Watford Applications Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs within the Watford region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Support in their job title over the last 3 months to 20 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liversedge Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rochester Romford Rugby Sale Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Whitehaven Wiltshire Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	15	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.427 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	14	0
Average minimum salary	£30,429	-
Average salary	£31,000	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£31,571	-
UK excluding London average salary	£31,308	£31,429
% change on same period last year	-0.38 %
Job Titles Watford
Matching permanent IT job ads	618	416
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.301 %	0.184 %
Salaries quoted	553	346
Average minimum salary	£34,800	£34,540
Average salary	£37,158	£36,801
% change on same period last year	+0.97 %
Average maximum salary	£39,516	£39,062
UK excluding London average salary	£38,576	£39,161
% change on same period last year	-1.49 %
Applications Support Hertfordshire

Applications Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Applications Support across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Applications Support across the Watford region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Watford region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Watford region citing Applications Support also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Applications Support.

1 32 (76.19 %) Windows 2 28 (66.67 %) SQL Server 3 27 (64.29 %) DB2 3 27 (64.29 %) SQL 3 27 (64.29 %) Unix 4 25 (59.52 %) Sybase 5 18 (42.86 %) SLA 6 14 (33.33 %) WebSphere 6 14 (33.33 %) IBM 7 12 (28.57 %) SAN 7 12 (28.57 %) HTTP 7 12 (28.57 %) IBM HTTP Server 8 7 (16.67 %) MS Excel 9 6 (14.29 %) Delphi 9 6 (14.29 %) Oracle

10 5 (11.90 %) VBScript 11 4 (9.524 %) E-Commerce 11 4 (9.524 %) JavaScript 12 3 (7.143 %) Finance 12 3 (7.143 %) Games 12 3 (7.143 %) Degree 13 2 (4.762 %) Cocoon 13 2 (4.762 %) E-Procurement 13 2 (4.762 %) BPM 13 2 (4.762 %) VB 13 2 (4.762 %) MS Office 13 2 (4.762 %) MS Access 14 1 (2.381 %) AIX 14 1 (2.381 %) XHTML 14 1 (2.381 %) TCP/IP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Watford region citing Applications Support also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Applications Support. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 14 (33.33 %) WebSphere 2 2 (4.762 %) Cocoon 3 1 (2.381 %) JSTL 3 1 (2.381 %) HTML 3 1 (2.381 %) J2EE 3 1 (2.381 %) CSS 3 1 (2.381 %) JDBC 3 1 (2.381 %) Struts 3 1 (2.381 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 12 (28.57 %) IBM HTTP Server 2 1 (2.381 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 7 (16.67 %) MS Excel 2 2 (4.762 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 12 (28.57 %) HTTP 1 12 (28.57 %) SAN 2 1 (2.381 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 27 (64.29 %) DB2 3 2 (4.762 %) MS Access	General 1 3 (7.143 %) Finance 1 3 (7.143 %) Games 2 1 (2.381 %) Retail 2 1 (2.381 %) Insurance
Operating Systems 1 32 (76.19 %) Windows 2 27 (64.29 %) Unix 3 1 (2.381 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (9.524 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (4.762 %) E-Procurement 2 2 (4.762 %) BPM 3 1 (2.381 %) MVC
Programming Languages 1 27 (64.29 %) SQL 2 6 (14.29 %) Delphi 3 5 (11.90 %) VBScript 4 4 (9.524 %) JavaScript 5 2 (4.762 %) VB 6 1 (2.381 %) Java	Qualifications 1 3 (7.143 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 18 (42.86 %) SLA	Vendors 1 25 (59.52 %) Sybase 2 14 (33.33 %) IBM 3 6 (14.29 %) Oracle