The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Fife region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 17 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Fife region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 8 13 6
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 7 2 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 18.42% 4.444% 25.42%
As % of the Vendors category 53.85% 10.53% 45.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 13
Average salary £27,500 - £20,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
All Vendors
Fife
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
13 19 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 34.21% 42.22% 55.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 18
Average salary £36,500 £37,500 £23,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.66% +59.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,850 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,250 £30,000 £41,450
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Scotland

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Fife region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Fife Microsoft Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft
Salary Trend

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

Fife Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Fife region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Fife 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 Fife region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Dunfermline -2 4 £29,000 - 2
Microsoft
Scotland

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Fife 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.

1 7 (46.67%) .NET
2 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (40.00%) C#
2 6 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 4 (26.67%) MVC
4 4 (26.67%) Degree
4 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) WCF
4 4 (26.67%) WPF
4 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (20.00%) VB.NET
5 3 (20.00%) jQuery
5 3 (20.00%) XML
5 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (20.00%) LAN
5 3 (20.00%) Windows
5 3 (20.00%) Electronics
5 3 (20.00%) Games
6 2 (13.33%) Finance
6 2 (13.33%) CMMI
6 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) ERP
6 2 (13.33%) HTML
6 2 (13.33%) MS Project
6 2 (13.33%) MS Office
6 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
6 2 (13.33%) CSS

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Fife 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.

Application Development
1 7 (46.67%) .NET
2 6 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (26.67%) WCF
3 4 (26.67%) WPF
3 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (20.00%) jQuery
4 3 (20.00%) XML
5 2 (13.33%) WinForms
5 2 (13.33%) CSS
5 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
5 2 (13.33%) HTML
6 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 2
6 1 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (6.667%) JSON
6 1 (6.667%) ADO.NET
6 1 (6.667%) Ajax
6 1 (6.667%) XSLT
6 1 (6.667%) MSMQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
1 1 (6.667%) Lync
1 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (13.33%) MS Project
2 2 (13.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
1 2 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.667%) MSBuild
2 1 (6.667%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (6.667%) InstallShield
2 1 (6.667%) Bugzilla
2 1 (6.667%) Subversion
2 1 (6.667%) Selenium
General
1 3 (20.00%) Electronics
1 3 (20.00%) Games
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.667%) Marketing
3 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Software Developer
4 3 (20.00%) .NET Software Developer
5 2 (13.33%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Applications Support
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Programmer
6 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) .NET Programmer
6 1 (6.667%) Software Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Mathematics
1 1 (6.667%) Physics
1 1 (6.667%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (6.667%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Linux
2 1 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) MVC
2 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (13.33%) TDD
2 2 (13.33%) ERP
2 2 (13.33%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (13.33%) CMMI
2 2 (13.33%) Earned Value Management
2 2 (13.33%) Automation Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Regression Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Web Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Manual Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Time Management
3 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
3 1 (6.667%) Project Management
3 1 (6.667%) Automated Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (6.667%) Python
4 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.667%) Ruby
4 1 (6.667%) Perl
4 1 (6.667%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (26.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.667%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.667%) MCITP
3 1 (6.667%) MCP
3 1 (6.667%) MCSD
3 1 (6.667%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.667%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (6.667%) Avaya
1 1 (6.667%) VMware
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