The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cumbria region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Cumbria region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 13 15 7
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -8
Permanent jobs citing Windows 5 3 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cumbria 10.64% 6.122% 26.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.50% 75.00% 38.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 4
Average salary £30,000 £30,000 £18,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +62.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,800 £20,800 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £36,900 £30,000 £21,750
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Cumbria
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
8 4 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cumbria 17.02% 8.163% 69.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 15
Average salary £30,000 £30,000 £23,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +29.03%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,300 £24,800 £18,200
10% offered a salary of more than £31,150 £31,600 £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
North West

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cumbria Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Cumbria Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the Cumbria region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cumbria Windows Salary Histogram

Windows
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Cumbria region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Keswick - 3 £30,000 -
Penrith - 1 £23,000 -
Windows
North West

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cumbria region citing Windows 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.

1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) .NET
3 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
3 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (41.67%) HP
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (41.67%) Terminal Services
3 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (33.33%) C#
4 4 (33.33%) HTML
4 4 (33.33%) Windows XP
5 3 (25.00%) DHCP
5 3 (25.00%) VPN
5 3 (25.00%) DNS
5 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
5 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
5 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (25.00%) COM
5 3 (25.00%) CSS
5 3 (25.00%) Firewall
5 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Web Design
5 3 (25.00%) Network Design
5 3 (25.00%) VLAN

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cumbria region citing Windows 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (25.00%) COM
3 3 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) Ajax
5 1 (8.333%) SOAP
5 1 (8.333%) Web Services
5 1 (8.333%) JSON
5 1 (8.333%) jQuery
5 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
5 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (8.333%) HTML5
5 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (16.67%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (8.333%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DHCP
1 3 (25.00%) VPN
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (8.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (8.333%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.333%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Help Desk Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) IT Support
3 2 (16.67%) Desktop Technician
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Graduate
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Support
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Development Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Vista
3 2 (16.67%) UNIX
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Migration
1 3 (25.00%) Web Design
1 3 (25.00%) Network Design
2 2 (16.67%) Web Development
2 2 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (8.333%) UML
3 1 (8.333%) MVC
3 1 (8.333%) TDD
3 1 (8.333%) BDD
3 1 (8.333%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) Delphi
5 1 (8.333%) Python
5 1 (8.333%) XQuery
5 1 (8.333%) PHP
5 1 (8.333%) VB
5 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.333%) Objective-C
5 1 (8.333%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.333%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (16.67%) A+ Certification
2 2 (16.67%) MCP
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (41.67%) Terminal Services
2 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (8.333%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) HP
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Remedy
3 2 (16.67%) Lotus
3 2 (16.67%) Sage
3 2 (16.67%) Cognos
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (8.333%) Adobe
Penrith, North West
Graduate software developer - ASP.NET, C#, SQL, MVC - PenrithI am currently working with a software focused business who are looking to recruit a graduate / junior developer to work...
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Salary: £20000 - £26000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
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Salary: £20000 - £26000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013