The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure skills in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Azure over the 3 months to 23 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 Application Platforms category for the Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 79 78 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Permanent jobs citing Windows Azure 5 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 0.563% 0.552% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.183% 2.162% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 0
Average salary £34,500 £48,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.23% -
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year
-14.00% -16.66%
All Application Platforms
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
229 185 100
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 25.79% 25.55% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 195 175 95
Average salary £40,250 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.62% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,250 £27,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £61,500 £64,850
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Windows Azure
Surrey

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows Azure across the Guildford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Guildford Windows Azure Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Azure
Salary Trend

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

Guildford Windows Azure Salary Trend

Windows Azure
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region citing Windows Azure 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 Azure.

1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) Web Design
2 4 (80.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (80.00%) Flash
2 4 (80.00%) Animation
2 4 (80.00%) Information Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) CSS3
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) N-Tier
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) IIS
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region citing Windows Azure 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 Azure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) Flash
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) CSS3
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Designer
2 3 (60.00%) Web Designer
3 2 (40.00%) Flash Designer
4 1 (20.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (20.00%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Photoshop Designer
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Animation
2 1 (20.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Web Design
1 4 (80.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) OOP
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#