The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Sale region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 17 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 Sale 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 1 11 9
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 23 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sale 41.82% 3.226% 17.65%
As % of the Vendors category 52.27% 4.167% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 3
Average salary £34,500 £23,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -23.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,679 £23,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £36,736 £23,000 £34,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Sale
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
44 24 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sale 80.00% 77.42% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 18 15 6
Average salary £36,500 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.11% +21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,705 £40,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £48,500 £65,900
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Manchester

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sale 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 Sale region.

Sale Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sale 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 14 (56.00%) MS Excel
2 12 (48.00%) Advertising
3 11 (44.00%) .NET
3 11 (44.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (36.00%) Windows
5 8 (32.00%) Oracle
5 8 (32.00%) SQL Server
5 8 (32.00%) SLA
6 7 (28.00%) ERP
6 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
6 7 (28.00%) Oracle Applications
6 7 (28.00%) Finance
6 7 (28.00%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (28.00%) Technical Architecture
6 7 (28.00%) Test Scripting
6 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (28.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 7 (28.00%) Oracle EBS R12
6 7 (28.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (28.00%) SharePoint 2010
6 7 (28.00%) Forefront TMG
6 7 (28.00%) UAG
7 6 (24.00%) Aruba
7 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
7 6 (24.00%) Juniper
7 6 (24.00%) NetApp
7 6 (24.00%) Cisco
7 6 (24.00%) SAP
8 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
8 5 (20.00%) VMware

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sale 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 11 (44.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.000%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
1 7 (28.00%) SharePoint Server
1 7 (28.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (4.000%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 14 (56.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.000%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) SMTP
1 1 (4.000%) DHCP
1 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.000%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (28.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.000%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (4.000%) MS Access
3 1 (4.000%) DTS
3 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (48.00%) Advertising
2 7 (28.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Analyst
1 12 (48.00%) Support Analyst
2 7 (28.00%) Systems Support
3 5 (20.00%) Oracle Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Oracle Support Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Support Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Junior
4 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Business Consultant
5 2 (8.000%) Junior Developer
5 2 (8.000%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (8.000%) Developer
5 2 (8.000%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.000%) Junior Software Developer
5 2 (8.000%) E-Business Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Procurement Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Functional Consultant
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Windows
2 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (28.00%) ERP
2 7 (28.00%) Technical Architecture
2 7 (28.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (4.000%) E-business
4 1 (4.000%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.000%) Time Management
4 1 (4.000%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (4.000%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) VB
2 2 (8.000%) C#
2 2 (8.000%) Java
2 2 (8.000%) PHP
2 2 (8.000%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.000%) SQL
3 1 (4.000%) VBScript
3 1 (4.000%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Forefront TMG
1 7 (28.00%) UAG
2 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle
2 6 (24.00%) Juniper
2 6 (24.00%) NetApp
2 6 (24.00%) SAP
2 6 (24.00%) Cisco
2 6 (24.00%) Aruba
3 5 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.000%) Business Objects
4 1 (4.000%) IBM
4 1 (4.000%) Dell