Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Banking' in IT jobs across the UK together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Banking over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkBanking
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank2215
Rank change on same period last yearDown-7
Matching permanent IT job ads1051521731
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled6.784 %9.728 %
As % of the category below13.43 %19.25 %
Salaries quoted831116727
Average minimum salary£53,405£52,754
Average salary£59,485£58,275
% change on same period last year+2.07 %
Average maximum salary£65,565£63,796
UK excluding London average salary£47,364£46,832
% change on same period last year+1.13 %
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads78268112911
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled50.49 %50.54 %
Salaries quoted6523189672
Average minimum salary£43,250£44,747
Average salary£47,659£49,168
% change on same period last year-3.07 %
Average maximum salary£52,067£53,590
UK excluding London average salary£41,392£42,002
% change on same period last year-1.45 %

Banking
Demand Trend

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

Banking Demand Trend

Banking
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Banking within the UK.

Banking Salary Trend

Banking
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Banking over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 within the UK.

Banking Salary Histogram

Banking
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-810264£59,518+1.87 %
LondonDown-48792£62,076+1.45 %
City of LondonDown-23581£63,165+1.95 %
South EastDown-46533£50,604+6.89 %
Canary WharfNo change0381£60,890-2.25 %
Docklands, LondonNo change0380£64,925+6.59 %
East MidlandsUp+5244£42,714-7.95 %
SurreyDown-38188£55,780+8.28 %
South WestDown-62179£45,957-7.39 %
North WestDown-69172£45,947+5.13 %
NorthamptonshireUp+4161£46,234-4.82 %
NorthamptonUp+1147£47,010-3.28 %
BerkshireDown-21126£47,244+7.63 %
YorkshireDown-40123£40,857+6.63 %
ScotlandDown-16108£49,676+24.31 %
East of EnglandDown-64100£45,693+0.67 %
West YorkshireDown-2689£41,095+5.39 %
CheshireDown-3787£44,259+0.29 %
BristolUp+1885£49,389+18.11 %
West MidlandsUp+1470£35,901-8.38 %
ManchesterDown-3668£48,377+4.93 %
LeedsUp+1860£41,467+7.82 %
GlasgowUp+1556£49,489+16.17 %
BuckinghamshireDown-256£43,738-1.46 %
HampshireDown-5447£51,588+24.60 %
NottinghamshireUp+547£41,300-0.71 %
North YorkshireDown-1045£37,261-3.63 %
NottinghamUp+345£42,256+4.35 %
HertfordshireDown-4941£48,857+15.35 %
YorkUp+3040£36,882-13.17 %

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs within the UK 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.

113644 (54.98 %)Finance
29462 (38.13 %)Investment Banking
35587 (22.51 %)SQL
44580 (18.46 %)Java
54282 (17.26 %)UNIX
64169 (16.80 %)C#
73754 (15.13 %)Front Office
83395 (13.68 %)Oracle
93380 (13.62 %).NET
103365 (13.56 %)Windows
113364 (13.56 %)Derivative
123074 (12.39 %)SQL Server
132818 (11.36 %)C++
142643 (10.65 %)Degree
152461 (9.917 %)Project Management
162187 (8.813 %)Retail
171977 (7.967 %)XML
181918 (7.729 %)Sybase
191761 (7.097 %)OO
201745 (7.032 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
211672 (6.738 %)Fixed Income
221560 (6.287 %)J2EE
231515 (6.105 %)Linux
241460 (5.884 %)Microsoft
251329 (5.356 %)Insurance
261316 (5.303 %)Back Office
271310 (5.279 %)MS Excel
281283 (5.170 %)Equities
291271 (5.122 %)Business Analysis
301270 (5.118 %)Risk Management

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
13380 (13.62 %).NET
21977 (7.967 %)XML
31560 (6.287 %)J2EE
41161 (4.679 %)ASP.NET
5759 (3.059 %)Spring
6726 (2.926 %)WinForms
7618 (2.490 %)WebServices
8578 (2.329 %)WebSphere
9569 (2.293 %)Middleware
10564 (2.273 %)Hibernate
11559 (2.253 %)HTML
12448 (1.805 %).NET Framework
13390 (1.572 %)Swing
14389 (1.568 %)JMS
15376 (1.515 %)STL
16370 (1.491 %)AJAX
17361 (1.455 %)JSP
18343 (1.382 %)ASP
19325 (1.310 %)CSS
20309 (1.245 %)JDBC
IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1474 (1.910 %)WebLogic
2395 (1.592 %)SharePoint
3352 (1.418 %)SAS
4298 (1.201 %)MS Exchange
5239 (0.963 %)Apache
6219 (0.883 %)Tomcat
6219 (0.883 %)IIS
7208 (0.838 %)BizTalk Server
8188 (0.758 %)SharePoint Server 2007
9179 (0.721 %)Exchange Server 2003
10177 (0.713 %)CMS
11139 (0.560 %)MQSeries
12109 (0.439 %)JBoss
13105 (0.423 %)WebSphere MQ
1499 (0.399 %)TIBCO EMS
1580 (0.322 %)Exchange Server 2000
1580 (0.322 %)WebSphere Application Server
1675 (0.302 %)Lotus Notes
1762 (0.250 %)Rendezvous
1850 (0.201 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11310 (5.279 %)MS Excel
2661 (2.664 %)MS Office
3312 (1.257 %)MS Visio
4203 (0.818 %)MS Project
5169 (0.681 %)Spreadsheet
6127 (0.512 %)MS PowerPoint
781 (0.326 %)Photoshop
878 (0.314 %)CA Clarity
975 (0.302 %)SPSS
1026 (0.105 %)MATLAB
1119 (0.077 %)Adobe Illustrator
1217 (0.069 %)Acrobat
1312 (0.048 %)InfoPath
1410 (0.040 %)S-PLUS
1410 (0.040 %)FrameMaker
159 (0.036 %)PrintSoft PReS
168 (0.032 %)DeltaView
168 (0.032 %)RoboHelp
176 (0.024 %)Fireworks
176 (0.024 %)InDesign
IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
1186 (0.750 %)FLEXCUBE
2181 (0.729 %)Summit
3162 (0.653 %)Temenos T24
4142 (0.572 %)Temenos Globus
5113 (0.455 %)SAP FI
6111 (0.447 %)Misys Midas
7106 (0.427 %)SAP CO
8105 (0.423 %)SAP FI/CO
986 (0.347 %)Endur
1085 (0.343 %)Misys Opics
1171 (0.286 %)Kondor+
1266 (0.266 %)Misys Equation
1365 (0.262 %)SunGard AvantGard
1443 (0.173 %)SAP Oil and Gas
1541 (0.165 %)Oracle Applications
1637 (0.149 %)Oracle EBS
1732 (0.129 %)Findur
1732 (0.129 %)SAP CRM
1831 (0.125 %)RMDS
1930 (0.121 %)Loan IQ
IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1660 (2.660 %)Internet
2512 (2.063 %)TCP/IP
3495 (1.995 %)SAN
4341 (1.374 %)Firewall
5288 (1.161 %)LAN
6264 (1.064 %)WAN
7245 (0.987 %)DNS
8203 (0.818 %)VPN
9194 (0.782 %)Intranet
10145 (0.584 %)LDAP
11106 (0.427 %)DHCP
11106 (0.427 %)HTTP
11106 (0.427 %)OSPF
12105 (0.423 %)VoIP
13102 (0.411 %)Cisco PIX
1490 (0.363 %)BGP
1576 (0.306 %)SSL
1667 (0.270 %)FTP
1765 (0.262 %)MPLS
1765 (0.262 %)Network Security
IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
13074 (12.39 %)SQL Server
21064 (4.288 %)SQL Server 2005
3826 (3.329 %)RDBMS
4663 (2.672 %)SQL Server 2000
5581 (2.341 %)Oracle 10g
6574 (2.313 %)Datawarehouse
7361 (1.455 %)ETL
8351 (1.414 %)Oracle 9i
9253 (1.020 %)Oracle 8/8i
10234 (0.943 %)Reference Data
11215 (0.866 %)SQL Server Integration Services
12190 (0.766 %)Sybase ASE
13188 (0.758 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
14180 (0.725 %)DB2
15158 (0.637 %)DTS
16145 (0.584 %)BusinessObjects
17141 (0.568 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
18129 (0.520 %)OLAP
19128 (0.516 %)Crystal Reports
20126 (0.508 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1328 (1.322 %)ClearCase
1328 (1.322 %)TestDirector
2252 (1.016 %)QuickTest Pro
3239 (0.963 %)JUnit
4205 (0.826 %)LoadRunner
5180 (0.725 %)Ant
6171 (0.689 %)WinRunner
7137 (0.552 %)Visual Studio
8120 (0.484 %)NUnit
9110 (0.443 %)Eclipse
10109 (0.439 %)Flash
1159 (0.238 %)ClearQuest
1246 (0.185 %)CruiseControl
1342 (0.169 %)Rational Rose
1438 (0.153 %)Subversion
1536 (0.145 %)PowerBuilder
1635 (0.141 %)JIRA
1732 (0.129 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1828 (0.113 %)Oracle Forms
1925 (0.101 %)PVCS
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
113644 (54.98 %)Finance
29462 (38.13 %)Investment Banking
33754 (15.13 %)Front Office
42187 (8.813 %)Retail
51329 (5.356 %)Insurance
61316 (5.303 %)Back Office
71253 (5.049 %)Retail Banking
8885 (3.566 %)Financial Institution
9742 (2.990 %)Pensions
10730 (2.942 %)Telecoms
11706 (2.845 %)Education
12563 (2.269 %)Health
13410 (1.652 %)Marketing
14297 (1.197 %)Legal
15251 (1.011 %)Online Banking
16244 (0.983 %)Government
17187 (0.754 %)Pharmaceutical
18185 (0.746 %)Games
19175 (0.705 %)Private Banking
20141 (0.568 %)Corporate Banking
IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
16759 (27.24 %)Developer
25079 (20.47 %)Analyst
32080 (8.382 %)Business Analyst
41905 (7.677 %)Project Manager
51808 (7.286 %)C# Developer
61780 (7.173 %)Java Developer
71476 (5.948 %)Consultant
81114 (4.489 %)C++ Developer
91062 (4.280 %)Architect
101001 (4.034 %).NET Developer
11924 (3.724 %)Support Analyst
12906 (3.651 %)Senior Developer
13863 (3.478 %)Applications Support
14799 (3.220 %)Team Leader
15754 (3.038 %)DBA
16704 (2.837 %)Administrator
17545 (2.196 %)Banking Business Analyst
18498 (2.007 %)SQL Developer
19482 (1.942 %)Programme Manager
20446 (1.797 %)Programmer
IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
13364 (13.56 %)Derivative
21745 (7.032 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
31672 (6.738 %)Fixed Income
41283 (5.170 %)Equities
5805 (3.244 %)Equity Derivative
6748 (3.014 %)Credit Risk
7550 (2.216 %)Multithreading
8463 (1.866 %)Credit Derivative
9447 (1.801 %)Market Risk
10410 (1.652 %)Computer Science
11402 (1.620 %)Mathematics
12351 (1.414 %)PMI
13300 (1.209 %)Mainframe
14280 (1.128 %)Clustering
15272 (1.096 %)Replication
16227 (0.915 %)N-Tier
17221 (0.891 %)Interest Rate Derivative
18218 (0.879 %)Management Information System
19217 (0.874 %)Client/Server
20214 (0.862 %)Grid Computing
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
14282 (17.26 %)UNIX
23365 (13.56 %)Windows
31515 (6.105 %)Linux
41174 (4.731 %)Solaris
5900 (3.627 %)Windows Server 2003
6468 (1.886 %)Windows 2000
7401 (1.616 %)Red Hat Linux
8347 (1.398 %)Windows XP
9288 (1.161 %)AIX
10143 (0.576 %)Windows 2000 Server
11122 (0.492 %)Windows NT
12121 (0.488 %)HPUX
13101 (0.407 %)VMS
1469 (0.278 %)SUSE
1556 (0.226 %)Windows Vista
1634 (0.137 %)zOS
1731 (0.125 %)OpenVMS
1830 (0.121 %)Windows Server 2008
1925 (0.101 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2011 (0.044 %)Tru64
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12461 (9.917 %)Project Management
21761 (7.097 %)OO
31271 (5.122 %)Business Analysis
41270 (5.118 %)Risk Management
51174 (4.731 %)PRINCE2
6939 (3.784 %)Asset Management
7906 (3.651 %)ITIL
8828 (3.337 %)UML
9632 (2.547 %)Stakeholder Management
10601 (2.422 %)Change Management
11585 (2.357 %)Agile Software Development
12530 (2.136 %)E-Commerce
13504 (2.031 %)Investment Management
14499 (2.011 %)SOA
15462 (1.862 %)User Acceptance Testing
16431 (1.737 %)Business Intelligence
17421 (1.697 %)Data Modelling
18420 (1.693 %)Electronic Trading
19417 (1.680 %)CRM
20405 (1.632 %)RUP
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
15587 (22.51 %)SQL
24580 (18.46 %)Java
34169 (16.80 %)C#
42818 (11.36 %)C++
51238 (4.989 %)Perl
61205 (4.856 %)VBA
71171 (4.719 %)VB
8672 (2.708 %)Shell Script
9668 (2.692 %)C
10599 (2.414 %)PL/SQL
11521 (2.100 %)VB.NET
12507 (2.043 %)Transact-SQL
13502 (2.023 %)JavaScript
14338 (1.362 %)Python
15280 (1.128 %)VB6
16260 (1.048 %)PHP
17240 (0.967 %)VC++
18159 (0.641 %)VBScript
19104 (0.419 %)Korn
2076 (0.306 %)DHTML
IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
12643 (10.65 %)Degree
2513 (2.067 %)Microsoft Certification
3433 (1.745 %)ISEB
4312 (1.257 %)PMI Certification
5276 (1.112 %)PMP
6268 (1.080 %)Cisco Certification
7261 (1.052 %)MCSE
8224 (0.903 %)PRINCE2 Certification
9212 (0.854 %)MCP
10157 (0.633 %)CCNP
11154 (0.621 %)ITIL Certification
12121 (0.488 %)MCSD
13108 (0.435 %)CISSP
14100 (0.403 %)MCAD
1596 (0.387 %)CCNA
1691 (0.367 %)PhD
1782 (0.330 %)CCIE
1876 (0.306 %)RHCE
1962 (0.250 %)Oracle Certification
2060 (0.242 %)CISM
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1551 (2.220 %)QA
2304 (1.225 %)Basel II
3274 (1.104 %)SLA
4233 (0.939 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
591 (0.367 %)MiFID
640 (0.161 %)GAAP
728 (0.113 %)IAS 39
827 (0.109 %)COBIT
917 (0.069 %)ISO27001
917 (0.069 %)ISO17799
1011 (0.044 %)ISO8583
1110 (0.040 %)PCI DSS
129 (0.036 %)BS7799
137 (0.028 %)PCI QSA
146 (0.024 %)ISO9000
155 (0.020 %)ISO9001
164 (0.016 %)WAI
164 (0.016 %)ISO/IEC 20000
171 (0.004 %)PABP
171 (0.004 %)BS25999
IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1542 (2.184 %)Active Directory
2139 (0.560 %)Oracle RAC
3127 (0.512 %)Oracle RMAN
4113 (0.455 %)NetBackup
594 (0.379 %)VMware Infrastructure
678 (0.314 %)NFS
773 (0.294 %)VMware ESX
837 (0.149 %)AquaLogic
929 (0.117 %)Samba
1020 (0.081 %)MSMQ
1119 (0.077 %)ISA Server
1217 (0.069 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1316 (0.064 %)MetaFrame
1412 (0.048 %)Backup Exec
1511 (0.044 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
169 (0.036 %)Orbix
169 (0.036 %)Terminal Server
178 (0.032 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
187 (0.028 %)Xen
187 (0.028 %)MailMarshal
IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1137 (0.552 %)Tivoli
297 (0.391 %)AutoSys
385 (0.343 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
467 (0.270 %)OpenView
544 (0.177 %)CONTROL-M
636 (0.145 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
727 (0.109 %)BMC PATROL
823 (0.093 %)WSUS
921 (0.085 %)Legato
1020 (0.081 %)Netcool
1118 (0.073 %)ServiceCenter
1217 (0.069 %)SCCM
1217 (0.069 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1315 (0.060 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1315 (0.060 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
1414 (0.056 %)MOM
1414 (0.056 %)OMEGAMON
1414 (0.056 %)MAILsweeper
1512 (0.048 %)SCOM
1610 (0.040 %)Unicenter
IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
13395 (13.68 %)Oracle
21918 (7.729 %)Sybase
31460 (5.884 %)Microsoft
4551 (2.220 %)Cisco
5515 (2.075 %)IBM
6501 (2.019 %)SAP
7500 (2.015 %)Sun
8480 (1.934 %)Bloomberg
9453 (1.826 %)Red Hat
10452 (1.821 %)Reuters
11400 (1.612 %)HP
12360 (1.451 %)TIBCO
13335 (1.350 %)Misys
14330 (1.330 %)Citrix
15308 (1.241 %)VERITAS
16305 (1.229 %)Remedy
17268 (1.080 %)Calypso
18239 (0.963 %)VMware
19230 (0.927 %)Temenos
20219 (0.883 %)SunGard