Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fixed Income in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Fixed Income over the 3 months to 19 March 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 Miscellaneous category.

LinkFixed Income
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank85179130
Rank change year-on-year
Up+94Down-49
Matching permanent IT job ads20199243178
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.350 %1.089 %1.557 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category8.618 %4.597 %6.970 %
Salaries quoted15827032296
Average salary£75,000£65,000£65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£52,500£45,000£45,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£95,000£85,000£90,000
UK excluding London average salary-£75,000£52,500
% change year-on-year
-+42.85 %
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
234272010245597
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK27.27 %23.70 %22.34 %
Salaries quoted190361643836023
Average salary£50,000£42,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64 %-5.550 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£26,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£85,000£80,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,000£36,000
% change year-on-year
+1.350 %+2.770 %

Fixed Income
Demand Trend

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

Fixed Income Demand Trend

Fixed Income
Salary Trend

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

Fixed Income Salary Trend

Fixed Income
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Fixed Income over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 within the UK.

Fixed Income Salary Histogram

Fixed Income
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fixed Income within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 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+892015£75,000+15.38 %
LondonUp+332015£75,000+15.38 %
City of LondonUp+9831£70,000+7.69 %
Docklands, LondonDown-1346£70,000-
Canary WharfUp+537£70,000-12.50 %
ScotlandNew entry-4--
GlasgowNew entry-2--
EdinburghNew entry-2--

Fixed Income
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income.

11652 (46.69 %)Banking
21548 (43.75 %)Derivative
31500 (42.40 %)Front Office
41498 (42.34 %)Finance
51123 (31.74 %)Java
61048 (29.62 %)C#
7932 (26.34 %)Investment Banking
8882 (24.93 %)C++
9869 (24.56 %)SQL
10823 (23.26 %)Equities
11780 (22.05 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
12762 (21.54 %)UNIX
13626 (17.69 %).NET
14445 (12.58 %)Windows
15385 (10.88 %)Multithreading
16353 (9.977 %)Sybase
17332 (9.384 %)XML
18329 (9.299 %)VBA
19327 (9.243 %)Credit Derivative
20321 (9.073 %)SQL Server
21311 (8.790 %)WinForms
21311 (8.790 %)Interest Rate Derivative
22309 (8.734 %)Electronic Trading
23304 (8.592 %)Degree
24303 (8.564 %)Oracle
25273 (7.716 %)Linux
26265 (7.490 %)Risk Management
27262 (7.405 %)OO
28260 (7.349 %)Back Office
29259 (7.321 %)Project Management

Fixed Income
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1626 (17.69 %).NET
2332 (9.384 %)XML
3311 (8.790 %)WinForms
4244 (6.897 %)WPF
5182 (5.144 %)STL
6165 (4.664 %)Spring
7133 (3.759 %)J2EE
8112 (3.166 %)WCF
994 (2.657 %)AJAX
1093 (2.629 %)Boost C++ Libraries
1165 (1.837 %)ASP.NET
1260 (1.696 %)FpML
1356 (1.583 %)JDBC
1356 (1.583 %)JMS
1454 (1.526 %)Middleware
1549 (1.385 %).NET Framework
1549 (1.385 %)Adobe Flex
1645 (1.272 %)LINQ
1645 (1.272 %)Hibernate
1742 (1.187 %)Silverlight
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
169 (1.950 %)Rendezvous
260 (1.696 %)WebLogic
346 (1.300 %)MQSeries
427 (0.763 %)CMS
522 (0.622 %)WebSphere MQ
616 (0.452 %)Tomcat
714 (0.396 %)WebLogic Portal
714 (0.396 %)Liferay
813 (0.367 %)TIBCO EMS
912 (0.339 %)MS Exchange
1010 (0.283 %)SharePoint
1010 (0.283 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
118 (0.226 %)SmartSockets
127 (0.198 %)Exchange Server 2007
136 (0.170 %)Mule
136 (0.170 %)Confluence
144 (0.113 %)IIS
153 (0.085 %)MTS
153 (0.085 %)Progress Apama
162 (0.057 %)WebSphere Message Broker
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
194 (2.657 %)MS Excel
251 (1.441 %)Spreadsheet
335 (0.989 %)MS Visio
434 (0.961 %)MATLAB
522 (0.622 %)MS Project
618 (0.509 %)MS Office
715 (0.424 %)MS PowerPoint
82 (0.057 %)S-PLUS
91 (0.028 %)CA Clarity
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
156 (1.583 %)Summit
252 (1.470 %)ION MarketView
322 (0.622 %)RMDS
421 (0.594 %)LongView
519 (0.537 %)SunGard Martini
613 (0.367 %)Front Arena
712 (0.339 %)Kondor+
712 (0.339 %)Oracle EBS
810 (0.283 %)Minerva
810 (0.283 %)Beauchamp
98 (0.226 %)Loan IQ
98 (0.226 %)Tesseract
98 (0.226 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
98 (0.226 %)InvestOne
107 (0.198 %)Bloomberg TOMS
116 (0.170 %)Temenos T24
124 (0.113 %)Misys Midas
124 (0.113 %)Capstone
124 (0.113 %)Navision
133 (0.085 %)GL Clearvision
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
156 (1.583 %)TCP/IP
248 (1.357 %)Internet
328 (0.791 %)Intranet
413 (0.367 %)NAS
413 (0.367 %)SAN
512 (0.339 %)LAN
512 (0.339 %)WAN
67 (0.198 %)ATM
67 (0.198 %)MPLS
67 (0.198 %)OSPF
67 (0.198 %)BGP
67 (0.198 %)Cisco IOS
67 (0.198 %)VLAN
67 (0.198 %)Frame Relay
76 (0.170 %)Cisco IPT
76 (0.170 %)FTP
84 (0.113 %)PPP
84 (0.113 %)Ethernet
84 (0.113 %)SDH
84 (0.113 %)SONET
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1321 (9.073 %)SQL Server
2152 (4.296 %)RDBMS
3112 (3.166 %)SQL Server 2005
438 (1.074 %)Reference Data
533 (0.933 %)Oracle 8/8i
631 (0.876 %)KDB
730 (0.848 %)SQL Server 2008
822 (0.622 %)SQL Server 2000
915 (0.424 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1014 (0.396 %)ETL
1014 (0.396 %)DB2
1113 (0.367 %)Crystal Reports
1113 (0.367 %)Datawarehouse
1113 (0.367 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1212 (0.339 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1212 (0.339 %)Ingres
1311 (0.311 %)Oracle 10g
149 (0.254 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
158 (0.226 %)Oracle 9i
166 (0.170 %)BusinessObjects
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
153 (1.498 %)QuickTest Pro
239 (1.102 %)Ant
333 (0.933 %)ClearCase
429 (0.820 %)TestDirector
526 (0.735 %)JUnit
621 (0.594 %)Visual Studio
713 (0.367 %)JIRA
812 (0.339 %)NUnit
812 (0.339 %)Subversion
911 (0.311 %)Bugzilla
911 (0.311 %)PVCS
108 (0.226 %)Eclipse
116 (0.170 %)WinRunner
116 (0.170 %)Maven
124 (0.113 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
133 (0.085 %)TeamCity
133 (0.085 %)Oracle Forms
142 (0.057 %)Log4Net
142 (0.057 %)ReSharper
142 (0.057 %)NCover
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11652 (46.69 %)Banking
21500 (42.40 %)Front Office
31498 (42.34 %)Finance
4932 (26.34 %)Investment Banking
5260 (7.349 %)Back Office
6155 (4.381 %)Financial Institution
7147 (4.155 %)Government
8115 (3.250 %)Pensions
947 (1.328 %)Health
1045 (1.272 %)Education
1136 (1.018 %)Telecoms
1232 (0.904 %)Insurance
1331 (0.876 %)Retail
1420 (0.565 %)Games
1519 (0.537 %)Construction
1618 (0.509 %)Publishing
1714 (0.396 %)Retail Banking
186 (0.170 %)Marketing
195 (0.141 %)Wholesale Banking
204 (0.113 %)Corporate Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11776 (50.20 %)Developer
2831 (23.49 %)Analyst
3562 (15.88 %)C# Developer
4557 (15.74 %)Java Developer
5454 (12.83 %)Business Analyst
6444 (12.55 %)Senior Developer
7430 (12.15 %)C++ Developer
8258 (7.292 %)Applications Support
9163 (4.607 %)Project Manager
10161 (4.551 %)Senior Java Developer
11152 (4.296 %)Support Analyst
12150 (4.240 %)Senior C# Developer
13134 (3.787 %)Team Leader
14115 (3.250 %).NET Developer
15107 (3.024 %)Senior Analyst
16106 (2.996 %)Senior C++ Developer
17100 (2.826 %)Banking Business Analyst
1887 (2.459 %)Front Office Developer
1887 (2.459 %)Quantitative Developer
1981 (2.289 %)Applications Support Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11548 (43.75 %)Derivative
2823 (23.26 %)Equities
3780 (22.05 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4385 (10.88 %)Multithreading
5327 (9.243 %)Credit Derivative
6311 (8.790 %)Interest Rate Derivative
7167 (4.720 %)Equity Derivative
8150 (4.240 %)Client/Server
9109 (3.081 %)Mathematics
1083 (2.346 %)Market Risk
1180 (2.261 %)Computer Science
1277 (2.176 %)Credit Risk
1338 (1.074 %)Swaptions
1437 (1.046 %)Exotic Derivative
1525 (0.707 %)Grid Computing
1622 (0.622 %)RIA
1717 (0.480 %)Physics
1717 (0.480 %)Economics
1814 (0.396 %)Statistics
1912 (0.339 %)Management Information System
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1762 (21.54 %)UNIX
2445 (12.58 %)Windows
3273 (7.716 %)Linux
463 (1.781 %)Solaris
534 (0.961 %)Windows XP
632 (0.904 %)Windows Server 2003
726 (0.735 %)Windows Vista
825 (0.707 %)VMS
98 (0.226 %)Windows 2000
105 (0.141 %)OpenVMS
105 (0.141 %)Windows Server 2008
114 (0.113 %)Windows NT
122 (0.057 %)AIX
122 (0.057 %)HPUX
122 (0.057 %)Red Hat Linux
122 (0.057 %)Windows 7
122 (0.057 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1309 (8.734 %)Electronic Trading
2265 (7.490 %)Risk Management
3262 (7.405 %)OO
4259 (7.321 %)Project Management
5209 (5.907 %)Business Analysis
6140 (3.957 %)Algorithmic Trading
7134 (3.787 %)E-Commerce
8129 (3.646 %)Asset Management
9125 (3.533 %)Workflow
10124 (3.505 %)Agile Software Development
11118 (3.335 %)Investment Management
12109 (3.081 %)User Acceptance Testing
1394 (2.657 %)OOD
1479 (2.233 %)ITIL
1566 (1.865 %)Release Management
1665 (1.837 %)RAD
1757 (1.611 %)PRINCE2
1856 (1.583 %)Software Engineering
1947 (1.328 %)UML
1947 (1.328 %)Greeks
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11123 (31.74 %)Java
21048 (29.62 %)C#
3882 (24.93 %)C++
4869 (24.56 %)SQL
5329 (9.299 %)VBA
6186 (5.257 %)Perl
7140 (3.957 %)Shell Script
8122 (3.448 %)Python
999 (2.798 %)C
1097 (2.742 %)JavaScript
1185 (2.402 %)VB
1243 (1.215 %)VC++
1341 (1.159 %)T-SQL
1432 (0.904 %)PL/SQL
1529 (0.820 %)VBScript
1622 (0.622 %)VB.NET
1717 (0.480 %)PHP
1812 (0.339 %)DCL
1911 (0.311 %)XPath
1911 (0.311 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1304 (8.592 %)Degree
230 (0.848 %)ISEB
328 (0.791 %)PhD
421 (0.594 %)Microsoft Certification
517 (0.480 %)MCP
612 (0.339 %)ISEB Practitioner
710 (0.283 %)MCAD
710 (0.283 %)MCSD
710 (0.283 %)MCTS
87 (0.198 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
87 (0.198 %)MCSE
87 (0.198 %)JNCIA
96 (0.170 %)Sun Certification
96 (0.170 %)MBA
96 (0.170 %)PMI Certification
105 (0.141 %)CCNA
105 (0.141 %)Cisco Certification
114 (0.113 %)JNCIS
114 (0.113 %)JNCIP
114 (0.113 %)JNCIE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1142 (4.014 %)QA
220 (0.565 %)SLA
36 (0.170 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
129 (0.820 %)MSMQ
218 (0.509 %)Active Directory
314 (0.396 %)OpenSSO
46 (0.170 %)Oracle RMAN
46 (0.170 %)Oracle RAC
55 (0.141 %)NFS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
120 (0.565 %)Tivoli
210 (0.283 %)HP Quality Center
39 (0.254 %)AutoSys
46 (0.170 %)Data Guard
52 (0.057 %)DameWare
61 (0.028 %)EMC NetWorker
61 (0.028 %)Dollar Universe
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1353 (9.977 %)Sybase
2303 (8.564 %)Oracle
3198 (5.596 %)TIBCO
4142 (4.014 %)Bloomberg
5123 (3.477 %)ION Trading
6115 (3.250 %)Microsoft
768 (1.922 %)Murex
866 (1.865 %)Charles River
958 (1.639 %)Reuters
1049 (1.385 %)thinkFolio
1147 (1.328 %)Calypso
1244 (1.244 %)LatentZero
1338 (1.074 %)Fidessa
1436 (1.018 %)Tradeweb
1530 (0.848 %)Adobe
1627 (0.763 %)SunGard
1726 (0.735 %)JBoss
1825 (0.707 %)BEA
1922 (0.622 %)Citrix
1922 (0.622 %)Cisco