The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors for the Watford region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 26 17 9
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -8
Permanent jobs citing IBM 19 66 86
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 6.690% 19.08% 19.95%
As % of the Vendors category 11.52% 29.73% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 30
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £35,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £52,500 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Vendors
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
165 222 273
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 58.10% 64.16% 63.34%
Number of salaries quoted 136 131 201
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -2.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £61,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
IBM
Hertfordshire

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Salary Trend

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

Watford IBM Salary Trend

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing IBM 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 IBM.

1 83 (90.22%) WebSphere
2 81 (88.04%) Retail
2 81 (88.04%) Finance
3 79 (85.87%) E-Commerce
4 77 (83.70%) WebSphere Application Server
5 71 (77.17%) DB2
5 71 (77.17%) Java
6 68 (73.91%) J2EE
7 65 (70.65%) Oracle
8 60 (65.22%) UNIX
8 60 (65.22%) Linux
9 59 (64.13%) Windows
10 58 (63.04%) HTTP
11 57 (61.96%) AIX
12 52 (56.52%) SQL
13 51 (55.43%) Games
14 42 (45.65%) IBM HTTP Server
14 42 (45.65%) IIS
15 41 (44.57%) MQSeries
16 40 (43.48%) Tomcat
17 36 (39.13%) Sun
18 31 (33.70%) Perl
19 29 (31.52%) JavaScript
19 29 (31.52%) HTML
20 26 (28.26%) CSS
21 25 (27.17%) Web Development
22 24 (26.09%) MVC
22 24 (26.09%) JSP
22 24 (26.09%) Internet
23 20 (21.74%) XHTML

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing IBM 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 IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 83 (90.22%) WebSphere
2 68 (73.91%) J2EE
3 29 (31.52%) HTML
4 26 (28.26%) CSS
5 24 (26.09%) JSP
6 20 (21.74%) XHTML
7 19 (20.65%) JDBC
8 18 (19.57%) Servlets
9 16 (17.39%) XML
9 16 (17.39%) .NET
10 15 (16.30%) EJB
11 10 (10.87%) Middleware
12 9 (9.783%) Struts
12 9 (9.783%) JSTL
13 4 (4.348%) Ajax
14 3 (3.261%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 77 (83.70%) WebSphere Application Server
2 42 (45.65%) IBM HTTP Server
2 42 (45.65%) IIS
3 41 (44.57%) MQSeries
4 40 (43.48%) Tomcat
5 13 (14.13%) Apache
6 1 (1.087%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 9 (9.783%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 58 (63.04%) HTTP
2 24 (26.09%) Internet
3 13 (14.13%) Firewall
4 11 (11.96%) HTTPS
5 9 (9.783%) FTP
6 3 (3.261%) DNS
6 3 (3.261%) SNMP
7 2 (2.174%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.174%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (77.17%) DB2
2 3 (3.261%) DbVisualizer
Development Applications
1 14 (15.22%) Ant
2 13 (14.13%) Subversion
2 13 (14.13%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.783%) Rational Application Developer
3 9 (9.783%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 9 (9.783%) Eclipse
3 9 (9.783%) JUnit
4 3 (3.261%) QuickTest Pro
4 3 (3.261%) LoadRunner
General
1 81 (88.04%) Retail
1 81 (88.04%) Finance
2 51 (55.43%) Games
3 19 (20.65%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.174%) Marketing
5 1 (1.087%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 27 (29.35%) Analyst
2 20 (21.74%) Support Analyst
3 14 (15.22%) Architect
4 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure Architect
5 12 (13.04%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 12 (13.04%) J2EE Developer
5 12 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 12 (13.04%) Developer
5 12 (13.04%) Tester
6 11 (11.96%) Consultant
6 11 (11.96%) WebSphere Consultant
7 10 (10.87%) Operations Analyst
7 10 (10.87%) Operations Support Analyst
8 9 (9.783%) Senior Architect
8 9 (9.783%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 9 (9.783%) Delivery Manager
8 9 (9.783%) Technical Services Manager
8 9 (9.783%) Developer Analyst
8 9 (9.783%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
8 9 (9.783%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.435%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.348%) Web 2.0
3 3 (3.261%) FMCG
4 1 (1.087%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 60 (65.22%) UNIX
1 60 (65.22%) Linux
2 59 (64.13%) Windows
3 57 (61.96%) AIX
4 16 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (17.39%) SUSE
5 10 (10.87%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (85.87%) E-Commerce
2 25 (27.17%) Web Development
3 24 (26.09%) MVC
4 20 (21.74%) ITIL
5 17 (18.48%) Project Management
5 17 (18.48%) Performance Testing
6 15 (16.30%) Service Delivery
7 9 (9.783%) RAD
7 9 (9.783%) Content Management
7 9 (9.783%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (8.696%) Capacity Planning
9 7 (7.609%) Data Analysis
10 6 (6.522%) Automated Testing
11 5 (5.435%) Performance Management
12 3 (3.261%) System Testing
12 3 (3.261%) Service Management
12 3 (3.261%) Regression Testing
12 3 (3.261%) ITSM
12 3 (3.261%) Root Cause Analysis
13 2 (2.174%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (77.17%) Java
2 52 (56.52%) SQL
3 31 (33.70%) Perl
4 29 (31.52%) JavaScript
5 19 (20.65%) Bash shell
6 3 (3.261%) Korn
6 3 (3.261%) VB
7 2 (2.174%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.087%) AWK
8 1 (1.087%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (9.783%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.174%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (5.435%) Tivoli
2 4 (4.348%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 4 (4.348%) Netcool
2 4 (4.348%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 3 (3.261%) Control-M
4 2 (2.174%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 65 (70.65%) Oracle
2 36 (39.13%) Sun
3 19 (20.65%) HP
4 16 (17.39%) Red Hat
4 16 (17.39%) Dell
5 11 (11.96%) JBoss
6 9 (9.783%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.261%) BMC
8 1 (1.087%) Endeca