The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Banking over the 3 months to 24 May 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 for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Banking
Rank 124 126 122
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Banking 80 60 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.591% 1.316% 1.366%
As % of the General category 4.515% 3.963% 4.213%
Number of salaries quoted 62 58 48
Average salary £50,000 £47,250 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.82% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £29,550 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £62,500 £68,250
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +11.11%
All of the General Category
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
1772 1514 1353
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 35.24% 33.22% 32.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1367 1302 1121
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Banking
England

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Banking across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

West Midlands Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Banking
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Banking across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Banking Salary Trend

Banking
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Banking across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands Banking Salary Histogram

Banking
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Birmingham +9 69 £50,000 -
Worcestershire +3 3 £24,000 -26.15%
Staffordshire +1 2 £37,500 -6.25%
Shropshire -2 1 £50,000 +31.57%
Wolverhampton - 1 £37,500 -
Banking
England

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing 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 Banking.

1 128 (59.81%) Finance
2 73 (34.11%) Investment Banking
3 61 (28.50%) UNIX
4 60 (28.04%) Oracle
5 59 (27.57%) ITIL
6 54 (25.23%) Degree
7 53 (24.77%) Windows
8 42 (19.63%) SQL Server
9 41 (19.16%) SQL
10 37 (17.29%) Windows Server 2003
10 37 (17.29%) Windows Server 2008
11 35 (16.36%) Project Management
11 35 (16.36%) Change Management
12 32 (14.95%) Cisco
12 32 (14.95%) SAN
13 31 (14.49%) Sybase
14 30 (14.02%) Shell Script
14 30 (14.02%) Migration
15 26 (12.15%) Linux
15 26 (12.15%) SAS
15 26 (12.15%) Oracle 11g
15 26 (12.15%) Risk Analysis
16 25 (11.68%) EMC
16 25 (11.68%) Oracle 10g
17 23 (10.75%) Service Delivery
17 23 (10.75%) Symmetrix DMX
18 22 (10.28%) Problem Management
18 22 (10.28%) MS Excel
19 21 (9.813%) SLA
20 20 (9.346%) Active Directory

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing 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 Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (8.879%) .NET
2 13 (6.075%) XML
3 11 (5.140%) ASP.NET
4 10 (4.673%) HTML
5 7 (3.271%) Silverlight
5 7 (3.271%) .NET Framework
6 5 (2.336%) Middleware
6 5 (2.336%) J2EE
6 5 (2.336%) Web Services
6 5 (2.336%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.402%) Ajax
7 3 (1.402%) CSS
7 3 (1.402%) CGI
7 3 (1.402%) jQuery
7 3 (1.402%) WCF
8 1 (0.467%) Spring
8 1 (0.467%) COM
8 1 (0.467%) Apache CXF
8 1 (0.467%) Drools
Application Platforms
1 26 (12.15%) SAS
2 15 (7.009%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.336%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (1.402%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.467%) IIS
5 1 (0.467%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (0.467%) Apache
Applications
1 22 (10.28%) MS Excel
2 12 (5.607%) MS PowerPoint
3 7 (3.271%) MS Office
4 6 (2.804%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.869%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 2 (0.935%) SAP R/3
2 2 (0.935%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.935%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.935%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.467%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.467%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.95%) SAN
2 19 (8.879%) DHCP
2 19 (8.879%) DNS
3 18 (8.411%) VPN
3 18 (8.411%) IP Telephony
4 17 (7.944%) Firewall
5 7 (3.271%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.336%) WAN
6 5 (2.336%) LAN
6 5 (2.336%) NAS
7 1 (0.467%) 3G
7 1 (0.467%) VoIP
7 1 (0.467%) Broadband
7 1 (0.467%) HTTP
7 1 (0.467%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.467%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.467%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.467%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (19.63%) SQL Server
2 26 (12.15%) Oracle 11g
3 25 (11.68%) Oracle 10g
4 14 (6.542%) Oracle Exadata
5 11 (5.140%) SQL Server 2008
5 11 (5.140%) Oracle 8/8i
6 7 (3.271%) Base SAS
6 7 (3.271%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (1.869%) Cognos Powerplay
7 4 (1.869%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (1.869%) Sybase IQ
8 3 (1.402%) SAP BW
8 3 (1.402%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.467%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.467%) DB2
9 1 (0.467%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.467%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.467%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.467%) Xcelsius
9 1 (0.467%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 3 (1.402%) TestDirector
2 2 (0.935%) Selenium
2 2 (0.935%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 128 (59.81%) Finance
2 73 (34.11%) Investment Banking
3 20 (9.346%) Back Office
4 16 (7.477%) Corporate Banking
5 11 (5.140%) Retail
6 10 (4.673%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.738%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.271%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.804%) Marketing
9 6 (2.804%) Billing
10 3 (1.402%) Advertising
11 2 (0.935%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.935%) Front Office
12 1 (0.467%) Law
12 1 (0.467%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.467%) Cantonese Language
12 1 (0.467%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 38 (17.76%) DBA
2 29 (13.55%) Analyst
3 18 (8.411%) Oracle DBA
4 17 (7.944%) Network Engineer
5 16 (7.477%) Developer
5 16 (7.477%) Architect
5 16 (7.477%) SQL Server DBA
5 16 (7.477%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 16 (7.477%) SQL DBA
6 12 (5.607%) Project Manager
6 12 (5.607%) Service Manager
7 11 (5.140%) Administrator
7 11 (5.140%) Technical Manager
8 10 (4.673%) Consultant
9 7 (3.271%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (3.271%) Oracle Developer
9 7 (3.271%) Infrastructure Architect
9 7 (3.271%) Storage Administrator
9 7 (3.271%) Test Analyst
10 6 (2.804%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.75%) Symmetrix DMX
2 13 (6.075%) Wiki
3 11 (5.140%) Replication
4 9 (4.206%) Symmetrix
5 7 (3.271%) Computer Science
6 6 (2.804%) Derivative
7 5 (2.336%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.869%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.869%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.402%) AS400
10 2 (0.935%) Informatics
10 2 (0.935%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.935%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.935%) Economics
10 2 (0.935%) Clustering
11 1 (0.467%) Equities
11 1 (0.467%) Blackberry
11 1 (0.467%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.467%) Mathematics
11 1 (0.467%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 61 (28.50%) UNIX
2 53 (24.77%) Windows
3 37 (17.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 37 (17.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 26 (12.15%) Linux
5 16 (7.477%) AIX
5 16 (7.477%) Solaris
5 16 (7.477%) SUSE
6 13 (6.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.402%) Windows 2000
8 2 (0.935%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.467%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.467%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.57%) ITIL
2 35 (16.36%) Project Management
2 35 (16.36%) Change Management
3 30 (14.02%) Migration
4 26 (12.15%) Risk Analysis
5 23 (10.75%) Service Delivery
6 22 (10.28%) Problem Management
7 19 (8.879%) Incident Management
8 17 (7.944%) Waterfall
9 16 (7.477%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (7.477%) Capacity Planning
9 16 (7.477%) RDF
10 14 (6.542%) Time Management
11 10 (4.673%) Business Transformation
11 10 (4.673%) Fund Management
11 10 (4.673%) Wealth Management
12 9 (4.206%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (4.206%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (3.738%) PRINCE2
14 7 (3.271%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 41 (19.16%) SQL
2 30 (14.02%) Shell Script
3 16 (7.477%) Korn
4 15 (7.009%) Perl
5 13 (6.075%) Java
6 11 (5.140%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.140%) C#
6 11 (5.140%) VB.NET
7 7 (3.271%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.402%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.935%) VB
9 2 (0.935%) ABAP
9 2 (0.935%) C
10 1 (0.467%) COBOL
10 1 (0.467%) Delphi
10 1 (0.467%) Python
10 1 (0.467%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 54 (25.23%) Degree
2 8 (3.738%) ISEB
2 8 (3.738%) PMP
2 8 (3.738%) PMI Certification
3 6 (2.804%) CCNA
3 6 (2.804%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.336%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (2.336%) CCNP
5 4 (1.869%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.935%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (0.935%) CCA
7 1 (0.467%) CISA
7 1 (0.467%) CISM
7 1 (0.467%) CCVP
7 1 (0.467%) CISSP
7 1 (0.467%) CCIE
7 1 (0.467%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.813%) SLA
2 3 (1.402%) QA
3 1 (0.467%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (9.346%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.411%) Oracle RAC
3 17 (7.944%) Oracle RMAN
4 16 (7.477%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 16 (7.477%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 13 (6.075%) Veritas File System
6 9 (4.206%) SRDF
7 4 (1.869%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.467%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.467%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 17 (7.944%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 17 (7.944%) Data Guard
2 14 (6.542%) BladeLogic
3 9 (4.206%) EMC TimeFinder
4 7 (3.271%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 60 (28.04%) Oracle
2 32 (14.95%) Cisco
3 31 (14.49%) Sybase
4 25 (11.68%) EMC
5 19 (8.879%) Microsoft
5 19 (8.879%) Sun
5 19 (8.879%) NetApp
6 18 (8.411%) VMware
7 16 (7.477%) Veritas
8 13 (6.075%) Red Hat
9 12 (5.607%) HP
10 10 (4.673%) Cognos
11 8 (3.738%) SAP
12 7 (3.271%) Hitachi
13 6 (2.804%) Business Objects
14 5 (2.336%) Juniper
14 5 (2.336%) CheckPoint
15 3 (1.402%) Reuters
15 3 (1.402%) Bloomberg
15 3 (1.402%) Citrix
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