The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bridgend region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Bridgend region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 7 8 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Permanent jobs citing Windows 26 10 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bridgend 21.14% 28.57% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.79% 55.56% -
Number of salaries quoted 26 10 0
Average salary £22,500 £31,250 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Bridgend
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
33 18 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bridgend 26.83% 51.43% -
Number of salaries quoted 33 18 0
Average salary £22,500 £32,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.68% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
South Wales

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bridgend Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Bridgend Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bridgend region citing Windows 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.

1 24 (70.59%) VMware
2 23 (67.65%) Windows Server 2008
3 22 (64.71%) Exchange Server 2003
3 22 (64.71%) Exchange Server 2007
3 22 (64.71%) Active Directory
3 22 (64.71%) MS Exchange
4 18 (52.94%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
6 13 (38.24%) SQL
7 12 (35.29%) UNIX
8 11 (32.35%) MS Excel
8 11 (32.35%) TCP/IP
8 11 (32.35%) DNS
8 11 (32.35%) MySQL
8 11 (32.35%) Windows 7
9 10 (29.41%) Firewall
10 9 (26.47%) IIS
10 9 (26.47%) VPN
10 9 (26.47%) VoIP
10 9 (26.47%) Apache
10 9 (26.47%) Office 365
10 9 (26.47%) Windows Intune
10 9 (26.47%) Windows 8
10 9 (26.47%) SaaS
10 9 (26.47%) Informatics
10 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
11 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
12 7 (20.59%) .NET
12 7 (20.59%) Java
13 5 (14.71%) C

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bridgend region citing Windows 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (20.59%) .NET
2 5 (14.71%) CGI
3 2 (5.882%) COM
Application Platforms
1 22 (64.71%) MS Exchange
1 22 (64.71%) Exchange Server 2003
1 22 (64.71%) Exchange Server 2007
2 9 (26.47%) IIS
2 9 (26.47%) Apache
3 2 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2000
3 2 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 11 (32.35%) MS Excel
2 9 (26.47%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) TCP/IP
1 11 (32.35%) DNS
2 10 (29.41%) Firewall
3 9 (26.47%) VPN
3 9 (26.47%) VoIP
4 2 (5.882%) DHCP
4 2 (5.882%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) MySQL
2 3 (8.824%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.882%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (5.882%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (5.882%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Analyst
1 13 (38.24%) Support Analyst
2 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Applications Support
6 4 (11.76%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (8.824%) Support Engineer
8 2 (5.882%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 1 (2.941%) Wintel Engineer
9 1 (2.941%) 1st Line Support Technician
9 1 (2.941%) Technical Design Authority
9 1 (2.941%) Windows Support Engineer
9 1 (2.941%) Wintel Support Engineer
9 1 (2.941%) Help Desk Support Technician
9 1 (2.941%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 1 (2.941%) Wintel Support
9 1 (2.941%) Helpdesk Technician
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Informatics
1 9 (26.47%) SaaS
2 5 (14.71%) VHDL
3 2 (5.882%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.882%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 23 (67.65%) Windows Server 2008
2 18 (52.94%) Windows Server 2012
3 12 (35.29%) UNIX
4 11 (32.35%) Windows 7
5 9 (26.47%) Windows 8
6 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (5.882%) Linux
7 2 (5.882%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (14.71%) Scrum
1 5 (14.71%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (5.882%) Incident Management
2 2 (5.882%) Communications Security
2 2 (5.882%) ITIL V3
2 2 (5.882%) ITIL
2 2 (5.882%) Service Delivery
2 2 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (2.941%) Change Management
3 1 (2.941%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) SQL
2 7 (20.59%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) C
3 5 (14.71%) C#
3 5 (14.71%) C++
3 5 (14.71%) Objective-C
4 3 (8.824%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.882%) Delphi
5 2 (5.882%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.882%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.824%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.882%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (5.882%) MCP
5 2 (5.882%) MCSE
6 1 (2.941%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.882%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.882%) HL7
1 2 (5.882%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.941%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (64.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) Terminal Services
3 4 (11.76%) XenApp
4 2 (5.882%) vSphere
4 2 (5.882%) VMware ESX
4 2 (5.882%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (5.882%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (2.941%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.941%) MetaFrame
5 1 (2.941%) vCloud
5 1 (2.941%) XenServer
5 1 (2.941%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Windows Intune
2 3 (8.824%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (8.824%) NetBackup
2 3 (8.824%) Backup Exec
3 2 (5.882%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (5.882%) ARCserve
4 1 (2.941%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 24 (70.59%) VMware
2 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.71%) Oracle
3 5 (14.71%) Citrix
3 5 (14.71%) Remedy
4 3 (8.824%) Symantec
5 2 (5.882%) McAfee
5 2 (5.882%) Sophos
5 2 (5.882%) Business Objects
6 1 (2.941%) HP
6 1 (2.941%) Twitter