Microsoft Jobs in Preston
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Preston region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 24 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 Preston 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 4 9 2
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 47 27 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 38.84% 21.95% 32.61%
As % of the Vendors category 72.31% 50.94% 57.69%
Number of salaries quoted 42 25 14
Average salary £32,250 £32,500 £32,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.76% +0.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,204 £26,000 £14,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,950 £38,400 £43,450
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -
Search 15 Microsoft jobs in Preston
All Vendors
Preston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 65 53 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 53.72% 43.09% 56.52%
Number of salaries quoted 58 51 21
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £28,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,204 £21,000 £16,750
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Lancashire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Preston region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Preston Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 47 (67.14%) .NET
2 40 (57.14%) SQL Server
3 34 (48.57%) C#
4 25 (35.71%) ASP.NET
5 23 (32.86%) MS Office
5 23 (32.86%) MS Excel
6 22 (31.43%) Windows
7 21 (30.00%) VB.NET
8 18 (25.71%) .NET Framework
9 16 (22.86%) SQL Server 2005
10 15 (21.43%) OO
11 14 (20.00%) Visual Studio
12 13 (18.57%) VB
12 13 (18.57%) CSS
12 13 (18.57%) SharePoint
13 12 (17.14%) SQL Server 2012
14 11 (15.71%) Windows Server 2008
14 11 (15.71%) Agile Software Development
14 11 (15.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (15.71%) C++
14 11 (15.71%) HTML
15 10 (14.29%) Active Directory
15 10 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (14.29%) WCF
15 10 (14.29%) MCTS
16 9 (12.86%) SQL Server 2008
16 9 (12.86%) Team Foundation Server
16 9 (12.86%) Citrix
16 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
16 9 (12.86%) T-SQL

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 47 (67.14%) .NET
2 25 (35.71%) ASP.NET
3 18 (25.71%) .NET Framework
4 13 (18.57%) CSS
5 11 (15.71%) HTML
6 10 (14.29%) WCF
7 9 (12.86%) WinForms
8 7 (10.00%) Lucene
8 7 (10.00%) XML
8 7 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (10.00%) Castle Windsor
8 7 (10.00%) NHibernate
8 7 (10.00%) LINQ
8 7 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 6 (8.571%) WPF
9 6 (8.571%) ASP
10 5 (7.143%) COM
10 5 (7.143%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 4 (5.714%) Web Services
12 2 (2.857%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 13 (18.57%) SharePoint
2 9 (12.86%) IIS
3 6 (8.571%) TeamSite
4 5 (7.143%) MS Exchange
4 5 (7.143%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (4.286%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (2.857%) Lync
6 2 (2.857%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 23 (32.86%) MS Office
1 23 (32.86%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.86%) Firewall
2 6 (8.571%) VPN
2 6 (8.571%) DNS
3 5 (7.143%) TCP/IP
3 5 (7.143%) DHCP
4 3 (4.286%) Internet
4 3 (4.286%) LAN
5 2 (2.857%) VLAN
5 2 (2.857%) Intranet
5 2 (2.857%) SAN
5 2 (2.857%) VoIP
5 2 (2.857%) WAN
5 2 (2.857%) Extranet
5 2 (2.857%) Wireless
6 1 (1.429%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.429%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.429%) FTP
6 1 (1.429%) HTTP
6 1 (1.429%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 16 (22.86%) SQL Server 2005
3 12 (17.14%) SQL Server 2012
4 10 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (12.86%) SQL Server 2008
5 9 (12.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (7.143%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 9 (12.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (10.00%) NUnit
3 7 (10.00%) Rhino Mocks
3 7 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 7 (10.00%) Selenium
4 4 (5.714%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (4.286%) ClearCase
5 3 (4.286%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (2.857%) MSI
7 1 (1.429%) Bugzilla
7 1 (1.429%) JIRA
General
1 9 (12.86%) Military
1 9 (12.86%) Aerospace
2 7 (10.00%) Advertising
3 5 (7.143%) Finance
4 4 (5.714%) Retail
5 2 (2.857%) Avionics
5 2 (2.857%) Legal
6 1 (1.429%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (48.57%) Developer
2 19 (27.14%) Software Developer
3 12 (17.14%) .NET Developer
4 9 (12.86%) Analyst
5 7 (10.00%) SharePoint Developer
6 5 (7.143%) C# Developer
6 5 (7.143%) VB.NET Developer
6 5 (7.143%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (7.143%) C# Software Developer
6 5 (7.143%) .NET Software Developer
7 4 (5.714%) Test Analyst
7 4 (5.714%) Support Technician
7 4 (5.714%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.286%) Software Development Engineer
8 3 (4.286%) Administrator
8 3 (4.286%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (4.286%) Development Manager
8 3 (4.286%) Development Engineer
9 2 (2.857%) IT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.143%) iPhone
2 2 (2.857%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (2.857%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.857%) Clustering
3 1 (1.429%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.429%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (31.43%) Windows
2 11 (15.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (10.00%) Windows 8
4 6 (8.571%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (8.571%) Windows 7
5 5 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (7.143%) Windows XP
6 2 (2.857%) Solaris
6 2 (2.857%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.43%) OO
2 11 (15.71%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (10.00%) Validation
3 7 (10.00%) MVC
3 7 (10.00%) Scrum
3 7 (10.00%) TDD
3 7 (10.00%) ITIL
3 7 (10.00%) Web Application Development
3 7 (10.00%) Scrum-ban
3 7 (10.00%) BDD
3 7 (10.00%) Kanban
4 6 (8.571%) Waterfall
5 5 (7.143%) MVVM
5 5 (7.143%) Web Development
6 4 (5.714%) QMS
6 4 (5.714%) Test Scripting
6 4 (5.714%) Document Management
7 3 (4.286%) Software Testing
7 3 (4.286%) Change Management
7 3 (4.286%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 34 (48.57%) C#
2 21 (30.00%) VB.NET
3 13 (18.57%) VB
4 11 (15.71%) C++
5 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
5 9 (12.86%) T-SQL
6 6 (8.571%) VBA
7 5 (7.143%) VB6
7 5 (7.143%) XAML
8 4 (5.714%) C
8 4 (5.714%) SQL
9 3 (4.286%) VC++
10 2 (2.857%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.857%) Ada
10 2 (2.857%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (14.29%) MCTS
3 7 (10.00%) MCP
3 7 (10.00%) MCAD
3 7 (10.00%) MCSD
4 4 (5.714%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.714%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.286%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (4.286%) ISEB
5 3 (4.286%) MCSE
5 3 (4.286%) MCSA
5 3 (4.286%) CCA
5 3 (4.286%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (4.286%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.286%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.286%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.286%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.143%) XenApp
3 3 (4.286%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.286%) XenServer
4 2 (2.857%) vSphere
4 2 (2.857%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 4 (5.714%) SCCM
2 2 (2.857%) WhatsUp Gold
2 2 (2.857%) HP SIM
2 2 (2.857%) WMI
2 2 (2.857%) SCOM
2 2 (2.857%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) Citrix
2 7 (10.00%) Oracle
3 6 (8.571%) VMware
4 3 (4.286%) AppSense
5 2 (2.857%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.857%) Juniper
5 2 (2.857%) NetApp
5 2 (2.857%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.857%) HP
5 2 (2.857%) Cisco
Sharepoint Developer - Preston
Preston, North West
Key Skills: Sharepoint Exchange Active Directory Visual Studio Windows Server 2008 / 2010 This role is a unique opportunity to join a growing team and to work within a...
greywood
Salary: £40000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 25 May 2013
Sharepoint Developer - Preston
Preston, Lancashire
You will be working with clients and other teams and therefore must be able to develop relationships with their partners. You will be involved with the development and...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £40000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 24 May 2013
Sharepoint Analyst / Developer
Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Blackpool,...
Sharepoint 2010 Developer - Company growth has created this role for an experienced Sharepoint Analyst / Developer to join a well established and successful Retailer based in Lancashire.PERSON SKILLS -...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: to £37,000 + bonus + excellent bens
Posted: 24 May 2013
SharePoint Analyst - ASP.Net / SQL / jQuery / Free iPad-mini
Preston, Lancashire
This role would suit an experienced SharePoint Developer with experience of SharePoint in an enterprise environment, together with first-rate ASP.Net / C# / SQL / Windows Server knowledge... Microsoft...
Searchability.co.uk
Posted: 20 May 2013
SharePoint Analyst / Developer - ASP.Net / SQL / jQuery / CSS
Preston, Lancashire
This role would suit an experienced SharePoint Developer with experience of SharePoint in an enterprise environment, together with first-rate ASP.Net / C# / SQL / Windows Server knowledge... Microsoft...
Searchability.co.uk
Posted: 24 May 2013
Sharepoint Developer/Analyst
Preston, Lancashire
MS Visual Studio 2010. SharePoint 2010 Development /Configuration/ SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure. InfoPath 2010 / WebParts. ASP.NET v3.5. C# .NET. Powershell scripts. JQuery, CSS, XML, XSLT, Ajax... Understand,...
Experis IT
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
MS Dynamics Sharepoint Dev
Preston, Lancashire
MS Visual Studio 2010. SharePoint 2010 Development /Configuration/ SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure. InfoPath 2010 / WebParts. ASP.NET v3.5. C# .NET. Powershell scripts. JQuery, CSS, XML, XSLT, Ajax... Understand,...
Experis IT
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
BI Team Lead (BI Consultancy) -Preston/Remote
Preston, North West
A small but rapidly expanding business intelligence consultancy is looking for an experienced Microsoft BI specialist to join their company on a permanent basis, in a technical lead /...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + remote working
Posted: 15 May 2013
IT Infrastructure Specialist
Preston, Lancashire
Information Technology related degree, or equivalent proven knowledge in IT and Technology fields with associated qualifications such as CCNA, CCNP, VCP *Extensive knowledge of MS Windows 2000/XP,...
Reed Technology
Salary: £24000 - £31000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
.NET Developer - Global TV Network - Preston
Preston, North West
Our client can provide you with industry recognized training in: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, Castle Windsor, Lucene.net, TDD, BDD, NUnit, RhinoMocks, Cucumber, Selenium,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Site Support Engineer / Field Service Engineer (Telecoms) £20K
Preston, Lancashire
Server and PC hardware/software in a Microsoft/Linux networking environment. - Analogue and digital/VOIP telephone networks. - TCP/IP network fundamentals including working with Windows software configurations... DESIRABLE...
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: £20,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Site Support Engineer / Field Service Engineer (Telecoms) £20K
Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom, North West
Maximising the uptime of Bedside Units and therefore the availability of the system to customers.RESPONSIBILITIES: a) Maximising the uptime (technical availability to customers) of the Bedside Unit...
Easy Web Recruitment
Salary: £20,000 per year
Posted: 23 May 2013
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