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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Analyst
Rank 30 40 31
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Analyst 17 23 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 5.903% 6.443% 8.879%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.159% 6.553% 9.135%
Number of salaries quoted 17 9 15
Average salary £27,500 £40,000 £24,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.25% +63.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £27,400 £23,698
10% offered a salary of more than £29,100 £41,000 £34,000
UK excluding London average salary £27,500 £29,500 £27,500
% change year-on-year
-6.77% +7.27%
All Job Titles
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
276 351 416
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 95.83% 98.32% 97.20%
Number of salaries quoted 217 237 310
Average salary £39,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,100 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Analyst
Hertfordshire

Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Support Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Watford Support Analyst Salary Trend

Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited Support Analyst 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 Support Analyst in their job title.

1 39 (58.21%) SQL
2 35 (52.24%) Windows
3 33 (49.25%) Finance
4 32 (47.76%) Oracle
5 29 (43.28%) Microsoft
6 26 (38.81%) UNIX
7 23 (34.33%) Games
7 23 (34.33%) Retail
8 22 (32.84%) DB2
8 22 (32.84%) Java
8 22 (32.84%) IBM
8 22 (32.84%) WebSphere
9 21 (31.34%) Bash shell
9 21 (31.34%) Perl
9 21 (31.34%) J2EE
9 21 (31.34%) WebSphere Application Server
9 21 (31.34%) JDBC
10 19 (28.36%) MS Office
10 19 (28.36%) Tomcat
11 18 (26.87%) Linux
12 16 (23.88%) AIX
13 15 (22.39%) IIS
14 12 (17.91%) JavaScript
14 12 (17.91%) E-Commerce
15 11 (16.42%) HTTP
15 11 (16.42%) Solaris
15 11 (16.42%) ITIL
15 11 (16.42%) Middleware
15 11 (16.42%) IBM HTTP Server
16 10 (14.93%) Rational Application Developer

Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited Support Analyst 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 Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (32.84%) WebSphere
2 21 (31.34%) J2EE
2 21 (31.34%) JDBC
3 11 (16.42%) Middleware
4 10 (14.93%) JSTL
4 10 (14.93%) JSP
4 10 (14.93%) Struts
4 10 (14.93%) XML
4 10 (14.93%) XHTML
4 10 (14.93%) CSS
4 10 (14.93%) HTML
5 2 (2.985%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 21 (31.34%) WebSphere Application Server
2 19 (28.36%) Tomcat
3 15 (22.39%) IIS
4 11 (16.42%) IBM HTTP Server
5 10 (14.93%) MQSeries
6 4 (5.970%) Apache
7 3 (4.478%) MS Exchange
8 1 (1.493%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (1.493%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (1.493%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 19 (28.36%) MS Office
2 5 (7.463%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.493%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.493%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (1.493%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.42%) HTTP
2 10 (14.93%) FTP
2 10 (14.93%) 3G
3 9 (13.43%) TCP/IP
4 7 (10.45%) LAN
4 7 (10.45%) VoIP
4 7 (10.45%) Internet
5 5 (7.463%) WAN
6 4 (5.970%) Firewall
6 4 (5.970%) VPN
7 3 (4.478%) PBX
7 3 (4.478%) PSTN
8 2 (2.985%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.493%) NAS
9 1 (1.493%) DHCP
9 1 (1.493%) WLAN
9 1 (1.493%) DNS
9 1 (1.493%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (32.84%) DB2
2 7 (10.45%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (10.45%) SQLPlus
3 4 (5.970%) MySQL
3 4 (5.970%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (14.93%) JUnit
1 10 (14.93%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 10 (14.93%) Eclipse
1 10 (14.93%) Rational Application Developer
2 7 (10.45%) ProC
3 2 (2.985%) Oracle APEX
General
1 33 (49.25%) Finance
2 23 (34.33%) Games
2 23 (34.33%) Retail
3 8 (11.94%) Legal
4 7 (10.45%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.463%) Advertising
6 1 (1.493%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.493%) General Ledger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Blackberry
2 7 (10.45%) iPhone
3 4 (5.970%) Handset
4 1 (1.493%) E-Learning
4 1 (1.493%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (52.24%) Windows
2 26 (38.81%) UNIX
3 18 (26.87%) Linux
4 16 (23.88%) AIX
5 11 (16.42%) Solaris
6 8 (11.94%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (8.955%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (7.463%) Windows 7
9 4 (5.970%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.91%) E-Commerce
2 11 (16.42%) ITIL
3 10 (14.93%) MVC
3 10 (14.93%) Content Management
3 10 (14.93%) Web Development
3 10 (14.93%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (14.93%) RAD
4 7 (10.45%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (10.45%) System Testing
4 7 (10.45%) Change Management
5 4 (5.970%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (5.970%) Service Management
6 2 (2.985%) Asset Management
7 1 (1.493%) E-business
7 1 (1.493%) PRINCE2
7 1 (1.493%) Cash Management
7 1 (1.493%) Network Management
7 1 (1.493%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (1.493%) Problem Management
7 1 (1.493%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (58.21%) SQL
2 22 (32.84%) Java
3 21 (31.34%) Perl
3 21 (31.34%) Bash shell
4 12 (17.91%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.45%) PL/SQL
6 4 (5.970%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) Sun Certification
2 4 (5.970%) MCSE
2 4 (5.970%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.478%) Degree
4 2 (2.985%) MCSA
4 2 (2.985%) CCNA
4 2 (2.985%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.985%) MCP
5 1 (1.493%) HND
5 1 (1.493%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.493%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) SLA
2 1 (1.493%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.493%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.985%) Terminal Server
2 2 (2.985%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.45%) ServiceCenter
2 2 (2.985%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 32 (47.76%) Oracle
2 29 (43.28%) Microsoft
3 22 (32.84%) IBM
4 10 (14.93%) Sun
5 8 (11.94%) HP
6 5 (7.463%) Cisco
7 4 (5.970%) JBoss
7 4 (5.970%) Avaya
8 2 (2.985%) Symantec
8 2 (2.985%) VMware
8 2 (2.985%) Altiris
8 2 (2.985%) Citrix
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