The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Rickmansworth 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 Rickmansworth 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 6 16 9
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 28 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 20.74% 8.955% 6.897%
As % of the Vendors category 45.16% 14.63% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 26 3 2
Average salary £33,250 £36,000 £53,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.63% -33.02%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,800 £36,750
10% offered a salary of more than £56,500 £37,200 £70,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -
All Vendors
Rickmansworth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
62 41 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 45.93% 61.19% 58.62%
Number of salaries quoted 55 18 15
Average salary £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.91% +15.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £37,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,650 £72,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Hertfordshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Rickmansworth 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 Rickmansworth region.

Rickmansworth Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

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

Rickmansworth Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 25 (48.08%) Windows
1 25 (48.08%) MS Excel
2 21 (40.38%) Finance
3 20 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
3 20 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 20 (38.46%) MS Office
4 18 (34.62%) Cisco
5 17 (32.69%) Citrix
5 17 (32.69%) Windows Server 2003
6 14 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (26.92%) PRINCE2
6 14 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (26.92%) Network Management
6 14 (26.92%) VMware
7 13 (25.00%) LAN
8 11 (21.15%) Legal
9 10 (19.23%) Project Management
9 10 (19.23%) MS Project
10 8 (15.38%) C#
10 8 (15.38%) .NET
10 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (15.38%) Firewall
11 7 (13.46%) Windows 7
11 7 (13.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 6 (11.54%) CCNA
12 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
12 6 (11.54%) UNIX
12 6 (11.54%) Linux
13 5 (9.615%) Solaris
13 5 (9.615%) ITIL

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 8 (15.38%) .NET
2 3 (5.769%) Web Services
2 3 (5.769%) XML
2 3 (5.769%) ASP
2 3 (5.769%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.923%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.923%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 25 (48.08%) MS Excel
2 20 (38.46%) MS Office
3 10 (19.23%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 20 (38.46%) TCP/IP
2 13 (25.00%) LAN
3 8 (15.38%) Firewall
4 5 (9.615%) SSL
4 5 (9.615%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (5.769%) DHCP
5 3 (5.769%) DNS
5 3 (5.769%) Network Security
6 2 (3.846%) Intranet
6 2 (3.846%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.769%) SQL Server
1 3 (5.769%) OLAP
1 3 (5.769%) OLTP
1 3 (5.769%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (3.846%) RDBMS
General
1 21 (40.38%) Finance
2 11 (21.15%) Legal
3 2 (3.846%) Advertising
4 1 (1.923%) Back Office
4 1 (1.923%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 22 (42.31%) Analyst
2 17 (32.69%) Support Analyst
3 13 (25.00%) Technical Support
4 8 (15.38%) Technical Support Analyst
4 8 (15.38%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (9.615%) Test Analyst
5 5 (9.615%) Architect
5 5 (9.615%) Developer
5 5 (9.615%) Senior Test Analyst
5 5 (9.615%) Senior C# Developer
5 5 (9.615%) Network Architect
5 5 (9.615%) Lead C# Developer
5 5 (9.615%) Lead Test Analyst
5 5 (9.615%) Senior Developer
5 5 (9.615%) Lead Developer
5 5 (9.615%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (9.615%) Administrator
5 5 (9.615%) C# Developer
5 5 (9.615%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.769%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 25 (48.08%) Windows
2 20 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (32.69%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (13.46%) Windows 7
5 6 (11.54%) UNIX
5 6 (11.54%) Linux
6 5 (9.615%) Solaris
7 4 (7.692%) Windows XP
8 3 (5.769%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.92%) PRINCE2
1 14 (26.92%) Network Management
2 10 (19.23%) Project Management
3 5 (9.615%) ITIL
3 5 (9.615%) Change Control
3 5 (9.615%) Migration
3 5 (9.615%) Manual Testing
3 5 (9.615%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (7.692%) Business Development
4 4 (7.692%) PRINCE
5 3 (5.769%) OOP
5 3 (5.769%) OO
5 3 (5.769%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (5.769%) Systems Analysis
6 2 (3.846%) Service Management
6 2 (3.846%) Service Delivery
6 2 (3.846%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (3.846%) ETL
7 1 (1.923%) OOD
7 1 (1.923%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) C#
2 3 (5.769%) C++
2 3 (5.769%) Delphi
2 3 (5.769%) Java
2 3 (5.769%) C
2 3 (5.769%) VB
2 3 (5.769%) VB.NET
2 3 (5.769%) VB6
3 2 (3.846%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (13.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 6 (11.54%) CCNA
5 5 (9.615%) ISEB
5 5 (9.615%) CCDA
5 5 (9.615%) CCNP
6 2 (3.846%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (3.846%) Degree
7 1 (1.923%) HND
7 1 (1.923%) MCSE
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.769%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.769%) XenServer
4 2 (3.846%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (5.769%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (34.62%) Cisco
2 17 (32.69%) Citrix
3 14 (26.92%) VMware
4 5 (9.615%) Juniper
4 5 (9.615%) F5
5 3 (5.769%) Oracle
5 3 (5.769%) LANDesk
6 2 (3.846%) Progress
7 1 (1.923%) HP
7 1 (1.923%) Planview