City of London Microsoft Jobs

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs within the City of London region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Heywood High Wycombe Highland Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	28
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	1955	1262
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.953 %	0.564 %
As % of the category below	20.77 %	17.17 %
Salaries quoted	1704	1030
Average minimum salary	£40,180	£46,068
Average salary	£44,136	£50,386
% change on same period last year	-12.40 %
Average maximum salary	£48,091	£54,703
UK excluding London average salary	£35,369	£35,689
% change on same period last year	-0.89 %
Vendors City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	9413	7352
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.588 %	3.285 %
Salaries quoted	7856	5608
Average minimum salary	£48,293	£52,390
Average salary	£53,027	£56,406
% change on same period last year	-5.99 %
Average maximum salary	£57,762	£60,423
UK excluding London average salary	£40,189	£41,363
% change on same period last year	-2.83 %
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These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Microsoft Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Microsoft across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Microsoft across the City of London region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing Microsoft also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Microsoft.

1 1312 (39.77 %) MS Excel 2 1172 (35.53 %) Windows 3 1079 (32.71 %) Finance 4 1029 (31.19 %) SQL Server 5 988 (29.95 %) .NET 6 774 (23.46 %) SQL 7 770 (23.34 %) C# 8 668 (20.25 %) MS Office 9 660 (20.01 %) MS Exchange 10 565 (17.13 %) Active Directory 11 416 (12.61 %) ASP.NET 12 403 (12.22 %) Banking 13 386 (11.70 %) Microsoft Certification 14 350 (10.61 %) Degree 15 343 (10.40 %) Windows 2000

16 330 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2005 17 318 (9.639 %) SQL Server 2000 18 316 (9.579 %) Exchange Server 2003 19 301 (9.124 %) SharePoint 20 296 (8.972 %) Insurance 21 283 (8.578 %) Oracle 22 276 (8.366 %) Law 23 270 (8.184 %) VB 24 268 (8.124 %) Citrix 25 262 (7.942 %) Java 26 258 (7.821 %) XML 27 249 (7.548 %) TCP/IP 28 231 (7.002 %) .NET Framework 29 230 (6.972 %) Project Management 30 229 (6.941 %) MCSE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing Microsoft also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Microsoft. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 988 (29.95 %) .NET 2 416 (12.61 %) ASP.NET 3 258 (7.821 %) XML 4 231 (7.002 %) .NET Framework 5 197 (5.972 %) HTML 6 147 (4.456 %) ASP 7 136 (4.122 %) CSS 8 94 (2.849 %) WinForms 9 82 (2.486 %) J2EE 10 78 (2.364 %) WebServices 11 72 (2.182 %) COM 12 61 (1.849 %) AJAX 13 45 (1.364 %) WebSphere 14 42 (1.273 %) XHTML 15 37 (1.122 %) XSLT 16 35 (1.061 %) STL 17 34 (1.031 %) JSP 18 31 (0.940 %) Middleware 19 30 (0.909 %) MFC 20 26 (0.788 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 660 (20.01 %) MS Exchange 2 316 (9.579 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 301 (9.124 %) SharePoint 4 206 (6.244 %) IIS 5 165 (5.002 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 110 (3.334 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 92 (2.789 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 86 (2.607 %) BizTalk Server 9 62 (1.879 %) CMS 10 53 (1.607 %) Lotus Notes 11 52 (1.576 %) Content Management Server 12 33 (1.000 %) WebLogic 13 30 (0.909 %) Apache 14 25 (0.758 %) MQSeries 15 23 (0.697 %) WebSphere Application Server 16 19 (0.576 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 16 19 (0.576 %) Exchange Server 5.5 17 16 (0.485 %) Documentum 18 15 (0.455 %) Tomcat 19 13 (0.394 %) JBoss
Applications 1 1312 (39.77 %) MS Excel 2 668 (20.25 %) MS Office 3 99 (3.001 %) MS PowerPoint 4 80 (2.425 %) MS Project 5 54 (1.637 %) MS Visio 6 37 (1.122 %) Photoshop 7 24 (0.727 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 15 (0.455 %) Acrobat 9 6 (0.182 %) SPSS 10 4 (0.121 %) InDesign 10 4 (0.121 %) InfoPath 10 4 (0.121 %) CA Clarity 11 1 (0.030 %) Fireworks 11 1 (0.030 %) MATLAB 11 1 (0.030 %) DeltaView 11 1 (0.030 %) XMetaL 11 1 (0.030 %) Shockwave	Business Applications 1 50 (1.516 %) Dynamics CRM 2 36 (1.091 %) Microsoft CRM 3 25 (0.758 %) Great Plains 4 23 (0.697 %) Dynamics GP 5 21 (0.637 %) Oracle Financials 6 18 (0.546 %) Navision 7 11 (0.333 %) Pivotal CRM 7 11 (0.333 %) RMDS 8 9 (0.273 %) JDE EnterpriseOne 8 9 (0.273 %) Fidessa 9 8 (0.242 %) Axapta 9 8 (0.242 %) Tesseract 9 8 (0.242 %) Minerva 9 8 (0.242 %) Decalog 9 8 (0.242 %) assyst 9 8 (0.242 %) Dynamics NAV 10 7 (0.212 %) Dynamics AX 11 6 (0.182 %) FLEXCUBE 11 6 (0.182 %) Bankmaster 12 4 (0.121 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 249 (7.548 %) TCP/IP 2 186 (5.638 %) Internet 3 144 (4.365 %) DNS 4 141 (4.274 %) Firewall 5 129 (3.910 %) WAN 6 125 (3.789 %) LAN 7 123 (3.728 %) SAN 8 116 (3.516 %) DHCP 9 98 (2.971 %) VPN 10 63 (1.910 %) Intranet 11 59 (1.788 %) VoIP 12 58 (1.758 %) WINS 13 25 (0.758 %) Extranet 14 24 (0.727 %) VLAN 15 23 (0.697 %) Wireless 16 20 (0.606 %) MPLS 16 20 (0.606 %) Ethernet 17 19 (0.576 %) IP Telephony 18 14 (0.424 %) Network Security 19 12 (0.364 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1029 (31.19 %) SQL Server 2 330 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 318 (9.639 %) SQL Server 2000 4 134 (4.062 %) SQL Server 7 5 100 (3.031 %) Datawarehouse 6 89 (2.698 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 74 (2.243 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 71 (2.152 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 58 (1.758 %) ETL 10 57 (1.728 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 11 54 (1.637 %) BusinessObjects 12 47 (1.425 %) DTS 13 44 (1.334 %) OLAP 13 44 (1.334 %) MS Access 14 38 (1.152 %) RDBMS 15 28 (0.849 %) MySQL 15 28 (0.849 %) Crystal Reports 16 25 (0.758 %) Oracle 9i 17 23 (0.697 %) Oracle OLAP 18 16 (0.485 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 111 (3.365 %) Visual Studio 2 32 (0.970 %) NUnit 3 29 (0.879 %) Subversion 4 25 (0.758 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 25 (0.758 %) Eclipse 5 23 (0.697 %) Flash 6 19 (0.576 %) CruiseControl 7 12 (0.364 %) QuickTest Pro 8 8 (0.242 %) Dreamweaver 8 8 (0.242 %) Rational Rose 9 7 (0.212 %) Ant 9 7 (0.212 %) TestDirector 10 6 (0.182 %) JIRA 11 5 (0.152 %) Selenium 11 5 (0.152 %) FrontPage 11 5 (0.152 %) Oracle Forms 11 5 (0.152 %) LoadRunner 12 4 (0.121 %) WinRunner 12 4 (0.121 %) FitNesse 13 3 (0.091 %) PVCS	General 1 1079 (32.71 %) Finance 2 403 (12.22 %) Banking 3 296 (8.972 %) Insurance 4 276 (8.366 %) Law 5 203 (6.153 %) Front Office 6 195 (5.911 %) Legal 7 175 (5.305 %) Investment Banking 8 106 (3.213 %) Pensions 9 103 (3.122 %) Financial Institution 10 96 (2.910 %) Telecoms 11 77 (2.334 %) Marketing 12 73 (2.213 %) Health 13 67 (2.031 %) Back Office 14 66 (2.001 %) Retail 15 57 (1.728 %) Education 16 18 (0.546 %) Billing 17 14 (0.424 %) Publishing 18 13 (0.394 %) Government 19 12 (0.364 %) Advertising 19 12 (0.364 %) Games
Job Titles 1 854 (25.89 %) Developer 2 803 (24.34 %) Analyst 3 379 (11.49 %) Support Analyst 4 243 (7.366 %) Consultant 5 236 (7.154 %) C# Developer 6 225 (6.820 %) .NET Developer 7 157 (4.759 %) Administrator 8 145 (4.395 %) Senior Developer 9 135 (4.092 %) Desktop Support 10 127 (3.850 %) Support Engineer 11 121 (3.668 %) Architect 12 116 (3.516 %) Project Manager 13 104 (3.152 %) Business Analyst 14 97 (2.940 %) Senior Analyst 15 90 (2.728 %) Applications Support 16 86 (2.607 %) ASP.NET Developer 17 78 (2.364 %) Team Leader 18 76 (2.304 %) Technical Support 18 76 (2.304 %) Web Developer 19 74 (2.243 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 160 (4.850 %) Blackberry 2 118 (3.577 %) Derivative 3 106 (3.213 %) Equities 4 100 (3.031 %) Computer Science 5 93 (2.819 %) Clustering 6 87 (2.637 %) Asset Management 7 67 (2.031 %) Fixed Income 8 58 (1.758 %) Client/Server 9 42 (1.273 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 10 40 (1.212 %) Replication 11 36 (1.091 %) Multithreading 12 35 (1.061 %) Management Information System 13 34 (1.031 %) Fund Management 14 33 (1.000 %) E-Learning 14 33 (1.000 %) PDA 15 31 (0.940 %) Market Risk 16 28 (0.849 %) Equity Derivative 17 23 (0.697 %) Podcast 17 23 (0.697 %) W3C 18 22 (0.667 %) Index Arbitrage
Operating Systems 1 1172 (35.53 %) Windows 2 343 (10.40 %) Windows 2000 3 217 (6.578 %) Unix 4 205 (6.214 %) Windows XP 5 199 (6.032 %) Linux 6 177 (5.365 %) Windows Server 2003 7 101 (3.062 %) Windows NT 8 93 (2.819 %) Solaris 9 20 (0.606 %) AIX 10 19 (0.576 %) NetWare 11 14 (0.424 %) HPUX 12 10 (0.303 %) Mac OS X 13 7 (0.212 %) FreeBSD 14 4 (0.121 %) Ubuntu 15 2 (0.061 %) Windows Mobile 15 2 (0.061 %) Windows Vista 15 2 (0.061 %) SUSE 16 1 (0.030 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 230 (6.972 %) Project Management 2 214 (6.487 %) ITIL 3 177 (5.365 %) OO 4 111 (3.365 %) Migration 5 109 (3.304 %) PRINCE2 6 100 (3.031 %) CRM 7 96 (2.910 %) Business Analysis 8 85 (2.577 %) UML 9 83 (2.516 %) E-Commerce 10 82 (2.486 %) Disaster Recovery 11 73 (2.213 %) Service Delivery 12 66 (2.001 %) Agile Software Development 13 65 (1.970 %) Content Management 14 60 (1.819 %) Investment Management 15 58 (1.758 %) Scrum 16 54 (1.637 %) Document Management 16 54 (1.637 %) Business Intelligence 16 54 (1.637 %) Incident Management 17 45 (1.364 %) Web Development 18 44 (1.334 %) SOA
Programming Languages 1 774 (23.46 %) SQL 2 770 (23.34 %) C# 3 270 (8.184 %) VB 4 262 (7.942 %) Java 5 211 (6.396 %) C++ 6 194 (5.881 %) JavaScript 7 187 (5.668 %) VB.NET 8 133 (4.032 %) Transact-SQL 9 111 (3.365 %) VBA 10 103 (3.122 %) VB6 11 87 (2.637 %) Perl 12 65 (1.970 %) VBScript 13 37 (1.122 %) Shell Script 14 34 (1.031 %) C 15 28 (0.849 %) PL/SQL 16 24 (0.727 %) VC++ 17 21 (0.637 %) DHTML 17 21 (0.637 %) PHP 18 7 (0.212 %) Python 18 7 (0.212 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 386 (11.70 %) Microsoft Certification 2 350 (10.61 %) Degree 3 229 (6.941 %) MCSE 4 117 (3.547 %) MCP 5 82 (2.486 %) MOS 6 46 (1.394 %) Cisco Certification 6 46 (1.394 %) MCSA 7 36 (1.091 %) CCNA 8 34 (1.031 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 26 (0.788 %) ITIL Certification 10 25 (0.758 %) MCDBA 11 23 (0.697 %) ISEB 12 19 (0.576 %) MCSD 13 14 (0.424 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 14 13 (0.394 %) ACCA 14 13 (0.394 %) CIMA 14 13 (0.394 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 15 11 (0.333 %) Citrix Certification 16 9 (0.273 %) CCA 16 9 (0.273 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 80 (2.425 %) QA 2 60 (1.819 %) SLA 3 18 (0.546 %) WAI 4 14 (0.424 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 8 (0.242 %) COBIT 6 7 (0.212 %) Basel II 7 2 (0.061 %) ISO27001 8 1 (0.030 %) ISO17799 8 1 (0.030 %) EFQM 8 1 (0.030 %) BS7799	System Software 1 565 (17.13 %) Active Directory 2 68 (2.061 %) VMware ESX 3 54 (1.637 %) MetaFrame 4 45 (1.364 %) Backup Exec 5 44 (1.334 %) NetBackup 6 38 (1.152 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 7 28 (0.849 %) Xen 8 20 (0.606 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 20 (0.606 %) ISA Server 9 15 (0.455 %) Terminal Services 10 11 (0.333 %) MSMQ 11 9 (0.273 %) VMware Server 12 6 (0.182 %) NFS 12 6 (0.182 %) Terminal Server 13 5 (0.152 %) AquaLogic 13 5 (0.152 %) MailMarshal 14 4 (0.121 %) ClearTrust 15 3 (0.091 %) Oracle RMAN 15 3 (0.091 %) VMware GSX 16 2 (0.061 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 72 (2.182 %) MOM 2 68 (2.061 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 31 (0.940 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 15 (0.455 %) OpenView 5 14 (0.424 %) CONTROL-M 6 13 (0.394 %) MAILsweeper 7 11 (0.333 %) ZENworks 8 7 (0.212 %) Tivoli 9 6 (0.182 %) AppManager 10 5 (0.152 %) BMC PATROL 10 5 (0.152 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 10 5 (0.152 %) Unicenter 10 5 (0.152 %) ServiceCenter 11 4 (0.121 %) WSUS 11 4 (0.121 %) BMC Marimba 12 3 (0.091 %) DameWare 12 3 (0.091 %) Nagios 13 2 (0.061 %) AutoSys 13 2 (0.061 %) Legato 13 2 (0.061 %) Foglight	Vendors 1 283 (8.578 %) Oracle 2 268 (8.124 %) Citrix 3 195 (5.911 %) VMware 4 181 (5.487 %) HP 5 169 (5.123 %) Cisco 6 120 (3.637 %) Sybase 7 94 (2.849 %) VERITAS 8 85 (2.577 %) Reuters 9 83 (2.516 %) Bloomberg 10 65 (1.970 %) IBM 11 56 (1.697 %) Dell 11 56 (1.697 %) Symantec 12 55 (1.667 %) Lotus 13 54 (1.637 %) Business Objects 14 45 (1.364 %) Adobe 14 45 (1.364 %) Cognos 15 43 (1.303 %) Remedy 16 41 (1.243 %) SAP 17 39 (1.182 %) Novell 18 35 (1.061 %) Intel