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This section looks at the demand for Mainframes skills within the Watford region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Mainframe over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkMainframes
Location
3 months to
29 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank5456
Rank change on same period last yearUp+2
Matching permanent IT job ads75
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.004 %0.002 %
As % of the category below6.195 %4.673 %
Salaries quoted75
Average minimum salary£50,571£33,800
Average salary£52,714£34,900
% change on same period last year+51.04 %
Average maximum salary£54,857£36,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,003£41,318
% change on same period last year+1.65 %
Watford IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
Watford
Matching permanent IT job ads113107
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.062 %0.045 %
Salaries quoted102103
Average minimum salary£38,608£39,731
Average salary£41,343£44,313
% change on same period last year-6.70 %
Average maximum salary£44,077£48,896
UK excluding London average salary£37,751£39,165
% change on same period last year-3.61 %
Mainframe HertfordshireMainframe
Hertfordshire

Mainframe
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Mainframe across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Watford Mainframe Demand Trend

Mainframe
Salary Trend

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

Watford Mainframe Salary Trend

Mainframe
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Mainframe across the Watford region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

Watford Mainframe Salary Histogram

Mainframe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Mainframe 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 Mainframe.

16 (85.71 %)MQSeries
25 (71.43 %)UNIX
34 (57.14 %)MTS
34 (57.14 %)AIX
34 (57.14 %)BASE24
34 (57.14 %)Banking
34 (57.14 %)Wholesale Banking
34 (57.14 %)Fundtech
42 (28.57 %)WebSphere
42 (28.57 %)Interwoven
42 (28.57 %)AJAX
42 (28.57 %)Blue Martini
42 (28.57 %)Web 2.0
42 (28.57 %)MVC
42 (28.57 %)IBM
42 (28.57 %)Tridion
42 (28.57 %)RAD
42 (28.57 %)XHTML
42 (28.57 %)E-Commerce
42 (28.57 %)JMS
42 (28.57 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
42 (28.57 %)Eclipse
42 (28.57 %)HTML
42 (28.57 %)Java
42 (28.57 %)JavaScript
42 (28.57 %)SQL
42 (28.57 %)J2EE
42 (28.57 %)Oracle
42 (28.57 %)DB2
42 (28.57 %)JUnit

Mainframe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Mainframe 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 Mainframe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Watford IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12 (28.57 %)XHTML
12 (28.57 %)JMS
12 (28.57 %)MVC
12 (28.57 %)HTML
12 (28.57 %)J2EE
12 (28.57 %)CSS
12 (28.57 %)JDBC
12 (28.57 %)AJAX
12 (28.57 %)WebSphere
12 (28.57 %)Struts
12 (28.57 %)XML
21 (14.29 %)XSLT
21 (14.29 %)JSTL
21 (14.29 %)Velocity
21 (14.29 %)Apache Axis
21 (14.29 %)FreeMarker
21 (14.29 %)Servlets
21 (14.29 %)EJB
21 (14.29 %)Hibernate
21 (14.29 %)NetBeans
Watford IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
16 (85.71 %)MQSeries
24 (57.14 %)MTS
31 (14.29 %)Tomcat
31 (14.29 %)WebLogic
31 (14.29 %)JBoss
31 (14.29 %)MS Exchange
Watford IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
14 (57.14 %)BASE24
Watford IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (14.29 %)DNS
11 (14.29 %)Internet
Watford IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (28.57 %)DB2
21 (14.29 %)MySQL
21 (14.29 %)SQL Server
Watford IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
12 (28.57 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
12 (28.57 %)Eclipse
12 (28.57 %)JUnit
21 (14.29 %)JBuilder
21 (14.29 %)JDeveloper
21 (14.29 %)Log4j
Watford IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
14 (57.14 %)Banking
14 (57.14 %)Wholesale Banking
Watford IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
14 (57.14 %)Consultant
14 (57.14 %)Technical Consultant
21 (14.29 %)Java Developer
21 (14.29 %)Developer
Watford IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
12 (28.57 %)Web 2.0
Watford IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
15 (71.43 %)UNIX
24 (57.14 %)AIX
31 (14.29 %)Windows Server 2003
31 (14.29 %)Windows
Watford IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12 (28.57 %)RAD
12 (28.57 %)E-Commerce
21 (14.29 %)Content Management
21 (14.29 %)Web Development
21 (14.29 %)Continuous Integration
21 (14.29 %)UML
21 (14.29 %)OO
Watford IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12 (28.57 %)Java
12 (28.57 %)JavaScript
12 (28.57 %)SQL
21 (14.29 %)XPath
21 (14.29 %)Perl
Watford IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11 (14.29 %)Active Directory
11 (14.29 %)Backup Exec
11 (14.29 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
Watford IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (14.29 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
Watford IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
14 (57.14 %)Fundtech
22 (28.57 %)Blue Martini
22 (28.57 %)Oracle
22 (28.57 %)IBM
22 (28.57 %)Interwoven
22 (28.57 %)Tridion
31 (14.29 %)VERITAS
31 (14.29 %)ATG
31 (14.29 %)BEA
31 (14.29 %)Microsoft
31 (14.29 %)Citrix