The first table below looks at the demand for HTTP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HTTP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Watford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Rank 34 25 42
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +17
Permanent jobs citing HTTP 18 41 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 6.228% 11.58% 5.816%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.00% 36.61% 36.90%
Number of salaries quoted 0 12 10
Average salary - £35,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -26.31%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
All Communications & Networking
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
75 112 84
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 25.95% 31.64% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 54 56 44
Average salary £50,000 £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+66.66% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,000 £31,850
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £43,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
HTTP
Hertfordshire

HTTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford HTTP Jobs Demand Trend

HTTP
Salary Trend

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

Watford HTTP Salary Trend

HTTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing HTTP 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 HTTP.

1 55 (91.67%) Linux
2 53 (88.33%) Windows
2 53 (88.33%) IBM
3 52 (86.67%) DB2
3 52 (86.67%) Finance
4 51 (85.00%) AIX
5 50 (83.33%) Oracle
5 50 (83.33%) Retail
6 49 (81.67%) E-Commerce
7 48 (80.00%) WebSphere Application Server
7 48 (80.00%) WebSphere
8 39 (65.00%) Tomcat
9 37 (61.67%) Java
10 36 (60.00%) SQL
11 33 (55.00%) J2EE
11 33 (55.00%) UNIX
11 33 (55.00%) Sun
12 31 (51.67%) IIS
12 31 (51.67%) IBM HTTP Server
13 30 (50.00%) MQSeries
14 26 (43.33%) Games
14 26 (43.33%) Manufacturing
15 22 (36.67%) Performance Testing
16 20 (33.33%) Internet
17 19 (31.67%) ITIL
17 19 (31.67%) Perl
18 17 (28.33%) JBoss
18 17 (28.33%) Red Hat
18 17 (28.33%) Project Management
18 17 (28.33%) HTTPS

HTTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing HTTP 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 HTTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 48 (80.00%) WebSphere
2 33 (55.00%) J2EE
3 9 (15.00%) .NET
3 9 (15.00%) Servlets
4 6 (10.00%) Middleware
5 5 (8.333%) JDBC
6 1 (1.667%) REST
6 1 (1.667%) Apache CXF
6 1 (1.667%) LAMP
6 1 (1.667%) HTML
6 1 (1.667%) SOAP
6 1 (1.667%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 48 (80.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 39 (65.00%) Tomcat
3 31 (51.67%) IIS
3 31 (51.67%) IBM HTTP Server
4 30 (50.00%) MQSeries
5 11 (18.33%) Apache
6 1 (1.667%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (8.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 20 (33.33%) Internet
2 17 (28.33%) HTTPS
3 11 (18.33%) Firewall
4 7 (11.67%) FTP
5 5 (8.333%) SNMP
5 5 (8.333%) DNS
6 2 (3.333%) IPv6
6 2 (3.333%) DHCP
6 2 (3.333%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.333%) VPN
6 2 (3.333%) ADSL
6 2 (3.333%) Broadband
6 2 (3.333%) GPRS
6 2 (3.333%) UMTS
6 2 (3.333%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (3.333%) VSAT
6 2 (3.333%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (86.67%) DB2
2 2 (3.333%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (3.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (3.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Ant
2 10 (16.67%) Subversion
2 10 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.667%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.667%) Maven
General
1 52 (86.67%) Finance
2 50 (83.33%) Retail
3 26 (43.33%) Games
3 26 (43.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.667%) Advertising
4 1 (1.667%) Interactive Media
4 1 (1.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Analyst
1 15 (25.00%) Performance Tester
1 15 (25.00%) Tester
2 10 (16.67%) Architect
2 10 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 10 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 9 (15.00%) Performance Analyst
3 9 (15.00%) Junior Analyst
3 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 9 (15.00%) Junior Tester
3 9 (15.00%) Junior
4 8 (13.33%) Technical Services Manager
4 8 (13.33%) Technical Manager
4 8 (13.33%) Services Delivery Manager
4 8 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
4 8 (13.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 7 (11.67%) Technical Specialist
6 6 (10.00%) Support Analyst
7 5 (8.333%) Senior Architect
7 5 (8.333%) Operations Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.333%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.333%) FMCG
3 1 (1.667%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.667%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 55 (91.67%) Linux
2 53 (88.33%) Windows
3 51 (85.00%) AIX
4 33 (55.00%) UNIX
5 17 (28.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (26.67%) SUSE
7 5 (8.333%) Solaris
8 1 (1.667%) Fedora
8 1 (1.667%) CentOS
8 1 (1.667%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (81.67%) E-Commerce
2 22 (36.67%) Performance Testing
3 19 (31.67%) ITIL
4 17 (28.33%) Project Management
5 16 (26.67%) Web Development
6 13 (21.67%) Service Delivery
7 12 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (15.00%) Data Analysis
9 7 (11.67%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (11.67%) Automated Testing
10 5 (8.333%) Performance Management
11 3 (5.000%) Service Management
11 3 (5.000%) ITSM
11 3 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (5.000%) PRINCE2
12 2 (3.333%) ETL
12 2 (3.333%) Network Design
12 2 (3.333%) Data Management
12 2 (3.333%) Time Management
12 2 (3.333%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 37 (61.67%) Java
2 36 (60.00%) SQL
3 19 (31.67%) Perl
4 6 (10.00%) Bash shell
5 3 (5.000%) Korn
5 3 (5.000%) VB
6 2 (3.333%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.333%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.667%) AWK
7 1 (1.667%) PHP
7 1 (1.667%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.667%) Python
7 1 (1.667%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (3.333%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (3.333%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.333%) SLA
1 2 (3.333%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.667%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (5.000%) Tivoli
1 3 (5.000%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 3 (5.000%) Netcool
1 3 (5.000%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 3 (5.000%) Control-M
2 2 (3.333%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (1.667%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (88.33%) IBM
2 50 (83.33%) Oracle
3 33 (55.00%) Sun
4 17 (28.33%) JBoss
4 17 (28.33%) Red Hat
5 16 (26.67%) HP
5 16 (26.67%) Dell
6 5 (8.333%) Microsoft
7 3 (5.000%) BMC
8 2 (3.333%) Cisco
8 2 (3.333%) Verint
9 1 (1.667%) Endeca