The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 7 over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 99 112 138
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +26
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7 46 32 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.732% 1.128% 0.561%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.925% 3.365% 1.667%
Number of salaries quoted 40 18 15
Average salary £31,661 £34,000 £23,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.87% +44.68%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £26,400 £18,800
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £50,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £29,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-1.66% -
All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
934 951 1020
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 35.17% 33.52% 33.66%
Number of salaries quoted 821 801 899
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 7
East of England

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Windows 7 Salary Trend

Windows 7
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Windows 7 Salary Histogram

Windows 7
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Cambridge +5 27 £31,661 +0.51%
Peterborough -3 10 £25,750 -24.26%
St Neots - 3 £40,000 -
Huntingdon +3 2 £22,500 -35.71%
Windows 7
East of England

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 74 (100.00%) Windows
2 46 (62.16%) Microsoft
3 40 (54.05%) Active Directory
4 33 (44.59%) Windows Server 2008
5 32 (43.24%) Windows XP
6 20 (27.03%) Citrix
7 19 (25.68%) VMware
8 18 (24.32%) MS Office
9 16 (21.62%) ITIL
9 16 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
10 15 (20.27%) MS Exchange
11 13 (17.57%) TCP/IP
11 13 (17.57%) Linux
11 13 (17.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (17.57%) SCCM
11 13 (17.57%) Degree
12 12 (16.22%) Windows 8
12 12 (16.22%) Cisco
12 12 (16.22%) C++
13 11 (14.86%) MS Excel
13 11 (14.86%) Windows Server 2003
14 10 (13.51%) MCITP
14 10 (13.51%) Project Management
14 10 (13.51%) SharePoint
15 9 (12.16%) C
15 9 (12.16%) HP
15 9 (12.16%) Exchange Server 2010
16 8 (10.81%) Test Automation
16 8 (10.81%) XenApp
16 8 (10.81%) SCOM

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 (5.405%) .NET
1 4 (5.405%) MFC
2 2 (2.703%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 15 (20.27%) MS Exchange
2 10 (13.51%) SharePoint
3 9 (12.16%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (6.757%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (6.757%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (4.054%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (4.054%) Lync
6 2 (2.703%) IIS
6 2 (2.703%) Site Server
7 1 (1.351%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 18 (24.32%) MS Office
2 11 (14.86%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.405%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.57%) TCP/IP
2 8 (10.81%) LAN
2 8 (10.81%) Firewall
3 6 (8.108%) WAN
4 5 (6.757%) VPN
4 5 (6.757%) DNS
4 5 (6.757%) SAN
5 3 (4.054%) VoIP
6 2 (2.703%) GPRS
6 2 (2.703%) UMTS
6 2 (2.703%) 3G
6 2 (2.703%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.703%) Wireless
6 2 (2.703%) 2G
6 2 (2.703%) ZigBee
7 1 (1.351%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.351%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.351%) Intranet
7 1 (1.351%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.459%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.405%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (5.405%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.351%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (9.459%) Visual Studio
2 5 (6.757%) LabVIEW
3 4 (5.405%) MSI
General
1 7 (9.459%) Electronics
2 6 (8.108%) Finance
3 1 (1.351%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 11 (14.86%) Consultant
2 10 (13.51%) Analyst
2 10 (13.51%) Support Engineer
3 9 (12.16%) Software Engineer
4 7 (9.459%) Support Analyst
4 7 (9.459%) IT Support
5 6 (8.108%) Applications Packager
6 5 (6.757%) Systems Administrator
6 5 (6.757%) Test Engineer
6 5 (6.757%) Software Test Engineer
6 5 (6.757%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (5.405%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (5.405%) Microsoft Consultant
7 4 (5.405%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (5.405%) Administrator
7 4 (5.405%) Field Engineer
7 4 (5.405%) Desktop Support
7 4 (5.405%) IT Support Analyst
8 3 (4.054%) Junior
8 3 (4.054%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.108%) Blackberry
1 6 (8.108%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (6.757%) Open Source
3 4 (5.405%) CCTV
4 3 (4.054%) Firmware
4 3 (4.054%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.054%) Device Driver
4 3 (4.054%) Blog
5 2 (2.703%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.351%) Clustering
6 1 (1.351%) PKI
6 1 (1.351%) EPoS
6 1 (1.351%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 74 (100.00%) Windows
2 33 (44.59%) Windows Server 2008
3 32 (43.24%) Windows XP
4 13 (17.57%) Linux
5 12 (16.22%) Windows 8
6 11 (14.86%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (9.459%) Windows Vista
8 3 (4.054%) Mac OS X
9 2 (2.703%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.703%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.351%) CentOS
10 1 (1.351%) Mac OS X Server
10 1 (1.351%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.62%) ITIL
2 10 (13.51%) Project Management
3 8 (10.81%) Regression Testing
3 8 (10.81%) Test Automation
4 6 (8.108%) Scrum
5 5 (6.757%) Software Testing
5 5 (6.757%) Test Management
6 4 (5.405%) Time Management
6 4 (5.405%) Service Management
7 3 (4.054%) Quality Management
7 3 (4.054%) Use Case
7 3 (4.054%) Unit Testing
7 3 (4.054%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (4.054%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (4.054%) TDD
7 3 (4.054%) Kanban
7 3 (4.054%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (2.703%) Incident Management
8 2 (2.703%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (2.703%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.22%) C++
2 9 (12.16%) C
3 8 (10.81%) SQL
3 8 (10.81%) Python
4 7 (9.459%) C#
5 5 (6.757%) Embedded C
6 4 (5.405%) Perl
7 3 (4.054%) Embedded C++
7 3 (4.054%) Ruby
7 3 (4.054%) Java
8 1 (1.351%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.351%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (17.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 13 (17.57%) Degree
2 10 (13.51%) MCITP
3 6 (8.108%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (8.108%) MCP
4 4 (5.405%) MCSA
5 2 (2.703%) MCTS
6 1 (1.351%) MCSE
6 1 (1.351%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.351%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.351%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.757%) SLA
2 3 (4.054%) QA
3 1 (1.351%) GxP
System Software
1 40 (54.05%) Active Directory
2 16 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.81%) XenApp
4 7 (9.459%) Hyper-V
5 5 (6.757%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (4.054%) XenDesktop
7 2 (2.703%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (1.351%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 13 (17.57%) SCCM
2 8 (10.81%) SCOM
3 6 (8.108%) SCVMM
4 2 (2.703%) WSUS
5 1 (1.351%) ARCserve
5 1 (1.351%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.351%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 46 (62.16%) Microsoft
2 20 (27.03%) Citrix
3 19 (25.68%) VMware
4 12 (16.22%) Cisco
5 9 (12.16%) HP
6 6 (8.108%) Oracle
6 6 (8.108%) Apple
7 5 (6.757%) Remedy
8 4 (5.405%) BMC
9 2 (2.703%) NetApp
9 2 (2.703%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.351%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.351%) Symantec
10 1 (1.351%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.351%) Draytek
10 1 (1.351%) ProCurve
10 1 (1.351%) Twitter
10 1 (1.351%) Nokia
10 1 (1.351%) Dell
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