The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Dartford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Dartford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 2 8 13
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 25 14 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dartford 49.02% 22.95% 14.00%
As % of the Vendors category 89.29% 48.28% 31.82%
Number of salaries quoted 24 13 7
Average salary £25,000 £26,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% -25.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,600 £29,800
10% offered a salary of more than £36,050 £42,500 £39,800
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
All Vendors
Dartford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
28 29 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dartford 54.90% 47.54% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 27 28 19
Average salary £27,000 £26,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.84% -13.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
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Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dartford 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 Dartford region.

Dartford Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Dartford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Dartford Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Dartford 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 31 (93.94%) Windows
2 19 (57.58%) MS Office
3 15 (45.45%) ITIL
4 13 (39.39%) Active Directory
5 12 (36.36%) Windows XP
6 11 (33.33%) TCP/IP
6 11 (33.33%) SLA
7 10 (30.30%) SQL Server
8 9 (27.27%) Cisco
8 9 (27.27%) Windows 7
9 8 (24.24%) IP Telephony
9 8 (24.24%) Cisco IPT
9 8 (24.24%) Degree
9 8 (24.24%) Ethernet
9 8 (24.24%) .NET
9 8 (24.24%) C#
10 6 (18.18%) C++
10 6 (18.18%) MFC
10 6 (18.18%) ATL
10 6 (18.18%) COM
10 6 (18.18%) OO
10 6 (18.18%) Change Control
11 5 (15.15%) Asset Management
12 4 (12.12%) MS Excel
12 4 (12.12%) PDA
13 3 (9.091%) MS PowerPoint
13 3 (9.091%) Blackberry
14 2 (6.061%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (6.061%) UML
14 2 (6.061%) OOP

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Dartford 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 8 (24.24%) .NET
2 6 (18.18%) MFC
2 6 (18.18%) ATL
2 6 (18.18%) COM
3 2 (6.061%) WPF
4 1 (3.030%) WCF
4 1 (3.030%) CSS
4 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.030%) HTML
4 1 (3.030%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.030%) IIS
1 1 (3.030%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 19 (57.58%) MS Office
2 4 (12.12%) MS Excel
3 3 (9.091%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 8 (24.24%) IP Telephony
2 8 (24.24%) Cisco IPT
2 8 (24.24%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.030%) VPN
3 1 (3.030%) LAN
3 1 (3.030%) VoIP
3 1 (3.030%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.030%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.030%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (3.030%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Analyst
1 13 (39.39%) Help Desk Support
2 10 (30.30%) Help Desk Analyst
3 8 (24.24%) Help Desk Support Analyst
3 8 (24.24%) Support Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Service Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (12.12%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (9.091%) IT Support
7 3 (9.091%) Graduate
8 2 (6.061%) Developer
8 2 (6.061%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (6.061%) Senior Support Analyst
9 1 (3.030%) Graduate .NET Developer
9 1 (3.030%) C# Programmer
9 1 (3.030%) IT Graduate
9 1 (3.030%) Senior Programmer
9 1 (3.030%) SQL DBA
9 1 (3.030%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) PDA
2 3 (9.091%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.030%) Clustering
3 1 (3.030%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (93.94%) Windows
2 12 (36.36%) Windows XP
3 9 (27.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) ITIL
2 6 (18.18%) OO
2 6 (18.18%) Change Control
3 5 (15.15%) Asset Management
4 2 (6.061%) UML
4 2 (6.061%) OOP
4 2 (6.061%) Image Processing
5 1 (3.030%) High Availability
5 1 (3.030%) Database Security
5 1 (3.030%) OOD
5 1 (3.030%) ETL
5 1 (3.030%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.030%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) C#
2 6 (18.18%) C++
3 1 (3.030%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.030%) SQL
3 1 (3.030%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.030%) VB.NET
3 1 (3.030%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 2 (6.061%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.030%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (3.030%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.030%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.030%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.030%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Cisco
2 1 (3.030%) Mitel
2 1 (3.030%) HP