The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows XP
Rank 36 32 29
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Windows XP 9 18 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 2.609% 4.225% 3.831%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.11% 20.93% 27.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8 13 10
Average salary £26,500 £25,000 £17,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.00% +42.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £16,000 £17,400
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £31,000 £19,550
UK excluding London average salary £27,500 £26,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year
+3.77% +6.00%
All Operating Systems
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
81 86 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 23.48% 20.19% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 58 66 35
Average salary £34,000 £31,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.67% +24.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £20,000 £17,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,300 £40,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows XP
Scotland

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen Windows XP Jobs Demand Trend

Windows XP
Salary Trend

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

Aberdeen Windows XP Salary Trend

Windows XP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Aberdeen Windows XP Salary Histogram

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Windows XP 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 XP.

1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
3 9 (64.29%) ITIL
4 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
5 6 (42.86%) VMware
5 6 (42.86%) Windows 7
6 5 (35.71%) SCCM
6 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (35.71%) Dell
6 5 (35.71%) MS Excel
6 5 (35.71%) SLA
7 4 (28.57%) DNS
7 4 (28.57%) VoIP
7 4 (28.57%) DHCP
7 4 (28.57%) SQL
7 4 (28.57%) IIS
7 4 (28.57%) Citrix
7 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (21.43%) Backup Exec
8 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
8 3 (21.43%) XenApp
8 3 (21.43%) Degree
8 3 (21.43%) EMC
8 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
8 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
9 2 (14.29%) Acronis
9 2 (14.29%) MS Exchange
9 2 (14.29%) MS Office
9 2 (14.29%) Linux

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Windows XP 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 XP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.143%) Application Packaging
1 1 (7.143%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) IIS
2 2 (14.29%) MS Exchange
3 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) MS Excel
2 2 (14.29%) MS Office
3 1 (7.143%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (7.143%) MS Project
3 1 (7.143%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
1 4 (28.57%) VoIP
1 4 (28.57%) DHCP
2 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
3 2 (14.29%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Service Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Desktop Technician
4 2 (14.29%) Support Technician
4 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support Technician
5 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (7.143%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Support Team Leader
5 1 (7.143%) Team Leader
5 1 (7.143%) IT Support
5 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
5 1 (7.143%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Windows 7
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
3 2 (14.29%) Time Management
3 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (7.143%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) MCSE
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (14.29%) MCTS
2 2 (14.29%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
3 3 (21.43%) XenApp
4 1 (7.143%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) SCCM
2 3 (21.43%) Backup Exec
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 5 (35.71%) Dell
4 4 (28.57%) Citrix
5 3 (21.43%) EMC
6 2 (14.29%) Acronis
6 2 (14.29%) HP
6 2 (14.29%) Apple
6 2 (14.29%) Veeam
6 2 (14.29%) Altiris
7 1 (7.143%) Avaya
7 1 (7.143%) CommVault
7 1 (7.143%) Nortel
7 1 (7.143%) Cisco
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