The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 7 over the 3 months to 22 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 Cheltenham region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 38 - 34
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7 3 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 1.389% - 0.826%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.000% - 2.564%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
Average salary £28,500 - £18,750
90% offered a salary of more than £25,300 - £17,750
10% offered a salary of more than £31,700 - £19,750
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Operating Systems
Cheltenham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
50 155 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 23.15% 38.37% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 47 106 67
Average salary £42,500 £42,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.19% +15.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £27,800
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 7
Gloucestershire

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham Windows 7 Salary Trend

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Altiris
3 1 (33.33%) MCDST
3 1 (33.33%) MCITP
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) CMDB
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Rational Functional Tester
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
3 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (33.33%) Sysprep
3 1 (33.33%) TestDirector
3 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Automotive

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 1 (33.33%) ODBC
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Rational Functional Tester
1 1 (33.33%) TestDirector
1 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCDST
1 1 (33.33%) MCITP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (33.33%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Altiris
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle