City of London Windows Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Dursley Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle Heywood High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Leominster Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ormskirk Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	15
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	3454	2207
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.684 %	0.986 %
As % of the category below	50.97 %	44.26 %
Salaries quoted	3009	1794
Average minimum salary	£46,074	£45,609
Average salary	£49,471	£49,413
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Average maximum salary	£52,868	£53,218
UK excluding London average salary	£32,437	£32,770
% change on same period last year	-1.01 %
Operating Systems City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	6777	4986
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.303 %	2.228 %
Salaries quoted	5677	3827
Average minimum salary	£47,666	£49,395
Average salary	£51,720	£53,426
% change on same period last year	-3.19 %
Average maximum salary	£55,775	£57,458
UK excluding London average salary	£34,732	£34,919
% change on same period last year	-0.53 %
Windows London

Windows
Demand Trend

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

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Windows
Salary Histogram

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

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing Windows 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 Windows.

1 2611 (44.70 %) Finance 2 1930 (33.04 %) Unix 3 1262 (21.61 %) SQL 4 1241 (21.25 %) Active Directory 5 1174 (20.10 %) SQL Server 6 1172 (20.07 %) Microsoft 7 1127 (19.29 %) C++ 8 1036 (17.74 %) Banking 9 974 (16.68 %) Windows 2000 10 947 (16.21 %) Linux 11 771 (13.20 %) MS Exchange 12 763 (13.06 %) Windows XP 13 748 (12.81 %) MS Office 14 721 (12.34 %) MS Excel 15 706 (12.09 %) Java

16 702 (12.02 %) Windows Server 2003 17 701 (12.00 %) .NET 18 688 (11.78 %) C# 19 679 (11.62 %) Degree 20 670 (11.47 %) TCP/IP 21 666 (11.40 %) Oracle 22 641 (10.97 %) Citrix 23 606 (10.37 %) Exchange Server 2003 24 556 (9.519 %) Microsoft Certification 25 473 (8.098 %) Cisco 26 443 (7.584 %) Solaris 27 433 (7.413 %) Front Office 28 428 (7.328 %) IIS 29 424 (7.259 %) HP 30 411 (7.036 %) SQL Server 2000

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing Windows 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 Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 701 (12.00 %) .NET 2 321 (5.496 %) XML 3 232 (3.972 %) ASP.NET 4 202 (3.458 %) ASP 5 196 (3.356 %) J2EE 6 164 (2.808 %) STL 7 163 (2.791 %) WinForms 8 161 (2.756 %) HTML 9 127 (2.174 %) WebServices 10 109 (1.866 %) Spring 11 102 (1.746 %) .NET Framework 12 97 (1.661 %) MFC 13 84 (1.438 %) WebSphere 14 82 (1.404 %) JSP 14 82 (1.404 %) JMS 15 80 (1.370 %) JDBC 16 76 (1.301 %) CSS 17 73 (1.250 %) Struts 18 67 (1.147 %) Servlets 18 67 (1.147 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 771 (13.20 %) MS Exchange 2 606 (10.37 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 428 (7.328 %) IIS 4 301 (5.153 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 140 (2.397 %) SharePoint 6 121 (2.072 %) Apache 6 121 (2.072 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 108 (1.849 %) Lotus Notes 8 106 (1.815 %) Tomcat 9 82 (1.404 %) WebLogic 10 58 (0.993 %) MQSeries 11 53 (0.907 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 12 43 (0.736 %) WebSphere Application Server 13 39 (0.668 %) SharePoint Server 2007 14 38 (0.651 %) JBoss 15 32 (0.548 %) WorkSite 16 29 (0.496 %) CMS 17 24 (0.411 %) SAS 18 21 (0.360 %) Exchange Server 5.5 19 19 (0.325 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 748 (12.81 %) MS Office 2 721 (12.34 %) MS Excel 3 53 (0.907 %) MS PowerPoint 4 27 (0.462 %) Acrobat 5 23 (0.394 %) MS Visio 6 13 (0.223 %) DeltaView 7 12 (0.205 %) MATLAB 8 9 (0.154 %) Photoshop 9 7 (0.120 %) MS Project 10 4 (0.068 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 2 (0.034 %) InDesign 11 2 (0.034 %) CA Clarity 11 2 (0.034 %) AutoCAD 12 1 (0.017 %) QuarkXPress 12 1 (0.017 %) Fireworks 12 1 (0.017 %) InfoPath 12 1 (0.017 %) Adobe Premiere	Business Applications 1 42 (0.719 %) Fidessa 2 33 (0.565 %) RMDS 3 31 (0.531 %) Oracle 11i 4 22 (0.377 %) Misys Opics 5 14 (0.240 %) Kondor+ 5 14 (0.240 %) SAP Business One 6 12 (0.205 %) Summit 7 11 (0.188 %) FRONT ARENA 8 9 (0.154 %) MarketView 8 9 (0.154 %) Oracle EBS 9 7 (0.120 %) Navision 10 6 (0.103 %) Oracle Financials 10 6 (0.103 %) FLEXCUBE 10 6 (0.103 %) assyst 10 6 (0.103 %) Bankmaster 11 5 (0.086 %) SoftGrid 12 3 (0.051 %) SimCorp Dimension 13 2 (0.034 %) Minerva 13 2 (0.034 %) Murex MxG2000 13 2 (0.034 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 670 (11.47 %) TCP/IP 2 368 (6.300 %) SAN 3 353 (6.043 %) Firewall 4 351 (6.009 %) WAN 5 342 (5.855 %) DNS 6 340 (5.821 %) LAN 7 256 (4.383 %) VPN 8 240 (4.109 %) DHCP 9 223 (3.818 %) Internet 10 157 (2.688 %) WINS 11 97 (1.661 %) VoIP 12 68 (1.164 %) Intranet 13 59 (1.010 %) Wireless 14 53 (0.907 %) Network Security 15 47 (0.805 %) OSPF 16 41 (0.702 %) EIGRP 17 35 (0.599 %) SMTP 18 34 (0.582 %) Ethernet 18 34 (0.582 %) IP Telephony 19 32 (0.548 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1174 (20.10 %) SQL Server 2 411 (7.036 %) SQL Server 2000 3 331 (5.667 %) SQL Server 2005 4 154 (2.637 %) SQL Server 7 5 131 (2.243 %) RDBMS 6 85 (1.455 %) Oracle 10g 7 79 (1.353 %) MySQL 7 79 (1.353 %) Oracle 9i 8 55 (0.942 %) DTS 9 44 (0.753 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 39 (0.668 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 35 (0.599 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 33 (0.565 %) Datawarehouse 13 30 (0.514 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 14 28 (0.479 %) OLAP 15 27 (0.462 %) ETL 15 27 (0.462 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 16 26 (0.445 %) BusinessObjects 16 26 (0.445 %) Crystal Reports 17 21 (0.360 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 77 (1.318 %) Visual Studio 1 77 (1.318 %) Subversion 2 73 (1.250 %) Ant 3 72 (1.233 %) Eclipse 4 66 (1.130 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 39 (0.668 %) CruiseControl 6 28 (0.479 %) JIRA 7 24 (0.411 %) NUnit 8 22 (0.377 %) PVCS 9 20 (0.342 %) InstallShield 10 18 (0.308 %) Flash 10 18 (0.308 %) WinRunner 11 16 (0.274 %) MSI 12 14 (0.240 %) TestDirector 13 11 (0.188 %) ClearCase 14 10 (0.171 %) JUnit 15 8 (0.137 %) Oracle Forms 15 8 (0.137 %) LoadRunner 16 7 (0.120 %) Rational Robot 17 4 (0.068 %) Log4j	General 1 2611 (44.70 %) Finance 2 1036 (17.74 %) Banking 3 433 (7.413 %) Front Office 4 380 (6.506 %) Law 5 358 (6.129 %) Investment Banking 6 264 (4.520 %) Financial Institution 7 246 (4.212 %) Legal 8 240 (4.109 %) Insurance 9 166 (2.842 %) Telecoms 10 163 (2.791 %) Pensions 11 155 (2.654 %) Back Office 12 128 (2.191 %) Health 13 109 (1.866 %) Education 14 49 (0.839 %) Marketing 15 46 (0.788 %) Government 16 44 (0.753 %) Games 17 42 (0.719 %) Retail 18 26 (0.445 %) Publishing 19 12 (0.205 %) Advertising 19 12 (0.205 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 1379 (23.61 %) Developer 2 1250 (21.40 %) Analyst 3 824 (14.11 %) Support Analyst 4 491 (8.406 %) C++ Developer 5 374 (6.403 %) Administrator 6 316 (5.410 %) Desktop Support 7 279 (4.777 %) Consultant 7 279 (4.777 %) Support Engineer 8 241 (4.126 %) Team Leader 9 236 (4.040 %) Applications Support 10 215 (3.681 %) C# Developer 11 214 (3.664 %) Architect 12 209 (3.578 %) Technical Support 13 193 (3.304 %) Java Developer 14 192 (3.287 %) Systems Administrator 15 177 (3.030 %) Helpdesk Analyst 16 175 (2.996 %) DBA 17 170 (2.910 %) Helpdesk Support 18 164 (2.808 %) Systems Engineer 19 155 (2.654 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 408 (6.985 %) Derivative 2 305 (5.222 %) Blackberry 3 216 (3.698 %) Equities 4 211 (3.612 %) Clustering 5 166 (2.842 %) Computer Science 6 158 (2.705 %) Fixed Income 6 158 (2.705 %) Multithreading 7 156 (2.671 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 151 (2.585 %) Client/Server 9 129 (2.209 %) Asset Management 10 102 (1.746 %) Equity Derivative 11 80 (1.370 %) Fund Management 12 78 (1.335 %) Replication 13 70 (1.198 %) PDA 14 46 (0.788 %) N-Tier 15 43 (0.736 %) Mathematics 16 41 (0.702 %) Management Information System 17 40 (0.685 %) CLARiiON 18 30 (0.514 %) Credit Derivative 19 24 (0.411 %) Symmetrix
Operating Systems 1 1930 (33.04 %) Unix 2 974 (16.68 %) Windows 2000 3 947 (16.21 %) Linux 4 763 (13.06 %) Windows XP 5 702 (12.02 %) Windows Server 2003 6 443 (7.584 %) Solaris 7 370 (6.335 %) Windows NT 8 111 (1.900 %) HPUX 9 44 (0.753 %) VMS 10 37 (0.633 %) AIX 11 33 (0.565 %) NetWare 12 29 (0.496 %) Windows Mobile 13 28 (0.479 %) Mac OS X 14 15 (0.257 %) Mac OS X Server 15 14 (0.240 %) Windows Vista 16 13 (0.223 %) SUSE 17 10 (0.171 %) Windows CE 18 9 (0.154 %) FreeBSD 18 9 (0.154 %) Debian 19 8 (0.137 %) Ubuntu	Processes & Methodologies 1 345 (5.907 %) ITIL 2 327 (5.598 %) OO 3 236 (4.040 %) Project Management 4 130 (2.226 %) Investment Management 5 125 (2.140 %) UML 6 115 (1.969 %) Electronic Trading 7 111 (1.900 %) Service Delivery 8 109 (1.866 %) Disaster Recovery 9 95 (1.626 %) Risk Management 10 93 (1.592 %) Algorithmic Trading 11 78 (1.335 %) E-Commerce 12 73 (1.250 %) Software Engineering 13 72 (1.233 %) Migration 13 72 (1.233 %) OOD 14 65 (1.113 %) Unit Testing 15 62 (1.061 %) Configuration Management 16 58 (0.993 %) Workflow 17 52 (0.890 %) Document Management 18 51 (0.873 %) Business Analysis 19 48 (0.822 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 1262 (21.61 %) SQL 2 1127 (19.29 %) C++ 3 706 (12.09 %) Java 4 688 (11.78 %) C# 5 398 (6.814 %) VC++ 6 300 (5.136 %) Perl 7 236 (4.040 %) VB 8 184 (3.150 %) C 9 159 (2.722 %) JavaScript 10 142 (2.431 %) Shell Script 11 125 (2.140 %) VB.NET 12 119 (2.037 %) Transact-SQL 13 96 (1.644 %) VBScript 14 94 (1.609 %) VBA 15 85 (1.455 %) PL/SQL 16 77 (1.318 %) VB6 17 67 (1.147 %) Python 18 59 (1.010 %) PHP 19 44 (0.753 %) DHTML 20 27 (0.462 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 679 (11.62 %) Degree 2 556 (9.519 %) Microsoft Certification 3 373 (6.386 %) MCSE 4 220 (3.766 %) MCP 5 145 (2.482 %) Cisco Certification 6 101 (1.729 %) CCNA 7 74 (1.267 %) MCSA 8 57 (0.976 %) MOS 9 56 (0.959 %) ITIL Certification 10 41 (0.702 %) CCNP 11 36 (0.616 %) Citrix Certification 12 32 (0.548 %) CCA 13 25 (0.428 %) MCDBA 14 21 (0.360 %) CCEA 15 19 (0.325 %) A+ Certification 16 16 (0.274 %) CISSP 16 16 (0.274 %) CCIE 17 15 (0.257 %) ISEB 17 15 (0.257 %) Novell Certification 17 15 (0.257 %) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 143 (2.448 %) SLA 2 125 (2.140 %) QA 3 15 (0.257 %) COBIT 4 10 (0.171 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 8 (0.137 %) BS7799 6 5 (0.086 %) ISO17799 7 4 (0.068 %) ISO27001 8 2 (0.034 %) MiFID 9 1 (0.017 %) Basel II 9 1 (0.017 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 1241 (21.25 %) Active Directory 2 144 (2.465 %) NetBackup 3 94 (1.609 %) Backup Exec 4 87 (1.489 %) VMware ESX 5 78 (1.335 %) MetaFrame 6 54 (0.924 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 42 (0.719 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 39 (0.668 %) ISA Server 9 33 (0.565 %) Terminal Services 10 25 (0.428 %) Terminal Server 10 25 (0.428 %) Oracle RMAN 11 22 (0.377 %) Xen 12 14 (0.240 %) Nmap 13 11 (0.188 %) MSMQ 14 9 (0.154 %) NFS 15 8 (0.137 %) Oracle RAC 16 6 (0.103 %) MailMarshal 16 6 (0.103 %) VMware Server 16 6 (0.103 %) NDS 17 5 (0.086 %) AquaLogic
Systems Management 1 92 (1.575 %) MOM 2 58 (0.993 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 57 (0.976 %) OpenView 4 51 (0.873 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 47 (0.805 %) Tivoli 6 45 (0.770 %) Legato 7 41 (0.702 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 39 (0.668 %) BMC PATROL 9 23 (0.394 %) CONTROL-M 9 23 (0.394 %) EMC Navisphere 10 15 (0.257 %) ZENworks 10 15 (0.257 %) DameWare 10 15 (0.257 %) EMC TimeFinder 11 14 (0.240 %) Nessus 12 11 (0.188 %) EMC NetWorker 13 10 (0.171 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 14 9 (0.154 %) WSUS 15 8 (0.137 %) MAILsweeper 16 6 (0.103 %) AppManager 16 6 (0.103 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 1172 (20.07 %) Microsoft 2 666 (11.40 %) Oracle 3 641 (10.97 %) Citrix 4 473 (8.098 %) Cisco 5 424 (7.259 %) HP 6 398 (6.814 %) VMware 7 297 (5.085 %) Bloomberg 8 268 (4.588 %) Reuters 9 267 (4.571 %) Sybase 10 200 (3.424 %) VERITAS 11 193 (3.304 %) IBM 12 143 (2.448 %) EMC 13 116 (1.986 %) Dell 14 115 (1.969 %) Lotus 15 103 (1.763 %) Red Hat 16 94 (1.609 %) Remedy 17 93 (1.592 %) Sun 18 82 (1.404 %) Novell 19 80 (1.370 %) Symantec 20 69 (1.181 %) Interwoven