The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Halesowen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Halesowen region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 1 - 1
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows 3 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halesowen 100.00% - 100.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
Average salary £35,000 - £17,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Halesowen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
3 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halesowen 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
Average salary £35,000 - £17,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
West Midlands

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halesowen Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Halesowen Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Halesowen region citing Windows 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.

1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) MS Exchange
2 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (42.86%) SonicWALL
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
4 2 (28.57%) VBScript
4 2 (28.57%) VB
4 2 (28.57%) IIS
4 2 (28.57%) MS Office
4 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 2 (28.57%) CSS
4 2 (28.57%) XML
4 2 (28.57%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
4 2 (28.57%) CRM
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) HP

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Halesowen region citing Windows 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) MDX
2 2 (28.57%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) MS Exchange
1 4 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (28.57%) IIS
3 2 (28.57%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (28.57%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Office
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
1 2 (28.57%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) IPsec
2 2 (28.57%) Intranet
2 2 (28.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Automotive
1 2 (28.57%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior SharePoint Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Support
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Support Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Installations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Technician
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Thin Client
1 2 (28.57%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) OO
1 2 (28.57%) CRM
1 2 (28.57%) Workflow
1 2 (28.57%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 2 (28.57%) VBScript
3 2 (28.57%) VB
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) XenApp
2 2 (28.57%) XenDesktop
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
3 1 (14.29%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
1 2 (28.57%) SCOM
1 2 (28.57%) WMI
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) SonicWALL
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Citrix
3 2 (28.57%) NetApp
3 2 (28.57%) ProCurve
3 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) Kaseya
4 1 (14.29%) Kaspersky