North West Windows Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Dursley Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle Heywood High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Leominster Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ormskirk Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	8
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	1983	1987
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.970 %	0.853 %
As % of the category below	66.77 %	63.22 %
Salaries quoted	1715	1751
Average minimum salary	£27,862	£27,591
Average salary	£30,101	£29,908
% change on same period last year	+0.64 %
Average maximum salary	£32,339	£32,225
UK excluding London average salary	£32,401	£32,753
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Operating Systems North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	2970	3143
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.453 %	1.350 %
Salaries quoted	2576	2775
Average minimum salary	£29,577	£29,265
Average salary	£32,160	£31,675
% change on same period last year	+1.53 %
Average maximum salary	£34,744	£34,085
UK excluding London average salary	£34,684	£34,941
% change on same period last year	-0.73 %
Windows England

Windows
Demand Trend

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

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Windows
Salary Histogram

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

Windows
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 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	-4	734	£29,648	-2.63 %
2	Cheshire	+4	682	£32,187	+7.01 %
3	Lancashire	+2	321	£25,236	+2.92 %
4	Merseyside	+3	206	£30,298	+5.98 %
5	Cumbria	-2	19	£24,859	+36.35 %

Windows England

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Windows 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 Windows.

1 1083 (26.62 %) Microsoft 2 959 (23.57 %) SQL 3 823 (20.23 %) SQL Server 4 820 (20.16 %) Active Directory 5 760 (18.68 %) Windows 2000 6 697 (17.13 %) MS Excel 7 693 (17.04 %) MS Exchange 8 668 (16.42 %) Unix 9 665 (16.35 %) Citrix 10 570 (14.01 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 568 (13.96 %) Microsoft Certification 12 554 (13.62 %) TCP/IP 13 486 (11.95 %) .NET 14 478 (11.75 %) Windows XP 15 477 (11.73 %) Firewall

16 465 (11.43 %) C++ 17 441 (10.84 %) Cisco 18 418 (10.28 %) Linux 19 411 (10.10 %) Windows Server 2003 20 407 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 21 406 (9.980 %) MS Office 22 405 (9.956 %) MCSE 23 402 (9.882 %) C# 24 392 (9.636 %) Finance 25 329 (8.088 %) WAN 26 313 (7.694 %) VPN 27 302 (7.424 %) Oracle 27 302 (7.424 %) Pensions 28 280 (6.883 %) VB 29 278 (6.834 %) Internet

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing Windows 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 Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 486 (11.95 %) .NET 2 252 (6.195 %) XML 3 187 (4.597 %) ASP.NET 4 181 (4.449 %) HTML 5 133 (3.269 %) WinForms 6 111 (2.729 %) WebServices 7 108 (2.655 %) MFC 8 98 (2.409 %) CSS 9 77 (1.893 %) J2EE 10 74 (1.819 %) Middleware 11 73 (1.794 %) ASP 12 65 (1.598 %) XSLT 13 61 (1.500 %) .NET Framework 14 51 (1.254 %) DCOM 15 43 (1.057 %) AJAX 16 35 (0.860 %) WPF 17 28 (0.688 %) BREW 18 27 (0.664 %) WebSphere 18 27 (0.664 %) XHTML 19 26 (0.639 %) ActiveX	Application Platforms 1 693 (17.04 %) MS Exchange 2 570 (14.01 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 407 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 269 (6.613 %) IIS 5 160 (3.933 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 132 (3.245 %) Lotus Notes 7 101 (2.483 %) SharePoint 8 61 (1.500 %) Apache 9 41 (1.008 %) Oracle Application Server 10 37 (0.910 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 28 (0.688 %) JBoss 12 19 (0.467 %) Lotus Domino 13 14 (0.344 %) Tomcat 13 14 (0.344 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 14 10 (0.246 %) CMS 15 9 (0.221 %) Oracle 10gAS 16 8 (0.197 %) WebSphere Application Server 16 8 (0.197 %) WebLogic 16 8 (0.197 %) BizTalk Server 16 8 (0.197 %) SAS
Applications 1 697 (17.13 %) MS Excel 2 406 (9.980 %) MS Office 3 43 (1.057 %) Photoshop 4 25 (0.615 %) Fireworks 5 17 (0.418 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 14 (0.344 %) MS Visio 7 11 (0.270 %) MS Project 8 9 (0.221 %) MS PowerPoint 9 7 (0.172 %) AutoCAD 10 2 (0.049 %) Acrobat 10 2 (0.049 %) QuarkXPress 11 1 (0.025 %) SmartSuite 11 1 (0.025 %) SPSS 11 1 (0.025 %) MATLAB 11 1 (0.025 %) DeltaView 11 1 (0.025 %) Maya 11 1 (0.025 %) 3ds Max 11 1 (0.025 %) InDesign	Business Applications 1 23 (0.565 %) Oracle Applications 2 17 (0.418 %) Oracle 11i 3 11 (0.270 %) Oracle EBS 4 10 (0.246 %) Navision 5 9 (0.221 %) SalesLogix 6 8 (0.197 %) Line 500 7 7 (0.172 %) Remedy ITSM 8 6 (0.147 %) GoldMine 9 4 (0.098 %) SoftGrid 10 3 (0.074 %) SageBI 10 3 (0.074 %) PeopleSoft Financials 11 2 (0.049 %) Great Plains 11 2 (0.049 %) e-Work 11 2 (0.049 %) MAXIMO 11 2 (0.049 %) Line 50 12 1 (0.025 %) SAP Business One 12 1 (0.025 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 554 (13.62 %) TCP/IP 2 477 (11.73 %) Firewall 3 329 (8.088 %) WAN 4 313 (7.694 %) VPN 5 278 (6.834 %) Internet 6 277 (6.809 %) LAN 7 214 (5.261 %) SAN 8 203 (4.990 %) DNS 9 101 (2.483 %) Wireless 10 99 (2.434 %) ADSL 11 90 (2.212 %) DHCP 12 85 (2.089 %) Broadband 13 64 (1.573 %) WINS 13 64 (1.573 %) Cisco PIX 14 63 (1.549 %) SMS 14 63 (1.549 %) VoIP 15 49 (1.205 %) SSL 15 49 (1.205 %) IPsec 16 46 (1.131 %) HTTP 17 42 (1.032 %) MPLS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 823 (20.23 %) SQL Server 2 270 (6.637 %) SQL Server 2000 3 177 (4.351 %) SQL Server 2005 4 71 (1.745 %) Crystal Reports 5 68 (1.672 %) Oracle 10g 6 64 (1.573 %) MySQL 7 62 (1.524 %) Oracle 9i 8 40 (0.983 %) SQL Server 7 9 38 (0.934 %) Oracle Reports 10 35 (0.860 %) MS Access 11 31 (0.762 %) DTS 12 27 (0.664 %) RDBMS 13 18 (0.442 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 17 (0.418 %) Oracle Discoverer 15 16 (0.393 %) Oracle 8/8i 16 14 (0.344 %) Datawarehouse 17 8 (0.197 %) SQL Server Integration Services 18 7 (0.172 %) BusinessObjects 19 6 (0.147 %) DB2 19 6 (0.147 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 121 (2.974 %) Visual Studio 2 23 (0.565 %) Rational Rose 3 22 (0.541 %) LoadRunner 3 22 (0.541 %) Flash 4 17 (0.418 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 16 (0.393 %) Oracle Forms 6 14 (0.344 %) Dreamweaver 6 14 (0.344 %) WinRunner 7 12 (0.295 %) TestDirector 8 11 (0.270 %) QuickTest Pro 9 8 (0.197 %) PVCS 10 5 (0.123 %) CodeWarrior 10 5 (0.123 %) WebSpeed 11 4 (0.098 %) Rational Robot 11 4 (0.098 %) Subversion 12 3 (0.074 %) Eclipse 13 2 (0.049 %) Synon 14 1 (0.025 %) MSI 14 1 (0.025 %) Bugzilla 14 1 (0.025 %) CruiseControl	General 1 392 (9.636 %) Finance 2 302 (7.424 %) Pensions 3 218 (5.359 %) Banking 4 192 (4.720 %) Health 5 151 (3.712 %) Telecoms 6 72 (1.770 %) Legal 7 70 (1.721 %) Education 8 68 (1.672 %) Marketing 9 53 (1.303 %) Insurance 10 46 (1.131 %) Retail 11 39 (0.959 %) Games 12 34 (0.836 %) Government 13 32 (0.787 %) Manufacturing 14 27 (0.664 %) Law 15 26 (0.639 %) Construction 16 24 (0.590 %) Pharmaceutical 17 23 (0.565 %) Electronics 18 21 (0.516 %) Auditing 19 18 (0.442 %) Financial Institution 20 16 (0.393 %) Graphic Design
Job Titles 1 746 (18.34 %) Analyst 2 534 (13.13 %) Developer 3 369 (9.071 %) Support Analyst 4 285 (7.006 %) Administrator 5 245 (6.023 %) Consultant 6 212 (5.211 %) Support Engineer 7 194 (4.769 %) Software Engineer 8 181 (4.449 %) Tester 9 157 (3.859 %) Technical Support 10 152 (3.736 %) Software Developer 11 142 (3.491 %) Systems Administrator 12 137 (3.368 %) Project Manager 13 128 (3.147 %) 2nd Line Support 13 128 (3.147 %) C# Developer 14 126 (3.097 %) IT Manager 15 121 (2.974 %) Network Engineer 16 119 (2.925 %) Team Leader 17 114 (2.802 %) Software Tester 18 113 (2.778 %) C++ Developer 19 107 (2.630 %) Helpdesk Support	Miscellaneous 1 161 (3.958 %) Mainframe 2 84 (2.065 %) Blackberry 3 78 (1.917 %) Clustering 4 44 (1.082 %) Cryptography 4 44 (1.082 %) PKI 4 44 (1.082 %) Client/Server 5 42 (1.032 %) SecurID 6 40 (0.983 %) Thin Client 6 40 (0.983 %) Fat Client 7 37 (0.910 %) EPoS 8 32 (0.787 %) AS400 8 32 (0.787 %) Device Driver 9 30 (0.737 %) Tandem 10 28 (0.688 %) N-Tier 11 27 (0.664 %) Mathematics 11 27 (0.664 %) Computer Science 12 26 (0.639 %) IBM Mainframe 13 25 (0.615 %) PDA 14 21 (0.516 %) Pocket PC 15 18 (0.442 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 760 (18.68 %) Windows 2000 2 668 (16.42 %) Unix 3 478 (11.75 %) Windows XP 4 418 (10.28 %) Linux 5 411 (10.10 %) Windows Server 2003 6 264 (6.490 %) Windows NT 7 123 (3.024 %) Solaris 8 117 (2.876 %) Windows Mobile 9 72 (1.770 %) AIX 10 60 (1.475 %) Windows CE 11 37 (0.910 %) VMS 12 31 (0.762 %) HPUX 13 29 (0.713 %) Windows XP Embedded 14 28 (0.688 %) Symbian OS 15 25 (0.615 %) OpenVMS 16 23 (0.565 %) Debian 17 17 (0.418 %) Mac OS X 18 12 (0.295 %) NetWare 19 8 (0.197 %) SUSE 19 8 (0.197 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 259 (6.367 %) ITIL 2 242 (5.949 %) OO 3 147 (3.614 %) Stakeholder Management 4 141 (3.466 %) PRINCE2 5 137 (3.368 %) Project Management 6 128 (3.147 %) UML 7 127 (3.122 %) Software Testing 8 98 (2.409 %) Disaster Recovery 9 89 (2.188 %) Software Engineering 10 87 (2.139 %) Web Development 11 72 (1.770 %) OOD 12 70 (1.721 %) Service Delivery 13 69 (1.696 %) Matrix Management 14 68 (1.672 %) ERP 15 62 (1.524 %) Automated Testing 16 61 (1.500 %) E-Commerce 17 58 (1.426 %) Performance Testing 18 56 (1.377 %) Test Scripting 19 50 (1.229 %) Migration 20 46 (1.131 %) Business Continuity
Programming Languages 1 959 (23.57 %) SQL 2 465 (11.43 %) C++ 3 402 (9.882 %) C# 4 280 (6.883 %) VB 5 217 (5.334 %) VB.NET 6 199 (4.892 %) C 7 149 (3.663 %) JavaScript 8 146 (3.589 %) Perl 9 140 (3.441 %) Java 10 93 (2.286 %) Transact-SQL 11 70 (1.721 %) VB6 12 60 (1.475 %) VBScript 13 58 (1.426 %) VC++ 14 53 (1.303 %) PHP 15 45 (1.106 %) DHTML 16 41 (1.008 %) PL/SQL 16 41 (1.008 %) Python 17 30 (0.737 %) Embedded C++ 18 26 (0.639 %) VBA 19 19 (0.467 %) XAML	Qualifications 1 568 (13.96 %) Microsoft Certification 2 405 (9.956 %) MCSE 3 271 (6.662 %) Degree 4 196 (4.818 %) MCSA 5 187 (4.597 %) MCP 6 82 (2.016 %) Cisco Certification 7 80 (1.967 %) Citrix Certification 8 76 (1.868 %) ISEB 9 72 (1.770 %) CCNA 10 71 (1.745 %) PMP 10 71 (1.745 %) PMI Certification 11 66 (1.622 %) HND 12 58 (1.426 %) CISSP 13 50 (1.229 %) CCEA 14 27 (0.664 %) ITIL Certification 15 26 (0.639 %) CCNP 16 25 (0.615 %) MCDST 17 24 (0.590 %) CCA 18 14 (0.344 %) MCT 19 10 (0.246 %) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 168 (4.130 %) SLA 2 102 (2.507 %) QA 3 21 (0.516 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 12 (0.295 %) ISO27001 5 9 (0.221 %) ISO17799 6 4 (0.098 %) ISO9001 7 2 (0.049 %) ISO9000 7 2 (0.049 %) BS7799 8 1 (0.025 %) COBIT 8 1 (0.025 %) ISO9002	System Software 1 820 (20.16 %) Active Directory 2 204 (5.015 %) ISA Server 3 94 (2.311 %) Terminal Server 4 79 (1.942 %) Backup Exec 4 79 (1.942 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 61 (1.500 %) Terminal Services 6 56 (1.377 %) MetaFrame 6 56 (1.377 %) NetBackup 7 27 (0.664 %) Samba 8 24 (0.590 %) Oracle RAC 9 21 (0.516 %) MSMQ 9 21 (0.516 %) Oracle RMAN 10 19 (0.467 %) VMware ESX 11 9 (0.221 %) Nmap 12 4 (0.098 %) Novell eDirectory 13 2 (0.049 %) VMware Workstation 14 1 (0.025 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 14 1 (0.025 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 102 (2.507 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 31 (0.762 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 27 (0.664 %) MOM 4 25 (0.615 %) Tivoli 5 21 (0.516 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 20 (0.492 %) DameWare 7 18 (0.442 %) ServiceCenter 8 13 (0.320 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 13 (0.320 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 8 13 (0.320 %) OpenView 9 9 (0.221 %) Nessus 10 8 (0.197 %) WSUS 10 8 (0.197 %) BMC PATROL 11 4 (0.098 %) Legato 12 3 (0.074 %) Tivoli Monitoring 12 3 (0.074 %) ARCserve 12 3 (0.074 %) BMC Marimba 13 2 (0.049 %) SCCM 13 2 (0.049 %) SCOM 14 1 (0.025 %) OMEGAMON	Vendors 1 1083 (26.62 %) Microsoft 2 665 (16.35 %) Citrix 3 441 (10.84 %) Cisco 4 302 (7.424 %) Oracle 5 195 (4.794 %) VMware 6 158 (3.884 %) HP 7 141 (3.466 %) Lotus 8 100 (2.458 %) CheckPoint 9 96 (2.360 %) Symbian 10 85 (2.089 %) VERITAS 11 76 (1.868 %) Dell 12 70 (1.721 %) IBM 13 66 (1.622 %) Red Hat 14 62 (1.524 %) Symantec 15 45 (1.106 %) McAfee Security 16 43 (1.057 %) Novell 16 43 (1.057 %) Altiris 17 41 (1.008 %) WatchGuard 18 40 (0.983 %) Remedy 18 40 (0.983 %) Sun