The first table below looks at the demand for the Junior role in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Junior in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised for the Watford region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Junior
Rank 37 45 34
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 7 12 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 2.482% 3.448% 8.255%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.583% 3.509% 8.495%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 22
Average salary £23,750 £21,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.46% -28.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,150 £18,200 £20,750
10% offered a salary of more than £29,550 £27,600 £31,000
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
271 342 412
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 96.10% 98.28% 97.17%
Number of salaries quoted 216 234 307
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Junior
Hertfordshire

Junior
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Junior Jobs Demand Trend

Junior
Salary Trend

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

Watford Junior Salary Trend

Junior
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited Junior 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 Junior in their job title.

1 13 (56.52%) Perl
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
2 11 (47.83%) SQL
3 10 (43.48%) Windows
3 10 (43.48%) SQL Server
4 9 (39.13%) Tomcat
4 9 (39.13%) C#
5 8 (34.78%) Degree
5 8 (34.78%) Retail
5 8 (34.78%) E-Commerce
5 8 (34.78%) HTTP
5 8 (34.78%) Finance
5 8 (34.78%) Java
5 8 (34.78%) MySQL
5 8 (34.78%) AIX
6 7 (30.43%) OO
6 7 (30.43%) JBoss
6 7 (30.43%) DB2
6 7 (30.43%) J2EE
6 7 (30.43%) Servlets
6 7 (30.43%) Oracle
6 7 (30.43%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (30.43%) HTTPS
6 7 (30.43%) IBM
6 7 (30.43%) Sun
6 7 (30.43%) Internet
6 7 (30.43%) Data Analysis
6 7 (30.43%) WebSphere
6 7 (30.43%) Performance Testing
7 6 (26.09%) PHP

Junior
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited Junior 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 Junior in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (30.43%) J2EE
1 7 (30.43%) Servlets
1 7 (30.43%) WebSphere
2 4 (17.39%) CSS
3 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET
3 3 (13.04%) HTML
3 3 (13.04%) .NET
4 2 (8.696%) jQuery
4 2 (8.696%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 1 (4.348%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.348%) ASP
5 1 (4.348%) Web Services
5 1 (4.348%) XML
5 1 (4.348%) XSL
5 1 (4.348%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 9 (39.13%) Tomcat
2 7 (30.43%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (8.696%) IIS
3 2 (8.696%) Apache
4 1 (4.348%) CMS
4 1 (4.348%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) MS Office
1 2 (8.696%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.348%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) HTTP
2 7 (30.43%) HTTPS
2 7 (30.43%) Internet
3 2 (8.696%) Firewall
4 1 (4.348%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) SQL Server
2 8 (34.78%) MySQL
3 7 (30.43%) DB2
4 2 (8.696%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
1 8 (34.78%) Retail
2 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
3 3 (13.04%) Games
4 1 (4.348%) Back Office
4 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.348%) Graphic Design
2 1 (4.348%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
2 10 (43.48%) Windows
3 8 (34.78%) AIX
4 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.348%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) E-Commerce
2 7 (30.43%) OO
2 7 (30.43%) Data Analysis
2 7 (30.43%) Performance Testing
3 3 (13.04%) Service Management
4 2 (8.696%) B2B
4 2 (8.696%) Software Testing
4 2 (8.696%) Web Development
4 2 (8.696%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (8.696%) MVC
5 1 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.348%) TDD
5 1 (4.348%) Logistics
5 1 (4.348%) Regression Testing
5 1 (4.348%) CRM
5 1 (4.348%) ITIL
5 1 (4.348%) OOP
5 1 (4.348%) Test Scripting
5 1 (4.348%) Manual Testing
5 1 (4.348%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Perl
2 11 (47.83%) SQL
3 9 (39.13%) C#
4 8 (34.78%) Java
5 6 (26.09%) PHP
6 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
7 2 (8.696%) VB
8 1 (4.348%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Degree
2 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
1 7 (30.43%) JBoss
1 7 (30.43%) IBM
1 7 (30.43%) Sun
2 2 (8.696%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.348%) Adobe
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