The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Crawley 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 17 23 6
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -17
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 68 47 67
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Crawley 10.88% 8.275% 13.90%
As % of the Vendors category 21.38% 29.01% 35.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60 42 61
Average salary £40,000 £43,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.97% +38.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,850 £24,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £60,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Crawley
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
318 162 187
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Crawley 50.88% 28.52% 38.80%
Number of salaries quoted 254 130 152
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +23.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
West Sussex

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Crawley region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Crawley Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Crawley 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 88 (65.67%) Windows
2 74 (55.22%) SQL Server
3 54 (40.30%) Finance
4 46 (34.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 45 (33.58%) SQL Server 2008
6 39 (29.10%) SQL Server 2005
7 38 (28.36%) .NET
8 36 (26.87%) SQL
9 35 (26.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 33 (24.63%) Active Directory
11 32 (23.88%) HTML
11 32 (23.88%) JavaScript
11 32 (23.88%) MS Excel
12 31 (23.13%) CSS
12 31 (23.13%) Windows Server 2003
12 31 (23.13%) .NET Framework
13 29 (21.64%) Scrum
13 29 (21.64%) VMware
13 29 (21.64%) C#
13 29 (21.64%) Team Foundation Server
14 27 (20.15%) jQuery
15 26 (19.40%) Kanban
15 26 (19.40%) ASP.NET MVC
15 26 (19.40%) Inversion of Control
15 26 (19.40%) HTML5
15 26 (19.40%) BDD
15 26 (19.40%) Windows 8
15 26 (19.40%) User Stories
15 26 (19.40%) Castle Windsor
15 26 (19.40%) CSS3

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Crawley 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 38 (28.36%) .NET
2 32 (23.88%) HTML
3 31 (23.13%) CSS
3 31 (23.13%) .NET Framework
4 27 (20.15%) jQuery
5 26 (19.40%) ASP.NET MVC
5 26 (19.40%) HTML5
5 26 (19.40%) Castle Windsor
5 26 (19.40%) CSS3
5 26 (19.40%) ASP.NET
5 26 (19.40%) NHibernate
6 8 (5.970%) XML
7 5 (3.731%) DOM
8 3 (2.239%) Web Services
9 1 (0.746%) AppFabric
9 1 (0.746%) COM
9 1 (0.746%) ASP
9 1 (0.746%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 18 (13.43%) SharePoint
2 15 (11.19%) MS Exchange
2 15 (11.19%) IIS
3 11 (8.209%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 10 (7.463%) Lync
5 8 (5.970%) Exchange Server 2010
5 8 (5.970%) Exchange Server 2003
6 7 (5.224%) Lotus Domino
6 7 (5.224%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (3.731%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (3.731%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (2.985%) Office Communications Server
9 2 (1.493%) Apache
9 2 (1.493%) SAS
9 2 (1.493%) Zimbra
10 1 (0.746%) Documentum
Applications
1 32 (23.88%) MS Excel
2 20 (14.93%) MS Office
3 9 (6.716%) InfoPath
4 8 (5.970%) MS PowerPoint
5 5 (3.731%) Photoshop
6 3 (2.239%) MS Project
7 2 (1.493%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.93%) DNS
2 19 (14.18%) LAN
2 19 (14.18%) WAN
3 18 (13.43%) Firewall
4 16 (11.94%) TCP/IP
5 15 (11.19%) DHCP
6 14 (10.45%) VPN
7 12 (8.955%) SAN
8 11 (8.209%) SSL
9 10 (7.463%) IPsec
10 9 (6.716%) HTTP
10 9 (6.716%) SMTP
10 9 (6.716%) WLAN
10 9 (6.716%) OSPF
10 9 (6.716%) BGP
10 9 (6.716%) EIGRP
10 9 (6.716%) ISDN
10 9 (6.716%) Wireless
10 9 (6.716%) VPLS
10 9 (6.716%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (55.22%) SQL Server
2 45 (33.58%) SQL Server 2008
3 39 (29.10%) SQL Server 2005
4 14 (10.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (10.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (8.209%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (6.716%) SQL Server 2012
7 5 (3.731%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (3.731%) MySQL
7 5 (3.731%) OLAP
7 5 (3.731%) Oracle 8/8i
8 4 (2.985%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 3 (2.239%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (2.239%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (2.239%) SQL Server 2000
10 1 (0.746%) MS Access
10 1 (0.746%) Oracle 10g
10 1 (0.746%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (21.64%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (2.239%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.746%) MSBuild
3 1 (0.746%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 54 (40.30%) Finance
2 26 (19.40%) Financial Institution
3 8 (5.970%) Military
3 8 (5.970%) Electronics
4 7 (5.224%) Marketing
5 5 (3.731%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.731%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.239%) Avionics
7 1 (0.746%) German Language
Job Titles
1 38 (28.36%) Developer
2 36 (26.87%) Analyst
3 28 (20.90%) Software Developer
4 26 (19.40%) .NET Software Developer
4 26 (19.40%) .NET Developer
5 18 (13.43%) DBA
6 17 (12.69%) Support Analyst
7 15 (11.19%) Support Engineer
7 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 15 (11.19%) Administrator
7 15 (11.19%) SQL DBA
8 11 (8.209%) Teradata DBA
9 9 (6.716%) Network Analyst
10 8 (5.970%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (5.970%) Network Security Analyst
10 8 (5.970%) Security Analyst
11 7 (5.224%) SQL Server DBA
11 7 (5.224%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
12 6 (4.478%) Server Administrator
12 6 (4.478%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.40%) Inversion of Control
1 26 (19.40%) N-Tier
2 9 (6.716%) IVR
2 9 (6.716%) Statistics
2 9 (6.716%) SecurID
3 7 (5.224%) Blackberry
4 5 (3.731%) Clustering
4 5 (3.731%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.985%) Mathematics
6 3 (2.239%) Chip and PIN
7 2 (1.493%) Replication
7 2 (1.493%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.493%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.493%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.746%) Physics
8 1 (0.746%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 88 (65.67%) Windows
2 46 (34.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 35 (26.12%) Windows Server 2012
4 31 (23.13%) Windows Server 2003
5 26 (19.40%) Windows 8
6 19 (14.18%) Linux
7 11 (8.209%) Windows XP
8 9 (6.716%) Windows Vista
9 8 (5.970%) Windows 7
9 8 (5.970%) UNIX
10 2 (1.493%) Solaris
11 1 (0.746%) Windows 2000 Server
11 1 (0.746%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.64%) Scrum
2 26 (19.40%) Kanban
2 26 (19.40%) BDD
2 26 (19.40%) User Stories
2 26 (19.40%) OOD
2 26 (19.40%) MVC
2 26 (19.40%) Refactoring
2 26 (19.40%) TDD
3 23 (17.16%) ITIL
4 14 (10.45%) Configuration Management
5 11 (8.209%) Service Delivery
5 11 (8.209%) Mobile Device Management
6 10 (7.463%) Performance Management
7 9 (6.716%) Workflow
8 7 (5.224%) E-Commerce
8 7 (5.224%) Project Management
9 5 (3.731%) Communications Security
9 5 (3.731%) PRINCE
9 5 (3.731%) Information Management
10 4 (2.985%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (26.87%) SQL
2 32 (23.88%) JavaScript
3 29 (21.64%) C#
4 10 (7.463%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.478%) VB
5 6 (4.478%) VBA
6 5 (3.731%) Perl
6 5 (3.731%) PHP
7 4 (2.985%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.985%) VBScript
8 1 (0.746%) C
8 1 (0.746%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (10.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (6.716%) Degree
3 7 (5.224%) MCSE
4 5 (3.731%) MCITP
5 3 (2.239%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.239%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.239%) MCSA
6 2 (1.493%) ISEB
6 2 (1.493%) HNC
6 2 (1.493%) HND
6 2 (1.493%) MCP
7 1 (0.746%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.463%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.746%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (24.63%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.463%) Hyper-V
3 10 (7.463%) vSphere
4 9 (6.716%) XenApp
5 5 (3.731%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 4 (2.985%) ProxySG
6 4 (2.985%) Terminal Services
7 3 (2.239%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.239%) VMware ESX
7 3 (2.239%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.493%) Postfix
9 1 (0.746%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.746%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 9 (6.716%) Cisco IPCC
2 5 (3.731%) SCCM
3 4 (2.985%) Opalis
3 4 (2.985%) SCOM
4 3 (2.239%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.493%) WSUS
5 2 (1.493%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.493%) Backup Exec
5 2 (1.493%) ServiceCenter
5 2 (1.493%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (1.493%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.746%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 29 (21.64%) VMware
2 22 (16.42%) Citrix
3 18 (13.43%) Cisco
4 12 (8.955%) HP
5 11 (8.209%) Avaya
5 11 (8.209%) Juniper
6 10 (7.463%) CheckPoint
6 10 (7.463%) CA
7 9 (6.716%) Nortel
7 9 (6.716%) Informatica
7 9 (6.716%) Verint
8 8 (5.970%) Cognos
9 7 (5.224%) Symantec
9 7 (5.224%) Lotus
9 7 (5.224%) Dell
9 7 (5.224%) Altiris
10 6 (4.478%) IBM
10 6 (4.478%) Oracle
11 5 (3.731%) Adobe
12 4 (2.985%) Blue Coat
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