The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Pontefract region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 20 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 Pontefract region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 8 5 2
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 5 5 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Pontefract 25.00% 35.71% 62.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 100.00% 83.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 15
Average salary £38,000 £17,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+117.14% -41.66%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Pontefract
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
5 5 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Pontefract 25.00% 35.71% 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 18
Average salary £38,000 £17,500 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+117.14% -20.45%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
West Yorkshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Pontefract 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 Pontefract region.

Pontefract Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Pontefract 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 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 4 (66.67%) SCOM
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) iSCSI
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (50.00%) vSphere
3 3 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (50.00%) Intel
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (50.00%) Brocade
3 3 (50.00%) Clustering
3 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (50.00%) SAN
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) IBM
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) MS Office
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) VBScript
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Pontefract 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 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) Ajax
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) WCF
1 1 (16.67%) jQuery
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5
1 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 4 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
1 3 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 3 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (16.67%) UML
2 1 (16.67%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) VBScript
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) CBAP
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Citrix
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Brocade
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Intel
Pontefract, West Yorkshire
Proven knowledge and use of the following technologies: - VMWare vSphere v4, Windows 2003/2008 Server, Microsoft clustering technologies, Citrix Presentation Server, Microsoft Active Directory, SAN Technologies, Microsoft Systems...
MAPP Ltd - IT & Business Management Recruitment Specialists
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum Upto to £38K basic + bonus (average
Posted: 14 May 2013
Pontefract, West Yorkshire
Required Skills: - Knowledge of administering Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (server core). - Sound knowledge of a Microsoft Windows 2008 Active Directory environment including sound knowledge of DNS/...
Dempsey Dyer Ltd
Salary: From £25,000 to £32,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013