South East Windows XP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows XP over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Accrington Amersham Ascot Avon Aylesbury Baldock Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billingham Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bognor Regis Bolton Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Castleford Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London Clapham Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Heywood High Wycombe Hitchin Horley Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Jersey Keighley Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Pembrokeshire Perthshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rossendale Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swanley Swindon Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Thetford Tipton Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	111
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching permanent IT job ads	982	790
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.481 %	0.350 %
As % of the category below	8.844 %	6.781 %
Salaries quoted	883	637
Average minimum salary	£24,723	£26,197
Average salary	£26,487	£28,133
% change on same period last year	-5.85 %
Average maximum salary	£28,251	£30,069
UK excluding London average salary	£25,925	£27,245
% change on same period last year	-4.84 %
Operating Systems South East
Matching permanent IT job ads	11104	11651
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.444 %	5.158 %
Salaries quoted	9180	9342
Average minimum salary	£33,673	£34,966
Average salary	£36,529	£37,620
% change on same period last year	-2.89 %
Average maximum salary	£39,385	£40,273
UK excluding London average salary	£34,651	£34,981
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Windows XP England

Windows XP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Windows XP across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows XP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Windows XP across the South East region.

Windows XP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows XP across the South East region over the past 3 months.

Windows XP
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows XP within the South East region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Berkshire	+50	284	£26,599	-9.99 %
2	Surrey	+15	260	£27,784	+1.34 %
3	Hampshire	+30	158	£27,085	-13.47 %
4	Oxfordshire	+2	85	£23,954	-10.75 %
5	Buckinghamshire	+11	69	£23,246	-10.98 %
6	West Sussex	+9	50	£23,656	-21.69 %
7	Kent	-1	42	£27,225	+22.15 %
8	Middlesex	+2	40	£28,211	+3.05 %
9	East Sussex	+2	20	£25,310	+13.32 %
10	Sussex	+14	2	£28,750	-31.54 %
11	Thames Valley	+17	1	£22,500	-31.12 %

Windows XP England

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South East region citing Windows XP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows XP.

1 1921 (97.51 %) Windows 2 757 (38.43 %) Microsoft 3 734 (37.26 %) MS Office 4 676 (34.31 %) Active Directory 5 584 (29.64 %) MS Excel 6 501 (25.43 %) MS Exchange 7 403 (20.46 %) TCP/IP 8 376 (19.09 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 375 (19.04 %) Windows 2000 10 371 (18.83 %) Microsoft Certification 11 313 (15.89 %) SQL 12 300 (15.23 %) Windows Server 2003 13 241 (12.23 %) MCSE 14 227 (11.52 %) SQL Server 15 212 (10.76 %) Exchange Server 2000

16 207 (10.51 %) WAN 17 204 (10.36 %) Internet 18 197 (10.00 %) Windows NT 19 195 (9.898 %) LAN 20 189 (9.594 %) ITIL 21 182 (9.239 %) Linux 22 180 (9.137 %) Citrix 23 170 (8.629 %) MCP 24 163 (8.274 %) VPN 25 153 (7.766 %) Unix 26 140 (7.107 %) VB 27 133 (6.751 %) .NET 28 131 (6.650 %) Cisco 29 126 (6.396 %) Finance 29 126 (6.396 %) Degree

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South East region citing Windows XP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows XP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 133 (6.751 %) .NET 2 82 (4.162 %) HTML 3 61 (3.096 %) ASP.NET 4 59 (2.995 %) XML 5 36 (1.827 %) J2EE 6 34 (1.726 %) Swing 7 30 (1.523 %) JSP 8 29 (1.472 %) COM+ 9 25 (1.269 %) ASP 10 24 (1.218 %) WebServices 11 22 (1.117 %) AWT 12 21 (1.066 %) .NET Remoting 13 20 (1.015 %) Servlets 14 19 (0.964 %) CSS 15 15 (0.761 %) XSLT 16 14 (0.711 %) SOAP 17 12 (0.609 %) Application Packaging 18 8 (0.406 %) AJAX 18 8 (0.406 %) XHTML 18 8 (0.406 %) CORBA	Application Platforms 1 501 (25.43 %) MS Exchange 2 376 (19.09 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 212 (10.76 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 115 (5.838 %) IIS 5 71 (3.604 %) Lotus Notes 6 61 (3.096 %) SharePoint 7 45 (2.284 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 41 (2.081 %) Apache 9 21 (1.066 %) GroupWise 10 12 (0.609 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 7 (0.355 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 11 7 (0.355 %) Lotus Domino 12 6 (0.305 %) ColdFusion 13 5 (0.254 %) Tomcat 14 4 (0.203 %) Oracle Application Server 14 4 (0.203 %) Oracle 9iAS 14 4 (0.203 %) SharePoint Server 2007 15 3 (0.152 %) WebLogic 15 3 (0.152 %) JBoss 16 2 (0.102 %) CMS
Applications 1 734 (37.26 %) MS Office 2 584 (29.64 %) MS Excel 3 17 (0.863 %) MS Visio 4 12 (0.609 %) MS PowerPoint 5 5 (0.254 %) AutoCAD 6 4 (0.203 %) MATLAB 6 4 (0.203 %) DeltaView 6 4 (0.203 %) MS Project 7 3 (0.152 %) CA Clarity 8 2 (0.102 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 5 (0.254 %) Microsoft CRM 2 2 (0.102 %) SoftGrid 2 2 (0.102 %) arcHouse 3 1 (0.051 %) Dynamics AX 3 1 (0.051 %) Great Plains
Communications & Networking 1 403 (20.46 %) TCP/IP 2 207 (10.51 %) WAN 3 204 (10.36 %) Internet 4 195 (9.898 %) LAN 5 163 (8.274 %) VPN 6 124 (6.294 %) Firewall 7 118 (5.990 %) DNS 8 62 (3.147 %) DHCP 9 54 (2.741 %) Wireless 10 32 (1.624 %) WINS 11 28 (1.421 %) SMS 12 27 (1.371 %) VoIP 12 27 (1.371 %) SAN 13 26 (1.320 %) Network Security 14 23 (1.168 %) ADSL 15 16 (0.812 %) SMTP 16 14 (0.711 %) Ethernet 16 14 (0.711 %) X.400 16 14 (0.711 %) X.500 17 13 (0.660 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 227 (11.52 %) SQL Server 2 51 (2.589 %) SQL Server 2000 2 51 (2.589 %) SQL Server 2005 3 24 (1.218 %) InterSystems Cache 4 23 (1.168 %) SQL Server 7 5 21 (1.066 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 19 (0.964 %) DB2 7 16 (0.812 %) GIS 8 15 (0.761 %) Oracle 10g 9 14 (0.711 %) MS Access 10 13 (0.660 %) Crystal Reports 11 12 (0.609 %) MySQL 12 10 (0.508 %) BusinessObjects 12 10 (0.508 %) Oracle 9i 13 8 (0.406 %) TOAD 13 8 (0.406 %) RDBMS 14 4 (0.203 %) Oracle Reports 14 4 (0.203 %) IDOL 14 4 (0.203 %) Oracle 11g 15 3 (0.152 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 48 (2.437 %) TestDirector 2 44 (2.234 %) MSI 3 24 (1.218 %) WinRunner 4 23 (1.168 %) InstallShield 5 20 (1.015 %) LoadRunner 6 16 (0.812 %) Flash 7 12 (0.609 %) Visual Studio 8 7 (0.355 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 5 (0.254 %) Dreamweaver 9 5 (0.254 %) NUnit 9 5 (0.254 %) QARun 10 4 (0.203 %) StarTeam 10 4 (0.203 %) Oracle APEX 10 4 (0.203 %) JDeveloper 10 4 (0.203 %) Oracle Forms 10 4 (0.203 %) ClearCase 11 1 (0.051 %) Rational Rose 11 1 (0.051 %) Eclipse 11 1 (0.051 %) Ant 11 1 (0.051 %) JUnit	General 1 126 (6.396 %) Finance 2 121 (6.142 %) Pensions 3 70 (3.553 %) Telecoms 4 66 (3.350 %) Health 5 56 (2.843 %) Retail 6 40 (2.030 %) Construction 7 38 (1.929 %) Education 8 36 (1.827 %) Insurance 9 32 (1.624 %) Automotive 10 30 (1.523 %) Banking 11 27 (1.371 %) Government 12 24 (1.218 %) Electronics 13 19 (0.964 %) Marketing 14 18 (0.914 %) Legal 15 17 (0.863 %) Electric 16 15 (0.761 %) Pharmaceutical 17 14 (0.711 %) Manufacturing 18 11 (0.558 %) Back Office 18 11 (0.558 %) Military 19 8 (0.406 %) Games
Job Titles 1 633 (32.13 %) Analyst 2 391 (19.85 %) Support Analyst 3 273 (13.86 %) Support Engineer 4 215 (10.91 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 208 (10.56 %) Helpdesk Support 6 169 (8.579 %) Desktop Support 7 126 (6.396 %) 2nd Line Support 8 115 (5.838 %) 1st Line Support 9 109 (5.533 %) Developer 10 99 (5.025 %) Administrator 11 89 (4.518 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 12 88 (4.467 %) Technical Support 13 83 (4.213 %) IT Support Analyst 14 80 (4.061 %) Service Analyst 15 70 (3.553 %) Tester 16 67 (3.401 %) Service Desk Analyst 17 63 (3.198 %) IT Support Engineer 18 61 (3.096 %) Technical Analyst 19 59 (2.995 %) Support Technician 20 56 (2.843 %) Field Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 55 (2.792 %) Client/Server 2 54 (2.741 %) Blackberry 3 39 (1.980 %) Computer Science 4 28 (1.421 %) AS400 5 23 (1.168 %) PDA 6 21 (1.066 %) Mainframe 7 20 (1.015 %) Asset Management 8 15 (0.761 %) Thin Client 8 15 (0.761 %) Fat Client 9 14 (0.711 %) PMI 10 12 (0.609 %) Management Information System 11 10 (0.508 %) Video Conferencing 12 9 (0.457 %) IBM Mainframe 13 8 (0.406 %) German Language 13 8 (0.406 %) Mathematics 14 6 (0.305 %) IVR 14 6 (0.305 %) Clustering 14 6 (0.305 %) PKI 14 6 (0.305 %) EPoS 14 6 (0.305 %) W3C
Operating Systems 1 1921 (97.51 %) Windows 2 375 (19.04 %) Windows 2000 3 300 (15.23 %) Windows Server 2003 4 197 (10.00 %) Windows NT 5 182 (9.239 %) Linux 6 153 (7.766 %) Unix 7 32 (1.624 %) AIX 8 31 (1.574 %) NetWare 9 27 (1.371 %) Windows Vista 10 25 (1.269 %) Mac OS X 11 22 (1.117 %) Solaris 12 19 (0.964 %) MVS 13 5 (0.254 %) Debian 14 4 (0.203 %) Windows Mobile 15 3 (0.152 %) VxWorks 15 3 (0.152 %) SUSE 16 2 (0.102 %) Ubuntu 16 2 (0.102 %) Windows CE 17 1 (0.051 %) OS/400 17 1 (0.051 %) Windows XP Embedded	Processes & Methodologies 1 189 (9.594 %) ITIL 2 55 (2.792 %) Configuration Management 3 40 (2.030 %) Validation 4 35 (1.777 %) OO 5 31 (1.574 %) Project Management 6 29 (1.472 %) Service Management 6 29 (1.472 %) Migration 6 29 (1.472 %) Incident Management 7 28 (1.421 %) Disaster Recovery 8 24 (1.218 %) Requirements Analysis 8 24 (1.218 %) Test Scripting 9 23 (1.168 %) Service Delivery 9 23 (1.168 %) CRM 10 19 (0.964 %) PRINCE2 11 17 (0.863 %) Change Management 12 16 (0.812 %) Automated Testing 12 16 (0.812 %) Time Management 13 15 (0.761 %) Web Development 13 15 (0.761 %) Problem Management 14 14 (0.711 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 313 (15.89 %) SQL 2 140 (7.107 %) VB 3 100 (5.076 %) JavaScript 4 79 (4.010 %) C# 4 79 (4.010 %) C++ 5 77 (3.909 %) C 6 66 (3.350 %) Java 7 57 (2.893 %) VB.NET 8 48 (2.437 %) VB6 9 41 (2.081 %) PHP 10 28 (1.421 %) VBScript 11 25 (1.269 %) Shell Script 12 18 (0.914 %) MUMPS 13 17 (0.863 %) VC++ 14 15 (0.761 %) RPG 15 10 (0.508 %) Delphi 16 9 (0.457 %) PL/SQL 17 7 (0.355 %) Perl 18 5 (0.254 %) Transact-SQL 18 5 (0.254 %) Python	Qualifications 1 371 (18.83 %) Microsoft Certification 2 241 (12.23 %) MCSE 3 170 (8.629 %) MCP 4 126 (6.396 %) Degree 5 79 (4.010 %) MCSA 6 47 (2.386 %) Cisco Certification 7 39 (1.980 %) CCNA 8 26 (1.320 %) ISEB 9 19 (0.964 %) A+ Certification 10 18 (0.914 %) HNC 11 12 (0.609 %) CCNP 12 10 (0.508 %) Network+ Certification 13 8 (0.406 %) ITIL Certification 13 8 (0.406 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 8 (0.406 %) CCSP 14 7 (0.355 %) MCDST 15 6 (0.305 %) ISEB Practitioner 15 6 (0.305 %) CCIE 15 6 (0.305 %) CCA 15 6 (0.305 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 79 (4.010 %) SLA 2 21 (1.066 %) QA 3 5 (0.254 %) ISO9001 4 4 (0.203 %) ISO9000 5 2 (0.102 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 676 (34.31 %) Active Directory 2 54 (2.741 %) Backup Exec 3 39 (1.980 %) ISA Server 4 31 (1.574 %) Terminal Services 5 22 (1.117 %) Terminal Server 6 14 (0.711 %) MetaFrame 7 12 (0.609 %) VMware ESX 8 6 (0.305 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 9 4 (0.203 %) NetBackup 10 3 (0.152 %) VMware Server 10 3 (0.152 %) NFS 11 2 (0.102 %) NDS 11 2 (0.102 %) Citrix Presentation Server 12 1 (0.051 %) VMware Workstation 12 1 (0.051 %) AquaLogic 12 1 (0.051 %) VMware GSX
Systems Management 1 60 (3.046 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 41 (2.081 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 36 (1.827 %) MOM 4 33 (1.675 %) OpenView Configuration Management 5 22 (1.117 %) Tivoli 6 20 (1.015 %) WSUS 7 19 (0.964 %) OMEGAMON 7 19 (0.964 %) Foglight 7 19 (0.964 %) CONTROL-M 8 11 (0.558 %) Unicenter 9 8 (0.406 %) OpenView 10 6 (0.305 %) DameWare 11 5 (0.254 %) MAILsweeper 11 5 (0.254 %) ZENworks 12 4 (0.203 %) Netcool 13 1 (0.051 %) Tivoli Remote Control 13 1 (0.051 %) MIIS 13 1 (0.051 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 757 (38.43 %) Microsoft 2 180 (9.137 %) Citrix 3 131 (6.650 %) Cisco 4 114 (5.787 %) Oracle 5 87 (4.416 %) HP 6 85 (4.315 %) VMware 7 72 (3.655 %) Lotus 8 63 (3.198 %) IBM 9 55 (2.792 %) Novell 10 39 (1.980 %) CheckPoint 10 39 (1.980 %) Symantec 11 38 (1.929 %) Red Hat 12 34 (1.726 %) Remedy 13 33 (1.675 %) SAP 14 28 (1.421 %) Intel 14 28 (1.421 %) Altiris 15 26 (1.320 %) VERITAS 16 25 (1.269 %) Compaq 17 24 (1.218 %) InterSystems 18 23 (1.168 %) Dell