The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Oxfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 7 6 8
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 343 252 266
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 18.71% 17.12% 16.42%
As % of the Vendors category 37.36% 40.45% 41.89%
Number of salaries quoted 316 234 233
Average salary £35,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.42% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £26,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £58,950
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
918 623 635
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 50.08% 42.32% 39.20%
Number of salaries quoted 819 560 540
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -1.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oxfordshire Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Oxford 0 144 £37,500 +7.14%
Abingdon +17 59 £24,000 -23.80%
Wantage - 18 £40,000 -
Witney -2 16 £37,500 +36.36%
Bicester -1 6 £25,875 -5.90%
Henley-on-Thames -1 6 £32,500 +12.06%
Thame +10 5 £42,500 +11.84%
Kidlington - 4 £22,500 -
Burford - 4 £26,000 -
Banbury -2 3 £19,000 -53.93%
Wallingford -4 2 £15,000 -48.03%
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

1 355 (48.10%) SQL Server
2 325 (44.04%) .NET
3 286 (38.75%) Windows
4 273 (36.99%) SQL
5 260 (35.23%) C#
6 243 (32.93%) MS Excel
7 200 (27.10%) ASP.NET
8 154 (20.87%) MS Office
9 149 (20.19%) JavaScript
10 134 (18.16%) HTML
11 132 (17.89%) SQL Server 2008
12 131 (17.75%) Active Directory
13 129 (17.48%) Degree
14 126 (17.07%) Microsoft Certification
15 109 (14.77%) MS Exchange
16 104 (14.09%) WCF
17 103 (13.96%) VB
18 101 (13.69%) CSS
19 99 (13.41%) SQL Server 2005
20 96 (13.01%) Windows Server 2008
21 95 (12.87%) Linux
22 88 (11.92%) XML
23 87 (11.79%) Oracle
24 85 (11.52%) Finance
24 85 (11.52%) VMware
25 82 (11.11%) Visual Studio
26 80 (10.84%) .NET Framework
27 79 (10.70%) SharePoint
28 75 (10.16%) OO
29 74 (10.03%) TCP/IP

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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
1 325 (44.04%) .NET
2 200 (27.10%) ASP.NET
3 134 (18.16%) HTML
4 104 (14.09%) WCF
5 101 (13.69%) CSS
6 88 (11.92%) XML
7 80 (10.84%) .NET Framework
8 70 (9.485%) Web Services
9 56 (7.588%) ASP.NET MVC
10 52 (7.046%) WPF
11 39 (5.285%) Ajax
12 38 (5.149%) LINQ
13 31 (4.201%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 28 (3.794%) jQuery
15 19 (2.575%) NHibernate
16 18 (2.439%) ASP
17 17 (2.304%) HTML5
17 17 (2.304%) ASP.NET MVC 2
18 15 (2.033%) Silverlight
19 14 (1.897%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 109 (14.77%) MS Exchange
2 79 (10.70%) SharePoint
3 44 (5.962%) IIS
4 31 (4.201%) Exchange Server 2010
5 24 (3.252%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 23 (3.117%) BizTalk Server
6 23 (3.117%) Exchange Server 2007
7 17 (2.304%) RabbitMQ
8 14 (1.897%) CMS
9 10 (1.355%) SharePoint Server
9 10 (1.355%) SAS
9 10 (1.355%) Office Communications Server
10 9 (1.220%) Exchange Server 2003
11 8 (1.084%) ESB
11 8 (1.084%) Drupal
11 8 (1.084%) Lync
12 7 (0.949%) DotNetNuke
13 6 (0.813%) WebLogic
13 6 (0.813%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.813%) MSMQ
Applications
1 243 (32.93%) MS Excel
2 154 (20.87%) MS Office
3 33 (4.472%) MS Project
4 12 (1.626%) MS PowerPoint
5 5 (0.678%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.542%) Office 365
6 4 (0.542%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.136%) ArcInfo
7 1 (0.136%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 41 (5.556%) Dynamics NAV
2 37 (5.014%) Dynamics AX
3 27 (3.659%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.813%) BPCS
5 4 (0.542%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.271%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.271%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.271%) Retail-J
6 2 (0.271%) Epicor iScala
7 1 (0.136%) Adaptiv
7 1 (0.136%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 74 (10.03%) TCP/IP
2 50 (6.775%) SAN
3 49 (6.640%) Firewall
4 46 (6.233%) DNS
5 40 (5.420%) VoIP
6 39 (5.285%) Internet
7 29 (3.930%) AMQP
8 25 (3.388%) VPN
8 25 (3.388%) DHCP
9 23 (3.117%) WAN
10 22 (2.981%) Cisco IOS
11 21 (2.846%) LAN
12 17 (2.304%) Extranet
13 11 (1.491%) Intranet
14 9 (1.220%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.813%) VLAN
16 5 (0.678%) NetScaler
16 5 (0.678%) Wireless
16 5 (0.678%) OSPF
17 4 (0.542%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (48.10%) SQL Server
2 132 (17.89%) SQL Server 2008
3 99 (13.41%) SQL Server 2005
4 46 (6.233%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (6.233%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 42 (5.691%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 31 (4.201%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 30 (4.065%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 30 (4.065%) SQL Server 2012
8 18 (2.439%) Oracle 8/8i
9 13 (1.762%) OLAP
10 9 (1.220%) MySQL
11 7 (0.949%) Crystal Reports
11 7 (0.949%) Data Mining
11 7 (0.949%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.678%) SQL Server 2000
12 5 (0.678%) QlikView
12 5 (0.678%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.678%) Big Data
13 4 (0.542%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 82 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 28 (3.794%) NUnit
3 26 (3.523%) Team Foundation Server
4 18 (2.439%) Subversion
5 17 (2.304%) Selenium
6 14 (1.897%) Rhino Mocks
7 6 (0.813%) Moq
8 5 (0.678%) JUnit
8 5 (0.678%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.542%) Rational Robot
9 4 (0.542%) TestComplete
10 3 (0.407%) Git (software)
11 2 (0.271%) NMock
11 2 (0.271%) MSTest
12 1 (0.136%) MorphX
12 1 (0.136%) MSI
12 1 (0.136%) Dreamweaver
General
1 85 (11.52%) Finance
2 37 (5.014%) Retail
3 35 (4.743%) Manufacturing
4 23 (3.117%) Telecoms
5 21 (2.846%) Advertising
6 15 (2.033%) Publishing
7 10 (1.355%) Banking
7 10 (1.355%) Music
8 8 (1.084%) Automotive
9 6 (0.813%) Marketing
9 6 (0.813%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.678%) Billing
11 4 (0.542%) Back Office
12 3 (0.407%) Electronics
13 2 (0.271%) Military
14 1 (0.136%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.136%) Games
14 1 (0.136%) Front Office
14 1 (0.136%) Law
14 1 (0.136%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 296 (40.11%) Developer
2 110 (14.91%) .NET Developer
3 103 (13.96%) Analyst
4 62 (8.401%) Support Engineer
5 59 (7.995%) Software Developer
6 54 (7.317%) Consultant
7 46 (6.233%) C# Developer
8 45 (6.098%) ASP.NET Developer
8 45 (6.098%) IT Support
9 40 (5.420%) C# .NET Developer
9 40 (5.420%) Senior Developer
10 39 (5.285%) 2nd Line Support
10 39 (5.285%) Systems Engineer
11 38 (5.149%) Architect
12 36 (4.878%) Administrator
13 35 (4.743%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 34 (4.607%) Support Analyst
14 34 (4.607%) Web Developer
14 34 (4.607%) DBA
15 33 (4.472%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.743%) Computer Science
2 30 (4.065%) Blackberry
2 30 (4.065%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (2.033%) Clustering
4 13 (1.762%) Management Information System
4 13 (1.762%) Open Source
4 13 (1.762%) Mobile App
5 11 (1.491%) Client/Server
5 11 (1.491%) EPoS
6 10 (1.355%) Tandem
6 10 (1.355%) Replication
7 7 (0.949%) Data Integration
7 7 (0.949%) Inversion of Control
7 7 (0.949%) SaaS
7 7 (0.949%) N-Tier
8 6 (0.813%) iPad
8 6 (0.813%) iSeries
8 6 (0.813%) IaaS
9 5 (0.678%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (0.678%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 286 (38.75%) Windows
2 96 (13.01%) Windows Server 2008
3 95 (12.87%) Linux
4 69 (9.350%) Windows XP
5 56 (7.588%) Windows 7
6 53 (7.182%) Windows Server 2003
7 33 (4.472%) Windows Vista
8 20 (2.710%) UNIX
9 8 (1.084%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.542%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.407%) Windows NT
12 2 (0.271%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.271%) Android
13 1 (0.136%) Windows 2000 Server
13 1 (0.136%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (10.16%) OO
2 65 (8.808%) MVC
3 64 (8.672%) TDD
4 63 (8.537%) Agile Software Development
5 61 (8.266%) CRM
6 57 (7.724%) Project Management
7 50 (6.775%) ITIL
8 48 (6.504%) Scrum
9 45 (6.098%) Web Development
10 37 (5.014%) E-Commerce
11 35 (4.743%) Web Application Development
12 34 (4.607%) ERP
12 34 (4.607%) OOP
13 33 (4.472%) Unit Testing
14 24 (3.252%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (2.981%) User Acceptance Testing
16 21 (2.846%) UML
17 20 (2.710%) SOA
17 20 (2.710%) Content Management
18 19 (2.575%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 273 (36.99%) SQL
2 260 (35.23%) C#
3 149 (20.19%) JavaScript
4 103 (13.96%) VB
5 71 (9.621%) Java
6 66 (8.943%) T-SQL
7 58 (7.859%) VB6
8 57 (7.724%) C
9 47 (6.369%) VB.NET
10 38 (5.149%) Ruby
11 31 (4.201%) C++
12 25 (3.388%) PHP
13 17 (2.304%) Python
14 9 (1.220%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.220%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.084%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.813%) Perl
17 5 (0.678%) VBA
17 5 (0.678%) XPath
18 4 (0.542%) X++
Qualifications
1 129 (17.48%) Degree
2 126 (17.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 40 (5.420%) MCSE
4 38 (5.149%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.149%) Security Cleared
5 34 (4.607%) MCP
6 30 (4.065%) MCITP
7 29 (3.930%) MCTS
8 28 (3.794%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (3.388%) CCNA
10 16 (2.168%) MCAD
10 16 (2.168%) MCSD
11 13 (1.762%) CCNP
11 13 (1.762%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (1.626%) ISEB
13 10 (1.355%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (1.220%) MCSA
15 8 (1.084%) MCDST
16 7 (0.949%) MCDBA
17 5 (0.678%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.201%) QA
2 16 (2.168%) SLA
3 11 (1.491%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.355%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.542%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.136%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.136%) GMP
7 1 (0.136%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 131 (17.75%) Active Directory
2 62 (8.401%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (5.691%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.762%) XenApp
5 8 (1.084%) XenDesktop
6 7 (0.949%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.813%) Terminal Services
7 6 (0.813%) XenServer
8 5 (0.678%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.542%) vSphere
10 3 (0.407%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.136%) NFS
11 1 (0.136%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.136%) Samba
11 1 (0.136%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 16 (2.168%) SCCM
1 16 (2.168%) SCOM
2 7 (0.949%) Backup Exec
2 7 (0.949%) WSUS
3 4 (0.542%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (0.407%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (0.271%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.271%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 87 (11.79%) Oracle
2 85 (11.52%) VMware
3 48 (6.504%) Cisco
4 47 (6.369%) Citrix
5 37 (5.014%) Apple
6 27 (3.659%) WatchGuard
7 16 (2.168%) NetApp
7 16 (2.168%) SAP
8 13 (1.762%) Cognos
9 12 (1.626%) HP
9 12 (1.626%) JBoss
10 9 (1.220%) Dell
10 9 (1.220%) Baan
10 9 (1.220%) Kofax
11 7 (0.949%) IBM
11 7 (0.949%) F5
12 6 (0.813%) PeopleSoft
12 6 (0.813%) Veeam
12 6 (0.813%) Avaya
13 5 (0.678%) Symantec
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