The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support 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 Support in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support
Rank 47 53 53
Rank change year-on-year
+6 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support 1 9 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 0.345% 2.609% 3.356%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.360% 2.647% 3.448%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 3
Average salary £30,000 £44,000 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.81% +83.33%
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £30,000 £29,000
% change year-on-year
+1.66% +3.44%
All Job Titles
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
278 340 435
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 95.86% 98.55% 97.32%
Number of salaries quoted 220 229 325
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 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Support
Hertfordshire

Technical Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Technical Support Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support
Salary Trend

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

Watford Technical Support Salary Trend

Technical Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited Technical Support 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 Support in their job title.

1 5 (41.67%) Windows
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Electronics
2 3 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (25.00%) Validation
2 3 (25.00%) Handset
2 3 (25.00%) 3D Graphics
2 3 (25.00%) VHDL
2 3 (25.00%) Verilog
2 3 (25.00%) Multimedia
2 3 (25.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (25.00%) UNIX
2 3 (25.00%) Perl
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) MySQL
2 3 (25.00%) IIS
2 3 (25.00%) Tcl
2 3 (25.00%) ASIC
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) C-shell
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) VB
3 2 (16.67%) MCSE
3 2 (16.67%) Apache
3 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
3 2 (16.67%) Finance

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited Technical Support 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 Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) IIS
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (8.333%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.333%) LAN
2 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (25.00%) Electronics
1 3 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (25.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.333%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Handset
1 3 (25.00%) 3D Graphics
1 3 (25.00%) VHDL
1 3 (25.00%) Verilog
1 3 (25.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (25.00%) ASIC
2 1 (8.333%) Statistics
2 1 (8.333%) Blackberry
2 1 (8.333%) Mathematics
2 1 (8.333%) Blog
2 1 (8.333%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) UNIX
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (8.333%) Linux
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (8.333%) Windows XP
3 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Validation
2 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.333%) Incident Management
3 1 (8.333%) ITIL
3 1 (8.333%) PRINCE2
3 1 (8.333%) Network Management
3 1 (8.333%) Problem Management
3 1 (8.333%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Perl
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
1 3 (25.00%) Tcl
1 3 (25.00%) C-shell
2 2 (16.67%) VB
3 1 (8.333%) Python
3 1 (8.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (16.67%) MCSE
3 1 (8.333%) ISSMP
3 1 (8.333%) HND
3 1 (8.333%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.333%) ISO 9000
1 1 (8.333%) SLA
1 1 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (8.333%) VMware