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The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Foreign Exchange (FX) in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 3 months to 22 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.

LinkForeign Exchange (FX)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank87197136
Rank change year-on-year
Up+110Down-61
Matching permanent IT job ads20098193051
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.322 %0.962 %1.499 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category8.510 %4.050 %6.713 %
Salaries quoted16006172329
Average salary£70,000£67,500£65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.700 %+3.840 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£41,700£45,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£90,000£82,500£90,000
UK excluding London average salary£67,500£42,500£50,000
% change year-on-year
+58.82 %-15.00 %
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
236082022245448
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK27.29 %23.76 %22.33 %
Salaries quoted191941652135954
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£75,000£80,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,000£36,000
% change year-on-year
+1.350 %+2.770 %

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Foreign Exchange (FX) Demand Trend

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) within the UK.

Foreign Exchange (FX) Salary Trend

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 within the UK.

Foreign Exchange (FX) Salary Histogram

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Foreign Exchange (FX) within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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+1081996£70,000+3.70 %
LondonUp+541964£70,000+3.70 %
City of LondonUp+37708£70,000+3.70 %
Canary WharfUp+1738£67,500-
Docklands, LondonDown-232£62,500-3.84 %
ScotlandNew entry-13£80,000-
South EastDown-119£80,000+88.23 %
SurreyDown-18£80,000+88.23 %
BirminghamNew entry-6£35,000-
West MidlandsNew entry-6£35,000-
South WestUp+135£45,000-35.71 %
BournemouthNew entry-5£45,000-
North WestNew entry-5£32,500-
CreweNew entry-5£32,500-
DorsetNew entry-5£45,000-
CheshireNew entry-5£32,500-
CambridgeshireUp+23£25,500-47.69 %
East of EnglandDown-33£25,500-15.00 %
PeterboroughUp+132£25,500+13.33 %
East MidlandsUp+81£41,000+36.66 %
MidlandsNew entry-1£55,000-
YorkshireNew entry-1£37,500-
West YorkshireNew entry-1£37,500-
West LothianNew entry-1£52,500-
HampshireNew entry-1£55,000-
LivingstonNew entry-1£52,500-
HounslowNew entry-1£25,000-
CambridgeNew entry-1£37,500-
BradfordNew entry-1£37,500-
AldershotNew entry-1£55,000-

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 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 Foreign Exchange (FX).

11485 (42.42 %)Banking
21472 (42.05 %)Finance
31413 (40.36 %)Derivative
41256 (35.88 %)Front Office
51141 (32.59 %)C++
61134 (32.39 %)Java
71027 (29.33 %)SQL
8812 (23.19 %)C#
9787 (22.48 %)Investment Banking
10786 (22.45 %)UNIX
11783 (22.37 %)Fixed Income
12672 (19.19 %)Equities
13492 (14.05 %).NET
14462 (13.20 %)Degree
15412 (11.77 %)Windows
16406 (11.60 %)Linux
17401 (11.45 %)E-Commerce
18354 (10.11 %)Multithreading
19350 (9.997 %)OO
20324 (9.254 %)Risk Management
21319 (9.112 %)XML
22311 (8.883 %)Oracle
23269 (7.684 %)Back Office
24265 (7.569 %)Electronic Trading
25255 (7.284 %)SQL Server
26239 (6.827 %)Project Management
27232 (6.627 %)Swing
28216 (6.170 %)OOD
29215 (6.141 %)WinForms
30211 (6.027 %)Perl

Foreign Exchange (FX)
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Foreign Exchange (FX) 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 Foreign Exchange (FX). Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1492 (14.05 %).NET
2319 (9.112 %)XML
3232 (6.627 %)Swing
4215 (6.141 %)WinForms
5201 (5.741 %)WPF
6193 (5.513 %)Spring
7169 (4.827 %)JDBC
8120 (3.428 %)J2EE
9110 (3.142 %)STL
10104 (2.971 %)WCF
1190 (2.571 %)Middleware
1287 (2.485 %)AJAX
1385 (2.428 %)J2SE
1479 (2.256 %)JMS
1571 (2.028 %)Boost C++ Libraries
1663 (1.799 %).NET Framework
1755 (1.571 %)Hibernate
1755 (1.571 %)CORBA
1853 (1.514 %)JSP
1944 (1.257 %)Java EE
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
153 (1.514 %)Rendezvous
221 (0.600 %)Tomcat
319 (0.543 %)MQSeries
416 (0.457 %)WebLogic
416 (0.457 %)Progress Apama
513 (0.371 %)Apache
610 (0.286 %)IIS
79 (0.257 %)Lightstreamer
88 (0.229 %)MS Exchange
88 (0.229 %)SmartSockets
88 (0.229 %)Exchange Server 2007
97 (0.200 %)SharePoint Server 2007
105 (0.143 %)SharePoint
113 (0.086 %)ESB
113 (0.086 %)Drupal
113 (0.086 %)CMS
122 (0.057 %)TIBCO EMS
131 (0.029 %)Documentum
131 (0.029 %)WebSphere Application Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
154 (1.542 %)MS Excel
233 (0.943 %)Spreadsheet
328 (0.800 %)MS Visio
426 (0.743 %)MATLAB
426 (0.743 %)MS Project
524 (0.686 %)MS PowerPoint
610 (0.286 %)MS Office
74 (0.114 %)3ds Max
81 (0.029 %)S-PLUS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
152 (1.485 %)Summit
224 (0.686 %)Misys Opics
317 (0.486 %)RMDS
415 (0.428 %)SAP CFM
415 (0.428 %)Findur
415 (0.428 %)SunGard AvantGard
415 (0.428 %)3000 Xtra
512 (0.343 %)Kondor+
610 (0.286 %)Beauchamp
77 (0.200 %)Misys Midas
77 (0.200 %)Front Arena
77 (0.200 %)Capstone
86 (0.171 %)Navision
95 (0.143 %)ION MarketView
104 (0.114 %)InvestOne
104 (0.114 %)Salerio
113 (0.086 %)SAP CO
113 (0.086 %)SAP FI
113 (0.086 %)SAP FI/CO
113 (0.086 %)GL Clearvision
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
157 (1.628 %)TCP/IP
239 (1.114 %)Internet
312 (0.343 %)VoIP
49 (0.257 %)HTTP
49 (0.257 %)AMQP
58 (0.229 %)VLAN
58 (0.229 %)Cisco IOS
67 (0.200 %)PPP
74 (0.114 %)Ethernet
74 (0.114 %)FTP
74 (0.114 %)ATM
74 (0.114 %)SONET
74 (0.114 %)MPLS
74 (0.114 %)OSPF
74 (0.114 %)BGP
74 (0.114 %)Frame Relay
74 (0.114 %)IGMP
74 (0.114 %)Fast Ethernet
74 (0.114 %)Gigabit Ethernet
74 (0.114 %)SDH
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1255 (7.284 %)SQL Server
2167 (4.770 %)RDBMS
378 (2.228 %)SQL Server 2005
439 (1.114 %)SQL Server 2008
523 (0.657 %)KDB
620 (0.571 %)BusinessObjects
719 (0.543 %)SQL Server 2000
719 (0.543 %)SQL Server Integration Services
817 (0.486 %)PostgreSQL
916 (0.457 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1014 (0.400 %)Oracle 10g
1014 (0.400 %)Reference Data
1113 (0.371 %)Crystal Reports
1212 (0.343 %)Datawarehouse
1212 (0.343 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1310 (0.286 %)OLAP
1310 (0.286 %)Oracle OLAP
148 (0.229 %)Oracle 11g
156 (0.171 %)DB2
156 (0.171 %)Oracle 8/8i
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
163 (1.799 %)QuickTest Pro
246 (1.314 %)Maven
344 (1.257 %)Ant
441 (1.171 %)Visual Studio
529 (0.828 %)Subversion
626 (0.743 %)JUnit
725 (0.714 %)TestDirector
823 (0.657 %)ClearCase
915 (0.428 %)NUnit
1012 (0.343 %)Eclipse
1110 (0.286 %)ClearQuest
128 (0.229 %)Team Foundation Server
135 (0.143 %)JIRA
144 (0.114 %)jMock
144 (0.114 %)PROIV
152 (0.057 %)FxCop
152 (0.057 %)Mockito
152 (0.057 %)Log4Net
152 (0.057 %)WinRunner
161 (0.029 %)LoadRunner
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11485 (42.42 %)Banking
21472 (42.05 %)Finance
31256 (35.88 %)Front Office
4787 (22.48 %)Investment Banking
5269 (7.684 %)Back Office
6116 (3.313 %)Pensions
7104 (2.971 %)Education
896 (2.742 %)Financial Institution
954 (1.542 %)Health
1039 (1.114 %)Telecoms
1131 (0.885 %)Games
1230 (0.857 %)Construction
1328 (0.800 %)Government
1423 (0.657 %)Retail
1517 (0.486 %)Private Banking
1613 (0.371 %)Insurance
1613 (0.371 %)Corporate Banking
1712 (0.343 %)Retail Banking
1811 (0.314 %)Mobile Games
1910 (0.286 %)Publishing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11786 (51.01 %)Developer
2726 (20.74 %)Analyst
3633 (18.08 %)Java Developer
4495 (14.14 %)C++ Developer
5426 (12.17 %)Business Analyst
6410 (11.71 %)Senior Developer
7371 (10.60 %)C# Developer
8213 (6.084 %)Project Manager
9189 (5.398 %)Applications Support
10172 (4.913 %)Senior Java Developer
11152 (4.342 %)Support Analyst
12151 (4.313 %)Java Swing Developer
13144 (4.113 %)Senior C# Developer
14137 (3.913 %)Quantitative Developer
15122 (3.485 %)Team Leader
1687 (2.485 %)Programmer
1786 (2.456 %)Senior Analyst
1882 (2.342 %).NET Developer
1977 (2.199 %)Consultant
2075 (2.142 %)Senior C++ Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11413 (40.36 %)Derivative
2783 (22.37 %)Fixed Income
3672 (19.19 %)Equities
4354 (10.11 %)Multithreading
5202 (5.770 %)Equity Derivative
6179 (5.113 %)Client/Server
7175 (4.999 %)Credit Derivative
8137 (3.913 %)Interest Rate Derivative
9123 (3.513 %)Computer Science
10111 (3.171 %)Mathematics
1173 (2.085 %)Credit Risk
1250 (1.428 %)Market Risk
1345 (1.285 %)Physics
1443 (1.228 %)Spread Betting
1538 (1.085 %)Exotic Derivative
1628 (0.800 %)Grid Computing
1727 (0.771 %)PMI
1824 (0.686 %)Management Information System
1921 (0.600 %)Contract for Difference
2018 (0.514 %)RIA
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1786 (22.45 %)UNIX
2412 (11.77 %)Windows
3406 (11.60 %)Linux
4133 (3.799 %)Solaris
544 (1.257 %)Windows XP
630 (0.857 %)Windows Server 2003
727 (0.771 %)Windows Vista
811 (0.314 %)Android
811 (0.314 %)Windows Mobile
99 (0.257 %)HPUX
107 (0.200 %)OpenVMS
114 (0.114 %)VMS
114 (0.114 %)Windows 2000
114 (0.114 %)Windows NT
114 (0.114 %)Windows Server 2008
121 (0.029 %)Red Hat Linux
121 (0.029 %)SUSE
121 (0.029 %)MVS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1401 (11.45 %)E-Commerce
2350 (9.997 %)OO
3324 (9.254 %)Risk Management
4265 (7.569 %)Electronic Trading
5239 (6.827 %)Project Management
6216 (6.170 %)OOD
7188 (5.370 %)Algorithmic Trading
8183 (5.227 %)Agile Software Development
9158 (4.513 %)Business Analysis
10144 (4.113 %)OOA/OOD
1184 (2.399 %)UML
1280 (2.285 %)Cash Management
1374 (2.114 %)User Acceptance Testing
1466 (1.885 %)PRINCE2
1560 (1.714 %)Data Modelling
1560 (1.714 %)Test Management
1658 (1.657 %)Change Management
1658 (1.657 %)Workflow
1755 (1.571 %)Scrum
1854 (1.542 %)Asset Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11141 (32.59 %)C++
21134 (32.39 %)Java
31027 (29.33 %)SQL
4812 (23.19 %)C#
5211 (6.027 %)Perl
6198 (5.656 %)VBA
798 (2.799 %)Python
798 (2.799 %)C
867 (1.914 %)T-SQL
963 (1.799 %)Shell Script
1061 (1.742 %)VB
1131 (0.885 %)JavaScript
1230 (0.857 %)PL/SQL
1327 (0.771 %)PHP
1426 (0.743 %)VC++
1522 (0.628 %)Korn
1613 (0.371 %)VB.NET
1712 (0.343 %)Ruby
189 (0.257 %)Bash shell
189 (0.257 %)VB6
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1462 (13.20 %)Degree
251 (1.457 %)PhD
335 (1.000 %)PMI Certification
421 (0.600 %)ISEB
516 (0.457 %)Microsoft Certification
615 (0.428 %)MCP
712 (0.343 %)PMP
811 (0.314 %)MCAD
811 (0.314 %)MCSD
811 (0.314 %)MCTS
98 (0.229 %)Security Cleared
106 (0.171 %)ISTQB
106 (0.171 %)DV Cleared
106 (0.171 %)Sun Certification
106 (0.171 %)ITIL Certification
115 (0.143 %)CIMA
115 (0.143 %)MBA
124 (0.114 %)JNCIA
124 (0.114 %)JNCIS
124 (0.114 %)JNCIP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1107 (3.056 %)QA
214 (0.400 %)SLA
33 (0.086 %)Basel II
42 (0.057 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
117 (0.486 %)Active Directory
22 (0.057 %)Samba
22 (0.057 %)NFS
31 (0.029 %)Oracle RAC
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
120 (0.571 %)Tivoli
213 (0.371 %)AutoSys
32 (0.057 %)CONTROL-M
41 (0.029 %)Dollar Universe
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1311 (8.883 %)Oracle
2208 (5.941 %)Sybase
3138 (3.942 %)TIBCO
4133 (3.799 %)Murex
5105 (2.999 %)Microsoft
688 (2.514 %)Reuters
768 (1.942 %)Calypso
854 (1.542 %)Bloomberg
938 (1.085 %)Wall Street Systems
1035 (1.000 %)SunGard
1130 (0.857 %)Fidessa
1229 (0.828 %)Sun
1327 (0.771 %)Cisco
1420 (0.571 %)JBoss
1420 (0.571 %)Business Objects
1420 (0.571 %)Sophis
1519 (0.543 %)SAP
1616 (0.457 %)Misys
1616 (0.457 %)Infragistics
1616 (0.457 %)DataSynapse