267 %)HTTP
19193 (0.218 %)Wireless
19193 (0.218 %)IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
111691 (13.22 %)SQL Server
22963 (3.350 %)SQL Server 2005
32535 (2.866 %)SQL Server 2000
42313 (2.615 %)RDBMS
52190 (2.476 %)Datawarehouse
61648 (1.863 %)Oracle 10g
71527 (1.726 %)BusinessObjects
81355 (1.532 %)DB2
91238 (1.400 %)Oracle 9i
101062 (1.201 %)SQL Server 7
111008 (1.140 %)Crystal Reports
12964 (1.090 %)Oracle 8/8i
12964 (1.090 %)ETL
13902 (1.020 %)MySQL
14898 (1.015 %)Oracle Reports
15660 (0.746 %)DTS
16604 (0.683 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
17563 (0.637 %)OLAP
18509 (0.575 %)SAP BW
19464 (0.525 %)SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
11194 (1.350 %)TestDirector
21115 (1.261 %)Visual Studio
3632 (0.715 %)JUnit
4619 (0.700 %)Eclipse
5601 (0.680 %)QuickTest Pro
6576 (0.651 %)Ant
7549 (0.621 %)Oracle Forms
8463 (0.523 %)WinRunner
9451 (0.510 %)ClearCase
10377 (0.426 %)Flash
11325 (0.367 %)Subversion
12312 (0.353 %)LoadRunner
13244 (0.276 %)VSS/SourceSafe
14222 (0.251 %)Rational Rose
15185 (0.209 %)Dreamweaver
16149 (0.168 %)NUnit
17111 (0.126 %)PowerBuilder
18104 (0.118 %)PVCS
19101 (0.114 %)MorphX
2098 (0.111 %)CruiseControl
General
117536 (19.83 %)Banking
25886 (6.655 %)Investment Banking
35512 (6.232 %)Front Office
45398 (6.103 %)Insurance
54987 (5.639 %)Financial Institution
64734 (5.352 %)Retail
74176 (4.722 %)Pensions
83330 (3.765 %)Telecoms
92825 (3.194 %)Health
102577 (2.914 %)Marketing
112387 (2.699 %)Back Office
122126 (2.404 %)Education
131546 (1.748 %)Manufacturing
141492 (1.687 %)Government
151378 (1.558 %)Legal
16806 (0.911 %)Games
17786 (0.889 %)Retail Banking
18720 (0.814 %)Billing
19625 (0.707 %)Law
20583 (0.659 %)Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
121007 (23.75 %)Developer
220306 (22.96 %)Analyst
39167 (10.36 %)Consultant
47118 (8.048 %)Business Analyst
56813 (7.703 %)Project Manager
64961 (5.609 %)Java Developer
73543 (4.006 %)C# Developer
83391 (3.834 %)Support Analyst
93389 (3.832 %).NET Developer
103255 (3.680 %)Architect
112644 (2.989 %)C++ Developer
122550 (2.883 %)DBA
132534 (2.865 %)Administrator
142491 (2.816 %)Senior Developer
152296 (2.596 %)Programmer
162125 (2.403 %)Applications Support
172028 (2.293 %)SAP Consultant
181960 (2.216 %)Senior Analyst
191882 (2.128 %)Team Leader
201680 (1.899 %)Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
15918 (6.691 %)Derivative
22993 (3.384 %)Fixed Income
32987 (3.377 %)Equities
42674 (3.023 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
52378 (2.689 %)Asset Management
61787 (2.020 %)Computer Science
71596 (1.805 %)Mathematics
81547 (1.749 %)Multithreading
91234 (1.395 %)Mainframe
101094 (1.237 %)Equity Derivative
111009 (1.141 %)Management Information System
12958 (1.083 %)Credit Risk
13913 (1.032 %)Client/Server
14900 (1.018 %)Credit Derivative
15705 (0.797 %)Fund Management
16625 (0.707 %)AS400
17599 (0.677 %)Blackberry
18597 (0.675 %)Replication
19580 (0.656 %)PMI
20562 (0.635 %)Clustering
Operating Systems
111398 (12.89 %)Unix
210019 (11.33 %)Windows
34419 (4.996 %)Linux
43000 (3.392 %)Solaris
51479 (1.672 %)Windows 2000
61215 (1.374 %)AIX
71103 (1.247 %)Windows Server 2003
81077 (1.218 %)Windows XP
9883 (0.998 %)Windows NT
10463 (0.523 %)HPUX
11335 (0.379 %)VMS
12215 (0.243 %)MVS
1398 (0.111 %)zOS
1479 (0.089 %)OpenVMS
1565 (0.073 %)SUSE
1630 (0.034 %)OS/400
1729 (0.033 %)OS/390
1729 (0.033 %)Windows Vista
1828 (0.032 %)Mac OS X
1922 (0.025 %)Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
19166 (10.36 %)Project Management
24805 (5.433 %)OO
34172 (4.717 %)PRINCE2
43881 (4.388 %)Business Analysis
53388 (3.831 %)ITIL
63221 (3.642 %)UML
73202 (3.620 %)Risk Management
82642 (2.987 %)Business Intelligence
92346 (2.652 %)CRM
102338 (2.643 %)ERP
112084 (2.356 %)Change Management
121804 (2.040 %)Service Delivery
131800 (2.035 %)Investment Management
141693 (1.914 %)User Acceptance Testing
151683 (1.903 %)E-Commerce
161560 (1.764 %)Agile Software Development
171540 (1.741 %)Data Modelling
181444 (1.633 %)Migration
191380 (1.560 %)Stakeholder Management
201311 (1.482 %)Web Development
Programming Languages
117636 (19.94 %)SQL
212592 (14.24 %)Java
310206 (11.54 %)C#
47884 (8.914 %)C++
53919 (4.431 %)VB
62955 (3.341 %)JavaScript
72856 (3.229 %)VB.NET
82627 (2.970 %)C
92593 (2.932 %)VBA
102397 (2.710 %)Perl
112309 (2.611 %)PL/SQL
121828 (2.067 %)Transact-SQL
131647 (1.862 %)Shell Script
141154 (1.305 %)VB6
151008 (1.140 %)VC++
16737 (0.833 %)PHP
17634 (0.717 %)DHTML
18598 (0.676 %)VBScript
19590 (0.667 %)COBOL
20485 (0.548 %)Python
Qualifications
110300 (11.65 %)Degree
22067 (2.337 %)ISEB
31691 (1.912 %)Microsoft Certification
41136 (1.284 %)Cisco Certification
5902 (1.020 %)PRINCE2 Certification
6858 (0.970 %)MCSE
7732 (0.828 %)ACCA
8616 (0.696 %)CIMA
9563 (0.637 %)CCNA
10520 (0.588 %)ITIL Certification
11512 (0.579 %)CCNP
12506 (0.572 %)MCP
13368 (0.416 %)CCIE
14358 (0.405 %)CISSP
15354 (0.400 %)PhD
16353 (0.399 %)PMI Certification
17325 (0.367 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
18319 (0.361 %)MCSD
19299 (0.338 %)CISA
20284 (0.321 %)PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
12419 (2.735 %)QA
21194 (1.350 %)SLA
3821 (0.928 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
4619 (0.700 %)Basel II
5209 (0.236 %)COBIT
6200 (0.226 %)ISO27001
7193 (0.218 %)MiFID
8109 (0.123 %)ISO17799
989 (0.101 %)BS7799
1057 (0.064 %)ISO9000
1149 (0.055 %)ISO8583
1244 (0.050 %)GAAP
1341 (0.046 %)PCI DSS
1439 (0.044 %)WCAG
1535 (0.040 %)ISO9001
1634 (0.038 %)IAS 39
1634 (0.038 %)WAI
1720 (0.023 %)BS25999
1814 (0.016 %)BS15000
199 (0.010 %)Prudential Sourcebook
System Software
12249 (2.543 %)Active Directory
2536 (0.606 %)Oracle RAC
3429 (0.485 %)Oracle RMAN
4339 (0.383 %)NetBackup
5124 (0.140 %)NFS
6119 (0.135 %)MSMQ
7114 (0.129 %)Backup Exec
899 (0.112 %)VMware ESX
978 (0.088 %)ISA Server
1070 (0.079 %)Terminal Services
1166 (0.075 %)AquaLogic
1260 (0.068 %)MetaFrame
1260 (0.068 %)Samba
1350 (0.057 %)RACF
1350 (0.057 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1424 (0.027 %)LiteSpeed
1424 (0.027 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1424 (0.027 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1424 (0.027 %)Terminal Server
1520 (0.023 %)Xen
Systems Management
1410 (0.464 %)Tivoli
2241 (0.272 %)OpenView
3164 (0.185 %)AutoSys
4155 (0.175 %)CONTROL-M
5136 (0.154 %)BMC PATROL
6101 (0.114 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
796 (0.109 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
892 (0.104 %)Legato
988 (0.099 %)MOM
1086 (0.097 %)CiscoWorks
1170 (0.079 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1258 (0.066 %)Norton AntiVirus
1349 (0.055 %)Oracle Statspack
1446 (0.052 %)OMEGAMON
1446 (0.052 %)SCOM
1446 (0.052 %)MAILsweeper
1545 (0.051 %)Unicenter
1545 (0.051 %)Netcool
1643 (0.049 %)EMC NetWorker
1739 (0.044 %)OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
112848 (14.53 %)Oracle
27318 (8.274 %)Microsoft
34687 (5.299 %)SAP
43828 (4.328 %)Sybase
52455 (2.776 %)Cisco
61634 (1.847 %)IBM
71527 (1.726 %)Business Objects
81249 (1.412 %)Citrix
91224 (1.384 %)Bloomberg
101185 (1.340 %)HP
111170 (1.323 %)Reuters
121078 (1.219 %)Sun
131006 (1.137 %)Cognos
14691 (0.781 %)VMware
15684 (0.773 %)CheckPoint
16622 (0.703 %)VERITAS
17612 (0.692 %)TIBCO
18594 (0.672 %)Red Hat
19583 (0.659 %)Remedy
20568 (0.642 %)Hyperion
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