Microsoft Jobs in Chester
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 12 15 31
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +16
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 52 22 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 14.53% 13.58% 7.203%
As % of the Vendors category 35.14% 32.84% 19.10%
Number of salaries quoted 29 21 17
Average salary £40,000 £29,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.93% +16.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,600 £22,807 £15,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £40,000 £33,100
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 148 67 89
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 41.34% 41.36% 37.71%
Number of salaries quoted 90 59 86
Average salary £39,500 £32,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.53% -12.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £21,723 £22,100
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £45,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Cheshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

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

Chester Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 66 (66.67%) .NET
2 64 (64.65%) C#
3 53 (53.54%) ASP.NET
4 47 (47.47%) SQL Server
5 34 (34.34%) jQuery
6 30 (30.30%) .NET Framework
6 30 (30.30%) SQL Server 2008
7 29 (29.29%) SQL
7 29 (29.29%) Visual Studio
8 28 (28.28%) MVC
9 25 (25.25%) Web Services
9 25 (25.25%) XML
10 22 (22.22%) JavaScript
11 21 (21.21%) MS Excel
11 21 (21.21%) ASP.NET MVC
12 20 (20.20%) WPF
12 20 (20.20%) SOAP
13 19 (19.19%) CSS
13 19 (19.19%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 18 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
14 18 (18.18%) UNIX
15 17 (17.17%) SQL Server 2005
16 15 (15.15%) Scrum
16 15 (15.15%) E-Commerce
17 14 (14.14%) Java
17 14 (14.14%) TDD
18 13 (13.13%) HTML
18 13 (13.13%) Windows
18 13 (13.13%) ASP.NET MVC 4
19 12 (12.12%) MS Office

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 66 (66.67%) .NET
2 53 (53.54%) ASP.NET
3 34 (34.34%) jQuery
4 30 (30.30%) .NET Framework
5 25 (25.25%) Web Services
5 25 (25.25%) XML
6 21 (21.21%) ASP.NET MVC
7 20 (20.20%) WPF
7 20 (20.20%) SOAP
8 19 (19.19%) CSS
8 19 (19.19%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 13 (13.13%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 13 (13.13%) HTML
10 12 (12.12%) Ajax
11 11 (11.11%) COM
12 10 (10.10%) Middleware
13 8 (8.081%) WCF
14 7 (7.071%) XHTML
15 6 (6.061%) XSLT
16 5 (5.051%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.051%) IIS
2 3 (3.030%) MS Exchange
3 2 (2.020%) SAS
4 1 (1.010%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.010%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.010%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (21.21%) MS Excel
2 12 (12.12%) MS Office
3 7 (7.071%) MS Visio
4 6 (6.061%) MS Project
5 5 (5.051%) Photoshop
6 4 (4.040%) MS PowerPoint
7 3 (3.030%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.010%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.010%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.11%) HTTP
2 5 (5.051%) Firewall
3 4 (4.040%) DNS
3 4 (4.040%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.030%) Internet
5 2 (2.020%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.020%) VPN
5 2 (2.020%) LAN
6 1 (1.010%) VoIP
6 1 (1.010%) WAN
6 1 (1.010%) DHCP
6 1 (1.010%) ADSL
6 1 (1.010%) Broadband
6 1 (1.010%) ISDN
6 1 (1.010%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.010%) Intranet
6 1 (1.010%) VLAN
6 1 (1.010%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (47.47%) SQL Server
2 30 (30.30%) SQL Server 2008
3 17 (17.17%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (10.10%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.061%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (6.061%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (5.051%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (4.040%) SQL Server 2012
7 4 (4.040%) MySQL
8 3 (3.030%) Oracle 9i
8 3 (3.030%) DB2
8 3 (3.030%) Data Mining
8 3 (3.030%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.030%) Oracle 10g
9 2 (2.020%) Oracle 8/8i
9 2 (2.020%) Data Mart
9 2 (2.020%) Base SAS
10 1 (1.010%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 29 (29.29%) Visual Studio
2 7 (7.071%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (3.030%) ChangeMan
4 2 (2.020%) MSTest
5 1 (1.010%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (1.010%) NUnit
General
1 11 (11.11%) Retail
2 8 (8.081%) Finance
3 5 (5.051%) Banking
4 3 (3.030%) Financial Institution
4 3 (3.030%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.030%) Retail Banking
4 3 (3.030%) Private Banking
5 2 (2.020%) Marketing
5 2 (2.020%) Back Office
5 2 (2.020%) Automotive
5 2 (2.020%) Publishing
6 1 (1.010%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.010%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.010%) Local Government
6 1 (1.010%) Billing
Job Titles
1 64 (64.65%) Developer
2 35 (35.35%) .NET Developer
3 25 (25.25%) C# Developer
4 19 (19.19%) ASP.NET Developer
5 15 (15.15%) C# .NET Developer
6 12 (12.12%) Web Developer
7 9 (9.091%) DBA
7 9 (9.091%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 6 (6.061%) Agile .NET Developer
8 6 (6.061%) SQL DBA
9 5 (5.051%) .NET Web Developer
9 5 (5.051%) Analyst
10 4 (4.040%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.040%) Architect
10 4 (4.040%) Support Technician
11 3 (3.030%) Management Consultant
11 3 (3.030%) Consultant
11 3 (3.030%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.030%) Service Manager
11 3 (3.030%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.061%) Clustering
2 5 (5.051%) SaaS
3 4 (4.040%) Computer Science
3 4 (4.040%) Fat Client
3 4 (4.040%) N-Tier
3 4 (4.040%) Thin Client
4 3 (3.030%) Replication
4 3 (3.030%) Online Banking
4 3 (3.030%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.020%) iPhone
5 2 (2.020%) Statistics
5 2 (2.020%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.010%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.010%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.010%) Open Source
6 1 (1.010%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.010%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.18%) UNIX
2 13 (13.13%) Windows
3 10 (10.10%) Linux
4 8 (8.081%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (5.051%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (4.040%) Windows 7
7 3 (3.030%) AIX
8 1 (1.010%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.010%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (1.010%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.28%) MVC
2 18 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (15.15%) Scrum
3 15 (15.15%) E-Commerce
4 14 (14.14%) TDD
5 11 (11.11%) Pair Programming
6 10 (10.10%) Unit Testing
7 9 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (8.081%) MVVM
9 7 (7.071%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (6.061%) Web Application Development
11 5 (5.051%) Kanban
11 5 (5.051%) Project Management
11 5 (5.051%) OO
11 5 (5.051%) ITIL
11 5 (5.051%) Web Development
12 4 (4.040%) Migration
12 4 (4.040%) PRINCE2
12 4 (4.040%) Service Management
12 4 (4.040%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (64.65%) C#
2 29 (29.29%) SQL
3 22 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 14 (14.14%) Java
5 12 (12.12%) T-SQL
6 6 (6.061%) VB.NET
7 5 (5.051%) C
8 4 (4.040%) C++
9 3 (3.030%) JCL
10 2 (2.020%) SAS Macro
11 1 (1.010%) VB6
11 1 (1.010%) Python
11 1 (1.010%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (8.081%) Degree
2 3 (3.030%) OCP
2 3 (3.030%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (2.020%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.010%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (1.010%) VTSP
4 1 (1.010%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.010%) CCSP
4 1 (1.010%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.010%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.051%) SLA
2 2 (2.020%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.081%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.051%) vSphere
2 5 (5.051%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.030%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 3 (3.030%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (3.030%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.010%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (3.030%) Tivoli
1 3 (3.030%) CA Endevor
1 3 (3.030%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.010%) SCOM
2 1 (1.010%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.010%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 11 (11.11%) Apple
2 10 (10.10%) hybris
3 8 (8.081%) VMware
4 6 (6.061%) Citrix
4 6 (6.061%) Oracle
5 4 (4.040%) Sun
5 4 (4.040%) HP
5 4 (4.040%) Dell
6 3 (3.030%) Veritas
7 2 (2.020%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.010%) NetApp
Chester based company - C# with WPF skills
Chester, North West
They build large and robust systems that are used on ships and boast across the world, as such having experience working embedded C or software systems that integrate...
Computer Futures
Salary: £38000 - £42000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
IT Project Assistant / Data Management - £18k basic salary, Chester
Chester, Cheshire
The successful candidate will provide the company with IT and Data Management assistance and be able to offer support to a fast paced IT... Understand reconciliation and data...
PNG Recruitment Solutions
Salary: From £16,000 to £18,000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
Senior Analyst, Risk and Marketing Optimisation, SAS
Chester, North West
Job Title: Senior Analyst - Risk and Marketing OptimisationLocation: CheshireSalary: ExcellentOverviewWork with a wide range of business areas to develop and implement complex mathematical solutions to help enhance their...
Aspire Data Recruitment
Salary: GBP0 per annum + Benefits: Bonus and benefits
Posted: 12 May 2013
Senior Statistical Analyst, Optimisation - Chester
Chester, North West
Job Title: Senior Statistical Analyst -OptimisationLocation: CheshireSalary: NegotiableOverviewWork with a wide range of business areas to develop and implement complex mathematical solutions to help enhance their strategies through...
Aspire Data Recruitment
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 28 April 2013
Solution Architect
Chester, North West
Working with the product development and delivery teams to provide innovative solutions in win with the business strategic objectives.Reporting into the Chief Enterprise Architect you will take...
Harvey Nash plc
Posted: 23 April 2013
Project Office Support Analyst - Chester
Chester, Cheshire
Business / Systems analysis skills... And/or junior project management experience... Experience of project management software. Good skills in Microsoft Office Products... Visio) Understanding of a formal project management...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013
Credit Risk Strategy Analysts - SAS - Chester
Chester, North West
Job Title: Credit Risk Strategy AnalystsLocation: ChesterSalary: Negotiable In these roles you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the performance of strategies for Card Services portfolios ensuring...
Aspire Data Recruitment
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 28 April 2013
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