The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 8 skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 8 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 8
Rank 293 320 335
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +15
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8 30 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.250% 0.023% 0.006%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.919% 0.090% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 27 3 1
Average salary £42,500 £60,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.16% +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £47,500 -
% change year-on-year
-31.57% -
All Operating Systems
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
3263 3342 4056
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 27.17% 25.37% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2884 3100 3602
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -9.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 8
London

Windows 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows 8 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

City of London Windows 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 8
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows 8 across the City of London region.

City of London Windows 8 Salary Trend

Windows 8
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows 8 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Windows 8 Salary Histogram

Windows 8
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Windows 8 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 8.

1 38 (100.00%) Windows
2 25 (65.79%) Active Directory
3 23 (60.53%) Windows 7
4 21 (55.26%) Windows Server 2008
5 20 (52.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 20 (52.63%) Microsoft
5 20 (52.63%) Windows Server 2003
6 18 (47.37%) MS Exchange
7 14 (36.84%) Finance
8 13 (34.21%) Exchange Server 2010
8 13 (34.21%) Hyper-V
9 12 (31.58%) Linux
9 12 (31.58%) SQL Server
10 10 (26.32%) DHCP
10 10 (26.32%) DNS
10 10 (26.32%) Android
11 9 (23.68%) Apple iOS
11 9 (23.68%) Lync
11 9 (23.68%) MS Excel
11 9 (23.68%) VMware
12 8 (21.05%) TCP/IP
12 8 (21.05%) HP
12 8 (21.05%) SCCM
12 8 (21.05%) Degree
13 7 (18.42%) VPN
13 7 (18.42%) SharePoint
13 7 (18.42%) SQL
13 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (15.79%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 6 (15.79%) Sophos

Windows 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Windows 8 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 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (13.16%) HTML
2 4 (10.53%) CSS
2 4 (10.53%) .NET
3 3 (7.895%) WCF
3 3 (7.895%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.263%) Web Services
4 2 (5.263%) WPF
4 2 (5.263%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.263%) Silverlight
4 2 (5.263%) HTML5
5 1 (2.632%) REST
5 1 (2.632%) WinRT
5 1 (2.632%) XNA
5 1 (2.632%) Ajax
5 1 (2.632%) jQuery
5 1 (2.632%) WF
5 1 (2.632%) Apache Flex
5 1 (2.632%) Flash
5 1 (2.632%) XHTML
5 1 (2.632%) XML
Application Platforms
1 18 (47.37%) MS Exchange
2 13 (34.21%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (23.68%) Lync
4 7 (18.42%) SharePoint
5 6 (15.79%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 6 (15.79%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (10.53%) IIS
6 4 (10.53%) Apache
7 3 (7.895%) Tomcat
8 2 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 9 (23.68%) MS Excel
2 4 (10.53%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.632%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.632%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 10 (26.32%) DHCP
1 10 (26.32%) DNS
2 8 (21.05%) TCP/IP
3 7 (18.42%) VPN
4 6 (15.79%) Firewall
5 5 (13.16%) SAN
6 4 (10.53%) SSL
7 3 (7.895%) DMZ
8 2 (5.263%) LAN
8 2 (5.263%) VoIP
8 2 (5.263%) WAN
8 2 (5.263%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (2.632%) NAS
9 1 (2.632%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (2.632%) Unified Communications
9 1 (2.632%) VLAN
9 1 (2.632%) SSH
9 1 (2.632%) Cisco PIX
9 1 (2.632%) Network Security
9 1 (2.632%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (7.895%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.632%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.263%) JIRA
2 1 (2.632%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.632%) WebDriver
2 1 (2.632%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.632%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.632%) Subversion
2 1 (2.632%) Maven
2 1 (2.632%) Selenium
2 1 (2.632%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (36.84%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Banking
3 2 (5.263%) Law
3 2 (5.263%) Retail
4 1 (2.632%) Legal
4 1 (2.632%) Back Office
4 1 (2.632%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) IT Manager
2 5 (13.16%) Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.895%) Support Specialist
4 3 (7.895%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (7.895%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (5.263%) Desktop Support
5 2 (5.263%) Junior
5 2 (5.263%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (5.263%) C# Developer
5 2 (5.263%) Junior Developer
5 2 (5.263%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (5.263%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.263%) Junior C# Developer
6 1 (2.632%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (2.632%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.632%) Mobile Tester
6 1 (2.632%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Thin Client
1 4 (10.53%) iPhone
1 4 (10.53%) Fat Client
2 3 (7.895%) Computer Science
3 2 (5.263%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.263%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.263%) Equities
3 2 (5.263%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.263%) iPad
3 2 (5.263%) Open Source
4 1 (2.632%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.632%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 38 (100.00%) Windows
2 23 (60.53%) Windows 7
3 21 (55.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 20 (52.63%) Windows Server 2012
4 20 (52.63%) Windows Server 2003
5 12 (31.58%) Linux
6 10 (26.32%) Android
7 9 (23.68%) Apple iOS
8 6 (15.79%) Debian
9 5 (13.16%) UNIX
10 4 (10.53%) Solaris
10 4 (10.53%) Windows XP
10 4 (10.53%) Windows Vista
10 4 (10.53%) Mac OS
11 3 (7.895%) SUSE
12 1 (2.632%) Windows Phone
12 1 (2.632%) Windows Mobile
12 1 (2.632%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (2.632%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (7.895%) Unit Testing
1 3 (7.895%) OO
1 3 (7.895%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (5.263%) Workflow
2 2 (5.263%) Service Delivery
2 2 (5.263%) Scrum
2 2 (5.263%) E-Commerce
2 2 (5.263%) Integration Testing
2 2 (5.263%) Investment Management
2 2 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (5.263%) BDD
3 1 (2.632%) Automation Testing
3 1 (2.632%) Test Strategy
3 1 (2.632%) Load Balancing
3 1 (2.632%) Web Development
3 1 (2.632%) TDD
3 1 (2.632%) Document Management
3 1 (2.632%) Automated Testing
3 1 (2.632%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (2.632%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
3 4 (10.53%) C#
3 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.895%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.263%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.632%) ActionScript 3.0
6 1 (2.632%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.632%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.632%) VB6
6 1 (2.632%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.632%) VB
6 1 (2.632%) C++
6 1 (2.632%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (13.16%) MCSE
4 4 (10.53%) MCITP
5 3 (7.895%) MCSA
6 2 (5.263%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.632%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.632%) QA
System Software
1 25 (65.79%) Active Directory
2 13 (34.21%) Hyper-V
3 6 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (5.263%) VMware ESX
5 2 (5.263%) vSphere
6 1 (2.632%) XenApp
6 1 (2.632%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) SCCM
2 5 (13.16%) SCVMM
3 2 (5.263%) SCOM
4 1 (2.632%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.632%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 20 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (23.68%) VMware
3 8 (21.05%) HP
4 6 (15.79%) Sophos
4 6 (15.79%) Dell
5 5 (13.16%) GFI Software
5 5 (13.16%) ION Trading
5 5 (13.16%) Patsystems
5 5 (13.16%) GL TRADE
5 5 (13.16%) Fidessa
5 5 (13.16%) Cisco
5 5 (13.16%) Reuters
5 5 (13.16%) Bloomberg
5 5 (13.16%) NYFIX
5 5 (13.16%) EasyScreen
5 5 (13.16%) EccoWare
6 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
7 3 (7.895%) Oracle
7 3 (7.895%) Apple
7 3 (7.895%) CQG
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