The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 8 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 8 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Bradford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 8
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8 3 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 0.880% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.226% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £17,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £47,500 -
% change year-on-year
-31.57% -
All Operating Systems
Bradford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
93 82 85
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 27.27% 19.66% 25.84%
Number of salaries quoted 64 68 64
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £25,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +37.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £17,000 £20,900 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,750 £47,500 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 8
West Yorkshire

Windows 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows 8 across the Bradford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Bradford Windows 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 8
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows 8 across the Bradford region.

Bradford Windows 8 Salary Trend

Windows 8
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford region citing Windows 8 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 8.

1 9 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) MS Excel
2 6 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 6 (66.67%) DNS
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 3 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (33.33%) Intranet
3 3 (33.33%) Blackberry
3 3 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (33.33%) Citrix
3 3 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 3 (33.33%) FTP
3 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (33.33%) VPN
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) VB
3 3 (33.33%) VBA
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (33.33%) MS Office
3 3 (33.33%) WordPress
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (33.33%) MS Access

Windows 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford region citing Windows 8 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 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 3 (33.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (100.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 3 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) Intranet
2 3 (33.33%) FTP
2 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MS Access
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 6 (66.67%) Desktop Support Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Desktop Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Desktop Support
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Systems Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Systems Support
1 6 (66.67%) Support Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Support
1 6 (66.67%) 1st Line Support
1 6 (66.67%) 1st Line Support Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) IT Support
2 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 6 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
1 3 (33.33%) VB
1 3 (33.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 3 (33.33%) Citrix