The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Investment Banking over the 3 months to 19 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Investment Banking
Rank 124 108 47
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -61
Permanent jobs citing Investment Banking 2390 2884 5687
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 2.194% 2.393% 4.430%
As % of the General category 5.102% 5.315% 9.284%
Number of salaries quoted 1947 2390 4461
Average salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £39,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £92,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London average salary £49,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
+8.88% -5.26%
All of the General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
46845 54257 61255
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 43.01% 45.02% 47.71%
Number of salaries quoted 37259 45609 50088
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%

Investment Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Investment Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Investment Banking
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the UK.

Investment Banking Salary Trend

Investment Banking
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Investment Banking over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Investment Banking Salary Histogram

Investment Banking
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the UK over the 3 months to 19 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 -13 2266 £65,000 -3.70% 355
London -2 2091 £67,500 -3.57% 348
City of London 0 925 £60,000 -11.11% 196
Scotland +31 103 £55,000 +37.50% 17
South East +49 95 £40,000 -27.27% 7
Glasgow +26 71 £55,000 - 2
Kent - 50 £36,000 -
West Midlands +16 42 £50,000 +5.26%
Birmingham +14 42 £50,000 +3.62%
Canary Wharf 0 40 £80,000 +10.34%
Docklands, London -4 36 £77,500 +6.89%
Surrey +17 34 £65,000 - 3
Edinburgh +16 25 £55,000 +12.24% 3
County Antrim -6 19 £60,000 +60.00% 1
Belfast -6 19 £60,000 +60.00% 1
Northern Ireland -9 19 £60,000 +60.00% 1
Bromley - 14 £70,000 -
North West -12 13 £40,000 +33.33%
Cheshire +15 11 £40,000 +9.58%
Chester - 11 £40,000 -
Yorkshire +11 8 £43,000 +7.50%
South Yorkshire +11 7 £47,500 -
West Yorkshire +3 7 £38,500 -
Leeds 0 7 £38,500 -
Bradford +16 6 - -
Sheffield +7 6 - -
East of England -2 6 £42,500 -19.04%
Bedfordshire -9 6 £42,500 -19.04%
Bournemouth -9 5 £47,500 -30.90%
Oxfordshire -17 5 £32,500 -27.77% 2

Investment Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Investment Banking 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 Investment Banking.

1 4597 (99.98%) Banking
2 2440 (53.07%) Finance
3 1402 (30.49%) SQL
4 1139 (24.77%) Java
5 1086 (23.62%) C#
6 988 (21.49%) Front Office
7 817 (17.77%) .NET
8 782 (17.01%) SQL Server
9 753 (16.38%) Degree
10 731 (15.90%) UNIX
11 698 (15.18%) Oracle
12 617 (13.42%) Derivative
13 582 (12.66%) Agile Software Development
14 526 (11.44%) Project Management
15 465 (10.11%) Fixed Income
15 465 (10.11%) Microsoft
16 463 (10.07%) Risk Management
17 462 (10.05%) Equities
18 437 (9.504%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 434 (9.439%) TDD
20 427 (9.287%) Windows
21 406 (8.830%) Business Analysis
22 393 (8.547%) Linux
22 393 (8.547%) OO
23 388 (8.438%) C++
24 353 (7.677%) Sybase
25 327 (7.112%) Legal
26 321 (6.981%) Multithreading
27 310 (6.742%) Credit Risk
28 300 (6.525%) Back Office

Investment Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Investment Banking 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 Investment Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 817 (17.77%) .NET
2 296 (6.438%) WPF
3 252 (5.481%) XML
4 237 (5.154%) Spring
5 235 (5.111%) ASP.NET
6 206 (4.480%) WCF
7 203 (4.415%) J2EE
8 161 (3.502%) .NET Framework
9 156 (3.393%) WinForms
10 153 (3.328%) Hibernate
11 143 (3.110%) Web Services
12 142 (3.088%) HTML
13 132 (2.871%) ASP.NET MVC
14 119 (2.588%) Middleware
15 115 (2.501%) CSS
16 113 (2.458%) JMS
17 110 (2.392%) HTML5
18 89 (1.936%) FIX Protocol
19 84 (1.827%) JSP
20 76 (1.653%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 139 (3.023%) SharePoint
2 67 (1.457%) Oracle Coherence
3 56 (1.218%) Force.com
4 48 (1.044%) MQSeries
5 45 (0.979%) Tomcat
6 40 (0.870%) BizTalk Server
6 40 (0.870%) Apache
6 40 (0.870%) WebLogic
7 36 (0.783%) TIBCO EMS
8 35 (0.761%) CMS
9 34 (0.739%) ESB
10 30 (0.652%) MS Exchange
11 29 (0.631%) Amazon AWS
12 28 (0.609%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (0.478%) IIS
13 22 (0.478%) GemFire
14 21 (0.457%) SharePoint 2010
14 21 (0.457%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 19 (0.413%) SharePoint Server
15 19 (0.413%) SAS
Applications
1 234 (5.089%) MS Excel
2 140 (3.045%) MS Office
3 93 (2.023%) MS PowerPoint
4 75 (1.631%) MS Visio
5 36 (0.783%) MS Project
6 28 (0.609%) Photoshop
7 13 (0.283%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.283%) InDesign
8 7 (0.152%) PowerPivot
9 5 (0.109%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.109%) InfoPath
10 4 (0.087%) Mingle
11 3 (0.065%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.022%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 44 (0.957%) Summit
2 33 (0.718%) ION MarketView
3 30 (0.652%) Front Arena
4 20 (0.435%) Findur
4 20 (0.435%) Misys Opics
5 12 (0.261%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (0.261%) Oracle BPM
6 11 (0.239%) Eagle PACE
7 9 (0.196%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.196%) RMDS
7 9 (0.196%) SunGard GMI
8 8 (0.174%) Endur
8 8 (0.174%) FLEXCUBE
8 8 (0.174%) LatentZero
9 7 (0.152%) Finacle
9 7 (0.152%) Misys Midas
10 5 (0.109%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.109%) Murex MxG2000
11 4 (0.087%) Maximo
11 4 (0.087%) SimCorp Dimension
Communications & Networking
1 135 (2.936%) HTTP
2 90 (1.957%) TCP/IP
3 88 (1.914%) SAN
4 80 (1.740%) Firewall
5 43 (0.935%) DNS
6 35 (0.761%) LAN
6 35 (0.761%) WAN
7 34 (0.739%) Cisco Nexus
8 28 (0.609%) EIGRP
8 28 (0.609%) DHCP
9 27 (0.587%) Network Security
9 27 (0.587%) VPN
9 27 (0.587%) Intranet
10 21 (0.457%) BGP
11 20 (0.435%) MPLS
11 20 (0.435%) Internet
11 20 (0.435%) VLAN
11 20 (0.435%) Cisco IOS
12 17 (0.370%) FTP
13 16 (0.348%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 782 (17.01%) SQL Server
2 205 (4.458%) Data Warehouse
3 156 (3.393%) SQL Server 2008
4 127 (2.762%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 114 (2.479%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 78 (1.696%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 66 (1.435%) DB2
7 66 (1.435%) Oracle 10g
8 65 (1.414%) Oracle 11g
9 62 (1.348%) SQL Server 2005
9 62 (1.348%) RDBMS
10 60 (1.305%) OLAP
11 45 (0.979%) Oracle 8/8i
12 36 (0.783%) Big Data
13 33 (0.718%) MySQL
14 32 (0.696%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 28 (0.609%) OLTP
16 25 (0.544%) Hadoop
17 23 (0.500%) SQL Server 2012
17 23 (0.500%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 118 (2.566%) Subversion
2 84 (1.827%) JIRA
3 83 (1.805%) QuickTest Pro
4 73 (1.588%) Maven
5 59 (1.283%) TeamCity
6 56 (1.218%) NUnit
7 53 (1.153%) JUnit
8 40 (0.870%) LoadRunner
9 38 (0.826%) Team Foundation Server
9 38 (0.826%) Selenium
10 37 (0.805%) Eclipse
11 36 (0.783%) Rhino Mocks
11 36 (0.783%) Moq
12 35 (0.761%) ClearCase
13 31 (0.674%) MSTest
14 28 (0.609%) Visual Studio
15 19 (0.413%) Cucumber
15 19 (0.413%) MSBuild
16 18 (0.391%) CruiseControl
16 18 (0.391%) FitNesse
General
1 4597 (99.98%) Banking
2 2440 (53.07%) Finance
3 988 (21.49%) Front Office
4 327 (7.112%) Legal
5 300 (6.525%) Back Office
6 200 (4.350%) Retail
7 137 (2.980%) Financial Institution
8 115 (2.501%) Retail Banking
9 72 (1.566%) Telecoms
10 58 (1.261%) Law
11 56 (1.218%) Corporate Banking
12 47 (1.022%) Marketing
13 39 (0.848%) Private Banking
14 28 (0.609%) Advertising
15 25 (0.544%) International Banking
15 25 (0.544%) Games
16 16 (0.348%) General Ledger
17 14 (0.304%) Publishing
17 14 (0.304%) Wholesale Banking
18 8 (0.174%) French Language
Job Titles
1 1530 (33.28%) Developer
2 1115 (24.25%) Analyst
3 669 (14.55%) Business Analyst
4 480 (10.44%) Java Developer
5 339 (7.373%) Project Manager
6 288 (6.264%) C# Developer
7 276 (6.003%) Senior Developer
8 235 (5.111%) Architect
9 224 (4.872%) .NET Developer
10 208 (4.524%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 199 (4.328%) Applications Support
12 196 (4.263%) Banking Business Analyst
13 149 (3.241%) Support Analyst
14 138 (3.001%) Consultant
15 129 (2.806%) Senior Java Developer
16 119 (2.588%) Senior Analyst
17 108 (2.349%) SQL Developer
18 95 (2.066%) Junior
19 91 (1.979%) Team Leader
20 84 (1.827%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 617 (13.42%) Derivative
2 465 (10.11%) Fixed Income
3 462 (10.05%) Equities
4 437 (9.504%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 310 (6.742%) Credit Risk
6 293 (6.372%) Computer Science
7 208 (4.524%) Market Risk
8 190 (4.132%) Hedge funds
9 141 (3.067%) Mathematics
10 91 (1.979%) Enterprise Software
11 88 (1.914%) Reference Data
12 87 (1.892%) Equity Derivative
13 84 (1.827%) Management Information System
14 80 (1.740%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 77 (1.675%) Grid Computing
16 57 (1.240%) PaaS
17 55 (1.196%) Tandem
17 55 (1.196%) Inversion of Control
18 53 (1.153%) Credit Derivative
19 44 (0.957%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 731 (15.90%) UNIX
2 427 (9.287%) Windows
3 393 (8.547%) Linux
4 116 (2.523%) Solaris
5 69 (1.501%) Windows Server 2008
6 59 (1.283%) Windows 7
7 55 (1.196%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 54 (1.174%) Windows Server 2003
9 53 (1.153%) Windows XP
10 29 (0.631%) AIX
11 15 (0.326%) Oracle Linux
12 13 (0.283%) MVS
13 12 (0.261%) HPUX
14 11 (0.239%) SUSE
15 10 (0.217%) Android
16 9 (0.196%) Windows Server 2012
17 7 (0.152%) Windows 2000 Server
18 5 (0.109%) CentOS
19 4 (0.087%) zOS
19 4 (0.087%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (12.66%) Agile Software Development
2 526 (11.44%) Project Management
3 463 (10.07%) Risk Management
4 434 (9.439%) TDD
5 406 (8.830%) Business Analysis
6 393 (8.547%) OO
7 321 (6.981%) Multithreading
8 294 (6.394%) Scrum
9 260 (5.655%) Asset Management
10 250 (5.437%) Stakeholder Management
11 247 (5.372%) ITIL
12 228 (4.959%) Change Management
13 212 (4.611%) Continuous Integration
14 197 (4.284%) User Acceptance Testing
15 187 (4.067%) MVC
16 176 (3.828%) Data Management
17 168 (3.654%) Data Modelling
18 158 (3.436%) Business Intelligence
19 149 (3.241%) Data Analysis
20 146 (3.175%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1402 (30.49%) SQL
2 1139 (24.77%) Java
3 1086 (23.62%) C#
4 388 (8.438%) C++
5 250 (5.437%) JavaScript
6 235 (5.111%) Perl
7 154 (3.349%) PL/SQL
8 144 (3.132%) T-SQL
9 141 (3.067%) Python
10 108 (2.349%) Ruby
11 83 (1.805%) VBA
12 80 (1.740%) C
13 71 (1.544%) Shell Script
14 66 (1.435%) PHP
15 61 (1.327%) PowerShell
16 46 (1.000%) VB
17 33 (0.718%) Bash shell
18 31 (0.674%) Scala
18 31 (0.674%) Korn
19 30 (0.652%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 753 (16.38%) Degree
2 81 (1.762%) ISEB
3 59 (1.283%) Cisco Certification
3 59 (1.283%) Microsoft Certification
4 54 (1.174%) MCP
5 53 (1.153%) MCTS
6 52 (1.131%) PMI Certification
6 52 (1.131%) MCAD
6 52 (1.131%) MCSD
7 32 (0.696%) CCA
7 32 (0.696%) ITIL Certification
8 31 (0.674%) PMP
9 25 (0.544%) CFA
10 20 (0.435%) CCNP
11 19 (0.413%) ISTQB
12 18 (0.391%) CISSP
12 18 (0.391%) CCNA
13 17 (0.370%) CCIE
13 17 (0.370%) CISA
14 16 (0.348%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (5.481%) QA
2 103 (2.240%) Basel III
3 54 (1.174%) SLA
4 33 (0.718%) Basel II
5 24 (0.522%) ISO 9001
6 22 (0.478%) Data Quality
7 20 (0.435%) COBIT
8 19 (0.413%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.217%) MiFID
10 7 (0.152%) FATCA
11 5 (0.109%) IAS 39
11 5 (0.109%) GAAP
12 4 (0.087%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.065%) ISO 9000
14 1 (0.022%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.022%) COSO
14 1 (0.022%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.022%) WAI
14 1 (0.022%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 77 (1.675%) Active Directory
2 27 (0.587%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (0.544%) Oracle RAC
4 21 (0.457%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 21 (0.457%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 19 (0.413%) Oracle RMAN
6 18 (0.391%) XenApp
7 14 (0.304%) XenDesktop
7 14 (0.304%) vSphere
8 11 (0.239%) Veritas File System
8 11 (0.239%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (0.152%) Varnish
10 6 (0.130%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.109%) SRDF
11 5 (0.109%) XenServer
11 5 (0.109%) VMware ESX
12 4 (0.087%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 3 (0.065%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.043%) NFS
14 2 (0.043%) Snort
Systems Management
1 62 (1.348%) HP Quality Center
2 20 (0.435%) Tivoli
3 15 (0.326%) Data Guard
3 15 (0.326%) Puppet
4 9 (0.196%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 8 (0.174%) NetBackup
6 7 (0.152%) SCCM
7 6 (0.130%) CiscoWorks
7 6 (0.130%) HP NNM
8 5 (0.109%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (0.109%) Cisco UCCX
8 5 (0.109%) SCOM
8 5 (0.109%) Foglight
8 5 (0.109%) Control-M
8 5 (0.109%) Legato
9 4 (0.087%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (0.087%) CA Endevor
9 4 (0.087%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.087%) YUM
9 4 (0.087%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 698 (15.18%) Oracle
2 465 (10.11%) Microsoft
3 353 (7.677%) Sybase
4 200 (4.350%) TIBCO
5 99 (2.153%) Cisco
6 96 (2.088%) Business Objects
7 86 (1.870%) IBM
8 80 (1.740%) HP
9 78 (1.696%) Murex
10 76 (1.653%) Bloomberg
11 62 (1.348%) VMware
12 57 (1.240%) Reuters
13 56 (1.218%) EMC
14 54 (1.174%) Perforce
14 54 (1.174%) Red Hat
14 54 (1.174%) DataSynapse
15 51 (1.109%) Citrix
16 49 (1.066%) Sun
17 46 (1.000%) Informatica
18 41 (0.892%) Fidessa
City of London
This Business Analyst will have to have well established and detailed experience with OTC Derivatives and Collateral management as these are the main business areas the projects are...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 27 May 2013
London
Our large Investment Banking client based in London is seeking a Business Analyst (Trade Lifecycle Management expert) to work on a number of specific internal projects. To apply...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £60000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Ideally this role is looking for a well experienced Technical Business Analyst who has experience within a Fixed Income team and has great knowledge around Interest Rate Derivatives.
Huxley Associates
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
This opportunity is ideal for a Business Analyst who is currently working in a large bank sitting within the Treasury team and has a good understanding of how...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £40000 - £72000 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
City, London
Junior C# Developer - Cash equities - Banking - London. A specialist consultancy has a great opportunity on their internal career development programme for an accomplished and ambitious junior C# Developer...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits, Bonus + Training Budget
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INSURANCE,PENSION
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits and Bonus
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £65000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £500 - £600 per annum + Market Rates
Posted: 18 June 2013
Stirling, Scotland
Huxley Associates
Posted: 28 May 2013
London
Real Staffing
Salary: £90000 - £120000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 5 June 2013
City, London
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £65000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Scotland
IT Human Resources
Salary: £1 per annum + negotiable
Posted: 3 June 2013
London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £65000.00 - £80000.00 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INSURANCE,PENSION
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £80,000 to £90,000 per annum £80k-£90k + Excellent Package
Posted: 14 June 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Grey Spark
Salary: Attractive Salary + Benefits + OTE
Posted: 4 June 2013
City, London
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INSURANCE,PENSION
Posted: 13 June 2013
Scotland
Huxley Associates
Posted: 31 May 2013
City, London
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INSURANCE,PENSION
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £32000 - £42000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INSURANCE,PENSION
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
DCM Select
Salary: From £75,000 to £110,000 per annum + Bonus + excellent benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
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