The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT jobs advertised for the Welwyn Garden City region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 23 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 Qualifications for the Welwyn Garden City region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 38 19 38
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +19
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 6 3 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 2.372% 2.479% 5.166%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.375% 7.692% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 14
Average salary £35,000 - £32,500
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 - £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £36,122 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.04% -2.37%
All Qualifications
Welwyn Garden City
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
64 39 58
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 25.30% 32.23% 21.40%
Number of salaries quoted 64 30 56
Average salary £47,501 £42,250 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.42% -0.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £31,900
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
ISEB
Hertfordshire

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ISEB across the Welwyn Garden City region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Welwyn Garden City ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ISEB across the Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City ISEB Salary Trend

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) Scrum
1 10 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
2 9 (90.00%) Automated Testing
3 8 (80.00%) E-Commerce
4 7 (70.00%) TDD
5 5 (50.00%) ISTQB
5 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (50.00%) HP
5 5 (50.00%) Retail
6 3 (30.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (30.00%) Web Testing
7 2 (20.00%) System Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
7 2 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
7 2 (20.00%) C
7 2 (20.00%) NUnit
7 2 (20.00%) Banking
7 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (20.00%) Finance
7 2 (20.00%) Validation
7 2 (20.00%) ATM
7 2 (20.00%) APACS
7 2 (20.00%) EPoS

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (20.00%) NUnit
2 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (20.00%) WatiN
General
1 5 (50.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Tester
2 6 (60.00%) Web Tester
3 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Web Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Web Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) APACS
1 2 (20.00%) EPoS
1 2 (20.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Scrum
2 9 (90.00%) Automated Testing
3 8 (80.00%) E-Commerce
4 7 (70.00%) TDD
5 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (30.00%) Web Testing
7 2 (20.00%) System Testing
7 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
7 2 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
7 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Validation
7 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
7 2 (20.00%) Agile Testing
7 2 (20.00%) User Stories
7 2 (20.00%) Automation Testing
8 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) C
2 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (50.00%) HP