North West Microsoft Jobs

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs within the North West region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dagenham Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Heywood High Wycombe Highland Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Leominster Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	12
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching permanent IT job ads	1645	1357
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.805 %	0.583 %
As % of the category below	29.90 %	22.50 %
Salaries quoted	1431	1165
Average minimum salary	£30,842	£32,071
Average salary	£33,882	£34,973
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
Average maximum salary	£36,921	£37,874
UK excluding London average salary	£35,382	£35,687
% change on same period last year	-0.85 %
Vendors North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	5502	6032
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.692 %	2.590 %
Salaries quoted	4644	4934
Average minimum salary	£33,699	£35,495
Average salary	£37,576	£39,614
% change on same period last year	-5.14 %
Average maximum salary	£41,453	£43,733
UK excluding London average salary	£40,163	£41,409
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
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These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Microsoft Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Microsoft across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Microsoft across the North West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the North West region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Manchester	+6	816	£38,033	-5.33 %
2	Cheshire	+6	448	£29,273	-4.48 %
3	Merseyside	-1	166	£30,551	-6.24 %
4	Lancashire	+1	161	£29,064	+6.74 %
5	Cumbria	+1	17	£25,600	+36.65 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Microsoft also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Microsoft.

1 1360 (42.39 %) MS Excel 2 1083 (33.76 %) Windows 3 984 (30.67 %) SQL Server 4 834 (26.00 %) .NET 5 773 (24.10 %) SQL 6 746 (23.25 %) Microsoft Certification 7 716 (22.32 %) MS Exchange 8 550 (17.14 %) C# 9 518 (16.15 %) MS Office 10 516 (16.08 %) Active Directory 11 450 (14.03 %) ASP.NET 12 412 (12.84 %) Citrix 13 394 (12.28 %) MCSE 14 349 (10.88 %) Cisco 15 346 (10.79 %) XML

16 317 (9.882 %) Exchange Server 2003 17 311 (9.695 %) Windows 2000 18 303 (9.445 %) Finance 19 288 (8.978 %) Degree 20 286 (8.915 %) SharePoint 21 272 (8.479 %) Oracle 22 271 (8.448 %) TCP/IP 23 260 (8.105 %) Project Management 24 255 (7.949 %) SQL Server 2005 25 251 (7.824 %) SQL Server 2000 26 247 (7.700 %) Exchange Server 2000 27 246 (7.668 %) VB 28 231 (7.201 %) WAN 29 230 (7.170 %) VB.NET 30 228 (7.107 %) Pensions

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Microsoft also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Microsoft. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 834 (26.00 %) .NET 2 450 (14.03 %) ASP.NET 3 346 (10.79 %) XML 4 200 (6.234 %) HTML 5 192 (5.985 %) WebServices 6 161 (5.019 %) ASP 7 129 (4.021 %) .NET Framework 8 125 (3.897 %) CSS 9 108 (3.367 %) AJAX 10 65 (2.026 %) WinForms 11 50 (1.559 %) XHTML 12 46 (1.434 %) XSLT 12 46 (1.434 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 39 (1.216 %) ADO 14 37 (1.153 %) SOAP 15 30 (0.935 %) COM 16 29 (0.904 %) .NET Remoting 17 27 (0.842 %) MFC 18 26 (0.810 %) OpenGL 19 23 (0.717 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 716 (22.32 %) MS Exchange 2 317 (9.882 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 286 (8.915 %) SharePoint 4 247 (7.700 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 195 (6.079 %) IIS 6 162 (5.050 %) Lotus Notes 7 153 (4.769 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 99 (3.086 %) BizTalk Server 9 67 (2.089 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 37 (1.153 %) CMS 11 34 (1.060 %) Apache 12 22 (0.686 %) SAS 13 21 (0.655 %) Exchange Server 5.5 14 15 (0.468 %) Oracle Application Server 15 14 (0.436 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 16 12 (0.374 %) ColdFusion 17 11 (0.343 %) MTS 18 7 (0.218 %) Lotus Domino 18 7 (0.218 %) Office Project Server 19 5 (0.156 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 1360 (42.39 %) MS Excel 2 518 (16.15 %) MS Office 3 110 (3.429 %) MS Project 4 68 (2.120 %) MS Visio 5 59 (1.839 %) MS PowerPoint 6 7 (0.218 %) AutoCAD 6 7 (0.218 %) Photoshop 7 5 (0.156 %) Fireworks 8 4 (0.125 %) Paint Shop Pro 9 2 (0.062 %) InfoPath 10 1 (0.031 %) FrameMaker 10 1 (0.031 %) XMetaL 10 1 (0.031 %) 3ds Max 10 1 (0.031 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 1 (0.031 %) InDesign 10 1 (0.031 %) SmartSuite 10 1 (0.031 %) SPSS 10 1 (0.031 %) RoboHelp	Business Applications 1 87 (2.712 %) Dynamics CRM 2 81 (2.525 %) Dynamics NAV 3 71 (2.213 %) Axapta 3 71 (2.213 %) Navision 4 62 (1.933 %) Dynamics AX 5 39 (1.216 %) Microsoft CRM 6 22 (0.686 %) Dynamics GP 7 20 (0.623 %) Oracle Applications 8 19 (0.592 %) Line 500 9 18 (0.561 %) SageCRM MME 10 17 (0.530 %) SalesLogix 11 15 (0.468 %) Line 100 12 14 (0.436 %) Line 50 13 13 (0.405 %) Great Plains 14 10 (0.312 %) Oracle EBS 14 10 (0.312 %) Sage MMS 15 8 (0.249 %) GoldMine 16 7 (0.218 %) Remedy ITSM 16 7 (0.218 %) SAP CRM 17 5 (0.156 %) Pivotal CRM
Communications & Networking 1 271 (8.448 %) TCP/IP 2 231 (7.201 %) WAN 3 214 (6.671 %) Internet 4 196 (6.110 %) Firewall 5 195 (6.079 %) LAN 6 113 (3.522 %) SAN 7 110 (3.429 %) VPN 8 84 (2.618 %) DNS 9 48 (1.496 %) MPLS 10 45 (1.403 %) Intranet 11 40 (1.247 %) ADSL 12 39 (1.216 %) CTI 12 39 (1.216 %) Cisco PIX 13 37 (1.153 %) WINS 14 33 (1.029 %) VoIP 15 29 (0.904 %) DHCP 16 27 (0.842 %) HTTP 17 21 (0.655 %) GPRS 18 20 (0.623 %) GSM 19 19 (0.592 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 984 (30.67 %) SQL Server 2 255 (7.949 %) SQL Server 2005 3 251 (7.824 %) SQL Server 2000 4 76 (2.369 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 66 (2.057 %) DTS 6 56 (1.746 %) Crystal Reports 7 51 (1.590 %) MS Access 8 49 (1.527 %) Datawarehouse 9 47 (1.465 %) SQL Server 7 10 46 (1.434 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 41 (1.278 %) RDBMS 12 35 (1.091 %) MySQL 13 34 (1.060 %) BusinessObjects 14 26 (0.810 %) OLAP 14 26 (0.810 %) Oracle 10g 15 24 (0.748 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 16 23 (0.717 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 17 22 (0.686 %) Oracle 9i 17 22 (0.686 %) Oracle Reports 18 19 (0.592 %) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications 1 147 (4.582 %) Visual Studio 2 45 (1.403 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 21 (0.655 %) Rational Rose 4 18 (0.561 %) Dreamweaver 5 12 (0.374 %) MorphX 6 9 (0.281 %) Flash 6 9 (0.281 %) TestDirector 7 7 (0.218 %) Subversion 8 6 (0.187 %) LoadRunner 9 5 (0.156 %) InstallShield 9 5 (0.156 %) NUnit 9 5 (0.156 %) Oracle Forms 10 3 (0.094 %) FrontPage 11 2 (0.062 %) JDeveloper 11 2 (0.062 %) Eclipse 11 2 (0.062 %) QuickTest Pro 11 2 (0.062 %) Synon 11 2 (0.062 %) CodeWarrior 12 1 (0.031 %) MSI 12 1 (0.031 %) Ant	General 1 303 (9.445 %) Finance 2 228 (7.107 %) Pensions 3 199 (6.203 %) Health 4 107 (3.335 %) Marketing 5 106 (3.304 %) Education 6 88 (2.743 %) Telecoms 7 80 (2.494 %) Retail 8 68 (2.120 %) Pharmaceutical 9 59 (1.839 %) Government 9 59 (1.839 %) Manufacturing 10 55 (1.714 %) Insurance 11 42 (1.309 %) Legal 12 24 (0.748 %) 3D Graphics 12 24 (0.748 %) Chemicals 13 23 (0.717 %) Banking 14 22 (0.686 %) Law 15 18 (0.561 %) Local Government 16 16 (0.499 %) Games 16 16 (0.499 %) Construction 17 15 (0.468 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 597 (18.61 %) Developer 2 469 (14.62 %) Analyst 3 403 (12.56 %) Consultant 4 209 (6.515 %) Support Analyst 4 209 (6.515 %) .NET Developer 5 208 (6.484 %) Architect 6 175 (5.455 %) Project Manager 7 149 (4.645 %) Support Engineer 8 131 (4.084 %) Administrator 9 117 (3.647 %) Software Developer 10 113 (3.522 %) IT Manager 11 105 (3.273 %) Web Developer 12 87 (2.712 %) C# Developer 13 83 (2.587 %) ASP.NET Developer 13 83 (2.587 %) Team Leader 13 83 (2.587 %) Microsoft Consultant 14 73 (2.276 %) DBA 15 71 (2.213 %) Technical Support 15 71 (2.213 %) Support Consultant 16 70 (2.182 %) IT Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 81 (2.525 %) Clustering 2 64 (1.995 %) Thin Client 2 64 (1.995 %) Fat Client 3 47 (1.465 %) Blackberry 4 39 (1.216 %) N-Tier 4 39 (1.216 %) IVR 5 35 (1.091 %) Client/Server 6 31 (0.966 %) Computer Science 7 28 (0.873 %) PMI 8 25 (0.779 %) Management Information System 9 22 (0.686 %) Mathematics 10 18 (0.561 %) Asset Management 11 17 (0.530 %) W3C 12 15 (0.468 %) EPoS 13 11 (0.343 %) VAX 14 10 (0.312 %) Handset 15 9 (0.281 %) Replication 16 8 (0.249 %) Pocket PC 16 8 (0.249 %) Statistics 16 8 (0.249 %) German Language
Operating Systems 1 1083 (33.76 %) Windows 2 311 (9.695 %) Windows 2000 3 197 (6.141 %) Windows XP 4 184 (5.736 %) Windows Server 2003 5 172 (5.362 %) Unix 6 145 (4.520 %) Linux 7 95 (2.961 %) Windows NT 8 50 (1.559 %) AIX 9 25 (0.779 %) Solaris 9 25 (0.779 %) Windows Mobile 10 20 (0.623 %) OpenVMS 11 17 (0.530 %) Debian 12 11 (0.343 %) Symbian OS 13 10 (0.312 %) NetWare 14 8 (0.249 %) Windows CE 15 7 (0.218 %) VMS 16 5 (0.156 %) Windows XP Embedded 17 4 (0.125 %) HPUX 18 2 (0.062 %) Mac OS X 18 2 (0.062 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 260 (8.105 %) Project Management 2 205 (6.390 %) OO 3 191 (5.954 %) ITIL 4 166 (5.175 %) PRINCE2 5 152 (4.738 %) CRM 6 140 (4.364 %) UML 7 117 (3.647 %) ERP 8 112 (3.491 %) E-Commerce 9 110 (3.429 %) Web Development 10 97 (3.024 %) Migration 11 80 (2.494 %) Business Intelligence 12 79 (2.463 %) Service Delivery 13 65 (2.026 %) Project Planning 14 59 (1.839 %) Service Management 15 46 (1.434 %) Agile Software Development 15 46 (1.434 %) Business Analysis 16 45 (1.403 %) SOA 17 43 (1.340 %) OOD 18 42 (1.309 %) Stakeholder Management 19 39 (1.216 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 773 (24.10 %) SQL 2 550 (17.14 %) C# 3 246 (7.668 %) VB 4 230 (7.170 %) VB.NET 5 160 (4.988 %) JavaScript 6 145 (4.520 %) Transact-SQL 7 143 (4.458 %) Java 8 132 (4.115 %) C++ 9 76 (2.369 %) C 10 71 (2.213 %) VB6 11 44 (1.372 %) VBA 12 40 (1.247 %) VC++ 12 40 (1.247 %) Delphi 13 34 (1.060 %) Perl 13 34 (1.060 %) PHP 14 31 (0.966 %) PL/SQL 15 30 (0.935 %) VBScript 16 25 (0.779 %) X++ 17 6 (0.187 %) Shell Script 18 5 (0.156 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 746 (23.25 %) Microsoft Certification 2 394 (12.28 %) MCSE 3 288 (8.978 %) Degree 4 202 (6.297 %) MCP 5 175 (5.455 %) MCSA 6 129 (4.021 %) Cisco Certification 7 92 (2.868 %) Citrix Certification 8 77 (2.400 %) CCNA 9 50 (1.559 %) CCEA 10 39 (1.216 %) IBM Certification 10 39 (1.216 %) SNIA Certification 11 32 (0.998 %) CCA 12 28 (0.873 %) MCSD 13 27 (0.842 %) MCDBA 14 24 (0.748 %) CCNP 15 23 (0.717 %) PMP 15 23 (0.717 %) PMI Certification 16 22 (0.686 %) ITIL Certification 16 22 (0.686 %) MCDST 17 21 (0.655 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 109 (3.398 %) SLA 2 29 (0.904 %) QA 3 7 (0.218 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 2 (0.062 %) ISO9001 5 1 (0.031 %) ISO9002 5 1 (0.031 %) BS7799 5 1 (0.031 %) ISO14001 5 1 (0.031 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 516 (16.08 %) Active Directory 2 183 (5.704 %) ISA Server 3 78 (2.431 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 49 (1.527 %) MetaFrame 5 44 (1.372 %) NetBackup 6 41 (1.278 %) Backup Exec 7 35 (1.091 %) Terminal Services 8 22 (0.686 %) Terminal Server 9 19 (0.592 %) VMware ESX 10 16 (0.499 %) MSMQ 11 8 (0.249 %) VMware Server 12 4 (0.125 %) Xen 13 3 (0.094 %) Oracle RMAN 14 2 (0.062 %) Oracle RAC 15 1 (0.031 %) Novell eDirectory 15 1 (0.031 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 136 (4.239 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 42 (1.309 %) MOM 3 18 (0.561 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 16 (0.499 %) SCOM 5 14 (0.436 %) BMC PATROL 6 7 (0.218 %) MIIS 7 6 (0.187 %) SCCM 8 4 (0.125 %) ZENworks 8 4 (0.125 %) OpenView 8 4 (0.125 %) Unicenter 8 4 (0.125 %) Tivoli 9 3 (0.094 %) WSUS 10 2 (0.062 %) DameWare 11 1 (0.031 %) MIMEsweeper 11 1 (0.031 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 11 1 (0.031 %) Legato 11 1 (0.031 %) ARCserve 11 1 (0.031 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 412 (12.84 %) Citrix 2 349 (10.88 %) Cisco 3 272 (8.479 %) Oracle 4 171 (5.330 %) Lotus 5 155 (4.832 %) VMware 6 90 (2.805 %) HP 7 87 (2.712 %) IBM 8 63 (1.964 %) SAP 9 52 (1.621 %) VERITAS 10 51 (1.590 %) Sage 11 50 (1.559 %) Red Hat 12 40 (1.247 %) CheckPoint 13 39 (1.216 %) Brocade 14 34 (1.060 %) Novell 14 34 (1.060 %) Business Objects 14 34 (1.060 %) Symbian 15 32 (0.998 %) Symantec 16 30 (0.935 %) McAfee Security 17 26 (0.810 %) Dell 18 22 (0.686 %) Sybase