The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 17 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 Exeter region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 4 12 16
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Windows 31 29 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Exeter 27.93% 13.55% 9.231%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.89% 40.85% 52.17%
Number of salaries quoted 31 26 12
Average salary £36,750 £31,500 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +18.86%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,800 £27,000 £20,300
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £41,500 £33,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Exeter
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
45 71 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Exeter 40.54% 33.18% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 45 63 23
Average salary £33,000 £30,212 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.22% +31.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,800 £25,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £33,000 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
Devon

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Exeter Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the Exeter region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Exeter Windows Salary Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Exeter 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.

1 46 (54.76%) SQL Server
2 43 (51.19%) C#
3 42 (50.00%) SLA
4 40 (47.62%) Java
5 36 (42.86%) Data Modelling
6 35 (41.67%) .NET
7 31 (36.90%) SQL
8 29 (34.52%) Windows XP
9 27 (32.14%) VB
9 27 (32.14%) Windows 7
10 26 (30.95%) SQL Server 2008
10 26 (30.95%) VB.NET
10 26 (30.95%) C++
11 25 (29.76%) VB6
11 25 (29.76%) SQL Server 2005
12 18 (21.43%) Microsoft
13 13 (15.48%) VMware
13 13 (15.48%) MS Excel
14 10 (11.90%) Windows Server 2003
14 10 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (11.90%) Unit Testing
14 10 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (11.90%) Database Security
15 9 (10.71%) T-SQL
15 9 (10.71%) Linux
16 8 (9.524%) ITIL
16 8 (9.524%) Active Directory
16 8 (9.524%) SCCM
16 8 (9.524%) WSUS
16 8 (9.524%) Windows Server 2008

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Exeter 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.

Application Development
1 35 (41.67%) .NET
2 7 (8.333%) ASP.NET
2 7 (8.333%) CSS
2 7 (8.333%) HTML
3 6 (7.143%) XML
4 5 (5.952%) XHTML
5 4 (4.762%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (2.381%) Silverlight
6 2 (2.381%) jQuery
6 2 (2.381%) Web Services
6 2 (2.381%) Middleware
6 2 (2.381%) Ajax
7 1 (1.190%) WinForms
7 1 (1.190%) XSD
7 1 (1.190%) Servlets
7 1 (1.190%) J2EE
7 1 (1.190%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.190%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (1.190%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 1 (1.190%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 6 (7.143%) IIS
1 6 (7.143%) Apache
2 5 (5.952%) MS Exchange
3 4 (4.762%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.381%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.381%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.190%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.190%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.190%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 13 (15.48%) MS Excel
2 5 (5.952%) MS Office
3 3 (3.571%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.190%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.333%) SAN
2 6 (7.143%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.952%) LAN
4 4 (4.762%) DNS
5 3 (3.571%) DHCP
6 2 (2.381%) WAN
6 2 (2.381%) VPN
6 2 (2.381%) Internet
7 1 (1.190%) IPsec
7 1 (1.190%) PBX
7 1 (1.190%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (54.76%) SQL Server
2 26 (30.95%) SQL Server 2008
3 25 (29.76%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (5.952%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (5.952%) DTS
5 4 (4.762%) RDBMS
5 4 (4.762%) Firebird
6 3 (3.571%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.190%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (1.190%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.190%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (8.333%) Retail
2 2 (2.381%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.190%) Finance
3 1 (1.190%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 42 (50.00%) Developer
2 32 (38.10%) Programmer
3 17 (20.24%) C# Developer
4 16 (19.05%) .NET Developer
4 16 (19.05%) C# .NET Developer
5 15 (17.86%) C# Programmer
5 15 (17.86%) .NET Programmer
6 11 (13.10%) Analyst
7 10 (11.90%) Database Developer
7 10 (11.90%) SQL Database Developer
7 10 (11.90%) SQL Programmer
7 10 (11.90%) SQL Developer
7 10 (11.90%) SQL Server Developer
8 8 (9.524%) Java Developer
8 8 (9.524%) DBA
9 7 (8.333%) Software Engineer
9 7 (8.333%) Administrator
9 7 (8.333%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (8.333%) Java Programmer
10 6 (7.143%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.762%) Client/Server
2 3 (3.571%) Clustering
3 2 (2.381%) iPhone
3 2 (2.381%) iPad
3 2 (2.381%) Firmware
3 2 (2.381%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.190%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 29 (34.52%) Windows XP
2 27 (32.14%) Windows 7
3 10 (11.90%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (10.71%) Linux
5 8 (9.524%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (5.952%) Windows 2000 Server
7 3 (3.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.571%) AIX
8 2 (2.381%) UNIX
8 2 (2.381%) Windows Mobile
8 2 (2.381%) Windows 8
9 1 (1.190%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.190%) Windows Vista
9 1 (1.190%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 10 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (11.90%) Unit Testing
2 10 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (11.90%) Database Security
3 8 (9.524%) ITIL
4 7 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (8.333%) Service Delivery
5 5 (5.952%) Problem Management
6 4 (4.762%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (4.762%) OO
6 4 (4.762%) CRM
7 3 (3.571%) Configuration Management
7 3 (3.571%) Network Load Balancing
8 2 (2.381%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (1.190%) Release Management
9 1 (1.190%) Time Management
9 1 (1.190%) Data Protection
9 1 (1.190%) Project Management
9 1 (1.190%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (51.19%) C#
2 40 (47.62%) Java
3 31 (36.90%) SQL
4 27 (32.14%) VB
5 26 (30.95%) VB.NET
5 26 (30.95%) C++
6 25 (29.76%) VB6
7 9 (10.71%) T-SQL
8 7 (8.333%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.762%) PHP
9 4 (4.762%) Delphi
9 4 (4.762%) Ruby
10 3 (3.571%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.190%) VBScript
11 1 (1.190%) VBA
11 1 (1.190%) Python
11 1 (1.190%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 6 (7.143%) MCP
1 6 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (5.952%) Degree
2 5 (5.952%) MCSE
3 4 (4.762%) CCA
3 4 (4.762%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.571%) CCNA
5 1 (1.190%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (50.00%) SLA
2 2 (2.381%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.524%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.952%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.952%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.762%) XenServer
4 3 (3.571%) XenDesktop
4 3 (3.571%) XenApp
4 3 (3.571%) ISA Server
4 3 (3.571%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (3.571%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.190%) Terminal Server
5 1 (1.190%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.190%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 8 (9.524%) WSUS
1 8 (9.524%) SCCM
2 7 (8.333%) SCOM
3 5 (5.952%) Nagios
3 5 (5.952%) Backup Exec
4 3 (3.571%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 18 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.48%) VMware
3 7 (8.333%) Red Hat
4 6 (7.143%) Oracle
4 6 (7.143%) Citrix
5 5 (5.952%) CommVault
5 5 (5.952%) Bomgar
5 5 (5.952%) Dell
6 4 (4.762%) Cisco
6 4 (4.762%) HP
7 3 (3.571%) IBM
7 3 (3.571%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 1 (1.190%) NetApp
8 1 (1.190%) McAfee
8 1 (1.190%) ESRI
Exeter, South West
The successful candidate will have experience of Windows, Microsoft Exchange, VMWare and Networking related projects. You will be an important aspect of a proficient team who are very...
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Training & Benefits.
Posted: 15 May 2013
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We are looking for a 3rd Line Network Engineer to work within a very successful international company with offices based inExeter. You will be a key factor to...
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Training & Benefits.
Posted: 15 May 2013
Exeter, South West
The role is based within Exeter and you'll be at the forefront of our client's server & network function. The successful candidate will have Windows, VMWare and...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Training & Benefits.
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Global Technology Solutions Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £38500 per annum + ben
Posted: 16 May 2013
Exeter, Devon
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Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
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