The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Newport 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 Newport 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 12 12 13
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 14 15 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newport 10.94% 12.93% 8.411%
As % of the Vendors category 45.16% 36.59% 45.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 8
Average salary £29,975 £42,500 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.47% +77.08%
90% offered a salary of more than £17,200 £36,500 £21,200
10% offered a salary of more than £49,200 £42,500 £34,600
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -
All Vendors
Newport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
31 41 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newport 24.22% 35.34% 18.69%
Number of salaries quoted 29 39 19
Average salary £32,500 £36,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.95% +21.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £32,500 £23,400
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £36,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
South Wales

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newport 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 Newport region.

Newport Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Newport region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Newport Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newport 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 18 (60.00%) MS Office
1 18 (60.00%) Windows
2 17 (56.67%) MS Excel
3 11 (36.67%) SQL
3 11 (36.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 9 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 9 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 9 (30.00%) MCITP
6 8 (26.67%) Information Security
6 8 (26.67%) MySQL
6 8 (26.67%) Web Services
6 8 (26.67%) XML
6 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (26.67%) Project Management
7 7 (23.33%) VMware
7 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (23.33%) MCDBA
7 7 (23.33%) Oracle
7 7 (23.33%) .NET
7 7 (23.33%) C#
7 7 (23.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
8 6 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (20.00%) Red Gate
8 6 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
8 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
8 6 (20.00%) Management Information System
9 5 (16.67%) SOAP
9 5 (16.67%) VB.NET

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newport 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 8 (26.67%) Web Services
1 8 (26.67%) XML
2 7 (23.33%) .NET
3 5 (16.67%) SOAP
4 4 (13.33%) WCF
4 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET
5 3 (10.00%) Struts
5 3 (10.00%) WPF
5 3 (10.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 3 (10.00%) Spring
5 3 (10.00%) WebSphere
5 3 (10.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (10.00%) Java SE
6 2 (6.667%) REST
6 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (6.667%) Apache FOP
6 2 (6.667%) XSLT
7 1 (3.333%) XHTML
7 1 (3.333%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) IIS
2 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (6.667%) Apache
2 2 (6.667%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 18 (60.00%) MS Office
2 17 (56.67%) MS Excel
3 1 (3.333%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) IP Telephony
1 2 (6.667%) Internet
2 1 (3.333%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 9 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 8 (26.67%) MySQL
4 7 (23.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (13.33%) SQL Server 2000
7 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JUnit
1 3 (10.00%) Selenium
1 3 (10.00%) Subversion
2 2 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (6.667%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (3.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) DBA
2 7 (23.33%) Administrator
2 7 (23.33%) Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Senior DBA
3 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Tester
5 3 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Tester
5 3 (10.00%) Systems Tester
5 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.667%) Senior Programmer
6 2 (6.667%) .NET Programmer
6 2 (6.667%) Senior .NET Programmer
6 2 (6.667%) SQL DBA
6 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) 1st Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.667%) N-Tier
3 2 (6.667%) Clustering
4 1 (3.333%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 18 (60.00%) Windows
2 11 (36.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (10.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (10.00%) VME
5 1 (3.333%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Information Security
1 8 (26.67%) Project Management
2 5 (16.67%) TDD
3 4 (13.33%) Scrum
4 3 (10.00%) MVC
4 3 (10.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (10.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (10.00%) Automated Testing
5 2 (6.667%) Unit Testing
6 1 (3.333%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) C#
3 5 (16.67%) VB.NET
4 4 (13.33%) T-SQL
5 3 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (3.333%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.333%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) MCITP
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (23.33%) MCDBA
4 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (10.00%) ISEB
5 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (10.00%) CCNA
5 3 (10.00%) ISTQB
5 3 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (3.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.667%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.333%) SCCM
2 1 (3.333%) SCOM
2 1 (3.333%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) VMware
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle
2 6 (20.00%) Red Gate
3 4 (13.33%) Cisco
3 4 (13.33%) HP
4 3 (10.00%) IBM
5 2 (6.667%) WatchGuard
5 2 (6.667%) Sun
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Key responsibilities of the role are as follows: *To work as part of a dynamic team capable of designing solutions to satisfy a diverse range of client needs *...
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Posted: 23 May 2013