The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 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 Operating Systems category for the Watford region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 3 4 7
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 84 109 140
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 28.47% 31.41% 25.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.59% 60.56% 62.22%
Number of salaries quoted 66 73 113
Average salary £38,750 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.33% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £26,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £47,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
119 180 225
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 40.34% 51.87% 41.44%
Number of salaries quoted 90 105 150
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
Hertfordshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Watford Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Watford Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Salary Histogram

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

Watford Windows Salary Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 89 (48.90%) SQL
2 73 (40.11%) Linux
3 67 (36.81%) AIX
4 66 (36.26%) Oracle
5 63 (34.62%) Finance
6 60 (32.97%) Retail
7 57 (31.32%) E-Commerce
8 55 (30.22%) HTTP
8 55 (30.22%) IBM
9 54 (29.67%) DB2
10 53 (29.12%) .NET
11 50 (27.47%) WebSphere Application Server
11 50 (27.47%) WebSphere
12 49 (26.92%) Java
13 48 (26.37%) UNIX
13 48 (26.37%) Tomcat
14 44 (24.18%) Microsoft
15 42 (23.08%) IIS
16 39 (21.43%) SQL Server
17 37 (20.33%) VMware
18 36 (19.78%) Internet
19 35 (19.23%) Sun
19 35 (19.23%) MS Excel
19 35 (19.23%) Manufacturing
20 34 (18.68%) J2EE
21 33 (18.13%) IBM HTTP Server
22 31 (17.03%) Games
22 31 (17.03%) Perl
22 31 (17.03%) MQSeries
23 30 (16.48%) C#

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 53 (29.12%) .NET
2 50 (27.47%) WebSphere
3 34 (18.68%) J2EE
4 18 (9.890%) WinForms
5 17 (9.341%) XML
5 17 (9.341%) ASP.NET
6 16 (8.791%) Web Services
7 14 (7.692%) CSS
8 11 (6.044%) .NET Framework
8 11 (6.044%) OLE
9 10 (5.495%) WCF
9 10 (5.495%) WPF
10 9 (4.945%) Servlets
11 8 (4.396%) SOAP
11 8 (4.396%) Ajax
11 8 (4.396%) HTML
11 8 (4.396%) LINQ
11 8 (4.396%) JSON
11 8 (4.396%) HTML5
12 6 (3.297%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 50 (27.47%) WebSphere Application Server
2 48 (26.37%) Tomcat
3 42 (23.08%) IIS
4 33 (18.13%) IBM HTTP Server
5 31 (17.03%) MQSeries
6 28 (15.38%) MS Exchange
7 18 (9.890%) Apache
8 10 (5.495%) Exchange Server 2010
9 7 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (1.099%) Office Communications Server
10 2 (1.099%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (1.099%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (1.099%) Lync
10 2 (1.099%) Windows Azure
10 2 (1.099%) Amazon AWS
11 1 (0.549%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.549%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.549%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.549%) SharePoint
Applications
1 35 (19.23%) MS Excel
2 20 (10.99%) MS Office
3 8 (4.396%) MS Project
3 8 (4.396%) MS Visio
4 6 (3.297%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 4 (2.198%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.549%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 55 (30.22%) HTTP
2 36 (19.78%) Internet
3 27 (14.84%) Firewall
4 25 (13.74%) LAN
5 19 (10.44%) SAN
6 17 (9.341%) HTTPS
7 15 (8.242%) WAN
8 14 (7.692%) TCP/IP
8 14 (7.692%) VPN
9 13 (7.143%) VoIP
10 10 (5.495%) 3G
11 5 (2.747%) FTP
12 3 (1.648%) DNS
12 3 (1.648%) PBX
12 3 (1.648%) PSTN
12 3 (1.648%) SNMP
13 2 (1.099%) Wi-Fi
14 1 (0.549%) NAS
14 1 (0.549%) Unified Communications
14 1 (0.549%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (29.67%) DB2
2 39 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 18 (9.890%) SQL Server 2008
4 14 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
5 8 (4.396%) MySQL
6 5 (2.747%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.549%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 15 (8.242%) Visual Studio
2 10 (5.495%) Ant
3 9 (4.945%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.945%) Subversion
4 8 (4.396%) Microsoft Blend
5 1 (0.549%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.549%) PhoneGap
5 1 (0.549%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.549%) AdminStudio
General
1 63 (34.62%) Finance
2 60 (32.97%) Retail
3 35 (19.23%) Manufacturing
4 31 (17.03%) Games
5 9 (4.945%) Telecoms
5 9 (4.945%) Legal
6 4 (2.198%) Advertising
7 1 (0.549%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (26.37%) Analyst
2 27 (14.84%) Support Analyst
3 22 (12.09%) Developer
4 19 (10.44%) C# Developer
5 15 (8.242%) Performance Tester
5 15 (8.242%) Tester
6 14 (7.692%) Administrator
7 13 (7.143%) Junior
8 12 (6.593%) Architect
8 12 (6.593%) Systems Administrator
9 11 (6.044%) Consultant
9 11 (6.044%) Junior Analyst
10 10 (5.495%) Applications Support
10 10 (5.495%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.495%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (4.945%) C# Software Engineer
11 9 (4.945%) Service Manager
11 9 (4.945%) Services Delivery Manager
11 9 (4.945%) Infrastructure Architect
11 9 (4.945%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.692%) Blackberry
2 8 (4.396%) iPhone
3 6 (3.297%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.747%) Thin Client
4 5 (2.747%) Computer Science
4 5 (2.747%) Fat Client
4 5 (2.747%) iPad
5 3 (1.648%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.099%) SaaS
6 2 (1.099%) FMCG
6 2 (1.099%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.549%) Pocket PC
7 1 (0.549%) Statistics
7 1 (0.549%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.549%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.549%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.549%) CLARiiON
7 1 (0.549%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.549%) Online Games
7 1 (0.549%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 73 (40.11%) Linux
2 67 (36.81%) AIX
3 48 (26.37%) UNIX
4 28 (15.38%) SUSE
5 27 (14.84%) Windows Server 2008
6 22 (12.09%) Windows 7
7 19 (10.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
9 12 (6.593%) Windows XP
10 10 (5.495%) Windows Mobile
11 5 (2.747%) Solaris
11 5 (2.747%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.549%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.549%) Windows 2000
12 1 (0.549%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.549%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.32%) E-Commerce
2 30 (16.48%) ITIL
3 25 (13.74%) Web Development
4 22 (12.09%) Performance Testing
5 19 (10.44%) Project Management
6 16 (8.791%) Agile Software Development
7 14 (7.692%) Service Delivery
7 14 (7.692%) Web Application Development
8 13 (7.143%) Software Engineering
9 12 (6.593%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (6.593%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (5.495%) OO
11 9 (4.945%) Service Management
11 9 (4.945%) Data Analysis
12 8 (4.396%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (4.396%) OOD
13 7 (3.846%) ERP
13 7 (3.846%) Automated Testing
13 7 (3.846%) Integration Testing
13 7 (3.846%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 89 (48.90%) SQL
2 49 (26.92%) Java
3 31 (17.03%) Perl
4 30 (16.48%) C#
5 28 (15.38%) C++
6 19 (10.44%) VB
7 16 (8.791%) Bash shell
7 16 (8.791%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.396%) PHP
9 6 (3.297%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.747%) Korn
10 5 (2.747%) C
10 5 (2.747%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.648%) VB6
12 1 (0.549%) VBA
12 1 (0.549%) Python
12 1 (0.549%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.549%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.549%) AWK
12 1 (0.549%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (13.19%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (9.890%) MCITP
3 16 (8.791%) MCTS
3 16 (8.791%) MCSE
4 12 (6.593%) MCP
5 9 (4.945%) ISEB
5 9 (4.945%) Degree
6 7 (3.846%) MCSA
7 5 (2.747%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.198%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (2.198%) CCNA
9 2 (1.099%) Citrix Certification
9 2 (1.099%) CCEE
9 2 (1.099%) CCAA
10 1 (0.549%) CCIA
10 1 (0.549%) VCP5
10 1 (0.549%) CCDE
10 1 (0.549%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.549%) VCP4
10 1 (0.549%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.593%) SLA
2 8 (4.396%) QA
3 4 (2.198%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.099%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.549%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.549%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (13.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (12.09%) Active Directory
3 13 (7.143%) vSphere
4 8 (4.396%) VMware Server
4 8 (4.396%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.099%) XenApp
5 2 (1.099%) XenServer
5 2 (1.099%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.549%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.549%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.549%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.549%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (4.396%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (2.747%) McAfee ePO
2 5 (2.747%) Netcool
2 5 (2.747%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 5 (2.747%) Control-M
2 5 (2.747%) NetBackup
2 5 (2.747%) Tivoli
2 5 (2.747%) SCCM
2 5 (2.747%) SCOM
3 4 (2.198%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 3 (1.648%) SCVMM
4 3 (1.648%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 2 (1.099%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 66 (36.26%) Oracle
2 55 (30.22%) IBM
3 44 (24.18%) Microsoft
4 37 (20.33%) VMware
5 35 (19.23%) Sun
6 28 (15.38%) Red Hat
7 24 (13.19%) HP
8 23 (12.64%) Dell
9 17 (9.341%) JBoss
10 16 (8.791%) Citrix
11 11 (6.044%) Symantec
11 11 (6.044%) Cisco
12 10 (5.495%) Avaya
13 9 (4.945%) CheckPoint
14 8 (4.396%) Remedy
15 6 (3.297%) SAP
16 5 (2.747%) McAfee
16 5 (2.747%) Wyse
16 5 (2.747%) BMC
16 5 (2.747%) Apple
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