England Finance Jobs

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Finance' in IT jobs within the England 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 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham 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 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 Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Hoddesdon Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jarrow 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 Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Ormskirk Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Rainham Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Selby Sevenoaks Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Thurrock Trowbridge 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 Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	2	2
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	21882	39983
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	18.91 %	20.40 %
As % of the category below	39.73 %	42.64 %
Salaries quoted	18348	31345
Average minimum salary	£45,758	£45,336
Average salary	£50,191	£49,813
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Average maximum salary	£54,624	£54,290
UK excluding London average salary	£44,170	£43,589
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
General England
Matching permanent IT job ads	55075	93765
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	47.60 %	47.85 %
Salaries quoted	46343	75025
Average minimum salary	£42,508	£43,894
Average salary	£46,731	£48,308
% change on same period last year	-3.26 %
Average maximum salary	£50,955	£52,723
UK excluding London average salary	£41,326	£41,808
% change on same period last year	-1.15 %
Finance UK

Finance
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Finance across the England 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 England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Finance across the England region over the 3 months to 8 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 England region over the 3 months to 8 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
London	0	12648	£55,697	+1.52 %
South East	0	3617	£45,602	+1.50 %
North West	-4	1238	£44,910	+2.66 %
South West	-4	1146	£39,878	-2.17 %
Yorkshire	-2	986	£37,185	+2.55 %
East of England	-2	864	£43,798	+5.44 %
West Midlands	-1	601	£43,830	+4.08 %
East Midlands	-7	522	£41,263	+4.23 %
Midlands	0	98	£55,674	-10.62 %
North East	-6	96	£36,686	-19.93 %
South Coast	0	2	£70,000	+19.80 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 11495 (20.08 %) SQL 2 10586 (18.49 %) Banking 3 8358 (14.60 %) SQL Server 4 8263 (14.43 %) .NET 5 8187 (14.30 %) Oracle 6 7485 (13.07 %) C# 7 7150 (12.49 %) Java 8 7118 (12.43 %) Windows 9 6624 (11.57 %) UNIX 10 6512 (11.38 %) Degree 11 5912 (10.33 %) Project Management 12 5426 (9.478 %) Microsoft 13 4590 (8.018 %) C++ 14 4154 (7.256 %) XML 15 4009 (7.003 %) Insurance

16 3677 (6.423 %) ASP.NET 17 3477 (6.074 %) Investment Banking 18 3448 (6.023 %) MS Excel 19 3447 (6.021 %) OO 20 3396 (5.932 %) Pensions 21 3320 (5.799 %) Front Office 22 3251 (5.679 %) Derivative 23 3212 (5.611 %) Linux 24 3211 (5.609 %) Retail 25 3005 (5.249 %) J2EE 26 2974 (5.195 %) PRINCE2 27 2925 (5.109 %) SAP 28 2766 (4.832 %) Financial Institution 29 2658 (4.643 %) Business Analysis 30 2622 (4.580 %) ITIL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 8263 (14.43 %) .NET 2 4154 (7.256 %) XML 3 3677 (6.423 %) ASP.NET 4 3005 (5.249 %) J2EE 5 2037 (3.558 %) HTML 6 1736 (3.032 %) WebServices 7 1522 (2.659 %) CSS 8 1261 (2.203 %) Spring 9 1232 (2.152 %) AJAX 10 1167 (2.038 %) WebSphere 11 1066 (1.862 %) WinForms 12 996 (1.740 %) Hibernate 13 980 (1.712 %) ASP 14 960 (1.677 %) .NET Framework 15 821 (1.434 %) STL 16 815 (1.424 %) JSP 17 737 (1.287 %) Middleware 18 537 (0.938 %) XSLT 19 464 (0.811 %) XHTML 20 452 (0.790 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 1141 (1.993 %) SAS 2 919 (1.605 %) SharePoint 3 897 (1.567 %) MS Exchange 4 896 (1.565 %) WebLogic 5 763 (1.333 %) IIS 6 590 (1.031 %) Apache 7 562 (0.982 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 524 (0.915 %) Tomcat 9 497 (0.868 %) BizTalk Server 10 317 (0.554 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 304 (0.531 %) CMS 12 240 (0.419 %) WebSphere Application Server 13 237 (0.414 %) Lotus Notes 14 218 (0.381 %) JBoss 14 218 (0.381 %) Exchange Server 2007 15 216 (0.377 %) MQSeries 16 199 (0.348 %) Oracle Workflow 17 182 (0.318 %) Exchange Server 2000 18 134 (0.234 %) WebSphere MQ 19 120 (0.210 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 3448 (6.023 %) MS Excel 2 1706 (2.980 %) MS Office 3 924 (1.614 %) MS Visio 4 662 (1.156 %) MS Project 5 360 (0.629 %) Spreadsheet 6 359 (0.627 %) MS PowerPoint 7 333 (0.582 %) Photoshop 8 258 (0.451 %) SPSS 9 200 (0.349 %) MATLAB 10 143 (0.250 %) CA Clarity 11 91 (0.159 %) Adobe Illustrator 12 50 (0.087 %) Fireworks 13 29 (0.051 %) RoboHelp 14 20 (0.035 %) InfoPath 15 19 (0.033 %) FrameMaker 16 17 (0.030 %) Windchill 17 16 (0.028 %) AutoCAD 18 13 (0.023 %) FreeHand 18 13 (0.023 %) Acrobat 18 13 (0.023 %) Shockwave	Business Applications 1 1050 (1.834 %) Oracle Financials 2 747 (1.305 %) SAP FI 3 713 (1.245 %) SAP CO 4 711 (1.242 %) SAP FI/CO 5 708 (1.237 %) Oracle Applications 6 704 (1.230 %) Oracle EBS 7 508 (0.887 %) SAP Oil and Gas 8 441 (0.770 %) Oracle 11i 9 286 (0.500 %) Oracle EBS R12 10 266 (0.465 %) HFM 11 204 (0.356 %) Dynamics AX 12 177 (0.309 %) SAP HR 13 165 (0.288 %) Hyperion Planning 14 156 (0.272 %) Navision 15 148 (0.259 %) Endur 15 148 (0.259 %) Dynamics NAV 15 148 (0.259 %) Summit 16 133 (0.232 %) SAP SD 17 132 (0.231 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 18 128 (0.224 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 1280 (2.236 %) Internet 2 1257 (2.196 %) TCP/IP 3 987 (1.724 %) WAN 4 982 (1.715 %) Firewall 5 952 (1.663 %) SAN 6 933 (1.630 %) LAN 7 620 (1.083 %) VPN 8 557 (0.973 %) DNS 9 421 (0.735 %) VoIP 10 387 (0.676 %) Intranet 11 330 (0.576 %) MPLS 11 330 (0.576 %) BGP 12 327 (0.571 %) DHCP 13 320 (0.559 %) OSPF 14 230 (0.402 %) Network Security 15 205 (0.358 %) SSL 16 188 (0.328 %) Cisco PIX 17 168 (0.293 %) ATM 18 158 (0.276 %) HTTP 19 149 (0.260 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8358 (14.60 %) SQL Server 2 2575 (4.498 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1804 (3.151 %) Datawarehouse 4 1573 (2.748 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1275 (2.227 %) RDBMS 6 1125 (1.965 %) Oracle 10g 7 993 (1.735 %) BusinessObjects 8 904 (1.579 %) ETL 9 660 (1.153 %) Oracle 9i 10 634 (1.107 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 605 (1.057 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 584 (1.020 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 573 (1.001 %) MySQL 14 558 (0.975 %) Oracle Reports 15 554 (0.968 %) Crystal Reports 16 513 (0.896 %) DB2 17 426 (0.744 %) DTS 18 423 (0.739 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 19 379 (0.662 %) MS Access 20 373 (0.652 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 764 (1.335 %) Visual Studio 2 529 (0.924 %) TestDirector 3 505 (0.882 %) QuickTest Pro 4 372 (0.650 %) Ant 5 363 (0.634 %) JUnit 6 323 (0.564 %) ClearCase 7 322 (0.562 %) WinRunner 8 310 (0.542 %) Oracle Forms 9 287 (0.501 %) Eclipse 10 284 (0.496 %) LoadRunner 11 160 (0.279 %) NUnit 12 157 (0.274 %) Subversion 13 143 (0.250 %) VSS/SourceSafe 14 112 (0.196 %) Rational Rose 15 95 (0.166 %) Dreamweaver 16 82 (0.143 %) ClearQuest 17 69 (0.121 %) RequisitePro 18 65 (0.114 %) Selenium 19 49 (0.086 %) JIRA 20 45 (0.079 %) FitNesse	General 1 10586 (18.49 %) Banking 2 4009 (7.003 %) Insurance 3 3477 (6.074 %) Investment Banking 4 3396 (5.932 %) Pensions 5 3320 (5.799 %) Front Office 6 3211 (5.609 %) Retail 7 2766 (4.832 %) Financial Institution 8 2497 (4.362 %) Health 9 2066 (3.609 %) Marketing 10 2016 (3.522 %) Telecoms 11 1727 (3.017 %) Back Office 12 1336 (2.334 %) Education 13 996 (1.740 %) Government 14 789 (1.378 %) Legal 15 778 (1.359 %) Manufacturing 16 658 (1.149 %) Retail Banking 17 607 (1.060 %) Games 18 526 (0.919 %) Billing 19 336 (0.587 %) Construction 20 314 (0.548 %) Law
Job Titles 1 13068 (22.83 %) Developer 2 12839 (22.43 %) Analyst 3 5295 (9.249 %) Consultant 4 4339 (7.579 %) Business Analyst 5 4024 (7.029 %) Project Manager 6 2789 (4.872 %) C# Developer 7 2531 (4.421 %) Java Developer 8 2477 (4.327 %) .NET Developer 9 2395 (4.184 %) Architect 10 2329 (4.068 %) Support Analyst 11 1933 (3.377 %) Senior Developer 12 1808 (3.158 %) Administrator 13 1523 (2.660 %) C++ Developer 14 1399 (2.444 %) Team Leader 15 1395 (2.437 %) DBA 16 1349 (2.356 %) Applications Support 17 1310 (2.288 %) Senior Analyst 18 1297 (2.266 %) Programmer 19 1013 (1.769 %) SQL Developer 20 991 (1.731 %) SAP Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 3251 (5.679 %) Derivative 2 1845 (3.223 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 1576 (2.753 %) Equities 4 1559 (2.723 %) Fixed Income 5 1062 (1.855 %) Mathematics 6 1042 (1.820 %) Computer Science 7 896 (1.565 %) Multithreading 8 885 (1.546 %) Credit Risk 9 792 (1.383 %) Management Information System 10 738 (1.289 %) Mainframe 11 588 (1.027 %) Equity Derivative 12 524 (0.915 %) Client/Server 12 524 (0.915 %) N-Tier 13 498 (0.870 %) Credit Derivative 14 398 (0.695 %) AS400 15 359 (0.627 %) PMI 16 351 (0.613 %) Statistics 17 339 (0.592 %) Replication 18 329 (0.575 %) Market Risk 19 326 (0.569 %) Grid Computing
Operating Systems 1 7118 (12.43 %) Windows 2 6624 (11.57 %) UNIX 3 3212 (5.611 %) Linux 4 1963 (3.429 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1823 (3.184 %) Solaris 6 1018 (1.778 %) Windows XP 7 845 (1.476 %) Windows 2000 8 581 (1.015 %) AIX 9 527 (0.921 %) Red Hat Linux 10 339 (0.592 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 299 (0.522 %) Windows NT 12 215 (0.376 %) HPUX 13 165 (0.288 %) Windows Vista 14 139 (0.243 %) VMS 15 99 (0.173 %) SUSE 16 90 (0.157 %) Windows Server 2008 17 69 (0.121 %) zOS 18 67 (0.117 %) MVS 19 55 (0.096 %) NetWare 20 51 (0.089 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 5912 (10.33 %) Project Management 2 3447 (6.021 %) OO 3 2974 (5.195 %) PRINCE2 4 2658 (4.643 %) Business Analysis 5 2622 (4.580 %) ITIL 6 2352 (4.108 %) Business Intelligence 7 2076 (3.626 %) Risk Management 8 1839 (3.212 %) UML 9 1571 (2.744 %) CRM 10 1563 (2.730 %) Change Management 11 1543 (2.695 %) E-Commerce 12 1388 (2.425 %) Agile Software Development 13 1365 (2.384 %) ERP 14 1357 (2.370 %) Asset Management 15 1288 (2.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 1180 (2.061 %) Service Delivery 17 1138 (1.988 %) Stakeholder Management 18 997 (1.742 %) Investment Management 19 947 (1.654 %) SOA 20 921 (1.609 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 11495 (20.08 %) SQL 2 7485 (13.07 %) C# 3 7150 (12.49 %) Java 4 4590 (8.018 %) C++ 5 2417 (4.222 %) VB 6 1965 (3.432 %) VB.NET 7 1933 (3.377 %) JavaScript 8 1889 (3.300 %) VBA 9 1658 (2.896 %) Perl 10 1635 (2.856 %) C 11 1445 (2.524 %) Transact-SQL 11 1445 (2.524 %) PL/SQL 12 955 (1.668 %) Shell Script 13 914 (1.597 %) VB6 14 766 (1.338 %) PHP 15 674 (1.177 %) Python 16 477 (0.833 %) VC++ 17 371 (0.648 %) VBScript 18 304 (0.531 %) COBOL 19 212 (0.370 %) RPG	Qualifications 1 6512 (11.38 %) Degree 2 1406 (2.456 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1102 (1.925 %) ISEB 4 903 (1.577 %) Cisco Certification 5 729 (1.273 %) MCSE 6 574 (1.003 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 545 (0.952 %) CCNP 8 521 (0.910 %) ITIL Certification 9 465 (0.812 %) ACCA 10 450 (0.786 %) CIMA 11 417 (0.728 %) Security Cleared 12 413 (0.721 %) MCP 13 399 (0.697 %) CCNA 14 363 (0.634 %) CISSP 15 293 (0.512 %) PMI Certification 16 281 (0.491 %) ISTQB 17 269 (0.470 %) MCSD 18 255 (0.445 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 19 249 (0.435 %) PMP 20 242 (0.423 %) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1588 (2.774 %) QA 2 862 (1.506 %) SLA 3 549 (0.959 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 344 (0.601 %) Basel II 5 159 (0.278 %) COBIT 6 128 (0.224 %) MiFID 7 118 (0.206 %) ISO27001 8 82 (0.143 %) GAAP 9 79 (0.138 %) PCI DSS 10 48 (0.084 %) ISO9001 11 46 (0.080 %) ISO9000 12 30 (0.052 %) ISO17799 13 25 (0.044 %) BS7799 13 25 (0.044 %) IAS 39 13 25 (0.044 %) PCI QSA 14 12 (0.021 %) COSO 14 12 (0.021 %) WAI 15 9 (0.016 %) ISO8583 16 7 (0.012 %) BS25999 17 6 (0.010 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 1561 (2.727 %) Active Directory 2 360 (0.629 %) Oracle RAC 3 320 (0.559 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 271 (0.473 %) Oracle RMAN 5 219 (0.383 %) NetBackup 6 163 (0.285 %) VMware ESX 7 123 (0.215 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 102 (0.178 %) NFS 9 81 (0.141 %) Backup Exec 10 79 (0.138 %) Terminal Server 11 69 (0.121 %) MSMQ 12 68 (0.119 %) ISA Server 13 67 (0.117 %) Terminal Services 14 38 (0.066 %) AquaLogic 15 30 (0.052 %) Samba 16 27 (0.047 %) Xen 17 23 (0.040 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 18 16 (0.028 %) MetaFrame 19 15 (0.026 %) Nmap 20 9 (0.016 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 280 (0.489 %) Data Guard 2 204 (0.356 %) Tivoli 3 157 (0.274 %) OpenView 4 97 (0.169 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 89 (0.155 %) AutoSys 6 83 (0.145 %) MOM 7 71 (0.124 %) MAILsweeper 8 59 (0.103 %) CONTROL-M 9 55 (0.096 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 9 55 (0.096 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 53 (0.093 %) Norton AntiVirus 11 52 (0.091 %) BMC PATROL 12 47 (0.082 %) CiscoWorks 13 45 (0.079 %) HP Data Protector 14 42 (0.073 %) Nagios 15 35 (0.061 %) Legato 16 31 (0.054 %) ServiceCenter 17 28 (0.049 %) WSUS 18 26 (0.045 %) Unicenter 18 26 (0.045 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 8187 (14.30 %) Oracle 2 5426 (9.478 %) Microsoft 3 2925 (5.109 %) SAP 4 1678 (2.931 %) Cisco 5 1591 (2.779 %) Sybase 6 1153 (2.014 %) IBM 7 993 (1.735 %) Business Objects 8 911 (1.591 %) Cognos 9 904 (1.579 %) HP 10 821 (1.434 %) Citrix 11 703 (1.228 %) Reuters 12 695 (1.214 %) Hyperion 13 691 (1.207 %) VMware 14 674 (1.177 %) Sun 15 656 (1.146 %) Bloomberg 16 591 (1.032 %) Red Hat 17 430 (0.751 %) VERITAS 18 416 (0.727 %) JD Edwards 19 389 (0.679 %) Remedy 20 359 (0.627 %) TIBCO