The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Shropshire 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 Shropshire 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 6 8 4
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 36 26 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 16.07% 16.99% 29.01%
As % of the Vendors category 28.80% 30.95% 63.51%
Number of salaries quoted 24 22 44
Average salary £32,000 £32,500 £24,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.53% +34.02%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,950 £17,800 £16,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,800 £45,000 £36,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Shropshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
125 84 74
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 55.80% 54.90% 45.68%
Number of salaries quoted 50 52 64
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +30.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £22,500 £16,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £37,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
West Midlands

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shropshire 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 Shropshire region.

Shropshire Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Shropshire Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Telford -2 27 £30,000 -7.69%
Shrewsbury +3 7 £34,000 -56.12%
Microsoft
West Midlands

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 31 (44.29%) Windows
2 30 (42.86%) MS Excel
3 29 (41.43%) .NET
4 27 (38.57%) SQL
5 25 (35.71%) Active Directory
6 24 (34.29%) C#
7 22 (31.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 21 (30.00%) MS Exchange
9 20 (28.57%) DNS
9 20 (28.57%) SharePoint
9 20 (28.57%) ASP.NET
10 18 (25.71%) XML
11 17 (24.29%) CSS
11 17 (24.29%) HTML
12 16 (22.86%) SQL Server
13 15 (21.43%) jQuery
14 13 (18.57%) JavaScript
14 13 (18.57%) Web Services
14 13 (18.57%) Windows Server 2003
15 12 (17.14%) Citrix
15 12 (17.14%) Firewall
15 12 (17.14%) MVC
15 12 (17.14%) DHCP
15 12 (17.14%) Agile Software Development
15 12 (17.14%) Exchange Server 2010
16 11 (15.71%) ASP.NET MVC 2
16 11 (15.71%) Ajax
16 11 (15.71%) Web Development
16 11 (15.71%) Degree
16 11 (15.71%) UNIX

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 29 (41.43%) .NET
2 20 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 18 (25.71%) XML
4 17 (24.29%) HTML
4 17 (24.29%) CSS
5 15 (21.43%) jQuery
6 13 (18.57%) Web Services
7 11 (15.71%) XSLT
7 11 (15.71%) ASP.NET MVC 2
7 11 (15.71%) Ajax
8 10 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
9 9 (12.86%) COM
10 5 (7.143%) WPF
10 5 (7.143%) Silverlight
11 4 (5.714%) .NET Framework
12 2 (2.857%) JNDI
12 2 (2.857%) WebSphere
12 2 (2.857%) J2EE
12 2 (2.857%) JDBC
12 2 (2.857%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 21 (30.00%) MS Exchange
2 20 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 12 (17.14%) Exchange Server 2010
4 8 (11.43%) Apache
5 6 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (8.571%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (7.143%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (5.714%) Lync
8 3 (4.286%) Tomcat
9 2 (2.857%) JRun
9 2 (2.857%) WebLogic
9 2 (2.857%) IIS
9 2 (2.857%) Lotus Notes
9 2 (2.857%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (2.857%) Office Communications Server
10 1 (1.429%) nginx
10 1 (1.429%) ESB
Applications
1 30 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 6 (8.571%) MS Office
3 2 (2.857%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.429%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.429%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.429%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 20 (28.57%) DNS
2 12 (17.14%) DHCP
2 12 (17.14%) Firewall
3 9 (12.86%) HTTP
4 5 (7.143%) TCP/IP
4 5 (7.143%) DDNS
5 4 (5.714%) SAN
6 2 (2.857%) VPN
6 2 (2.857%) SNMP
6 2 (2.857%) VoIP
6 2 (2.857%) VLAN
7 1 (1.429%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.429%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.429%) LAN
7 1 (1.429%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.286%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (2.857%) TOAD
3 2 (2.857%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.857%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (1.429%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (1.429%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.143%) Selenium
2 4 (5.714%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (5.714%) ClearQuest
3 3 (4.286%) ClearCase
4 2 (2.857%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.857%) IntelliJ
4 2 (2.857%) Ant
4 2 (2.857%) Bugzilla
4 2 (2.857%) Log4j
4 2 (2.857%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (1.429%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.429%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.429%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (1.429%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.429%) NUnit
5 1 (1.429%) Subversion
5 1 (1.429%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (10.00%) Finance
2 3 (4.286%) Advertising
3 2 (2.857%) Electronics
3 2 (2.857%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.429%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (35.71%) Developer
2 19 (27.14%) .NET Developer
3 17 (24.29%) C# Developer
3 17 (24.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 17 (24.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 13 (18.57%) ASP.NET Developer
5 12 (17.14%) Architect
6 10 (14.29%) Support Engineer
7 8 (11.43%) Analyst
8 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
9 6 (8.571%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (7.143%) Senior Developer
11 4 (5.714%) Support Analyst
11 4 (5.714%) Test Analyst
11 4 (5.714%) Technical Architect
11 4 (5.714%) 1st Line Support
11 4 (5.714%) Senior C# Developer
11 4 (5.714%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (5.714%) Server Engineer
11 4 (5.714%) 1st Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.571%) Computer Science
2 4 (5.714%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.286%) Clustering
4 2 (2.857%) VLE
4 2 (2.857%) Wiki
4 2 (2.857%) iSeries
5 1 (1.429%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 31 (44.29%) Windows
2 22 (31.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (18.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (15.71%) UNIX
4 11 (15.71%) Linux
5 7 (10.00%) Windows 7
6 6 (8.571%) AIX
6 6 (8.571%) Solaris
7 5 (7.143%) Windows 2000 Server
8 3 (4.286%) Windows CE
9 2 (2.857%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.429%) CentOS
10 1 (1.429%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.429%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.14%) MVC
1 12 (17.14%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (15.71%) Web Development
3 8 (11.43%) Time Management
4 5 (7.143%) Security Architecture
4 5 (7.143%) TOGAF
4 5 (7.143%) Project Management
5 4 (5.714%) Automation Testing
5 4 (5.714%) Business Continuity
5 4 (5.714%) Use Case
5 4 (5.714%) Test Scripting
6 3 (4.286%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (4.286%) Migration
7 2 (2.857%) Process Management
7 2 (2.857%) OO
7 2 (2.857%) Customer Engagement
7 2 (2.857%) Capacity Management
8 1 (1.429%) Web Application Development
8 1 (1.429%) Waterfall
8 1 (1.429%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (38.57%) SQL
2 24 (34.29%) C#
3 13 (18.57%) JavaScript
4 11 (15.71%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.714%) C
5 4 (5.714%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.286%) Java
7 2 (2.857%) VB
7 2 (2.857%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.429%) Bash shell
8 1 (1.429%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.429%) C++
8 1 (1.429%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (15.71%) Degree
2 4 (5.714%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.714%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.714%) VCP5
2 4 (5.714%) ISTQB
2 4 (5.714%) ISEB
3 3 (4.286%) MCITP
4 2 (2.857%) MCSE
4 2 (2.857%) MCP
5 1 (1.429%) MCAD
5 1 (1.429%) MCSD
5 1 (1.429%) HNC
5 1 (1.429%) HND
5 1 (1.429%) MCDST
5 1 (1.429%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.429%) QA
System Software
1 25 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.00%) ISA Server
4 6 (8.571%) Microsoft App-V
4 6 (8.571%) PowerHA
5 3 (4.286%) Forefront TMG
5 3 (4.286%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.857%) VMware ESX
6 2 (2.857%) Terminal Services
6 2 (2.857%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.857%) XenApp
7 1 (1.429%) Shibboleth
7 1 (1.429%) Xen
7 1 (1.429%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (14.29%) SCCM
1 10 (14.29%) SCOM
2 3 (4.286%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Citrix
2 11 (15.71%) Cisco
3 10 (14.29%) VMware
4 6 (8.571%) Veritas
4 6 (8.571%) EMC
5 3 (4.286%) Oracle
5 3 (4.286%) HP
5 3 (4.286%) Dell
6 2 (2.857%) IBM
6 2 (2.857%) BEA
6 2 (2.857%) Lotus
6 2 (2.857%) Apple
6 2 (2.857%) Novell
6 2 (2.857%) Altiris
6 2 (2.857%) Kaspersky
6 2 (2.857%) Pega
7 1 (1.429%) NetApp
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