England Windows XP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the 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 XP over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Accrington Amersham Ascot Avon Aylesbury Baldock Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billingham Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Castleford Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London Clapham Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Heywood High Wycombe Hitchin Horley Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Jersey Keighley Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Pembrokeshire Perthshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rossendale Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swanley Swindon Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Thetford Tipton Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	98	131
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching permanent IT job ads	3872	3144
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.898 %	1.392 %
As % of the category below	7.987 %	5.960 %
Salaries quoted	3437	2577
Average minimum salary	£26,619	£28,109
Average salary	£28,470	£30,096
% change on same period last year	-5.40 %
Average maximum salary	£30,321	£32,083
UK excluding London average salary	£25,925	£27,245
% change on same period last year	-4.84 %
Operating Systems England
Matching permanent IT job ads	48478	52753
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	23.77 %	23.35 %
Salaries quoted	40434	41791
Average minimum salary	£36,778	£37,627
Average salary	£39,772	£40,773
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
Average maximum salary	£42,766	£43,919
UK excluding London average salary	£34,651	£34,981
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Windows XP UK

Windows XP
Demand Trend

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

Windows XP
Salary Trend

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

Windows XP
Salary Histogram

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

Windows XP
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows XP within the 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	London	+38	1662	£32,284	-4.76 %
2	South East	+23	982	£26,487	-5.85 %
3	East of England	-4	261	£26,762	-2.80 %
4	North West	+24	240	£27,050	-17.06 %
5	West Midlands	+5	215	£24,049	+3.95 %
6	East Midlands	+43	179	£24,530	+0.96 %
6	Yorkshire	+19	179	£23,241	-2.96 %
7	South West	-38	143	£26,726	+12.06 %
8	North East	+7	28	£22,391	-17.92 %
9	Midlands	0	14	£24,500	+0.68 %

Windows XP UK

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Windows XP 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 XP.

1 7660 (98.44 %) Windows 2 3074 (39.51 %) Active Directory 3 2993 (38.47 %) Microsoft 4 2822 (36.27 %) MS Office 5 2035 (26.15 %) MS Exchange 6 2005 (25.77 %) MS Excel 7 1666 (21.41 %) TCP/IP 8 1503 (19.32 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 1497 (19.24 %) Microsoft Certification 10 1298 (16.68 %) SQL 11 1288 (16.55 %) Windows 2000 12 1206 (15.50 %) Windows Server 2003 13 1117 (14.36 %) SQL Server 14 1033 (13.28 %) Finance 15 980 (12.59 %) MCSE

16 968 (12.44 %) LAN 17 913 (11.73 %) WAN 18 784 (10.08 %) Citrix 18 784 (10.08 %) MCP 19 756 (9.716 %) Exchange Server 2000 20 720 (9.253 %) ITIL 21 704 (9.048 %) Cisco 22 695 (8.932 %) Linux 23 693 (8.906 %) Internet 23 693 (8.906 %) Firewall 24 656 (8.431 %) VPN 25 646 (8.302 %) Unix 26 633 (8.135 %) Degree 27 530 (6.811 %) Windows NT 28 501 (6.439 %) DNS

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Windows XP 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 XP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 415 (5.334 %) .NET 2 219 (2.815 %) HTML 3 158 (2.031 %) XML 4 155 (1.992 %) ASP.NET 5 116 (1.491 %) ASP 6 93 (1.195 %) Application Packaging 7 60 (0.771 %) J2EE 8 54 (0.694 %) WebServices 9 44 (0.565 %) JSP 10 43 (0.553 %) CSS 11 39 (0.501 %) COM+ 12 35 (0.450 %) STL 12 35 (0.450 %) Swing 12 35 (0.450 %) .NET Framework 13 28 (0.360 %) ODBC 14 24 (0.308 %) SOAP 14 24 (0.308 %) X-Windows 15 23 (0.296 %) Windows SharePoint Services 15 23 (0.296 %) AWT 15 23 (0.296 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 2035 (26.15 %) MS Exchange 2 1503 (19.32 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 756 (9.716 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 479 (6.156 %) IIS 5 376 (4.832 %) Lotus Notes 6 280 (3.599 %) SharePoint 7 199 (2.558 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 77 (0.990 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 9 66 (0.848 %) Apache 10 53 (0.681 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 41 (0.527 %) Lotus Domino 12 40 (0.514 %) GroupWise 13 33 (0.424 %) WebLogic 14 29 (0.373 %) WorkSite 15 28 (0.360 %) JBoss 16 24 (0.308 %) Tomcat 17 22 (0.283 %) CMS 18 14 (0.180 %) Rhythmyx 18 14 (0.180 %) SharePoint Server 2007 19 12 (0.154 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 2822 (36.27 %) MS Office 2 2005 (25.77 %) MS Excel 3 98 (1.259 %) MS PowerPoint 4 40 (0.514 %) MS Project 5 35 (0.450 %) MS Visio 6 34 (0.437 %) Photoshop 7 29 (0.373 %) Acrobat 8 23 (0.296 %) AutoCAD 9 21 (0.270 %) DeltaView 10 19 (0.244 %) QuarkXPress 11 17 (0.218 %) Adobe Illustrator 12 4 (0.051 %) MATLAB 12 4 (0.051 %) CorelDRAW 13 3 (0.039 %) CA Clarity 14 2 (0.026 %) 3ds Max 14 2 (0.026 %) InDesign 15 1 (0.013 %) InfoPath 15 1 (0.013 %) Quicktime	Business Applications 1 31 (0.398 %) Fidessa 2 27 (0.347 %) RMDS 3 26 (0.334 %) Summit 4 19 (0.244 %) Misys Opics 5 16 (0.206 %) Microsoft CRM 6 13 (0.167 %) Navision 7 11 (0.141 %) assyst 8 9 (0.116 %) FRONT ARENA 9 7 (0.090 %) FLEXCUBE 9 7 (0.090 %) Bankmaster 9 7 (0.090 %) SAP Business One 10 6 (0.077 %) MarketView 10 6 (0.077 %) Oracle Applications 11 5 (0.064 %) e-Work 11 5 (0.064 %) Oracle Financials 11 5 (0.064 %) arcHouse 12 4 (0.051 %) Oracle 11i 12 4 (0.051 %) Oracle EBS 12 4 (0.051 %) Remedy AR System 12 4 (0.051 %) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking 1 1666 (21.41 %) TCP/IP 2 968 (12.44 %) LAN 3 913 (11.73 %) WAN 4 693 (8.906 %) Internet 4 693 (8.906 %) Firewall 5 656 (8.431 %) VPN 6 501 (6.439 %) DNS 7 322 (4.138 %) DHCP 8 247 (3.174 %) VoIP 9 190 (2.442 %) Wireless 10 152 (1.953 %) WINS 11 147 (1.889 %) Intranet 12 135 (1.735 %) SAN 13 114 (1.465 %) SMS 14 78 (1.002 %) ADSL 15 65 (0.835 %) Network Security 16 52 (0.668 %) Cisco PIX 17 48 (0.617 %) DSL 18 45 (0.578 %) PBX 19 44 (0.565 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1117 (14.36 %) SQL Server 2 305 (3.920 %) SQL Server 2000 3 218 (2.802 %) SQL Server 2005 4 131 (1.684 %) SQL Server 7 5 107 (1.375 %) MS Access 6 85 (1.092 %) MySQL 7 62 (0.797 %) Crystal Reports 8 46 (0.591 %) RDBMS 8 46 (0.591 %) BusinessObjects 9 42 (0.540 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 36 (0.463 %) Oracle 9i 10 36 (0.463 %) Oracle 10g 11 34 (0.437 %) DB2 12 28 (0.360 %) Datawarehouse 13 25 (0.321 %) InterSystems Cache 14 22 (0.283 %) Informix 15 21 (0.270 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 21 (0.270 %) GIS 16 19 (0.244 %) Oracle Reports 17 17 (0.218 %) FileMaker
Development Applications 1 132 (1.696 %) Visual Studio 2 85 (1.092 %) MSI 3 80 (1.028 %) InstallShield 4 52 (0.668 %) TestDirector 5 27 (0.347 %) WinRunner 6 23 (0.296 %) Flash 7 22 (0.283 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 22 (0.283 %) LoadRunner 8 14 (0.180 %) XDE 9 12 (0.154 %) Eclipse 10 11 (0.141 %) Oracle Forms 10 11 (0.141 %) NUnit 11 10 (0.129 %) Dreamweaver 12 9 (0.116 %) ClearCase 13 8 (0.103 %) ClearQuest 14 6 (0.077 %) FrontPage 15 5 (0.064 %) QARun 15 5 (0.064 %) PVCS 16 4 (0.051 %) Ant 16 4 (0.051 %) JDeveloper	General 1 1033 (13.28 %) Finance 2 391 (5.025 %) Pensions 3 323 (4.151 %) Banking 4 261 (3.354 %) Law 5 254 (3.264 %) Telecoms 6 226 (2.905 %) Health 7 216 (2.776 %) Education 8 193 (2.480 %) Legal 9 145 (1.864 %) Back Office 10 135 (1.735 %) Insurance 11 133 (1.709 %) Retail 12 109 (1.401 %) Marketing 13 106 (1.362 %) Games 14 98 (1.259 %) Investment Banking 15 90 (1.157 %) Financial Institution 16 89 (1.144 %) Front Office 17 70 (0.900 %) Government 18 63 (0.810 %) Construction 19 57 (0.733 %) Manufacturing 20 49 (0.630 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 2474 (31.80 %) Analyst 2 1703 (21.89 %) Support Analyst 3 886 (11.39 %) Support Engineer 4 849 (10.91 %) Desktop Support 5 572 (7.351 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 563 (7.236 %) Administrator 7 547 (7.030 %) 2nd Line Support 8 539 (6.927 %) Helpdesk Support 9 444 (5.706 %) IT Support Analyst 10 330 (4.241 %) Systems Administrator 11 327 (4.203 %) Developer 12 324 (4.164 %) Technical Support 13 321 (4.125 %) Desktop Analyst 14 309 (3.971 %) 1st Line Support 15 300 (3.856 %) Support Technician 16 293 (3.766 %) Desktop Support Analyst 17 257 (3.303 %) Service Analyst 18 235 (3.020 %) Service Desk Analyst 19 227 (2.917 %) Consultant 20 224 (2.879 %) IT Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 492 (6.323 %) Blackberry 2 128 (1.645 %) PDA 2 128 (1.645 %) Computer Science 3 126 (1.619 %) Client/Server 4 92 (1.182 %) Asset Management 5 88 (1.131 %) Derivative 6 85 (1.092 %) EPoS 7 79 (1.015 %) Equities 8 77 (0.990 %) Clustering 9 65 (0.835 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 10 64 (0.823 %) Management Information System 11 63 (0.810 %) AS400 12 62 (0.797 %) Fixed Income 13 45 (0.578 %) Thin Client 13 45 (0.578 %) Fat Client 14 42 (0.540 %) French Language 15 37 (0.476 %) Fund Management 16 36 (0.463 %) Video Conferencing 16 36 (0.463 %) Mathematics 17 31 (0.398 %) German Language
Operating Systems 1 7660 (98.44 %) Windows 2 1288 (16.55 %) Windows 2000 3 1206 (15.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 695 (8.932 %) Linux 5 646 (8.302 %) Unix 6 530 (6.811 %) Windows NT 7 200 (2.570 %) Mac OS X 8 136 (1.748 %) Solaris 9 131 (1.684 %) Windows Vista 10 68 (0.874 %) AIX 11 60 (0.771 %) NetWare 12 33 (0.424 %) Windows XP Embedded 13 27 (0.347 %) VxWorks 14 26 (0.334 %) MVS 15 23 (0.296 %) Mac OS X Server 15 23 (0.296 %) Windows CE 16 18 (0.231 %) Windows Mobile 16 18 (0.231 %) Debian 17 14 (0.180 %) VMS 18 13 (0.167 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 720 (9.253 %) ITIL 2 167 (2.146 %) Project Management 3 114 (1.465 %) Migration 4 111 (1.427 %) OO 5 109 (1.401 %) Configuration Management 6 105 (1.349 %) Document Management 7 90 (1.157 %) Disaster Recovery 8 88 (1.131 %) Service Delivery 9 82 (1.054 %) Service Management 9 82 (1.054 %) Incident Management 10 81 (1.041 %) CRM 11 71 (0.912 %) PRINCE2 12 64 (0.823 %) Problem Management 13 55 (0.707 %) Web Development 14 54 (0.694 %) Investment Management 15 53 (0.681 %) Software Testing 16 45 (0.578 %) ERP 17 43 (0.553 %) Validation 17 43 (0.553 %) Electronic Trading 18 42 (0.540 %) Supplier Management
Programming Languages 1 1298 (16.68 %) SQL 2 316 (4.061 %) VB 3 289 (3.714 %) C++ 4 264 (3.393 %) C# 5 239 (3.072 %) C 6 222 (2.853 %) Java 7 178 (2.288 %) JavaScript 8 169 (2.172 %) VBScript 9 117 (1.504 %) VB.NET 10 87 (1.118 %) VB6 11 81 (1.041 %) Perl 12 74 (0.951 %) PHP 13 72 (0.925 %) VBA 14 49 (0.630 %) PL/SQL 15 48 (0.617 %) Shell Script 16 27 (0.347 %) VC++ 17 24 (0.308 %) Transact-SQL 18 22 (0.283 %) Delphi 19 19 (0.244 %) MUMPS 20 18 (0.231 %) Python	Qualifications 1 1497 (19.24 %) Microsoft Certification 2 980 (12.59 %) MCSE 3 784 (10.08 %) MCP 4 633 (8.135 %) Degree 5 336 (4.318 %) MCSA 6 161 (2.069 %) Cisco Certification 7 139 (1.786 %) CCNA 8 94 (1.208 %) MCDST 9 90 (1.157 %) A+ Certification 10 73 (0.938 %) MOS 11 55 (0.707 %) ITIL Certification 12 48 (0.617 %) Network+ Certification 13 46 (0.591 %) ISEB 14 36 (0.463 %) CCNP 15 27 (0.347 %) Novell Certification 15 27 (0.347 %) Citrix Certification 16 23 (0.296 %) HNC 17 22 (0.283 %) HND 18 19 (0.244 %) MCTS 19 18 (0.231 %) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 281 (3.611 %) SLA 2 83 (1.067 %) QA 3 9 (0.116 %) ISO9001 4 4 (0.051 %) GxP 4 4 (0.051 %) ISO9000 5 2 (0.026 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 2 (0.026 %) ISO17799 6 1 (0.013 %) GAMP	System Software 1 3074 (39.51 %) Active Directory 2 235 (3.020 %) Backup Exec 3 136 (1.748 %) Terminal Services 4 131 (1.684 %) ISA Server 5 91 (1.170 %) MetaFrame 6 68 (0.874 %) Terminal Server 7 47 (0.604 %) VMware ESX 8 43 (0.553 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 38 (0.488 %) NetBackup 10 28 (0.360 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 11 14 (0.180 %) VMware Server 12 10 (0.129 %) VMware Workstation 13 8 (0.103 %) NFS 14 7 (0.090 %) Novell eDirectory 15 6 (0.077 %) VMware GSX 16 3 (0.039 %) NDS 17 2 (0.026 %) Oracle RAC 18 1 (0.013 %) Oracle RMAN 18 1 (0.013 %) AquaLogic 18 1 (0.013 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 202 (2.596 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 104 (1.337 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 90 (1.157 %) MOM 4 50 (0.643 %) WSUS 5 49 (0.630 %) OpenView Configuration Management 6 40 (0.514 %) DameWare 7 27 (0.347 %) OpenView 8 25 (0.321 %) Tivoli 8 25 (0.321 %) CONTROL-M 9 21 (0.270 %) ZENworks 10 19 (0.244 %) Foglight 10 19 (0.244 %) EMC Navisphere 10 19 (0.244 %) OMEGAMON 11 18 (0.231 %) Legato 12 17 (0.218 %) EMC NetWorker 13 16 (0.206 %) Unicenter 14 15 (0.193 %) ARCserve 15 9 (0.116 %) SCOM 16 7 (0.090 %) BMC Marimba 16 7 (0.090 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 2993 (38.47 %) Microsoft 2 784 (10.08 %) Citrix 3 704 (9.048 %) Cisco 4 441 (5.668 %) Lotus 5 433 (5.565 %) HP 6 359 (4.614 %) Oracle 7 279 (3.586 %) Bloomberg 8 265 (3.406 %) Reuters 8 265 (3.406 %) VMware 9 177 (2.275 %) VERITAS 10 172 (2.211 %) Remedy 11 154 (1.979 %) Apple 12 153 (1.966 %) Dell 13 147 (1.889 %) Symantec 14 142 (1.825 %) Novell 15 121 (1.555 %) Altiris 16 118 (1.517 %) Red Hat 17 115 (1.478 %) IBM 18 101 (1.298 %) CheckPoint 19 96 (1.234 %) Adobe