The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Basildon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Basildon 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 8 5 12
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 37 31 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 27.41% 27.19% 25.00%
As % of the Vendors category 59.68% 45.59% 37.76%
Number of salaries quoted 28 28 35
Average salary £47,500 £37,500 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.66% +56.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £22,200
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £48,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
All Vendors
Basildon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
62 68 98
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 45.93% 59.65% 66.22%
Number of salaries quoted 48 58 58
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,800
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Essex

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon 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 Basildon region.

Basildon Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

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

Basildon Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 52 (69.33%) SQL Server
2 46 (61.33%) .NET
3 40 (53.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 38 (50.67%) C#
5 33 (44.00%) TDD
6 30 (40.00%) NUnit
6 30 (40.00%) MCTS
6 30 (40.00%) Rhino Mocks
6 30 (40.00%) Castle Windsor
6 30 (40.00%) MCP
6 30 (40.00%) MCAD
6 30 (40.00%) MCSD
7 27 (36.00%) Finance
8 26 (34.67%) Scrum
8 26 (34.67%) WPF
9 25 (33.33%) NHibernate
9 25 (33.33%) MonoRail
10 24 (32.00%) SQL Server 2008
11 22 (29.33%) Windows
12 21 (28.00%) Tandem
12 21 (28.00%) Silverlight
13 17 (22.67%) SQL Server 2005
13 17 (22.67%) SQL Server 2012
14 16 (21.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 15 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
16 13 (17.33%) Degree
16 13 (17.33%) ASP.NET
17 12 (16.00%) OO
18 11 (14.67%) MS Excel
18 11 (14.67%) Windows Server 2003

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 46 (61.33%) .NET
2 30 (40.00%) Castle Windsor
3 26 (34.67%) WPF
4 25 (33.33%) NHibernate
4 25 (33.33%) MonoRail
5 21 (28.00%) Silverlight
6 13 (17.33%) ASP.NET
7 9 (12.00%) XML
7 9 (12.00%) WCF
7 9 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 9 (12.00%) Razor View Engine
7 9 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 8 (10.67%) XSD
8 8 (10.67%) XSLT
9 6 (8.000%) WebSphere MQ
9 6 (8.000%) WebSphere
10 5 (6.667%) Spring.NET
10 5 (6.667%) WinForms
10 5 (6.667%) HTML
10 5 (6.667%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 8 (10.67%) IIS
2 6 (8.000%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 11 (14.67%) MS Excel
2 7 (9.333%) MS Office
3 4 (5.333%) MS Project
3 4 (5.333%) MS Visio
3 4 (5.333%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (2.667%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.333%) TCP/IP
1 7 (9.333%) VPN
1 7 (9.333%) DNS
1 7 (9.333%) Firewall
2 6 (8.000%) LDAP
3 5 (6.667%) VoIP
4 4 (5.333%) ADSL
5 2 (2.667%) LAN
5 2 (2.667%) Internet
5 2 (2.667%) WAN
5 2 (2.667%) HTTP
5 2 (2.667%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.333%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (69.33%) SQL Server
2 24 (32.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 17 (22.67%) SQL Server 2012
3 17 (22.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 9 (12.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (12.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 9 (12.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (10.67%) MySQL
5 8 (10.67%) Oracle 8/8i
5 8 (10.67%) Oracle 9i
5 8 (10.67%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (10.67%) Oracle 10g
5 8 (10.67%) SQL Server 2000
5 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 8 (10.67%) Oracle 11g
6 3 (4.000%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (40.00%) NUnit
1 30 (40.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 5 (6.667%) Moq
2 5 (6.667%) MSTest
3 4 (5.333%) Subversion
General
1 27 (36.00%) Finance
2 4 (5.333%) Retail
3 2 (2.667%) Marketing
3 2 (2.667%) Banking
4 1 (1.333%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.333%) Military
4 1 (1.333%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 45 (60.00%) Developer
2 37 (49.33%) .NET Developer
3 7 (9.333%) Architect
3 7 (9.333%) DBA
3 7 (9.333%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (9.333%) SQL DBA
4 5 (6.667%) Senior Developer
4 5 (6.667%) Administrator
5 4 (5.333%) Programmer
5 4 (5.333%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (5.333%) C# Developer
5 4 (5.333%) SQL Server DBA
5 4 (5.333%) Systems Developer
5 4 (5.333%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (5.333%) Systems Programmer
5 4 (5.333%) C# Programmer
6 3 (4.000%) Analyst
6 3 (4.000%) Project Manager
7 2 (2.667%) Author
7 2 (2.667%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.00%) Tandem
2 8 (10.67%) Management Information System
3 7 (9.333%) SaaS
3 7 (9.333%) PaaS
3 7 (9.333%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (9.333%) IaaS
4 5 (6.667%) Inversion of Control
5 3 (4.000%) PMI
6 2 (2.667%) Replication
6 2 (2.667%) Clustering
6 2 (2.667%) Smartphone
6 2 (2.667%) Statistics
6 2 (2.667%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.333%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.333%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.333%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.333%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.333%) Data Integration
7 1 (1.333%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.333%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 22 (29.33%) Windows
2 16 (21.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (14.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (8.000%) Android
5 5 (6.667%) Linux
6 3 (4.000%) Windows XP
6 3 (4.000%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.667%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.667%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.333%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) TDD
2 26 (34.67%) Scrum
3 15 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 12 (16.00%) OO
5 10 (13.33%) Service Delivery
6 9 (12.00%) Configuration Management
6 9 (12.00%) MVC
6 9 (12.00%) Wealth Management
6 9 (12.00%) Web Application Development
7 7 (9.333%) Document Management
8 6 (8.000%) Identity Management
8 6 (8.000%) PRINCE2
9 5 (6.667%) Project Management
9 5 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (6.667%) Kanban
9 5 (6.667%) Dependency Injection
9 5 (6.667%) MVVM
10 4 (5.333%) Workflow
10 4 (5.333%) ITIL
10 4 (5.333%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 38 (50.67%) C#
2 9 (12.00%) SQL
2 9 (12.00%) T-SQL
2 9 (12.00%) VB.NET
3 8 (10.67%) Java
4 4 (5.333%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.333%) VB
5 2 (2.667%) C
6 1 (1.333%) VBScript
6 1 (1.333%) C++
6 1 (1.333%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 40 (53.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (40.00%) MCP
2 30 (40.00%) MCAD
2 30 (40.00%) MCSD
2 30 (40.00%) MCTS
3 13 (17.33%) Degree
4 8 (10.67%) MCITP
4 8 (10.67%) MCDBA
5 6 (8.000%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (4.000%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (4.000%) PMP
6 3 (4.000%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.333%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.333%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.333%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.000%) XenApp
3 4 (5.333%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.333%) vSphere
Vendors
1 9 (12.00%) Cisco
1 9 (12.00%) Oracle
1 9 (12.00%) VMware
2 8 (10.67%) Citrix
3 7 (9.333%) Juniper
4 6 (8.000%) JBoss
4 6 (8.000%) IBM
5 2 (2.667%) Adobe
6 1 (1.333%) HP
6 1 (1.333%) Dell
6 1 (1.333%) Apple
6 1 (1.333%) Mitel
6 1 (1.333%) Twitter