The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 7 over the 3 months to 18 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 88 102 118
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +16
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7 29 27 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.671% 1.339% 0.429%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.754% 3.644% 1.223%
Number of salaries quoted 27 15 9
Average salary £32,000 £27,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.36% -15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £38,400 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
All Operating Systems
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
610 741 736
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 35.14% 36.76% 35.05%
Number of salaries quoted 537 606 671
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 7
Cambridgeshire

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Cambridge Windows 7 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 7
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Windows 7 Salary Trend

Windows 7
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Cambridge Windows 7 Salary Histogram

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Windows 7 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 7.

1 43 (100.00%) Windows
2 31 (72.09%) Active Directory
3 29 (67.44%) Microsoft
4 19 (44.19%) VMware
4 19 (44.19%) Windows Server 2008
5 16 (37.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (37.21%) Windows XP
5 16 (37.21%) TCP/IP
6 15 (34.88%) Linux
7 14 (32.56%) ITIL
7 14 (32.56%) Citrix
7 14 (32.56%) Cisco
8 13 (30.23%) MS Office
9 11 (25.58%) Degree
9 11 (25.58%) Windows 8
10 8 (18.60%) SQL
10 8 (18.60%) MS Exchange
10 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (18.60%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (16.28%) HP
11 7 (16.28%) Blackberry
11 7 (16.28%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (16.28%) SAN
11 7 (16.28%) Video Conferencing
11 7 (16.28%) SCCM
12 6 (13.95%) SCOM
12 6 (13.95%) SCVMM
12 6 (13.95%) Finance
12 6 (13.95%) XenApp
12 6 (13.95%) LAN

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Windows 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (9.302%) .NET
1 4 (9.302%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 8 (18.60%) MS Exchange
2 3 (6.977%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.977%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (6.977%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (6.977%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (4.651%) Lync
3 2 (4.651%) IIS
3 2 (4.651%) Site Server
4 1 (2.326%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 13 (30.23%) MS Office
2 5 (11.63%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (9.302%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 16 (37.21%) TCP/IP
2 7 (16.28%) SAN
3 6 (13.95%) Firewall
3 6 (13.95%) LAN
4 5 (11.63%) VPN
4 5 (11.63%) DNS
5 4 (9.302%) WAN
6 3 (6.977%) VoIP
7 2 (4.651%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.326%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.326%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.302%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (6.977%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (9.302%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (13.95%) Finance
2 4 (9.302%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Consultant
2 6 (13.95%) Support Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Administrator
3 5 (11.63%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (11.63%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (9.302%) Software Engineer
4 4 (9.302%) Analyst
5 3 (6.977%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.651%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) Desktop Support
6 2 (4.651%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (4.651%) IT Support
6 2 (4.651%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) IT Support Analyst
7 1 (2.326%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (2.326%) Linux Support Engineer
7 1 (2.326%) Windows Support Engineer
7 1 (2.326%) Desktop Administrator
7 1 (2.326%) Junior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Blackberry
1 7 (16.28%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (11.63%) Open Source
3 4 (9.302%) CCTV
4 1 (2.326%) Clustering
4 1 (2.326%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (44.19%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (37.21%) Windows XP
4 15 (34.88%) Linux
5 11 (25.58%) Windows 8
6 8 (18.60%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (6.977%) Mac OS X
8 2 (4.651%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (2.326%) Ubuntu
9 1 (2.326%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) ITIL
2 5 (11.63%) Project Management
3 4 (9.302%) Service Management
4 3 (6.977%) Incident Management
4 3 (6.977%) Time Management
5 1 (2.326%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (2.326%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (2.326%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) SQL
2 4 (9.302%) C#
2 4 (9.302%) C++
3 1 (2.326%) Perl
3 1 (2.326%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.326%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Degree
2 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (16.28%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (11.63%) MCITP
5 1 (2.326%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) SLA
2 1 (2.326%) GxP
System Software
1 31 (72.09%) Active Directory
2 16 (37.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (13.95%) XenApp
4 2 (4.651%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (4.651%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.326%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.326%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.326%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) SCCM
2 6 (13.95%) SCOM
2 6 (13.95%) SCVMM
3 2 (4.651%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 2 (4.651%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (4.651%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (67.44%) Microsoft
2 19 (44.19%) VMware
3 14 (32.56%) Cisco
3 14 (32.56%) Citrix
4 7 (16.28%) HP
5 6 (13.95%) Oracle
5 6 (13.95%) Apple
5 6 (13.95%) Remedy
6 4 (9.302%) BMC
7 3 (6.977%) NetApp
8 2 (4.651%) Nokia
8 2 (4.651%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.651%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.651%) Symantec
9 1 (2.326%) ProCurve
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