The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 8 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Solihull region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 8 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 Solihull region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 8
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows 8 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 0.405% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.083% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £38,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £45,750 -
% change year-on-year
-28.96% -
All Operating Systems
Solihull
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
48 23 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 19.43% 14.20% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 44 17 30
Average salary £35,500 £30,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.33% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,950 £20,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 8
West Midlands

Windows 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows 8 across the Solihull region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Solihull Windows 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 8
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull region citing Windows 8 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 8.

1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) MSI
1 9 (100.00%) Citrix
1 9 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 8 (88.89%) Fujitsu
2 8 (88.89%) Retail
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (88.89%) Telecoms
2 8 (88.89%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) SLA
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) XenApp
3 1 (11.11%) Veeam
3 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
3 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (11.11%) SCOM
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Lync
3 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (11.11%) Change Control

Windows 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull region citing Windows 8 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 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (11.11%) Lync
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2013
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) MSI
General
1 8 (88.89%) Retail
1 8 (88.89%) Telecoms
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Virtualisation Consultant
1 8 (88.89%) Consultant
1 8 (88.89%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
1 1 (11.11%) Change Control
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) XenApp
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
1 1 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Citrix
2 8 (88.89%) Fujitsu
3 1 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) Veeam