The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Continuous Improvement 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 100 118 122
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +4
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 40 32 44
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.623% 1.270% 1.304%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.122% 1.742% 1.702%
Number of salaries quoted 30 25 37
Average salary £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,950 £41,000 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £61,500 £58,600 £67,300
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.05% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1885 1837 2585
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 76.47% 72.93% 76.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1486 1476 2084
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £31,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Continuous Improvement
East of England

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Hertfordshire Continuous Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire Continuous Improvement Salary Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

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

Hertfordshire Continuous Improvement Salary Histogram

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement 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
Welwyn Garden City -9 16 £52,500 -2.32%
Watford - 10 £52,500 -
Rickmansworth - 2 £36,500 -
Continuous Improvement
East of England

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement.

1 34 (45.33%) Retail
2 26 (34.67%) E-Commerce
3 25 (33.33%) Marketing
4 23 (30.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 23 (30.67%) Finance
5 20 (26.67%) SEO
5 20 (26.67%) SAP
5 20 (26.67%) Online Marketing
5 20 (26.67%) Analytics
5 20 (26.67%) Mobile Marketing
5 20 (26.67%) Web Development
5 20 (26.67%) Content Management
5 20 (26.67%) Web Analytics
6 19 (25.33%) C
6 19 (25.33%) MS Excel
7 18 (24.00%) Oracle
8 16 (21.33%) Agile Software Development
9 15 (20.00%) Management Information System
9 15 (20.00%) Service Management
10 14 (18.67%) MS Project
10 14 (18.67%) Scrum
11 13 (17.33%) User Stories
11 13 (17.33%) Test Scripting
11 13 (17.33%) CRM
12 12 (16.00%) QA
13 11 (14.67%) Test Management
13 11 (14.67%) Usability Testing
13 11 (14.67%) Information Architecture
13 11 (14.67%) Test Strategy
13 11 (14.67%) HP Quality Center

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (13.33%) Web Services
2 9 (12.00%) XML
3 6 (8.000%) .NET
4 5 (6.667%) Middleware
4 5 (6.667%) ASP
4 5 (6.667%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.000%) Web Dynpro
5 3 (4.000%) SAP BSP
6 2 (2.667%) WebSphere
7 1 (1.333%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.333%) JMS
7 1 (1.333%) J2EE
7 1 (1.333%) SOAP
7 1 (1.333%) Struts
7 1 (1.333%) Spring MVC
7 1 (1.333%) Spring
7 1 (1.333%) JSF
7 1 (1.333%) Struts2
7 1 (1.333%) REST
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.000%) CMS
2 5 (6.667%) ESB
3 3 (4.000%) NetWeaver
3 3 (4.000%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.667%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.667%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.333%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.333%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (25.33%) MS Excel
2 14 (18.67%) MS Project
3 11 (14.67%) MS Visio
4 9 (12.00%) MS Office
5 5 (6.667%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (1.333%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (9.333%) SAP FI
1 7 (9.333%) SAP FI/CO
1 7 (9.333%) SAP CO
2 5 (6.667%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.333%) SAN
2 5 (6.667%) Intranet
2 5 (6.667%) Internet
3 4 (5.333%) LAN
4 3 (4.000%) IPv6
4 3 (4.000%) UMTS
4 3 (4.000%) DHCP
4 3 (4.000%) FTP
4 3 (4.000%) HTTP
4 3 (4.000%) SNMP
4 3 (4.000%) VPN
4 3 (4.000%) DNS
4 3 (4.000%) ADSL
4 3 (4.000%) Broadband
4 3 (4.000%) GPRS
4 3 (4.000%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (4.000%) VSAT
4 3 (4.000%) HSRP
5 2 (2.667%) BSS
5 2 (2.667%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.33%) RDBMS
2 8 (10.67%) SAP BW
3 6 (8.000%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.000%) DB2
4 5 (6.667%) OLTP
4 5 (6.667%) OLAP
4 5 (6.667%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (1.333%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.333%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.333%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (2.667%) Git (software)
1 2 (2.667%) Subversion
2 1 (1.333%) Ant
2 1 (1.333%) JUnit
2 1 (1.333%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (1.333%) CruiseControl
2 1 (1.333%) Maven
2 1 (1.333%) Hudson
2 1 (1.333%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (45.33%) Retail
2 25 (33.33%) Marketing
3 23 (30.67%) Finance
4 11 (14.67%) Games
5 8 (10.67%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.333%) Legal
7 3 (4.000%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.000%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.667%) Billing
8 2 (2.667%) Advertising
9 1 (1.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (16.00%) Administrator
2 11 (14.67%) Test Leader
3 5 (6.667%) Developer
3 5 (6.667%) DBA
3 5 (6.667%) Junior
3 5 (6.667%) Support Manager
3 5 (6.667%) Production Manager
4 4 (5.333%) IT Support
4 4 (5.333%) IT Support Manager
4 4 (5.333%) Head of IT
4 4 (5.333%) Analyst
5 3 (4.000%) Operations Manager
5 3 (4.000%) Architect
5 3 (4.000%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.000%) Lead Architect
5 3 (4.000%) SAP Developer
5 3 (4.000%) Network Manager
5 3 (4.000%) Security Architect
5 3 (4.000%) Middleware Developer
5 3 (4.000%) Network Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (10.67%) FMCG
3 5 (6.667%) Visualisation
4 4 (5.333%) Mathematics
5 3 (4.000%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.667%) HACMP
7 1 (1.333%) PMI
7 1 (1.333%) Cryptography
7 1 (1.333%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Windows
2 7 (9.333%) UNIX
3 5 (6.667%) Windows CE
4 4 (5.333%) Windows 7
4 4 (5.333%) Linux
4 4 (5.333%) Windows XP
5 2 (2.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.667%) Solaris
5 2 (2.667%) OS/400
5 2 (2.667%) SUSE
6 1 (1.333%) AIX
6 1 (1.333%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.67%) E-Commerce
2 23 (30.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 20 (26.67%) SEO
3 20 (26.67%) Online Marketing
3 20 (26.67%) Analytics
3 20 (26.67%) Mobile Marketing
3 20 (26.67%) Web Development
3 20 (26.67%) Content Management
3 20 (26.67%) Web Analytics
4 16 (21.33%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (20.00%) Service Management
6 14 (18.67%) Scrum
7 13 (17.33%) User Stories
7 13 (17.33%) Test Scripting
7 13 (17.33%) CRM
8 11 (14.67%) Test Management
8 11 (14.67%) Usability Testing
8 11 (14.67%) Information Architecture
8 11 (14.67%) Test Strategy
9 9 (12.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.33%) C
2 9 (12.00%) Java
3 8 (10.67%) SQL
4 6 (8.000%) VB6
4 6 (8.000%) VB
5 5 (6.667%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.667%) VB.NET
5 5 (6.667%) ABAP
5 5 (6.667%) C#
5 5 (6.667%) Delphi
6 1 (1.333%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) ISEB
2 7 (9.333%) ISTQB
2 7 (9.333%) Degree
3 3 (4.000%) CCIE
3 3 (4.000%) CISSP
3 3 (4.000%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.667%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.333%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.333%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) QA
2 3 (4.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.000%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.667%) GMP
4 1 (1.333%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.333%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.667%) PowerHA
2 2 (2.667%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.667%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (2.667%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (4.000%) Cisco UCCE
3 2 (2.667%) Backup Exec
3 2 (2.667%) Tivoli
3 2 (2.667%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (1.333%) OpenView
4 1 (1.333%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (26.67%) SAP
2 18 (24.00%) Oracle
3 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.667%) Progress
5 3 (4.000%) Cisco
5 3 (4.000%) Juniper
5 3 (4.000%) JBoss
5 3 (4.000%) Cincom
5 3 (4.000%) Verint
6 2 (2.667%) VMware
6 2 (2.667%) ComArch
6 2 (2.667%) Brocade
6 2 (2.667%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.667%) IBM
6 2 (2.667%) HP
7 1 (1.333%) Business Objects
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Oracle tuning and performance management. Oracle Enterprise Manager configuration and maintenance... Working knowledge of Oracle Dataguard. Working knowledge of Oracle RAC... Experience of supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2008/...
Ocado
Salary: £Competitive
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
Main Responsibilities:*Installation, configuration and upgrading of Database server software and related products.*Database tuning and performance monitoring.*Application tuning and performance monitoring including creating monitoring and early-...
Hudson
Salary: £40000 - £47500 per annum + Excellent Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
The role will administer, enhance and manage the company source code base via the source control system (currently VSS and SVN migrating to Git)... Knowledge Management: The role...
Crimson Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £45001 per annum + Attractive
Posted: 21 May 2013