The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 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 Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 13 9 20
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 48 55 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 15.95% 16.57% 6.533%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.06% 50.93% 40.63%
Number of salaries quoted 36 47 7
Average salary £70,000 £71,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.09% +19.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,250 £37,000 £57,000
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £82,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
94 108 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 31.23% 32.53% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 79 88 15
Average salary £55,000 £71,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.07% +19.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £30,750 £50,500
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £70,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
London

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Canary Wharf Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Salary Histogram

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

Canary Wharf Windows Salary Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 62 (57.41%) Linux
2 58 (53.70%) UNIX
3 48 (44.44%) Finance
4 42 (38.89%) SQL
5 39 (36.11%) Oracle
6 36 (33.33%) SQL Server
7 35 (32.41%) Banking
8 34 (31.48%) Degree
9 30 (27.78%) ITIL
9 30 (27.78%) Solaris
9 30 (27.78%) Middleware
10 28 (25.93%) QA
11 26 (24.07%) WebSphere
12 25 (23.15%) Java
12 25 (23.15%) JavaScript
13 22 (20.37%) Cisco
13 22 (20.37%) Problem Management
14 21 (19.44%) Business Continuity
15 20 (18.52%) Change Management
16 19 (17.59%) Shell Script
16 19 (17.59%) Sybase
16 19 (17.59%) XML
16 19 (17.59%) Service Delivery
17 17 (15.74%) Investment Banking
17 17 (15.74%) User Acceptance Testing
17 17 (15.74%) TIBCO EMS
17 17 (15.74%) IBM
17 17 (15.74%) Sun
17 17 (15.74%) SAN
17 17 (15.74%) MQSeries

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 30 (27.78%) Middleware
2 26 (24.07%) WebSphere
3 19 (17.59%) XML
4 12 (11.11%) .NET
5 11 (10.19%) Software Packaging
6 9 (8.333%) XSLT
6 9 (8.333%) HTML
7 4 (3.704%) J2EE
7 4 (3.704%) STL
7 4 (3.704%) Web Services
7 4 (3.704%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 2 (1.852%) Java SE
8 2 (1.852%) XMPP
9 1 (0.926%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (0.926%) Node.js
9 1 (0.926%) WPF
9 1 (0.926%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.926%) Qt
Application Platforms
1 17 (15.74%) MQSeries
1 17 (15.74%) WebSphere MQ
1 17 (15.74%) Rendezvous
1 17 (15.74%) TIBCO EMS
2 15 (13.89%) IIS
3 14 (12.96%) Apache
4 9 (8.333%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.852%) Office Communications Server
5 2 (1.852%) Lync
6 1 (0.926%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.926%) MindAlign
6 1 (0.926%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 4 (3.704%) MS Office
3 1 (0.926%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (10.19%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.74%) SAN
2 15 (13.89%) Firewall
3 10 (9.259%) NAS
4 9 (8.333%) FTP
5 5 (4.630%) VPN
5 5 (4.630%) Internet
6 3 (2.778%) SSL
6 3 (2.778%) BSS
6 3 (2.778%) LDAP
7 2 (1.852%) DNS
7 2 (1.852%) VLAN
7 2 (1.852%) Network Security
7 2 (1.852%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.852%) DHCP
7 2 (1.852%) NetScreen
7 2 (1.852%) Junos
8 1 (0.926%) Softphone
8 1 (0.926%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.926%) LAN
8 1 (0.926%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.11%) MySQL
3 9 (8.333%) Informix
3 9 (8.333%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.778%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (2.778%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (1.852%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.926%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.926%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (2.778%) Subversion
1 3 (2.778%) Maven
2 1 (0.926%) JIRA
2 1 (0.926%) Hudson
General
1 48 (44.44%) Finance
2 35 (32.41%) Banking
3 17 (15.74%) Investment Banking
4 11 (10.19%) Financial Institution
5 4 (3.704%) Front Office
6 2 (1.852%) Legal
6 2 (1.852%) Publishing
7 1 (0.926%) Games
7 1 (0.926%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.926%) Back Office
7 1 (0.926%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (18.52%) Analyst
2 17 (15.74%) Middleware Engineer
3 16 (14.81%) Support Analyst
3 16 (14.81%) Applications Support
4 12 (11.11%) Release Manager
5 10 (9.259%) Applications Support Analyst
5 10 (9.259%) Team Leader
6 9 (8.333%) Support Engineer
6 9 (8.333%) Developer
6 9 (8.333%) Architect
7 6 (5.556%) C++ Developer
7 6 (5.556%) Service Desk Engineer
8 5 (4.630%) Service Manager
8 5 (4.630%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (3.704%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.778%) Service Analyst
10 3 (2.778%) Service Desk Analyst
10 3 (2.778%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (2.778%) OSS Engineer
10 3 (2.778%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.333%) Equities
2 4 (3.704%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (3.704%) Derivative
3 2 (1.852%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.926%) Machine Learning
4 1 (0.926%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.926%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (0.926%) Clustering
4 1 (0.926%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 62 (57.41%) Linux
2 58 (53.70%) UNIX
3 30 (27.78%) Solaris
4 13 (12.04%) Windows Server 2008
5 12 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
6 11 (10.19%) Windows 7
7 10 (9.259%) Apple iOS
7 10 (9.259%) Android
8 3 (2.778%) Windows XP
8 3 (2.778%) VMS
9 2 (1.852%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.926%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.926%) Windows Phone
10 1 (0.926%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.78%) ITIL
2 22 (20.37%) Problem Management
3 21 (19.44%) Business Continuity
4 20 (18.52%) Change Management
5 19 (17.59%) Service Delivery
6 17 (15.74%) User Acceptance Testing
7 12 (11.11%) Release Management
7 12 (11.11%) Software Deployment
8 11 (10.19%) Validation
8 11 (10.19%) Benchmarking
9 10 (9.259%) Incident Management
9 10 (9.259%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (8.333%) Performance Management
10 9 (8.333%) Complex Event Processing
10 9 (8.333%) ITSM
11 5 (4.630%) Service Management
12 4 (3.704%) PRINCE2
12 4 (3.704%) Wealth Management
13 3 (2.778%) Information Security
13 3 (2.778%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 42 (38.89%) SQL
2 25 (23.15%) Java
2 25 (23.15%) JavaScript
3 19 (17.59%) Shell Script
4 16 (14.81%) Perl
5 14 (12.96%) Python
5 14 (12.96%) C++
6 8 (7.407%) C#
7 6 (5.556%) C
8 3 (2.778%) PHP
8 3 (2.778%) Ruby
8 3 (2.778%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.926%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.926%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 34 (31.48%) Degree
2 3 (2.778%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (2.778%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (2.778%) MCSE
2 3 (2.778%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (1.852%) MCP
3 2 (1.852%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.926%) CCSA
4 1 (0.926%) CCNA
4 1 (0.926%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (25.93%) QA
2 11 (10.19%) Basel III
3 6 (5.556%) SLA
4 5 (4.630%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.852%) COBIT
5 2 (1.852%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.926%) Basel II
System Software
1 6 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.630%) vSphere
3 3 (2.778%) Snort
4 2 (1.852%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.926%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.926%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.926%) XenApp
5 1 (0.926%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 9 (8.333%) Nagios
2 3 (2.778%) BladeLogic
2 3 (2.778%) Puppet
2 3 (2.778%) Splunk
3 1 (0.926%) WSUS
3 1 (0.926%) Zenoss
3 1 (0.926%) Dollar Universe
Vendors
1 39 (36.11%) Oracle
2 22 (20.37%) Cisco
3 19 (17.59%) Sybase
4 17 (15.74%) IBM
4 17 (15.74%) Sun
4 17 (15.74%) TIBCO
4 17 (15.74%) VMware
5 13 (12.04%) CheckPoint
5 13 (12.04%) Juniper
6 11 (10.19%) Microsoft
6 11 (10.19%) Business Objects
6 11 (10.19%) DataSynapse
7 10 (9.259%) NetApp
8 9 (8.333%) Red Hat
8 9 (8.333%) EMC
8 9 (8.333%) SolarWinds
8 9 (8.333%) 29West
9 7 (6.481%) Bloomberg
10 3 (2.778%) Leostream
11 2 (1.852%) F5