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Click on the sectors below for further information about each one:

• ICT (information and communications technologies)

• Tourism & leisure

• Low carbon energy

• Financial services, insurance

• Biotechnology

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Financial services, insurance

Key Reasons:

All five of the top accountancy firms (As recorded in the annual Accountancy Age Top 50 survey) have a base in Cambridge, showing Cambridge to be a thriving centre for major financial institutions. The sector also shows specialist financial service providers in great supply, to assist the emergence of a continuous stream of new companies into the hi-tech and biotech industries, which support a thriving business community.

Sub-Sectors:

Accountancy

Skills:

Skill Area: Project manager
Skill Salary: Up to £85,000

Skill Area: Mortgage adviser/ broker
Skill Salary: Up to £45,000

Skill Area: Accountant
Skill Salary: Up to £35,000

Sector Companies:

KPMG, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton

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Main Business Functions

• Research & development
• Business services/ offices
• Headquarters/ regional offices
• Light industrial
• Advanced manufacturing