The first table below looks at the demand for WCAG skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCAG 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Rank - 149 -
Permanent jobs citing WCAG 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 0.040% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 0.412% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £47,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £24,000 £35,000 £25,000
% change year-on-year
-31.42% +40.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
212 243 274
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 8.639% 9.704% 8.341%
Number of salaries quoted 175 176 207
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,400 £23,550 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
WCAG
East of England

WCAG
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WCAG across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Hertfordshire WCAG Jobs Demand Trend

WCAG
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire WCAG Salary Trend

WCAG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) WinForms
2 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 5 (83.33%) Client/Server
2 5 (83.33%) N-Tier
2 5 (83.33%) OOD
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) Visual Studio
2 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
2 5 (83.33%) MS Excel
2 5 (83.33%) WPF
2 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (83.33%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) XHTML
3 1 (16.67%) CSS

WCAG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
1 5 (83.33%) WinForms
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (83.33%) WPF
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) CSS3
2 1 (16.67%) Semantic HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Ajax
2 1 (16.67%) XHTML
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) JSP
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (16.67%) Fireworks
2 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) C# Developer
2 5 (83.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 5 (83.33%) C# Software Developer
2 5 (83.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) UI Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Client/Server
1 5 (83.33%) N-Tier
1 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) OOD
2 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 5 (83.33%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) Web Design
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (16.67%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) ATG