The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stevenage region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 23 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 Communications & Networking category for the Stevenage region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet
Rank 30 11 26
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +15
Permanent jobs citing Internet 5 37 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 3.448% 18.78% 5.970%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 35.92% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 37 12
Average salary £47,500 £50,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Stevenage
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
30 103 120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 20.69% 52.28% 59.70%
Number of salaries quoted 16 88 115
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £27,700 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Internet
Hertfordshire

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Internet across the Stevenage region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Stevenage Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Salary Trend

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

Stevenage Internet Salary Trend

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 6 (50.00%) MySQL
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (50.00%) Scrum
1 6 (50.00%) TDD
1 6 (50.00%) Ruby
1 6 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 6 (50.00%) Selenium
1 6 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 5 (41.67%) RSpec
3 4 (33.33%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) C
3 4 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) Sun
3 4 (33.33%) Embedded C
3 4 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (33.33%) Degree
3 4 (33.33%) QA
3 4 (33.33%) Aerospace
3 4 (33.33%) Validation
4 3 (25.00%) Games
4 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
4 3 (25.00%) CakePHP
4 3 (25.00%) Mac OS X
4 3 (25.00%) OO
4 3 (25.00%) Python
4 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) PHP

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
2 3 (25.00%) CakePHP
2 3 (25.00%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) Web Services
3 2 (16.67%) Ajax
3 2 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (8.333%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) DMZ
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (8.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) MySQL
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.333%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.333%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Selenium
1 6 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 5 (41.67%) RSpec
3 4 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (16.67%) Git (software)
4 2 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 4 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 3 (25.00%) Games
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Lead Software Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Lead Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Web Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Ruby Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Designer
5 1 (8.333%) Network Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) Web Designer
5 1 (8.333%) Network Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) Security Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Security Administrator
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Scrum
1 6 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) Project Management
2 4 (33.33%) Validation
3 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (25.00%) OO
3 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (25.00%) MVC
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Information Security
4 2 (16.67%) UML
4 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Ruby
2 4 (33.33%) C
2 4 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) Embedded C
3 3 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) PHP
4 1 (8.333%) C#
4 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Sun
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco