The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Plymouth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 7 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Plymouth region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 16 10 -
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7 4 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Plymouth 6.780% 4.762% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.36% 20.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £29,500 £19,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+55.26% -
UK excluding London average salary £29,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-1.66% -
All Operating Systems
Plymouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
11 5 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Plymouth 18.64% 23.81% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 6
Average salary £27,127 £34,000 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.21% +54.54%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 7
Devon

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Plymouth region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Plymouth Windows 7 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 7
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Plymouth region.

Plymouth Windows 7 Salary Trend

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Plymouth region citing Windows 7 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 7.

1 11 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
3 6 (54.55%) Firewall
4 5 (45.45%) SAN
4 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (45.45%) ITIL
4 5 (45.45%) MS Exchange
4 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
5 4 (36.36%) VB
5 4 (36.36%) VB.NET
5 4 (36.36%) .NET
5 4 (36.36%) C#
5 4 (36.36%) C++
5 4 (36.36%) Java
5 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
5 4 (36.36%) Cisco
5 4 (36.36%) EMC
5 4 (36.36%) Citrix
5 4 (36.36%) Juniper
5 4 (36.36%) Banking
5 4 (36.36%) VB6
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
5 4 (36.36%) Finance
5 4 (36.36%) VMware
5 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2007

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Plymouth region citing Windows 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) MS Exchange
2 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (9.091%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Project
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) SAN
3 2 (18.18%) HTTPS
3 2 (18.18%) LDAP
3 2 (18.18%) SMTP
3 2 (18.18%) Ethernet
3 2 (18.18%) FTP
3 2 (18.18%) HTTP
3 2 (18.18%) Kerberos
3 2 (18.18%) SNMP
3 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (9.091%) DNS
4 1 (9.091%) DHCP
4 1 (9.091%) LAN
4 1 (9.091%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Support Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Technical Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Technical Support
2 4 (36.36%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (36.36%) Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) 3rd Line Technical Support
3 3 (27.27%) IT Support
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) IT Security Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) IT Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) Security Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.091%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Team Leader
5 1 (9.091%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (9.091%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Statistics
2 1 (9.091%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) Windows XP
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) BCP
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
3 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (18.18%) SIEM
4 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
1 4 (36.36%) C++
1 4 (36.36%) Java
1 4 (36.36%) VB
1 4 (36.36%) VB.NET
1 4 (36.36%) VB6
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (36.36%) XenApp
2 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.091%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) EMC
2 4 (36.36%) Citrix
2 4 (36.36%) Juniper
2 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco