The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 22 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 Portsmouth 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 5 9 16
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 44 35 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 21.46% 17.16% 12.74%
As % of the Vendors category 41.51% 37.63% 25.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42 34 26
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £30,195
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +40.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £32,800 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,750 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
106 93 107
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 51.71% 45.59% 50.47%
Number of salaries quoted 101 92 103
Average salary £40,000 £37,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.10% +5.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £27,250 £24,850
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £47,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Hampshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Portsmouth Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 49 (60.49%) Windows
2 41 (50.62%) MS Excel
3 30 (37.04%) SQL Server
4 28 (34.57%) .NET
4 28 (34.57%) C#
5 26 (32.10%) SQL
5 26 (32.10%) ASP.NET
6 23 (28.40%) MS Exchange
6 23 (28.40%) Active Directory
7 20 (24.69%) JavaScript
8 19 (23.46%) SCOM
9 18 (22.22%) VMware
9 18 (22.22%) SAN
10 16 (19.75%) DNS
10 16 (19.75%) jQuery
11 15 (18.52%) Windows Server 2008
11 15 (18.52%) MCITP
11 15 (18.52%) T-SQL
11 15 (18.52%) Project Management
12 14 (17.28%) Visual Studio
12 14 (17.28%) DHCP
12 14 (17.28%) MVC
12 14 (17.28%) VMware Infrastructure
13 13 (16.05%) SQL Server 2008
13 13 (16.05%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (16.05%) Time Management
13 13 (16.05%) Citrix
14 12 (14.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (14.81%) Lync
15 11 (13.58%) WSUS

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 28 (34.57%) .NET
2 26 (32.10%) ASP.NET
3 16 (19.75%) jQuery
4 13 (16.05%) ASP.NET MVC
5 10 (12.35%) SOAP
5 10 (12.35%) Web Services
5 10 (12.35%) XML
5 10 (12.35%) .NET Framework
6 9 (11.11%) WPF
6 9 (11.11%) Silverlight
6 9 (11.11%) XSLT
7 6 (7.407%) CSS
7 6 (7.407%) Flash
7 6 (7.407%) XHTML
7 6 (7.407%) WSDL
7 6 (7.407%) Ajax
7 6 (7.407%) CSS3
8 5 (6.173%) WCF
8 5 (6.173%) HTML5
8 5 (6.173%) COM
Application Platforms
1 23 (28.40%) MS Exchange
2 12 (14.81%) Lync
3 11 (13.58%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 8 (9.877%) SharePoint
5 7 (8.642%) IIS
6 6 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (2.469%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (1.235%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (1.235%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 41 (50.62%) MS Excel
2 6 (7.407%) Fireworks
2 6 (7.407%) MS Office
2 6 (7.407%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.235%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 3 (3.704%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.704%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 18 (22.22%) SAN
2 16 (19.75%) DNS
3 14 (17.28%) DHCP
4 10 (12.35%) TCP/IP
5 7 (8.642%) Firewall
6 6 (7.407%) LAN
7 5 (6.173%) SSH
7 5 (6.173%) VPN
7 5 (6.173%) FTP
7 5 (6.173%) Internet
8 4 (4.938%) MPLS
8 4 (4.938%) VoIP
9 3 (3.704%) WAN
10 2 (2.469%) VLAN
10 2 (2.469%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (1.235%) Unified Communications
11 1 (1.235%) Wireless
11 1 (1.235%) Network Security
11 1 (1.235%) SSL
11 1 (1.235%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (37.04%) SQL Server
2 13 (16.05%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (14.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (6.173%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.469%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (2.469%) MySQL
7 2 (2.469%) QlikView
8 1 (1.235%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.235%) OLAP
8 1 (1.235%) SQL Server 7
Development Applications
1 14 (17.28%) Visual Studio
2 10 (12.35%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (7.407%) Dreamweaver
4 2 (2.469%) TestDirector
General
1 6 (7.407%) Back Office
2 5 (6.173%) Finance
3 2 (2.469%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.235%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.235%) Dutch Language
4 1 (1.235%) French Language
4 1 (1.235%) German Language
4 1 (1.235%) Italian Language
4 1 (1.235%) Romanian Language
4 1 (1.235%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 27 (33.33%) Developer
2 11 (13.58%) Administrator
3 10 (12.35%) Exchange Administrator
4 9 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 9 (11.11%) Team Leader
5 8 (9.877%) Analyst
5 8 (9.877%) Messaging Administrator
5 8 (9.877%) .NET Team Leader
6 7 (8.642%) Consultant
6 7 (8.642%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.407%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.407%) C# Developer
8 5 (6.173%) Server Engineer
8 5 (6.173%) Technical Consultant
8 5 (6.173%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 5 (6.173%) Web Developer
9 4 (4.938%) Data Centre Technician
9 4 (4.938%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (4.938%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (4.938%) Microsoft Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Blackberry
2 4 (4.938%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.704%) Kindle
4 2 (2.469%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.469%) Clustering
4 2 (2.469%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.235%) Derivative
5 1 (1.235%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.235%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.235%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 49 (60.49%) Windows
2 15 (18.52%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (8.642%) Windows 7
3 7 (8.642%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (7.407%) Windows XP
5 3 (3.704%) Linux
6 1 (1.235%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.235%) Android
6 1 (1.235%) CentOS
6 1 (1.235%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.235%) Solaris
6 1 (1.235%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.52%) Project Management
2 14 (17.28%) MVC
3 13 (16.05%) Time Management
4 10 (12.35%) High Availability
5 9 (11.11%) ITIL
6 8 (9.877%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (8.642%) E-Commerce
8 6 (7.407%) Web Design
9 5 (6.173%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (6.173%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (6.173%) CRM
9 5 (6.173%) OO
9 5 (6.173%) ETL
10 4 (4.938%) Service Management
10 4 (4.938%) Service Delivery
10 4 (4.938%) Scrum
10 4 (4.938%) Software Testing
11 3 (3.704%) ITIL V3
11 3 (3.704%) Web Application Development
11 3 (3.704%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (34.57%) C#
2 26 (32.10%) SQL
3 20 (24.69%) JavaScript
4 15 (18.52%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.704%) XPath
5 3 (3.704%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.469%) C
6 2 (2.469%) C++
6 2 (2.469%) Delphi
6 2 (2.469%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.235%) VB
7 1 (1.235%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) MCITP
2 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (8.642%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.407%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.173%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.173%) MCSE
6 3 (3.704%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (3.704%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (3.704%) ISEB
7 2 (2.469%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.469%) CCA
7 2 (2.469%) CCNA
7 2 (2.469%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.469%) MCTS
8 1 (1.235%) Degree
8 1 (1.235%) NCIE
8 1 (1.235%) MCSA
8 1 (1.235%) MCDBA
8 1 (1.235%) MCP
8 1 (1.235%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.407%) WCAG
1 6 (7.407%) WAI
2 4 (4.938%) ISO 9001
2 4 (4.938%) SLA
3 1 (1.235%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 23 (28.40%) Active Directory
2 14 (17.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.877%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.173%) XenApp
5 3 (3.704%) vSphere
5 3 (3.704%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (23.46%) SCOM
2 11 (13.58%) WSUS
3 6 (7.407%) SCCM
4 4 (4.938%) SCVMM
5 2 (2.469%) HP SIM
5 2 (2.469%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (2.469%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 18 (22.22%) VMware
2 13 (16.05%) Citrix
3 10 (12.35%) Cisco
4 9 (11.11%) HP
5 7 (8.642%) Juniper
6 5 (6.173%) Adobe
6 5 (6.173%) Symantec
6 5 (6.173%) Dell
7 4 (4.938%) Capita
8 3 (3.704%) SonicWALL
9 2 (2.469%) Oracle
10 1 (1.235%) Kaseya
10 1 (1.235%) 3PAR
10 1 (1.235%) CommVault
10 1 (1.235%) Remedy
10 1 (1.235%) EMC
10 1 (1.235%) NetApp
10 1 (1.235%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.235%) Apple
10 1 (1.235%) Avaya
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