Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment 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 Investment Banking 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 General category for the West Midlands region.

 Investment Banking
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank145160223
Rank change year-on-year
Up+15Up+63
Matching permanent IT job ads41310
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands0.111 %0.277 %0.114 %
As % of the General category0.267 %0.742 %0.287 %
Salaries quoted4138
Average salary£40,000£35,000£42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28 %-17.64 %
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£47,500£50,000
% change year-on-year
-15.78 %-5.000 %
West Midlands IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
150017513484
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands41.63 %37.37 %39.71 %
Salaries quoted129514033006
Average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,000£24,500£23,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£52,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.260 %+1.330 %
Investment Banking EnglandInvestment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Investment Banking across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

West Midlands 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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Investment Banking Salary Trend

Investment Banking
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 West Midlands region 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
BirminghamUp+62£40,000+14.28 %
Investment Banking EnglandInvestment Banking
England

Investment Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

117 (100.00 %)Banking
212 (70.59 %)Java
39 (52.94 %)Finance
47 (41.18 %)Business Analysis
55 (29.41 %)MS Office
55 (29.41 %)Windows
55 (29.41 %)Lotus Notes
55 (29.41 %)Windows XP
55 (29.41 %)TCP/IP
55 (29.41 %)Active Directory
55 (29.41 %)HP
55 (29.41 %)Dell
55 (29.41 %)Citrix
55 (29.41 %)Lotus
55 (29.41 %)Internet
55 (29.41 %)Symantec
55 (29.41 %)Norton AntiVirus
55 (29.41 %)Blackberry
55 (29.41 %)Project Management
55 (29.41 %)Wireless
55 (29.41 %)Stakeholder Management
55 (29.41 %)Incident Management
64 (23.53 %)WebLogic
64 (23.53 %)WebSphere
73 (17.65 %)C++
73 (17.65 %)J2EE
73 (17.65 %)Ant
73 (17.65 %)JUnit
73 (17.65 %)XML
73 (17.65 %)UNIX

Investment Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

West Midlands IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14 (23.53 %)WebSphere
23 (17.65 %)FIX Protocol
23 (17.65 %)J2EE
23 (17.65 %)XML
23 (17.65 %)JMX
23 (17.65 %)Spring
31 (5.882 %)JSP
31 (5.882 %)Struts
31 (5.882 %)Adobe Flex
West Midlands IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15 (29.41 %)Lotus Notes
24 (23.53 %)WebLogic
31 (5.882 %)WebSphere Application Server
West Midlands IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
15 (29.41 %)MS Office
West Midlands IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (5.882 %)BusinessWorks
11 (5.882 %)TIBCO iProcess
West Midlands IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (29.41 %)TCP/IP
15 (29.41 %)Internet
15 (29.41 %)Wireless
West Midlands IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (5.882 %)RDBMS
11 (5.882 %)Oracle 10g
West Midlands IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (17.65 %)Ant
13 (17.65 %)JUnit
West Midlands IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
117 (100.00 %)Banking
29 (52.94 %)Finance
West Midlands IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17 (41.18 %)Analyst
25 (29.41 %)Business Analyst
25 (29.41 %)Desktop Support
25 (29.41 %)Support Technician
25 (29.41 %)Desktop Support Technician
25 (29.41 %)Desktop Technician
34 (23.53 %)Architect
34 (23.53 %)Technical Architect
34 (23.53 %)Developer
43 (17.65 %)Java Developer
43 (17.65 %)Systems Developer
43 (17.65 %)Real Time Developer
52 (11.76 %)Technical Design Architect
52 (11.76 %)Systems Architect
52 (11.76 %)Systems Analyst
61 (5.882 %)Technical Developer
61 (5.882 %)Senior Architect
61 (5.882 %)Senior Developer
61 (5.882 %)Senior Technical Architect
West Midlands IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
15 (29.41 %)Blackberry
23 (17.65 %)Equities
23 (17.65 %)Multithreading
West Midlands IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15 (29.41 %)Windows
15 (29.41 %)Windows XP
23 (17.65 %)UNIX
31 (5.882 %)Solaris
West Midlands IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (41.18 %)Business Analysis
25 (29.41 %)Incident Management
25 (29.41 %)Project Management
25 (29.41 %)Stakeholder Management
33 (17.65 %)Workflow
42 (11.76 %)Agile Software Development
42 (11.76 %)Systems Analysis
42 (11.76 %)UML
51 (5.882 %)Scrum
West Midlands IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
112 (70.59 %)Java
23 (17.65 %)C++
West Midlands IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (11.76 %)SLA
West Midlands IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15 (29.41 %)Active Directory
West Midlands IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (29.41 %)Norton AntiVirus
West Midlands IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (29.41 %)HP
15 (29.41 %)Dell
15 (29.41 %)Citrix
15 (29.41 %)Lotus
15 (29.41 %)Symantec
21 (5.882 %)Oracle
21 (5.882 %)TIBCO