The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Newport 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 Newport region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 15 15 6
Rank change year-on-year
0 -9
Permanent jobs citing Windows 13 10 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newport 9.774% 8.621% 16.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.09% 31.25% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 17
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% -15.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Newport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
22 32 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newport 16.54% 27.59% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 20 30 17
Average salary £40,000 £41,250 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.03% +21.32%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £20,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £46,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
South Wales

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newport 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 Newport region.

Newport Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the Newport region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Newport Windows Salary Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newport 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 22 (53.66%) Microsoft
2 16 (39.02%) SQL
2 16 (39.02%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (34.15%) Linux
4 13 (31.71%) SQL Server
4 13 (31.71%) MS Excel
5 12 (29.27%) TCP/IP
6 11 (26.83%) MS Office
6 11 (26.83%) UNIX
6 11 (26.83%) MCITP
7 10 (24.39%) VMware
8 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (21.95%) Windows Server 2003
8 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
9 7 (17.07%) Oracle
10 6 (14.63%) MySQL
10 6 (14.63%) MCDBA
10 6 (14.63%) Oracle 8/8i
10 6 (14.63%) Management Information System
10 6 (14.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (14.63%) Windows 7
10 6 (14.63%) SQL Server 2008
10 6 (14.63%) Red Gate
10 6 (14.63%) SQL Server 2012
11 5 (12.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (12.20%) Information Security
11 5 (12.20%) Clustering
11 5 (12.20%) SOAP
11 5 (12.20%) XML
11 5 (12.20%) Project Management

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newport 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 5 (12.20%) XML
1 5 (12.20%) SOAP
2 4 (9.756%) Web Services
2 4 (9.756%) .NET
3 1 (2.439%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.439%) HTML
3 1 (2.439%) WinForms
3 1 (2.439%) Ajax
3 1 (2.439%) WCF
3 1 (2.439%) WPF
3 1 (2.439%) Spring.NET
3 1 (2.439%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.439%) Castle Windsor
3 1 (2.439%) Ninject
3 1 (2.439%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (2.439%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (2.439%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 4 (9.756%) IIS
2 3 (7.317%) MS Exchange
2 3 (7.317%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (7.317%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 13 (31.71%) MS Excel
2 11 (26.83%) MS Office
3 1 (2.439%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (29.27%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.317%) HTTP
2 3 (7.317%) Firewall
3 2 (4.878%) Wireless
3 2 (4.878%) IP Telephony
3 2 (4.878%) SAN
4 1 (2.439%) TELNET
4 1 (2.439%) SNMP
4 1 (2.439%) LDAP
4 1 (2.439%) Bluetooth
4 1 (2.439%) GPRS
4 1 (2.439%) UMTS
4 1 (2.439%) WAN
4 1 (2.439%) SSH
4 1 (2.439%) ZigBee
4 1 (2.439%) HSPA
4 1 (2.439%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (14.63%) Oracle 8/8i
2 6 (14.63%) MySQL
2 6 (14.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (14.63%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (14.63%) SQL Server 2012
3 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (4.878%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.317%) Selenium
2 2 (4.878%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.439%) NUnit
3 1 (2.439%) MSTest
3 1 (2.439%) Rhino Mocks
3 1 (2.439%) Moq
General
1 3 (7.317%) Finance
2 2 (4.878%) Advertising
3 1 (2.439%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Analyst
1 9 (21.95%) DBA
1 9 (21.95%) Senior DBA
2 8 (19.51%) Linux Support Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Windows Support Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Support Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Linux Support
3 6 (14.63%) Administrator
3 6 (14.63%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (9.756%) Tester
4 4 (9.756%) Systems Tester
4 4 (9.756%) Senior Tester
4 4 (9.756%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
5 3 (7.317%) Developer
6 2 (4.878%) Architect
6 2 (4.878%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.878%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.878%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.20%) Clustering
3 4 (9.756%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.439%) Firmware
4 1 (2.439%) DTV
4 1 (2.439%) Mathematics
4 1 (2.439%) Physics
4 1 (2.439%) iPhone
4 1 (2.439%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (2.439%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 16 (39.02%) Windows Server 2008
2 14 (34.15%) Linux
3 11 (26.83%) UNIX
4 9 (21.95%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (14.63%) Windows 7
6 4 (9.756%) VME
7 2 (4.878%) Windows XP
8 1 (2.439%) AIX
8 1 (2.439%) Android
8 1 (2.439%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (2.439%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (12.20%) Project Management
1 5 (12.20%) Information Security
2 4 (9.756%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (9.756%) Waterfall
2 4 (9.756%) Test Scripting
2 4 (9.756%) Automated Testing
3 1 (2.439%) Software Engineering
3 1 (2.439%) Incident Management
3 1 (2.439%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (2.439%) MVC
3 1 (2.439%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (2.439%) Scrum
3 1 (2.439%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (2.439%) Multithreading
3 1 (2.439%) System Testing
3 1 (2.439%) Kanban
3 1 (2.439%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (2.439%) MVVM
3 1 (2.439%) Web Application Development
3 1 (2.439%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) SQL
2 4 (9.756%) T-SQL
3 2 (4.878%) VB
3 2 (4.878%) VB.NET
3 2 (4.878%) C#
3 2 (4.878%) C++
3 2 (4.878%) VB6
4 1 (2.439%) C
4 1 (2.439%) Java
4 1 (2.439%) Embedded C
4 1 (2.439%) Embedded C++
4 1 (2.439%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) MCITP
2 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (14.63%) MCDBA
4 5 (12.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (12.20%) CCNA
4 5 (12.20%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (9.756%) ISEB
5 4 (9.756%) ISTQB
6 3 (7.317%) SC Cleared
6 3 (7.317%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.439%) VCP5
7 1 (2.439%) Degree
7 1 (2.439%) MCTS
7 1 (2.439%) CCNP
7 1 (2.439%) CCA
7 1 (2.439%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (2.439%) MCP
7 1 (2.439%) MCAD
7 1 (2.439%) MCSD
7 1 (2.439%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.756%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.439%) JTAG
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.317%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.317%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.439%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 3 (7.317%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (4.878%) SCVMM
2 2 (4.878%) Nagios
3 1 (2.439%) SCCM
3 1 (2.439%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (53.66%) Microsoft
2 10 (24.39%) VMware
3 7 (17.07%) Oracle
4 6 (14.63%) Red Gate
5 5 (12.20%) Cisco
6 2 (4.878%) HP
6 2 (4.878%) JBoss
6 2 (4.878%) WatchGuard
7 1 (2.439%) Atmel
7 1 (2.439%) Compaq
7 1 (2.439%) Citrix
7 1 (2.439%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.439%) IBM
7 1 (2.439%) Sybase