The first table below looks at the demand for Unified Communications skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Unified Communications over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Communications & Networking category for the Watford region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Communications
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Unified Communications 9 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 3.051% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.54% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
Average salary £50,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £48,750 £59,000
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -17.37%
All Communications & Networking
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
78 106 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 26.44% 30.55% 16.02%
Number of salaries quoted 56 54 46
Average salary £50,000 £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+66.66% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £47,500 £43,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Unified Communications
Hertfordshire

Unified Communications
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Unified Communications across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Watford Unified Communications Jobs Demand Trend

Unified Communications
Salary Trend

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

Watford Unified Communications Salary Trend

Unified Communications
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Unified Communications across the Watford region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Watford Unified Communications Salary Histogram

Unified Communications
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications.

1 11 (55.00%) Telecoms
2 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (50.00%) Project Management
2 10 (50.00%) PBX
3 5 (25.00%) Cisco
3 5 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 5 (25.00%) CCIE
3 5 (25.00%) CCNP
3 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (25.00%) CCVP
3 5 (25.00%) Cisco UCCX
3 5 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (20.00%) Lync
5 3 (15.00%) Tandberg
5 3 (15.00%) IPFX
5 3 (15.00%) H.323
5 3 (15.00%) SLA
5 3 (15.00%) MGCP
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (10.00%) VoIP
6 2 (10.00%) Citrix
6 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (10.00%) MCITP
7 1 (5.000%) Marketing
7 1 (5.000%) Business Development
7 1 (5.000%) Celerra
7 1 (5.000%) SCCM
7 1 (5.000%) SCOM
7 1 (5.000%) SCVMM
7 1 (5.000%) Time Management

Unified Communications
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) Lync
2 1 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (5.000%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.000%) Office 365
2 1 (5.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) PBX
2 3 (15.00%) MGCP
2 3 (15.00%) H.323
3 2 (10.00%) VoIP
4 1 (5.000%) SAN
General
1 11 (55.00%) Telecoms
2 10 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.000%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Telecoms Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Pre Sales Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco Voice Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Voice Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Voice Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Consultant
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Business Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Communications Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Virtualisation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Celerra
1 1 (5.000%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) Windows
1 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (5.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (5.000%) Service Management
2 1 (5.000%) Business Development
2 1 (5.000%) Time Management
2 1 (5.000%) B2B
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) CCIE
1 5 (25.00%) CCNP
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (25.00%) CCVP
2 2 (10.00%) MCITP
3 1 (5.000%) HP AIS
3 1 (5.000%) HP MASE
3 1 (5.000%) VCDX
3 1 (5.000%) NCDA
3 1 (5.000%) NCIE
3 1 (5.000%) VCAP
3 1 (5.000%) CCEE
3 1 (5.000%) CCAA
3 1 (5.000%) CCIA
3 1 (5.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.000%) MCTS
3 1 (5.000%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (5.000%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.000%) XenApp
2 1 (5.000%) XenServer
2 1 (5.000%) XenDesktop
2 1 (5.000%) vSphere
2 1 (5.000%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.000%) VMware ESX
2 1 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco UCCX
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (5.000%) SCCM
2 1 (5.000%) SCOM
2 1 (5.000%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Tandberg
2 3 (15.00%) IPFX
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.000%) NetApp
4 1 (5.000%) VMware
4 1 (5.000%) HP
4 1 (5.000%) Dell
4 1 (5.000%) EMC
Watford, South East
We are seeking professionals from either a strong background of training within contact centres in a unified communications environment or a business analyst with experience within Microsoft Lync.....
IT Human Resources
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 5 June 2013
Watford, Hertfordshire
Cisco CCNP Voice Engineer | Cisco Gold Partner... Technical skills required: - 3 years+ experience working with UC products in a support environment - Experience and knowledge of at least 4...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013