Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the England region.

 Microsoft
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank10910
Rank change year-on-year
Down-1Up+1
Matching permanent IT job ads9178981324306
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England11.29 %12.24 %12.64 %
As % of the Vendors category28.11 %29.32 %28.51 %
Salaries quoted7781841220866
Average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,000£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£55,000£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£33,500£33,500
% change year-on-year
+4.470 %-
England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
326533347485255
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England40.18 %41.74 %44.33 %
Salaries quoted265632727569457
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.250 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.660 %-
Microsoft UKMicrosoft
UK

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Microsoft Corporation.

Microsoft
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

England Microsoft Demand Trend

Microsoft
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft across the England region.

England Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

England Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonDown-63342£45,000+9.75 %
South EastNo change02155£40,000+8.10 %
East of EnglandDown-1741£35,000-
North WestNo change0717£30,000-0.92 %
YorkshireDown-1594£32,500+14.03 %
South WestDown-5590£32,500+1.56 %
West MidlandsUp+3517£35,000+13.82 %
East MidlandsNo change0379£32,500+1.56 %
MidlandsDown-244£50,000-28.57 %
North EastDown-1430£23,000-29.23 %
South CoastNew entry-11£52,500-
HumbersideNew entry-2£27,500-
Microsoft UKMicrosoft
UK

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the England 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.

16388 (37.44 %).NET
26283 (36.83 %)SQL Server
35593 (32.78 %)MS Excel
45480 (32.12 %)Windows
54787 (28.06 %)C#
64637 (27.18 %)SQL
73578 (20.97 %)ASP.NET
82691 (15.77 %)Finance
92647 (15.51 %)Microsoft Certification
102622 (15.37 %)Active Directory
112351 (13.78 %)MS Office
122257 (13.23 %)SQL Server 2005
132249 (13.18 %)SharePoint
142173 (12.74 %)Windows Server 2003
151873 (10.98 %)Degree
161851 (10.85 %)XML
171719 (10.08 %)MS Exchange
181489 (8.728 %)Oracle
191427 (8.364 %)JavaScript
201384 (8.112 %)HTML
211377 (8.071 %)VMware
221357 (7.954 %)MCSE
231304 (7.643 %)VB.NET
241288 (7.549 %)Cisco
251284 (7.526 %)CRM
261239 (7.262 %)Windows XP
271231 (7.215 %)Web Services
281220 (7.151 %)Citrix
291205 (7.063 %)SQL Server 2008
301178 (6.905 %)CSS

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the England 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.

England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
16388 (37.44 %).NET
23578 (20.97 %)ASP.NET
31851 (10.85 %)XML
41384 (8.112 %)HTML
51231 (7.215 %)Web Services
61178 (6.905 %)CSS
7999 (5.855 %).NET Framework
8869 (5.093 %)AJAX
9829 (4.859 %)WCF
10631 (3.698 %)WPF
11602 (3.529 %)Silverlight
12540 (3.165 %)ASP
13418 (2.450 %)WinForms
14407 (2.386 %)XSLT
15397 (2.327 %)XHTML
16311 (1.823 %)Flash
17250 (1.465 %)COM
18218 (1.278 %)Windows SharePoint Services
19212 (1.243 %)NHibernate
20207 (1.213 %)SOAP
England IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12249 (13.18 %)SharePoint
21719 (10.08 %)MS Exchange
31040 (6.096 %)IIS
4990 (5.803 %)SharePoint Server 2007
5778 (4.560 %)Exchange Server 2003
6684 (4.009 %)Exchange Server 2007
7424 (2.485 %)BizTalk Server
8321 (1.881 %)CMS
9151 (0.885 %)Apache
10149 (0.873 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
11147 (0.862 %)Office Communications Server
12146 (0.856 %)Lotus Notes
13120 (0.703 %)EPiServer
14100 (0.586 %)SAS
14100 (0.586 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1594 (0.551 %)Exchange Server 2000
1690 (0.528 %)Lotus Domino
1769 (0.404 %)WebLogic
1857 (0.334 %)Tomcat
1949 (0.287 %)Sitecore CMS
England IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
15593 (32.78 %)MS Excel
22351 (13.78 %)MS Office
3409 (2.397 %)MS Visio
4392 (2.298 %)MS Project
5334 (1.958 %)MS PowerPoint
6162 (0.950 %)InfoPath
7140 (0.821 %)Adobe Illustrator
8121 (0.709 %)Photoshop
954 (0.317 %)Spreadsheet
1022 (0.129 %)SPSS
1121 (0.123 %)Fireworks
1219 (0.111 %)Acrobat
1318 (0.106 %)QuarkXPress
1415 (0.088 %)CA Clarity
1513 (0.076 %)MATLAB
1612 (0.070 %)PrintSoft PReS
178 (0.047 %)AutoCAD
186 (0.035 %)InDesign
195 (0.029 %)Pro/ENGINEER
195 (0.029 %)ImageReady
England IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1585 (3.429 %)Dynamics CRM
2417 (2.444 %)Microsoft CRM
3368 (2.157 %)Dynamics AX
4225 (1.319 %)Axapta
5191 (1.120 %)Dynamics NAV
6163 (0.955 %)Navision
756 (0.328 %)Dynamics GP
847 (0.275 %)Great Plains
938 (0.223 %)RMDS
1037 (0.217 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1133 (0.193 %)SalesLogix
1231 (0.182 %)SoftGrid
1330 (0.176 %)Oracle Applications
1429 (0.170 %)Oracle EBS
1528 (0.164 %)Oracle 11i
1624 (0.141 %)Pivotal CRM
1722 (0.129 %)3000 Xtra
1816 (0.094 %)Line 50
1915 (0.088 %)Applix TM1
2014 (0.082 %)Google Analytics
England IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11001 (5.867 %)TCP/IP
2959 (5.621 %)Internet
3773 (4.531 %)Firewall
4708 (4.150 %)LAN
5692 (4.056 %)WAN
6660 (3.868 %)DNS
7551 (3.230 %)SAN
8484 (2.837 %)VPN
9407 (2.386 %)DHCP
10375 (2.198 %)Intranet
11252 (1.477 %)VoIP
12130 (0.762 %)Network Security
13121 (0.709 %)HTTP
14118 (0.692 %)Wireless
15106 (0.621 %)NAS
1692 (0.539 %)VLAN
1790 (0.528 %)IP Telephony
1871 (0.416 %)Ethernet
1965 (0.381 %)FTP
2064 (0.375 %)SMTP
England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16283 (36.83 %)SQL Server
22257 (13.23 %)SQL Server 2005
31205 (7.063 %)SQL Server 2008
41042 (6.107 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
5943 (5.527 %)SQL Server 2000
6880 (5.158 %)SQL Server Integration Services
7759 (4.449 %)Datawarehouse
8707 (4.144 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
9431 (2.526 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
10372 (2.180 %)BusinessObjects
11361 (2.116 %)MySQL
12308 (1.805 %)Crystal Reports
13273 (1.600 %)ETL
14260 (1.524 %)MS Access
15239 (1.401 %)RDBMS
16221 (1.295 %)DTS
17179 (1.049 %)Oracle 8/8i
18177 (1.037 %)OLAP
19164 (0.961 %)Oracle 10g
20157 (0.920 %)Oracle Reports
England IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1882 (5.170 %)Visual Studio
2326 (1.911 %)NUnit
3150 (0.879 %)Subversion
4142 (0.832 %)Team Foundation Server
592 (0.539 %)VSS/SourceSafe
677 (0.451 %)Dreamweaver
763 (0.369 %)InstallShield
856 (0.328 %)Oracle Forms
944 (0.258 %)QuickTest Pro
1043 (0.252 %)LoadRunner
1142 (0.246 %)Visual Studio Team System
1239 (0.229 %)FitNesse
1336 (0.211 %)JUnit
1435 (0.205 %)WinRunner
1531 (0.182 %)MorphX
1628 (0.164 %)WatiN
1727 (0.158 %)Expression Blend
1727 (0.158 %)TestDirector
1727 (0.158 %)ERwin
1824 (0.141 %)ClearCase
England IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12691 (15.77 %)Finance
2765 (4.484 %)Banking
3657 (3.851 %)Pensions
4637 (3.734 %)Health
5574 (3.364 %)Marketing
6565 (3.312 %)Education
7522 (3.060 %)Retail
8509 (2.983 %)Insurance
9322 (1.887 %)Telecoms
10287 (1.682 %)Investment Banking
11244 (1.430 %)Government
12226 (1.325 %)Front Office
13223 (1.307 %)Back Office
14191 (1.120 %)Manufacturing
15183 (1.073 %)Publishing
16170 (0.996 %)Legal
17141 (0.826 %)Law
18112 (0.656 %)Financial Institution
19109 (0.639 %)Games
2099 (0.580 %)Advertising
England IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15411 (31.72 %)Developer
22707 (15.87 %)Analyst
32080 (12.19 %).NET Developer
41685 (9.876 %)Consultant
51489 (8.728 %)C# Developer
61222 (7.163 %)Architect
71043 (6.113 %)Support Analyst
8742 (4.349 %)Senior Developer
9722 (4.232 %)Support Engineer
10682 (3.997 %)ASP.NET Developer
11649 (3.804 %)Web Developer
12633 (3.710 %)Administrator
13546 (3.200 %)Software Developer
14541 (3.171 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
15470 (2.755 %)Team Leader
16431 (2.526 %)DBA
17426 (2.497 %)Project Manager
18420 (2.462 %)SQL Developer
19418 (2.450 %)IT Support
20412 (2.415 %)SharePoint Developer
England IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1548 (3.212 %)Computer Science
2390 (2.286 %)Blackberry
3335 (1.964 %)Clustering
4297 (1.741 %)Client/Server
5252 (1.477 %)Replication
6242 (1.418 %)N-Tier
7227 (1.331 %)Mathematics
8190 (1.114 %)Management Information System
9186 (1.090 %)Derivative
10176 (1.032 %)Tandem
11137 (0.803 %)Open Source
12131 (0.768 %)RIA
13124 (0.727 %)Fat Client
13124 (0.727 %)Thin Client
14115 (0.674 %)Fixed Income
15114 (0.668 %)NHS
16112 (0.656 %)Statistics
17104 (0.610 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1899 (0.580 %)Multithreading
1996 (0.563 %)SaaS
England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15480 (32.12 %)Windows
22173 (12.74 %)Windows Server 2003
31239 (7.262 %)Windows XP
4991 (5.809 %)Windows Server 2008
5856 (5.017 %)Linux
6824 (4.830 %)UNIX
7603 (3.534 %)Windows Vista
8536 (3.142 %)Windows 2000
9385 (2.257 %)Windows 2000 Server
10227 (1.331 %)Windows 7
11219 (1.284 %)Solaris
12127 (0.744 %)Red Hat Linux
1366 (0.387 %)AIX
1454 (0.317 %)Mac OS X
1552 (0.305 %)Windows NT
1644 (0.258 %)Windows Mobile
1738 (0.223 %)HPUX
1824 (0.141 %)NetWare
1921 (0.123 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2020 (0.117 %)SUSE
England IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11284 (7.526 %)CRM
21079 (6.324 %)OO
31073 (6.289 %)ITIL
41030 (6.037 %)Project Management
5989 (5.797 %)Business Intelligence
6726 (4.255 %)Agile Software Development
7616 (3.611 %)E-Commerce
8602 (3.529 %)Web Development
9488 (2.860 %)ERP
10480 (2.813 %)Scrum
11452 (2.649 %)PRINCE2
12430 (2.520 %)Workflow
13410 (2.403 %)Migration
14405 (2.374 %)UML
15360 (2.110 %)TDD
16347 (2.034 %)MVC
17319 (1.870 %)SOA
18302 (1.770 %)Service Delivery
19299 (1.753 %)Content Management
20295 (1.729 %)Disaster Recovery
England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14787 (28.06 %)C#
24637 (27.18 %)SQL
31427 (8.364 %)JavaScript
41304 (7.643 %)VB.NET
51055 (6.184 %)T-SQL
6918 (5.381 %)Java
7914 (5.357 %)VB
8870 (5.099 %)C++
9581 (3.405 %)C
10347 (2.034 %)PHP
11304 (1.782 %)VBA
12301 (1.764 %)VBScript
13265 (1.553 %)PL/SQL
14211 (1.237 %)VB6
15131 (0.768 %)Perl
16109 (0.639 %)PowerShell
1796 (0.563 %)Shell Script
1891 (0.533 %)X++
1982 (0.481 %)VC++
2073 (0.428 %)Delphi
England IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12647 (15.51 %)Microsoft Certification
21873 (10.98 %)Degree
31357 (7.954 %)MCSE
4754 (4.419 %)MCP
5589 (3.452 %)Cisco Certification
6496 (2.907 %)CCNA
7458 (2.684 %)Security Cleared
8389 (2.280 %)MCTS
9364 (2.134 %)MCITP
10339 (1.987 %)MCSA
11323 (1.893 %)MCSD
12252 (1.477 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13245 (1.436 %)MCAD
14217 (1.272 %)SC Cleared
15198 (1.161 %)Citrix Certification
16164 (0.961 %)ITIL Certification
17145 (0.850 %)CCNP
18142 (0.832 %)CCA
19126 (0.739 %)ISEB
20125 (0.733 %)CCEA
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1393 (2.303 %)SLA
2336 (1.969 %)QA
375 (0.440 %)ISO27001
440 (0.234 %)PCI DSS
526 (0.152 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
625 (0.147 %)ISO9001
722 (0.129 %)BS7799
722 (0.129 %)ISO17799
819 (0.111 %)COBIT
918 (0.106 %)ISO9000
1014 (0.082 %)HL7
116 (0.035 %)BS15000
116 (0.035 %)TickIT
125 (0.029 %)ISO14001
134 (0.023 %)WAI
143 (0.018 %)ISO/IEC 20000
152 (0.012 %)CESG Infosec
152 (0.012 %)JSP 440
161 (0.006 %)DICOM
161 (0.006 %)Dublin Core
England IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12622 (15.37 %)Active Directory
2792 (4.642 %)VMware Infrastructure
3241 (1.413 %)VMware ESX
4195 (1.143 %)ISA Server
5187 (1.096 %)Hyper-V
6176 (1.032 %)XenApp
7141 (0.826 %)Citrix Presentation Server
8138 (0.809 %)vSphere
9133 (0.780 %)Terminal Services
10117 (0.686 %)XenServer
11115 (0.674 %)XenDesktop
1297 (0.569 %)MetaFrame
1377 (0.451 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1460 (0.352 %)MSMQ
1549 (0.287 %)Terminal Server
1636 (0.211 %)Oracle RAC
1735 (0.205 %)Oracle RMAN
1832 (0.188 %)Xen
1928 (0.164 %)VMware Workstation
2022 (0.129 %)NFS
England IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1298 (1.747 %)SCCM
2228 (1.336 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
3186 (1.090 %)Backup Exec
4137 (0.803 %)SCOM
582 (0.481 %)WSUS
672 (0.422 %)Norton AntiVirus
763 (0.369 %)MSI
857 (0.334 %)NetBackup
953 (0.311 %)MOM
1039 (0.229 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1039 (0.229 %)OpenView
1121 (0.123 %)ZENworks
1121 (0.123 %)Data Guard
1220 (0.117 %)SCVMM
1319 (0.111 %)McAfee ePO
1415 (0.088 %)DameWare
1415 (0.088 %)ARCserve
1415 (0.088 %)Tivoli
1415 (0.088 %)CONTROL-M
1513 (0.076 %)CiscoWorks
England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11489 (8.728 %)Oracle
21377 (8.071 %)VMware
31288 (7.549 %)Cisco
41220 (7.151 %)Citrix
5764 (4.478 %)HP
6372 (2.180 %)Business Objects
7347 (2.034 %)IBM
8298 (1.747 %)SAP
9258 (1.512 %)Adobe
10214 (1.254 %)Cognos
11213 (1.248 %)Symantec
12182 (1.067 %)Lotus
13177 (1.037 %)EMC
14162 (0.950 %)Dell
15157 (0.920 %)Sun
16148 (0.867 %)Sybase
17135 (0.791 %)Bloomberg
18132 (0.774 %)Remedy
19129 (0.756 %)Altiris
20125 (0.733 %)Red Hat