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This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs within the Amersham region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkMicrosoft
Location
3 months to 16 May 2008Same period last year
Rank121
Rank change on same period last yearDown-11
Matching permanent IT job ads37
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.001 %0.003 %
As % of the category below13.04 %38.89 %
Salaries quoted37
Average minimum salary£23,667£21,714
Average salary£25,667£22,071
% change on same period last year+16.28 %
Average maximum salary£27,667£22,429
UK excluding London average salary£35,351£35,652
% change on same period last year-0.84 %
Vendors AmershamVendors
Amersham
Matching permanent IT job ads2318
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.011 %0.008 %
Salaries quoted2111
Average minimum salary£32,481£22,857
Average salary£34,056£23,214
% change on same period last year+46.70 %
Average maximum salary£35,630£23,571
UK excluding London average salary£40,116£41,444
% change on same period last year-3.20 %
Microsoft BuckinghamshireMicrosoft
Buckinghamshire

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Microsoft Corporation.

Microsoft
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Microsoft across the Amersham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Amersham Microsoft Demand Trend

Microsoft
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Microsoft across the Amersham region.

Amersham Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Amersham region citing Microsoft also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Microsoft.

110 (76.92 %)SQL Server
29 (69.23 %)MS Exchange
29 (69.23 %)Active Directory
38 (61.54 %)Backup Exec
38 (61.54 %)DHCP
38 (61.54 %)TCP/IP
38 (61.54 %)DNS
38 (61.54 %)Symantec
38 (61.54 %)Norton AntiVirus
38 (61.54 %)Avaya
38 (61.54 %)VERITAS
38 (61.54 %)IIS
43 (23.08 %)Windows
43 (23.08 %)Microsoft Certification
52 (15.38 %)MCP
52 (15.38 %)Windows 2000
52 (15.38 %)MCSE
61 (7.692 %)Finance
61 (7.692 %)VB6
61 (7.692 %)AJAX
61 (7.692 %)SQL Server 2005
61 (7.692 %)Web Development
61 (7.692 %)ASP.NET 2.0
61 (7.692 %)XHTML
61 (7.692 %)MS Excel
61 (7.692 %)C#
61 (7.692 %)JavaScript
61 (7.692 %)VBScript
61 (7.692 %)VB
61 (7.692 %)VB.NET

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Amersham region citing Microsoft also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Microsoft. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
11 (7.692 %).NET
11 (7.692 %)ASP
11 (7.692 %)ASP.NET
11 (7.692 %)CSS
11 (7.692 %)XML
11 (7.692 %)XHTML
11 (7.692 %)AJAX
11 (7.692 %)ASP.NET 2.0
Application Platforms
19 (69.23 %)MS Exchange
28 (61.54 %)IIS
Applications
11 (7.692 %)MS Excel
Communications & Networking
18 (61.54 %)DHCP
18 (61.54 %)TCP/IP
18 (61.54 %)DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
110 (76.92 %)SQL Server
21 (7.692 %)SQL Server 2000
21 (7.692 %)SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
11 (7.692 %)Visual Studio
11 (7.692 %)VSS/SourceSafe
General
11 (7.692 %)Finance
Job Titles
19 (69.23 %)Support Engineer
28 (61.54 %)Systems Support
28 (61.54 %)Systems Engineer
28 (61.54 %)Systems Support Engineer
28 (61.54 %)Lead Systems Engineer
32 (15.38 %)Field Engineer
41 (7.692 %).NET Developer
41 (7.692 %)C# Developer
41 (7.692 %)Technical Support Engineer
41 (7.692 %)Senior Web Developer
41 (7.692 %)ASP Developer
41 (7.692 %)ASP.NET Developer
41 (7.692 %)SQL Developer
41 (7.692 %)IT Support Engineer
41 (7.692 %)SQL Server Developer
41 (7.692 %)Technical Engineer
41 (7.692 %).NET Web Developer
41 (7.692 %)Senior C# Developer
41 (7.692 %)Senior Developer
41 (7.692 %)Developer
Operating Systems
13 (23.08 %)Windows
22 (15.38 %)Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
11 (7.692 %)Web Development
Programming Languages
11 (7.692 %)C#
11 (7.692 %)JavaScript
11 (7.692 %)VBScript
11 (7.692 %)VB
11 (7.692 %)VB.NET
11 (7.692 %)VB6
Qualifications
13 (23.08 %)Microsoft Certification
22 (15.38 %)MCSE
22 (15.38 %)MCP
31 (7.692 %)MCAD
31 (7.692 %)MCSD
System Software
19 (69.23 %)Active Directory
28 (61.54 %)Backup Exec
Systems Management
18 (61.54 %)Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
18 (61.54 %)Avaya
18 (61.54 %)VERITAS
18 (61.54 %)Symantec
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