The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Author 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 Author 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
Technical Author
Rank 41 61 64
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Author 6 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 2.083% 0.560% 0.701%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.174% 0.570% 0.721%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 3
Average salary £40,000 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £31,250 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+12.00% -8.08%
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%
Technical Author
Hertfordshire

Technical Author
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Technical Author Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Author
Salary Trend

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

Watford Technical Author Salary Trend

Technical Author
Top 11 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (66.67%) Practice Management
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) ERP
2 3 (50.00%) WinForms
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
4 1 (16.67%) Legal

Technical Author
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (50.00%) WinForms
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Practice Management
2 3 (50.00%) ERP
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
Watford, South East
See below for more details of the role; Overall Objective: To produce, develop and maintain a professional and accurate end-user documentation suite for the Practice Management range...
Computer Futures
Posted: 16 May 2013
Watford, Hertfordshire
The company works with some of biggest firms in the world and is a Microsoft Gold Partner... You will be working within the company's practice management domain.
Proteus Europe
Posted: 15 May 2013