The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 8 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 8 over the 3 months to 20 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 8
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8 10 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.496% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.718% - -
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 0
Average salary £25,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £47,500 -
% change year-on-year
-31.57% -
All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
582 530 563
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 28.84% 27.45% 27.12%
Number of salaries quoted 518 458 503
Average salary £38,500 £35,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -4.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £52,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 8
South East

Windows 8
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Windows 8 Salary Trend

Windows 8
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows 8 across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Windows 8 Salary Histogram

Windows 8
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 8 within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
High Wycombe - 5 £29,500 -
Milton Keynes - 5 £25,000 -
Windows 8
South East

Windows 8
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (85.71%) Windows XP
2 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (78.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
5 9 (64.29%) MS Exchange
6 8 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (50.00%) ITIL
7 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (42.86%) Windows 7
9 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
10 4 (28.57%) Degree
10 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
11 3 (21.43%) MS Office
11 3 (21.43%) Lotus Notes
11 3 (21.43%) MCSE
11 3 (21.43%) SLA
11 3 (21.43%) Lotus
11 3 (21.43%) Blackberry
11 3 (21.43%) Firewall
11 3 (21.43%) Backup Exec
11 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
11 3 (21.43%) Smartphone
11 3 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (21.43%) Service Desk Management
12 2 (14.29%) Mac OS
12 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
12 2 (14.29%) Windows Vista
12 2 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server

Windows 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 Platforms
1 9 (64.29%) MS Exchange
2 3 (21.43%) Lotus Notes
2 3 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
2 3 (21.43%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (7.143%) VLAN
3 1 (7.143%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (14.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Support Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Team Leader
2 3 (21.43%) Help Desk Team Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Support
3 2 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 2 (14.29%) Support Technician
3 2 (14.29%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) IT Support
4 1 (7.143%) Windows Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Service Desk Technician
4 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support Technician
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Blackberry
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
1 3 (21.43%) Smartphone
2 1 (7.143%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (85.71%) Windows XP
3 11 (78.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (42.86%) Windows 7
6 2 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (14.29%) Mac OS
6 2 (14.29%) Windows Vista
7 1 (7.143%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
3 3 (21.43%) Service Desk Management
4 2 (14.29%) Data Security
5 1 (7.143%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.143%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
1 1 (7.143%) SQL
1 1 (7.143%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 3 (21.43%) MCSE
4 2 (14.29%) MCSA
5 1 (7.143%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Backup Exec
2 2 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (7.143%) SCCM
3 1 (7.143%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Lotus
3 2 (14.29%) Symantec
3 2 (14.29%) Sophos
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.143%) Google
4 1 (7.143%) SonicWALL
4 1 (7.143%) Veeam
4 1 (7.143%) Remedy
4 1 (7.143%) Apple
4 1 (7.143%) Citrix
4 1 (7.143%) Juniper
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle
4 1 (7.143%) Cisco
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
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Posted: 13 May 2013