The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 21 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 Operating Systems category for the Peterborough region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 1 9 17
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +8
Permanent jobs citing Windows 106 54 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 28.80% 17.42% 13.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 84.13% 93.10% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 100 53 31
Average salary £32,500 £26,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -29.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,900 £19,000 £23,750
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £46,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Peterborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
126 58 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 34.24% 18.71% 21.81%
Number of salaries quoted 118 57 44
Average salary £33,500 £22,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+48.88% -40.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,700 £19,300 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £38,600 £47,500 £42,300
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
Cambridgeshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows across the Peterborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Peterborough Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Peterborough Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the Peterborough region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Peterborough Windows Salary Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough region citing Windows 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.

1 74 (38.74%) Microsoft
2 71 (37.17%) Citrix
3 61 (31.94%) VMware
4 60 (31.41%) Windows Server 2008
5 57 (29.84%) Active Directory
5 57 (29.84%) SQL Server
6 45 (23.56%) SQL
7 42 (21.99%) MS Exchange
8 35 (18.32%) Windows Server 2003
9 30 (15.71%) MS Excel
10 27 (14.14%) Exchange Server 2010
11 26 (13.61%) Exchange Server 2007
12 25 (13.09%) SCCM
13 23 (12.04%) Windows XP
14 22 (11.52%) Microsoft Certification
15 21 (10.99%) MCITP
16 20 (10.47%) XenApp
17 19 (9.948%) C#
17 19 (9.948%) .NET
17 19 (9.948%) ASP.NET
18 18 (9.424%) XML
18 18 (9.424%) LAN
18 18 (9.424%) Windows 7
19 17 (8.901%) SharePoint
19 17 (8.901%) Java
20 16 (8.377%) T-SQL
20 16 (8.377%) MS Office
20 16 (8.377%) Web Services
20 16 (8.377%) HP
21 15 (7.853%) SQL Server 2005

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough region citing Windows 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (9.948%) .NET
1 19 (9.948%) ASP.NET
2 18 (9.424%) XML
3 16 (8.377%) Web Services
4 12 (6.283%) WCF
5 11 (5.759%) HTML
6 6 (3.141%) HTML5
6 6 (3.141%) XSL
6 6 (3.141%) EDI
7 5 (2.618%) MFC
8 4 (2.094%) Oracle Streams
8 4 (2.094%) COM
8 4 (2.094%) CSS
9 3 (1.571%) Silverlight
10 2 (1.047%) .NET Compact Framework
10 2 (1.047%) WinForms
10 2 (1.047%) Ajax
10 2 (1.047%) Application Packaging
10 2 (1.047%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.047%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 42 (21.99%) MS Exchange
2 27 (14.14%) Exchange Server 2010
3 26 (13.61%) Exchange Server 2007
4 17 (8.901%) SharePoint
5 12 (6.283%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 8 (4.188%) IIS
7 6 (3.141%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (2.618%) Lync
9 4 (2.094%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (1.047%) Office Communications Server
11 1 (0.524%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 30 (15.71%) MS Excel
2 16 (8.377%) MS Office
3 3 (1.571%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.524%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.571%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.524%) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.424%) LAN
2 12 (6.283%) WAN
3 9 (4.712%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.188%) Firewall
4 8 (4.188%) Internet
4 8 (4.188%) DHCP
4 8 (4.188%) DNS
5 6 (3.141%) Wireless
5 6 (3.141%) VPN
6 5 (2.618%) VoIP
7 4 (2.094%) NetScaler
7 4 (2.094%) IP Telephony
7 4 (2.094%) SMTP
7 4 (2.094%) Kerberos
8 3 (1.571%) SAN
9 2 (1.047%) 2G
9 2 (1.047%) ZigBee
9 2 (1.047%) Network Security
9 2 (1.047%) 3G
9 2 (1.047%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (29.84%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.853%) SQL Server 2005
3 12 (6.283%) Crystal Reports
4 10 (5.236%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (5.236%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (5.236%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (3.141%) QlikView
6 4 (2.094%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (2.094%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (2.094%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (0.524%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (3.665%) Visual Studio
2 6 (3.141%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (2.618%) MSI
3 5 (2.618%) LabVIEW
General
1 15 (7.853%) Finance
2 12 (6.283%) Retail
3 10 (5.236%) Marketing
4 8 (4.188%) Games
5 7 (3.665%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (1.571%) Back Office
7 1 (0.524%) Advertising
7 1 (0.524%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 61 (31.94%) Analyst
2 26 (13.61%) Support Analyst
3 25 (13.09%) Support Engineer
4 20 (10.47%) IT Support
5 19 (9.948%) Developer
6 15 (7.853%) 3rd Line Support
6 15 (7.853%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 14 (7.330%) Consultant
8 13 (6.806%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.806%) Architect
9 11 (5.759%) Technical Architect
10 10 (5.236%) IT Support Analyst
10 10 (5.236%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (4.712%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 9 (4.712%) Administrator
12 8 (4.188%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (4.188%) Service Desk Analyst
13 7 (3.665%) Software Developer
13 7 (3.665%) Service Analyst
13 7 (3.665%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.712%) Computer Science
2 6 (3.141%) Mathematics
3 5 (2.618%) Physics
3 5 (2.618%) FMCG
4 4 (2.094%) EPoS
5 3 (1.571%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.571%) iPhone
6 2 (1.047%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.047%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.047%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.524%) Economics
7 1 (0.524%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.524%) iSeries
7 1 (0.524%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 60 (31.41%) Windows Server 2008
2 35 (18.32%) Windows Server 2003
3 23 (12.04%) Windows XP
4 18 (9.424%) Windows 7
5 11 (5.759%) Linux
5 11 (5.759%) Windows Vista
6 7 (3.665%) AIX
7 4 (2.094%) UNIX
8 3 (1.571%) Android
9 1 (0.524%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.524%) Mac OS X Server
9 1 (0.524%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (7.330%) ITIL
2 12 (6.283%) Incident Management
3 11 (5.759%) ERP
3 11 (5.759%) Software Testing
4 10 (5.236%) Unit Testing
5 9 (4.712%) Web Development
6 8 (4.188%) CRM
7 7 (3.665%) PRINCE2
7 7 (3.665%) Change Management
7 7 (3.665%) Risk Management
8 6 (3.141%) Web Application Development
8 6 (3.141%) Software Engineering
8 6 (3.141%) Time Management
9 5 (2.618%) Project Management
9 5 (2.618%) Regression Testing
9 5 (2.618%) Test Management
9 5 (2.618%) Test Scripting
9 5 (2.618%) Release Management
9 5 (2.618%) Scrum
9 5 (2.618%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 45 (23.56%) SQL
2 19 (9.948%) C#
3 17 (8.901%) Java
4 16 (8.377%) T-SQL
5 14 (7.330%) C++
6 12 (6.283%) C
7 10 (5.236%) VBScript
8 7 (3.665%) VC++
8 7 (3.665%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.141%) Bourne shell
9 6 (3.141%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.141%) VB
9 6 (3.141%) Python
10 5 (2.618%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.571%) Embedded C++
12 2 (1.047%) Ruby
13 1 (0.524%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (11.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (10.99%) MCITP
3 14 (7.330%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 14 (7.330%) Citrix Certification
4 13 (6.806%) Degree
5 12 (6.283%) MCTS
6 11 (5.759%) MCSE
6 11 (5.759%) CCA
7 8 (4.188%) MCP
8 6 (3.141%) MCSA
9 5 (2.618%) CCEE
10 4 (2.094%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.094%) CCNA
11 3 (1.571%) ISEB
12 2 (1.047%) CCEA
12 2 (1.047%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.524%) CCNP
13 1 (0.524%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.524%) CCAA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.806%) SLA
2 11 (5.759%) QA
System Software
1 57 (29.84%) Active Directory
2 20 (10.47%) XenApp
3 7 (3.665%) XenDesktop
4 6 (3.141%) XenServer
4 6 (3.141%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.618%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (2.618%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.047%) VMware Server
6 2 (1.047%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.524%) Xen
Systems Management
1 25 (13.09%) SCCM
2 2 (1.047%) Backup Exec
2 2 (1.047%) SCOM
3 1 (0.524%) ARCserve
3 1 (0.524%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (0.524%) WSUS
Vendors
1 74 (38.74%) Microsoft
2 71 (37.17%) Citrix
3 61 (31.94%) VMware
4 16 (8.377%) HP
5 8 (4.188%) Cisco
5 8 (4.188%) IBM
6 6 (3.141%) DevExpress
6 6 (3.141%) Dell
7 5 (2.618%) Oracle
8 4 (2.094%) AppSense
9 3 (1.571%) Apple
10 2 (1.047%) EPiServer
10 2 (1.047%) NetApp
11 1 (0.524%) Adobe
11 1 (0.524%) Sage
11 1 (0.524%) Lotus
11 1 (0.524%) Symantec
11 1 (0.524%) McAfee
11 1 (0.524%) SonicWALL
11 1 (0.524%) Draytek
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