The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Canary Wharf region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 34 16 22
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 14 29 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 4.651% 8.735% 5.528%
As % of the Vendors category 10.94% 16.57% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11 24 7
Average salary £95,000 £75,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.66% +36.36%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
128 175 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 42.52% 52.71% 28.64%
Number of salaries quoted 101 141 40
Average salary £77,500 £70,750 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.54% +8.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £47,500
10% offered a salary of more than £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
London

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Canary Wharf Microsoft Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Microsoft 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 Microsoft.

1 15 (57.69%) SQL Server
2 12 (46.15%) Degree
3 11 (42.31%) XML
3 11 (42.31%) C#
3 11 (42.31%) C++
3 11 (42.31%) SQL
3 11 (42.31%) Windows
4 9 (34.62%) Linux
5 8 (30.77%) MS Excel
6 7 (26.92%) OO
6 7 (26.92%) VBA
6 7 (26.92%) XSLT
6 7 (26.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (26.92%) Derivative
6 7 (26.92%) WCF
6 7 (26.92%) Multithreading
6 7 (26.92%) Time Management
7 6 (23.08%) Banking
7 6 (23.08%) Bloomberg
7 6 (23.08%) ITIL
7 6 (23.08%) IIS
7 6 (23.08%) MS Office
7 6 (23.08%) Java
8 5 (19.23%) Oracle
8 5 (19.23%) Apache
8 5 (19.23%) Project Management
8 5 (19.23%) SLA
8 5 (19.23%) Finance
9 4 (15.38%) Business Continuity
9 4 (15.38%) Problem Management

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Microsoft 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 Microsoft. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (42.31%) XML
2 7 (26.92%) XSLT
2 7 (26.92%) WCF
3 4 (15.38%) J2EE
3 4 (15.38%) Middleware
4 2 (7.692%) XMPP
5 1 (3.846%) Java SE
5 1 (3.846%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (23.08%) IIS
2 5 (19.23%) Apache
3 2 (7.692%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.692%) Office Communications Server
3 2 (7.692%) Lync
4 1 (3.846%) MindAlign
4 1 (3.846%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (30.77%) MS Excel
2 6 (23.08%) MS Office
3 3 (11.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.846%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.692%) DHCP
1 2 (7.692%) TCP/IP
1 2 (7.692%) VPN
1 2 (7.692%) DNS
1 2 (7.692%) SAN
2 1 (3.846%) Firewall
2 1 (3.846%) Softphone
2 1 (3.846%) SSL
2 1 (3.846%) HTTP
2 1 (3.846%) LAN
2 1 (3.846%) PBX
2 1 (3.846%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (57.69%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.846%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.846%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.846%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.846%) LoadRunner
2 1 (3.846%) JIRA
General
1 6 (23.08%) Banking
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 2 (7.692%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.846%) Law
4 1 (3.846%) Legal
4 1 (3.846%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
1 7 (26.92%) C# Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Applications Support
3 4 (15.38%) Service Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Market Risk Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) Credit Risk Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) Market Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) CRM Manager
6 1 (3.846%) Graduate Support Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) QA Consultant
6 1 (3.846%) Market Data Specialist
6 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Applications Manager
6 1 (3.846%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Systems Manager
6 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (26.92%) Derivative
2 2 (7.692%) Credit Risk
2 2 (7.692%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.846%) Clustering
3 1 (3.846%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Windows
2 9 (34.62%) Linux
3 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (15.38%) UNIX
4 3 (11.54%) Windows XP
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.692%) Windows 7
6 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.846%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) OO
1 7 (26.92%) Multithreading
1 7 (26.92%) Time Management
2 6 (23.08%) ITIL
3 5 (19.23%) Project Management
4 4 (15.38%) Business Continuity
4 4 (15.38%) Problem Management
5 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
5 3 (11.54%) CRM
6 2 (7.692%) Data Modelling
6 2 (7.692%) Service Management
6 2 (7.692%) BPEL
6 2 (7.692%) Business Analysis
6 2 (7.692%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (7.692%) Waterfall
6 2 (7.692%) Scrum
7 1 (3.846%) ITIL V3
7 1 (3.846%) Network Architecture
7 1 (3.846%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (3.846%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) C#
1 11 (42.31%) C++
1 11 (42.31%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) VBA
3 6 (23.08%) Java
4 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.846%) C
6 1 (3.846%) Perl
6 1 (3.846%) Python
6 1 (3.846%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.846%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Degree
2 2 (7.692%) MCSE
2 2 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.846%) MCP
3 1 (3.846%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.846%) CCIE
3 1 (3.846%) CCNP
3 1 (3.846%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) SLA
2 1 (3.846%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.692%) vSphere
3 1 (3.846%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (3.846%) WSUS
1 1 (3.846%) Dollar Universe
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Bloomberg
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle
3 3 (11.54%) VMware
4 2 (7.692%) HP
5 1 (3.846%) Informatica
5 1 (3.846%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.846%) Reuters
5 1 (3.846%) Caplin
5 1 (3.846%) Kalahari
5 1 (3.846%) Sybase
5 1 (3.846%) Cisco