The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Bishop's Stortford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Bishop's Stortford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 3 8 15
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 13 6 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bishop's Stortford 68.42% 35.29% 8.333%
As % of the Vendors category 86.67% 75.00% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 6 3
Average salary £30,000 £40,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +17.64%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -
All Vendors
Bishop's Stortford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
15 8 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bishop's Stortford 78.95% 47.06% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 6
Average salary £30,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,400 £34,700 £26,400
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Hertfordshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bishop's Stortford 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 Bishop's Stortford region.

Bishop's Stortford Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bishop's Stortford 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 18 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (94.44%) .NET
2 17 (94.44%) C#
3 11 (61.11%) SQL
4 10 (55.56%) WPF
5 8 (44.44%) MS Excel
6 7 (38.89%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (38.89%) Validation
6 7 (38.89%) MS Office
6 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
6 7 (38.89%) HIPAA
6 7 (38.89%) Change Control
7 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
7 6 (33.33%) Castle Windsor
7 6 (33.33%) MonoRail
7 6 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
7 6 (33.33%) NHibernate
7 6 (33.33%) MCP
7 6 (33.33%) MCAD
7 6 (33.33%) MCSD
7 6 (33.33%) Scrum
7 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (33.33%) Tandem
7 6 (33.33%) TDD
7 6 (33.33%) NUnit
7 6 (33.33%) MCTS
8 4 (22.22%) T-SQL
9 3 (16.67%) WCF
9 3 (16.67%) jQuery
9 3 (16.67%) HTML

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bishop's Stortford 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 17 (94.44%) .NET
2 10 (55.56%) WPF
3 6 (33.33%) Castle Windsor
3 6 (33.33%) MonoRail
3 6 (33.33%) NHibernate
4 3 (16.67%) WCF
4 3 (16.67%) jQuery
4 3 (16.67%) HTML
4 3 (16.67%) XML
4 3 (16.67%) CSS
5 2 (11.11%) SOAP
5 2 (11.11%) Web Services
5 2 (11.11%) ADO.NET
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
6 1 (5.556%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (5.556%) LINQ
6 1 (5.556%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (44.44%) MS Excel
2 7 (38.89%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (5.556%) DTS
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
1 6 (33.33%) NUnit
2 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) .NET Developer
3 7 (38.89%) Software Developer
4 4 (22.22%) C# Developer
5 3 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Development Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Development Support Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (5.556%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 6 (33.33%) Tandem
3 1 (5.556%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Validation
1 7 (38.89%) Change Control
2 6 (33.33%) Scrum
2 6 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.556%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) C#
2 11 (61.11%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) T-SQL
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) MCP
1 6 (33.33%) MCAD
1 6 (33.33%) MCSD
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (33.33%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 7 (38.89%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.556%) HL7
Bishop's Stortford, South East
.NET Developer, C#, WPF, C#.NET, dot NET, .NET 4.5, SQL Server 2012, Agile / SCRUM, TDD, Castle Monorail, Castle Windsor, NHibernate, RhinoMocks, NUnit, Analyst Programmer, Engineer, Architect,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013