East Midlands Windows Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Dursley Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle Heywood High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Leominster Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ormskirk Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 12 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	8
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	1015	896
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.489 %	0.398 %
As % of the category below	63.68 %	67.78 %
Salaries quoted	883	779
Average minimum salary	£27,391	£27,102
Average salary	£28,975	£29,056
% change on same period last year	-0.27 %
Average maximum salary	£30,558	£31,010
UK excluding London average salary	£32,402	£32,756
% change on same period last year	-1.08 %
Operating Systems East Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	1594	1322
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.768 %	0.588 %
Salaries quoted	1340	1126
Average minimum salary	£30,484	£28,355
Average salary	£32,391	£30,441
% change on same period last year	+6.40 %
Average maximum salary	£34,299	£32,527
UK excluding London average salary	£34,675	£34,921
% change on same period last year	-0.70 %
Windows England

Windows
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Windows across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Windows across the East Midlands region.

Windows
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the East Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Windows
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the East Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Nottinghamshire	+2	341	£30,741	+6.80 %
2	Leicestershire	+2	272	£27,270	-9.84 %
3	Northamptonshire	-2	190	£28,965	-0.38 %
4	Derbyshire	+3	160	£27,400	+10.45 %
5	Lincolnshire	+3	40	£27,618	+10.73 %

Windows England

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows.

1 738 (37.89 %) Microsoft 2 558 (28.64 %) SQL Server 3 547 (28.08 %) Active Directory 4 479 (24.59 %) SQL 5 418 (21.46 %) .NET 6 413 (21.20 %) Microsoft Certification 7 396 (20.33 %) MS Exchange 8 345 (17.71 %) MS Excel 9 317 (16.27 %) Windows 2000 10 316 (16.22 %) MS Office 11 307 (15.76 %) Unix 12 306 (15.71 %) MCSE 13 300 (15.40 %) C# 14 298 (15.30 %) Windows XP 15 289 (14.84 %) TCP/IP

16 243 (12.47 %) LAN 17 231 (11.86 %) WAN 18 223 (11.45 %) MCP 19 221 (11.34 %) Exchange Server 2003 20 216 (11.09 %) C++ 21 214 (10.99 %) ASP.NET 22 209 (10.73 %) Degree 23 196 (10.06 %) Citrix 23 196 (10.06 %) Windows Server 2003 24 191 (9.805 %) Linux 25 171 (8.778 %) Oracle 26 167 (8.573 %) Cisco 27 161 (8.265 %) SQL Server 2000 28 139 (7.136 %) IIS 29 134 (6.879 %) ITIL

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 418 (21.46 %) .NET 2 214 (10.99 %) ASP.NET 3 104 (5.339 %) HTML 3 104 (5.339 %) XML 4 84 (4.312 %) MFC 5 77 (3.953 %) WinForms 6 57 (2.926 %) ASP 7 52 (2.669 %) STL 8 40 (2.053 %) WebServices 9 38 (1.951 %) .NET Framework 10 29 (1.489 %) J2EE 11 27 (1.386 %) WebSphere 12 26 (1.335 %) CSS 13 24 (1.232 %) JSP 14 21 (1.078 %) COM+ 15 18 (0.924 %) ADO.NET 16 15 (0.770 %) OpenGL 17 14 (0.719 %) DirectX 18 13 (0.667 %) AJAX 19 11 (0.565 %) MDX	Application Platforms 1 396 (20.33 %) MS Exchange 2 221 (11.34 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 139 (7.136 %) IIS 4 110 (5.647 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 78 (4.004 %) SharePoint 6 34 (1.745 %) Lotus Notes 7 25 (1.283 %) Tomcat 8 23 (1.181 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 20 (1.027 %) Apache 10 19 (0.975 %) BizTalk Server 11 15 (0.770 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 15 (0.770 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 7 (0.359 %) WebLogic 13 6 (0.308 %) Lotus Domino 13 6 (0.308 %) CMS 14 5 (0.257 %) WebSphere MQ 14 5 (0.257 %) MQSeries 14 5 (0.257 %) NetWeaver 15 4 (0.205 %) SAS 16 2 (0.103 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 345 (17.71 %) MS Excel 2 316 (16.22 %) MS Office 3 12 (0.616 %) MS Project 4 11 (0.565 %) MS Visio 5 7 (0.359 %) Photoshop 6 4 (0.205 %) Maya 6 4 (0.205 %) 3ds Max 7 3 (0.154 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 3 (0.154 %) FreeHand 8 2 (0.103 %) Fireworks 8 2 (0.103 %) MS PowerPoint 9 1 (0.051 %) QuarkXPress	Business Applications 1 7 (0.359 %) GoldMine 2 6 (0.308 %) Oracle Applications 3 5 (0.257 %) Oracle 11i 3 5 (0.257 %) Oracle EBS 4 4 (0.205 %) assyst 5 3 (0.154 %) Microsoft CRM 6 2 (0.103 %) Navision 6 2 (0.103 %) SAP Business One 6 2 (0.103 %) Remedy AR System 7 1 (0.051 %) Dynamics CRM 7 1 (0.051 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 289 (14.84 %) TCP/IP 2 243 (12.47 %) LAN 3 231 (11.86 %) WAN 4 124 (6.366 %) DNS 5 104 (5.339 %) Internet 5 104 (5.339 %) Firewall 6 89 (4.569 %) SAN 7 86 (4.415 %) VPN 8 63 (3.234 %) DHCP 9 61 (3.131 %) VoIP 10 42 (2.156 %) WINS 11 39 (2.002 %) Intranet 12 35 (1.797 %) BSS 13 30 (1.540 %) Wireless 14 20 (1.027 %) BGP 15 19 (0.975 %) GSM 16 18 (0.924 %) RIP 16 18 (0.924 %) SSL 17 16 (0.821 %) Wi-Fi 18 15 (0.770 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 558 (28.64 %) SQL Server 2 161 (8.265 %) SQL Server 2000 3 133 (6.828 %) SQL Server 2005 4 42 (2.156 %) Crystal Reports 5 39 (2.002 %) SQL Server 7 6 33 (1.694 %) MySQL 7 30 (1.540 %) Oracle 10g 8 29 (1.489 %) MS Access 9 23 (1.181 %) Oracle 9i 10 20 (1.027 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 20 (1.027 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 18 (0.924 %) SQLPlus 11 18 (0.924 %) Datawarehouse 11 18 (0.924 %) DB2 12 11 (0.565 %) Informix 13 10 (0.513 %) OLAP 13 10 (0.513 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 6 (0.308 %) DTS 15 5 (0.257 %) Oracle Reports 15 5 (0.257 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 85 (4.363 %) Visual Studio 2 13 (0.667 %) PVCS 3 9 (0.462 %) JUnit 4 8 (0.411 %) Flash 5 7 (0.359 %) Ant 5 7 (0.359 %) Subversion 6 6 (0.308 %) Dreamweaver 7 5 (0.257 %) ClearQuest 8 4 (0.205 %) NUnit 8 4 (0.205 %) Oracle Forms 9 3 (0.154 %) MSI 9 3 (0.154 %) ClearCase 9 3 (0.154 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 2 (0.103 %) WinRunner 10 2 (0.103 %) TestDirector 10 2 (0.103 %) QuickTest Pro 10 2 (0.103 %) Rational Robot 11 1 (0.051 %) InstallShield 11 1 (0.051 %) InterDev 11 1 (0.051 %) CruiseControl	General 1 131 (6.725 %) Pensions 2 105 (5.390 %) Finance 3 89 (4.569 %) Health 4 59 (3.029 %) Education 5 54 (2.772 %) Publishing 6 49 (2.515 %) Games 7 41 (2.105 %) Manufacturing 8 34 (1.745 %) Back Office 9 33 (1.694 %) Banking 10 27 (1.386 %) Marketing 11 26 (1.335 %) Retail 12 20 (1.027 %) Telecoms 13 17 (0.873 %) Law 13 17 (0.873 %) Automotive 14 13 (0.667 %) Insurance 15 11 (0.565 %) Government 16 10 (0.513 %) Legal 17 9 (0.462 %) Construction 17 9 (0.462 %) Electronics 18 8 (0.411 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 473 (24.28 %) Analyst 2 353 (18.12 %) Developer 3 265 (13.60 %) Support Analyst 4 206 (10.57 %) Support Engineer 5 126 (6.468 %) Administrator 6 122 (6.263 %) C# Developer 7 120 (6.160 %) Consultant 8 114 (5.852 %) Software Engineer 9 108 (5.544 %) .NET Developer 10 104 (5.339 %) Applications Support 11 103 (5.287 %) Software Developer 12 94 (4.825 %) Technical Support 13 75 (3.850 %) IT Support Engineer 14 72 (3.696 %) Server Support 15 71 (3.645 %) DBA 16 70 (3.593 %) Programmer 17 64 (3.285 %) Technical Analyst 18 62 (3.183 %) Support Technician 19 61 (3.131 %) C++ Developer 20 57 (2.926 %) Helpdesk Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 45 (2.310 %) Clustering 2 37 (1.899 %) Mathematics 2 37 (1.899 %) Computer Science 3 35 (1.797 %) Mainframe 4 18 (0.924 %) Management Information System 5 16 (0.821 %) Spanish Language 5 16 (0.821 %) Asset Management 6 15 (0.770 %) SCADA 6 15 (0.770 %) German Language 6 15 (0.770 %) Italian Language 7 14 (0.719 %) Blackberry 7 14 (0.719 %) Replication 8 13 (0.667 %) Thin Client 8 13 (0.667 %) Fat Client 9 11 (0.565 %) Client/Server 9 11 (0.565 %) Pocket PC 10 10 (0.513 %) French Language 11 9 (0.462 %) N-Tier 12 8 (0.411 %) PDA 13 7 (0.359 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 317 (16.27 %) Windows 2000 2 307 (15.76 %) Unix 3 298 (15.30 %) Windows XP 4 196 (10.06 %) Windows Server 2003 5 191 (9.805 %) Linux 6 89 (4.569 %) Windows NT 7 76 (3.901 %) AIX 8 47 (2.413 %) Solaris 9 21 (1.078 %) Windows CE 10 17 (0.873 %) Debian 11 15 (0.770 %) Gentoo 12 8 (0.411 %) Fedora 12 8 (0.411 %) NetWare 13 6 (0.308 %) OS/400 14 5 (0.257 %) HPUX 14 5 (0.257 %) VxWorks 14 5 (0.257 %) LynxOS 14 5 (0.257 %) ThreadX 14 5 (0.257 %) Nucleus RTOS 14 5 (0.257 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 134 (6.879 %) ITIL 2 119 (6.109 %) OO 3 55 (2.823 %) Service Delivery 4 54 (2.772 %) Disaster Recovery 4 54 (2.772 %) UML 5 52 (2.669 %) ERP 6 50 (2.567 %) Project Management 7 38 (1.951 %) Service Management 7 38 (1.951 %) PRINCE2 8 31 (1.591 %) CRM 8 31 (1.591 %) OOD 9 26 (1.335 %) Software Engineering 10 24 (1.232 %) TDD 11 23 (1.181 %) Web Development 12 22 (1.129 %) Agile Software Development 13 21 (1.078 %) Configuration Management 14 20 (1.027 %) Business Intelligence 15 18 (0.924 %) OOP 16 17 (0.873 %) Scrum 16 17 (0.873 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 479 (24.59 %) SQL 2 300 (15.40 %) C# 3 216 (11.09 %) C++ 4 120 (6.160 %) VB 5 117 (6.006 %) Java 6 116 (5.955 %) C 7 97 (4.979 %) VB.NET 8 86 (4.415 %) VC++ 9 82 (4.209 %) JavaScript 10 52 (2.669 %) VB6 11 42 (2.156 %) Transact-SQL 12 35 (1.797 %) VBA 13 25 (1.283 %) VBScript 13 25 (1.283 %) PL/SQL 14 19 (0.975 %) PHP 15 17 (0.873 %) Shell Script 16 15 (0.770 %) COBOL 17 14 (0.719 %) Delphi 18 13 (0.667 %) Perl 19 10 (0.513 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 413 (21.20 %) Microsoft Certification 2 306 (15.71 %) MCSE 3 223 (11.45 %) MCP 4 209 (10.73 %) Degree 5 85 (4.363 %) Cisco Certification 6 83 (4.261 %) CCNA 7 82 (4.209 %) MCSA 8 20 (1.027 %) CCNP 9 17 (0.873 %) Citrix Certification 10 14 (0.719 %) A+ Certification 10 14 (0.719 %) CCA 11 13 (0.667 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 11 (0.565 %) ISEB 12 11 (0.565 %) HND 13 9 (0.462 %) MCDST 14 7 (0.359 %) JNCIA 14 7 (0.359 %) Oracle Certification 15 6 (0.308 %) HNC 15 6 (0.308 %) ITIL Certification 16 5 (0.257 %) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 97 (4.979 %) SLA 2 15 (0.770 %) QA 3 6 (0.308 %) ISO9001 4 1 (0.051 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 1 (0.051 %) TickIT	System Software 1 547 (28.08 %) Active Directory 2 48 (2.464 %) ISA Server 3 35 (1.797 %) Backup Exec 4 33 (1.694 %) NetBackup 5 29 (1.489 %) Terminal Services 6 24 (1.232 %) Terminal Server 7 21 (1.078 %) Oracle RMAN 8 16 (0.821 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 15 (0.770 %) Oracle RAC 10 14 (0.719 %) Squid 11 11 (0.565 %) MetaFrame 12 3 (0.154 %) VMware ESX 12 3 (0.154 %) VMware Server 13 1 (0.051 %) MailMarshal
Systems Management 1 37 (1.899 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 17 (0.873 %) MOM 3 16 (0.821 %) Tivoli 4 8 (0.411 %) OpenView 4 8 (0.411 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 7 (0.359 %) WSUS 6 6 (0.308 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 6 6 (0.308 %) ARCserve 7 5 (0.257 %) OVSD 8 4 (0.205 %) SCOM 9 3 (0.154 %) DameWare 9 3 (0.154 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 2 (0.103 %) Legato 10 2 (0.103 %) SCCM 10 2 (0.103 %) HP Data Protector 11 1 (0.051 %) BMC Marimba 11 1 (0.051 %) EMC NetWorker 11 1 (0.051 %) Tivoli Monitoring 11 1 (0.051 %) MIMEsweeper	Vendors 1 738 (37.89 %) Microsoft 2 196 (10.06 %) Citrix 3 171 (8.778 %) Oracle 4 167 (8.573 %) Cisco 5 90 (4.620 %) VMware 6 68 (3.491 %) HP 7 64 (3.285 %) VERITAS 8 48 (2.464 %) IBM 9 37 (1.899 %) Avaya 10 36 (1.848 %) SAP 10 36 (1.848 %) Lotus 11 30 (1.540 %) Red Hat 11 30 (1.540 %) Sun 12 26 (1.335 %) Novell 13 23 (1.181 %) NetApp 14 19 (0.975 %) Juniper 15 18 (0.924 %) CheckPoint 16 16 (0.821 %) Wyse 17 14 (0.719 %) Symantec 17 14 (0.719 %) McAfee Security