The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 7 over the 3 months to 24 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 Leicestershire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 71 67 56
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7 10 8 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 1.439% 1.143% 1.136%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.135% 4.211% 6.122%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 6
Average salary £32,500 £27,000 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.37% -3.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,000 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £37,000 £31,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Operating Systems
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
163 190 98
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 23.45% 27.14% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 134 166 93
Average salary £37,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.71% +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,650 £25,000 £22,800
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £41,637 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 7
East Midlands

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Windows 7 Salary Trend

Windows 7
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Leicester -9 8 £32,500 +20.37%
Loughborough - 2 £41,000 -
Market Harborough - 2 £30,500 -
Windows 7
East Midlands

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (85.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 12 (60.00%) MS Exchange
4 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
5 11 (55.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
7 9 (45.00%) Windows XP
7 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (45.00%) MCP
7 9 (45.00%) Change Control
8 7 (35.00%) VMware
9 6 (30.00%) Information Security
9 6 (30.00%) Firewall
9 6 (30.00%) Back Office
9 6 (30.00%) FTP
9 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
9 6 (30.00%) IIS
9 6 (30.00%) Direct Marketing
9 6 (30.00%) MCTS
9 6 (30.00%) Marketing
9 6 (30.00%) Problem Management
10 4 (20.00%) Windows 8
11 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
11 3 (15.00%) MS Office
11 3 (15.00%) WAN
11 3 (15.00%) MS Excel
11 3 (15.00%) SLA
11 3 (15.00%) Citrix

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 Platforms
1 12 (60.00%) MS Exchange
2 6 (30.00%) IIS
3 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (5.000%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (5.000%) Lotus Domino
4 1 (5.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) MS Office
1 3 (15.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Firewall
1 6 (30.00%) FTP
1 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.00%) WAN
2 3 (15.00%) Intranet
2 3 (15.00%) Internet
2 3 (15.00%) Wireless
2 3 (15.00%) DMZ
3 2 (10.00%) DHCP
3 2 (10.00%) DNS
4 1 (5.000%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (30.00%) Back Office
1 6 (30.00%) Marketing
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.000%) French Language
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) IT Support
3 8 (40.00%) Analyst
4 6 (30.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (30.00%) Senior Support Engineer
4 6 (30.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (30.00%) Senior IT Support
5 3 (15.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Support Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Project Manager
5 3 (15.00%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (15.00%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Systems Manager
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Team Leader
6 2 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 2 (10.00%) Network Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (10.00%) EPoS
2 2 (10.00%) Firmware
3 1 (5.000%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.000%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (85.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (55.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (45.00%) Windows XP
5 4 (20.00%) Windows 8
6 1 (5.000%) Mac OS X Server
6 1 (5.000%) Windows Vista
6 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (5.000%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Change Control
2 6 (30.00%) Information Security
2 6 (30.00%) Direct Marketing
2 6 (30.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (15.00%) Migration
3 3 (15.00%) Service Management
3 3 (15.00%) Project Management
3 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (10.00%) Change Management
4 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.000%) Time Management
5 1 (5.000%) ITIL
5 1 (5.000%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) C
1 2 (10.00%) VBScript
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.000%) VB
2 1 (5.000%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 9 (45.00%) MCP
2 6 (30.00%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.000%) Symantec
4 1 (5.000%) Lotus
4 1 (5.000%) Apple