Buckinghamshire Windows Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Dursley Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle Heywood High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Leominster Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ormskirk Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	3
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	672	705
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.329 %	0.303 %
As % of the category below	62.40 %	59.80 %
Salaries quoted	557	599
Average minimum salary	£29,877	£30,481
Average salary	£32,428	£32,869
% change on same period last year	-1.34 %
Average maximum salary	£34,979	£35,256
UK excluding London average salary	£32,401	£32,753
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Operating Systems Buckinghamshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1077	1179
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.527 %	0.506 %
Salaries quoted	868	992
Average minimum salary	£33,668	£32,942
Average salary	£36,806	£35,770
% change on same period last year	+2.89 %
Average maximum salary	£39,944	£38,597
UK excluding London average salary	£34,684	£34,941
% change on same period last year	-0.73 %
Windows South East

Windows
Demand Trend

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

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Windows
Salary Histogram

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

Windows
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 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	-4	230	£31,223	-7.88 %
2	High Wycombe	+3	106	£31,761	+2.26 %
3	Aylesbury	-3	43	£29,829	-15.80 %
4	Marlow	-6	38	£39,886	+28.14 %
5	Amersham	0	12	£27,205	+29.03 %
6	Gerrards Cross	-4	6	£22,000	-6.38 %
7	Beaconsfield	+3	4	£35,500	+18.82 %
8	Buckingham	-9	1	£20,500	+6.95 %
8	Chalfont St Giles	-	1	£25,000	-

Windows South East

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Windows 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 Windows.

1 408 (31.00 %) Microsoft 2 352 (26.75 %) SQL Server 3 323 (24.54 %) Unix 4 322 (24.47 %) SQL 5 288 (21.88 %) Linux 6 232 (17.63 %) .NET 7 230 (17.48 %) Microsoft Certification 8 228 (17.33 %) MS Exchange 9 223 (16.95 %) Active Directory 10 210 (15.96 %) Oracle 11 200 (15.20 %) MS Excel 12 191 (14.51 %) TCP/IP 13 187 (14.21 %) MS Office 14 186 (14.13 %) C# 14 186 (14.13 %) Windows Server 2003

15 185 (14.06 %) Windows 2000 16 163 (12.39 %) Windows NT 17 156 (11.85 %) MCSE 18 147 (11.17 %) LAN 19 141 (10.71 %) C++ 20 140 (10.64 %) Java 21 137 (10.41 %) Exchange Server 2003 22 133 (10.11 %) WAN 23 130 (9.878 %) HTML 24 121 (9.195 %) XML 25 113 (8.587 %) Solaris 26 102 (7.751 %) Finance 27 101 (7.675 %) Cisco 28 98 (7.447 %) VMware 29 97 (7.371 %) IIS

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Windows 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 Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 232 (17.63 %) .NET 2 130 (9.878 %) HTML 3 121 (9.195 %) XML 4 95 (7.219 %) ASP.NET 5 64 (4.863 %) ASP 6 53 (4.027 %) J2EE 7 48 (3.647 %) WinForms 8 36 (2.736 %) WebServices 9 34 (2.584 %) ADO.NET 10 30 (2.280 %) ATL 11 24 (1.824 %) Spring 11 24 (1.824 %) Hibernate 12 22 (1.672 %) ADO 13 21 (1.596 %) MFC 13 21 (1.596 %) CSS 14 16 (1.216 %) EJB 15 15 (1.140 %) WebSphere 16 14 (1.064 %) .NET Framework 16 14 (1.064 %) SOAP 17 13 (0.988 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 228 (17.33 %) MS Exchange 2 137 (10.41 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 97 (7.371 %) IIS 4 73 (5.547 %) Apache 5 66 (5.015 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 62 (4.711 %) SharePoint 7 41 (3.116 %) WebLogic 8 40 (3.040 %) Tomcat 9 29 (2.204 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 28 (2.128 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 27 (2.052 %) Documentum 11 27 (2.052 %) SAS 12 23 (1.748 %) JBoss 13 21 (1.596 %) Papyrus 13 21 (1.596 %) StreamWeaver 13 21 (1.596 %) DOC1 14 20 (1.520 %) LiveLink 14 20 (1.520 %) Oracle 9iAS 15 19 (1.444 %) CMS 16 18 (1.368 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 200 (15.20 %) MS Excel 2 187 (14.21 %) MS Office 3 21 (1.596 %) PrintSoft PReS 4 16 (1.216 %) MS Visio 5 15 (1.140 %) Photoshop 6 12 (0.912 %) Fireworks 7 2 (0.152 %) SPSS 8 1 (0.076 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 11 (0.836 %) HiPortfolio 2 6 (0.456 %) Oracle CRM 3 4 (0.304 %) Oracle Applications 3 4 (0.304 %) Oracle EBS 3 4 (0.304 %) Oracle 11i 4 3 (0.228 %) Microsoft CRM 4 3 (0.228 %) Dynamics NAV 4 3 (0.228 %) Dynamics CRM 4 3 (0.228 %) Dynamics AX 4 3 (0.228 %) SAP Business One 5 2 (0.152 %) Pegasus Opera
Communications & Networking 1 191 (14.51 %) TCP/IP 2 147 (11.17 %) LAN 3 133 (10.11 %) WAN 4 88 (6.687 %) Internet 5 76 (5.775 %) Firewall 6 63 (4.787 %) SAN 7 39 (2.964 %) Wireless 8 31 (2.356 %) VPN 9 30 (2.280 %) ADSL 10 26 (1.976 %) Ethernet 11 25 (1.900 %) DNS 12 24 (1.824 %) HTTP 13 22 (1.672 %) DHCP 14 15 (1.140 %) SMTP 14 15 (1.140 %) VoIP 15 12 (0.912 %) Intranet 16 9 (0.684 %) SSH 17 7 (0.532 %) GPRS 17 7 (0.532 %) GSM 17 7 (0.532 %) WINS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 352 (26.75 %) SQL Server 2 71 (5.395 %) SQL Server 2005 3 59 (4.483 %) SQL Server 2000 4 49 (3.723 %) Oracle 10g 5 37 (2.812 %) Datawarehouse 6 34 (2.584 %) RDBMS 7 31 (2.356 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 25 (1.900 %) Oracle 9i 9 23 (1.748 %) BusinessObjects 9 23 (1.748 %) SQL Server 7 10 20 (1.520 %) MySQL 11 17 (1.292 %) MS Access 12 15 (1.140 %) Crystal Reports 13 13 (0.988 %) Oracle Reports 13 13 (0.988 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 9 (0.684 %) SQL Server Integration Services 15 8 (0.608 %) OLAP 16 7 (0.532 %) DB2 17 6 (0.456 %) ETL 18 5 (0.380 %) FileMaker
Development Applications 1 90 (6.839 %) Visual Studio 2 22 (1.672 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 20 (1.520 %) Ant 4 19 (1.444 %) Eclipse 5 18 (1.368 %) Dreamweaver 5 18 (1.368 %) JUnit 5 18 (1.368 %) Rational Rose 6 15 (1.140 %) Oracle Forms 7 5 (0.380 %) Flash 8 4 (0.304 %) NUnit 9 2 (0.152 %) ClearQuest 9 2 (0.152 %) WinRunner 9 2 (0.152 %) TestDirector 10 1 (0.076 %) QuickTest Pro 10 1 (0.076 %) ClearCase 10 1 (0.076 %) Rational Robot 10 1 (0.076 %) MSI 10 1 (0.076 %) JMeter	General 1 102 (7.751 %) Finance 2 96 (7.295 %) Pensions 3 62 (4.711 %) Retail 3 62 (4.711 %) Telecoms 4 58 (4.407 %) Health 5 46 (3.495 %) Insurance 6 27 (2.052 %) Government 7 15 (1.140 %) Marketing 8 14 (1.064 %) Education 9 12 (0.912 %) 3D Graphics 10 11 (0.836 %) Electronics 11 10 (0.760 %) Construction 12 8 (0.608 %) Legal 13 6 (0.456 %) Manufacturing 13 6 (0.456 %) Police 13 6 (0.456 %) Back Office 13 6 (0.456 %) Auditing 14 5 (0.380 %) Games 14 5 (0.380 %) Banking 14 5 (0.380 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 264 (20.06 %) Analyst 2 219 (16.64 %) Support Engineer 3 207 (15.73 %) Developer 4 154 (11.70 %) Consultant 5 145 (11.02 %) Support Analyst 6 78 (5.927 %) C# Developer 7 73 (5.547 %) .NET Developer 8 70 (5.319 %) Software Engineer 9 68 (5.167 %) Technical Support 10 61 (4.635 %) Administrator 10 61 (4.635 %) Network Support 11 60 (4.559 %) Helpdesk Analyst 12 59 (4.483 %) 3rd Line Support 13 54 (4.103 %) 2nd Line Support 13 54 (4.103 %) IT Support Engineer 14 52 (3.951 %) Technical Consultant 14 52 (3.951 %) Web Developer 15 50 (3.799 %) Applications Support 16 44 (3.343 %) Support Consultant 17 42 (3.191 %) Helpdesk Support	Miscellaneous 1 56 (4.255 %) Mainframe 2 39 (2.964 %) Client/Server 3 29 (2.204 %) Clustering 4 18 (1.368 %) PDA 4 18 (1.368 %) German Language 5 16 (1.216 %) AS400 6 15 (1.140 %) Robotics 7 14 (1.064 %) French Language 7 14 (1.064 %) Blackberry 7 14 (1.064 %) IBM Mainframe 8 13 (0.988 %) Device Driver 8 13 (0.988 %) Physics 9 11 (0.836 %) VAX 9 11 (0.836 %) Thin Client 9 11 (0.836 %) Fat Client 10 9 (0.684 %) Tandem 10 9 (0.684 %) Computer Science 10 9 (0.684 %) Mathematics 11 7 (0.532 %) Asset Management 11 7 (0.532 %) Pocket PC
Operating Systems 1 323 (24.54 %) Unix 2 288 (21.88 %) Linux 3 186 (14.13 %) Windows Server 2003 4 185 (14.06 %) Windows 2000 5 163 (12.39 %) Windows NT 6 113 (8.587 %) Solaris 7 93 (7.067 %) Windows XP 8 34 (2.584 %) AIX 9 32 (2.432 %) HPUX 10 21 (1.596 %) Windows Mobile 10 21 (1.596 %) MVS 11 14 (1.064 %) VxWorks 12 10 (0.760 %) SUSE 13 8 (0.608 %) Debian 13 8 (0.608 %) Windows CE 14 7 (0.532 %) FreeBSD 15 5 (0.380 %) NetWare 15 5 (0.380 %) Fedora 16 3 (0.228 %) OS/400 17 2 (0.152 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 88 (6.687 %) ITIL 2 55 (4.179 %) Business Intelligence 3 51 (3.875 %) Project Management 4 31 (2.356 %) UML 5 30 (2.280 %) Risk Management 6 27 (2.052 %) Content Management 7 26 (1.976 %) CRM 8 25 (1.900 %) Requirements Analysis 9 23 (1.748 %) Web Development 10 22 (1.672 %) DSDM 11 21 (1.596 %) Disaster Recovery 12 20 (1.520 %) RUP 12 20 (1.520 %) Risk Analysis 12 20 (1.520 %) Document Management 12 20 (1.520 %) Agile Software Development 12 20 (1.520 %) Automated Testing 13 19 (1.444 %) Test Scripting 14 18 (1.368 %) Regression Testing 15 15 (1.140 %) Workflow 15 15 (1.140 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 322 (24.47 %) SQL 2 186 (14.13 %) C# 3 141 (10.71 %) C++ 4 140 (10.64 %) Java 5 94 (7.143 %) JavaScript 5 94 (7.143 %) C 6 75 (5.699 %) VB 7 68 (5.167 %) PHP 8 53 (4.027 %) VB6 9 37 (2.812 %) Perl 10 36 (2.736 %) VB.NET 11 24 (1.824 %) VBA 12 21 (1.596 %) PL/SQL 13 20 (1.520 %) VBScript 14 17 (1.292 %) VC++ 14 17 (1.292 %) Embedded C 15 15 (1.140 %) Transact-SQL 16 14 (1.064 %) Shell Script 17 11 (0.836 %) Korn 18 6 (0.456 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 230 (17.48 %) Microsoft Certification 2 156 (11.85 %) MCSE 3 81 (6.155 %) MCP 4 60 (4.559 %) Degree 5 39 (2.964 %) Cisco Certification 6 28 (2.128 %) CCNA 7 24 (1.824 %) MCSA 8 20 (1.520 %) CISSP 9 15 (1.140 %) MCSD 10 14 (1.064 %) ITIL Certification 11 12 (0.912 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 12 11 (0.836 %) CCNP 13 9 (0.684 %) MCDBA 14 8 (0.608 %) MCAD 14 8 (0.608 %) Citrix Certification 15 7 (0.532 %) CCEA 15 7 (0.532 %) CCA 16 6 (0.456 %) MCTS 17 5 (0.380 %) MCDST 18 4 (0.304 %) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 67 (5.091 %) SLA 2 37 (2.812 %) QA 3 1 (0.076 %) ISO/IEC 20000 3 1 (0.076 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 1 (0.076 %) ISO27001 3 1 (0.076 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 223 (16.95 %) Active Directory 2 17 (1.292 %) VMware ESX 3 15 (1.140 %) Backup Exec 4 14 (1.064 %) ISA Server 5 13 (0.988 %) MetaFrame 6 11 (0.836 %) Terminal Services 6 11 (0.836 %) Samba 7 9 (0.684 %) MSMQ 8 6 (0.456 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 6 (0.456 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 5 (0.380 %) RACF 10 4 (0.304 %) VMware Server 11 3 (0.228 %) Oracle RMAN 11 3 (0.228 %) NetBackup 12 2 (0.152 %) Oracle RAC 13 1 (0.076 %) Xen
Systems Management 1 12 (0.912 %) OpenView 2 8 (0.608 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 8 (0.608 %) MIMEsweeper 3 6 (0.456 %) MOM 4 4 (0.304 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 3 (0.228 %) Legato 5 3 (0.228 %) OVSD 6 2 (0.152 %) SCOM 7 1 (0.076 %) Tivoli 7 1 (0.076 %) OpenView Configuration Management 7 1 (0.076 %) Nagios 7 1 (0.076 %) ARCserve 7 1 (0.076 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 408 (31.00 %) Microsoft 2 210 (15.96 %) Oracle 3 101 (7.675 %) Cisco 4 98 (7.447 %) VMware 5 92 (6.991 %) Citrix 6 45 (3.419 %) Red Hat 7 43 (3.267 %) HP 7 43 (3.267 %) IBM 8 39 (2.964 %) Sybase 9 27 (2.052 %) EMC 10 26 (1.976 %) BEA 11 23 (1.748 %) Business Objects 12 20 (1.520 %) Sun 13 19 (1.444 %) Lotus 14 17 (1.292 %) Open Text 15 16 (1.216 %) Thunderhead 16 13 (0.988 %) Adobe 17 12 (0.912 %) Macromedia 18 11 (0.836 %) SAP 18 11 (0.836 %) NetApp