East of England Windows Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the East of England 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 13 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 Folkestone 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 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 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	3
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	2224	2096
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.088 %	0.900 %
As % of the category below	65.09 %	59.43 %
Salaries quoted	1890	1730
Average minimum salary	£30,225	£31,336
Average salary	£32,807	£33,541
% change on same period last year	-2.18 %
Average maximum salary	£35,388	£35,745
UK excluding London average salary	£32,401	£32,753
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Operating Systems East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	3417	3527
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.672 %	1.515 %
Salaries quoted	2864	2876
Average minimum salary	£32,326	£32,714
Average salary	£35,073	£35,281
% change on same period last year	-0.58 %
Average maximum salary	£37,820	£37,848
UK excluding London average salary	£34,684	£34,941
% change on same period last year	-0.73 %
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 of England 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 of England region.

Windows
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the East of England 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 of England 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	Cambridgeshire	0	828	£32,554	-4.87 %
2	Hertfordshire	+1	752	£33,269	-6.77 %
3	Essex	0	394	£32,329	+12.53 %
4	Bedfordshire	-1	175	£35,396	+9.41 %
5	Suffolk	-15	72	£32,817	+7.08 %
6	Norfolk	-6	53	£25,670	-18.22 %
7	East Anglia	-3	8	£46,750	+49.60 %

Windows England

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East of England 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 1350 (30.85 %) Microsoft 2 1141 (26.07 %) SQL Server 3 1071 (24.47 %) SQL 4 943 (21.55 %) Active Directory 5 913 (20.86 %) .NET 6 833 (19.04 %) Unix 7 720 (16.45 %) C++ 8 696 (15.90 %) C# 9 664 (15.17 %) Windows 2000 10 658 (15.04 %) Linux 11 608 (13.89 %) MS Exchange 12 605 (13.83 %) MS Excel 13 600 (13.71 %) Degree 14 581 (13.28 %) MS Office 15 564 (12.89 %) Microsoft Certification

16 494 (11.29 %) Windows XP 17 479 (10.95 %) Oracle 18 476 (10.88 %) TCP/IP 19 467 (10.67 %) Windows Server 2003 20 462 (10.56 %) C 21 420 (9.598 %) Exchange Server 2003 22 406 (9.278 %) IIS 23 380 (8.684 %) MCSE 24 364 (8.318 %) Citrix 25 363 (8.295 %) SQL Server 2000 26 359 (8.204 %) OO 27 354 (8.090 %) XML 28 340 (7.770 %) Java 29 336 (7.678 %) VB 30 331 (7.564 %) ASP.NET

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East of England 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 1 913 (20.86 %) .NET 2 354 (8.090 %) XML 3 331 (7.564 %) ASP.NET 4 257 (5.873 %) HTML 5 242 (5.530 %) WinForms 6 206 (4.707 %) ASP 7 161 (3.679 %) .NET Framework 8 137 (3.131 %) MFC 9 132 (3.016 %) WebServices 10 93 (2.125 %) J2EE 11 67 (1.531 %) WebSphere 12 64 (1.463 %) CSS 13 57 (1.303 %) STL 14 54 (1.234 %) COM 15 53 (1.211 %) SOAP 16 45 (1.028 %) Application Packaging 17 44 (1.005 %) ADO.NET 18 38 (0.868 %) AJAX 19 36 (0.823 %) JSP 20 35 (0.800 %) COM+	Application Platforms 1 608 (13.89 %) MS Exchange 2 420 (9.598 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 406 (9.278 %) IIS 4 292 (6.673 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 105 (2.399 %) SharePoint 6 89 (2.034 %) Lotus Notes 7 74 (1.691 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 70 (1.600 %) Apache 9 60 (1.371 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 55 (1.257 %) BizTalk Server 11 54 (1.234 %) Tomcat 12 33 (0.754 %) SharePoint Portal Server 12 33 (0.754 %) IBM HTTP Server 13 29 (0.663 %) Lotus Domino 14 27 (0.617 %) GroupWise 15 19 (0.434 %) WebLogic 16 18 (0.411 %) MQSeries 17 16 (0.366 %) WebSphere Application Server 17 16 (0.366 %) SharePoint Server 2007 18 15 (0.343 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 605 (13.83 %) MS Excel 2 581 (13.28 %) MS Office 3 65 (1.485 %) MS Visio 4 28 (0.640 %) MATLAB 5 22 (0.503 %) MS PowerPoint 6 20 (0.457 %) Photoshop 7 16 (0.366 %) MS Project 8 14 (0.320 %) AutoCAD 9 6 (0.137 %) 3ds Max 10 3 (0.069 %) CorelDRAW 10 3 (0.069 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 3 (0.069 %) InfoPath 10 3 (0.069 %) CA Clarity 11 2 (0.046 %) Fireworks 12 1 (0.023 %) ImageReady 12 1 (0.023 %) S-PLUS 12 1 (0.023 %) FrameMaker 12 1 (0.023 %) Maya	Business Applications 1 17 (0.388 %) Summit 2 11 (0.251 %) SoftGrid 3 10 (0.229 %) Navision 4 6 (0.137 %) Remedy AR System 5 5 (0.114 %) LabWindows 6 4 (0.091 %) Dynamics AX 6 4 (0.091 %) Retail-J 6 4 (0.091 %) Axapta 7 3 (0.069 %) Line 50 7 3 (0.069 %) Microsoft CRM 8 2 (0.046 %) Oracle 11i 8 2 (0.046 %) Pegasus Opera 8 2 (0.046 %) Teamcenter 8 2 (0.046 %) SAP Business One 8 2 (0.046 %) Line 100 8 2 (0.046 %) Sage MMS 9 1 (0.023 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 9 1 (0.023 %) Minerva 9 1 (0.023 %) GoldMine 9 1 (0.023 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 476 (10.88 %) TCP/IP 2 279 (6.376 %) WAN 3 265 (6.056 %) LAN 4 263 (6.010 %) DNS 5 247 (5.644 %) Firewall 6 213 (4.867 %) DHCP 7 192 (4.388 %) SAN 8 161 (3.679 %) VPN 9 146 (3.336 %) Internet 10 90 (2.057 %) Wireless 11 69 (1.577 %) HTTP 12 61 (1.394 %) WINS 13 52 (1.188 %) Intranet 14 42 (0.960 %) VoIP 15 36 (0.823 %) SMTP 15 36 (0.823 %) SNMP 16 30 (0.686 %) ISDN 17 25 (0.571 %) ADSL 18 24 (0.548 %) FTP 19 23 (0.526 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1141 (26.07 %) SQL Server 2 363 (8.295 %) SQL Server 2000 3 250 (5.713 %) SQL Server 2005 4 125 (2.856 %) MySQL 5 106 (2.422 %) RDBMS 6 104 (2.377 %) DB2 7 100 (2.285 %) DTS 8 84 (1.920 %) SQL Server 7 9 74 (1.691 %) Crystal Reports 10 56 (1.280 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 56 (1.280 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 53 (1.211 %) Oracle 10g 12 49 (1.120 %) MS Access 13 44 (1.005 %) Oracle 9i 14 36 (0.823 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 15 29 (0.663 %) Datawarehouse 16 28 (0.640 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 17 24 (0.548 %) OLAP 18 21 (0.480 %) Oracle Reports 19 20 (0.457 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 218 (4.982 %) Visual Studio 2 41 (0.937 %) MSI 3 31 (0.708 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 26 (0.594 %) LabVIEW 5 21 (0.480 %) Oracle Forms 6 17 (0.388 %) Subversion 7 15 (0.343 %) InstallShield 7 15 (0.343 %) Rational Rose 8 12 (0.274 %) Dreamweaver 9 10 (0.229 %) Eclipse 9 10 (0.229 %) PVCS 10 9 (0.206 %) ClearCase 10 9 (0.206 %) Oracle Developer 2000 11 8 (0.183 %) QuickTest Pro 12 7 (0.160 %) NUnit 13 6 (0.137 %) TestDirector 13 6 (0.137 %) AdminStudio 13 6 (0.137 %) ProC 13 6 (0.137 %) Ant 14 4 (0.091 %) WinRunner	General 1 253 (5.782 %) Finance 2 243 (5.553 %) Pensions 3 202 (4.616 %) Health 4 158 (3.611 %) Electronics 5 128 (2.925 %) Retail 6 101 (2.308 %) Telecoms 7 97 (2.217 %) Insurance 8 81 (1.851 %) Education 9 74 (1.691 %) Government 10 61 (1.394 %) Marketing 11 59 (1.348 %) Pharmaceutical 12 49 (1.120 %) Manufacturing 13 47 (1.074 %) Back Office 14 35 (0.800 %) Construction 15 34 (0.777 %) Games 16 31 (0.708 %) Automotive 17 26 (0.594 %) Banking 18 24 (0.548 %) Animation 19 22 (0.503 %) Publishing 20 19 (0.434 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 876 (20.02 %) Developer 2 793 (18.12 %) Analyst 3 454 (10.37 %) Support Analyst 4 451 (10.31 %) Software Engineer 5 364 (8.318 %) Support Engineer 6 331 (7.564 %) Administrator 7 225 (5.142 %) 2nd Line Support 8 207 (4.730 %) .NET Developer 9 204 (4.662 %) Software Developer 10 198 (4.525 %) Systems Administrator 11 192 (4.388 %) Consultant 12 173 (3.953 %) Technical Support 13 154 (3.519 %) Helpdesk Support 14 153 (3.496 %) C# Developer 15 141 (3.222 %) Desktop Support 16 140 (3.199 %) IT Support Analyst 17 125 (2.856 %) C++ Developer 18 122 (2.788 %) Helpdesk Analyst 18 122 (2.788 %) Senior Developer 19 119 (2.719 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 189 (4.319 %) Computer Science 2 100 (2.285 %) Mathematics 3 88 (2.011 %) Device Driver 4 75 (1.714 %) Clustering 5 64 (1.463 %) AS400 6 59 (1.348 %) Firmware 7 46 (1.051 %) Client/Server 8 41 (0.937 %) Blackberry 9 37 (0.846 %) EPoS 10 36 (0.823 %) Multithreading 11 35 (0.800 %) Mainframe 12 34 (0.777 %) Asset Management 13 32 (0.731 %) Physics 14 30 (0.686 %) German Language 14 30 (0.686 %) Replication 15 25 (0.571 %) EFT 16 24 (0.548 %) Chemistry 17 20 (0.457 %) CMDB 17 20 (0.457 %) Fat Client 17 20 (0.457 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 833 (19.04 %) Unix 2 664 (15.17 %) Windows 2000 3 658 (15.04 %) Linux 4 494 (11.29 %) Windows XP 5 467 (10.67 %) Windows Server 2003 6 244 (5.576 %) Windows NT 7 168 (3.839 %) Solaris 8 132 (3.016 %) AIX 9 60 (1.371 %) VxWorks 10 39 (0.891 %) NetWare 10 39 (0.891 %) Windows Mobile 11 34 (0.777 %) HPUX 12 33 (0.754 %) Windows CE 13 27 (0.617 %) Windows Vista 14 20 (0.457 %) SUSE 15 16 (0.366 %) OS/400 16 15 (0.343 %) VMS 17 14 (0.320 %) Mac OS X 17 14 (0.320 %) zOS 18 10 (0.229 %) Embedded Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 359 (8.204 %) OO 2 250 (5.713 %) ITIL 3 143 (3.268 %) Project Management 4 99 (2.262 %) UML 5 98 (2.239 %) E-Commerce 6 96 (2.194 %) Disaster Recovery 7 71 (1.622 %) OOP 8 68 (1.554 %) OOD 9 64 (1.463 %) Service Delivery 9 64 (1.463 %) CRM 10 63 (1.440 %) Migration 11 59 (1.348 %) Agile Software Development 12 51 (1.165 %) Change Management 12 51 (1.165 %) Software Testing 13 47 (1.074 %) Software Engineering 13 47 (1.074 %) Configuration Management 14 45 (1.028 %) Web Development 15 44 (1.005 %) Automated Testing 16 43 (0.983 %) Service Management 17 41 (0.937 %) CAD
Programming Languages 1 1071 (24.47 %) SQL 2 720 (16.45 %) C++ 3 696 (15.90 %) C# 4 462 (10.56 %) C 5 340 (7.770 %) Java 6 336 (7.678 %) VB 7 211 (4.822 %) JavaScript 8 197 (4.502 %) VB.NET 9 140 (3.199 %) Perl 10 116 (2.651 %) Transact-SQL 11 111 (2.537 %) PHP 12 109 (2.491 %) Python 13 81 (1.851 %) VC++ 14 80 (1.828 %) VB6 15 50 (1.143 %) VBA 16 49 (1.120 %) PL/SQL 17 40 (0.914 %) Delphi 18 39 (0.891 %) Assembly Language 19 37 (0.846 %) VBScript 20 27 (0.617 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 600 (13.71 %) Degree 2 564 (12.89 %) Microsoft Certification 3 380 (8.684 %) MCSE 4 194 (4.433 %) MCP 5 66 (1.508 %) PhD 6 64 (1.463 %) MCSA 7 58 (1.325 %) Cisco Certification 8 36 (0.823 %) CCNA 9 30 (0.686 %) ITIL Certification 10 26 (0.594 %) CCNP 11 22 (0.503 %) ISEB 11 22 (0.503 %) HND 12 16 (0.366 %) Citrix Certification 12 16 (0.366 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 13 14 (0.320 %) MCDST 13 14 (0.320 %) CCA 14 11 (0.251 %) MCSD 15 10 (0.229 %) A+ Certification 16 8 (0.183 %) Oracle Certification 16 8 (0.183 %) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 154 (3.519 %) SLA 2 117 (2.674 %) QA 3 24 (0.548 %) ISO9000 4 14 (0.320 %) ISO27001 4 14 (0.320 %) COBIT 5 8 (0.183 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 6 (0.137 %) WAI 7 4 (0.091 %) GxP 8 3 (0.069 %) TickIT 8 3 (0.069 %) 21 CFR Part 11 8 3 (0.069 %) PCI DSS 9 2 (0.046 %) BS7799 10 1 (0.023 %) ISO8583	System Software 1 943 (21.55 %) Active Directory 2 45 (1.028 %) Backup Exec 3 41 (0.937 %) Terminal Services 4 33 (0.754 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 28 (0.640 %) ISA Server 6 26 (0.594 %) MetaFrame 7 25 (0.571 %) Terminal Server 8 24 (0.548 %) VMware ESX 9 6 (0.137 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 10 5 (0.114 %) Samba 11 4 (0.091 %) VMware Workstation 12 3 (0.069 %) NetBackup 12 3 (0.069 %) WebMarshal 12 3 (0.069 %) VMware Server 12 3 (0.069 %) Novell eDirectory 13 2 (0.046 %) NFS 13 2 (0.046 %) Oracle RAC 14 1 (0.023 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 40 (0.914 %) Tivoli 2 37 (0.846 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 33 (0.754 %) ZENworks 4 29 (0.663 %) OpenView 5 21 (0.480 %) MOM 6 15 (0.343 %) CONTROL-M 7 14 (0.320 %) Netcool 7 14 (0.320 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 8 13 (0.297 %) Tivoli Monitoring 8 13 (0.297 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 9 11 (0.251 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 9 (0.206 %) OpenView Configuration Management 11 6 (0.137 %) ARCserve 11 6 (0.137 %) SCOM 12 5 (0.114 %) OVSD 13 4 (0.091 %) Unicenter 14 3 (0.069 %) Legato 14 3 (0.069 %) Nagios 14 3 (0.069 %) WSUS 15 2 (0.046 %) Oracle Statspack	Vendors 1 1350 (30.85 %) Microsoft 2 479 (10.95 %) Oracle 3 364 (8.318 %) Citrix 4 275 (6.284 %) Cisco 5 162 (3.702 %) VMware 6 146 (3.336 %) HP 7 142 (3.245 %) Lotus 8 122 (2.788 %) IBM 9 80 (1.828 %) VERITAS 10 75 (1.714 %) Novell 11 60 (1.371 %) Dell 12 59 (1.348 %) Intel 13 58 (1.325 %) Red Hat 14 52 (1.188 %) Sybase 15 49 (1.120 %) CheckPoint 16 38 (0.868 %) Remedy 17 31 (0.708 %) Symantec 18 27 (0.617 %) McAfee Security 19 26 (0.594 %) Symbian 20 22 (0.503 %) SAP