England Windows Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows 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 over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Dursley Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle Heywood High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Leominster Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ormskirk Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	8
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	28955	29545
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	14.16 %	12.69 %
As % of the category below	59.82 %	54.36 %
Salaries quoted	24854	24096
Average minimum salary	£34,188	£34,803
Average salary	£36,831	£37,533
% change on same period last year	-1.86 %
Average maximum salary	£39,475	£40,262
UK excluding London average salary	£32,401	£32,753
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Operating Systems England
Matching permanent IT job ads	48400	54354
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	23.68 %	23.34 %
Salaries quoted	40406	42997
Average minimum salary	£36,822	£37,594
Average salary	£39,822	£40,735
% change on same period last year	-2.24 %
Average maximum salary	£42,821	£43,876
UK excluding London average salary	£34,684	£34,941
% change on same period last year	-0.73 %
Windows UK

Windows
Demand Trend

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

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Windows
Salary Histogram

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

Windows
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 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	+5	11995	£43,775	-1.34 %
2	South East	0	6992	£34,570	-2.22 %
3	East of England	-3	2224	£32,807	-2.18 %
4	North West	+2	1983	£30,101	+0.64 %
5	West Midlands	+2	1594	£29,548	-3.54 %
6	South West	0	1551	£31,003	+2.44 %
7	Yorkshire	+1	1481	£29,320	+5.46 %
8	East Midlands	+1	999	£28,997	-0.16 %
9	North East	+1	172	£30,642	+1.24 %
10	Midlands	0	162	£39,794	+7.61 %
11	South Coast	-3	1	£28,223	-32.93 %

Windows UK

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 16645 (28.88 %) Microsoft 2 14166 (24.58 %) Active Directory 3 13351 (23.16 %) SQL 4 13316 (23.10 %) SQL Server 5 12085 (20.97 %) Unix 6 10314 (17.89 %) Windows 2000 7 9742 (16.90 %) Finance 8 9338 (16.20 %) MS Exchange 9 9126 (15.83 %) Linux 10 9017 (15.64 %) MS Excel 11 8970 (15.56 %) .NET 12 8595 (14.91 %) Microsoft Certification 13 7648 (13.27 %) TCP/IP 14 7646 (13.26 %) Windows XP 15 7531 (13.07 %) C#

16 7360 (12.77 %) MS Office 17 7211 (12.51 %) Exchange Server 2003 18 7057 (12.24 %) Windows Server 2003 19 7049 (12.23 %) Oracle 20 7033 (12.20 %) C++ 21 6238 (10.82 %) Citrix 22 6232 (10.81 %) MCSE 23 5647 (9.797 %) Degree 24 5274 (9.150 %) Cisco 25 5166 (8.962 %) IIS 26 5039 (8.742 %) Java 27 4897 (8.496 %) Firewall 28 4475 (7.763 %) WAN 29 4431 (7.687 %) LAN 30 4333 (7.517 %) XML

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 8970 (15.56 %) .NET 2 4333 (7.517 %) XML 3 3712 (6.440 %) ASP.NET 4 2929 (5.081 %) HTML 5 1960 (3.400 %) ASP 6 1879 (3.260 %) WebServices 7 1794 (3.112 %) WinForms 8 1699 (2.948 %) J2EE 9 1254 (2.175 %) .NET Framework 10 1229 (2.132 %) CSS 11 1025 (1.778 %) MFC 12 897 (1.556 %) STL 13 890 (1.544 %) WebSphere 14 778 (1.350 %) AJAX 15 671 (1.164 %) JSP 16 661 (1.147 %) XSLT 17 594 (1.030 %) Middleware 18 575 (0.998 %) SOAP 19 499 (0.866 %) Spring 20 411 (0.713 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 9338 (16.20 %) MS Exchange 2 7211 (12.51 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5166 (8.962 %) IIS 4 4191 (7.271 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1995 (3.461 %) SharePoint 6 1480 (2.568 %) Lotus Notes 7 1472 (2.554 %) Apache 8 1390 (2.411 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 794 (1.377 %) Tomcat 10 710 (1.232 %) WebLogic 11 617 (1.070 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 590 (1.024 %) BizTalk Server 13 475 (0.824 %) SharePoint Server 2007 14 442 (0.767 %) JBoss 15 408 (0.708 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 16 357 (0.619 %) CMS 17 355 (0.616 %) Lotus Domino 18 269 (0.467 %) MQSeries 19 233 (0.404 %) WebSphere Application Server 20 189 (0.328 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 9017 (15.64 %) MS Excel 2 7360 (12.77 %) MS Office 3 476 (0.826 %) MS Visio 4 331 (0.574 %) Photoshop 5 313 (0.543 %) MS PowerPoint 6 282 (0.489 %) MS Project 7 89 (0.154 %) MATLAB 8 87 (0.151 %) Acrobat 9 70 (0.121 %) Fireworks 10 67 (0.116 %) AutoCAD 10 67 (0.116 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 62 (0.108 %) InfoPath 12 54 (0.094 %) QuarkXPress 13 37 (0.064 %) DeltaView 14 31 (0.054 %) RoboHelp 15 26 (0.045 %) ImageReady 15 26 (0.045 %) Paint Shop Pro 16 24 (0.042 %) Quicktime 17 22 (0.038 %) PrintSoft PReS 18 20 (0.035 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 300 (0.520 %) Microsoft CRM 2 215 (0.373 %) Dynamics CRM 3 204 (0.354 %) Summit 4 149 (0.258 %) Oracle Applications 5 141 (0.245 %) Oracle 11i 6 129 (0.224 %) Dynamics AX 7 126 (0.219 %) Axapta 8 109 (0.189 %) GoldMine 9 108 (0.187 %) Fidessa 9 108 (0.187 %) Oracle EBS 10 99 (0.172 %) Navision 11 90 (0.156 %) RMDS 12 61 (0.106 %) SoftGrid 13 51 (0.088 %) SAP Business One 14 50 (0.087 %) Oracle Financials 15 41 (0.071 %) Misys Opics 16 40 (0.069 %) Great Plains 17 34 (0.059 %) SalesLogix 18 33 (0.057 %) WebTrends 19 29 (0.050 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 7648 (13.27 %) TCP/IP 2 4897 (8.496 %) Firewall 3 4475 (7.763 %) WAN 4 4431 (7.687 %) LAN 5 4024 (6.981 %) DNS 6 3552 (6.162 %) SAN 7 3497 (6.067 %) Internet 8 3022 (5.243 %) VPN 9 2196 (3.810 %) DHCP 10 1073 (1.861 %) VoIP 11 1071 (1.858 %) WINS 12 989 (1.716 %) Wireless 13 744 (1.291 %) Intranet 14 694 (1.204 %) Network Security 15 561 (0.973 %) SMTP 16 543 (0.942 %) HTTP 17 426 (0.739 %) SMS 18 395 (0.685 %) Cisco PIX 19 359 (0.623 %) FTP 20 335 (0.581 %) ADSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13316 (23.10 %) SQL Server 2 3744 (6.495 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3249 (5.637 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1312 (2.276 %) MySQL 5 1221 (2.118 %) SQL Server 7 6 1193 (2.070 %) RDBMS 7 980 (1.700 %) Oracle 10g 8 878 (1.523 %) Oracle 9i 9 821 (1.424 %) DB2 10 664 (1.152 %) Crystal Reports 11 499 (0.866 %) Datawarehouse 12 490 (0.850 %) DTS 13 469 (0.814 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 438 (0.760 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 375 (0.651 %) MS Access 16 331 (0.574 %) BusinessObjects 17 321 (0.557 %) SQL Server Integration Services 18 254 (0.441 %) Oracle Reports 19 242 (0.420 %) GIS 20 205 (0.356 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 1898 (3.293 %) Visual Studio 2 375 (0.651 %) Flash 3 358 (0.621 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 326 (0.566 %) MSI 5 305 (0.529 %) Subversion 6 265 (0.460 %) Ant 7 253 (0.439 %) Eclipse 8 247 (0.429 %) TestDirector 9 224 (0.389 %) InstallShield 10 218 (0.378 %) NUnit 11 185 (0.321 %) Oracle Forms 12 164 (0.285 %) ClearCase 13 142 (0.246 %) WinRunner 14 128 (0.222 %) JUnit 15 123 (0.213 %) Dreamweaver 16 117 (0.203 %) PVCS 17 94 (0.163 %) Rational Rose 18 92 (0.160 %) CruiseControl 19 90 (0.156 %) LoadRunner 20 86 (0.149 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 9742 (16.90 %) Finance 2 3574 (6.200 %) Banking 3 2876 (4.989 %) Pensions 4 2224 (3.858 %) Health 5 1847 (3.204 %) Telecoms 6 1381 (2.396 %) Investment Banking 7 1274 (2.210 %) Insurance 7 1274 (2.210 %) Education 8 1216 (2.110 %) Front Office 9 1112 (1.929 %) Law 10 1055 (1.830 %) Retail 11 905 (1.570 %) Legal 12 846 (1.468 %) Back Office 13 799 (1.386 %) Government 14 777 (1.348 %) Marketing 15 661 (1.147 %) Financial Institution 16 649 (1.126 %) Games 17 418 (0.725 %) Manufacturing 18 410 (0.711 %) Electronics 19 401 (0.696 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 11221 (19.47 %) Analyst 2 10134 (17.58 %) Developer 3 6578 (11.41 %) Support Analyst 4 4341 (7.531 %) Support Engineer 5 3963 (6.875 %) Administrator 6 3752 (6.509 %) Consultant 7 2288 (3.969 %) Software Engineer 8 2247 (3.898 %) Technical Support 9 2246 (3.896 %) .NET Developer 10 2220 (3.851 %) C# Developer 11 2182 (3.785 %) Desktop Support 12 1996 (3.463 %) C++ Developer 13 1994 (3.459 %) Systems Administrator 14 1851 (3.211 %) 2nd Line Support 15 1804 (3.130 %) Architect 16 1771 (3.072 %) Applications Support 17 1696 (2.942 %) DBA 18 1537 (2.666 %) Systems Engineer 19 1481 (2.569 %) Team Leader 20 1465 (2.542 %) Helpdesk Support	Miscellaneous 1 1749 (3.034 %) Blackberry 2 1632 (2.831 %) Clustering 3 1283 (2.226 %) Derivative 4 1228 (2.130 %) Computer Science 5 1219 (2.115 %) Client/Server 6 658 (1.142 %) Multithreading 7 638 (1.107 %) Asset Management 8 616 (1.069 %) Mainframe 9 588 (1.020 %) Equities 10 576 (0.999 %) Mathematics 11 526 (0.913 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 12 521 (0.904 %) Fixed Income 13 464 (0.805 %) Replication 14 460 (0.798 %) Management Information System 15 447 (0.775 %) French Language 16 440 (0.763 %) N-Tier 17 399 (0.692 %) German Language 18 371 (0.644 %) AS400 19 354 (0.614 %) Thin Client 19 354 (0.614 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 12085 (20.97 %) Unix 2 10314 (17.89 %) Windows 2000 3 9126 (15.83 %) Linux 4 7646 (13.26 %) Windows XP 5 7057 (12.24 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3926 (6.811 %) Windows NT 7 3140 (5.447 %) Solaris 8 1286 (2.231 %) AIX 9 692 (1.201 %) HPUX 10 657 (1.140 %) Windows Mobile 11 491 (0.852 %) Mac OS X 12 337 (0.585 %) Windows CE 13 296 (0.514 %) NetWare 14 235 (0.408 %) Windows Vista 15 207 (0.359 %) VMS 16 206 (0.357 %) SUSE 17 145 (0.252 %) Debian 18 141 (0.245 %) VxWorks 19 109 (0.189 %) MVS 20 78 (0.135 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 3669 (6.365 %) ITIL 2 2942 (5.104 %) OO 3 2341 (4.061 %) Project Management 4 1275 (2.212 %) UML 5 1175 (2.038 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1012 (1.756 %) CRM 7 892 (1.547 %) Migration 8 885 (1.535 %) E-Commerce 9 877 (1.521 %) Service Delivery 10 833 (1.445 %) OOD 11 826 (1.433 %) PRINCE2 12 737 (1.279 %) Web Development 13 710 (1.232 %) Software Engineering 14 649 (1.126 %) Configuration Management 15 635 (1.102 %) Business Intelligence 16 617 (1.070 %) ERP 17 593 (1.029 %) Agile Software Development 18 563 (0.977 %) Software Testing 19 557 (0.966 %) Workflow 20 555 (0.963 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 13351 (23.16 %) SQL 2 7531 (13.07 %) C# 3 7033 (12.20 %) C++ 4 5039 (8.742 %) Java 5 3333 (5.782 %) VB 6 3090 (5.361 %) C 7 2250 (3.903 %) JavaScript 8 2021 (3.506 %) VB.NET 9 1796 (3.116 %) Perl 10 1316 (2.283 %) Transact-SQL 11 1315 (2.281 %) VC++ 12 945 (1.639 %) VBScript 13 921 (1.598 %) PHP 14 890 (1.544 %) PL/SQL 15 869 (1.508 %) VB6 16 754 (1.308 %) Shell Script 17 657 (1.140 %) VBA 18 544 (0.944 %) Python 19 275 (0.477 %) Delphi 20 243 (0.422 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 8595 (14.91 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6232 (10.81 %) MCSE 3 5647 (9.797 %) Degree 4 2899 (5.029 %) MCP 5 1809 (3.138 %) Cisco Certification 6 1597 (2.771 %) MCSA 7 1468 (2.547 %) CCNA 8 700 (1.214 %) Citrix Certification 9 552 (0.958 %) CCNP 10 535 (0.928 %) ISEB 11 428 (0.743 %) CCA 12 419 (0.727 %) CCEA 13 386 (0.670 %) MCSD 14 356 (0.618 %) ITIL Certification 15 268 (0.465 %) HND 16 226 (0.392 %) CISSP 17 206 (0.357 %) A+ Certification 18 204 (0.354 %) MCDST 19 189 (0.328 %) PRINCE2 Certification 20 185 (0.321 %) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1728 (2.998 %) SLA 2 1230 (2.134 %) QA 3 112 (0.194 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 112 (0.194 %) ISO27001 4 75 (0.130 %) COBIT 5 62 (0.108 %) ISO9000 6 59 (0.102 %) ISO9001 7 49 (0.085 %) ISO17799 8 45 (0.078 %) BS7799 9 18 (0.031 %) HMG Infosec 10 14 (0.024 %) TickIT 11 13 (0.023 %) HL7 12 10 (0.017 %) JSP 440 12 10 (0.017 %) PCI DSS 13 9 (0.016 %) WAI 14 6 (0.010 %) Basel II 15 5 (0.009 %) ISO8583 15 5 (0.009 %) ISO9002 15 5 (0.009 %) ISO/IEC 20000 15 5 (0.009 %) SNOMED CT	System Software 1 14166 (24.58 %) Active Directory 2 1047 (1.816 %) ISA Server 3 952 (1.652 %) Backup Exec 4 799 (1.386 %) NetBackup 5 771 (1.338 %) Terminal Services 6 588 (1.020 %) MetaFrame 7 574 (0.996 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 550 (0.954 %) VMware ESX 9 433 (0.751 %) Terminal Server 10 311 (0.540 %) Oracle RAC 11 289 (0.501 %) Oracle RMAN 12 133 (0.231 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 13 108 (0.187 %) Samba 14 101 (0.175 %) NFS 15 97 (0.168 %) VMware Server 16 87 (0.151 %) MSMQ 17 56 (0.097 %) MailMarshal 18 47 (0.082 %) Xen 19 37 (0.064 %) VMware Workstation 20 35 (0.061 %) Nmap
Systems Management 1 1060 (1.839 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 931 (1.615 %) MOM 3 512 (0.888 %) Tivoli 4 387 (0.671 %) OpenView 5 311 (0.540 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 294 (0.510 %) Norton AntiVirus 7 210 (0.364 %) Legato 8 187 (0.324 %) OpenView Configuration Management 8 187 (0.324 %) WSUS 9 166 (0.288 %) CONTROL-M 10 128 (0.222 %) EMC NetWorker 11 125 (0.217 %) SCOM 12 119 (0.206 %) MAILsweeper 13 115 (0.200 %) ARCserve 14 112 (0.194 %) BMC PATROL 15 104 (0.180 %) ZENworks 16 94 (0.163 %) DameWare 17 92 (0.160 %) Unicenter 18 84 (0.146 %) Nagios 19 71 (0.123 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 16645 (28.88 %) Microsoft 2 7049 (12.23 %) Oracle 3 6238 (10.82 %) Citrix 4 5274 (9.150 %) Cisco 5 3478 (6.034 %) VMware 6 3107 (5.390 %) HP 7 1668 (2.894 %) Lotus 8 1652 (2.866 %) IBM 9 1350 (2.342 %) VERITAS 10 1230 (2.134 %) Red Hat 11 1187 (2.059 %) Sybase 12 1019 (1.768 %) Sun 13 847 (1.469 %) EMC 14 830 (1.440 %) Symantec 15 822 (1.426 %) CheckPoint 16 784 (1.360 %) Dell 17 774 (1.343 %) Bloomberg 18 764 (1.325 %) Reuters 19 760 (1.318 %) SAP 20 702 (1.218 %) Novell