The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP 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 XP over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows XP
Rank 66 64 94
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +30
Permanent jobs citing Windows XP 19 31 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.771% 2.258% 0.722%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.631% 9.968% 3.448%
Number of salaries quoted 14 30 9
Average salary £26,750 £29,125 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.15% +26.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,100 £21,000 £16,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,700 £32,500 £36,300
UK excluding London average salary £27,500 £26,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year
+3.77% +6.00%
All Operating Systems
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
249 311 319
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 23.21% 22.65% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 163 235 217
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 £23,500 £24,000
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 XP
Scotland

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Windows XP Jobs Demand Trend

Windows XP
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Windows XP Salary Trend

Windows XP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Edinburgh Windows XP Salary Histogram

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Windows XP 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 XP.

1 28 (100.00%) Windows
2 20 (71.43%) MS Office
3 16 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 14 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 12 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 12 (42.86%) Windows 7
6 11 (39.29%) Active Directory
7 10 (35.71%) MS Exchange
8 8 (28.57%) Citrix
9 7 (25.00%) SharePoint
9 7 (25.00%) VMware
10 6 (21.43%) SLA
10 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (21.43%) SQL
10 6 (21.43%) ITIL
11 5 (17.86%) MS Excel
11 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
11 5 (17.86%) Interwoven
11 5 (17.86%) UNIX
11 5 (17.86%) Law
11 5 (17.86%) Legal
11 5 (17.86%) Document Management
12 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
12 4 (14.29%) Blackberry
12 4 (14.29%) Cisco
13 3 (10.71%) Juniper
13 3 (10.71%) Lotus
13 3 (10.71%) Apple
13 3 (10.71%) CRM
13 3 (10.71%) Windows 2000

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Windows XP 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 XP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (7.143%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 10 (35.71%) MS Exchange
2 7 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (10.71%) Lotus Notes
3 3 (10.71%) Lync
4 2 (7.143%) WorkSite
4 2 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (7.143%) CMS
Applications
1 20 (71.43%) MS Office
2 5 (17.86%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.143%) VPN
1 2 (7.143%) Extranet
1 2 (7.143%) DHCP
2 1 (3.571%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.571%) MySQL
2 1 (3.571%) DB2
General
1 5 (17.86%) Law
1 5 (17.86%) Legal
2 2 (7.143%) Finance
3 1 (3.571%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.571%) Back Office
3 1 (3.571%) Automotive
3 1 (3.571%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) IT Trainer
1 5 (17.86%) Trainer
2 4 (14.29%) Service Desk Team Leader
2 4 (14.29%) Legal IT Trainer
2 4 (14.29%) Team Leader
2 4 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Support Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.143%) Service Desk Technician
4 2 (7.143%) Technical Support Consultant
4 2 (7.143%) Software Support Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Support Consultant
4 2 (7.143%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.143%) Applications Support
4 2 (7.143%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (7.143%) Technical Support
4 2 (7.143%) Consultant
5 1 (3.571%) Graduate
5 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (3.571%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 3 (10.71%) Mainframe
3 2 (7.143%) Replication
4 1 (3.571%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (42.86%) Windows 7
4 5 (17.86%) UNIX
5 3 (10.71%) Windows 2000
6 2 (7.143%) Windows Vista
6 2 (7.143%) Linux
7 1 (3.571%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) ITIL
2 5 (17.86%) Document Management
3 3 (10.71%) CRM
3 3 (10.71%) Practice Management
3 3 (10.71%) ITIL V3
4 1 (3.571%) RDF
4 1 (3.571%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.571%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (7.143%) VB
2 2 (7.143%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.71%) MCSA
3 1 (3.571%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.571%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.571%) vSphere
3 1 (3.571%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) DameWare
2 2 (7.143%) SCCM
2 2 (7.143%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) Citrix
3 7 (25.00%) VMware
4 5 (17.86%) Interwoven
5 4 (14.29%) Cisco
6 3 (10.71%) Juniper
6 3 (10.71%) Lotus
6 3 (10.71%) Apple
7 2 (7.143%) Oracle
7 2 (7.143%) HP
7 2 (7.143%) Dell
8 1 (3.571%) CommVault
8 1 (3.571%) Symantec
8 1 (3.571%) AppSense
8 1 (3.571%) Altiris
8 1 (3.571%) SolarWinds