The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Livingston region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Livingston region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 19 2 11
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +9
Permanent jobs citing Windows 6 27 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Livingston 7.500% 28.42% 12.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.14% 52.94% 41.79%
Number of salaries quoted 0 21 24
Average salary - £37,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.24%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Livingston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
35 51 67
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Livingston 43.75% 53.68% 31.02%
Number of salaries quoted 18 44 40
Average salary £33,000 £37,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.00% +8.69%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
West Lothian

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Livingston 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 Livingston region.

Livingston Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 27 (93.10%) UNIX
2 25 (86.21%) Linux
3 23 (79.31%) SQL
4 21 (72.41%) Broadband
5 20 (68.97%) Degree
6 17 (58.62%) Oracle
7 14 (48.28%) Replication
8 13 (44.83%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (44.83%) SAN
8 13 (44.83%) Perl
8 13 (44.83%) Cisco
8 13 (44.83%) EMC
9 12 (41.38%) NetApp
9 12 (41.38%) Symmetrix
9 12 (41.38%) NAS
9 12 (41.38%) Symmetrix DMX
9 12 (41.38%) Brocade
10 10 (34.48%) Shell Script
10 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
10 10 (34.48%) Java
11 9 (31.03%) C#
11 9 (31.03%) T-SQL
11 9 (31.03%) VBScript
11 9 (31.03%) XML
11 9 (31.03%) SNMP
11 9 (31.03%) MS Excel
11 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
11 9 (31.03%) AWK
11 9 (31.03%) WMI
11 9 (31.03%) Altiris

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 9 (31.03%) XML
2 1 (3.448%) COM
2 1 (3.448%) Web Services
Applications
1 9 (31.03%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 21 (72.41%) Broadband
2 13 (44.83%) SAN
3 12 (41.38%) NAS
4 9 (31.03%) SNMP
4 9 (31.03%) SSH
5 1 (3.448%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.448%) Ethernet
5 1 (3.448%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Administrator
1 5 (17.24%) Storage Engineer
1 5 (17.24%) Senior Storage Engineer
1 5 (17.24%) Technical Leader
2 4 (13.79%) SAN Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Compliance Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) SAN Storage Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Developer
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Developer
3 3 (10.34%) SAN Storage Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) SAN Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Storage Specialist
4 1 (3.448%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (3.448%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.448%) Team Leader
4 1 (3.448%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.448%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.448%) Software Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) Replication
2 12 (41.38%) Symmetrix
2 12 (41.38%) Symmetrix DMX
3 7 (24.14%) Celerra
4 5 (17.24%) Firmware
5 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.448%) CLARiiON
6 1 (3.448%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 27 (93.10%) UNIX
2 25 (86.21%) Linux
3 4 (13.79%) Solaris
4 1 (3.448%) Debian
4 1 (3.448%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
2 9 (31.03%) Web Development
3 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Management
3 8 (27.59%) Incident Management
3 8 (27.59%) Customer Engagement
3 8 (27.59%) Change Management
4 6 (20.69%) Analytics
5 5 (17.24%) Service Delivery
5 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
5 5 (17.24%) Asset Management
6 4 (13.79%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) Service Management
6 4 (13.79%) Information Security
6 4 (13.79%) Risk Management
6 4 (13.79%) ITIL
7 3 (10.34%) Workflow
7 3 (10.34%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 23 (79.31%) SQL
2 13 (44.83%) Perl
3 10 (34.48%) Shell Script
3 10 (34.48%) Java
4 9 (31.03%) C#
4 9 (31.03%) T-SQL
4 9 (31.03%) VBScript
4 9 (31.03%) AWK
4 9 (31.03%) sed
5 6 (20.69%) C
6 4 (13.79%) C-shell
6 4 (13.79%) Bash shell
6 4 (13.79%) C++
6 4 (13.79%) Python
7 1 (3.448%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (68.97%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) CISMP
2 4 (13.79%) CISM
2 4 (13.79%) CISSP
3 1 (3.448%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
2 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
2 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) SRDF
1 8 (27.59%) NFS
2 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (6.897%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.448%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) WMI
2 8 (27.59%) Ionix
2 8 (27.59%) EMC TimeFinder
3 6 (20.69%) NetBackup
4 4 (13.79%) Tivoli
5 1 (3.448%) SCCM
5 1 (3.448%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Oracle
2 13 (44.83%) Cisco
2 13 (44.83%) EMC
3 12 (41.38%) NetApp
3 12 (41.38%) Brocade
4 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
5 9 (31.03%) Altiris
5 9 (31.03%) ServiceNow
6 8 (27.59%) Symantec
7 6 (20.69%) Sun
7 6 (20.69%) IBM
7 6 (20.69%) StorageTek
8 4 (13.79%) NetIQ
9 2 (6.897%) VMware
10 1 (3.448%) McAfee
10 1 (3.448%) HP
10 1 (3.448%) Citrix