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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows Azure 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 0.254% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.282% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £40,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £44,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year
-11.00% -16.66%
All Application Platforms
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
78 70 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 19.85% 15.38% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 75 67 91
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,600 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Windows Azure
Northamptonshire

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows Azure across the Northampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Northampton Windows Azure Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Azure
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows Azure across the Northampton region.

Northampton Windows Azure Salary Trend

Windows Azure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton region citing Windows Azure 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 Azure.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) ASP
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) DOM
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) W3C
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) WinForms
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) MooTools
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton region citing Windows Azure 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 Azure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) DOM
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) WinForms
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) MooTools
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Modernizr
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (50.00%) Hudson
1 1 (50.00%) Trac
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
1 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Xamarin