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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 128 127 99
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -28
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7 61 49 66
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 1.451% 1.304% 1.650%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.627% 4.847% 8.010%
Number of salaries quoted 57 46 63
Average salary £25,000 £27,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% -8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £17,500 £18,750 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £63,500 £44,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £28,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1084 1011 824
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 25.78% 26.90% 20.61%
Number of salaries quoted 947 852 774
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,000 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £42,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 7
North West

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Windows 7 Salary Trend

Windows 7
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Stockport -5 4 £18,000 -10.00% 4
Cheadle -7 4 £17,000 -57.50%
Wigan +2 1 £27,000 -38.63%
Altrincham +1 1 £15,500 -26.19% 1
Oldham -3 1 - -
Salford - 1 £23,000 - 3
Windows 7
North West

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 111 (100.00%) Windows
2 87 (78.38%) Microsoft
3 65 (58.56%) Windows XP
4 62 (55.86%) Active Directory
5 44 (39.64%) MS Exchange
6 41 (36.94%) MS Office
6 41 (36.94%) Windows Server 2008
7 40 (36.04%) MS Excel
8 32 (28.83%) TCP/IP
9 29 (26.13%) Windows Server 2003
10 28 (25.23%) LAN
11 27 (24.32%) WAN
12 26 (23.42%) Windows Vista
13 23 (20.72%) Citrix
14 21 (18.92%) Hyper-V
15 20 (18.02%) SCCM
15 20 (18.02%) Microsoft Certification
15 20 (18.02%) SharePoint
16 19 (17.12%) VMware
17 18 (16.22%) ITIL
17 18 (16.22%) Windows 8
18 17 (15.32%) Blackberry
18 17 (15.32%) VMware Infrastructure
19 15 (13.51%) SQL
19 15 (13.51%) DNS
20 12 (10.81%) VPN
20 12 (10.81%) MCP
21 11 (9.910%) SQL Server
21 11 (9.910%) SCOM
22 10 (9.009%) .NET

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 Development
1 10 (9.009%) .NET
2 3 (2.703%) COM
2 3 (2.703%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 2 (1.802%) jQuery
3 2 (1.802%) CSS
3 2 (1.802%) HTML
4 1 (0.901%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.901%) XSL
4 1 (0.901%) XSLT
4 1 (0.901%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (0.901%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 44 (39.64%) MS Exchange
2 20 (18.02%) SharePoint
3 9 (8.108%) Exchange Server 2010
4 8 (7.207%) Lync
4 8 (7.207%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 8 (7.207%) IIS
5 6 (5.405%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (4.505%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (2.703%) Exchange Server 2003
7 3 (2.703%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (2.703%) Office Communications Server
8 2 (1.802%) Drupal
8 2 (1.802%) Umbraco
8 2 (1.802%) WordPress
8 2 (1.802%) Magento
8 2 (1.802%) Kentico
8 2 (1.802%) CMS
8 2 (1.802%) MS Project Server
8 2 (1.802%) Joomla!
8 2 (1.802%) WorkSite
Applications
1 41 (36.94%) MS Office
2 40 (36.04%) MS Excel
3 5 (4.505%) MS Project
4 1 (0.901%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 8 (7.207%) Dynamics AX
2 6 (5.405%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.703%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 32 (28.83%) TCP/IP
2 28 (25.23%) LAN
3 27 (24.32%) WAN
4 15 (13.51%) DNS
5 12 (10.81%) VPN
6 10 (9.009%) SAN
7 8 (7.207%) VoIP
8 6 (5.405%) DHCP
9 5 (4.505%) Firewall
10 4 (3.604%) MPLS
10 4 (3.604%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (3.604%) ADSL
11 3 (2.703%) Wireless
11 3 (2.703%) Internet
11 3 (2.703%) 3G
11 3 (2.703%) Unified Communications
12 2 (1.802%) Network Security
12 2 (1.802%) Asterisk PBX
12 2 (1.802%) DSL
12 2 (1.802%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.910%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.108%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (7.207%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (7.207%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 8 (7.207%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (7.207%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (1.802%) MySQL
5 1 (0.901%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (1.802%) MSI
General
1 9 (8.108%) Law
2 8 (7.207%) Finance
3 7 (6.306%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (5.405%) Banking
4 6 (5.405%) Legal
5 5 (4.505%) Retail
6 3 (2.703%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.703%) Advertising
7 2 (1.802%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (20.72%) Analyst
2 19 (17.12%) Architect
3 14 (12.61%) Support Analyst
4 13 (11.71%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (11.71%) IT Support
5 11 (9.910%) 2nd Line Support
6 10 (9.009%) 1st Line Support
7 9 (8.108%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (8.108%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 7 (6.306%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.405%) Service Desk Analyst
9 6 (5.405%) Desktop Support
9 6 (5.405%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.405%) Service Analyst
10 5 (4.505%) Consultant
10 5 (4.505%) Desktop Engineer
10 5 (4.505%) Security Architect
11 4 (3.604%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 4 (3.604%) Field Engineer
12 3 (2.703%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.32%) Blackberry
2 9 (8.108%) Thin Client
2 9 (8.108%) Fat Client
3 7 (6.306%) Statistics
4 6 (5.405%) iPhone
4 6 (5.405%) iPad
5 2 (1.802%) Open Source
5 2 (1.802%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.802%) EPoS
5 2 (1.802%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (0.901%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.901%) BBC
6 1 (0.901%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 111 (100.00%) Windows
2 65 (58.56%) Windows XP
3 41 (36.94%) Windows Server 2008
4 29 (26.13%) Windows Server 2003
5 26 (23.42%) Windows Vista
6 18 (16.22%) Windows 8
7 7 (6.306%) Android
8 6 (5.405%) Windows 2000
9 5 (4.505%) Mac OS X
9 5 (4.505%) Mac OS
10 4 (3.604%) Apple iOS
10 4 (3.604%) Linux
11 3 (2.703%) Windows XP Embedded
12 2 (1.802%) Mac OS X Server
12 2 (1.802%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (1.802%) Windows Phone
13 1 (0.901%) UNIX
13 1 (0.901%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (16.22%) ITIL
2 7 (6.306%) CRM
2 7 (6.306%) Problem Management
3 6 (5.405%) Change Control
3 6 (5.405%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (4.505%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (3.604%) Time Management
5 4 (3.604%) Service Delivery
6 3 (2.703%) Data Modelling
6 3 (2.703%) ERP
6 3 (2.703%) Project Management
6 3 (2.703%) Data Architecture
6 3 (2.703%) Performance Management
7 2 (1.802%) Release Management
7 2 (1.802%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (1.802%) Integration Testing
7 2 (1.802%) Test Scripting
7 2 (1.802%) Incident Management
7 2 (1.802%) V-Model
7 2 (1.802%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.51%) SQL
2 4 (3.604%) X++
3 2 (1.802%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.802%) C#
3 2 (1.802%) PHP
4 1 (0.901%) Java
4 1 (0.901%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 20 (18.02%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (10.81%) MCP
3 9 (8.108%) MCSE
4 8 (7.207%) MCITP
5 5 (4.505%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.703%) Degree
7 2 (1.802%) MCTS
7 2 (1.802%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.802%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.802%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.802%) ISEB
8 1 (0.901%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.901%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.306%) SLA
2 1 (0.901%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (55.86%) Active Directory
2 21 (18.92%) Hyper-V
3 17 (15.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.405%) XenApp
5 4 (3.604%) vSphere
5 4 (3.604%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (2.703%) XenDesktop
6 3 (2.703%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 2 (1.802%) IAG
7 2 (1.802%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.901%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.901%) Xen
8 1 (0.901%) VMware ESX
8 1 (0.901%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.901%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 20 (18.02%) SCCM
2 11 (9.910%) SCOM
3 5 (4.505%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (1.802%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (1.802%) Backup Exec
4 2 (1.802%) WSUS
4 2 (1.802%) MOM
5 1 (0.901%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (0.901%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.901%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 87 (78.38%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.72%) Citrix
3 19 (17.12%) VMware
4 10 (9.009%) Cisco
5 8 (7.207%) HP
6 6 (5.405%) NetApp
7 5 (4.505%) Dell
8 4 (3.604%) Symantec
9 3 (2.703%) Avaya
9 3 (2.703%) Apple
9 3 (2.703%) Remedy
9 3 (2.703%) McAfee
9 3 (2.703%) Sophos
9 3 (2.703%) AppSense
10 2 (1.802%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.802%) Wyse
11 1 (0.901%) MobileIron
11 1 (0.901%) IBM
11 1 (0.901%) Juniper
11 1 (0.901%) Sage
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