The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 24 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 15 22 5
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -17
Permanent jobs citing Windows 130 91 120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 16.58% 11.90% 24.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.41% 27.00% 71.43%
Number of salaries quoted 123 90 120
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £32,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +16.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £28,900 £19,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £40,250 £39,100
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
205 337 168
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 26.15% 44.05% 34.08%
Number of salaries quoted 195 326 163
Average salary £33,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.00% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £27,600 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
East Sussex

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Brighton Windows Salary Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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.

1 149 (54.58%) SQL Server
2 135 (49.45%) Linux
3 96 (35.16%) .NET
3 96 (35.16%) SQL
4 93 (34.07%) C#
5 91 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 81 (29.67%) VMware
7 67 (24.54%) Ubuntu
8 60 (21.98%) MySQL
9 58 (21.25%) ASP.NET
9 58 (21.25%) WinForms
10 55 (20.15%) Agile Software Development
10 55 (20.15%) Microsoft
11 54 (19.78%) WPF
12 51 (18.68%) VMware Infrastructure
13 50 (18.32%) MS Excel
14 46 (16.85%) TDD
15 45 (16.48%) Scrum
15 45 (16.48%) CentOS
15 45 (16.48%) VMware ESXi
16 43 (15.75%) Web Services
16 43 (15.75%) C++
17 42 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
18 40 (14.65%) MCTS
19 39 (14.29%) Degree
20 37 (13.55%) MVC
21 36 (13.19%) Web Development
21 36 (13.19%) Java
22 35 (12.82%) Windows Server 2003
23 34 (12.45%) Windows 7

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 96 (35.16%) .NET
2 58 (21.25%) ASP.NET
2 58 (21.25%) WinForms
3 54 (19.78%) WPF
4 43 (15.75%) Web Services
5 30 (10.99%) ASP.NET MVC
5 30 (10.99%) WCF
6 26 (9.524%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 26 (9.524%) Razor View Engine
7 25 (9.158%) HTML
8 24 (8.791%) Spring.NET
8 24 (8.791%) Castle Windsor
8 24 (8.791%) Ninject
8 24 (8.791%) Unity DI Container
9 21 (7.692%) CSS
10 19 (6.960%) Silverlight
10 19 (6.960%) jQuery
11 13 (4.762%) HTML5
12 12 (4.396%) COM+
13 9 (3.297%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 25 (9.158%) IIS
2 23 (8.425%) SharePoint
3 14 (5.128%) SharePoint 2010
4 13 (4.762%) MS Exchange
5 5 (1.832%) Apache
5 5 (1.832%) CMS
6 3 (1.099%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.733%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.733%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.733%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.733%) Windows Azure
7 2 (0.733%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.733%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.366%) WordPress
8 1 (0.366%) Moodle
Applications
1 50 (18.32%) MS Excel
2 13 (4.762%) MS Office
3 9 (3.297%) MS Project
4 8 (2.930%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.733%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.366%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.09%) Firewall
2 28 (10.26%) WAN
3 22 (8.059%) LAN
4 20 (7.326%) TCP/IP
5 19 (6.960%) Asterisk PBX
5 19 (6.960%) DNS
5 19 (6.960%) VoIP
5 19 (6.960%) LDAP
6 16 (5.861%) SAN
6 16 (5.861%) NetScreen
7 12 (4.396%) VPN
8 9 (3.297%) HTTP
9 7 (2.564%) DHCP
9 7 (2.564%) FTP
9 7 (2.564%) SSH
10 4 (1.465%) Network Security
11 3 (1.099%) Internet
12 1 (0.366%) DMZ
12 1 (0.366%) Extranet
12 1 (0.366%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (54.58%) SQL Server
2 60 (21.98%) MySQL
3 25 (9.158%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (3.297%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (1.832%) TOAD
6 4 (1.465%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (0.733%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (0.733%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.366%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.366%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 31 (11.36%) NUnit
1 31 (11.36%) Rhino Mocks
2 26 (9.524%) Moq
3 24 (8.791%) MSTest
4 15 (5.495%) Selenium
5 13 (4.762%) Git (software)
6 12 (4.396%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (3.663%) Eclipse
7 10 (3.663%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.663%) WebDriver
8 8 (2.930%) NetBeans
8 8 (2.930%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.832%) JIRA
10 4 (1.465%) QuickTest Pro
10 4 (1.465%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.733%) Maven
11 2 (0.733%) JUnit
12 1 (0.366%) Dreamweaver
12 1 (0.366%) LabVIEW
12 1 (0.366%) Subversion
General
1 22 (8.059%) Manufacturing
2 14 (5.128%) Finance
3 8 (2.930%) Marketing
4 6 (2.198%) Back Office
4 6 (2.198%) Telecoms
5 5 (1.832%) Games
6 2 (0.733%) Electronics
6 2 (0.733%) German Language
7 1 (0.366%) Legal
Job Titles
1 104 (38.10%) Developer
2 72 (26.37%) Administrator
3 68 (24.91%) Systems Administrator
4 52 (19.05%) .NET Developer
5 46 (16.85%) Linux Administrator
6 40 (14.65%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 35 (12.82%) C# Developer
8 29 (10.62%) Junior
9 28 (10.26%) Windows Administrator
9 28 (10.26%) Windows Systems Administrator
10 26 (9.524%) C# .NET Developer
11 24 (8.791%) Analyst
11 24 (8.791%) Junior Developer
12 23 (8.425%) Graduate
13 21 (7.692%) Graduate Developer
14 19 (6.960%) Desktop Administrator
15 18 (6.593%) IT Support
16 15 (5.495%) Test Analyst
17 12 (4.396%) C# ASP.NET Developer
18 11 (4.029%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.26%) Computer Science
2 24 (8.791%) Inversion of Control
3 23 (8.425%) Social Media
4 22 (8.059%) Mathematics
5 21 (7.692%) Digital Media
6 14 (5.128%) Clustering
7 11 (4.029%) EqualLogic
7 11 (4.029%) Replication
8 6 (2.198%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.832%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.465%) Blackberry
11 1 (0.366%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.366%) iPad
11 1 (0.366%) Learning Management System
11 1 (0.366%) iPhone
11 1 (0.366%) W3C
11 1 (0.366%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 135 (49.45%) Linux
2 91 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 67 (24.54%) Ubuntu
4 45 (16.48%) CentOS
5 35 (12.82%) Windows Server 2003
6 34 (12.45%) Windows 7
7 25 (9.158%) Mac OS X
8 17 (6.227%) Mac OS X Server
9 13 (4.762%) Mac OS
10 10 (3.663%) Windows XP
10 10 (3.663%) UNIX
11 8 (2.930%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.733%) Solaris
12 2 (0.733%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.366%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.366%) Android
13 1 (0.366%) SUSE
13 1 (0.366%) Debian
13 1 (0.366%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (20.15%) Agile Software Development
2 46 (16.85%) TDD
3 45 (16.48%) Scrum
4 37 (13.55%) MVC
5 36 (13.19%) Web Development
6 29 (10.62%) Continuous Integration
6 29 (10.62%) Web Application Development
6 29 (10.62%) ITIL
7 26 (9.524%) Kanban
7 26 (9.524%) MVVM
8 24 (8.791%) OO
8 24 (8.791%) Dependency Injection
9 19 (6.960%) Project Management
10 17 (6.227%) Project Planning
11 14 (5.128%) Information Security Management
11 14 (5.128%) Security Management
11 14 (5.128%) Information Security
11 14 (5.128%) OOP
12 11 (4.029%) Operations Management
13 10 (3.663%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 96 (35.16%) SQL
2 93 (34.07%) C#
3 43 (15.75%) C++
4 36 (13.19%) Java
5 29 (10.62%) VB.NET
6 27 (9.890%) VB
7 26 (9.524%) Python
8 24 (8.791%) JavaScript
9 23 (8.425%) PHP
10 22 (8.059%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.663%) Ruby
12 9 (3.297%) PHP5
13 5 (1.832%) C
14 2 (0.733%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.366%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 40 (14.65%) MCTS
3 39 (14.29%) Degree
4 28 (10.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 27 (9.890%) MCAD
5 27 (9.890%) MCSD
6 26 (9.524%) MCP
7 16 (5.861%) ISEB
8 15 (5.495%) ISTQB
9 14 (5.128%) MCITP
9 14 (5.128%) CCNA
9 14 (5.128%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.366%) EMC Certification
10 1 (0.366%) MCSE
10 1 (0.366%) MCSA
10 1 (0.366%) HNC
10 1 (0.366%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.861%) QA
2 14 (5.128%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.663%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.733%) SLA
4 2 (0.733%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.366%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.366%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 51 (18.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (16.48%) VMware ESXi
3 24 (8.791%) Active Directory
4 21 (7.692%) Samba
5 20 (7.326%) vSphere
6 6 (2.198%) VMware ESX
7 5 (1.832%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.366%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (5.128%) EMC NetWorker
2 11 (4.029%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.366%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 81 (29.67%) VMware
2 55 (20.15%) Microsoft
3 27 (9.890%) Red Hat
4 26 (9.524%) Cisco
5 21 (7.692%) EMC
6 17 (6.227%) HP
7 12 (4.396%) Dell
8 11 (4.029%) Veeam
8 11 (4.029%) FalconStor
9 9 (3.297%) Zend
9 9 (3.297%) Citrix
10 8 (2.930%) Oracle
11 7 (2.564%) Apple
12 6 (2.198%) 3Com
12 6 (2.198%) NetApp
12 6 (2.198%) DataCore
13 5 (1.832%) Google
14 4 (1.465%) LANDesk
15 3 (1.099%) Symantec
16 2 (0.733%) Avaya
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Salary: £35000 Per Annum 30k to 35k + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £17000 - £19000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
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Salary: £28000 - £30000 per annum + benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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