Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Middleware over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Hertfordshire region.

 Middleware
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank807886
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Up+8
Matching permanent IT job ads283787
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire1.474 %1.751 %1.932 %
As % of the Application Development category3.911 %6.016 %6.872 %
Salaries quoted213169
Average salary£47,500£47,500£47,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,200£44,000£42,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£46,000£44,500£46,000
% change year-on-year
+3.370 %-3.260 %
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
7166151266
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire37.70 %29.11 %28.11 %
Salaries quoted6345231041
Average salary£40,000£37,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£28,500£28,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£52,900£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Middleware East of EnglandMiddleware
East of England

Middleware
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Middleware across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Hertfordshire Middleware Demand Trend

Middleware
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire Middleware Salary Trend

Middleware
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Middleware across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Hertfordshire Middleware Salary Histogram

Middleware
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Middleware within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
RickmansworthDown-33£60,000+26.31 %
St AlbansNew entry-2£47,500-
StevenageNew entry-2£47,500-
Middleware East of EnglandMiddleware
East of England

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Middleware 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 Middleware.

128 (63.64 %)UNIX
225 (56.82 %)J2EE
323 (52.27 %)Solaris
421 (47.73 %)Shell Script
421 (47.73 %)Finance
517 (38.64 %)WebLogic
616 (36.36 %)Apache
714 (31.82 %)Oracle
812 (27.27 %)Java
812 (27.27 %)Ant
911 (25.00 %)Tivoli
911 (25.00 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1010 (22.73 %)IBM
1010 (22.73 %)WebSphere
119 (20.45 %)Oracle 11g
126 (13.64 %)SQL
135 (11.36 %)BEA
135 (11.36 %)Veritas
135 (11.36 %)NetBackup
135 (11.36 %)Technical Architecture
144 (9.091 %)Symmetrix DMX
144 (9.091 %)Brocade
144 (9.091 %)CLARiiON
144 (9.091 %)Symmetrix
144 (9.091 %)SAN
144 (9.091 %)StorageTek
144 (9.091 %)EMC
144 (9.091 %)Oracle 10g
144 (9.091 %)Perl
153 (6.818 %)PL/SQL

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Middleware 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 Middleware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
125 (56.82 %)J2EE
210 (22.73 %)WebSphere
31 (2.273 %)XML
31 (2.273 %)J2SE
31 (2.273 %)Spring
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
117 (38.64 %)WebLogic
216 (36.36 %)Apache
31 (2.273 %)MQSeries
31 (2.273 %)WebSphere Application Server
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (2.273 %)MS Visio
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (9.091 %)SAN
21 (2.273 %)DNS
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
19 (20.45 %)Oracle 11g
24 (9.091 %)Oracle 10g
32 (4.545 %)Datawarehouse
41 (2.273 %)RDBMS
41 (2.273 %)DB2
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
112 (27.27 %)Ant
23 (6.818 %)Oracle Forms
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
121 (47.73 %)Finance
23 (6.818 %)Banking
31 (2.273 %)Education
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
117 (38.64 %)Administrator
214 (31.82 %)Architect
38 (18.18 %)Developer
46 (13.64 %)Technical Architect
46 (13.64 %)Solutions Architect
55 (11.36 %)WebLogic Administrator
64 (9.091 %)Storage Administrator
73 (6.818 %)Senior Architect
73 (6.818 %)Senior Solutions Architect
73 (6.818 %)PL/SQL Developer
73 (6.818 %)Oracle Developer
73 (6.818 %)SQL Developer
81 (2.273 %)UNIX Administrator
81 (2.273 %)Technical Specialist
81 (2.273 %)Business Architect
81 (2.273 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
81 (2.273 %)Senior Software Engineer
81 (2.273 %)Support Specialist
81 (2.273 %)Applications Support
81 (2.273 %)Technical Consultant
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (9.091 %)CLARiiON
14 (9.091 %)Symmetrix
14 (9.091 %)Symmetrix DMX
21 (2.273 %)N-Tier
21 (2.273 %)Computer Science
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
128 (63.64 %)UNIX
223 (52.27 %)Solaris
32 (4.545 %)Linux
32 (4.545 %)Red Hat Linux
32 (4.545 %)AIX
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (11.36 %)Technical Architecture
22 (4.545 %)Operations Management
22 (4.545 %)Project Management
22 (4.545 %)Migration
31 (2.273 %)Software Engineering
31 (2.273 %)Capacity Planning
31 (2.273 %)OOP
31 (2.273 %)OO
31 (2.273 %)Data Modelling
31 (2.273 %)OOD
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
121 (47.73 %)Shell Script
212 (27.27 %)Java
36 (13.64 %)SQL
44 (9.091 %)Perl
53 (6.818 %)PL/SQL
53 (6.818 %)AWK
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (2.273 %)Security Cleared
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (4.545 %)SLA
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
111 (25.00 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
21 (2.273 %)Sendmail
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
111 (25.00 %)Tivoli
25 (11.36 %)NetBackup
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
114 (31.82 %)Oracle
210 (22.73 %)IBM
35 (11.36 %)BEA
35 (11.36 %)Veritas
44 (9.091 %)StorageTek
44 (9.091 %)EMC
44 (9.091 %)Brocade
52 (4.545 %)Red Hat
61 (2.273 %)Sun
61 (2.273 %)HP
61 (2.273 %)JBoss