The first table below looks at the demand for the Analyst role in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analyst
Rank 9 6 4
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -2
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 375 415 643
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 15.21% 16.47% 19.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.22% 17.10% 20.43%
Number of salaries quoted 321 329 531
Average salary £37,500 £41,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.63% +3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £27,099
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £54,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2312 2427 3148
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.79% 96.35% 93.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1877 1966 2555
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Analyst
East of England

Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Analyst across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Analyst
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Analyst across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Analyst Salary Trend

Analyst
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Analyst across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Analyst Salary Histogram

Analyst
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Hemel Hempstead +9 52 £32,000 +12.28%
Watford +3 50 £35,000 -12.50%
Welwyn Garden City -1 44 £47,500 +35.71%
Rickmansworth +2 37 £34,500 -18.82%
St Albans +6 33 £34,000 +47.82%
Hitchin +8 15 £38,250 -7.83%
Stevenage +7 8 £32,500 -13.33%
Letchworth -14 7 £32,500 +30.00%
Hertford - 6 £28,750 -
Borehamwood -7 2 £37,500 +31.57%
Bishop's Stortford +3 1 £30,000 -17.24%
Cheshunt -2 1 £65,000 +30.00%
Potters Bar -3 1 £24,500 -48.42%
Harpenden - 1 £22,500 -
Welwyn - 1 £47,500 -
Analyst
East of England

Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Analyst in their job title 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 with Analyst in their job title.

1 291 (34.40%) SQL
2 248 (29.31%) Finance
3 190 (22.46%) Windows
4 180 (21.28%) Oracle
5 158 (18.68%) Microsoft
6 151 (17.85%) Retail
7 149 (17.61%) MS Excel
8 108 (12.77%) MS Office
9 95 (11.23%) Degree
10 94 (11.11%) E-Commerce
11 88 (10.40%) User Acceptance Testing
12 83 (9.811%) SQL Server
13 82 (9.693%) Project Management
14 80 (9.456%) Business Analysis
15 77 (9.102%) Java
16 73 (8.629%) ITIL
17 64 (7.565%) UNIX
18 63 (7.447%) Waterfall
19 62 (7.329%) ISEB
20 56 (6.619%) Agile Software Development
21 55 (6.501%) Automotive
22 52 (6.147%) Data Analysis
23 51 (6.028%) J2EE
24 50 (5.910%) Linux
25 49 (5.792%) PRINCE2
26 48 (5.674%) Marketing
27 43 (5.083%) XML
27 43 (5.083%) MS Visio
27 43 (5.083%) Windows Server 2008
28 40 (4.728%) SAP

Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Analyst in their job title 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 with Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 51 (6.028%) J2EE
2 43 (5.083%) XML
3 39 (4.610%) .NET
4 35 (4.137%) HTML
5 30 (3.546%) WebSphere
6 24 (2.837%) CSS
7 19 (2.246%) JDBC
8 14 (1.655%) Middleware
8 14 (1.655%) Struts
9 12 (1.418%) XHTML
9 12 (1.418%) JSP
10 10 (1.182%) Spring
10 10 (1.182%) Hibernate
11 9 (1.064%) Web Services
11 9 (1.064%) ASP.NET
11 9 (1.064%) JSTL
12 8 (0.946%) JBoss Seam
12 8 (0.946%) Servlets
13 4 (0.473%) RESTful
13 4 (0.473%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 29 (3.428%) WebSphere Application Server
2 28 (3.310%) Tomcat
3 25 (2.955%) IIS
4 12 (1.418%) MS Exchange
5 10 (1.182%) SharePoint Server
5 10 (1.182%) IBM HTTP Server
6 9 (1.064%) MQSeries
7 7 (0.827%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.709%) CMS
9 5 (0.591%) SAS
10 4 (0.473%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.473%) Apache
10 4 (0.473%) Lotus Notes
11 3 (0.355%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.355%) Kentico
12 2 (0.236%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.236%) Liferay
13 1 (0.118%) TeamSite
13 1 (0.118%) MS Project Server
13 1 (0.118%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 149 (17.61%) MS Excel
2 108 (12.77%) MS Office
3 43 (5.083%) MS Visio
4 22 (2.600%) MS PowerPoint
4 22 (2.600%) MS Project
5 8 (0.946%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.473%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.355%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 33 (3.901%) Oracle EBS
1 33 (3.901%) Oracle EBS R12
2 24 (2.837%) Oracle Financials
3 19 (2.246%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
4 18 (2.128%) Oracle 11i
5 11 (1.300%) Dynamics NAV
6 10 (1.182%) Google Analytics
6 10 (1.182%) Oracle iProcurement
7 8 (0.946%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.827%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.827%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.827%) HFM
9 6 (0.709%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.473%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.473%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.473%) SAP SD
11 3 (0.355%) Taleo
11 3 (0.355%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.236%) Oracle BPM
12 2 (0.236%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.255%) LAN
2 25 (2.955%) TCP/IP
3 24 (2.837%) HTTP
4 20 (2.364%) Internet
5 14 (1.655%) SAN
5 14 (1.655%) VPN
6 13 (1.537%) FTP
7 12 (1.418%) Firewall
8 11 (1.300%) 3G
9 9 (1.064%) WAN
10 8 (0.946%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.827%) Broadband
11 7 (0.827%) DNS
11 7 (0.827%) VoIP
11 7 (0.827%) DHCP
12 6 (0.709%) SSH
13 5 (0.591%) ADSL
14 4 (0.473%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.473%) ATM
14 4 (0.473%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.811%) SQL Server
2 33 (3.901%) SQL Server 2008
3 31 (3.664%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 28 (3.310%) DB2
4 28 (3.310%) SQL Server 2005
5 26 (3.073%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (2.719%) BusinessObjects XI
7 19 (2.246%) Oracle Discoverer
7 19 (2.246%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (1.891%) MySQL
9 15 (1.773%) MS Access
10 9 (1.064%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.827%) SQLPlus
11 7 (0.827%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (0.709%) TOAD
12 6 (0.709%) OLTP
12 6 (0.709%) Oracle 8/8i
13 4 (0.473%) Xcelsius
14 2 (0.236%) SQL Server 2012
14 2 (0.236%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 15 (1.773%) QuickTest Pro
2 13 (1.537%) JUnit
3 11 (1.300%) Eclipse
4 9 (1.064%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 9 (1.064%) ProC
4 9 (1.064%) Rational Application Developer
5 7 (0.827%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.827%) JMeter
5 7 (0.827%) JIRA
5 7 (0.827%) Selenium
6 5 (0.591%) ClearQuest
6 5 (0.591%) NetBeans
7 4 (0.473%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.355%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.236%) WatiN
9 2 (0.236%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.236%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.236%) NUnit
10 1 (0.118%) JDeveloper
10 1 (0.118%) Oracle Forms
General
1 248 (29.31%) Finance
2 151 (17.85%) Retail
3 55 (6.501%) Automotive
4 48 (5.674%) Marketing
5 34 (4.019%) Games
6 29 (3.428%) Legal
7 17 (2.009%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.300%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.182%) Advertising
9 10 (1.182%) Banking
10 6 (0.709%) Back Office
11 5 (0.591%) Law
11 5 (0.591%) Publishing
12 4 (0.473%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.355%) Electronics
13 3 (0.355%) German Language
14 2 (0.236%) Local Government
14 2 (0.236%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.236%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.118%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.137%) Mathematics
2 20 (2.364%) Computer Science
3 19 (2.246%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.009%) Mainframe
4 17 (2.009%) FMCG
5 16 (1.891%) Client/Server
6 15 (1.773%) Statistics
7 11 (1.300%) Blackberry
8 7 (0.827%) iPhone
8 7 (0.827%) SWIFT
9 6 (0.709%) Data Integration
10 4 (0.473%) Open Source
10 4 (0.473%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.473%) Handset
11 3 (0.355%) N-Tier
11 3 (0.355%) EPoS
11 3 (0.355%) E-Learning
11 3 (0.355%) APACS
11 3 (0.355%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.236%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 190 (22.46%) Windows
2 64 (7.565%) UNIX
3 50 (5.910%) Linux
4 43 (5.083%) Windows Server 2008
5 36 (4.255%) Windows Server 2003
6 31 (3.664%) Windows XP
6 31 (3.664%) Windows 7
7 26 (3.073%) AIX
8 16 (1.891%) Solaris
9 4 (0.473%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.236%) Windows 2000 Server
10 2 (0.236%) Windows Mobile
10 2 (0.236%) Windows Vista
10 2 (0.236%) SUSE
10 2 (0.236%) Windows 2000
10 2 (0.236%) OS/400
11 1 (0.118%) Windows NT
11 1 (0.118%) Android
11 1 (0.118%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.118%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (11.11%) E-Commerce
2 88 (10.40%) User Acceptance Testing
3 82 (9.693%) Project Management
4 80 (9.456%) Business Analysis
5 73 (8.629%) ITIL
6 63 (7.447%) Waterfall
7 56 (6.619%) Agile Software Development
8 52 (6.147%) Data Analysis
9 49 (5.792%) PRINCE2
10 39 (4.610%) System Testing
11 38 (4.492%) Scrum
11 38 (4.492%) CRM
11 38 (4.492%) Business Intelligence
12 37 (4.374%) Validation
13 30 (3.546%) UML
14 28 (3.310%) Web Development
15 26 (3.073%) Use Case
16 25 (2.955%) RUP
16 25 (2.955%) Change Management
16 25 (2.955%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 291 (34.40%) SQL
2 77 (9.102%) Java
3 37 (4.374%) JavaScript
4 31 (3.664%) PL/SQL
5 30 (3.546%) VB
6 29 (3.428%) Perl
7 24 (2.837%) T-SQL
8 23 (2.719%) C#
9 22 (2.600%) C
10 21 (2.482%) Bash shell
11 18 (2.128%) VB.NET
11 18 (2.128%) VBA
12 11 (1.300%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.946%) Python
14 5 (0.591%) VBScript
14 5 (0.591%) C++
14 5 (0.591%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.591%) R
15 3 (0.355%) PHP
15 3 (0.355%) VB6
Qualifications
1 95 (11.23%) Degree
2 62 (7.329%) ISEB
3 21 (2.482%) ISTQB
4 17 (2.009%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (1.891%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 14 (1.655%) Sun Certification
7 13 (1.537%) Security Cleared
8 12 (1.418%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.064%) MCSE
10 8 (0.946%) MCP
11 7 (0.827%) CISSP
11 7 (0.827%) MBCS
11 7 (0.827%) SC Cleared
12 6 (0.709%) CIMA
12 6 (0.709%) ACCA
12 6 (0.709%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.591%) CCNA
13 5 (0.591%) GIAC
14 3 (0.355%) CBAP
15 2 (0.236%) GNVQ
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.783%) QA
2 31 (3.664%) SLA
3 10 (1.182%) PCI DSS
4 8 (0.946%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.827%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.355%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.355%) COBIT
7 1 (0.118%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.118%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.118%) Data Quality
System Software
1 35 (4.137%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.482%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.827%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.473%) VMware ESX
5 2 (0.236%) VirtualBox
5 2 (0.236%) vSphere
5 2 (0.236%) Xen
5 2 (0.236%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.236%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.236%) NFS
6 1 (0.118%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (3.428%) HP Quality Center
2 7 (0.827%) ServiceCenter
3 5 (0.591%) Nagios
4 4 (0.473%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 4 (0.473%) Nessus
4 4 (0.473%) Tivoli
5 3 (0.355%) Backup Exec
6 2 (0.236%) Cisco UCCX
6 2 (0.236%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.118%) OpenView
7 1 (0.118%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.118%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.118%) WSUS
7 1 (0.118%) Sysprep
7 1 (0.118%) SCCM
7 1 (0.118%) HP SIM
7 1 (0.118%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 180 (21.28%) Oracle
2 158 (18.68%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.728%) SAP
4 34 (4.019%) Sage
5 31 (3.664%) VMware
5 31 (3.664%) Cisco
5 31 (3.664%) IBM
6 28 (3.310%) Citrix
7 27 (3.191%) Business Objects
8 26 (3.073%) HP
9 20 (2.364%) JBoss
10 18 (2.128%) CODA
10 18 (2.128%) Sun
11 11 (1.300%) Google
12 10 (1.182%) Avaya
13 8 (0.946%) Salesforce.com
13 8 (0.946%) Symantec
13 8 (0.946%) Remedy
13 8 (0.946%) Apple
14 7 (0.827%) Cognos
Hertfordshire
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Computer People
Salary: £28000.00 - £30000.00 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Watford, Hertfordshire
Business Analyst - IT - Retail background desirable - London - 40k + bens The client requires a strong business analysis with a broad range of skills for the EMEA region. The are...
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Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Salary: £0 - £43,000 per year + Benefits Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
You should have experience of developing new systems strategies, motivating and training staff on systems and ideally programming experience in SQL / VB / .Net... Key skills: Business Analyst, Software,...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + be - pens, health 27 days +
Posted: 19 May 2013
Hertfordshire
Multiple Business Analyst roles - Agile - Hertfordshire - £40k-£55k - Permanent - Strong benefits... My client, a Global Leading Dotcom looking to cement their place as the world’s elite Multi-...
Testing Circle Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum plus strong benefits package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Herts, South East
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Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 25 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Experienced web server applications support analyst (IIS, .net applications - C#, VB/.net in a Web farm). Must have platforms experience - Windows 2003 and 2008 or RedHat Linux and...
Green Thompson Consulting
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Senior Data Analyst - Access Specialist - blue-chip This hugely successful blue-chip organisation has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Data Analyst / Access specialist to join their Payroll...
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Salary: £40000 - £65000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
An international technology company, have engaged the Ashdown Group to find an SAP Business Analyst with knowledge of the SD and SM modules. The company has over 30,...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £40000 - £48000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Hertfordshire
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ComputaCenter
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 20 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Herts
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Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 25 May 2013
St. Albans, Hertfordshire
Skills and experience: Proven track record and previous software testing experience. Knowledge of 'Software Testing Tools' e.g. (test management tools, capture replay tools, data preparation tools, debugging...
Sky
Posted: 30 April 2013
St. Albans, South East
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SkyIQ
Posted: 25 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
This includes inbound data pipelines, data management considerations and all data extraction and delivery functionality... - Degree level education or equivalent... - Microsoft SQL server including SSIS and database administration...
Bounty UK Ltd
Salary: £25k - 28k per year
Posted: 13 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, South East
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Salary: £25k - 28k per year
Posted: 22 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Herts, South East
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Salary: Competitive
Posted: 25 May 2013
Watford, Hertfordshire
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SEC Recruitment Limited
Salary: £25000 - £26000 per annum + £10,000 PA after induction
Posted: 21 May 2013
Royston, Hertfordshire
PL/SQL coding and Unix Shell Scripting Oracle RDBMS , SQL Data Migration & Loading Trouble Shooting , Security , Scrum , Agile Client can offer a challenging environment with a great opportunity...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Upto 35k + Healthcare + Training
Posted: 22 May 2013
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
You will also have a basic understanding of SQL and UNIX as well as a familiarity with test tools such as: Toad, XML Spy, Secure Shell Client, SWIFT,...
Experis IT
Posted: 21 May 2013
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
The role can be summarised as follows: - Identify opportunities to improve service, quality, safety &/or reduce costs by improving existing or adding new processes & systems - Provide analysis & business...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £35000.00 per annum + Pension + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
Technical Skills: Basic SQL Basic Unix Familiarity with the test tools. Toad, XML Spy, Secure Shell Client, Secure FTP, SWIFT Workstation, SWIFT Webstation, Jira, Tivoli Scheduler, ClearQuest, HP...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £35000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 16 May 2013
Watford, South East
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Hudson
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + package and bonus
Posted: 10 May 2013
Hertfordshire
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Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
Organisation within the Financial Services industry is currently recruiting for a Trainee Risk Analyst to support the Risk Department and Risk Manager with all aspects of risk management,...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £22000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 8 May 2013
Watford, South East
My client a market leading, global, retail organisation is looking for Oracle Financials Functional Support Analyst to join their large team of exceptional Oracle experts... If you are...
Hudson
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013