The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM 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 Vendors for the Hertfordshire region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 77 54 24
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -30
Permanent jobs citing IBM 65 104 231
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.637% 4.129% 6.849%
As % of the Vendors category 5.302% 8.353% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 19 42 140
Average salary £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.04% -2.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,500 £35,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £61,700 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Vendors
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1226 1245 1710
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 49.74% 49.42% 50.70%
Number of salaries quoted 957 978 1334
Average salary £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.40% +3.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
IBM
East of England

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire IBM Salary Trend

IBM
Salary Histogram

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

Hertfordshire IBM Salary Histogram

IBM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM 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
Watford -9 21 £42,500 +6.25%
Hemel Hempstead +5 6 £53,500 -17.69%
Rickmansworth -7 3 £61,500 +36.66%
St Albans - 1 - -
IBM
East of England

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 127 (64.47%) WebSphere
2 115 (58.38%) Java
3 113 (57.36%) E-Commerce
4 110 (55.84%) UNIX
5 102 (51.78%) DB2
6 100 (50.76%) Finance
7 95 (48.22%) Oracle
8 93 (47.21%) J2EE
8 93 (47.21%) Retail
9 90 (45.69%) Linux
10 85 (43.15%) HTTP
11 82 (41.62%) WebSphere Application Server
12 78 (39.59%) Windows
13 76 (38.58%) AIX
14 64 (32.49%) SQL
15 57 (28.93%) Perl
16 51 (25.89%) Tomcat
17 50 (25.38%) Games
18 48 (24.37%) MQSeries
19 45 (22.84%) Sun
20 44 (22.34%) IIS
21 43 (21.83%) Solaris
21 43 (21.83%) Tivoli
22 42 (21.32%) IBM HTTP Server
23 41 (20.81%) Middleware
24 40 (20.30%) ITIL
25 39 (19.80%) JavaScript
26 36 (18.27%) HP
27 34 (17.26%) Apache
27 34 (17.26%) Web Development

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 127 (64.47%) WebSphere
2 93 (47.21%) J2EE
3 41 (20.81%) Middleware
4 33 (16.75%) HTML
5 30 (15.23%) CSS
6 25 (12.69%) JSP
7 21 (10.66%) XML
8 20 (10.15%) XHTML
9 19 (9.645%) Servlets
9 19 (9.645%) JDBC
10 17 (8.629%) .NET
11 15 (7.614%) EJB
12 9 (4.569%) JSTL
12 9 (4.569%) Struts
13 5 (2.538%) Flash
13 5 (2.538%) Web Services
13 5 (2.538%) SOAP
14 4 (2.030%) Ajax
15 2 (1.015%) JMS
15 2 (1.015%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 82 (41.62%) WebSphere Application Server
2 51 (25.89%) Tomcat
3 48 (24.37%) MQSeries
4 44 (22.34%) IIS
5 42 (21.32%) IBM HTTP Server
6 34 (17.26%) Apache
7 31 (15.74%) WebLogic
8 11 (5.584%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 9 (4.569%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (1.015%) SharePoint
10 2 (1.015%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (1.015%) TIBCO EMS
11 1 (0.508%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.508%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.508%) Tuxedo
11 1 (0.508%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 11 (5.584%) MS Office
2 6 (3.046%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.508%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.015%) BusinessWorks
1 2 (1.015%) Google Analytics
1 2 (1.015%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
2 1 (0.508%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.508%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 85 (43.15%) HTTP
2 28 (14.21%) SAN
3 27 (13.71%) Internet
4 25 (12.69%) DNS
5 16 (8.122%) TCP/IP
6 14 (7.107%) Firewall
7 13 (6.599%) HTTPS
8 11 (5.584%) SNMP
9 10 (5.076%) FTP
10 3 (1.523%) NAS
10 3 (1.523%) RFID
10 3 (1.523%) WAN
10 3 (1.523%) ATM
10 3 (1.523%) LAN
11 2 (1.015%) SMS
11 2 (1.015%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.508%) tcpdump
12 1 (0.508%) snoop
12 1 (0.508%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.508%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (51.78%) DB2
2 11 (5.584%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (2.030%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.030%) DbVisualizer
4 3 (1.523%) MySQL
5 1 (0.508%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (15.23%) Ant
2 12 (6.091%) Subversion
2 12 (6.091%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.569%) Rational Application Developer
3 9 (4.569%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 9 (4.569%) Eclipse
3 9 (4.569%) JUnit
4 4 (2.030%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (2.030%) LoadRunner
General
1 100 (50.76%) Finance
2 93 (47.21%) Retail
3 50 (25.38%) Games
4 25 (12.69%) Manufacturing
5 10 (5.076%) Marketing
6 2 (1.015%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.508%) Advertising
7 1 (0.508%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 31 (15.74%) Analyst
2 27 (13.71%) Consultant
3 25 (12.69%) Administrator
4 24 (12.18%) Architect
5 20 (10.15%) Support Analyst
6 17 (8.629%) Tester
6 17 (8.629%) Infrastructure Architect
7 13 (6.599%) Developer
8 12 (6.091%) Java Developer
8 12 (6.091%) J2EE Developer
8 12 (6.091%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 11 (5.584%) WebSphere Consultant
9 11 (5.584%) Performance Tester
10 10 (5.076%) Senior Consultant
10 10 (5.076%) Operations Analyst
10 10 (5.076%) Operations Support Analyst
11 9 (4.569%) Middleware Engineer
11 9 (4.569%) Technical Delivery Manager
11 9 (4.569%) Technical Services Manager
11 9 (4.569%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.538%) PKI
1 5 (2.538%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.030%) Web 2.0
3 3 (1.523%) FMCG
3 3 (1.523%) HACMP
4 2 (1.015%) Biometrics
4 2 (1.015%) CMDB
4 2 (1.015%) SWIFT
5 1 (0.508%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.508%) HP StorageWorks
5 1 (0.508%) iSeries
5 1 (0.508%) DataPower
5 1 (0.508%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.508%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.508%) AS400
5 1 (0.508%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 110 (55.84%) UNIX
2 90 (45.69%) Linux
3 78 (39.59%) Windows
4 76 (38.58%) AIX
5 43 (21.83%) Solaris
6 19 (9.645%) SUSE
6 19 (9.645%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.523%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (1.523%) OS/400
8 2 (1.015%) HPUX
9 1 (0.508%) CentOS
9 1 (0.508%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.508%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.508%) Debian
9 1 (0.508%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.508%) Windows NT
9 1 (0.508%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (57.36%) E-Commerce
2 40 (20.30%) ITIL
3 34 (17.26%) Web Development
4 27 (13.71%) Project Management
5 24 (12.18%) MVC
6 22 (11.17%) Service Delivery
7 19 (9.645%) Performance Testing
8 15 (7.614%) Capacity Planning
9 9 (4.569%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (4.569%) Content Management
9 9 (4.569%) RAD
10 8 (4.061%) SOA
10 8 (4.061%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (4.061%) Automated Testing
10 8 (4.061%) Data Analysis
10 8 (4.061%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (3.553%) Technical Architecture
11 7 (3.553%) Migration
12 6 (3.046%) Service Management
12 6 (3.046%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 115 (58.38%) Java
2 64 (32.49%) SQL
3 57 (28.93%) Perl
4 39 (19.80%) JavaScript
5 25 (12.69%) Bash shell
6 22 (11.17%) Shell Script
7 17 (8.629%) Korn
8 11 (5.584%) VB
8 11 (5.584%) Python
9 10 (5.076%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
10 9 (4.569%) PHP
11 7 (3.553%) C++
12 6 (3.046%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.538%) Ruby
14 1 (0.508%) AWK
14 1 (0.508%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (5.076%) SC Cleared
1 10 (5.076%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.569%) Sun Certification
3 3 (1.523%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (1.015%) IBM Certification
5 1 (0.508%) HP ASE
5 1 (0.508%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.107%) SLA
2 2 (1.015%) QA
System Software
1 19 (9.645%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 7 (3.553%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.030%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.030%) VMware ESX
4 3 (1.523%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.523%) PowerHA
4 3 (1.523%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.015%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.015%) XenServer
6 1 (0.508%) Postfix
6 1 (0.508%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.508%) Squid
6 1 (0.508%) Nmap
6 1 (0.508%) Samba
6 1 (0.508%) NFS
Systems Management
1 43 (21.83%) Tivoli
2 20 (10.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 15 (7.614%) Netcool
3 15 (7.614%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 14 (7.107%) Control-M
5 7 (3.553%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 3 (1.523%) SCCM
6 3 (1.523%) Backup Exec
7 2 (1.015%) OpenView
7 2 (1.015%) Nagios
7 2 (1.015%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.508%) Puppet
8 1 (0.508%) Cacti
8 1 (0.508%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.508%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 95 (48.22%) Oracle
2 45 (22.84%) Sun
3 36 (18.27%) HP
4 31 (15.74%) Red Hat
5 22 (11.17%) Dell
5 22 (11.17%) JBoss
6 14 (7.107%) Microsoft
6 14 (7.107%) VMware
7 13 (6.599%) Cisco
8 11 (5.584%) BMC
9 8 (4.061%) ATG
9 8 (4.061%) hybris
10 7 (3.553%) Citrix
11 5 (2.538%) Brocade
11 5 (2.538%) SAP
12 4 (2.030%) EMC
12 4 (2.030%) Hitachi
12 4 (2.030%) TIBCO
12 4 (2.030%) Symantec
12 4 (2.030%) VocaLink
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DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £60000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 18 May 2013
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This role will include liaisons with other technical teams under I.T Infrastructure & Networks such as Unix Services, Database Services, Essential: *3-4 years' experience in a demanding,...
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Salary: £50000 per annum + £59,000 package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Watford, South East
The role will require you to lead the storage and infrastructure backup team and manage their storage systems.Technical knowledge will include:- IBM Storage (V7000, DS, SVC)- Demonstrable...
Salary: £40000 - £52000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City
Title: Lead Solutions Architect (SA, Architect) Location: Welwyn Garden City, Herts, Key Skills: Architecture, Leadership, SOA An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Solutions Architect for integration...
Tesco
Salary: Competitive Salary with Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013