The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Plymouth 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 Plymouth 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 5 5 6
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 17 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Plymouth 28.81% 28.57% 10.53%
As % of the Vendors category 70.83% 66.67% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 2
Average salary £33,000 £37,000 £25,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.81% +43.68%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Plymouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
24 9 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Plymouth 40.68% 42.86% 42.11%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 8
Average salary £29,500 £34,000 £23,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.23% +44.68%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,127 £19,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £29,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Devon

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Plymouth 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 Plymouth region.

Plymouth Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Plymouth 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 13 (48.15%) Finance
1 13 (48.15%) Banking
2 12 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 10 (37.04%) .NET
3 10 (37.04%) Visual Studio
4 9 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 8 (29.63%) Windows
6 7 (25.93%) Windows XP
6 7 (25.93%) Firewall
6 7 (25.93%) Windows 7
7 6 (22.22%) MS Exchange
8 5 (18.52%) Cisco
8 5 (18.52%) ITIL
8 5 (18.52%) VMware
8 5 (18.52%) Project Management
8 5 (18.52%) Citrix
8 5 (18.52%) SAN
8 5 (18.52%) CheckPoint
8 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (18.52%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (18.52%) Degree
8 5 (18.52%) Exchange Server 2007
9 4 (14.81%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 4 (14.81%) XenApp
9 4 (14.81%) Juniper
9 4 (14.81%) EMC
9 4 (14.81%) MS Project
9 4 (14.81%) SQL

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Plymouth 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 10 (37.04%) .NET
2 9 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.704%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.704%) Web Services
3 1 (3.704%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) MS Exchange
2 5 (18.52%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (18.52%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (7.407%) MS Project Server
4 1 (3.704%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) MS Project
2 3 (11.11%) MS Office
3 2 (7.407%) MS Excel
3 2 (7.407%) QuarkXPress
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Firewall
2 5 (18.52%) SAN
3 2 (7.407%) LDAP
3 2 (7.407%) LAN
3 2 (7.407%) WAN
3 2 (7.407%) SMTP
3 2 (7.407%) Ethernet
3 2 (7.407%) FTP
3 2 (7.407%) HTTP
3 2 (7.407%) Kerberos
3 2 (7.407%) SNMP
3 2 (7.407%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.407%) DNS
3 2 (7.407%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.704%) DHCP
4 1 (3.704%) VLAN
4 1 (3.704%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.704%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (48.15%) Finance
1 13 (48.15%) Banking
2 3 (11.11%) Publishing
3 2 (7.407%) Legal
3 2 (7.407%) Marketing
4 1 (3.704%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
1 10 (37.04%) .NET Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) IT Support
4 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Technical Support
4 4 (14.81%) Technical Support
4 4 (14.81%) Technical Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (7.407%) IT Administrator
6 2 (7.407%) Project Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Administrator
6 2 (7.407%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Data Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Support Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.407%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.407%) Statistics
1 2 (7.407%) Graphic Design
1 2 (7.407%) Mathematics
1 2 (7.407%) Xserve
2 1 (3.704%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Windows 7
2 7 (25.93%) Windows XP
3 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.704%) CentOS
4 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.704%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (18.52%) ITIL
1 5 (18.52%) Project Management
2 3 (11.11%) Programme Management
3 2 (7.407%) Asset Management
3 2 (7.407%) Data Management
3 2 (7.407%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (7.407%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (7.407%) Data Analysis
3 2 (7.407%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (7.407%) Business Continuity
3 2 (7.407%) PRINCE2
3 2 (7.407%) BCP
3 2 (7.407%) SIEM
4 1 (3.704%) Software Deployment
4 1 (3.704%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
2 1 (3.704%) T-SQL
2 1 (3.704%) VBScript
2 1 (3.704%) VB.NET
2 1 (3.704%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 2 (7.407%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.407%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (7.407%) PCI DSS
2 2 (7.407%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.81%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 4 (14.81%) XenApp
3 1 (3.704%) vSphere
3 1 (3.704%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.704%) VMware Server
3 1 (3.704%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (3.704%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Citrix
1 5 (18.52%) Cisco
1 5 (18.52%) CheckPoint
1 5 (18.52%) VMware
2 4 (14.81%) EMC
2 4 (14.81%) Juniper
3 2 (7.407%) Apple
3 2 (7.407%) Adobe
4 1 (3.704%) NetApp
4 1 (3.704%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.704%) Sophos
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