Buckinghamshire Microsoft Jobs

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Heywood High Wycombe Highland Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	6
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	538	471
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.262 %	0.210 %
As % of the category below	32.99 %	30.93 %
Salaries quoted	464	414
Average minimum salary	£31,500	£33,348
Average salary	£34,469	£36,348
% change on same period last year	-5.16 %
Average maximum salary	£37,438	£39,348
UK excluding London average salary	£35,369	£35,689
% change on same period last year	-0.89 %
Vendors Buckinghamshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1631	1523
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.795 %	0.681 %
Salaries quoted	1385	1209
Average minimum salary	£36,037	£37,436
Average salary	£39,235	£40,231
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Average maximum salary	£42,434	£43,026
UK excluding London average salary	£40,189	£41,363
% change on same period last year	-2.83 %
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These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Microsoft Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Microsoft across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Microsoft across the Buckinghamshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Buckinghamshire region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Buckinghamshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Milton Keynes	+2	176	£33,467	-21.33 %
2	Marlow	+3	64	£33,654	-11.47 %
3	High Wycombe	+1	59	£31,380	+16.29 %
4	Aylesbury	+2	50	£36,295	+14.76 %
5	Gerrards Cross	-5	9	£28,889	-1.23 %
6	Amersham	-8	4	£27,125	+35.62 %
6	Newport Pagnell	-	4	£29,500	-
7	Buckingham	-4	2	£22,250	+11.25 %
8	Chalfont St Giles	-	1	£25,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Microsoft also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Microsoft.

1 422 (38.02 %) SQL Server 2 407 (36.67 %) MS Excel 3 406 (36.58 %) Windows 4 402 (36.22 %) SQL 5 354 (31.89 %) .NET 6 326 (29.37 %) Microsoft Certification 7 294 (26.49 %) MS Exchange 8 268 (24.14 %) C# 9 217 (19.55 %) MS Office 10 211 (19.01 %) ASP.NET 11 166 (14.95 %) MCSE 12 159 (14.32 %) Active Directory 13 134 (12.07 %) HTML 14 126 (11.35 %) Degree 15 116 (10.45 %) XML

15 116 (10.45 %) SharePoint 16 112 (10.09 %) SQL Server 2000 17 110 (9.910 %) VB.NET 18 106 (9.550 %) JavaScript 19 104 (9.369 %) Project Management 20 103 (9.279 %) SQL Server 2005 21 99 (8.919 %) Oracle 21 99 (8.919 %) Cisco 22 98 (8.829 %) Finance 23 97 (8.739 %) VMware 24 94 (8.468 %) MCP 24 94 (8.468 %) Linux 25 90 (8.108 %) Exchange Server 2003 26 86 (7.748 %) Internet 27 84 (7.568 %) Visual Studio

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Microsoft also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Microsoft. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 354 (31.89 %) .NET 2 211 (19.01 %) ASP.NET 3 134 (12.07 %) HTML 4 116 (10.45 %) XML 5 77 (6.937 %) CSS 6 65 (5.856 %) WebServices 7 64 (5.766 %) ASP 8 50 (4.505 %) WinForms 9 42 (3.784 %) J2EE 10 26 (2.342 %) AJAX 11 25 (2.252 %) Spring 11 25 (2.252 %) Hibernate 12 23 (2.072 %) .NET Framework 13 17 (1.532 %) EJB 14 16 (1.441 %) ADO.NET 15 14 (1.261 %) XSL 15 14 (1.261 %) WCF 16 13 (1.171 %) XSLT 17 12 (1.081 %) XHTML 17 12 (1.081 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 294 (26.49 %) MS Exchange 2 116 (10.45 %) SharePoint 3 90 (8.108 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 61 (5.495 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 61 (5.495 %) IIS 5 54 (4.865 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 40 (3.604 %) WebLogic 7 34 (3.063 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 31 (2.793 %) BizTalk Server 9 27 (2.432 %) CMS 9 27 (2.432 %) Apache 10 18 (1.622 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 13 (1.171 %) Tomcat 11 13 (1.171 %) MQSeries 12 11 (0.991 %) JBoss 12 11 (0.991 %) Commerce Server 13 9 (0.811 %) Lotus Notes 14 5 (0.450 %) SharePoint Portal Server 15 4 (0.360 %) SAS 16 3 (0.270 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 407 (36.67 %) MS Excel 2 217 (19.55 %) MS Office 3 26 (2.342 %) MS Project 4 21 (1.892 %) Photoshop 4 21 (1.892 %) MS PowerPoint 5 16 (1.441 %) Fireworks 6 14 (1.261 %) MS Visio 7 7 (0.631 %) SPSS 7 7 (0.631 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 4 (0.360 %) InfoPath 9 3 (0.270 %) Acrobat 10 2 (0.180 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 15 (1.351 %) Dynamics CRM 1 15 (1.351 %) Microsoft CRM 2 4 (0.360 %) Dynamics NAV 3 3 (0.270 %) SAP Business One 3 3 (0.270 %) Dynamics AX 3 3 (0.270 %) Pegasus Opera 4 2 (0.180 %) Dynamics GP 5 1 (0.090 %) GoldMine 5 1 (0.090 %) Line 50 5 1 (0.090 %) Teamcenter 5 1 (0.090 %) Pivotal CRM 5 1 (0.090 %) SalesLogix 5 1 (0.090 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 86 (7.748 %) Internet 2 66 (5.946 %) TCP/IP 3 48 (4.324 %) WAN 4 43 (3.874 %) LAN 5 26 (2.342 %) Firewall 6 23 (2.072 %) DHCP 7 22 (1.982 %) DNS 8 21 (1.892 %) Wireless 9 17 (1.532 %) VoIP 10 14 (1.261 %) SAN 10 14 (1.261 %) VPN 11 11 (0.991 %) ADSL 12 9 (0.811 %) IPCC 13 8 (0.721 %) WINS 13 8 (0.721 %) Intranet 14 7 (0.631 %) IP Telephony 15 6 (0.541 %) FirePass 16 5 (0.450 %) Cisco PIX 16 5 (0.450 %) MPLS 16 5 (0.450 %) BGP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 422 (38.02 %) SQL Server 2 112 (10.09 %) SQL Server 2000 3 103 (9.279 %) SQL Server 2005 4 32 (2.883 %) Oracle 10g 4 32 (2.883 %) MS Access 5 31 (2.793 %) SQL Server 7 6 29 (2.613 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 20 (1.802 %) RDBMS 8 19 (1.712 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 18 (1.622 %) MySQL 10 17 (1.532 %) Datawarehouse 10 17 (1.532 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 16 (1.441 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 15 (1.351 %) ETL 12 15 (1.351 %) BusinessObjects 13 14 (1.261 %) Data Mining 14 12 (1.081 %) DTS 15 11 (0.991 %) Oracle 8/8i 16 7 (0.631 %) Oracle 9i 17 6 (0.541 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 84 (7.568 %) Visual Studio 2 26 (2.342 %) Rational Rose 3 24 (2.162 %) Eclipse 3 24 (2.162 %) Ant 3 24 (2.162 %) JUnit 4 21 (1.892 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 15 (1.351 %) Dreamweaver 6 11 (0.991 %) Flash 7 3 (0.270 %) TestDirector 8 2 (0.180 %) FrontPage 8 2 (0.180 %) MSI 9 1 (0.090 %) C++Builder 9 1 (0.090 %) QuickTest Pro 9 1 (0.090 %) ClearQuest 9 1 (0.090 %) Rational Robot 9 1 (0.090 %) WinRunner 9 1 (0.090 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 98 (8.829 %) Finance 2 58 (5.225 %) Pensions 3 48 (4.324 %) Retail 4 44 (3.964 %) Health 5 35 (3.153 %) Telecoms 6 33 (2.973 %) Marketing 7 29 (2.613 %) Insurance 8 26 (2.342 %) Education 8 26 (2.342 %) Government 9 12 (1.081 %) 3D Graphics 10 11 (0.991 %) Games 11 8 (0.721 %) Electric 12 7 (0.631 %) Back Office 12 7 (0.631 %) Electronics 13 6 (0.541 %) Construction 13 6 (0.541 %) Banking 14 5 (0.450 %) Military 14 5 (0.450 %) Manufacturing 14 5 (0.450 %) Publishing 14 5 (0.450 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 346 (31.17 %) Developer 2 178 (16.04 %) Analyst 3 155 (13.96 %) Consultant 4 125 (11.26 %) C# Developer 5 118 (10.63 %) .NET Developer 6 98 (8.829 %) Support Engineer 7 82 (7.387 %) Web Developer 8 68 (6.126 %) Support Analyst 9 66 (5.946 %) ASP.NET Developer 10 64 (5.766 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 11 52 (4.685 %) Storage Consultant 12 47 (4.234 %) Team Leader 13 43 (3.874 %) Software Developer 14 40 (3.604 %) Technical Support 15 39 (3.514 %) Network Support 16 29 (2.613 %) SQL Developer 17 26 (2.342 %) Programmer 18 25 (2.252 %) Desktop Support 18 25 (2.252 %) IT Support Engineer 19 24 (2.162 %) Technical Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 43 (3.874 %) Computer Science 2 23 (2.072 %) Client/Server 3 19 (1.712 %) Tandem 4 17 (1.532 %) Data Extraction 5 16 (1.441 %) IVR 6 15 (1.351 %) Credit Risk 6 15 (1.351 %) Statistics 7 14 (1.261 %) Mainframe 8 11 (0.991 %) Physics 9 10 (0.901 %) Robotics 10 7 (0.631 %) Management Information System 10 7 (0.631 %) Clustering 10 7 (0.631 %) Blackberry 11 6 (0.541 %) Pocket PC 11 6 (0.541 %) AS400 11 6 (0.541 %) German Language 12 5 (0.450 %) Mathematics 13 3 (0.270 %) Dutch Language 13 3 (0.270 %) French Language 13 3 (0.270 %) Spanish Language
Operating Systems 1 406 (36.58 %) Windows 2 94 (8.468 %) Linux 3 81 (7.297 %) Windows 2000 4 78 (7.027 %) Windows NT 5 73 (6.577 %) Unix 6 44 (3.964 %) Windows XP 6 44 (3.964 %) Windows Server 2003 7 5 (0.450 %) Solaris 7 5 (0.450 %) AIX 8 4 (0.360 %) NetWare 8 4 (0.360 %) Windows CE 9 3 (0.270 %) SUSE 10 2 (0.180 %) Windows Mobile 10 2 (0.180 %) Windows Vista 11 1 (0.090 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 104 (9.369 %) Project Management 2 71 (6.396 %) ITIL 3 68 (6.126 %) Business Intelligence 4 53 (4.775 %) Web Design 5 46 (4.144 %) OO 6 41 (3.694 %) CRM 7 37 (3.333 %) Performance Management 8 31 (2.793 %) E-Commerce 9 30 (2.703 %) UML 9 30 (2.703 %) Risk Management 10 29 (2.613 %) E-business 11 27 (2.432 %) Service Delivery 12 25 (2.252 %) RUP 13 24 (2.162 %) Scrum 14 21 (1.892 %) Web Development 15 20 (1.802 %) Risk Analysis 15 20 (1.802 %) TDD 16 18 (1.622 %) Workflow 17 16 (1.441 %) Extreme Programming 17 16 (1.441 %) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages 1 402 (36.22 %) SQL 2 268 (24.14 %) C# 3 110 (9.910 %) VB.NET 4 106 (9.550 %) JavaScript 5 83 (7.477 %) Java 6 82 (7.387 %) VB 7 59 (5.315 %) VB6 8 45 (4.054 %) C++ 9 44 (3.964 %) PHP 10 43 (3.874 %) Transact-SQL 11 40 (3.604 %) C 12 22 (1.982 %) VBScript 13 16 (1.441 %) DHTML 14 15 (1.351 %) PL/SQL 15 14 (1.261 %) VC++ 16 8 (0.721 %) PHP5 16 8 (0.721 %) PHP4 17 6 (0.541 %) COBOL 18 4 (0.360 %) ActionScript 19 1 (0.090 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 326 (29.37 %) Microsoft Certification 2 166 (14.95 %) MCSE 3 126 (11.35 %) Degree 4 94 (8.468 %) MCP 5 54 (4.865 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 49 (4.414 %) Cisco Certification 7 34 (3.063 %) MCSD 8 33 (2.973 %) MCSA 9 24 (2.162 %) MCAD 10 22 (1.982 %) CCNP 11 21 (1.892 %) CCNA 11 21 (1.892 %) Citrix Certification 12 20 (1.802 %) CCEA 12 20 (1.802 %) CCA 12 20 (1.802 %) ITIL Certification 13 17 (1.532 %) CISSP 14 13 (1.171 %) MCTS 15 9 (0.811 %) MCDBA 16 8 (0.721 %) PRINCE2 Certification 17 6 (0.541 %) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 33 (2.973 %) SLA 2 21 (1.892 %) QA 3 5 (0.450 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 159 (14.32 %) Active Directory 2 15 (1.351 %) MSMQ 3 14 (1.261 %) Backup Exec 4 9 (0.811 %) Terminal Services 4 9 (0.811 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 5 (0.450 %) ISA Server 5 5 (0.450 %) RACF 5 5 (0.450 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 6 4 (0.360 %) MetaFrame 7 1 (0.090 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 14 (1.261 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 13 (1.171 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 11 (0.991 %) MOM 4 8 (0.721 %) CiscoWorks 4 8 (0.721 %) MIMEsweeper 5 3 (0.270 %) SCCM 5 3 (0.270 %) SCOM 6 2 (0.180 %) BMC PATROL 7 1 (0.090 %) ARCserve 7 1 (0.090 %) Tivoli 7 1 (0.090 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 99 (8.919 %) Oracle 1 99 (8.919 %) Cisco 2 97 (8.739 %) VMware 3 69 (6.216 %) Citrix 4 68 (6.126 %) HP 5 48 (4.324 %) EMC 6 40 (3.604 %) NetApp 7 25 (2.252 %) BEA 8 23 (2.072 %) Avaya 9 16 (1.441 %) Symantec 10 15 (1.351 %) Adobe 10 15 (1.351 %) Business Objects 11 14 (1.261 %) Remedy 12 13 (1.171 %) Macromedia 13 12 (1.081 %) SeeBeyond 14 11 (0.991 %) Genesys 14 11 (0.991 %) VERITAS 15 9 (0.811 %) Lotus 15 9 (0.811 %) SAP 15 9 (0.811 %) McAfee Security