The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Manufacturing in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Manufacturing over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our General category for the Watford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manufacturing
Rank 15 44 29
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -15
Permanent jobs citing Manufacturing 37 19 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 12.85% 5.322% 9.346%
As % of the General category 20.79% 9.845% 15.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 40
Average salary £37,500 £36,250 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.44% -5.84%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
All of the General Category
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
178 193 254
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 61.81% 54.06% 59.35%
Number of salaries quoted 123 94 166
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £30,450 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Manufacturing
Hertfordshire

Manufacturing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Manufacturing Jobs Demand Trend

Manufacturing
Salary Trend

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

Watford Manufacturing Salary Trend

Manufacturing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Manufacturing 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 Manufacturing.

1 36 (65.45%) E-Commerce
1 36 (65.45%) Finance
1 36 (65.45%) Retail
2 29 (52.73%) SQL
3 24 (43.64%) Windows
4 22 (40.00%) Oracle
5 21 (38.18%) Java
6 19 (34.55%) DB2
6 19 (34.55%) IBM
7 18 (32.73%) JavaScript
8 17 (30.91%) WebSphere
9 16 (29.09%) Linux
9 16 (29.09%) HTTP
10 15 (27.27%) CSS
11 14 (25.45%) WebSphere Application Server
11 14 (25.45%) AIX
11 14 (25.45%) ITIL
11 14 (25.45%) UNIX
11 14 (25.45%) HTML
11 14 (25.45%) Tomcat
11 14 (25.45%) Sun
12 12 (21.82%) Project Management
12 12 (21.82%) J2EE
13 11 (20.00%) JSP
13 11 (20.00%) SQL Server
13 11 (20.00%) W3C
13 11 (20.00%) XHTML
14 10 (18.18%) MQSeries
14 10 (18.18%) HP
14 10 (18.18%) C#

Manufacturing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Manufacturing 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 Manufacturing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (30.91%) WebSphere
2 15 (27.27%) CSS
3 14 (25.45%) HTML
4 12 (21.82%) J2EE
5 11 (20.00%) JSP
5 11 (20.00%) XHTML
6 9 (16.36%) .NET
7 8 (14.55%) HTML5
7 8 (14.55%) CSS3
8 7 (12.73%) Semantic HTML
8 7 (12.73%) JSTL
9 5 (9.091%) WinForms
10 4 (7.273%) jQuery
10 4 (7.273%) ASP.NET
10 4 (7.273%) Servlets
10 4 (7.273%) SOAP
10 4 (7.273%) Web Services
11 3 (5.455%) XML
11 3 (5.455%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 14 (25.45%) WebSphere Application Server
1 14 (25.45%) Tomcat
2 10 (18.18%) MQSeries
3 7 (12.73%) IBM HTTP Server
3 7 (12.73%) IIS
4 2 (3.636%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 4 (7.273%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.636%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.818%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (29.09%) HTTP
2 7 (12.73%) HTTPS
2 7 (12.73%) Internet
3 2 (3.636%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (34.55%) DB2
2 11 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (14.55%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (9.091%) Crystal Reports
4 5 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (5.455%) DbVisualizer
6 1 (1.818%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 4 (7.273%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.455%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (5.455%) LoadRunner
General
1 36 (65.45%) Finance
1 36 (65.45%) Retail
2 2 (3.636%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.636%) Legal
2 2 (3.636%) Games
Job Titles
1 24 (43.64%) Developer
2 11 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
3 9 (16.36%) Tester
4 7 (12.73%) Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Project Manager
4 7 (12.73%) Support Manager
5 6 (10.91%) Performance Tester
6 5 (9.091%) Production Manager
6 5 (9.091%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.273%) Junior
7 4 (7.273%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.273%) C# Developer
7 4 (7.273%) IT Support
7 4 (7.273%) IT Support Manager
7 4 (7.273%) Junior Tester
7 4 (7.273%) Performance Analyst
7 4 (7.273%) Head of IT
7 4 (7.273%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (5.455%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (5.455%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) W3C
2 4 (7.273%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.636%) Online Games
3 2 (3.636%) SaaS
4 1 (1.818%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (43.64%) Windows
2 16 (29.09%) Linux
3 14 (25.45%) AIX
3 14 (25.45%) UNIX
4 7 (12.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (12.73%) SUSE
5 1 (1.818%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (65.45%) E-Commerce
2 14 (25.45%) ITIL
3 12 (21.82%) Project Management
4 9 (16.36%) Performance Testing
5 8 (14.55%) Web Development
6 7 (12.73%) Problem Management
7 6 (10.91%) Automated Testing
8 5 (9.091%) Service Management
8 5 (9.091%) ERP
8 5 (9.091%) Change Management
8 5 (9.091%) Release Management
8 5 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (9.091%) Analytics
9 4 (7.273%) Responsive Web Design
9 4 (7.273%) OO
9 4 (7.273%) MVC
9 4 (7.273%) Web Design
9 4 (7.273%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (7.273%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (52.73%) SQL
2 21 (38.18%) Java
3 18 (32.73%) JavaScript
4 10 (18.18%) C#
5 5 (9.091%) C++
6 4 (7.273%) Perl
6 4 (7.273%) PL/SQL
6 4 (7.273%) VB
6 4 (7.273%) VB.NET
6 4 (7.273%) VBA
7 3 (5.455%) T-SQL
7 3 (5.455%) VBScript
8 1 (1.818%) VB6
Qualifications
1 8 (14.55%) Degree
2 2 (3.636%) CISSP
2 2 (3.636%) CISM
3 1 (1.818%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.636%) SLA
1 2 (3.636%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.636%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 22 (40.00%) Oracle
2 19 (34.55%) IBM
3 14 (25.45%) Sun
4 10 (18.18%) HP
5 7 (12.73%) Dell
5 7 (12.73%) Red Hat
5 7 (12.73%) JBoss
6 4 (7.273%) Microsoft
6 4 (7.273%) Adobe
7 2 (3.636%) SAP
8 1 (1.818%) Omniture
8 1 (1.818%) Google
8 1 (1.818%) Coremetrics
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