The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the East Grinstead region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 17 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 East Grinstead 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 1 8 9
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 12 8 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Grinstead 52.17% 33.33% 10.96%
As % of the Vendors category 75.00% 80.00% 38.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 8
Average salary £47,500 £33,750 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.74% -48.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,500 £31,750 £34,050
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £66,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
East Grinstead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
16 10 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Grinstead 69.57% 41.67% 28.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 20
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £32,500 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £65,000 £45,000
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 East Grinstead region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

East Grinstead 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 East Grinstead region.

East Grinstead Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the East Grinstead region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East Grinstead Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Grinstead 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 14 (66.67%) SQL
2 11 (52.38%) .NET
2 11 (52.38%) JavaScript
2 11 (52.38%) ASP.NET
2 11 (52.38%) CSS
2 11 (52.38%) SOAP
2 11 (52.38%) Web Services
2 11 (52.38%) XML
2 11 (52.38%) XHTML
2 11 (52.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (52.38%) CMS
2 11 (52.38%) Scrum
2 11 (52.38%) Back Office
2 11 (52.38%) MVC
2 11 (52.38%) Subversion
2 11 (52.38%) jQuery
2 11 (52.38%) Umbraco
2 11 (52.38%) ASP.NET MVC
3 10 (47.62%) HTML5
3 10 (47.62%) Redis
3 10 (47.62%) Bing Maps
3 10 (47.62%) RESTful
3 10 (47.62%) Open Source
3 10 (47.62%) Google Maps API
3 10 (47.62%) Google
3 10 (47.62%) E-Commerce
4 7 (33.33%) Content Management
4 7 (33.33%) Ektron
4 7 (33.33%) Sitecore CMS
4 7 (33.33%) Sitecore

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Grinstead 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 11 (52.38%) ASP.NET
1 11 (52.38%) CSS
1 11 (52.38%) SOAP
1 11 (52.38%) .NET
1 11 (52.38%) Web Services
1 11 (52.38%) XML
1 11 (52.38%) XHTML
1 11 (52.38%) jQuery
1 11 (52.38%) ASP.NET MVC
2 10 (47.62%) HTML5
2 10 (47.62%) Bing Maps
2 10 (47.62%) Google Maps API
2 10 (47.62%) RESTful
3 2 (9.524%) MFC
3 2 (9.524%) STL
4 1 (4.762%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 11 (52.38%) CMS
1 11 (52.38%) Umbraco
2 7 (33.33%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) MS Project
2 3 (14.29%) MS Excel
3 2 (9.524%) MS Visio
3 2 (9.524%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) Redis
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Subversion
2 1 (4.762%) NUnit
General
1 11 (52.38%) Back Office
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Developer
1 10 (47.62%) Team Leader
2 8 (38.10%) ASP.NET Developer
2 8 (38.10%) .NET Developer
3 7 (33.33%) .NET Team Leader
4 3 (14.29%) Development Team Leader
4 3 (14.29%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.524%) Service Analyst
5 2 (9.524%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (9.524%) Analyst
5 2 (9.524%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Graduate
6 1 (4.762%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Open Source
2 2 (9.524%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.524%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) MVC
1 11 (52.38%) Scrum
2 10 (47.62%) E-Commerce
3 7 (33.33%) Content Management
4 5 (23.81%) Project Management
4 5 (23.81%) PRINCE2
5 3 (14.29%) Project Planning
6 2 (9.524%) UML
7 1 (4.762%) OOA/OOD
7 1 (4.762%) Automated Testing
7 1 (4.762%) TDD
7 1 (4.762%) Web Development
7 1 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) SQL
2 11 (52.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.524%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Google
2 7 (33.33%) Sitecore
2 7 (33.33%) Ektron