Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the London region.

 Microsoft
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank191313
Rank change year-on-year
Down-6No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads334232088829
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London8.586 %10.10 %10.47 %
As % of the Vendors category22.36 %24.61 %23.66 %
Salaries quoted276226657501
Average salary£45,000£41,000£42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.750 %-3.520 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£68,000£62,650£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£33,500£33,500
% change year-on-year
+4.470 %-
London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
149431303337320
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London38.39 %41.04 %44.26 %
Salaries quoted118671045129804
Average salary£50,000£47,500£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.260 %-5.000 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£72,500£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.660 %-
Microsoft EnglandMicrosoft
England

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Microsoft Corporation.

Microsoft
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

London Microsoft Demand Trend

Microsoft
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft across the London region.

London Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonDown-2992£45,000-
Docklands, LondonDown-153£37,000-35.65 %
CroydonDown-229£26,000-29.72 %
LutonDown-620£31,250-9.42 %
HammersmithDown-216£50,000+11.11 %
Kingston Upon ThamesUp+1014£41,250+8.55 %
BromleyUp+112£25,000+16.27 %
ClaphamDown-310--
Canary WharfDown-610£50,000-37.50 %
WestminsterUp+39£21,500-
UxbridgeDown-209£35,000-6.66 %
TwickenhamNew entry-9£28,000-
FelthamDown-46£22,500-25.00 %
BeckenhamNew entry-6£25,000-
GreenfordNew entry-5--
ChessingtonUp+13£19,500-23.52 %
HounslowUp+13£25,000+11.11 %
HarrowUp+32£26,000-42.22 %
New MaldenNew entry-2£40,000-
West DraytonNew entry-2£37,500-
BrentfordUp+11£37,500+31.57 %
BarnetNo change01£21,500-52.48 %
IlfordDown-71£17,500-20.45 %
RomfordDown-71£31,000+3.33 %
HillingdonNew entry-1£33,000-
IsleworthNew entry-1£40,000-
OrpingtonNew entry-1£27,500-
UpminsterNew entry-1£32,500-
Microsoft EnglandMicrosoft
England

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the London 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.

12260 (35.61 %).NET
22160 (34.04 %)SQL Server
31997 (31.47 %)MS Excel
41930 (30.41 %)Windows
51694 (26.69 %)C#
61673 (26.36 %)SQL
71642 (25.87 %)Finance
81221 (19.24 %)ASP.NET
9977 (15.40 %)Active Directory
10942 (14.84 %)MS Office
11916 (14.43 %)SharePoint
12888 (13.99 %)SQL Server 2005
13850 (13.39 %)Microsoft Certification
14739 (11.65 %)Degree
15700 (11.03 %)Windows Server 2003
16651 (10.26 %)Banking
17648 (10.21 %)SQL Server 2008
18634 (9.991 %)MS Exchange
19596 (9.392 %)XML
20544 (8.572 %)Oracle
21503 (7.926 %)Windows XP
22500 (7.879 %)OO
23491 (7.737 %)Business Intelligence
24472 (7.438 %)TCP/IP
25467 (7.359 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
26463 (7.296 %)T-SQL
27450 (7.091 %)CRM
28448 (7.060 %)SQL Server Integration Services
29441 (6.949 %)VMware
30424 (6.681 %)JavaScript

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the London 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.

London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12260 (35.61 %).NET
21221 (19.24 %)ASP.NET
3596 (9.392 %)XML
4412 (6.492 %)WCF
5384 (6.051 %)WPF
6374 (5.893 %)HTML
7370 (5.830 %)CSS
8359 (5.657 %).NET Framework
9353 (5.563 %)Web Services
10352 (5.547 %)Silverlight
11275 (4.333 %)AJAX
12218 (3.435 %)WinForms
13198 (3.120 %)Flash
14145 (2.285 %)Adobe Flex
15133 (2.096 %)COM
16131 (2.064 %)XSLT
17126 (1.986 %)ASP
18125 (1.970 %)XHTML
19104 (1.639 %)Windows SharePoint Services
20103 (1.623 %)WebSphere
London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1916 (14.43 %)SharePoint
2634 (9.991 %)MS Exchange
3410 (6.461 %)SharePoint Server 2007
4332 (5.232 %)Exchange Server 2003
5309 (4.869 %)Exchange Server 2007
6270 (4.255 %)IIS
7153 (2.411 %)CMS
8146 (2.301 %)BizTalk Server
9116 (1.828 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1074 (1.166 %)Lotus Notes
1150 (0.788 %)Apache
1150 (0.788 %)SAS
1249 (0.772 %)EPiServer
1345 (0.709 %)Exchange Server 2000
1443 (0.678 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1542 (0.662 %)Office Communications Server
1640 (0.630 %)Immediacy CMS
1739 (0.615 %)WebSphere MQ
1838 (0.599 %)WebLogic
1936 (0.567 %)Sitecore CMS
London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11997 (31.47 %)MS Excel
2942 (14.84 %)MS Office
3216 (3.404 %)MS Visio
4172 (2.710 %)MS PowerPoint
5169 (2.663 %)MS Project
6130 (2.049 %)Adobe Illustrator
785 (1.339 %)InfoPath
851 (0.804 %)Photoshop
927 (0.425 %)Spreadsheet
1014 (0.221 %)QuarkXPress
1110 (0.158 %)SPSS
1110 (0.158 %)Acrobat
128 (0.126 %)MATLAB
137 (0.110 %)PrintSoft PReS
137 (0.110 %)CA Clarity
146 (0.095 %)Fireworks
155 (0.079 %)ImageReady
164 (0.063 %)S-PLUS
172 (0.032 %)Adobe Director
172 (0.032 %)Shockwave
London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1193 (3.041 %)Dynamics CRM
2152 (2.395 %)Microsoft CRM
381 (1.276 %)Dynamics AX
459 (0.930 %)Axapta
550 (0.788 %)Dynamics NAV
638 (0.599 %)RMDS
729 (0.457 %)Navision
729 (0.457 %)Great Plains
821 (0.331 %)3000 Xtra
912 (0.189 %)ION MarketView
1011 (0.173 %)Singl.eView
1011 (0.173 %)SAP FI
1011 (0.173 %)SAP FI/CO
1011 (0.173 %)SAP CO
119 (0.142 %)Pivotal CRM
128 (0.126 %)Dynamics GP
137 (0.110 %)Kondor+
137 (0.110 %)Beauchamp
146 (0.095 %)SAP SD
155 (0.079 %)SAP R/3
London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1472 (7.438 %)TCP/IP
2388 (6.114 %)Internet
3285 (4.491 %)DNS
4246 (3.876 %)Firewall
5230 (3.624 %)LAN
6218 (3.435 %)WAN
7213 (3.356 %)VPN
8191 (3.010 %)SAN
9169 (2.663 %)DHCP
10126 (1.986 %)Intranet
1174 (1.166 %)VoIP
1244 (0.693 %)Wireless
1343 (0.678 %)NAS
1440 (0.630 %)Network Security
1538 (0.599 %)VLAN
1628 (0.441 %)HTTP
1727 (0.425 %)Extranet
1826 (0.410 %)FTP
1924 (0.378 %)Ethernet
1924 (0.378 %)SSL
London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12160 (34.04 %)SQL Server
2888 (13.99 %)SQL Server 2005
3648 (10.21 %)SQL Server 2008
4467 (7.359 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
5448 (7.060 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6406 (6.398 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
7376 (5.925 %)Datawarehouse
8287 (4.523 %)SQL Server 2000
9237 (3.735 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
10171 (2.695 %)BusinessObjects
11145 (2.285 %)ETL
12127 (2.001 %)MySQL
13122 (1.922 %)DTS
1485 (1.339 %)MS Access
1583 (1.308 %)OLAP
1682 (1.292 %)Oracle 8/8i
1774 (1.166 %)Crystal Reports
1862 (0.977 %)PerformancePoint
1949 (0.772 %)Oracle 10g
2047 (0.741 %)RDBMS
London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1266 (4.192 %)Visual Studio
2126 (1.986 %)NUnit
386 (1.355 %)Subversion
453 (0.835 %)Team Foundation Server
533 (0.520 %)VSS/SourceSafe
632 (0.504 %)QuickTest Pro
722 (0.347 %)ERwin
722 (0.347 %)FitNesse
820 (0.315 %)ClearCase
919 (0.299 %)WinRunner
1017 (0.268 %)TeamCity
1114 (0.221 %)Dreamweaver
1114 (0.221 %)LoadRunner
1213 (0.205 %)TestDirector
1213 (0.205 %)Selenium
1213 (0.205 %)FxCop
1312 (0.189 %)WatiN
1312 (0.189 %)Visual Studio Team System
1312 (0.189 %)MorphX
1312 (0.189 %)CruiseControl
London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11642 (25.87 %)Finance
2651 (10.26 %)Banking
3320 (5.043 %)Insurance
4280 (4.412 %)Investment Banking
5231 (3.640 %)Marketing
6220 (3.467 %)Front Office
7212 (3.341 %)Retail
8210 (3.309 %)Education
9171 (2.695 %)Pensions
10159 (2.506 %)Health
11122 (1.922 %)Telecoms
12118 (1.859 %)Back Office
13105 (1.655 %)Law
1494 (1.481 %)Government
1589 (1.402 %)Financial Institution
1683 (1.308 %)Legal
1762 (0.977 %)Games
1857 (0.898 %)Publishing
1940 (0.630 %)Advertising
2035 (0.552 %)Music
London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11948 (30.70 %)Developer
21103 (17.38 %)Analyst
3684 (10.78 %).NET Developer
4574 (9.045 %)Architect
5570 (8.982 %)Consultant
6565 (8.903 %)C# Developer
7382 (6.020 %)Support Analyst
8308 (4.853 %)Senior Developer
9225 (3.546 %)Administrator
10216 (3.404 %)SharePoint Developer
11215 (3.388 %)Business Analyst
12199 (3.136 %)Support Engineer
13187 (2.947 %)ASP.NET Developer
14178 (2.805 %)DBA
15161 (2.537 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
16152 (2.395 %)Senior Analyst
16152 (2.395 %)Team Leader
16152 (2.395 %)SQL Developer
17150 (2.364 %)Project Manager
18134 (2.112 %)SQL DBA
London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1265 (4.176 %)Blackberry
2229 (3.609 %)Computer Science
3190 (2.994 %)Client/Server
4184 (2.899 %)Derivative
5164 (2.584 %)Replication
6126 (1.986 %)Clustering
7123 (1.938 %)RIA
8121 (1.907 %)Tandem
9115 (1.812 %)Fixed Income
10101 (1.592 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
11100 (1.576 %)Mathematics
1282 (1.292 %)Open Source
1378 (1.229 %)Equities
1471 (1.119 %)Management Information System
1570 (1.103 %)N-Tier
1667 (1.056 %)Multithreading
1761 (0.961 %)Credit Derivative
1854 (0.851 %)SaaS
1944 (0.693 %)NHS
2043 (0.678 %)Statistics
London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11930 (30.41 %)Windows
2700 (11.03 %)Windows Server 2003
3503 (7.926 %)Windows XP
4353 (5.563 %)Windows Server 2008
5344 (5.421 %)Linux
6326 (5.137 %)UNIX
7246 (3.876 %)Windows Vista
8206 (3.246 %)Windows 2000
9129 (2.033 %)Windows 7
10102 (1.607 %)Windows 2000 Server
1167 (1.056 %)Solaris
1257 (0.898 %)Red Hat Linux
1328 (0.441 %)Mac OS X
1418 (0.284 %)Windows NT
1516 (0.252 %)AIX
1615 (0.236 %)NetWare
1713 (0.205 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1810 (0.158 %)SUSE
199 (0.142 %)HPUX
199 (0.142 %)CentOS
London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1500 (7.879 %)OO
2491 (7.737 %)Business Intelligence
3450 (7.091 %)CRM
4408 (6.429 %)Project Management
5389 (6.130 %)Agile Software Development
6358 (5.641 %)ITIL
7248 (3.908 %)Scrum
8238 (3.750 %)Workflow
9228 (3.593 %)E-Commerce
10214 (3.372 %)PRINCE2
11192 (3.026 %)Migration
12174 (2.742 %)UML
13161 (2.537 %)MVC
14160 (2.521 %)TDD
15149 (2.348 %)Web Development
16137 (2.159 %)Business Analysis
17134 (2.112 %)Content Management
18129 (2.033 %)ERP
18129 (2.033 %)Unit Testing
19121 (1.907 %)Asset Management
London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11694 (26.69 %)C#
21673 (26.36 %)SQL
3463 (7.296 %)T-SQL
4424 (6.681 %)JavaScript
5416 (6.555 %)C++
6397 (6.256 %)Java
7331 (5.216 %)VB.NET
8259 (4.081 %)VB
9190 (2.994 %)C
10176 (2.773 %)VBA
11146 (2.301 %)PL/SQL
12107 (1.686 %)PHP
13100 (1.576 %)VBScript
1478 (1.229 %)PowerShell
1574 (1.166 %)Perl
1650 (0.788 %)VB6
1737 (0.583 %)Shell Script
1834 (0.536 %)Python
1931 (0.488 %)ActionScript
2027 (0.425 %)X++
London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1850 (13.39 %)Microsoft Certification
2739 (11.65 %)Degree
3411 (6.477 %)MCSE
4253 (3.987 %)MCP
5188 (2.962 %)Cisco Certification
6174 (2.742 %)MCTS
7153 (2.411 %)MCSD
8152 (2.395 %)CCNA
9147 (2.316 %)MCITP
10128 (2.017 %)MCAD
1182 (1.292 %)MCSA
1264 (1.009 %)Security Cleared
1355 (0.867 %)ISEB
1454 (0.851 %)ITIL Certification
1552 (0.819 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1649 (0.772 %)Citrix Certification
1743 (0.678 %)MCDBA
1838 (0.599 %)CCNP
1936 (0.567 %)MCPD
2035 (0.552 %)PRINCE2 Certification
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1140 (2.206 %)QA
298 (1.544 %)SLA
316 (0.252 %)ISO9000
414 (0.221 %)ISO27001
58 (0.126 %)PCI DSS
66 (0.095 %)HL7
73 (0.047 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
73 (0.047 %)BS15000
81 (0.016 %)ISO9001
81 (0.016 %)WAI
81 (0.016 %)COBIT
81 (0.016 %)Dublin Core
81 (0.016 %)ISO17799
London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1977 (15.40 %)Active Directory
2242 (3.813 %)VMware Infrastructure
3112 (1.765 %)VMware ESX
456 (0.882 %)Hyper-V
555 (0.867 %)Citrix Presentation Server
648 (0.756 %)ISA Server
745 (0.709 %)MSMQ
839 (0.615 %)Terminal Server
931 (0.488 %)XenApp
1030 (0.473 %)vSphere
1125 (0.394 %)Terminal Services
1223 (0.362 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1319 (0.299 %)XenServer
1412 (0.189 %)MetaFrame
1412 (0.189 %)Oracle RMAN
1511 (0.173 %)VMware Workstation
1511 (0.173 %)Xen
1511 (0.173 %)DFS Replication
169 (0.142 %)XenDesktop
177 (0.110 %)NFS
London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1148 (2.332 %)SCCM
2115 (1.812 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
367 (1.056 %)Backup Exec
447 (0.741 %)SCOM
541 (0.646 %)Norton AntiVirus
628 (0.441 %)NetBackup
719 (0.299 %)WSUS
815 (0.236 %)MOM
914 (0.221 %)DameWare
1012 (0.189 %)McAfee ePO
1111 (0.173 %)EMC NetWorker
1210 (0.158 %)MSI
139 (0.142 %)OpenView
139 (0.142 %)ARCserve
147 (0.110 %)Legato
155 (0.079 %)ZENworks
164 (0.063 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
164 (0.063 %)CONTROL-M
164 (0.063 %)Dollar Universe
173 (0.047 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1544 (8.572 %)Oracle
2441 (6.949 %)VMware
3422 (6.650 %)Cisco
4394 (6.209 %)Citrix
5247 (3.892 %)HP
6182 (2.868 %)Adobe
7171 (2.695 %)Business Objects
8134 (2.112 %)IBM
8134 (2.112 %)Bloomberg
9122 (1.922 %)Reuters
10114 (1.796 %)EMC
11109 (1.718 %)Symantec
12105 (1.655 %)Sybase
13104 (1.639 %)Cognos
14101 (1.592 %)SAP
1589 (1.402 %)Dell
1681 (1.276 %)Lotus
1767 (1.056 %)Remedy
1866 (1.040 %)ProClarity
1957 (0.898 %)NetApp