The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Analyst
Rank 40 60 53
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 5 1 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 1.761% 0.289% 3.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.832% 0.294% 3.095%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 3
Average salary £32,500 £45,000 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.77% +87.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £45,000 £23,598
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £45,000 £26,800
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Job Titles
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
273 340 420
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 96.13% 98.27% 97.45%
Number of salaries quoted 217 233 312
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Analyst
Hertfordshire

Technical Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Technical Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Watford Technical Analyst Salary Trend

Technical Analyst
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Analyst across the Watford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Watford Technical Analyst Salary Histogram

Technical Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title.

1 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) MS Excel
2 8 (47.06%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (41.18%) Windows XP
3 7 (41.18%) LAN
3 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
3 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
4 6 (35.29%) HP Quality Center
4 6 (35.29%) QA
4 6 (35.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Integration Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Test Management
4 6 (35.29%) Test Scripting
4 6 (35.29%) ISEB
4 6 (35.29%) SAN
4 6 (35.29%) MS Project
4 6 (35.29%) SAP
4 6 (35.29%) MS Visio
5 5 (29.41%) SQL
6 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
6 3 (17.65%) Finance
6 3 (17.65%) Handset
6 3 (17.65%) VMware
6 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (11.76%) Bash shell
7 2 (11.76%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
7 2 (11.76%) SUSE
7 2 (11.76%) Firewall

Technical Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited Technical 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 Technical Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.76%) OLE
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) IIS
1 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.882%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (47.06%) MS Excel
2 6 (35.29%) MS Project
2 6 (35.29%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) LAN
2 6 (35.29%) SAN
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
4 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Handset
2 1 (5.882%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows XP
2 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.76%) SUSE
4 2 (11.76%) AIX
4 2 (11.76%) Linux
5 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (35.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (35.29%) Integration Testing
2 6 (35.29%) Test Management
2 6 (35.29%) Test Scripting
3 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.882%) ITIL
4 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.882%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.882%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Bash shell
2 2 (11.76%) VBScript
2 2 (11.76%) VB
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) Perl
2 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) ISEB
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.76%) MCSE
3 1 (5.882%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.882%) HND
3 1 (5.882%) ISSMP
3 1 (5.882%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
2 1 (5.882%) ISO 9000
2 1 (5.882%) SLA
2 1 (5.882%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) SAP
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Business Objects
3 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.76%) Citrix