The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term APACS in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited APACS over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS)
Rank - 148 159
Permanent jobs citing APACS 0 2 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 0.080% 0.244%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 0.291% 0.847%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 7
Average salary - - £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £51,250 £35,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+44.36% +18.33%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
682 687 945
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 27.79% 27.44% 28.77%
Number of salaries quoted 567 543 771
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
APACS
East of England

APACS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire APACS Jobs Demand Trend

APACS
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire APACS Salary Trend

APACS
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing APACS 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 APACS.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) ATM
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) EPoS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
1 2 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (100.00%) WatiN
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories

APACS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing APACS 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 APACS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) WatiN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) EPoS
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) HP