The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Server 2012 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Server 2012 over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows Server 2012 9 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.846% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.766% - -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
Average salary £30,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year
-41.66% -
All Operating Systems
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
239 311 320
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 22.46% 22.75% 20.18%
Number of salaries quoted 159 234 218
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,500 £23,300
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows Server 2012
Scotland

Windows Server 2012
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Edinburgh Windows Server 2012 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Server 2012
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Windows Server 2012 Salary Trend

Windows Server 2012
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Server 2012 across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh Windows Server 2012 Salary Histogram

Windows Server 2012
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Windows Server 2012 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 Windows Server 2012.

1 15 (100.00%) Windows
1 15 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
2 11 (73.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (53.33%) SAN
4 6 (40.00%) Hyper-V
5 5 (33.33%) VMware
5 5 (33.33%) Clustering
5 5 (33.33%) HP
6 4 (26.67%) Linux
6 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
6 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
6 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
6 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (26.67%) SCCM
6 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
6 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2012
7 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (20.00%) C
7 3 (20.00%) MCSE
8 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
8 2 (13.33%) DHCP
8 2 (13.33%) DNS
8 2 (13.33%) C#
8 2 (13.33%) SQL
8 2 (13.33%) VBScript
8 2 (13.33%) VB.NET
8 2 (13.33%) .NET

Windows Server 2012
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Windows Server 2012 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 Windows Server 2012. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
1 2 (13.33%) Lync
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (6.667%) Unified Communications
3 1 (6.667%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Systems Support Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Systems Support
3 4 (26.67%) Server Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Windows Server Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Server Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Support Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Web Support Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Web Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (6.667%) Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Clustering
2 2 (13.33%) Celerra
2 2 (13.33%) CLARiiON
3 1 (6.667%) Symmetrix
3 1 (6.667%) EMC Centera
3 1 (6.667%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
1 15 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (73.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (26.67%) Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.667%) AIX
5 1 (6.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) ITIL
1 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
1 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (6.667%) Migration
2 1 (6.667%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (20.00%) C
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) VBScript
3 2 (13.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (20.00%) MCSE
2 2 (13.33%) Server+ Certification
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (13.33%) VMware ESX
5 1 (6.667%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
2 5 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) EMC
3 2 (13.33%) Citrix
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.667%) Brocade
4 1 (6.667%) Cisco