The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Flintshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Flintshire 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 20 6 2
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Flintshire 2.174% 16.67% 25.00%
As % of the Vendors category 11.11% 27.27% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
Average salary £42,500 £30,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.66% -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Flintshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9 11 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Flintshire 19.57% 61.11% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 1
Average salary £40,000 £30,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
North Wales

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Flintshire 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 Flintshire region.

Flintshire Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Flintshire 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 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (33.33%) Ajax
3 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) Photoshop
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) WCF
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (33.33%) MSTest
3 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) French Language
4 1 (16.67%) German Language
4 1 (16.67%) Spanish Language
4 1 (16.67%) SQL

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Flintshire 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 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) Ajax
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) WCF
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (33.33%) CSS3
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Photoshop
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MFGPRO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (33.33%) MSTest
General
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) French Language
1 1 (16.67%) German Language
1 1 (16.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) MVC
1 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
2 1 (16.67%) VBA
2 1 (16.67%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Progress
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) QAD
1 1 (16.67%) VMware