The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Dorchester 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 Dorchester 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 - - -
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorchester - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
All Vendors
Dorchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
4 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorchester 50.00% - 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 1
Average salary £25,000 - £18,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Dorset

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorchester 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 Dorchester region.

Dorchester Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Dorchester 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Vista
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (83.33%) Data Migration
2 5 (83.33%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) VB.NET
2 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) Windows XP
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (83.33%) Citrix
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) VB
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Dorchester 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 5 (83.33%) CSS
1 5 (83.33%) HTML
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle 11g
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Software Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Programmer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Vista
2 5 (83.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
1 5 (83.33%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
1 5 (83.33%) Citrix