The first 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 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 23386 27931 32388
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 21.17% 23.59% 25.11%
As % of the General category 49.19% 52.39% 52.65%
Number of salaries quoted 18678 23351 26126
Average salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% -0.95%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £32,500 £31,625
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
47539 53309 61513
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 43.04% 45.03% 47.70%
Number of salaries quoted 37806 44827 50334
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

This 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 Jobs Demand Trend

Finance
Salary Trend

This 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

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 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 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -1 21793 £50,000 -4.76% 3062
London 0 12120 £55,000 -4.34% 1792
City of London 0 3829 £55,000 -4.34% 779
South East -1 3658 £47,500 - 373
North West -1 1355 £40,000 - 229
East of England +1 1164 £46,500 +3.33% 133
Surrey 0 1053 £50,000 - 80
West Midlands -1 1019 £42,500 - 101
Yorkshire +3 1015 £38,000 -5.00% 149
Berkshire +4 983 £47,000 +4.44% 76
Scotland -1 953 £45,000 - 143
South West +1 952 £40,000 - 165
Manchester -2 763 £39,000 +2.63% 118
West Yorkshire +3 726 £37,500 -6.25% 111
Leeds +6 528 £37,500 -6.25% 55
Birmingham +1 512 £45,000 -8.16% 33
Hampshire -6 509 £45,000 - 74
East Midlands -2 501 £42,500 - 60
Edinburgh 0 463 £43,843 -2.57% 80
Cheshire +2 427 £42,500 - 55
Hertfordshire -3 423 £48,000 +1.05% 48
Reading +4 377 £50,000 - 29
Buckinghamshire 0 345 £42,500 -5.55% 29
Glasgow -2 342 £45,000 +12.50% 34
Bristol -1 285 £40,000 - 47
Essex +5 265 £45,000 - 10
Wiltshire +9 260 £41,500 -2.35% 30
Cambridgeshire -3 244 £47,500 +11.76% 46
Milton Keynes -6 229 £41,250 -8.33% 16
Kent +1 226 £40,000 - 22

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, 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.

1 11390 (24.66%) SQL
2 8111 (17.56%) Banking
3 7750 (16.78%) Degree
4 7536 (16.32%) SQL Server
5 7366 (15.95%) Oracle
6 7060 (15.29%) C#
7 7026 (15.21%) .NET
8 6830 (14.79%) Microsoft
9 6511 (14.10%) Java
10 6397 (13.85%) Project Management
11 5956 (12.90%) Windows
12 4737 (10.26%) MS Excel
13 3992 (8.644%) UNIX
14 3847 (8.330%) Agile Software Development
15 3749 (8.118%) Business Intelligence
16 3442 (7.453%) Linux
17 3441 (7.451%) ITIL
18 3369 (7.295%) Retail
19 3358 (7.271%) ASP.NET
20 3306 (7.159%) JavaScript
21 3040 (6.583%) Stakeholder Management
22 3010 (6.518%) OO
23 2952 (6.392%) XML
24 2832 (6.132%) Telecoms
25 2763 (5.983%) HTML
26 2726 (5.903%) SAP
27 2722 (5.894%) Business Analysis
28 2698 (5.842%) Computer Science
29 2685 (5.814%) PRINCE2
30 2480 (5.370%) Scrum

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 7026 (15.21%) .NET
2 3358 (7.271%) ASP.NET
3 2952 (6.392%) XML
4 2763 (5.983%) HTML
5 2363 (5.117%) CSS
6 1973 (4.272%) Web Services
7 1724 (3.733%) WCF
8 1608 (3.482%) jQuery
9 1468 (3.179%) Spring
10 1449 (3.138%) J2EE
11 1422 (3.079%) WPF
12 1185 (2.566%) .NET Framework
13 1088 (2.356%) Ajax
14 1080 (2.339%) ASP.NET MVC
15 977 (2.116%) Hibernate
16 950 (2.057%) WebSphere
17 899 (1.947%) Middleware
18 829 (1.795%) HTML5
19 824 (1.784%) WinForms
20 652 (1.412%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1972 (4.270%) SharePoint
2 1040 (2.252%) IIS
3 957 (2.072%) SAS
4 851 (1.843%) MS Exchange
5 689 (1.492%) Apache
6 624 (1.351%) Tomcat
7 606 (1.312%) WebLogic
8 582 (1.260%) CMS
9 441 (0.955%) Exchange Server 2010
10 382 (0.827%) SharePoint Server
11 341 (0.738%) SharePoint 2010
12 296 (0.641%) Oracle Workflow
13 293 (0.634%) BizTalk Server
14 274 (0.593%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 268 (0.580%) Exchange Server 2007
16 231 (0.500%) WebSphere Application Server
17 222 (0.481%) ESB
18 215 (0.466%) MQSeries
19 182 (0.394%) Exchange Server 2003
20 171 (0.370%) Lync
Applications
1 4737 (10.26%) MS Excel
2 2058 (4.456%) MS Office
3 826 (1.789%) MS Project
4 722 (1.563%) MS PowerPoint
5 643 (1.392%) MS Visio
6 245 (0.531%) Photoshop
7 200 (0.433%) SPSS
8 168 (0.364%) Spreadsheet
9 77 (0.167%) Adobe Illustrator
10 49 (0.106%) InfoPath
11 44 (0.095%) PowerPivot
12 42 (0.091%) Open Workbench
13 41 (0.089%) Office 365
14 29 (0.063%) Fireworks
15 22 (0.048%) RoboHelp
16 21 (0.045%) Adobe Captivate
17 19 (0.041%) FrameMaker
18 18 (0.039%) S-PLUS
19 17 (0.037%) InDesign
20 15 (0.032%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1287 (2.787%) Oracle EBS
2 1087 (2.354%) Oracle EBS R12
3 832 (1.802%) Oracle Financials
4 511 (1.107%) SAP FI
5 485 (1.050%) Dynamics CRM
6 482 (1.044%) Oracle Applications
7 464 (1.005%) SAP CO
8 463 (1.003%) SAP FI/CO
9 446 (0.966%) Dynamics AX
10 347 (0.751%) SAP BPC
11 293 (0.634%) HFM
12 280 (0.606%) Hyperion Planning
13 240 (0.520%) Oracle 11i
14 214 (0.463%) Oracle ERP
15 204 (0.442%) Dynamics NAV
16 147 (0.318%) SAP Oil and Gas
17 143 (0.310%) Oracle iProcurement
18 140 (0.303%) Cognos Business Intelligence
19 139 (0.301%) Agresso
20 117 (0.253%) SAP MM
Communications & Networking
1 1314 (2.845%) Firewall
2 1056 (2.287%) TCP/IP
3 1049 (2.271%) Internet
4 964 (2.087%) SAN
5 849 (1.838%) WAN
6 847 (1.834%) HTTP
7 769 (1.665%) DNS
8 747 (1.618%) LAN
9 559 (1.210%) Network Security
10 483 (1.046%) VPN
11 458 (0.992%) DHCP
12 415 (0.899%) VoIP
13 408 (0.883%) Intranet
14 336 (0.728%) MPLS
15 285 (0.617%) Cisco ASA
16 260 (0.563%) BGP
17 253 (0.548%) OSPF
18 251 (0.544%) LDAP
19 246 (0.533%) Unified Communications
20 242 (0.524%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7536 (16.32%) SQL Server
2 2149 (4.653%) SQL Server 2008
3 2126 (4.604%) Data Warehouse
4 1628 (3.525%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1486 (3.218%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1456 (3.153%) SQL Server 2005
7 979 (2.120%) MySQL
8 895 (1.938%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 758 (1.641%) Oracle 8/8i
10 742 (1.607%) Oracle Reports
11 729 (1.579%) Oracle 11g
12 671 (1.453%) RDBMS
13 528 (1.143%) DB2
14 517 (1.120%) Oracle BI EE
15 501 (1.085%) Oracle 10g
16 440 (0.953%) OLAP
17 413 (0.894%) SAP BW
18 400 (0.866%) Big Data
19 368 (0.797%) BusinessObjects
20 362 (0.784%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1032 (2.235%) Visual Studio
2 740 (1.602%) Subversion
3 717 (1.553%) Team Foundation Server
4 539 (1.167%) Maven
5 519 (1.124%) Selenium
6 513 (1.111%) NUnit
7 505 (1.094%) QuickTest Pro
8 424 (0.918%) JIRA
9 422 (0.914%) JUnit
10 406 (0.879%) Eclipse
11 388 (0.840%) Git (software)
12 332 (0.719%) Oracle Forms
13 322 (0.697%) Rhino Mocks
14 258 (0.559%) LoadRunner
15 248 (0.537%) Moq
16 223 (0.483%) Ant
17 202 (0.437%) Jenkins
18 199 (0.431%) MSTest
19 181 (0.392%) Cucumber
20 169 (0.366%) TeamCity
General
1 8111 (17.56%) Banking
2 3369 (7.295%) Retail
3 2832 (6.132%) Telecoms
4 2453 (5.312%) Investment Banking
5 1947 (4.216%) Marketing
6 1916 (4.149%) Front Office
7 1901 (4.116%) Financial Institution
8 1456 (3.153%) Legal
9 1053 (2.280%) Manufacturing
10 939 (2.033%) Back Office
11 929 (2.012%) Advertising
12 594 (1.286%) Law
13 570 (1.234%) Publishing
14 478 (1.035%) Retail Banking
15 462 (1.000%) Games
16 419 (0.907%) Billing
17 296 (0.641%) Pharmaceutical
18 275 (0.595%) General Ledger
19 241 (0.522%) Corporate Banking
20 221 (0.479%) German Language
Job Titles
1 10979 (23.77%) Developer
2 9406 (20.37%) Analyst
3 4135 (8.954%) Consultant
4 3803 (8.235%) Business Analyst
5 3374 (7.306%) Project Manager
6 2404 (5.206%) Architect
7 2098 (4.543%) .NET Developer
8 2004 (4.339%) Java Developer
9 1844 (3.993%) C# Developer
10 1652 (3.577%) Senior Developer
11 1623 (3.514%) Support Analyst
12 1220 (2.642%) Administrator
13 1198 (2.594%) Senior Analyst
14 1100 (2.382%) DBA
15 1023 (2.215%) Applications Support
16 994 (2.152%) Junior
17 940 (2.035%) C# .NET Developer
18 939 (2.033%) Senior Manager
19 911 (1.973%) Team Leader
20 838 (1.815%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2698 (5.842%) Computer Science
2 1587 (3.436%) Mathematics
3 1583 (3.428%) Management Information System
4 1536 (3.326%) Derivative
5 1283 (2.778%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1138 (2.464%) Hedge funds
7 992 (2.148%) Fixed Income
8 918 (1.988%) Equities
9 848 (1.836%) Enterprise Software
10 669 (1.449%) Credit Risk
11 660 (1.429%) Statistics
12 548 (1.187%) Mobile App
13 544 (1.178%) Open Source
14 506 (1.096%) Clustering
15 490 (1.061%) Blackberry
16 480 (1.039%) Client/Server
17 430 (0.931%) Replication
18 428 (0.927%) Mainframe
19 374 (0.810%) N-Tier
20 362 (0.784%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 5956 (12.90%) Windows
2 3992 (8.644%) UNIX
3 3442 (7.453%) Linux
4 1449 (3.138%) Windows Server 2008
5 1219 (2.640%) Windows Server 2003
6 917 (1.986%) Solaris
7 695 (1.505%) Windows 7
8 694 (1.503%) Windows XP
9 520 (1.126%) AIX
10 444 (0.961%) Android
11 413 (0.894%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 409 (0.886%) Apple iOS
13 174 (0.377%) Windows Server 2012
14 123 (0.266%) Windows Vista
15 115 (0.249%) Windows 2000
16 110 (0.238%) Windows 8
17 109 (0.236%) HPUX
18 83 (0.180%) CentOS
19 78 (0.169%) SUSE
20 69 (0.149%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 6397 (13.85%) Project Management
2 3847 (8.330%) Agile Software Development
3 3749 (8.118%) Business Intelligence
4 3441 (7.451%) ITIL
5 3040 (6.583%) Stakeholder Management
6 3010 (6.518%) OO
7 2722 (5.894%) Business Analysis
8 2685 (5.814%) PRINCE2
9 2480 (5.370%) Scrum
10 2282 (4.941%) Change Management
11 2281 (4.939%) TDD
12 2170 (4.699%) Risk Management
13 2060 (4.461%) MVC
14 1905 (4.125%) E-Commerce
15 1897 (4.108%) CRM
16 1841 (3.986%) Analytics
17 1824 (3.950%) ERP
18 1647 (3.566%) Service Delivery
19 1501 (3.250%) Data Modelling
20 1396 (3.023%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 11390 (24.66%) SQL
2 7060 (15.29%) C#
3 6511 (14.10%) Java
4 3306 (7.159%) JavaScript
5 2345 (5.078%) C++
6 1772 (3.837%) T-SQL
7 1426 (3.088%) PL/SQL
8 1381 (2.990%) C
9 1156 (2.503%) Perl
10 1065 (2.306%) VBA
11 1016 (2.200%) VB.NET
12 1007 (2.181%) Python
13 886 (1.919%) VB
14 799 (1.730%) Shell Script
15 782 (1.693%) PHP
16 517 (1.120%) PowerShell
17 387 (0.838%) VBScript
18 350 (0.758%) Ruby
19 285 (0.617%) ABAP
20 265 (0.574%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7750 (16.78%) Degree
2 1324 (2.867%) Security Cleared
3 1293 (2.800%) ISEB
4 1036 (2.243%) Microsoft Certification
5 943 (2.042%) Cisco Certification
6 815 (1.765%) SC Cleared
7 605 (1.310%) PMI Certification
8 574 (1.243%) CISSP
9 551 (1.193%) CCNP
10 523 (1.133%) MCP
11 480 (1.039%) CCNA
12 436 (0.944%) ITIL Certification
13 426 (0.922%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 418 (0.905%) MCTS
15 417 (0.903%) ISTQB
16 402 (0.870%) CISA
17 364 (0.788%) CISM
18 361 (0.782%) MCSE
19 339 (0.734%) ACCA
19 339 (0.734%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2344 (5.076%) QA
2 1147 (2.484%) SLA
3 422 (0.914%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 355 (0.769%) PCI DSS
5 303 (0.656%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 285 (0.617%) COBIT
7 266 (0.576%) Data Quality
8 235 (0.509%) ISO 9001
9 120 (0.260%) Basel II
10 105 (0.227%) Solvency II
11 92 (0.199%) Basel III
12 49 (0.106%) BS25999
13 48 (0.104%) GAAP
14 45 (0.097%) FATCA
15 32 (0.069%) COSO
16 29 (0.063%) ISO 8583
17 26 (0.056%) TickIT
18 24 (0.052%) ISO 9000
19 17 (0.037%) MiFID
20 13 (0.028%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1708 (3.698%) Active Directory
2 988 (2.139%) VMware Infrastructure
3 306 (0.663%) VMware ESX
4 301 (0.652%) XenApp
5 264 (0.572%) vSphere
6 263 (0.569%) Oracle RAC
7 225 (0.487%) Hyper-V
8 174 (0.377%) Oracle RMAN
9 140 (0.303%) XenDesktop
10 118 (0.256%) VMware ESXi
11 114 (0.247%) Microsoft App-V
12 94 (0.204%) XenServer
13 76 (0.165%) NFS
14 54 (0.117%) SRDF
14 54 (0.117%) ISA Server
15 53 (0.115%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 51 (0.110%) VMware Workstation
17 48 (0.104%) Xen
18 41 (0.089%) Terminal Server
19 40 (0.087%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 473 (1.024%) HP Quality Center
2 236 (0.511%) SCCM
3 231 (0.500%) Tivoli
4 201 (0.435%) Data Guard
5 144 (0.312%) NetBackup
6 139 (0.301%) SCOM
7 124 (0.269%) Puppet
8 119 (0.258%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 105 (0.227%) Nagios
10 104 (0.225%) OpenView Configuration Management
11 94 (0.204%) WSUS
12 84 (0.182%) Cisco UCCX
13 79 (0.171%) Backup Exec
14 77 (0.167%) Cisco CUCM
15 75 (0.162%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
16 65 (0.141%) Control-M
17 62 (0.134%) EMC NetWorker
18 58 (0.126%) OpenView
19 53 (0.115%) CiscoWorks
20 50 (0.108%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 7366 (15.95%) Oracle
2 6830 (14.79%) Microsoft
3 2726 (5.903%) SAP
4 1859 (4.025%) Cisco
5 1647 (3.566%) VMware
6 1219 (2.640%) HP
7 1147 (2.484%) IBM
8 1075 (2.328%) Business Objects
9 973 (2.107%) Citrix
10 802 (1.737%) Sybase
11 682 (1.477%) Cognos
12 665 (1.440%) Hyperion
13 625 (1.353%) Fujitsu
14 549 (1.189%) Red Hat
15 521 (1.128%) Juniper
16 517 (1.120%) Informatica
17 483 (1.046%) EMC
18 421 (0.912%) Sun
19 418 (0.905%) JBoss
20 388 (0.840%) CheckPoint
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