The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Banbury region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 22 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 Vendors for the Banbury region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 6 3 16
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +13
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 3 10 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Banbury 8.108% 30.30% 6.780%
As % of the Vendors category 27.27% 62.50% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 8
Average salary £19,000 £36,750 £34,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-48.29% +5.75%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Banbury
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
11 16 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Banbury 29.73% 48.48% 30.51%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 35
Average salary £28,500 £45,000 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.66% +26.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,000 £35,700 £26,950
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Oxfordshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Banbury region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Banbury Microsoft Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft
Salary Trend

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

Banbury Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Banbury region citing Microsoft 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 Microsoft.

1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) MS Exchange
3 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
3 8 (47.06%) MS Office
3 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (41.18%) VMware
4 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET
4 7 (41.18%) C#
4 7 (41.18%) .NET
4 7 (41.18%) MS Excel
4 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
4 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (35.29%) HTML
5 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (35.29%) CSS
5 6 (35.29%) Internet
6 5 (29.41%) Finance
6 5 (29.41%) Business Continuity
6 5 (29.41%) DNS
6 5 (29.41%) SAN
6 5 (29.41%) NetApp
6 5 (29.41%) Windows XP
6 5 (29.41%) WAN
6 5 (29.41%) Windows 7
7 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (23.53%) MCTS
7 4 (23.53%) WCF
7 4 (23.53%) MCSE
7 4 (23.53%) MCP

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Banbury region citing Microsoft 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 Microsoft. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) HTML
2 6 (35.29%) CSS
3 4 (23.53%) WCF
4 3 (17.65%) EDI
5 1 (5.882%) WinForms
5 1 (5.882%) Unity DI Container
5 1 (5.882%) Castle Windsor
5 1 (5.882%) Ninject
5 1 (5.882%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (5.882%) Spring.NET
5 1 (5.882%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 9 (52.94%) MS Exchange
2 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (17.65%) CMS
2 3 (17.65%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 8 (47.06%) MS Office
2 7 (41.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Internet
2 5 (29.41%) DNS
2 5 (29.41%) SAN
2 5 (29.41%) WAN
3 2 (11.76%) MPLS
4 1 (5.882%) OSPF
4 1 (5.882%) Firewall
4 1 (5.882%) Wireless
4 1 (5.882%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (17.65%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (17.65%) QlikView
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
1 3 (17.65%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.882%) NUnit
2 1 (5.882%) MSTest
2 1 (5.882%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (5.882%) Moq
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
1 7 (41.18%) .NET Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Systems Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Graduate
3 3 (17.65%) C# Developer
3 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Junior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Junior C# Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Junior .NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Graduate Developer
3 3 (17.65%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Junior
3 3 (17.65%) Graduate .NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Graduate C# Developer
3 3 (17.65%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) W3C
1 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
1 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.882%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (29.41%) Windows XP
3 5 (29.41%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Business Continuity
2 3 (17.65%) PRINCE2
2 3 (17.65%) DSDM
2 3 (17.65%) Web Development
3 1 (5.882%) Project Management
3 1 (5.882%) Scrum
3 1 (5.882%) MVC
3 1 (5.882%) TDD
3 1 (5.882%) ITIL
3 1 (5.882%) Web Application Development
3 1 (5.882%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (5.882%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (5.882%) MVVM
3 1 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (5.882%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) C#
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) VB
3 3 (17.65%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (23.53%) MCTS
2 4 (23.53%) MCSE
2 4 (23.53%) MCP
3 3 (17.65%) MCPD
3 3 (17.65%) Degree
4 1 (5.882%) CCNA
4 1 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.882%) MCAD
4 1 (5.882%) MCSD
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.882%) XenApp
3 1 (5.882%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) VMware
2 5 (29.41%) NetApp
3 3 (17.65%) Sitecore
3 3 (17.65%) DevExpress
4 1 (5.882%) Juniper
4 1 (5.882%) Cisco
4 1 (5.882%) Citrix