The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 7 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 Operating Systems category for the Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 51 47 39
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7 8 14 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.660% 2.536% 3.368%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.692% 18.92% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 12
Average salary £32,000 £19,000 £21,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+68.42% -11.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,800 £14,900 £18,600
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £39,700 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Operating Systems
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
104 74 119
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 21.58% 13.41% 30.83%
Number of salaries quoted 89 69 106
Average salary £30,000 £28,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -25.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £17,030 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £47,000 £43,700
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 7
North West

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Lancashire Windows 7 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 7
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Lancashire region.

Lancashire Windows 7 Salary Trend

Windows 7
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Lancashire Windows 7 Salary Histogram

Windows 7
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Skelmersdale +3 2 - -
Blackpool +2 2 £23,000 -
Preston - 2 £35,000 -
Blackburn 0 1 £29,000 +70.29%
Ormskirk - 1 - -
Windows 7
North West

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing Windows 7 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 7.

1 27 (100.00%) Windows
2 23 (85.19%) Microsoft
3 22 (81.48%) Windows XP
4 21 (77.78%) MS Office
5 20 (74.07%) Active Directory
6 16 (59.26%) VPN
7 15 (55.56%) Oracle
7 15 (55.56%) SQL Server
8 10 (37.04%) SQL
8 10 (37.04%) Firewall
8 10 (37.04%) Windows 8
9 9 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
9 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (29.63%) Citrix
10 8 (29.63%) IIS
10 8 (29.63%) Oracle Forms
10 8 (29.63%) SharePoint
10 8 (29.63%) iPhone
11 7 (25.93%) Office 365
11 7 (25.93%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (25.93%) Blackberry
12 5 (18.52%) MS Excel
13 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
13 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (11.11%) SCCM
14 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
14 3 (11.11%) SLA
14 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (7.407%) Finance
15 2 (7.407%) Retail

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing Windows 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (7.407%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (29.63%) IIS
1 8 (29.63%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.407%) MS Exchange
3 1 (3.704%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 21 (77.78%) MS Office
2 7 (25.93%) Office 365
3 5 (18.52%) MS Excel
4 2 (7.407%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 16 (59.26%) VPN
2 10 (37.04%) Firewall
3 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.407%) WAN
4 2 (7.407%) LAN
5 1 (3.704%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.704%) VoIP
5 1 (3.704%) DHCP
5 1 (3.704%) DNS
5 1 (3.704%) MPLS
5 1 (3.704%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 9 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
3 7 (25.93%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.704%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (7.407%) MSI
General
1 2 (7.407%) Finance
1 2 (7.407%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Support Technician
2 14 (51.85%) IT Support
3 13 (48.15%) IT Support Technician
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (7.407%) Service Analyst
5 2 (7.407%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (3.704%) Desktop Technician
6 1 (3.704%) Service Desk Team Leader
6 1 (3.704%) Desktop Support
6 1 (3.704%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.704%) Help Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.704%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.704%) Desktop Support Technician
6 1 (3.704%) Rollout Engineer
6 1 (3.704%) Service Desk Manager
6 1 (3.704%) Service Manager
6 1 (3.704%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.704%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) iPhone
2 7 (25.93%) Blackberry
3 2 (7.407%) EPoS
4 1 (3.704%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.704%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.704%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.704%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (81.48%) Windows XP
3 10 (37.04%) Windows 8
4 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (7.407%) Windows Vista
6 2 (7.407%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (3.704%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (7.407%) Incident Management
1 2 (7.407%) ITIL
1 2 (7.407%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (7.407%) Software Deployment
1 2 (7.407%) ITSM
2 1 (3.704%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (3.704%) Information Security
2 1 (3.704%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) SQL
2 2 (7.407%) C#
2 2 (7.407%) Java
2 2 (7.407%) VBScript
2 2 (7.407%) VB
2 2 (7.407%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.407%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.704%) MCSE
4 1 (3.704%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (74.07%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.704%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.704%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) SCCM
2 2 (7.407%) WMI
2 2 (7.407%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (3.704%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (85.19%) Microsoft
2 15 (55.56%) Oracle
3 8 (29.63%) Citrix
4 1 (3.704%) Veeam
4 1 (3.704%) HP
4 1 (3.704%) Intel
4 1 (3.704%) McAfee
4 1 (3.704%) Cisco
4 1 (3.704%) Avaya
4 1 (3.704%) VMware
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