The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Maidstone region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 17 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 Maidstone region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 9 3 4
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +1
Permanent jobs citing Windows 14 20 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 17.28% 40.82% 27.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.85% 83.33% 81.08%
Number of salaries quoted 13 19 25
Average salary £40,000 £25,000 £29,859
Average salary % change year-on-year
+60.00% -16.27%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Maidstone
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
27 24 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 33.33% 48.98% 34.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26 23 32
Average salary £35,500 £31,250 £29,859
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.60% +4.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,500 £24,401
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £38,500 £47,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
Kent

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidstone 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 Maidstone region.

Maidstone Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 16 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (37.50%) .NET
3 11 (34.38%) MySQL
4 10 (31.25%) PHP
4 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (28.13%) VB
5 9 (28.13%) VB.NET
5 9 (28.13%) MCP
5 9 (28.13%) Linux
5 9 (28.13%) Retail
6 8 (25.00%) WinForms
6 8 (25.00%) Scrum
6 8 (25.00%) VMware
6 8 (25.00%) TDD
6 8 (25.00%) NUnit
6 8 (25.00%) MCTS
6 8 (25.00%) WPF
6 8 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (25.00%) Kanban
6 8 (25.00%) MCAD
6 8 (25.00%) MCSD
6 8 (25.00%) CSS
6 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (25.00%) Spring.NET
6 8 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
6 8 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
6 8 (25.00%) MSTest
6 8 (25.00%) MVVM
6 8 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
6 8 (25.00%) Moq

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 12 (37.50%) .NET
2 8 (25.00%) CSS
2 8 (25.00%) WinForms
2 8 (25.00%) WPF
2 8 (25.00%) Spring.NET
2 8 (25.00%) Castle Windsor
2 8 (25.00%) Ninject
2 8 (25.00%) Unity DI Container
3 7 (21.88%) HTML
3 7 (21.88%) Ajax
4 4 (12.50%) jQuery
4 4 (12.50%) SOAP
4 4 (12.50%) REST
4 4 (12.50%) Smarty
5 3 (9.375%) XML
5 3 (9.375%) XHTML
5 3 (9.375%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (15.63%) Apache
2 2 (6.250%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) MS Office
2 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) VPN
2 5 (15.63%) WAN
3 4 (12.50%) LAN
3 4 (12.50%) Internet
4 3 (9.375%) Wireless
5 2 (6.250%) Network Security
5 2 (6.250%) SAN
5 2 (6.250%) Firewall
5 2 (6.250%) MPLS
5 2 (6.250%) VoIP
6 1 (3.125%) DHCP
6 1 (3.125%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.125%) TACACS
6 1 (3.125%) NetScreen
6 1 (3.125%) DNS
6 1 (3.125%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (3.125%) NAS
6 1 (3.125%) IP Telephony
6 1 (3.125%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (34.38%) MySQL
3 8 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) NUnit
1 8 (25.00%) MSTest
1 8 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 8 (25.00%) Moq
2 3 (9.375%) PEAR
3 2 (6.250%) JIRA
General
1 9 (28.13%) Retail
2 2 (6.250%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.250%) Finance
3 1 (3.125%) Publishing
3 1 (3.125%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) .NET Developer
3 6 (18.75%) PHP Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Web Developer
5 3 (9.375%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (9.375%) Network Specialist
5 3 (9.375%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.375%) Senior PHP Developer
5 3 (9.375%) PHP Web Developer
6 2 (6.250%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Technical Support
7 1 (3.125%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) Support Specialist
7 1 (3.125%) Consultant
7 1 (3.125%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (3.125%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (9.375%) EPoS
2 3 (9.375%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) UNIX
3 5 (15.63%) Android
3 5 (15.63%) Apple iOS
3 5 (15.63%) Windows 8
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (12.50%) Windows 7
4 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (9.375%) Windows XP
6 1 (3.125%) Windows 2000
6 1 (3.125%) Windows NT
6 1 (3.125%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (3.125%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Scrum
1 8 (25.00%) TDD
1 8 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (25.00%) Kanban
1 8 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
1 8 (25.00%) MVVM
2 7 (21.88%) OO
2 7 (21.88%) E-Commerce
3 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
4 4 (12.50%) UML
4 4 (12.50%) OOP
4 4 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (6.250%) ITIL
5 2 (6.250%) Problem Management
5 2 (6.250%) Fault Management
5 2 (6.250%) Unit Testing
5 2 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (3.125%) Computer Security
6 1 (3.125%) Demand Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) PHP
2 9 (28.13%) VB
2 9 (28.13%) VB.NET
3 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.250%) SQL
5 1 (3.125%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (28.13%) MCP
3 8 (25.00%) MCAD
3 8 (25.00%) MCSD
3 8 (25.00%) MCTS
4 2 (6.250%) MCSA
5 1 (3.125%) CCNP
5 1 (3.125%) CCDP
5 1 (3.125%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.125%) MCSE
5 1 (3.125%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.125%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.125%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.250%) QA
2 1 (3.125%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.250%) Terminal Server
3 2 (6.250%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (6.250%) XenApp
3 2 (6.250%) XenDesktop
3 2 (6.250%) vSphere
4 1 (3.125%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (3.125%) CiscoWorks
1 1 (3.125%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) VMware
2 7 (21.88%) Cisco
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.75%) Apple
4 4 (12.50%) Facebook
4 4 (12.50%) Juniper
5 3 (9.375%) F5
6 2 (6.250%) Citrix
6 2 (6.250%) NetApp
6 2 (6.250%) Mitel
7 1 (3.125%) WatchGuard
7 1 (3.125%) 3PAR
7 1 (3.125%) HP
7 1 (3.125%) CheckPoint
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