The first part of the 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 22 May 2012 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 General category.

Investment Banking
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank1064532
Rank change year-on-year
Down-61Down-13
Matching permanent IT job ads292955644998
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.429 %4.538 %5.235 %
As % of the General category5.397 %9.381 %10.74 %
Number of salaries quoted234943253952
Average salary£67,500£70,000£70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.57 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£39,000£42,500£45,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£92,500£95,000£90,000
UK excluding London average salary£45,000£45,000£42,500
% change year-on-year
-+5.88 %
IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
542715931346540
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK45.01 %48.37 %48.74 %
Number of salaries quoted456244848337646
Average salary£50,000£52,500£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£85,000£85,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£41,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.65 %+2.50 %

Investment Banking
Demand Trend

The 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 Demand Trend

Investment Banking
Salary Trend

The 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

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Investment Banking over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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 22 May 2012. 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
EnglandDown-592834£67,500-3.57 %
LondonDown-242692£67,500-3.57 %
City of LondonDown-131038£65,000-7.14 %
Docklands, LondonUp+177£67,500-18.18 %
Canary WharfNo change055£70,000-17.64 %
South EastDown-5150£50,000-20.00 %
ScotlandDown-3449£40,000-11.11 %
BelfastUp+1729£37,500-25.00 %
County AntrimUp+1729£37,500-25.00 %
Northern IrelandUp+1629£37,500-25.00 %
SurreyDown-3528£58,750-6.00 %
South WestDown-1427£45,000-30.76 %
North WestUp+1126£27,500-54.16 %
StirlingUp+221£33,000-30.52 %
BristolNew entry-16£45,000-
GlasgowDown-1815£55,000+22.22 %
West MidlandsDown-1114£46,250+23.33 %
ManchesterUp+613£30,000-50.00 %
BirminghamDown-312£46,250+15.62 %
DorsetUp+19£68,750+37.50 %
BournemouthDown-39£68,750+37.50 %
CheshireDown-49£40,000-
YorkshireDown-119£38,750+3.33 %
Tyne and WearUp+68£39,000+4.00 %
Newcastle upon TyneUp+38£39,000+4.00 %
North EastDown-98£39,000+4.00 %
EdinburghDown-308£45,000-
East of EnglandDown-197£52,500+16.66 %
HampshireNew entry-7£50,000-
BedfordshireNew entry-6£52,500-

Investment Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

15853 (100.00 %)Banking
23356 (57.34 %)Finance
31627 (27.80 %)SQL
41434 (24.50 %)Java
51216 (20.78 %)C#
61136 (19.41 %)Front Office
71025 (17.51 %)Oracle
8929 (15.87 %)SQL Server
9910 (15.55 %)UNIX
10868 (14.83 %)Derivative
11809 (13.82 %).NET
12804 (13.74 %)Degree
13708 (12.10 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
14596 (10.18 %)C++
15589 (10.06 %)Windows
16549 (9.380 %)Fixed Income
17503 (8.594 %)Agile Software Development
18495 (8.457 %)Project Management
19482 (8.235 %)Business Analysis
20470 (8.030 %)Equities
21469 (8.013 %)Microsoft
22464 (7.928 %)Hedge funds
23443 (7.569 %)Risk Management
24420 (7.176 %)Multithreading
25408 (6.971 %)XML
26407 (6.954 %)Linux
26407 (6.954 %)OO
27401 (6.851 %)Back Office
28345 (5.894 %)WPF
29329 (5.621 %)ASP.NET

Investment Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1809 (13.82 %).NET
2408 (6.971 %)XML
3345 (5.894 %)WPF
4329 (5.621 %)ASP.NET
5294 (5.023 %)J2EE
6285 (4.869 %)Spring
7205 (3.502 %)Middleware
8183 (3.127 %)Hibernate
9182 (3.110 %)WinForms
10177 (3.024 %)WCF
11131 (2.238 %)Web Services
12122 (2.084 %)ASP.NET MVC
13103 (1.760 %)Ajax
14102 (1.743 %)JMS
1599 (1.691 %).NET Framework
1695 (1.623 %)Apache Flex
1791 (1.555 %)HTML
1888 (1.504 %)WebSphere
1987 (1.486 %)CSS
2086 (1.469 %)Java EE
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1133 (2.272 %)SharePoint
288 (1.504 %)WebLogic
376 (1.298 %)TIBCO EMS
473 (1.247 %)Oracle Coherence
562 (1.059 %)Apache
661 (1.042 %)Tomcat
661 (1.042 %)MS Exchange
759 (1.008 %)WebSphere MQ
855 (0.940 %)MQSeries
953 (0.906 %)Rendezvous
1040 (0.683 %)CMS
1138 (0.649 %)ESB
1230 (0.513 %)SharePoint Server
1328 (0.478 %)BizTalk Server
1427 (0.461 %)Exchange Server 2010
1525 (0.427 %)IIS
1623 (0.393 %)Lotus Notes
1721 (0.359 %)MSMQ
1721 (0.359 %)TIBCO ActiveMatrix
1819 (0.325 %)Exchange Server 2007
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1292 (4.989 %)MS Excel
2138 (2.358 %)MS Visio
2138 (2.358 %)MS Office
385 (1.452 %)MS Project
482 (1.401 %)MS PowerPoint
518 (0.308 %)Spreadsheet
518 (0.308 %)Mingle
616 (0.273 %)Photoshop
616 (0.273 %)Adobe Illustrator
715 (0.256 %)MATLAB
89 (0.154 %)InDesign
93 (0.051 %)SPSS
93 (0.051 %)InfoPath
102 (0.034 %)PowerPivot
102 (0.034 %)Office 365
111 (0.017 %)FrameMaker
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
167 (1.145 %)Summit
224 (0.410 %)ION MarketView
319 (0.325 %)Oracle BPM
418 (0.308 %)SAP R/3
517 (0.290 %)Kondor+
517 (0.290 %)SAP ERP
614 (0.239 %)Dynamics CRM
713 (0.222 %)LatentZero
812 (0.205 %)RMDS
812 (0.205 %)Oracle EBS
910 (0.171 %)BusinessWorks
108 (0.137 %)Siebel Analytics
117 (0.120 %)SAP FI
117 (0.120 %)Oracle 11i
117 (0.120 %)SunGard Martini
117 (0.120 %)Adaptiv
126 (0.103 %)SAP CO
126 (0.103 %)Dynamics NAV
126 (0.103 %)LongView
126 (0.103 %)Endur
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1158 (2.699 %)TCP/IP
296 (1.640 %)Internet
384 (1.435 %)SAN
474 (1.264 %)Firewall
570 (1.196 %)WAN
666 (1.128 %)DNS
764 (1.093 %)LAN
857 (0.974 %)BGP
942 (0.718 %)OSPF
1038 (0.649 %)DHCP
1133 (0.564 %)SSL
1231 (0.530 %)LDAP
1231 (0.530 %)HTTP
1330 (0.513 %)EIGRP
1429 (0.495 %)VPN
1528 (0.478 %)Intranet
1624 (0.410 %)NAS
1723 (0.393 %)DMZ
1820 (0.342 %)Network Security
1918 (0.308 %)RIP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1929 (15.87 %)SQL Server
2308 (5.262 %)SQL Server Integration Services
3242 (4.135 %)Data Warehouse
4241 (4.118 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
5222 (3.793 %)SQL Server 2008
6168 (2.870 %)ETL
7160 (2.734 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
8143 (2.443 %)SQL Server 2005
9140 (2.392 %)Oracle 10g
1083 (1.418 %)RDBMS
1182 (1.401 %)Oracle 11g
1264 (1.093 %)Oracle 8/8i
1358 (0.991 %)OLAP
1443 (0.735 %)OLTP
1541 (0.700 %)DTS
1638 (0.649 %)SQL Server 2000
1735 (0.598 %)Star Schema
1833 (0.564 %)Data Mining
1926 (0.444 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
2025 (0.427 %)Oracle Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1186 (3.178 %)Subversion
2123 (2.101 %)Maven
3114 (1.948 %)Ant
4107 (1.828 %)QuickTest Pro
589 (1.521 %)Visual Studio
674 (1.264 %)JUnit
674 (1.264 %)Selenium
771 (1.213 %)TeamCity
868 (1.162 %)JIRA
957 (0.974 %)ClearCase
1043 (0.735 %)LoadRunner
1043 (0.735 %)FitNesse
1134 (0.581 %)Eclipse
1227 (0.461 %)Hudson
1326 (0.444 %)Team Foundation Server
1424 (0.410 %)CruiseControl
1517 (0.290 %)jMock
1616 (0.273 %)TestDirector
1715 (0.256 %)Expression Blend
1814 (0.239 %)NUnit
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15853 (100.00 %)Banking
23356 (57.34 %)Finance
31136 (19.41 %)Front Office
4401 (6.851 %)Back Office
5216 (3.690 %)Retail
6196 (3.349 %)Legal
7183 (3.127 %)Financial Institution
8139 (2.375 %)Telecoms
9122 (2.084 %)Retail Banking
10105 (1.794 %)General Ledger
1197 (1.657 %)Marketing
1269 (1.179 %)Corporate Banking
1351 (0.871 %)Games
1448 (0.820 %)French Language
1546 (0.786 %)Law
1645 (0.769 %)German Language
1740 (0.683 %)Wholesale Banking
1833 (0.564 %)International Banking
1924 (0.410 %)Billing
2021 (0.359 %)Private Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11832 (31.30 %)Developer
21420 (24.26 %)Analyst
3764 (13.05 %)Business Analyst
4617 (10.54 %)Java Developer
5502 (8.577 %)C# Developer
6403 (6.885 %)Project Manager
7393 (6.715 %)Architect
8335 (5.724 %)Support Analyst
9311 (5.314 %)Applications Support
10218 (3.725 %)Senior Developer
11204 (3.485 %).NET Developer
12191 (3.263 %)Senior Analyst
13189 (3.229 %)Banking Business Analyst
14186 (3.178 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
15161 (2.751 %)C# .NET Developer
16142 (2.426 %)Applications Support Analyst
17135 (2.307 %)C++ Developer
17135 (2.307 %)Programme Manager
18130 (2.221 %)SQL Developer
19118 (2.016 %)Consultant
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1868 (14.83 %)Derivative
2708 (12.10 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3549 (9.380 %)Fixed Income
4470 (8.030 %)Equities
5464 (7.928 %)Hedge funds
6300 (5.126 %)Computer Science
7280 (4.784 %)Credit Risk
8273 (4.664 %)Market Risk
9191 (3.263 %)Equity Derivative
10145 (2.477 %)Mathematics
11137 (2.341 %)Credit Derivative
1295 (1.623 %)Reference Data
1393 (1.589 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1489 (1.521 %)Open Source
1576 (1.298 %)Management Information System
1675 (1.281 %)N-Tier
1759 (1.008 %)Blackberry
1858 (0.991 %)Client/Server
1951 (0.871 %)Clustering
2046 (0.786 %)Physics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1910 (15.55 %)UNIX
2589 (10.06 %)Windows
3407 (6.954 %)Linux
4205 (3.502 %)Solaris
589 (1.521 %)Windows Server 2008
673 (1.247 %)Windows Server 2003
763 (1.076 %)Windows XP
856 (0.957 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
951 (0.871 %)Windows 7
1020 (0.342 %)Apple iOS
1115 (0.256 %)Windows 2000 Server
1212 (0.205 %)SUSE
1311 (0.188 %)Android
148 (0.137 %)Windows 2000
148 (0.137 %)Stratus VOS
156 (0.103 %)AIX
165 (0.085 %)Debian
174 (0.068 %)Oracle Linux
183 (0.051 %)VMS
183 (0.051 %)OS/400
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1503 (8.594 %)Agile Software Development
2495 (8.457 %)Project Management
3482 (8.235 %)Business Analysis
4443 (7.569 %)Risk Management
5420 (7.176 %)Multithreading
6407 (6.954 %)OO
7312 (5.331 %)Scrum
8300 (5.126 %)UML
9286 (4.886 %)TDD
10284 (4.852 %)Business Intelligence
11271 (4.630 %)User Acceptance Testing
12267 (4.562 %)Asset Management
13263 (4.493 %)Change Management
14242 (4.135 %)Data Modelling
15237 (4.049 %)ITIL
16236 (4.032 %)E-Commerce
17200 (3.417 %)Electronic Trading
18199 (3.400 %)Stakeholder Management
19171 (2.922 %)MVC
20153 (2.614 %)Data Analysis
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11627 (27.80 %)SQL
21434 (24.50 %)Java
31216 (20.78 %)C#
4596 (10.18 %)C++
5276 (4.716 %)Perl
6214 (3.656 %)PL/SQL
7198 (3.383 %)Python
8189 (3.229 %)T-SQL
9161 (2.751 %)VBA
10149 (2.546 %)JavaScript
11127 (2.170 %)Shell Script
1291 (1.555 %)VB.NET
1385 (1.452 %)C
1462 (1.059 %)VB
1554 (0.923 %)VBScript
1633 (0.564 %)Korn
1732 (0.547 %)VC++
1732 (0.547 %)Scala
1732 (0.547 %)Bash shell
1828 (0.478 %)PowerShell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1804 (13.74 %)Degree
281 (1.384 %)Cisco Certification
281 (1.384 %)Microsoft Certification
371 (1.213 %)ISEB
453 (0.906 %)CIMA
545 (0.769 %)CCIE
644 (0.752 %)MCP
740 (0.683 %)PMI Certification
838 (0.649 %)MCSE
937 (0.632 %)MCTS
1036 (0.615 %)PhD
1133 (0.564 %)MCSD
1133 (0.564 %)MBA
1232 (0.547 %)MCAD
1330 (0.513 %)CCNP
1428 (0.478 %)CCNA
1428 (0.478 %)PMP
1428 (0.478 %)CFA
1527 (0.461 %)ACCA
1621 (0.359 %)ISTQB
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1273 (4.664 %)QA
291 (1.555 %)Basel II
380 (1.367 %)Basel III
450 (0.854 %)SLA
536 (0.615 %)Data Quality
627 (0.461 %)ISO 9001
725 (0.427 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
817 (0.290 %)COBIT
916 (0.273 %)ISO/IEC 27001
916 (0.273 %)Solvency II
1015 (0.256 %)MiFID
1111 (0.188 %)PCI DSS
126 (0.103 %)FATCA
133 (0.051 %)GAAP
142 (0.034 %)COSO
151 (0.017 %)ISO 9000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1137 (2.341 %)Active Directory
252 (0.888 %)VMware Infrastructure
332 (0.547 %)Oracle RAC
421 (0.359 %)vSphere
516 (0.273 %)XenApp
614 (0.239 %)Oracle RMAN
614 (0.239 %)VMware ESXi
711 (0.188 %)XenDesktop
711 (0.188 %)NFS
711 (0.188 %)VMware ESX
810 (0.171 %)MetaFrame
810 (0.171 %)Veritas Volume Manager
810 (0.171 %)Veritas Cluster Server
97 (0.120 %)Terminal Server
97 (0.120 %)Terminal Services
106 (0.103 %)ClearTrust
115 (0.085 %)ProxySG
124 (0.068 %)Citrix Presentation Server
133 (0.051 %)SRDF
142 (0.034 %)Veritas File System
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
183 (1.418 %)HP Quality Center
221 (0.359 %)Control-M
317 (0.290 %)Tivoli
416 (0.273 %)NetBackup
514 (0.239 %)Data Guard
611 (0.188 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
710 (0.171 %)Nagios
89 (0.154 %)CiscoWorks
98 (0.137 %)SCCM
107 (0.120 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
116 (0.103 %)Tivoli Monitoring
116 (0.103 %)BMC PATROL
116 (0.103 %)Cisco CUCM
125 (0.085 %)ServiceCenter
134 (0.068 %)MOM
134 (0.068 %)OpenView
134 (0.068 %)SCOM
134 (0.068 %)BladeLogic
143 (0.051 %)EMC TimeFinder
143 (0.051 %)WMI
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11025 (17.51 %)Oracle
2469 (8.013 %)Microsoft
3308 (5.262 %)Sybase
4274 (4.681 %)TIBCO
5135 (2.307 %)Bloomberg
6134 (2.289 %)Cisco
7117 (1.999 %)Reuters
8103 (1.760 %)Sun
998 (1.674 %)SAP
1095 (1.623 %)IBM
1188 (1.504 %)VMware
1282 (1.401 %)Business Objects
1381 (1.384 %)DataSynapse
1477 (1.316 %)Murex
1576 (1.298 %)Citrix
1671 (1.213 %)HP
1763 (1.076 %)Informatica
1861 (1.042 %)Fidessa
1957 (0.974 %)EMC
2054 (0.923 %)JBoss