Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 12 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 of the Operating Systems category for the England region.

 Microsoft Windows
Location
3 months to
12 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank956
Rank change year-on-year
Down-4Up+1
Matching permanent IT job ads103401299629560
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England13.07 %15.99 %15.56 %
As % of the Operating Systems category59.69 %64.07 %62.06 %
Salaries quoted88131125925529
Average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,000£22,000£22,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£55,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£31,500£31,500
% change year-on-year
+3.170 %-
England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
173232028347630
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England21.90 %24.96 %25.07 %
Salaries quoted146451718639932
Average salary£38,000£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.570 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,000£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£57,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£33,500£32,500£32,500
% change year-on-year
+3.070 %-
Windows UKWindows
UK

Windows
Demand Trend

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

England Windows Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

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

England Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the England region over the 3 months to 12 March 2010.

England Windows Salary Histogram

Windows
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the England region over the 3 months to 12 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-54463£45,000+12.50 %
South EastDown-62088£35,000-
East of EnglandDown-1921£32,500-
North WestUp+1819£29,000+1.75 %
South WestDown-1718£34,000+7.93 %
YorkshireDown-2495£28,500+8.57 %
East MidlandsNo change0370£28,000-6.66 %
West MidlandsDown-4358£31,500+5.00 %
North EastDown-345£32,000+6.66 %
MidlandsUp+436£72,500+48.71 %
South CoastUp+39£52,500+10.52 %
HumbersideNew entry-3£27,500-
Windows UKWindows
UK

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT jobs across the England region citing Windows 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.

15502 (27.39 %)Windows Server 2003
25400 (26.88 %)Microsoft
35258 (26.18 %)SQL Server
45104 (25.41 %)SQL
54811 (23.95 %)Active Directory
64052 (20.17 %)UNIX
73851 (19.17 %)Linux
83844 (19.14 %).NET
93669 (18.27 %)Finance
103486 (17.35 %)C#
113161 (15.74 %)Windows XP
122828 (14.08 %)MS Exchange
132760 (13.74 %)Microsoft Certification
142733 (13.61 %)C++
152706 (13.47 %)MS Excel
162528 (12.59 %)VMware
172243 (11.17 %)Oracle
182234 (11.12 %)TCP/IP
192216 (11.03 %)Windows Server 2008
202197 (10.94 %)Degree
212191 (10.91 %)MS Office
222139 (10.65 %)Citrix
232130 (10.60 %)Java
241976 (9.837 %)MCSE
251884 (9.379 %)IIS
261875 (9.334 %)Cisco
271726 (8.593 %)ASP.NET
281708 (8.503 %)Firewall
291666 (8.294 %)Banking
301592 (7.926 %)XML

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT jobs across the England region citing Windows 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13844 (19.14 %).NET
21726 (8.593 %)ASP.NET
31592 (7.926 %)XML
41072 (5.337 %)HTML
51016 (5.058 %)Web Services
6864 (4.301 %)WinForms
7711 (3.540 %)CSS
8594 (2.957 %)WPF
9588 (2.927 %)AJAX
10576 (2.868 %)WCF
11461 (2.295 %).NET Framework
12460 (2.290 %)ASP
13420 (2.091 %)WebSphere
14404 (2.011 %)J2EE
15365 (1.817 %)STL
16328 (1.633 %)MFC
17304 (1.513 %)Middleware
18284 (1.414 %)XSLT
19267 (1.329 %)Silverlight
20258 (1.284 %)XHTML
England IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12828 (14.08 %)MS Exchange
21884 (9.379 %)IIS
31586 (7.896 %)Exchange Server 2003
41227 (6.108 %)Exchange Server 2007
51074 (5.347 %)SharePoint
6665 (3.311 %)Apache
7434 (2.161 %)Tomcat
8319 (1.588 %)SharePoint Server 2007
9312 (1.553 %)Lotus Notes
10252 (1.255 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
11235 (1.170 %)WebLogic
12220 (1.095 %)Exchange Server 2000
13161 (0.802 %)BizTalk Server
14143 (0.712 %)CMS
15126 (0.627 %)WebSphere MQ
16106 (0.528 %)Lotus Domino
1787 (0.433 %)MQSeries
1871 (0.353 %)Oracle HTTP Server
1964 (0.319 %)SharePoint Portal Server
2061 (0.304 %)SAS
England IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12706 (13.47 %)MS Excel
22191 (10.91 %)MS Office
3232 (1.155 %)MS Visio
4124 (0.617 %)MS PowerPoint
5117 (0.582 %)Photoshop
693 (0.463 %)InfoPath
766 (0.329 %)MS Project
830 (0.149 %)Adobe Illustrator
927 (0.134 %)Fireworks
1025 (0.124 %)Spreadsheet
1123 (0.115 %)Acrobat
1221 (0.105 %)MATLAB
1316 (0.080 %)AutoCAD
1415 (0.075 %)QuarkXPress
158 (0.040 %)Quicktime
158 (0.040 %)SPSS
167 (0.035 %)ImageReady
176 (0.030 %)DeltaView
185 (0.025 %)MicroStation
185 (0.025 %)ProjectWise
England IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
183 (0.413 %)Dynamics CRM
183 (0.413 %)RMDS
272 (0.358 %)Microsoft CRM
339 (0.194 %)SoftGrid
436 (0.179 %)Oracle Applications
531 (0.154 %)Oracle EBS
628 (0.139 %)Oracle 11i
725 (0.124 %)Dynamics AX
820 (0.100 %)Great Plains
919 (0.095 %)Oracle EBS R12
1017 (0.085 %)Navision
1116 (0.080 %)assyst
1213 (0.065 %)ION MarketView
1213 (0.065 %)Summit
1213 (0.065 %)SAP Business One
1312 (0.060 %)BusinessWorks
1411 (0.055 %)Dynamics GP
1411 (0.055 %)Front Arena
1510 (0.050 %)Misys Opics
1510 (0.050 %)Line 50
England IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12234 (11.12 %)TCP/IP
21708 (8.503 %)Firewall
31350 (6.721 %)DNS
41286 (6.402 %)LAN
51284 (6.392 %)SAN
61192 (5.934 %)WAN
71167 (5.810 %)Internet
8937 (4.665 %)VPN
9743 (3.699 %)DHCP
10468 (2.330 %)VoIP
11271 (1.349 %)Intranet
11271 (1.349 %)NAS
12251 (1.250 %)Network Security
13230 (1.145 %)Wireless
14218 (1.085 %)SMTP
15212 (1.055 %)HTTP
16190 (0.946 %)LDAP
17171 (0.851 %)FTP
18169 (0.841 %)SSL
19144 (0.717 %)VLAN
England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15258 (26.18 %)SQL Server
21581 (7.871 %)SQL Server 2005
3789 (3.928 %)SQL Server 2000
4722 (3.594 %)SQL Server 2008
5681 (3.390 %)MySQL
6365 (1.817 %)RDBMS
7280 (1.394 %)Oracle 10g
8255 (1.269 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
9248 (1.235 %)SQL Server Integration Services
10222 (1.105 %)Crystal Reports
11199 (0.991 %)Datawarehouse
12189 (0.941 %)Oracle 8/8i
13184 (0.916 %)ETL
14163 (0.811 %)DB2
15156 (0.777 %)DTS
16139 (0.692 %)Oracle 9i
17117 (0.582 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
18116 (0.577 %)Oracle 11g
19112 (0.558 %)OLAP
20102 (0.508 %)MS Access
England IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1516 (2.569 %)Visual Studio
2185 (0.921 %)Subversion
3135 (0.672 %)NUnit
4132 (0.657 %)ClearCase
5102 (0.508 %)VSS/SourceSafe
689 (0.443 %)Ant
780 (0.398 %)Team Foundation Server
875 (0.373 %)InstallShield
972 (0.358 %)JUnit
1056 (0.279 %)QuickTest Pro
1155 (0.274 %)Maven
1254 (0.269 %)Dreamweaver
1254 (0.269 %)Eclipse
1353 (0.264 %)Oracle Forms
1452 (0.259 %)StarTeam
1539 (0.194 %)ClearQuest
1635 (0.174 %)Visual Studio Team System
1734 (0.169 %)TestDirector
1826 (0.129 %)CruiseControl
1925 (0.124 %)WinRunner
England IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13669 (18.27 %)Finance
21666 (8.294 %)Banking
3885 (4.406 %)Front Office
4760 (3.784 %)Investment Banking
5685 (3.410 %)Pensions
6625 (3.111 %)Education
7586 (2.917 %)Telecoms
8538 (2.678 %)Health
9375 (1.867 %)Insurance
10343 (1.708 %)Back Office
11318 (1.583 %)Marketing
12307 (1.528 %)Retail
13250 (1.245 %)Government
14247 (1.230 %)Financial Institution
15236 (1.175 %)Law
16197 (0.981 %)Legal
17177 (0.881 %)Games
18146 (0.727 %)Publishing
19127 (0.632 %)Manufacturing
20116 (0.577 %)Electronics
England IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14281 (21.31 %)Developer
23576 (17.80 %)Analyst
32096 (10.43 %)Support Analyst
41607 (8.000 %)Support Engineer
51275 (6.347 %)Administrator
61197 (5.959 %)Consultant
7985 (4.904 %)C# Developer
8969 (4.824 %).NET Developer
9880 (4.381 %)IT Support
10814 (4.052 %)Systems Administrator
11811 (4.037 %)C++ Developer
12792 (3.943 %)Architect
13773 (3.848 %)Technical Support
14737 (3.669 %)Senior Developer
15724 (3.604 %)Applications Support
16696 (3.465 %)Software Engineer
17620 (3.087 %)Team Leader
18587 (2.922 %)2nd Line Support
19576 (2.868 %)Desktop Support
20566 (2.818 %)DBA
England IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1823 (4.097 %)Blackberry
2671 (3.340 %)Computer Science
3628 (3.126 %)Client/Server
4604 (3.007 %)Derivative
5531 (2.644 %)Clustering
6439 (2.185 %)Fixed Income
7431 (2.146 %)Multithreading
8387 (1.927 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
9315 (1.568 %)Replication
10303 (1.508 %)Equities
11213 (1.060 %)Mathematics
11213 (1.060 %)German Language
12181 (0.901 %)French Language
13177 (0.881 %)N-Tier
14168 (0.836 %)Management Information System
14168 (0.836 %)Open Source
15157 (0.782 %)Equity Derivative
15157 (0.782 %)iPhone
16156 (0.777 %)Thin Client
16156 (0.777 %)Fat Client
England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15502 (27.39 %)Windows Server 2003
24052 (20.17 %)UNIX
33851 (19.17 %)Linux
43161 (15.74 %)Windows XP
52216 (11.03 %)Windows Server 2008
61456 (7.248 %)Windows 2000
71314 (6.542 %)Windows Vista
81024 (5.098 %)Solaris
9927 (4.615 %)Windows 2000 Server
10465 (2.315 %)Red Hat Linux
11426 (2.121 %)Windows 7
12358 (1.782 %)Windows NT
13322 (1.603 %)Windows Mobile
14317 (1.578 %)AIX
15256 (1.274 %)HPUX
16166 (0.826 %)Android
17163 (0.811 %)Windows CE
18162 (0.806 %)Mac OS X
1995 (0.473 %)CentOS
2088 (0.438 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11550 (7.716 %)ITIL
21018 (5.068 %)OO
3804 (4.003 %)Project Management
4522 (2.599 %)Agile Software Development
5483 (2.405 %)E-Commerce
6477 (2.375 %)Disaster Recovery
7474 (2.360 %)Web Development
8434 (2.161 %)Migration
9398 (1.981 %)CRM
10367 (1.827 %)Service Delivery
11329 (1.638 %)UML
12307 (1.528 %)Workflow
13301 (1.498 %)Configuration Management
14288 (1.434 %)SOA
15283 (1.409 %)Electronic Trading
16280 (1.394 %)Scrum
16280 (1.394 %)Change Management
17276 (1.374 %)Unit Testing
18261 (1.299 %)Risk Management
19258 (1.284 %)TDD
England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15104 (25.41 %)SQL
23486 (17.35 %)C#
32733 (13.61 %)C++
42130 (10.60 %)Java
51381 (6.875 %)C
61019 (5.073 %)JavaScript
7998 (4.968 %)VB
8907 (4.515 %)VB.NET
9760 (3.784 %)Perl
10597 (2.972 %)T-SQL
11531 (2.644 %)PHP
12470 (2.340 %)VBScript
13373 (1.857 %)Shell Script
14319 (1.588 %)PL/SQL
15294 (1.464 %)Python
16286 (1.424 %)VBA
17245 (1.220 %)VB6
18244 (1.215 %)VC++
19143 (0.712 %)Bash shell
20118 (0.587 %)PowerShell
England IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12760 (13.74 %)Microsoft Certification
22197 (10.94 %)Degree
31976 (9.837 %)MCSE
4919 (4.575 %)MCP
5764 (3.803 %)Cisco Certification
6692 (3.445 %)Security Cleared
7688 (3.425 %)CCNA
8497 (2.474 %)MCSA
9357 (1.777 %)MCTS
10352 (1.752 %)SC Cleared
11344 (1.713 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12331 (1.648 %)MCITP
13237 (1.180 %)Citrix Certification
14194 (0.966 %)MCSD
15177 (0.881 %)MCAD
16166 (0.826 %)ITIL Certification
17162 (0.806 %)CCA
18161 (0.802 %)ISEB
18161 (0.802 %)CCNP
19131 (0.652 %)CCEA
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1595 (2.962 %)SLA
2515 (2.564 %)QA
370 (0.348 %)ISO27001
457 (0.284 %)PCI DSS
553 (0.264 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
627 (0.134 %)ISO9001
721 (0.105 %)COBIT
819 (0.095 %)JTAG
917 (0.085 %)BS7799
108 (0.040 %)MiFID
108 (0.040 %)HL7
115 (0.025 %)ISO17799
124 (0.020 %)WCAG
124 (0.020 %)DICOM
124 (0.020 %)TickIT
124 (0.020 %)ISO9000
133 (0.015 %)BS15000
142 (0.010 %)WAI
142 (0.010 %)GxP
142 (0.010 %)ISO/IEC 20000
England IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14811 (23.95 %)Active Directory
21284 (6.392 %)VMware Infrastructure
3578 (2.877 %)VMware ESX
4339 (1.688 %)Citrix Presentation Server
5319 (1.588 %)Hyper-V
6279 (1.389 %)ISA Server
7261 (1.299 %)XenApp
8225 (1.120 %)Terminal Services
9173 (0.861 %)XenServer
10141 (0.702 %)MetaFrame
11136 (0.677 %)vSphere
12114 (0.568 %)MSMQ
13111 (0.553 %)Oracle RMAN
14104 (0.518 %)NFS
1596 (0.478 %)XenDesktop
1687 (0.433 %)Xen
1786 (0.428 %)Oracle RAC
1881 (0.403 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1974 (0.368 %)Terminal Server
2056 (0.279 %)Postfix
England IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1418 (2.081 %)SCCM
2287 (1.429 %)Backup Exec
3230 (1.145 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
4225 (1.120 %)SCOM
5166 (0.826 %)NetBackup
6149 (0.742 %)MSI
7148 (0.737 %)Norton AntiVirus
8141 (0.702 %)MOM
9133 (0.662 %)WSUS
10112 (0.558 %)OpenView
1197 (0.483 %)Tivoli
1281 (0.403 %)Data Guard
1373 (0.363 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1444 (0.219 %)Nagios
1538 (0.189 %)EMC NetWorker
1636 (0.179 %)CONTROL-M
1735 (0.174 %)Legato
1831 (0.154 %)McAfee ePO
1930 (0.149 %)AutoSys
2028 (0.139 %)HP Quality Center
England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15400 (26.88 %)Microsoft
22528 (12.59 %)VMware
32243 (11.17 %)Oracle
42139 (10.65 %)Citrix
51875 (9.334 %)Cisco
61202 (5.984 %)HP
7503 (2.504 %)IBM
8454 (2.260 %)Red Hat
9418 (2.081 %)Sybase
10378 (1.882 %)Symantec
11356 (1.772 %)Lotus
12317 (1.578 %)Reuters
13298 (1.484 %)Bloomberg
14265 (1.319 %)Altiris
15259 (1.289 %)Veritas
16256 (1.274 %)Sun
17248 (1.235 %)JBoss
18244 (1.215 %)Remedy
19243 (1.210 %)EMC
20239 (1.190 %)Dell