The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Watford region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 43 39 42
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 6 22 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 2.083% 6.197% 5.227%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.679% 7.612% 6.336%
Number of salaries quoted 0 9 12
Average salary - £30,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -36.84%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £41,000 £39,250
% change year-on-year
-7.31% +4.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
224 289 363
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 77.78% 81.41% 82.50%
Number of salaries quoted 180 189 264
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 £28,500 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Performance Testing
Hertfordshire

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Performance Testing across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Watford Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Salary Trend

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

Watford Performance Testing Salary Trend

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Performance Testing 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 Performance Testing.

1 17 (100.00%) Linux
1 17 (100.00%) IBM
1 17 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 16 (94.12%) HTTP
2 16 (94.12%) Sun
2 16 (94.12%) Tomcat
2 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 16 (94.12%) AIX
2 16 (94.12%) Oracle
2 16 (94.12%) DB2
2 16 (94.12%) WebSphere Application Server
2 16 (94.12%) Finance
2 16 (94.12%) Retail
2 16 (94.12%) WebSphere
3 11 (64.71%) Java
3 11 (64.71%) SQL
3 11 (64.71%) J2EE
3 11 (64.71%) JBoss
3 11 (64.71%) HTTPS
3 11 (64.71%) Internet
4 9 (52.94%) Manufacturing
5 8 (47.06%) Capacity Planning
5 8 (47.06%) Perl
6 7 (41.18%) Servlets
6 7 (41.18%) Games
6 7 (41.18%) Data Analysis
7 6 (35.29%) Project Management
7 6 (35.29%) Service Delivery
7 6 (35.29%) ITIL
7 6 (35.29%) UNIX

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Performance Testing 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 Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (94.12%) WebSphere
2 11 (64.71%) J2EE
3 7 (41.18%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 16 (94.12%) Tomcat
1 16 (94.12%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (29.41%) MQSeries
2 5 (29.41%) IIS
2 5 (29.41%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (5.882%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) HTTP
2 11 (64.71%) HTTPS
2 11 (64.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (94.12%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Ant
General
1 16 (94.12%) Finance
1 16 (94.12%) Retail
2 9 (52.94%) Manufacturing
3 7 (41.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Tester
1 9 (52.94%) Performance Tester
2 7 (41.18%) Junior
2 7 (41.18%) Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Junior Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Performance Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Junior Tester
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Services Delivery Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Service Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Specialist
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Services Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 16 (94.12%) AIX
3 6 (35.29%) UNIX
4 5 (29.41%) SUSE
4 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 8 (47.06%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (41.18%) Data Analysis
4 6 (35.29%) Project Management
4 6 (35.29%) Service Delivery
4 6 (35.29%) ITIL
5 5 (29.41%) Performance Management
5 5 (29.41%) Web Development
6 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (17.65%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Java
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) Perl
3 1 (5.882%) AWK
3 1 (5.882%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) IBM
2 16 (94.12%) Sun
2 16 (94.12%) Oracle
3 11 (64.71%) JBoss
4 5 (29.41%) HP
4 5 (29.41%) Dell
4 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.882%) Endeca