The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 24 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 Cardiff 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 2 5 11
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 157 90 73
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 28.24% 20.41% 12.72%
As % of the Vendors category 51.64% 41.28% 26.26%
Number of salaries quoted 146 86 65
Average salary £33,500 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.07% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,000 £23,100
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £45,000 £44,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -
All Vendors
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
304 218 278
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 54.68% 49.43% 48.43%
Number of salaries quoted 273 205 256
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,817 £24,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,150 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
South Wales

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cardiff Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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.

1 122 (55.45%) MS Excel
2 118 (53.64%) .NET
2 118 (53.64%) SQL Server
3 102 (46.36%) C#
4 72 (32.73%) ASP.NET
5 65 (29.55%) .NET Framework
6 60 (27.27%) Visual Studio
7 50 (22.73%) Windows
8 48 (21.82%) Scrum
9 47 (21.36%) Active Directory
10 46 (20.91%) Finance
11 43 (19.55%) SharePoint
12 42 (19.09%) ITIL
13 39 (17.73%) Agile Software Development
14 38 (17.27%) OO
15 36 (16.36%) Team Foundation Server
16 35 (15.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 34 (15.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 34 (15.45%) SQL
18 33 (15.00%) MS Exchange
18 33 (15.00%) Web Development
18 33 (15.00%) MVC
19 30 (13.64%) Degree
19 30 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
20 28 (12.73%) XML
20 28 (12.73%) Windows Server 2008
21 25 (11.36%) Exchange Server 2010
21 25 (11.36%) Cisco
22 24 (10.91%) DNS
22 24 (10.91%) Windows Server 2003

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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
1 118 (53.64%) .NET
2 72 (32.73%) ASP.NET
3 65 (29.55%) .NET Framework
4 28 (12.73%) XML
5 24 (10.91%) WCF
6 23 (10.45%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 21 (9.545%) ASP.NET MVC
8 19 (8.636%) HTML
8 19 (8.636%) jQuery
9 18 (8.182%) CSS
10 11 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 8 (3.636%) Castle Windsor
11 8 (3.636%) Razor View Engine
12 6 (2.727%) Web Services
13 5 (2.273%) MDX
14 4 (1.818%) WinForms
14 4 (1.818%) Flash
14 4 (1.818%) XHTML
15 2 (0.909%) HTML5
15 2 (0.909%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 43 (19.55%) SharePoint
2 33 (15.00%) MS Exchange
3 25 (11.36%) Exchange Server 2010
4 21 (9.545%) IIS
5 18 (8.182%) BizTalk Server
6 17 (7.727%) Exchange Server 2007
7 14 (6.364%) Lync
8 13 (5.909%) CMS
8 13 (5.909%) Sitecore CMS
9 8 (3.636%) Office Communications Server
9 8 (3.636%) SharePoint Server
10 6 (2.727%) Exchange Server 2003
11 4 (1.818%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.909%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.909%) Site Server
13 1 (0.455%) Apache
13 1 (0.455%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.455%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 122 (55.45%) MS Excel
2 14 (6.364%) MS Office
3 9 (4.091%) MS Project
4 1 (0.455%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 20 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.455%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.455%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.91%) DNS
2 23 (10.45%) SAN
3 19 (8.636%) DHCP
4 16 (7.273%) Unified Communications
5 13 (5.909%) VoIP
6 12 (5.455%) WAN
7 8 (3.636%) Cisco IOS
7 8 (3.636%) Internet
8 7 (3.182%) TCP/IP
8 7 (3.182%) Firewall
9 6 (2.727%) Junos
9 6 (2.727%) xDSL
9 6 (2.727%) HSRP
9 6 (2.727%) Frame Relay
9 6 (2.727%) VPLS
9 6 (2.727%) PPP
9 6 (2.727%) RIP
9 6 (2.727%) SNMP
9 6 (2.727%) LAN
9 6 (2.727%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (53.64%) SQL Server
2 35 (15.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 34 (15.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 18 (8.182%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (7.727%) SQL Server 2008
6 16 (7.273%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 13 (5.909%) SQL Server 2000
8 11 (5.000%) OLAP
8 11 (5.000%) SQL Server 2012
9 10 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
10 8 (3.636%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 5 (2.273%) MySQL
12 4 (1.818%) Oracle 11g
12 4 (1.818%) Oracle 10g
13 3 (1.364%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (0.909%) Oracle Reports
15 1 (0.455%) MS Access
15 1 (0.455%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 60 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 36 (16.36%) Team Foundation Server
3 19 (8.636%) Visual Studio Team System
4 15 (6.818%) MSBuild
5 8 (3.636%) ReSharper
6 3 (1.364%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.455%) MorphX
7 1 (0.455%) Selenium
General
1 46 (20.91%) Finance
2 21 (9.545%) Advertising
3 16 (7.273%) Legal
4 11 (5.000%) Retail
5 7 (3.182%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.364%) Welsh Language
6 3 (1.364%) Banking
7 2 (0.909%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.909%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.455%) Marketing
8 1 (0.455%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 120 (54.55%) Developer
2 67 (30.45%) .NET Developer
3 36 (16.36%) Analyst
4 22 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 17 (7.727%) BizTalk Developer
6 16 (7.273%) C# Developer
7 15 (6.818%) Release Analyst
7 15 (6.818%) Configuration Analyst
8 13 (5.909%) Web Developer
8 13 (5.909%) Systems Developer
8 13 (5.909%) Lead .NET Developer
9 12 (5.455%) C# .NET Developer
10 10 (4.545%) Microsoft Developer
11 9 (4.091%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 7 (3.182%) Business Analyst
12 7 (3.182%) Administrator
13 6 (2.727%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 6 (2.727%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 6 (2.727%) Implementation Engineer
13 6 (2.727%) Data Centre Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.727%) Video Conferencing
1 6 (2.727%) Open Source
1 6 (2.727%) Blog
2 5 (2.273%) Blackberry
2 5 (2.273%) CMDB
2 5 (2.273%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.818%) EqualLogic
3 4 (1.818%) Replication
3 4 (1.818%) Human Factors
3 4 (1.818%) Computer Science
4 3 (1.364%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (0.909%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (0.909%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (0.909%) Data Integration
6 1 (0.455%) EPoS
6 1 (0.455%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.455%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.455%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.73%) Windows
2 28 (12.73%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (10.91%) Windows Server 2003
4 14 (6.364%) Windows 2000
5 12 (5.455%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (3.182%) Windows 7
7 6 (2.727%) Linux
8 4 (1.818%) UNIX
9 3 (1.364%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.909%) Solaris
10 2 (0.909%) Windows XP
10 2 (0.909%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.455%) Windows NT
11 1 (0.455%) Windows Mobile
11 1 (0.455%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.455%) SUSE
11 1 (0.455%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.455%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (21.82%) Scrum
2 42 (19.09%) ITIL
3 39 (17.73%) Agile Software Development
4 38 (17.27%) OO
5 33 (15.00%) Web Development
5 33 (15.00%) MVC
6 22 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (9.091%) Incident Management
7 20 (9.091%) CRM
8 19 (8.636%) TDD
9 15 (6.818%) Change Management
10 12 (5.455%) ETL
11 10 (4.545%) Unit Testing
11 10 (4.545%) Content Management
12 9 (4.091%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (3.182%) Release Management
14 6 (2.727%) Network Management
14 6 (2.727%) Kimball Methodology
14 6 (2.727%) Network Design
15 5 (2.273%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 102 (46.36%) C#
2 34 (15.45%) SQL
3 14 (6.364%) JavaScript
4 13 (5.909%) T-SQL
5 9 (4.091%) VB.NET
6 4 (1.818%) ActionScript
6 4 (1.818%) VB
6 4 (1.818%) PHP
6 4 (1.818%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.364%) Java
7 3 (1.364%) C++
7 3 (1.364%) C
8 2 (0.909%) VBA
9 1 (0.455%) PowerHouse
9 1 (0.455%) X++
9 1 (0.455%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (13.64%) Degree
1 30 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (5.455%) MCSE
3 10 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (3.636%) MCITP
4 8 (3.636%) MCSA
5 6 (2.727%) CCNP
6 5 (2.273%) MCP
7 4 (1.818%) CCNA
8 2 (0.909%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.909%) ISEB
9 1 (0.455%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.455%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.455%) MCPD
9 1 (0.455%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.455%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.182%) SLA
2 1 (0.455%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.455%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.455%) QA
System Software
1 47 (21.36%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.364%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.182%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.273%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (2.273%) VMware ESX
5 2 (0.909%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.455%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.455%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.455%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.455%) vSphere
6 1 (0.455%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (1.364%) WSUS
2 2 (0.909%) SCCM
2 2 (0.909%) NetBackup
2 2 (0.909%) Backup Exec
2 2 (0.909%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (0.455%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (11.36%) Cisco
2 20 (9.091%) VMware
3 13 (5.909%) Sitecore
4 8 (3.636%) Oracle
5 7 (3.182%) Dell
6 6 (2.727%) Dialogic
6 6 (2.727%) HP
6 6 (2.727%) Juniper
7 4 (1.818%) Barracuda Networks
8 3 (1.364%) Citrix
8 3 (1.364%) Avaya
9 2 (0.909%) Veeam
9 2 (0.909%) Wind River
9 2 (0.909%) Alterian
9 2 (0.909%) Business Objects
9 2 (0.909%) Veritas
9 2 (0.909%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.909%) Cognos
9 2 (0.909%) Symantec
10 1 (0.455%) NetApp
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
The ideal .Net Developer must have experience of the following: *Extensive experience developing using the Microsoft .Net framework *Strong C# development skills *Experience with Visual Studio 2005/2008/...
CPS Group UK
Salary: £40000 - £44000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Key technical skills: *.Net C# *WCF *Entity Framework *ASP.Net *Agile/Scrum experience As Lead Developer you must have the ability to forge strong working relationships with colleagues,...
CPS Group UK
Salary: excellent benefits and competitive salary
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
We work for a wide range of companies from Blue Chip clients, such as Thomas Cook and Manchester United to local SME businesses, specialising in creating software solutions...
VSI-thinking
Salary: From £20,000 to £28,000 per annum Includes Pension
Posted: 10 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
If you are an Senior Microsoft Engineer and have the following experience: Administration and maintenance of diverse Microsoft environments; to include (but not limited to) Microsoft Windows 2000/...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £38000 - £44000 per annum + Pension, Health, 20% bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
If you are an Senior Microsoft Data Centre or MS Project Engineer and have the following experience: Administration and maintenance of diverse Microsoft environments; to include (but not...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £38000 - £43000 per annum + BONUS + Health, Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
The Lead Developer will be responsible for mentoring and supporting a small team of developers, and will also be expected to take a hands-on approach on development...
networx
Salary: £42,000 depending on skills
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Experience as C# developer within a Microsoft.Net environment... Experience of web development on the .Net platform, ideally with exposure to the Microsoft MVC framework, JQuery and XML.
Confused.com
Posted: 21 May 2013
RCN, Cardiff - Gate Office
Design and development of new systems and services for the RCN.Requirements of the Infrastructure Architect:You will ideally be a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist with excellent VMware...
Royal College of Nursing
Salary: £34,590 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Essential requirements include: MS Windows Server 2003 (MCSE or MCSA certification or equivalent demonstrable experience) MS Windows Server 2008 (MCITP certification or equivalent demonstrable experience ) Network infrastructure configuration...
Consumer Futures
Salary: £33,000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
CARDIFF (with frequent UK travel), South Wales
Responsible for the staffing and smooth running of the IT service desk, you will mentor the IT Support Analysts in service delivery best practice and assist with on-...
Consumer Futures
Salary: £33,000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
There is an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Test analyst to join a successful software house based in Cardiff-This role will be ideal for someone who...
OPUS
Salary: GBP30000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
VMware applications... VMware ESX 3.x/4.x/5.x, server. SAN Storage. Additional Skills: Linux RedHat 3/4/5/7. SUSE 10/11. Solaris 8/9/10...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Health, Pension + 20% Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013