The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 7 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 104 103 118
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +15
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7 49 53 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.557% 1.534% 1.177%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.932% 6.228% 4.864%
Number of salaries quoted 35 43 34
Average salary £30,000 £28,250 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.19% -23.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,700 £20,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,000 £40,000 £39,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Operating Systems
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
826 851 843
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 26.25% 24.63% 24.20%
Number of salaries quoted 487 583 591
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 7
UK

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Scotland Windows 7 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 7
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Scotland region.

Scotland Windows 7 Salary Trend

Windows 7
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Windows 7 Salary Histogram

Windows 7
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -12 17 £35,000 +28.44%
Aberdeen +7 12 £30,250 +51.25%
Edinburgh -2 11 £29,000 -10.76%
Highlands - 4 - -
North Lanarkshire - 2 £27,500 -
Scottish Borders +4 1 £22,750 -35.00%
West Dunbartonshire +1 1 £42,620 +31.13%
South Lanarkshire - 1 £24,500 -
Windows 7
UK

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Windows 7 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 Windows 7.

1 85 (100.00%) Windows
2 54 (63.53%) Microsoft
3 47 (55.29%) Active Directory
4 35 (41.18%) Windows XP
5 33 (38.82%) MS Exchange
6 32 (37.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 30 (35.29%) ITIL
7 30 (35.29%) MS Office
7 30 (35.29%) Windows Server 2003
7 30 (35.29%) VMware
8 28 (32.94%) MS Excel
9 24 (28.24%) Citrix
10 23 (27.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (27.06%) SCCM
11 20 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2010
12 17 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
12 17 (20.00%) Degree
13 16 (18.82%) VMware Infrastructure
13 16 (18.82%) MCSE
13 16 (18.82%) SharePoint
14 15 (17.65%) SQL
14 15 (17.65%) SQL Server
14 15 (17.65%) Problem Management
15 14 (16.47%) vSphere
16 13 (15.29%) MCSA
16 13 (15.29%) SLA
16 13 (15.29%) TCP/IP
17 12 (14.12%) Finance
17 12 (14.12%) Hyper-V
17 12 (14.12%) XenApp

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Windows 7 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 Windows 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (2.353%) Application Packaging
1 2 (2.353%) ASP
2 1 (1.176%) Middleware
2 1 (1.176%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 33 (38.82%) MS Exchange
2 20 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2010
3 17 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 16 (18.82%) SharePoint
5 10 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2007
6 9 (10.59%) IIS
7 5 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
8 4 (4.706%) Lync
9 3 (3.529%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 30 (35.29%) MS Office
2 28 (32.94%) MS Excel
3 2 (2.353%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (2.353%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.176%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (2.353%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.29%) TCP/IP
2 8 (9.412%) VPN
2 8 (9.412%) DNS
2 8 (9.412%) DHCP
2 8 (9.412%) SAN
2 8 (9.412%) Firewall
3 5 (5.882%) Internet
4 4 (4.706%) VoIP
4 4 (4.706%) WAN
5 2 (2.353%) WLAN
5 2 (2.353%) LAN
5 2 (2.353%) FTP
6 1 (1.176%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.176%) Network Security
6 1 (1.176%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.706%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (2.353%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (1.176%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (4.706%) MSI
2 1 (1.176%) StarTeam
General
1 12 (14.12%) Finance
2 4 (4.706%) Publishing
3 3 (3.529%) Advertising
4 2 (2.353%) Banking
4 2 (2.353%) Legal
5 1 (1.176%) Back Office
5 1 (1.176%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.176%) Automotive
5 1 (1.176%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 21 (24.71%) Analyst
2 16 (18.82%) Support Analyst
3 14 (16.47%) Support Engineer
4 10 (11.76%) Desktop Support
5 9 (10.59%) Desktop Engineer
6 7 (8.235%) Technical Support
6 7 (8.235%) Consultant
6 7 (8.235%) Technical Specialist
6 7 (8.235%) IT Support
7 6 (7.059%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (7.059%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 5 (5.882%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (5.882%) IT Support Analyst
9 4 (4.706%) SCCM Engineer
9 4 (4.706%) Technical Consultant
9 4 (4.706%) Team Leader
9 4 (4.706%) Senior Support Analyst
9 4 (4.706%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.529%) Support Technician
10 3 (3.529%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.882%) Blackberry
2 4 (4.706%) Clustering
3 3 (3.529%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.353%) Fat Client
4 2 (2.353%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.353%) Replication
5 1 (1.176%) Handset
5 1 (1.176%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.176%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.176%) iPhone
5 1 (1.176%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 85 (100.00%) Windows
2 35 (41.18%) Windows XP
3 32 (37.65%) Windows Server 2008
4 30 (35.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (10.59%) Windows Vista
6 3 (3.529%) Linux
6 3 (3.529%) UNIX
7 2 (2.353%) Windows 8
8 1 (1.176%) Windows 2000
8 1 (1.176%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (35.29%) ITIL
2 15 (17.65%) Problem Management
3 10 (11.76%) Service Management
4 9 (10.59%) Service Delivery
5 5 (5.882%) CRM
5 5 (5.882%) Asset Management
6 3 (3.529%) Project Management
6 3 (3.529%) PRINCE2
6 3 (3.529%) Time Management
7 2 (2.353%) Document Management
7 2 (2.353%) Incident Management
7 2 (2.353%) Network Management
7 2 (2.353%) Software Deployment
7 2 (2.353%) Change Control
7 2 (2.353%) Change Management
8 1 (1.176%) Migration
8 1 (1.176%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (1.176%) Business Continuity
8 1 (1.176%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (1.176%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (2.353%) VB
2 2 (2.353%) VBA
2 2 (2.353%) C#
3 1 (1.176%) Java
3 1 (1.176%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (27.06%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (20.00%) Degree
3 16 (18.82%) MCSE
4 13 (15.29%) MCSA
5 11 (12.94%) MCTS
6 7 (8.235%) MCITP
7 6 (7.059%) Security Cleared
8 5 (5.882%) MCP
8 5 (5.882%) SC Cleared
9 4 (4.706%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (3.529%) CCA
10 3 (3.529%) A+ Certification
10 3 (3.529%) CCAA
10 3 (3.529%) MCDST
10 3 (3.529%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (2.353%) CIPD
11 2 (2.353%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.353%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (2.353%) CCNA
12 1 (1.176%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.29%) SLA
2 1 (1.176%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (55.29%) Active Directory
2 16 (18.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (16.47%) vSphere
4 12 (14.12%) Hyper-V
4 12 (14.12%) XenApp
5 8 (9.412%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (5.882%) Terminal Server
6 5 (5.882%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (3.529%) VMware ESX
8 2 (2.353%) XenServer
8 2 (2.353%) XenDesktop
8 2 (2.353%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 23 (27.06%) SCCM
2 11 (12.94%) WSUS
3 6 (7.059%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (7.059%) Backup Exec
4 5 (5.882%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.176%) OpenView Configuration Management
5 1 (1.176%) SCOM
Vendors
1 54 (63.53%) Microsoft
2 30 (35.29%) VMware
3 24 (28.24%) Citrix
4 8 (9.412%) Cisco
5 7 (8.235%) AppSense
5 7 (8.235%) Symantec
5 7 (8.235%) HP
6 5 (5.882%) McAfee
6 5 (5.882%) Dell
6 5 (5.882%) EMC
6 5 (5.882%) Altiris
7 4 (4.706%) CommVault
8 3 (3.529%) Lotus
9 2 (2.353%) Oracle
9 2 (2.353%) Veritas
9 2 (2.353%) Apple
10 1 (1.176%) Sage
10 1 (1.176%) Borland
10 1 (1.176%) Avaya
10 1 (1.176%) SolarWinds
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