Watford Graduate Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Graduate 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 Graduate in their job title over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Argyll and Bute Avonmouth Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Coalville Corby County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crowthorne Croydon Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Grantham Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Haverhill Haywards Heath Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Kettering Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Royston Rugby Sale Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwold St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Telford Thame Thatcham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	48
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	15
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	1.961 %	2.712 %
Salaries quoted	10	13
Average minimum salary	£20,100	£23,577
Average salary	£21,750	£25,000
% change on same period last year	-12.99 %
Average maximum salary	£23,400	£26,423
UK excluding London average salary	£23,072	£22,562
% change on same period last year	+2.26 %
Job Titles Watford
Matching permanent IT job ads	510	553
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.330 %	0.247 %
Salaries quoted	433	504
Average minimum salary	£37,377	£35,338
Average salary	£40,128	£37,896
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Average maximum salary	£42,880	£40,455
UK excluding London average salary	£38,454	£39,134
% change on same period last year	-1.73 %
Graduate Hertfordshire

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Graduate 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 citing Graduate across the Watford region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Graduate across the Watford region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

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Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title.

1 6 (37.50 %) SQL 2 5 (31.25 %) Windows 2 5 (31.25 %) Java 3 4 (25.00 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (6.250 %) C 4 1 (6.250 %) C# 4 1 (6.250 %) HTML 4 1 (6.250 %) Firewall 4 1 (6.250 %) J2SE 4 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel 4 1 (6.250 %) WAN 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (6.250 %) .NET 4 1 (6.250 %) J2EE 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server

4 1 (6.250 %) ASP 4 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (6.250 %) Degree 4 1 (6.250 %) Mathematics 4 1 (6.250 %) QA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited Graduate in their job title 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 with Graduate in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (6.250 %) HTML 1 1 (6.250 %) J2SE 1 1 (6.250 %) .NET 1 1 (6.250 %) J2EE 1 1 (6.250 %) ASP 1 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) Firewall 1 1 (6.250 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005
Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Mathematics	Operating Systems 1 5 (31.25 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) Agile Software Development	Programming Languages 1 6 (37.50 %) SQL 2 5 (31.25 %) Java 3 1 (6.250 %) C 3 1 (6.250 %) C#
Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) QA