Berkshire Finance Jobs

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Finance' in IT jobs within the Berkshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 5 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Castleford Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Coatbridge Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Glenrothes Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gosport Grantham Gravesend Great Yarmouth Greenford Guernsey Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Hoddesdon Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Keighley Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Sale Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Selby Sevenoaks Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whitstable Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	7	11
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching permanent IT job ads	835	1377
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.708 %	0.697 %
As % of the category below	29.40 %	28.21 %
Salaries quoted	727	1021
Average minimum salary	£40,655	£41,780
Average salary	£43,847	£45,117
% change on same period last year	-2.81 %
Average maximum salary	£47,039	£48,455
UK excluding London average salary	£44,159	£43,744
% change on same period last year	+0.94 %
General Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2840	4882
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.408 %	2.472 %
Salaries quoted	2306	3839
Average minimum salary	£39,496	£40,508
Average salary	£43,323	£44,189
% change on same period last year	-1.95 %
Average maximum salary	£47,150	£47,870
UK excluding London average salary	£41,347	£41,871
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Finance South East

Finance
Demand Trend

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

Finance
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Finance across the Berkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 5 January 2009.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 5 January 2009. 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	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+6	299	£41,497	-12.99 %
Slough	+7	107	£44,731	+4.12 %
Newbury	-6	55	£52,764	+27.54 %
Maidenhead	+12	34	£39,879	-18.70 %
Wokingham	-3	34	£34,467	-5.71 %
Bracknell	-7	27	£43,479	-4.02 %
Windsor	-15	18	£47,467	+47.68 %
Ascot	-	6	£34,167	-

Finance South East

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 January 2009, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Finance 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 Finance.

1 372 (17.16 %) SQL 2 351 (16.19 %) Oracle 3 332 (15.31 %) XML 4 312 (14.39 %) Java 5 308 (14.21 %) SQL Server 6 292 (13.47 %) .NET 7 233 (10.75 %) J2EE 8 204 (9.410 %) ASP.NET 9 200 (9.225 %) Pensions 10 199 (9.179 %) HTML 11 188 (8.672 %) MS Excel 12 186 (8.579 %) Insurance 13 184 (8.487 %) OO 14 181 (8.349 %) Project Management 15 172 (7.934 %) Microsoft

15 172 (7.934 %) Marketing 16 169 (7.795 %) SAP 17 165 (7.611 %) Degree 18 153 (7.057 %) Telecoms 18 153 (7.057 %) Windows 19 141 (6.504 %) Business Intelligence 20 135 (6.227 %) WebSphere 21 129 (5.950 %) Banking 22 127 (5.858 %) JavaScript 23 126 (5.812 %) C# 24 122 (5.627 %) Datawarehouse 25 121 (5.581 %) Retail 26 119 (5.489 %) PRINCE2 27 116 (5.351 %) CSS 28 113 (5.212 %) ITIL

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 January 2009, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Finance 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 Finance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 332 (15.31 %) XML 2 292 (13.47 %) .NET 3 233 (10.75 %) J2EE 4 204 (9.410 %) ASP.NET 5 199 (9.179 %) HTML 6 135 (6.227 %) WebSphere 7 116 (5.351 %) CSS 8 102 (4.705 %) ASP 9 50 (2.306 %) JSP 10 45 (2.076 %) Servlets 10 45 (2.076 %) XSL 10 45 (2.076 %) J2SE 11 41 (1.891 %) Hibernate 12 39 (1.799 %) .NET Framework 13 31 (1.430 %) Spring 14 25 (1.153 %) ADO.NET 15 23 (1.061 %) WebServices 16 22 (1.015 %) AJAX 17 19 (0.876 %) EJB 18 15 (0.692 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 69 (3.183 %) WebLogic 2 56 (2.583 %) SAS 3 41 (1.891 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 30 (1.384 %) IIS 5 29 (1.338 %) Oracle 10gAS 6 24 (1.107 %) SharePoint 7 22 (1.015 %) JBoss 8 19 (0.876 %) Oracle Workflow 9 18 (0.830 %) Tomcat 10 17 (0.784 %) Oracle 9iAS 11 12 (0.554 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 10 (0.461 %) Oracle Application Server 12 10 (0.461 %) Apache 13 9 (0.415 %) CMS 14 8 (0.369 %) MS Exchange 15 7 (0.323 %) Exchange Server 2003 15 7 (0.323 %) ESB 16 6 (0.277 %) Exchange Server 2007 16 6 (0.277 %) Documentum 16 6 (0.277 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 188 (8.672 %) MS Excel 2 97 (4.474 %) MS Office 3 27 (1.245 %) MS Visio 4 24 (1.107 %) MS Project 5 18 (0.830 %) MS PowerPoint 6 12 (0.554 %) SPSS 7 10 (0.461 %) CA Clarity 8 4 (0.185 %) AutoCAD 9 3 (0.138 %) Vensim 9 3 (0.138 %) Spreadsheet 10 1 (0.046 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 78 (3.598 %) Oracle Applications 2 75 (3.459 %) Oracle EBS 3 60 (2.768 %) Oracle Financials 4 53 (2.445 %) SAP FI 4 53 (2.445 %) Oracle EBS R12 5 46 (2.122 %) SAP CO 6 45 (2.076 %) SAP FI/CO 7 38 (1.753 %) Oracle 11i 8 24 (1.107 %) SAP MM 9 22 (1.015 %) SAP SD 10 15 (0.692 %) SAP Oil and Gas 11 13 (0.600 %) SAP PP 12 12 (0.554 %) Dynamics NAV 12 12 (0.554 %) HFM 12 12 (0.554 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 13 11 (0.507 %) Cognos Planning 13 11 (0.507 %) Navision 14 10 (0.461 %) SAP R/3 14 10 (0.461 %) Dynamics AX 15 7 (0.323 %) Oracle Financial Analyzer
Communications & Networking 1 56 (2.583 %) Internet 2 48 (2.214 %) VPN 3 33 (1.522 %) WAN 4 31 (1.430 %) SSL 5 22 (1.015 %) MPLS 6 21 (0.969 %) Firewall 7 20 (0.923 %) TCP/IP 7 20 (0.923 %) LAN 8 19 (0.876 %) IPCC 8 19 (0.876 %) OSPF 8 19 (0.876 %) BGP 9 18 (0.830 %) VPLS 10 15 (0.692 %) HTTPS 11 11 (0.507 %) Wireless 11 11 (0.507 %) Kerberos 12 9 (0.415 %) LDAP 12 9 (0.415 %) Intrusion Detection 13 7 (0.323 %) GSM 13 7 (0.323 %) SAN 14 6 (0.277 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 308 (14.21 %) SQL Server 2 122 (5.627 %) Datawarehouse 3 80 (3.690 %) RDBMS 4 76 (3.506 %) SQL Server 2000 5 67 (3.090 %) Oracle 10g 6 60 (2.768 %) BusinessObjects 7 41 (1.891 %) TOAD 8 40 (1.845 %) Oracle 9i 9 38 (1.753 %) SAP BW 10 37 (1.707 %) Oracle Reports 11 33 (1.522 %) DTS 12 32 (1.476 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 29 (1.338 %) SQL Server 2005 14 28 (1.292 %) Data Mining 14 28 (1.292 %) MS Access 15 25 (1.153 %) DB2 15 25 (1.153 %) Base SAS 16 17 (0.784 %) Oracle Discoverer 17 13 (0.600 %) MySQL 17 13 (0.600 %) Oracle 11g
Development Applications 1 54 (2.491 %) Visual Studio 2 32 (1.476 %) Oracle Forms 3 19 (0.876 %) QuickTest Pro 4 18 (0.830 %) ClearCase 5 17 (0.784 %) ClearQuest 6 14 (0.646 %) Eclipse 7 13 (0.600 %) JDeveloper 8 9 (0.415 %) Rational Rose 9 8 (0.369 %) Ant 9 8 (0.369 %) RequisitePro 10 7 (0.323 %) LSMW 11 6 (0.277 %) TestDirector 12 3 (0.138 %) StarTeam 12 3 (0.138 %) QALoad 12 3 (0.138 %) eCATT 12 3 (0.138 %) Rational Performance Tester 12 3 (0.138 %) Rational Robot 12 3 (0.138 %) LoadRunner 13 2 (0.092 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer	General 1 200 (9.225 %) Pensions 2 186 (8.579 %) Insurance 3 172 (7.934 %) Marketing 4 153 (7.057 %) Telecoms 5 129 (5.950 %) Banking 6 121 (5.581 %) Retail 7 98 (4.520 %) Health 8 77 (3.552 %) Manufacturing 9 72 (3.321 %) Government 10 58 (2.675 %) Financial Institution 11 52 (2.399 %) Billing 12 50 (2.306 %) Education 13 31 (1.430 %) Legal 14 25 (1.153 %) FMCG 15 24 (1.107 %) Auditing 15 24 (1.107 %) Pharmaceutical 16 20 (0.923 %) Advertising 17 18 (0.830 %) Automotive 18 12 (0.554 %) Music 19 11 (0.507 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 535 (24.68 %) Analyst 2 303 (13.98 %) Developer 3 283 (13.05 %) Consultant 4 154 (7.103 %) Business Analyst 5 141 (6.504 %) Architect 6 137 (6.319 %) Project Manager 7 113 (5.212 %) Java Developer 8 88 (4.059 %) .NET Developer 9 80 (3.690 %) Team Leader 9 80 (3.690 %) DBA 9 80 (3.690 %) Programmer 10 79 (3.644 %) Support Analyst 10 79 (3.644 %) Senior Developer 11 77 (3.552 %) Analyst Programmer 12 65 (2.998 %) Administrator 13 64 (2.952 %) Java/J2EE Developer 14 60 (2.768 %) Oracle DBA 15 57 (2.629 %) Senior Java Developer 16 56 (2.583 %) J2EE Developer 16 56 (2.583 %) SAP Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 20 (0.923 %) HACMP 2 19 (0.876 %) Management Information System 2 19 (0.876 %) PMI 2 19 (0.876 %) Credit Risk 3 16 (0.738 %) Fat Client 3 16 (0.738 %) Mainframe 3 16 (0.738 %) Statistics 3 16 (0.738 %) Mathematics 3 16 (0.738 %) Thin Client 4 13 (0.600 %) French Language 5 10 (0.461 %) Computer Science 5 10 (0.461 %) Clustering 6 9 (0.415 %) Data Integration 7 6 (0.277 %) Derivative 7 6 (0.277 %) Spanish Language 8 5 (0.231 %) German Language 8 5 (0.231 %) Grid Computing 9 4 (0.185 %) Physics 9 4 (0.185 %) NHS 10 3 (0.138 %) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems 1 153 (7.057 %) Windows 2 111 (5.120 %) UNIX 3 66 (3.044 %) Linux 4 40 (1.845 %) Windows Server 2003 5 33 (1.522 %) Windows XP 6 29 (1.338 %) Solaris 7 28 (1.292 %) AIX 8 8 (0.369 %) HPUX 9 7 (0.323 %) Windows Vista 10 6 (0.277 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 5 (0.231 %) Red Hat Linux 12 4 (0.185 %) Windows Server 2008 13 3 (0.138 %) Windows 2000 14 2 (0.092 %) zOS 15 1 (0.046 %) SUSE 15 1 (0.046 %) Ubuntu 15 1 (0.046 %) Windows NT 15 1 (0.046 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 184 (8.487 %) OO 2 181 (8.349 %) Project Management 3 141 (6.504 %) Business Intelligence 4 119 (5.489 %) PRINCE2 5 113 (5.212 %) ITIL 6 110 (5.074 %) Change Management 7 97 (4.474 %) CRM 8 90 (4.151 %) Business Analysis 9 88 (4.059 %) Risk Management 10 86 (3.967 %) Business Development 11 69 (3.183 %) ERP 12 63 (2.906 %) UML 13 52 (2.399 %) Service Delivery 14 50 (2.306 %) Information Security 14 50 (2.306 %) User Acceptance Testing 15 47 (2.168 %) Logistics 16 40 (1.845 %) Data Management 16 40 (1.845 %) Six Sigma 17 38 (1.753 %) OOP 17 38 (1.753 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 372 (17.16 %) SQL 2 312 (14.39 %) Java 3 127 (5.858 %) JavaScript 4 126 (5.812 %) C# 5 106 (4.889 %) VB 6 103 (4.751 %) VB.NET 7 95 (4.382 %) Transact-SQL 8 86 (3.967 %) VBScript 9 57 (2.629 %) C 9 57 (2.629 %) VB6 10 48 (2.214 %) PL/SQL 11 35 (1.614 %) C++ 12 31 (1.430 %) VBA 13 22 (1.015 %) Perl 14 13 (0.600 %) Korn 15 11 (0.507 %) ABAP 16 10 (0.461 %) Shell Script 17 8 (0.369 %) Python 18 6 (0.277 %) NATURAL 19 5 (0.231 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 165 (7.611 %) Degree 2 44 (2.030 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 44 (2.030 %) Microsoft Certification 3 39 (1.799 %) CISSP 4 38 (1.753 %) CISA 4 38 (1.753 %) CISM 5 33 (1.522 %) CIMA 6 32 (1.476 %) Security Cleared 7 30 (1.384 %) Cisco Certification 8 24 (1.107 %) Citrix Certification 8 24 (1.107 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 9 21 (0.969 %) ACCA 10 20 (0.923 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 11 19 (0.876 %) ISEB 11 19 (0.876 %) CCNP 12 18 (0.830 %) MCP 12 18 (0.830 %) MBA 13 17 (0.784 %) MCSE 13 17 (0.784 %) CCIE 14 16 (0.738 %) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 80 (3.690 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 40 (1.845 %) SLA 3 36 (1.661 %) QA 4 35 (1.614 %) COBIT 5 8 (0.369 %) Basel II 6 3 (0.138 %) GAAP 6 3 (0.138 %) ISO8583 7 2 (0.092 %) GCP 8 1 (0.046 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 30 (1.384 %) Oracle RAC 2 27 (1.245 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 26 (1.199 %) Active Directory 4 12 (0.554 %) Oracle RMAN 5 11 (0.507 %) Samba 5 11 (0.507 %) NFS 6 8 (0.369 %) ISA Server 6 8 (0.369 %) Xen 7 5 (0.231 %) AquaLogic 8 1 (0.046 %) VMware ESX 8 1 (0.046 %) Backup Exec 8 1 (0.046 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8 1 (0.046 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 10 (0.461 %) Data Guard 2 5 (0.231 %) Tivoli 2 5 (0.231 %) TIBCO Hawk 3 3 (0.138 %) Tivoli Monitoring 4 2 (0.092 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 2 (0.092 %) Netcool 4 2 (0.092 %) NNM 4 2 (0.092 %) OpenView 4 2 (0.092 %) ServiceCenter 5 1 (0.046 %) CiscoWorks 5 1 (0.046 %) Legato 5 1 (0.046 %) EMC NetWorker 5 1 (0.046 %) Nagios	Vendors 1 351 (16.19 %) Oracle 2 172 (7.934 %) Microsoft 3 169 (7.795 %) SAP 4 71 (3.275 %) Cognos 5 67 (3.090 %) IBM 6 60 (2.768 %) Business Objects 7 47 (2.168 %) JD Edwards 8 44 (2.030 %) Siebel 9 35 (1.614 %) Cisco 10 34 (1.568 %) BEA 11 30 (1.384 %) Juniper 12 28 (1.292 %) VMware 13 25 (1.153 %) Hyperion 14 23 (1.061 %) Sun 14 23 (1.061 %) Epiphany 15 22 (1.015 %) TIBCO 15 22 (1.015 %) Citrix 16 17 (0.784 %) HP 16 17 (0.784 %) FileNet 17 16 (0.738 %) Sybase