The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 22 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 Gloucester 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 19 18 15
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 35 51 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester 14.58% 12.44% 12.44%
As % of the Vendors category 32.41% 26.98% 44.07%
Number of salaries quoted 23 47 25
Average salary £42,000 £37,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.00% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,800 £25,000 £24,400
10% offered a salary of more than £76,000 £45,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Gloucester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
108 189 59
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester 45.00% 46.10% 28.23%
Number of salaries quoted 77 158 51
Average salary £38,000 £40,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +19.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £28,600 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,944 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Gloucestershire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Gloucester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Gloucester Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester 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 53 (55.21%) MS Excel
2 44 (45.83%) Cisco
3 42 (43.75%) SMTP
3 42 (43.75%) Internet
4 40 (41.67%) ISA Server
4 40 (41.67%) Juniper
4 40 (41.67%) Firewall
4 40 (41.67%) HTTP
4 40 (41.67%) DNS
4 40 (41.67%) LDAP
4 40 (41.67%) MS Exchange
4 40 (41.67%) Squid
4 40 (41.67%) Load Balancing
5 38 (39.58%) Linux
6 37 (38.54%) SaaS
7 34 (35.42%) UNIX
7 34 (35.42%) SQL
8 33 (34.38%) Perl
8 33 (34.38%) Python
8 33 (34.38%) Bash shell
9 31 (32.29%) qmail
9 31 (32.29%) Postfix
9 31 (32.29%) Sendmail
9 31 (32.29%) Shell Script
10 29 (30.21%) SQL Server
11 27 (28.13%) Windows
11 27 (28.13%) Security Cleared
12 26 (27.08%) SC Cleared
13 21 (21.88%) DV Cleared
14 17 (17.71%) Finance

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester 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 15 (15.63%) .NET
2 13 (13.54%) XML
3 10 (10.42%) ASP.NET
4 7 (7.292%) CSS
5 6 (6.250%) HTML
6 5 (5.208%) XHTML
7 4 (4.167%) XSD
7 4 (4.167%) XSLT
8 3 (3.125%) Application Packaging
9 2 (2.083%) LAMP
9 2 (2.083%) Hibernate
9 2 (2.083%) COM
9 2 (2.083%) Spring
9 2 (2.083%) Ajax
10 1 (1.042%) SAP Basis
10 1 (1.042%) jQuery
10 1 (1.042%) ADO.NET
10 1 (1.042%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 40 (41.67%) MS Exchange
2 6 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (5.208%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (5.208%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.208%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (4.167%) Apache
5 3 (3.125%) IIS
6 1 (1.042%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.042%) SAS
6 1 (1.042%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 53 (55.21%) MS Excel
2 6 (6.250%) MS Office
3 4 (4.167%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.042%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.042%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 6 (6.250%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.167%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (4.167%) Maximo
3 1 (1.042%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 42 (43.75%) SMTP
1 42 (43.75%) Internet
2 40 (41.67%) Firewall
2 40 (41.67%) HTTP
2 40 (41.67%) DNS
2 40 (41.67%) LDAP
3 10 (10.42%) SAN
4 9 (9.375%) SNMP
4 9 (9.375%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.167%) VPN
5 4 (4.167%) Network Security
6 1 (1.042%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.042%) NAS
6 1 (1.042%) LAN
6 1 (1.042%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (30.21%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (11.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 7 (7.292%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (5.208%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (3.125%) MySQL
9 2 (2.083%) SQL Server 2005
10 1 (1.042%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 1 (1.042%) Base SAS
10 1 (1.042%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 1 (1.042%) TOAD
10 1 (1.042%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (1.042%) DTS
Development Applications
1 5 (5.208%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 17 (17.71%) Finance
2 4 (4.167%) Military
2 4 (4.167%) Banking
2 4 (4.167%) Retail
2 4 (4.167%) Marketing
3 1 (1.042%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 24 (25.00%) Developer
2 20 (20.83%) Administrator
3 19 (19.79%) Consultant
3 19 (19.79%) Technical Consultant
4 15 (15.63%) Support Consultant
4 15 (15.63%) Technical Support
4 15 (15.63%) Technical Support Consultant
5 10 (10.42%) Business Developer
5 10 (10.42%) Linux Consultant
5 10 (10.42%) UNIX Consultant
5 10 (10.42%) UNIX Support
5 10 (10.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 10 (10.42%) Linux Support
5 10 (10.42%) Linux Administrator
5 10 (10.42%) UNIX Administrator
6 8 (8.333%) Analyst
7 7 (7.292%) Architect
8 6 (6.250%) Test Analyst
8 6 (6.250%) .NET Developer
9 5 (5.208%) Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 37 (38.54%) SaaS
2 11 (11.46%) Clustering
3 7 (7.292%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.292%) Blackberry
4 4 (4.167%) Visualisation
5 3 (3.125%) AS400
6 2 (2.083%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.042%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 38 (39.58%) Linux
2 34 (35.42%) UNIX
3 27 (28.13%) Windows
4 8 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (3.125%) Windows 7
6 3 (3.125%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.042%) Solaris
7 1 (1.042%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.67%) Load Balancing
2 16 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (8.333%) CRM
4 6 (6.250%) Unit Testing
4 6 (6.250%) Test Scripting
4 6 (6.250%) Systems Analysis
4 6 (6.250%) Technical Architecture
5 5 (5.208%) Business Analysis
5 5 (5.208%) Waterfall
5 5 (5.208%) ITIL
5 5 (5.208%) OO
6 4 (4.167%) Security Architecture
6 4 (4.167%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (4.167%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (4.167%) Manual Testing
6 4 (4.167%) Release Management
6 4 (4.167%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (4.167%) V-Model
6 4 (4.167%) Performance Management
6 4 (4.167%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 34 (35.42%) SQL
2 33 (34.38%) Perl
2 33 (34.38%) Python
2 33 (34.38%) Bash shell
3 31 (32.29%) Shell Script
4 14 (14.58%) C#
5 10 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.292%) VB.NET
7 5 (5.208%) VBA
8 4 (4.167%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.125%) Java
9 3 (3.125%) VB
10 2 (2.083%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.083%) C++
10 2 (2.083%) Delphi
10 2 (2.083%) PHP
11 1 (1.042%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.08%) SC Cleared
3 21 (21.88%) DV Cleared
4 12 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.375%) MCSA
5 9 (9.375%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (9.375%) CCNA
6 5 (5.208%) Degree
7 3 (3.125%) MCP
8 2 (2.083%) ISEB
8 2 (2.083%) MCITP
9 1 (1.042%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.083%) SLA
2 1 (1.042%) QA
System Software
1 40 (41.67%) ISA Server
1 40 (41.67%) Squid
2 31 (32.29%) qmail
2 31 (32.29%) Postfix
2 31 (32.29%) Sendmail
3 11 (11.46%) Active Directory
4 7 (7.292%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.083%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (9.375%) Zenoss
2 4 (4.167%) Netcool
2 4 (4.167%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 4 (4.167%) Tivoli
2 4 (4.167%) MIMEsweeper
3 3 (3.125%) SCCM
3 3 (3.125%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 44 (45.83%) Cisco
2 40 (41.67%) Juniper
3 12 (12.50%) Oracle
4 10 (10.42%) NetApp
5 8 (8.333%) VMware
6 5 (5.208%) Clearswift
6 5 (5.208%) Remedy
7 4 (4.167%) BMC
7 4 (4.167%) IBM
8 3 (3.125%) LANDesk
8 3 (3.125%) Lumension
8 3 (3.125%) McAfee
9 2 (2.083%) Apple
9 2 (2.083%) Citrix
9 2 (2.083%) LogiXML
10 1 (1.042%) Northgate
10 1 (1.042%) Business Objects
10 1 (1.042%) SAP
10 1 (1.042%) HP
10 1 (1.042%) Red Hat
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