Finance Jobs in South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 29 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Financial Wales / South Wales
Location	3 months to 29 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	3	3	2
Rank change year-on-year	0	-1
Permanent jobs citing Finance	177	262	325
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales	24.52%	22.98%	26.27%
As % of the General category	57.47%	58.88%	62.02%
Number of salaries quoted	168	238	306
Median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£37,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	+20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than	£29,775	£27,500	£27,125
10% offered a salary of more than	£71,625	£63,750	£58,750
UK excluding London median salary	£45,500	£45,000	£45,000
% change year-on-year	+1.11%	-

Finance is in the common skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for common skills.

General Skills South Wales
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills	308	445	524
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales	42.66%	39.04%	42.36%
Number of salaries quoted	397	471	728
Median salary	£45,000	£41,000	£37,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	+9.75%	+9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than	£27,300	£26,250	£27,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£85,000	£57,500	£60,000
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£45,000

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Finance as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in South Wales

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Salary Trend in South Wales

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Finance in South Wales.

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Salary Histogram in South Wales

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Finance in South Wales over the 3 months to 29 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Finance in South Wales

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Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 29 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Cardiff	0	141	£45,000	+9.75%	7
Newport	0	31	£40,000	-11.11%	3
Monmouthshire	-	3	£43,000	-
Neath Port Talbot	-1	2	£39,500	-7.05%
Caerphilly	+3	1	£40,000	-15.78%	2
Bridgend	-	1	£23,500	-
Finance Wales

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in South Wales

For the 6 months to 29 June 2017, IT jobs citing Finance also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the South Wales region with a requirement for Finance.

1	134 (33.75%)	Agile Software Development
2	124 (31.23%)	SQL
3	84 (21.16%)	Degree
4	66 (16.62%)	Analytical Skills
5	62 (15.62%)	Advertising
6	59 (14.86%)	Project Management
7	57 (14.36%)	Oracle
8	56 (14.11%)	Microsoft
9	44 (11.08%)	Stakeholder Management
10	43 (10.83%)	Java
11	42 (10.58%)	Scrum
12	41 (10.33%)	SQL Server
13	40 (10.08%)	Software Engineering
14	39 (9.82%)	.NET
15	38 (9.57%)	Oracle Reports

16	37 (9.32%)	PL/SQL
16	37 (9.32%)	C#
17	35 (8.82%)	Web Services
17	35 (8.82%)	Waterfall
18	33 (8.31%)	ETL
19	32 (8.06%)	JavaScript
20	31 (7.81%)	HTML
20	31 (7.81%)	Change Management
20	31 (7.81%)	Spring
20	31 (7.81%)	Business Analysis
21	30 (7.56%)	Oracle Forms
21	30 (7.56%)	ISEB
21	30 (7.56%)	SDLC
22	29 (7.30%)	Windows
23	28 (7.05%)	Process Management

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Co-occurring IT Skills in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	7 (1.76%)	SAS
2	6 (1.51%)	Apache
3	5 (1.26%)	SharePoint
4	4 (1.01%)	Apache Spark
4	4 (1.01%)	IBM Notes
5	3 (0.76%)	Documentum
5	3 (0.76%)	FileNet
5	3 (0.76%)	JBoss
6	2 (0.50%)	Adobe Experience Manager
6	2 (0.50%)	Alfresco
6	2 (0.50%)	BizTalk Server
6	2 (0.50%)	Drupal
6	2 (0.50%)	IIS
6	2 (0.50%)	Liferay
6	2 (0.50%)	LiveCycle
6	2 (0.50%)	LiveLink
6	2 (0.50%)	Tomcat
6	2 (0.50%)	WordPress
7	1 (0.25%)	SharePoint 2010
7	1 (0.25%)	Skype for Business

Applications
1	23 (5.79%)	Microsoft Office
2	11 (2.77%)	Microsoft Excel
3	8 (2.02%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	4 (1.01%)	Microsoft Project
5	2 (0.50%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	13 (3.27%)	Oracle Receivables
2	7 (1.76%)	Oracle 11i
2	7 (1.76%)	Oracle Applications
2	7 (1.76%)	Oracle Assets
2	7 (1.76%)	Oracle EBS
2	7 (1.76%)	Oracle EBS R12
2	7 (1.76%)	Oracle Financials
2	7 (1.76%)	Oracle General Ledger
2	7 (1.76%)	Oracle Manufacturing
2	7 (1.76%)	Oracle Payables
3	6 (1.51%)	Sage 200
3	6 (1.51%)	Sage 50
4	5 (1.26%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	4 (1.01%)	Dynamics NAV
5	4 (1.01%)	Unit4 Business World
6	3 (0.76%)	Dynamics CRM
7	1 (0.25%)	Compiere
7	1 (0.25%)	Dynamics AX
7	1 (0.25%)	Maximo
7	1 (0.25%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	10 (2.52%)	Amazon AWS
2	9 (2.27%)	Microsoft Azure
3	5 (1.26%)	Office 365
4	4 (1.01%)	Cloud Computing
5	3 (0.76%)	Google Analytics
6	2 (0.50%)	AdWords
6	2 (0.50%)	SaaS
7	1 (0.25%)	Dynamics 365

Communications & Networking
1	11 (2.77%)	Internet
2	8 (2.02%)	TCP/IP
3	7 (1.76%)	HTTP
4	6 (1.51%)	Firewall
5	3 (0.76%)	DNS
5	3 (0.76%)	SAN
6	2 (0.50%)	LAN
6	2 (0.50%)	LDAP
6	2 (0.50%)	NAS
6	2 (0.50%)	WAN
7	1 (0.25%)	Ethernet
7	1 (0.25%)	FTP
7	1 (0.25%)	Intranet
7	1 (0.25%)	Skype
7	1 (0.25%)	VPN
7	1 (0.25%)	Wi-Fi

Database & Business Intelligence
1	41 (10.33%)	SQL Server
2	38 (9.57%)	Oracle Reports
3	23 (5.79%)	Oracle Database
4	19 (4.79%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	14 (3.53%)	Oracle Database 11g
6	13 (3.27%)	MySQL
7	12 (3.02%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
8	11 (2.77%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
9	9 (2.27%)	Relational Database
10	8 (2.02%)	Data Warehouse
11	7 (1.76%)	MongoDB
11	7 (1.76%)	Oracle BI Publisher
11	7 (1.76%)	Oracle Discoverer
12	5 (1.26%)	Big Data
12	5 (1.26%)	Hadoop
12	5 (1.26%)	SQL Server 2012
13	4 (1.01%)	Apache Hive
13	4 (1.01%)	Pentaho
13	4 (1.01%)	SQL Server 2014
14	3 (0.76%)	Power BI

Development Applications
1	30 (7.56%)	Oracle Forms
2	22 (5.54%)	Visual Studio
3	13 (3.27%)	Team Foundation Server
4	12 (3.02%)	Maven
5	6 (1.51%)	Git (software)
5	6 (1.51%)	Selenium
6	5 (1.26%)	Jenkins
7	4 (1.01%)	SoapUI
7	4 (1.01%)	Subversion
8	3 (0.76%)	SpecFlow
9	2 (0.50%)	Ant
9	2 (0.50%)	JMeter
9	2 (0.50%)	JUnit
9	2 (0.50%)	NUnit
9	2 (0.50%)	Sonatype Nexus
9	2 (0.50%)	WebDriver
9	2 (0.50%)	Xcode
10	1 (0.25%)	ERwin
10	1 (0.25%)	Mercurial
10	1 (0.25%)	TeamCity

General
1	62 (15.62%)	Advertising
2	26 (6.55%)	Banking
3	22 (5.54%)	Manufacturing
4	19 (4.79%)	Marketing
5	18 (4.53%)	Telecoms
6	15 (3.78%)	Financial Institution
7	8 (2.02%)	Retail
8	5 (1.26%)	Electronics
9	4 (1.01%)	Welsh Language
10	3 (0.76%)	Legal
10	3 (0.76%)	Pharmaceutical
10	3 (0.76%)	Publishing
11	1 (0.25%)	Aerospace
11	1 (0.25%)	Billing
11	1 (0.25%)	Games
11	1 (0.25%)	Investment Banking
11	1 (0.25%)	Multimedia

Job Titles
1	112 (28.21%)	Developer
2	77 (19.40%)	Analyst
3	37 (9.32%)	Business Analyst
4	34 (8.56%)	Consultant
5	33 (8.31%)	Architect
6	30 (7.56%)	Oracle Developer
7	29 (7.30%)	Java Developer
8	28 (7.05%)	Senior Developer
9	24 (6.05%)	.NET Developer
9	24 (6.05%)	Project Manager
10	16 (4.03%)	SQL Developer
11	15 (3.78%)	Auditor
11	15 (3.78%)	BPM Consultant
11	15 (3.78%)	Graduate
11	15 (3.78%)	IT Auditor
12	14 (3.53%)	IT Graduate
12	14 (3.53%)	Senior Oracle Developer
13	13 (3.27%)	Business Process Consultant
13	13 (3.27%)	Financial Analyst
13	13 (3.27%)	Financial Business Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	39 (9.82%)	.NET
2	35 (8.82%)	Web Services
3	31 (7.81%)	HTML
3	31 (7.81%)	Spring
4	25 (6.30%)	CSS
5	23 (5.79%)	XML
6	21 (5.29%)	SOAP
7	20 (5.04%)	ASP.NET
8	19 (4.79%)	AngularJS
9	17 (4.28%)	Hibernate
10	16 (4.03%)	CSS3
10	16 (4.03%)	HTML5
11	13 (3.27%)	RESTful
12	9 (2.27%)	ASP.NET MVC
12	9 (2.27%)	jQuery
12	9 (2.27%)	WCF
13	8 (2.02%)	KnockoutJS
13	8 (2.02%)	REST
14	7 (1.76%)	Java EE
14	7 (1.76%)	Twitter Bootstrap

Miscellaneous
1	66 (16.62%)	Analytical Skills
2	17 (4.28%)	Fintech
3	13 (3.27%)	Management Information System
4	11 (2.77%)	Data Centre
5	10 (2.52%)	Computer Science
6	8 (2.02%)	Online Banking
7	7 (1.76%)	Cyber Attack
8	6 (1.51%)	Mobile Banking
8	6 (1.51%)	Social Media
9	5 (1.26%)	CMDB
9	5 (1.26%)	User Experience
10	4 (1.01%)	Credit Risk
10	4 (1.01%)	EPoS
10	4 (1.01%)	iSeries
11	3 (0.76%)	Clustering
11	3 (0.76%)	Data Structures
11	3 (0.76%)	Greenfield Project
11	3 (0.76%)	Life Science
11	3 (0.76%)	Mainframe
11	3 (0.76%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	29 (7.30%)	Windows
2	13 (3.27%)	Linux
3	9 (2.27%)	Windows Server
4	8 (2.02%)	Windows 7
5	5 (1.26%)	Windows 8
5	5 (1.26%)	Windows Server 2012
6	4 (1.01%)	Android
7	3 (0.76%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	3 (0.76%)	Windows 10
8	2 (0.50%)	AIX
8	2 (0.50%)	Apple iOS
8	2 (0.50%)	Solaris
8	2 (0.50%)	Unix
8	2 (0.50%)	Windows Server 2003
8	2 (0.50%)	Windows Server 2008
9	1 (0.25%)	Mac OS X
9	1 (0.25%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	134 (33.75%)	Agile Software Development
2	59 (14.86%)	Project Management
3	44 (11.08%)	Stakeholder Management
4	42 (10.58%)	Scrum
5	40 (10.08%)	Software Engineering
6	35 (8.82%)	Waterfall
7	33 (8.31%)	ETL
8	31 (7.81%)	Business Analysis
8	31 (7.81%)	Change Management
9	30 (7.56%)	SDLC
10	28 (7.05%)	Business Intelligence
10	28 (7.05%)	Process Management
11	25 (6.30%)	Risk Management
11	25 (6.30%)	Web Development
12	24 (6.05%)	Service Management
12	24 (6.05%)	Test Automation
13	23 (5.79%)	PRINCE2
14	22 (5.54%)	ITIL
14	22 (5.54%)	MVC
15	20 (5.04%)	DevOps

Programming Languages
1	124 (31.23%)	SQL
2	43 (10.83%)	Java
3	37 (9.32%)	C#
3	37 (9.32%)	PL/SQL
4	32 (8.06%)	JavaScript
5	23 (5.79%)	T-SQL
6	21 (5.29%)	C
7	7 (1.76%)	PHP
8	6 (1.51%)	Python
9	3 (0.76%)	Shell Script
9	3 (0.76%)	TypeScript
10	2 (0.50%)	ABAP
10	2 (0.50%)	C++
10	2 (0.50%)	Objective-C
10	2 (0.50%)	PowerShell
10	2 (0.50%)	R
10	2 (0.50%)	VB
11	1 (0.25%)	Apex Code
11	1 (0.25%)	Perl
11	1 (0.25%)	Scala

Qualifications
1	84 (21.16%)	Degree
2	30 (7.56%)	ISEB
3	14 (3.53%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
4	13 (3.27%)	CBAP
4	13 (3.27%)	HND
4	13 (3.27%)	IIBA
5	9 (2.27%)	PMI Certification
5	9 (2.27%)	PMP
6	7 (1.76%)	ISTQB
7	5 (1.26%)	Computer Science Degree
7	5 (1.26%)	PRINCE2 Certification
8	3 (0.76%)	ITIL Certification
8	3 (0.76%)	Master's Degree
9	1 (0.25%)	CCNA
9	1 (0.25%)	CCNP
9	1 (0.25%)	Cisco Certification
9	1 (0.25%)	CISSP
9	1 (0.25%)	MCSE
9	1 (0.25%)	Microsoft Certification
9	1 (0.25%)	SAP Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	24 (6.05%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	21 (5.29%)	QA
3	16 (4.03%)	ISO 9001
4	10 (2.52%)	SLA
5	8 (2.02%)	PMO
6	3 (0.76%)	Data Quality
7	2 (0.50%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
8	1 (0.25%)	ISO 22301
8	1 (0.25%)	ISO/IEC 20000
8	1 (0.25%)	PCI DSS

System Software
1	12 (3.02%)	Hyper-V
2	7 (1.76%)	Active Directory
2	7 (1.76%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	1 (0.25%)	Docker

Systems Management
1	2 (0.50%)	Ansible
1	2 (0.50%)	NetBackup
1	2 (0.50%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
2	1 (0.25%)	Microsoft Clustering
2	1 (0.25%)	Opscode Chef
2	1 (0.25%)	Oracle Identity Management
2	1 (0.25%)	Puppet
2	1 (0.25%)	SCCM
2	1 (0.25%)	Tivoli

Vendors
1	57 (14.36%)	Oracle
2	56 (14.11%)	Microsoft
3	10 (2.52%)	SAP
4	9 (2.27%)	VMware
5	8 (2.02%)	Google
6	7 (1.76%)	IBM
6	7 (1.76%)	Tableau
7	6 (1.51%)	Sage
8	5 (1.26%)	ICL
8	5 (1.26%)	Red Hat
9	4 (1.01%)	Lotus
9	4 (1.01%)	Twitter
10	3 (0.76%)	Adobe
10	3 (0.76%)	Cisco
10	3 (0.76%)	OpenText
10	3 (0.76%)	Sybase
11	2 (0.50%)	FatWire
11	2 (0.50%)	HP
11	2 (0.50%)	Interwoven
11	2 (0.50%)	Vignette