The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Azure 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 of the Application Platforms category for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 78 79 68
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -11
Permanent jobs citing Windows Azure 17 6 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.561% 0.617% 0.710%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.727% 3.015% 4.444%
Number of salaries quoted 16 6 6
Average salary £40,000 £57,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.43% -11.53%
UK excluding London average salary £43,750 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -16.66%
All Application Platforms
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
220 199 135
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 20.20% 20.47% 15.98%
Number of salaries quoted 202 166 130
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £28,600 £22,850
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Windows Azure
East of England

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows Azure across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Bedfordshire Windows Azure Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Azure
Salary Trend

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

Bedfordshire Windows Azure Salary Trend

Windows Azure
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Azure across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bedfordshire Windows Azure Salary Histogram

Windows Azure
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Azure within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedford +4 13 £40,000 -33.33%
Luton -2 2 £58,500 +11.42%
Windows Azure
East of England

Windows Azure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Windows Azure 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 Azure.

1 43 (97.73%) SQL Server
1 43 (97.73%) Windows
2 39 (88.64%) .NET
2 39 (88.64%) Microsoft
3 32 (72.73%) ASP.NET
4 31 (70.45%) C#
5 28 (63.64%) MVC
6 27 (61.36%) TDD
7 25 (56.82%) HTML
8 24 (54.55%) .NET Framework
9 23 (52.27%) WCF
10 22 (50.00%) LINQ
10 22 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 21 (47.73%) Visual Studio
11 21 (47.73%) Scrum
12 20 (45.45%) JavaScript
12 20 (45.45%) Team Foundation Server
13 18 (40.91%) ASP.NET MVC
14 16 (36.36%) SQL
14 16 (36.36%) E-Commerce
15 15 (34.09%) Subversion
16 13 (29.55%) OO
17 12 (27.27%) CSS
17 12 (27.27%) WPF
17 12 (27.27%) Multithreading
18 10 (22.73%) Web Development
18 10 (22.73%) SQL Server 2008
18 10 (22.73%) T-SQL
19 9 (20.45%) SharePoint
20 8 (18.18%) MS Excel

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 39 (88.64%) .NET
2 32 (72.73%) ASP.NET
3 25 (56.82%) HTML
4 24 (54.55%) .NET Framework
5 23 (52.27%) WCF
6 22 (50.00%) LINQ
6 22 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 18 (40.91%) ASP.NET MVC
8 12 (27.27%) CSS
8 12 (27.27%) WPF
9 8 (18.18%) XML
10 7 (15.91%) ADO.NET
11 6 (13.64%) WinForms
11 6 (13.64%) Web Services
12 5 (11.36%) Ajax
12 5 (11.36%) LINQ to SQL
12 5 (11.36%) jQuery
13 3 (6.818%) ADO
13 3 (6.818%) WF
13 3 (6.818%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 9 (20.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (11.36%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (9.091%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (9.091%) MS Exchange
3 4 (9.091%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 4 (9.091%) MS Office
3 3 (6.818%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.091%) Network Security
1 4 (9.091%) HTTP
1 4 (9.091%) TCP/IP
1 4 (9.091%) Firewall
1 4 (9.091%) DNS
1 4 (9.091%) HTTPS
1 4 (9.091%) SSL
2 1 (2.273%) SAN
2 1 (2.273%) VRRP
2 1 (2.273%) VPN
2 1 (2.273%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (97.73%) SQL Server
2 10 (22.73%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (11.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (6.818%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (47.73%) Visual Studio
2 20 (45.45%) Team Foundation Server
3 15 (34.09%) Subversion
4 7 (15.91%) Moq
General
1 4 (9.091%) Retail
2 1 (2.273%) Finance
Job Titles
1 26 (59.09%) Developer
2 16 (36.36%) C# Developer
3 12 (27.27%) C# .NET Developer
3 12 (27.27%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 9 (20.45%) Agile C# Developer
5 6 (13.64%) .NET Developer
5 6 (13.64%) Senior Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Web Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.818%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 3 (6.818%) Consultant
7 3 (6.818%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (6.818%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (6.818%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.818%) Senior Web Developer
7 3 (6.818%) Development Consultant
7 3 (6.818%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 2 (4.545%) Software Manager
8 2 (4.545%) Data Centre Specialist
8 2 (4.545%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) N-Tier
2 3 (6.818%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (6.818%) Data Integration
3 2 (4.545%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.273%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 43 (97.73%) Windows
2 4 (9.091%) Windows Vista
2 4 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (9.091%) Windows 7
2 4 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (6.818%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (63.64%) MVC
2 27 (61.36%) TDD
3 21 (47.73%) Scrum
4 16 (36.36%) E-Commerce
5 13 (29.55%) OO
6 12 (27.27%) Multithreading
7 10 (22.73%) Web Development
8 7 (15.91%) OOD
9 5 (11.36%) Software Engineering
9 5 (11.36%) Waterfall
10 4 (9.091%) Service Delivery
10 4 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (9.091%) Project Management
11 3 (6.818%) PRINCE2
11 3 (6.818%) SOA
11 3 (6.818%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (6.818%) Dependency Injection
11 3 (6.818%) BDD
11 3 (6.818%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (6.818%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 31 (70.45%) C#
2 20 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 16 (36.36%) SQL
4 10 (22.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.091%) CCSP
1 4 (9.091%) CCNP
1 4 (9.091%) CCNA
1 4 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.818%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.818%) CCIP
2 3 (6.818%) MCP
2 3 (6.818%) MCSE
2 3 (6.818%) MCSA
System Software
1 1 (2.273%) Terminal Services
1 1 (2.273%) ISA Server
1 1 (2.273%) Forefront TMG
1 1 (2.273%) UAG
1 1 (2.273%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 39 (88.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.818%) Cisco
3 1 (2.273%) VMware
Bedford, South East
As part of the IT Graduate Programme, you can expect to be exposed to and gain experience in the following: * C# 3 and 4 * SQL Server 2008 and...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £23000.00 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
As part of the IT Graduate Programme, you can expect to be exposed to and gain experience in the following: * C# 3 and 4 * SQL Server 2008 and...
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Salary: £23000.00 per annum
Posted: 26 April 2013