The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VocaLink 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 VocaLink over the 3 months to 22 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 VocaLink Limited.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VocaLink
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing VocaLink 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-41.81% +29.41%
All Vendors
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1225 1284 1680
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 49.88% 49.69% 50.74%
Number of salaries quoted 959 1012 1317
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
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
VocaLink
East of England

VocaLink
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire VocaLink Jobs Demand Trend

VocaLink
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire VocaLink Salary Trend

VocaLink
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing VocaLink 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 VocaLink.

1 6 (60.00%) Perl
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
1 6 (60.00%) UNIX
1 6 (60.00%) Solaris
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (60.00%) Shell Script
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Tivoli
2 4 (40.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 4 (40.00%) Ruby
2 4 (40.00%) Korn
2 4 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 4 (40.00%) Bash shell
2 4 (40.00%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
2 4 (40.00%) Middleware
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) HTTP
2 4 (40.00%) IBM
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 4 (40.00%) JBoss
2 4 (40.00%) Apache
2 4 (40.00%) Tomcat
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (40.00%) Ant
2 4 (40.00%) WebLogic
2 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) J2EE
3 2 (20.00%) LDAP

VocaLink
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing VocaLink 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 VocaLink. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (40.00%) WebSphere
1 4 (40.00%) Middleware
1 4 (40.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 4 (40.00%) Apache
1 4 (40.00%) Tomcat
1 4 (40.00%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (20.00%) LDAP
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) SSH
3 1 (10.00%) NFC
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Ant
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Middleware Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior UNIX Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Online Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) UNIX
1 6 (60.00%) Solaris
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) CMMI
1 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (10.00%) Scrum
2 1 (10.00%) Business Development
2 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (10.00%) Time Management
2 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile Commerce
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Perl
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (40.00%) Ruby
2 4 (40.00%) Korn
2 4 (40.00%) Bash shell
2 4 (40.00%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Bourne shell
3 2 (20.00%) C-shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO 9000
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (20.00%) vSphere
2 2 (20.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
1 6 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) IBM
2 4 (40.00%) JBoss
3 2 (20.00%) Sun
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) EMC
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) VMware