The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Harpenden 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 Harpenden 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 2 1 6
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 24 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harpenden 77.42% 100.00% 12.50%
As % of the Vendors category 92.31% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Harpenden
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
26 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harpenden 83.87% 100.00% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 25 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Hertfordshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Harpenden 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 Harpenden region.

Harpenden Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Harpenden region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Harpenden Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Harpenden 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 24 (72.73%) .NET
2 22 (66.67%) C#
2 22 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 22 (66.67%) MVC
3 15 (45.45%) ASP.NET
3 15 (45.45%) Windows
4 11 (33.33%) MCP
4 11 (33.33%) MCAD
4 11 (33.33%) MCSD
4 11 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 11 (33.33%) SQL
4 11 (33.33%) Scrum
4 11 (33.33%) WinForms
4 11 (33.33%) MCTS
4 11 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 11 (33.33%) WCF
4 11 (33.33%) WPF
4 11 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (33.33%) Kanban
4 11 (33.33%) Spring.NET
4 11 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 11 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
4 11 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
4 11 (33.33%) MSTest
4 11 (33.33%) MVVM
4 11 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
4 11 (33.33%) Moq
4 11 (33.33%) Castle Windsor
4 11 (33.33%) Ninject

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Harpenden 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 24 (72.73%) .NET
2 15 (45.45%) ASP.NET
3 11 (33.33%) WinForms
3 11 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 11 (33.33%) WCF
3 11 (33.33%) WPF
3 11 (33.33%) Spring.NET
3 11 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 11 (33.33%) Castle Windsor
3 11 (33.33%) Ninject
3 11 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
3 11 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 11 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
4 10 (30.30%) HTML
4 10 (30.30%) HTML5
4 10 (30.30%) jQuery
4 10 (30.30%) Ajax
4 10 (30.30%) CSS
5 7 (21.21%) SOAP
5 7 (21.21%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.061%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 5 (15.15%) MS Office
3 1 (3.030%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) ADSL
1 4 (12.12%) GPRS
1 4 (12.12%) VPN
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) NUnit
1 11 (33.33%) MSTest
1 11 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
1 11 (33.33%) Moq
2 3 (9.091%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (6.061%) Finance
1 2 (6.061%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (66.67%) Developer
2 15 (45.45%) .NET Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Support Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Software Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Applications Support
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Support Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Support Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 15 (45.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) MVC
2 11 (33.33%) Scrum
2 11 (33.33%) TDD
2 11 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (33.33%) Kanban
2 11 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 11 (33.33%) MVVM
2 11 (33.33%) Web Application Development
3 10 (30.30%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (27.27%) CRM
5 5 (15.15%) OO
6 2 (6.061%) Service Management
6 2 (6.061%) Workflow
6 2 (6.061%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (66.67%) C#
2 11 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 11 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) PHP
4 3 (9.091%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) MCP
1 11 (33.33%) MCAD
1 11 (33.33%) MCSD
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (33.33%) MCTS
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle
1 4 (12.12%) Cisco
1 4 (12.12%) Trapeze
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