The first table below looks at the demand for Magento skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Magento 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 of the Application Platforms category for the Watford region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Magento
Rank 37 49 66
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +17
Permanent jobs citing Magento 7 8 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 2.482% 2.299% 0.236%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.11% 6.250% 0.746%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 1
Average salary £42,500 £30,000 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.66% +15.38%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £30,000 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +1.69%
All Application Platforms
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
63 128 134
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 22.34% 36.78% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 46 61 75
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £24,150
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £61,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Magento
Hertfordshire

Magento
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Magento Jobs Demand Trend

Magento
Salary Trend

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

Watford Magento Salary Trend

Magento
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Magento 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 Magento.

1 11 (91.67%) E-Commerce
2 7 (58.33%) Project Management
2 7 (58.33%) MS Office
2 7 (58.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (58.33%) Analytics
3 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (50.00%) Retail
3 6 (50.00%) SEO
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (41.67%) HTML
5 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (33.33%) jQuery
6 3 (25.00%) XML
7 2 (16.67%) PHP
7 2 (16.67%) MySQL
7 2 (16.67%) Oracle
7 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
7 2 (16.67%) DB2
7 2 (16.67%) Java
7 2 (16.67%) CSS
7 2 (16.67%) ATG
7 2 (16.67%) TDD
7 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
7 2 (16.67%) Scrum
7 2 (16.67%) Spring
7 2 (16.67%) WordPress
7 2 (16.67%) Demandware
7 2 (16.67%) Java EE
7 2 (16.67%) hybris
8 1 (8.333%) PHP5

Magento
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (41.67%) HTML
2 4 (33.33%) jQuery
3 3 (25.00%) XML
4 2 (16.67%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 2 (16.67%) Spring
4 2 (16.67%) Java EE
5 1 (8.333%) WAMP
5 1 (8.333%) RESTful
5 1 (8.333%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) WordPress
2 1 (8.333%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (58.33%) MS Office
2 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (16.67%) DB2
General
1 6 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Product Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) PHP Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) MySQL Developer
3 1 (8.333%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) E-Commerce
2 7 (58.33%) Project Management
2 7 (58.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (58.33%) Analytics
3 6 (50.00%) SEO
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (8.333%) Web Analytics
5 1 (8.333%) MVC
5 1 (8.333%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) PHP
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.333%) PHP5
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) ATG
2 2 (16.67%) hybris
2 2 (16.67%) Demandware
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle