The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Oldham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 20 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 Oldham 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 11 7 8
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 8 18 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oldham 17.02% 36.00% 9.091%
As % of the Vendors category 80.00% 64.29% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7 18 3
Average salary £41,750 £26,500 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+57.54% +1.92%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Oldham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
10 28 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oldham 21.28% 56.00% 69.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 23
Average salary £39,246 £26,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+48.09% -29.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Manchester

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oldham 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 Oldham region.

Oldham Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Oldham region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Oldham Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oldham 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 16 (51.61%) Oracle
2 15 (48.39%) Degree
3 13 (41.94%) Windows
3 13 (41.94%) Active Directory
4 12 (38.71%) .NET
4 12 (38.71%) ITIL
5 11 (35.48%) SQL
5 11 (35.48%) MS Excel
5 11 (35.48%) MS Exchange
6 10 (32.26%) SharePoint
6 10 (32.26%) Citrix
6 10 (32.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (32.26%) Waterfall
7 9 (29.03%) SharePoint 2010
7 9 (29.03%) VMware
7 9 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (29.03%) CRM
7 9 (29.03%) OO
7 9 (29.03%) SQL Server
8 8 (25.81%) Cisco
8 8 (25.81%) Problem Management
8 8 (25.81%) Exchange Server 2010
8 8 (25.81%) XenApp
9 7 (22.58%) Oracle 8/8i
9 7 (22.58%) PL/SQL
10 6 (19.35%) C#
10 6 (19.35%) HTML
10 6 (19.35%) UNIX
10 6 (19.35%) XML
10 6 (19.35%) Sun

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oldham 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 12 (38.71%) .NET
2 6 (19.35%) XML
2 6 (19.35%) HTML
3 2 (6.452%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.226%) CSS
4 1 (3.226%) Web Services
4 1 (3.226%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.226%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 11 (35.48%) MS Exchange
2 10 (32.26%) SharePoint
3 9 (29.03%) SharePoint 2010
4 8 (25.81%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (19.35%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (12.90%) Lync
6 4 (12.90%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (6.452%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (6.452%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 11 (35.48%) MS Excel
2 5 (16.13%) MS Office
3 2 (6.452%) MS Project
4 1 (3.226%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (6.452%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.452%) DNS
1 2 (6.452%) SAN
1 2 (6.452%) Intranet
1 2 (6.452%) VoIP
1 2 (6.452%) Extranet
1 2 (6.452%) NAS
2 1 (3.226%) LAN
2 1 (3.226%) Firewall
2 1 (3.226%) WAN
2 1 (3.226%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.226%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) SQL Server
1 9 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (22.58%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (16.13%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (9.677%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.452%) TOAD
General
1 5 (16.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Team Leader
3 5 (16.13%) Senior Developer
3 5 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (12.90%) Support Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Development Manager
4 4 (12.90%) BizTalk Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Desktop Support
5 3 (9.677%) Oracle Team Leader
5 3 (9.677%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.452%) Applications Support
6 2 (6.452%) Systems Development Manager
6 2 (6.452%) Systems Manager
6 2 (6.452%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (6.452%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (6.452%) Technical Support
6 2 (6.452%) Systems Developer
6 2 (6.452%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 2 (6.452%) Senior Systems Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Thin Client
1 4 (12.90%) Clustering
1 4 (12.90%) Fat Client
1 4 (12.90%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.677%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.226%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (41.94%) Windows
2 10 (32.26%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (19.35%) UNIX
4 5 (16.13%) Windows 7
4 5 (16.13%) Solaris
5 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.226%) Windows Vista
6 1 (3.226%) Windows XP
6 1 (3.226%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) ITIL
2 10 (32.26%) Waterfall
3 9 (29.03%) OO
3 9 (29.03%) CRM
4 8 (25.81%) Problem Management
5 6 (19.35%) Unit Testing
5 6 (19.35%) Change Management
6 5 (16.13%) PRINCE2
6 5 (16.13%) Configuration Management
7 2 (6.452%) Project Management
7 2 (6.452%) Asset Management
7 2 (6.452%) Incident Management
7 2 (6.452%) Release Management
8 1 (3.226%) Performance Management
8 1 (3.226%) Migration
8 1 (3.226%) ETL
8 1 (3.226%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) PL/SQL
3 6 (19.35%) C#
4 5 (16.13%) T-SQL
5 4 (12.90%) VB.NET
6 2 (6.452%) Perl
7 1 (3.226%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.226%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Degree
2 3 (9.677%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.452%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (3.226%) MCTS
4 1 (3.226%) MCITP
4 1 (3.226%) MCP
4 1 (3.226%) MCSA
4 1 (3.226%) CCA
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) Active Directory
2 8 (25.81%) XenApp
3 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (16.13%) vSphere
5 1 (3.226%) VMware ESX
5 1 (3.226%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) SCCM
2 2 (6.452%) SCOM
3 1 (3.226%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 16 (51.61%) Oracle
2 10 (32.26%) Citrix
3 9 (29.03%) VMware
4 8 (25.81%) Cisco
5 6 (19.35%) Sun
5 6 (19.35%) NetApp
6 5 (16.13%) AppSense
6 5 (16.13%) Northgate
7 4 (12.90%) Wyse
7 4 (12.90%) HP
8 2 (6.452%) Civica
9 1 (3.226%) Business Objects
9 1 (3.226%) Sage
9 1 (3.226%) Sophos
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