The first table below looks at the demand for Disaster Recovery skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Disaster Recovery over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Disaster Recovery
Rank 43 60 62
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +2
Permanent jobs citing Disaster Recovery 5 2 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 1.724% 0.580% 1.342%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.212% 0.714% 1.622%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 3
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% +23.07%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.65% +2.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
226 280 370
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 77.93% 81.16% 82.77%
Number of salaries quoted 179 181 267
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%
Disaster Recovery
Hertfordshire

Disaster Recovery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Disaster Recovery Jobs Demand Trend

Disaster Recovery
Salary Trend

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

Watford Disaster Recovery Salary Trend

Disaster Recovery
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Disaster Recovery across the Watford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Watford Disaster Recovery Salary Histogram

Disaster Recovery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Disaster Recovery 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 Disaster Recovery.

1 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 9 (50.00%) LAN
2 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (50.00%) ISEB
2 9 (50.00%) SAN
2 9 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 9 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 9 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 9 (50.00%) MS Project
2 9 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 9 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 9 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
3 6 (33.33%) Test Management
3 6 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 6 (33.33%) QA
3 6 (33.33%) SAP
4 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
4 5 (27.78%) IIS
4 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 5 (27.78%) VB
4 5 (27.78%) MySQL
4 5 (27.78%) Apache
4 5 (27.78%) Tomcat
4 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (27.78%) Firewall
5 4 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (22.22%) Linux
5 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling

Disaster Recovery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Disaster Recovery 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 Disaster Recovery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) IIS
1 5 (27.78%) Apache
1 5 (27.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 9 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 9 (50.00%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) LAN
1 9 (50.00%) SAN
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
1 5 (27.78%) MySQL
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle 10g
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Technical Analyst
3 6 (33.33%) Technical Test Analyst
3 6 (33.33%) Test Analyst
4 5 (27.78%) Applications Support
5 4 (22.22%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (22.22%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (22.22%) Applications Support Analyst
5 4 (22.22%) DBA
5 4 (22.22%) Support Analyst
5 4 (22.22%) Consultant
6 3 (16.67%) Test Leader
7 2 (11.11%) Junior Consultant
7 2 (11.11%) Support Consultant
7 2 (11.11%) Technical Support Analyst
7 2 (11.11%) Junior Support Analyst
7 2 (11.11%) Web Analyst
7 2 (11.11%) Junior Analyst
7 2 (11.11%) Junior Technical Consultant
7 2 (11.11%) Web Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 9 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 9 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (22.22%) Linux
4 4 (22.22%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 9 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 6 (33.33%) Test Management
2 6 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
1 5 (27.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) SAP
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle
3 3 (16.67%) Citrix