The first table below looks at the demand for B2B skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited B2B 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Watford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
B2B (Business-to-Business)
Rank 35 59 66
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +7
Permanent jobs citing B2B 11 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 3.833% 0.286% 0.222%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.933% 0.351% 0.269%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 1
Average salary £35,000 £50,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.00% +17.64%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -9.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
223 285 372
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 77.70% 81.43% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 179 186 269
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
B2B
Hertfordshire

B2B
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing B2B across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Watford B2B Jobs Demand Trend

B2B
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing B2B across the Watford region.

Watford B2B Salary Trend

B2B
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing B2B across the Watford region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Watford B2B Salary Histogram

B2B
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing B2B 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 B2B.

1 16 (66.67%) C#
1 16 (66.67%) .NET
2 14 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (58.33%) ASP.NET
3 13 (54.17%) JavaScript
4 10 (41.67%) SQL
4 10 (41.67%) HTML
4 10 (41.67%) TDD
4 10 (41.67%) Ajax
5 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 9 (37.50%) MVC
6 8 (33.33%) Delphi
6 8 (33.33%) DHTML
6 8 (33.33%) Retail
7 7 (29.17%) Unit Testing
8 6 (25.00%) CSS
8 6 (25.00%) Web Development
8 6 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
9 5 (20.83%) jQuery
9 5 (20.83%) Load Testing
9 5 (20.83%) Subversion
9 5 (20.83%) Content Management
9 5 (20.83%) T-SQL
9 5 (20.83%) Visual Studio
9 5 (20.83%) ASP
10 4 (16.67%) Service Management
10 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
10 4 (16.67%) Time Management
10 4 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
11 3 (12.50%) RIA

B2B
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing B2B 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 B2B. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (66.67%) .NET
2 14 (58.33%) ASP.NET
3 10 (41.67%) HTML
3 10 (41.67%) Ajax
4 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 8 (33.33%) DHTML
6 6 (25.00%) CSS
7 5 (20.83%) jQuery
7 5 (20.83%) ASP
8 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 3 (12.50%) XML
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Office
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Internet
2 2 (8.333%) Unified Communications
3 1 (4.167%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.167%) MySQL
3 1 (4.167%) DB2
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Subversion
1 5 (20.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (33.33%) Retail
2 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.167%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Web Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Systems Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Trainer
4 3 (12.50%) Junior
4 3 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Trainer
5 2 (8.333%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.333%) SQL Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Junior Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Junior C# Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Junior .NET Developer
5 2 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Junior C# .NET Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Pre Sales Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) IT Trainer
6 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) RIA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) TDD
2 9 (37.50%) MVC
3 7 (29.17%) Unit Testing
4 6 (25.00%) Web Development
5 5 (20.83%) Load Testing
5 5 (20.83%) Content Management
6 4 (16.67%) Service Management
6 4 (16.67%) Time Management
6 4 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (12.50%) Web Design
8 2 (8.333%) Scrum
9 1 (4.167%) Change Control
9 1 (4.167%) Web Application Development
9 1 (4.167%) Logistics
9 1 (4.167%) Software Engineering
9 1 (4.167%) CRM
9 1 (4.167%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) C#
2 13 (54.17%) JavaScript
3 10 (41.67%) SQL
4 8 (33.33%) Delphi
5 5 (20.83%) T-SQL
6 2 (8.333%) VBScript
6 2 (8.333%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.167%) Oracle