The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Azure over the 3 months to 24 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Windows Azure 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £44,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year
-11.00% -16.66%
All Application Platforms
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
208 82 134
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 20.14% 12.93% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 170 69 114
Average salary £47,500 £35,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.71% -14.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
Windows Azure
Oxfordshire

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Windows Azure Salary Trend

Windows Azure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) SOA
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Release Management
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 2 (50.00%) Web Development
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
2 2 (50.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (50.00%) MOF
2 2 (50.00%) VB6
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) ASP

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
2 2 (50.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) ASP
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SOA
1 4 (100.00%) Release Management
2 2 (50.00%) Web Development
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) MOF
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) VB6
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware