The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Loughborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Loughborough 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 17 8 6
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 2 7 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Loughborough 4.444% 13.46% 11.76%
As % of the Vendors category 16.67% 38.89% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 2
Average salary £32,500 £25,000 £21,875
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.00% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -
All Vendors
Loughborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
12 18 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Loughborough 26.67% 34.62% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 4
Average salary £32,000 £26,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% +4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £22,500 £18,750
10% offered a salary of more than £40,300 £41,500 £33,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
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Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Loughborough 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 Loughborough region.

Loughborough Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Loughborough 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 7 (53.85%) SQL
1 7 (53.85%) MS Excel
2 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) .NET
3 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (30.77%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (30.77%) MS Access
4 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Degree
5 3 (23.08%) Retail
5 3 (23.08%) CSS
5 3 (23.08%) VB.NET
5 3 (23.08%) HTML
5 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 3 (23.08%) Web Services
5 3 (23.08%) XML
6 2 (15.38%) MVC
6 2 (15.38%) VMware
6 2 (15.38%) PHP
6 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
6 2 (15.38%) VB
6 2 (15.38%) Java
6 2 (15.38%) C++
6 2 (15.38%) ASP
6 2 (15.38%) JDBC
6 2 (15.38%) Oracle
6 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (15.38%) Citrix

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Loughborough 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 6 (46.15%) .NET
2 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
3 3 (23.08%) CSS
3 3 (23.08%) HTML
3 3 (23.08%) Web Services
3 3 (23.08%) XML
4 2 (15.38%) ASP
4 2 (15.38%) JDBC
4 2 (15.38%) XHTML
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (7.692%) jQuery
5 1 (7.692%) WCF
5 1 (7.692%) WPF
5 1 (7.692%) LINQ
5 1 (7.692%) Ajax
5 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
5 1 (7.692%) XSLT
5 1 (7.692%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (53.85%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (30.77%) Crystal Reports
1 4 (30.77%) MS Access
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (23.08%) Retail
2 1 (7.692%) French Language
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Applications Support
3 2 (15.38%) Report Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Graduate
3 2 (15.38%) Junior
3 2 (15.38%) DBA
3 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Junior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Junior C# Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Junior .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Graduate Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Junior C# .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Graduate .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Fat Client
1 1 (7.692%) Client/Server
1 1 (7.692%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
2 1 (7.692%) Mac OS X Server
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Vista
2 1 (7.692%) Windows 8
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (7.692%) Windows XP
2 1 (7.692%) Mac OS X
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (15.38%) MVC
2 2 (15.38%) UML
3 1 (7.692%) Time Management
3 1 (7.692%) ERP
3 1 (7.692%) Project Management
3 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) VB.NET
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) PHP
4 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 2 (15.38%) VB
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) C++
4 2 (15.38%) VC++
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) VMware
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) Citrix
2 1 (7.692%) Apple