The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Redditch region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 23 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 Redditch 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 16 6 5
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 3 4 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Redditch 6.818% 18.18% 23.91%
As % of the Vendors category 17.65% 57.14% 55.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 11
Average salary £25,000 £40,000 £24,098
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.50% +65.99%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Redditch
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
17 7 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Redditch 38.64% 31.82% 43.48%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 20
Average salary £37,000 £36,250 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £22,850 £22,400
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Worcestershire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Redditch 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 Redditch region.

Redditch Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Redditch 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 18 (100.00%) MVC
1 18 (100.00%) Web Development
1 18 (100.00%) jQuery
2 15 (83.33%) .NET Framework
2 15 (83.33%) Ajax
2 15 (83.33%) Scrum
2 15 (83.33%) ASP.NET
2 15 (83.33%) Web Services
2 15 (83.33%) XML
2 15 (83.33%) XSLT
2 15 (83.33%) HTML
2 15 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 15 (83.33%) VB.NET
2 15 (83.33%) .NET
2 15 (83.33%) Oracle
2 15 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 14 (77.78%) MS Excel
3 14 (77.78%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) PHP5
4 3 (16.67%) OO
4 3 (16.67%) Apache
4 3 (16.67%) IIS
4 3 (16.67%) MySQL
4 3 (16.67%) PHP
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (5.556%) C#

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Redditch 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 18 (100.00%) jQuery
2 15 (83.33%) .NET Framework
2 15 (83.33%) Ajax
2 15 (83.33%) ASP.NET
2 15 (83.33%) Web Services
2 15 (83.33%) XML
2 15 (83.33%) XSLT
2 15 (83.33%) HTML
2 15 (83.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (77.78%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) MySQL
General
1 14 (77.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (100.00%) Developer
2 15 (83.33%) .NET Developer
3 14 (77.78%) Web Developer
3 14 (77.78%) .NET Web Developer
4 3 (16.67%) PHP Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) MVC
1 18 (100.00%) Web Development
2 15 (83.33%) Scrum
3 3 (16.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 15 (83.33%) VB.NET
2 3 (16.67%) PHP5
2 3 (16.67%) PHP
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (5.556%) C#
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Oracle