The first table below looks at the demand for Windows XP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 20 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 Gloucestershire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows XP
Rank 79 86 73
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -13
Permanent jobs citing Windows XP 12 16 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.375% 1.315% 1.279%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.550% 4.278% 4.294%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 12
Average salary £24,750 £29,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.65% -35.55%
UK excluding London average salary £27,500 £26,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year
+3.77% +6.00%
All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
338 374 326
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 38.72% 30.73% 29.77%
Number of salaries quoted 275 293 278
Average salary £42,000 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.17% +21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows XP
South West

Windows XP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire Windows XP Jobs Demand Trend

Windows XP
Salary Trend

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

Gloucestershire Windows XP Salary Trend

Windows XP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows XP across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Gloucestershire Windows XP Salary Histogram

Windows XP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows XP within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Cheltenham +15 2 £24,500 -23.43%
Tewkesbury +2 1 £25,000 -23.07%
Windows XP
South West

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Windows XP 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 XP.

1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (76.19%) Microsoft
3 14 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (52.38%) VMware
4 11 (52.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (52.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (47.62%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (47.62%) MS Exchange
6 9 (42.86%) Blackberry
6 9 (42.86%) Windows 7
6 9 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2010
7 8 (38.10%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (38.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 8 (38.10%) Clearswift
7 8 (38.10%) MIMEsweeper
7 8 (38.10%) SMTP
7 8 (38.10%) MS Visio
8 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
8 6 (28.57%) Advertising
9 5 (23.81%) Citrix
9 5 (23.81%) ITIL
10 4 (19.05%) UNIX
10 4 (19.05%) MS Excel
10 4 (19.05%) Software Deployment
11 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
11 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
11 3 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (14.29%) Altiris
11 3 (14.29%) Service Management
12 2 (9.524%) Internet

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Windows XP 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 XP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (9.524%) HTML
2 1 (4.762%) CSS
2 1 (4.762%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 10 (47.62%) MS Exchange
1 10 (47.62%) Exchange Server 2003
2 9 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (38.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (4.762%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 8 (38.10%) MS Visio
2 4 (19.05%) MS Excel
3 2 (9.524%) MS Office
4 1 (4.762%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) SMTP
2 2 (9.524%) DHCP
2 2 (9.524%) Ethernet
2 2 (9.524%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.524%) VPN
2 2 (9.524%) DNS
2 2 (9.524%) Internet
2 2 (9.524%) LAN
2 2 (9.524%) WAN
3 1 (4.762%) VoIP
3 1 (4.762%) Firewall
3 1 (4.762%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.762%) TestDirector
1 1 (4.762%) LoadRunner
1 1 (4.762%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 6 (28.57%) Advertising
2 1 (4.762%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Exchange Specialist
2 4 (19.05%) IT Support
3 3 (14.29%) Tester
3 3 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Systems Tester
4 2 (9.524%) Support Technician
4 2 (9.524%) Messaging Specialist
4 2 (9.524%) Help Desk Support
4 2 (9.524%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (4.762%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.762%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.762%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.762%) AS400
2 1 (4.762%) CMDB
2 1 (4.762%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (52.38%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (42.86%) Windows 7
5 4 (19.05%) UNIX
6 2 (9.524%) Windows Vista
7 1 (4.762%) Android
7 1 (4.762%) BlackBerry OS
7 1 (4.762%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (4.762%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (23.81%) ITIL
3 4 (19.05%) Software Deployment
4 3 (14.29%) Service Management
4 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 1 (4.762%) Service Delivery
5 1 (4.762%) Business Continuity
5 1 (4.762%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.762%) Content Management
5 1 (4.762%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (4.762%) Problem Management
5 1 (4.762%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.524%) C#
1 2 (9.524%) C++
1 2 (9.524%) SQL
2 1 (4.762%) VB
2 1 (4.762%) VC++
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.524%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.524%) MCITP
3 1 (4.762%) Degree
3 1 (4.762%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (4.762%) MCP
3 1 (4.762%) CCNA
3 1 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.762%) A+ Certification
3 1 (4.762%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.762%) MCDST
3 1 (4.762%) MCTS
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (4.762%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (4.762%) Terminal Services
4 1 (4.762%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) MIMEsweeper
2 1 (4.762%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (4.762%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 11 (52.38%) VMware
3 8 (38.10%) Clearswift
4 5 (23.81%) Citrix
5 3 (14.29%) Altiris
6 1 (4.762%) Remedy
6 1 (4.762%) Mitel
6 1 (4.762%) Adobe
6 1 (4.762%) Sun
6 1 (4.762%) Oracle
6 1 (4.762%) Symbian
Gloucestershire
Skills required are; - Windows OS - XP, 7, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2. - Knowledge of HyperV or VMware... Key words; infrastructure engineer, network engineer, windows, xp, windows 7, SQL,...
Big Red Recruitment
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
You will provide 2nd Line IT Support and work with Server, Active Directory and Exchange as well as IIS, SharePoint and Cisco technology. This is a fantastic opportunity...
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Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013