South West Microsoft Jobs

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs within the South West region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dagenham Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Heywood High Wycombe Highland Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Leominster Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	15
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	1417	909
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.693 %	0.390 %
As % of the category below	32.19 %	24.19 %
Salaries quoted	1247	785
Average minimum salary	£30,740	£29,486
Average salary	£33,546	£31,824
% change on same period last year	+5.41 %
Average maximum salary	£36,352	£34,162
UK excluding London average salary	£35,382	£35,687
% change on same period last year	-0.85 %
Vendors South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	4402	3758
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.153 %	1.614 %
Salaries quoted	3486	3004
Average minimum salary	£32,863	£32,748
Average salary	£35,972	£35,839
% change on same period last year	+0.37 %
Average maximum salary	£39,081	£38,931
UK excluding London average salary	£40,163	£41,409
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
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These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Microsoft Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Microsoft across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the South West region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South West 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	Bristol	+16	449	£33,675	+7.56 %
2	Wiltshire	+4	267	£34,307	+2.21 %
3	Gloucestershire	0	221	£34,975	+17.95 %
4	Dorset	-1	174	£36,287	+6.09 %
5	Somerset	+18	147	£30,007	-0.78 %
6	Devon	+2	105	£28,622	-2.94 %
7	Cornwall	+3	23	£23,636	-28.91 %
8	Avon	+7	6	£38,833	+86.02 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South West region citing Microsoft 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 Microsoft.

1 854 (31.96 %) .NET 2 779 (29.15 %) Windows 3 774 (28.97 %) MS Excel 4 771 (28.85 %) SQL Server 5 636 (23.80 %) C# 6 538 (20.13 %) SQL 7 532 (19.91 %) ASP.NET 8 441 (16.50 %) Microsoft Certification 9 386 (14.45 %) Finance 10 380 (14.22 %) Active Directory 11 363 (13.59 %) MS Office 12 341 (12.76 %) MS Exchange 13 339 (12.69 %) XML 14 310 (11.60 %) VB.NET 15 260 (9.731 %) C++

16 255 (9.543 %) Visual Studio 17 253 (9.469 %) MCSE 18 243 (9.094 %) Degree 19 236 (8.832 %) Citrix 20 228 (8.533 %) HTML 21 227 (8.496 %) JavaScript 21 227 (8.496 %) Internet 22 217 (8.121 %) Unix 23 216 (8.084 %) SQL Server 2005 24 212 (7.934 %) Project Management 25 209 (7.822 %) Cisco 26 204 (7.635 %) Oracle 27 201 (7.522 %) SQL Server 2000 28 195 (7.298 %) VB 29 191 (7.148 %) SharePoint

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South West region citing Microsoft 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 Microsoft. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 854 (31.96 %) .NET 2 532 (19.91 %) ASP.NET 3 339 (12.69 %) XML 4 228 (8.533 %) HTML 5 181 (6.774 %) WebServices 6 163 (6.100 %) CSS 7 144 (5.389 %) ASP 8 129 (4.828 %) AJAX 9 99 (3.705 %) XSLT 10 78 (2.919 %) XHTML 11 77 (2.882 %) .NET Framework 12 57 (2.133 %) COM 13 38 (1.422 %) WebSphere 14 37 (1.385 %) COM+ 15 34 (1.272 %) WinForms 16 32 (1.198 %) Middleware 17 31 (1.160 %) XSL 18 29 (1.085 %) ADO.NET 19 23 (0.861 %) MFC 20 22 (0.823 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 341 (12.76 %) MS Exchange 2 191 (7.148 %) SharePoint 3 182 (6.811 %) IIS 4 162 (6.063 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 115 (4.304 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 56 (2.096 %) Lotus Notes 7 55 (2.058 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 35 (1.310 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 34 (1.272 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 33 (1.235 %) BizTalk Server 11 32 (1.198 %) WebSphere MQ 12 31 (1.160 %) Lotus Domino 13 27 (1.010 %) MQSeries 14 24 (0.898 %) Exchange Server 5.5 15 19 (0.711 %) Apache 16 16 (0.599 %) CMS 17 15 (0.561 %) SharePoint Portal Server 18 12 (0.449 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 19 7 (0.262 %) WebLogic 20 6 (0.225 %) Content Management Server
Applications 1 774 (28.97 %) MS Excel 2 363 (13.59 %) MS Office 3 78 (2.919 %) MS Project 4 57 (2.133 %) MS PowerPoint 5 38 (1.422 %) MS Visio 6 23 (0.861 %) Photoshop 7 9 (0.337 %) FrameMaker 8 8 (0.299 %) InfoPath 9 6 (0.225 %) RoboHelp 10 4 (0.150 %) Windchill 11 3 (0.112 %) Paint Shop Pro 11 3 (0.112 %) AutoCAD 11 3 (0.112 %) MATLAB 11 3 (0.112 %) SPSS 12 2 (0.075 %) CATIA 13 1 (0.037 %) Adobe Director 13 1 (0.037 %) Adobe Illustrator 13 1 (0.037 %) DeltaView 13 1 (0.037 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 32 (1.198 %) Summit 2 21 (0.786 %) Axapta 3 20 (0.749 %) Dynamics AX 4 11 (0.412 %) Navision 5 10 (0.374 %) SAP Business One 6 7 (0.262 %) Oracle Applications 7 6 (0.225 %) Dynamics NAV 8 4 (0.150 %) Line 500 9 3 (0.112 %) Dynamics CRM 9 3 (0.112 %) HiPortfolio 10 2 (0.075 %) Teamcenter 10 2 (0.075 %) assyst 10 2 (0.075 %) Microsoft CRM 10 2 (0.075 %) SAP R/3 10 2 (0.075 %) AWD 11 1 (0.037 %) Remedy AR System 11 1 (0.037 %) SAP ERP 11 1 (0.037 %) SAP SCM 11 1 (0.037 %) SAP FI 11 1 (0.037 %) PeopleSoft Financials
Communications & Networking 1 227 (8.496 %) Internet 2 172 (6.437 %) TCP/IP 2 172 (6.437 %) LAN 3 166 (6.213 %) WAN 4 156 (5.838 %) SAN 5 99 (3.705 %) Firewall 6 95 (3.555 %) Intranet 7 79 (2.957 %) DNS 8 71 (2.657 %) VPN 9 41 (1.534 %) DHCP 10 29 (1.085 %) Wireless 11 26 (0.973 %) VoIP 12 25 (0.936 %) SMTP 13 23 (0.861 %) HTTP 13 23 (0.861 %) WINS 14 20 (0.749 %) FTP 15 16 (0.599 %) Network Security 16 8 (0.299 %) VLAN 16 8 (0.299 %) Broadband 17 7 (0.262 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 771 (28.85 %) SQL Server 2 216 (8.084 %) SQL Server 2005 3 201 (7.522 %) SQL Server 2000 4 113 (4.229 %) SQL Server 7 5 51 (1.909 %) Crystal Reports 6 40 (1.497 %) RDBMS 7 38 (1.422 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 36 (1.347 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 34 (1.272 %) MySQL 10 30 (1.123 %) MS Access 11 26 (0.973 %) DTS 12 23 (0.861 %) BusinessObjects 13 20 (0.749 %) Oracle Reports 14 19 (0.711 %) Datawarehouse 15 17 (0.636 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 16 16 (0.599 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 17 14 (0.524 %) Ingres 18 12 (0.449 %) EDRMS 19 11 (0.412 %) GIS 19 11 (0.412 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 255 (9.543 %) Visual Studio 2 33 (1.235 %) PVCS 3 32 (1.198 %) Flash 4 23 (0.861 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 14 (0.524 %) TestDirector 6 12 (0.449 %) Oracle Forms 7 10 (0.374 %) WinRunner 8 9 (0.337 %) QuickTest Pro 8 9 (0.337 %) PowerBuilder 8 9 (0.337 %) ClearQuest 9 8 (0.299 %) InstallShield 9 8 (0.299 %) LoadRunner 10 6 (0.225 %) Ant 10 6 (0.225 %) Dreamweaver 10 6 (0.225 %) FrontPage 10 6 (0.225 %) Subversion 11 4 (0.150 %) ClearCase 12 3 (0.112 %) Oracle Developer 2000 12 3 (0.112 %) LabVIEW 13 2 (0.075 %) SilkTest	General 1 386 (14.45 %) Finance 2 166 (6.213 %) Pensions 3 83 (3.106 %) Health 4 68 (2.545 %) Marketing 5 63 (2.358 %) Music 6 61 (2.283 %) Banking 7 60 (2.246 %) Insurance 8 59 (2.208 %) Back Office 9 58 (2.171 %) Manufacturing 10 53 (1.984 %) Telecoms 11 46 (1.722 %) Education 12 43 (1.609 %) Investment Banking 13 42 (1.572 %) Multimedia 14 38 (1.422 %) Military 15 36 (1.347 %) Construction 15 36 (1.347 %) Aerospace 16 33 (1.235 %) Government 17 32 (1.198 %) Games 18 28 (1.048 %) Law 18 28 (1.048 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 816 (30.54 %) Developer 2 398 (14.90 %) Analyst 3 303 (11.34 %) .NET Developer 4 178 (6.662 %) Consultant 5 158 (5.913 %) C# Developer 6 147 (5.501 %) Support Engineer 7 139 (5.202 %) Web Developer 8 138 (5.165 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 134 (5.015 %) Support Analyst 10 123 (4.603 %) Software Engineer 11 106 (3.967 %) Team Leader 12 96 (3.593 %) Architect 13 89 (3.331 %) Software Developer 14 85 (3.181 %) Administrator 15 77 (2.882 %) Project Manager 16 76 (2.844 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 17 74 (2.769 %) Junior 18 72 (2.695 %) Network Engineer 19 70 (2.620 %) 3rd Line Support 20 69 (2.582 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 93 (3.481 %) Clustering 2 43 (1.609 %) N-Tier 3 37 (1.385 %) Client/Server 4 34 (1.272 %) CESG 5 33 (1.235 %) Blackberry 6 32 (1.198 %) Management Information System 6 32 (1.198 %) CESG CLAS 7 31 (1.160 %) W3C 8 27 (1.010 %) Computer Science 9 24 (0.898 %) Fat Client 9 24 (0.898 %) Thin Client 10 23 (0.861 %) Mathematics 11 19 (0.711 %) AS400 12 17 (0.636 %) Replication 13 16 (0.599 %) Handset 14 14 (0.524 %) Speech Recognition 15 13 (0.487 %) Web 2.0 16 12 (0.449 %) Mainframe 17 11 (0.412 %) EPoS 17 11 (0.412 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 779 (29.15 %) Windows 2 217 (8.121 %) Unix 3 164 (6.138 %) Windows Server 2003 4 158 (5.913 %) Windows 2000 5 124 (4.641 %) Windows XP 6 119 (4.454 %) Linux 7 68 (2.545 %) Windows NT 8 63 (2.358 %) Solaris 9 20 (0.749 %) AIX 9 20 (0.749 %) Windows Vista 10 10 (0.374 %) NetWare 11 8 (0.299 %) Mac OS X 12 5 (0.187 %) SUSE 12 5 (0.187 %) HPUX 12 5 (0.187 %) FreeBSD 13 3 (0.112 %) Windows Mobile 14 2 (0.075 %) OS/390	Processes & Methodologies 1 212 (7.934 %) Project Management 2 111 (4.154 %) OO 3 110 (4.117 %) ITIL 4 91 (3.406 %) Disaster Recovery 5 89 (3.331 %) Web Development 6 87 (3.256 %) UML 7 75 (2.807 %) PRINCE2 8 72 (2.695 %) Load Balancing 9 58 (2.171 %) ERP 10 56 (2.096 %) Change Management 11 51 (1.909 %) Software Engineering 12 47 (1.759 %) Business Intelligence 12 47 (1.759 %) Configuration Management 13 44 (1.647 %) Release Management 14 43 (1.609 %) CRM 15 41 (1.534 %) Software Testing 16 40 (1.497 %) E-Commerce 17 38 (1.422 %) Service Delivery 17 38 (1.422 %) Agile Software Development 18 35 (1.310 %) SOA
Programming Languages 1 636 (23.80 %) C# 2 538 (20.13 %) SQL 3 310 (11.60 %) VB.NET 4 260 (9.731 %) C++ 5 227 (8.496 %) JavaScript 6 195 (7.298 %) VB 7 120 (4.491 %) C 8 107 (4.004 %) Java 9 92 (3.443 %) Transact-SQL 10 74 (2.769 %) VB6 11 65 (2.433 %) DHTML 12 55 (2.058 %) VC++ 13 47 (1.759 %) XPath 14 40 (1.497 %) Shell Script 15 37 (1.385 %) VBScript 16 34 (1.272 %) PHP 17 26 (0.973 %) PL/SQL 18 20 (0.749 %) Delphi 19 18 (0.674 %) Perl 20 13 (0.487 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 441 (16.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 253 (9.469 %) MCSE 3 243 (9.094 %) Degree 4 135 (5.052 %) Cisco Certification 5 124 (4.641 %) CCNA 6 97 (3.630 %) MCP 7 87 (3.256 %) MCSA 8 53 (1.984 %) CCNP 9 43 (1.609 %) Chartered Engineer 10 42 (1.572 %) CCDA 11 28 (1.048 %) ISEB 12 21 (0.786 %) Citrix Certification 13 20 (0.749 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 20 (0.749 %) MCAD 14 19 (0.711 %) CCA 15 18 (0.674 %) A+ Certification 16 13 (0.487 %) MCDST 17 12 (0.449 %) HND 18 11 (0.412 %) ITIL Certification 18 11 (0.412 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 75 (2.807 %) SLA 2 20 (0.749 %) QA 3 13 (0.487 %) WAI 4 6 (0.225 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 6 (0.225 %) ISO9001 5 5 (0.187 %) ISO27001 5 5 (0.187 %) COBIT 6 3 (0.112 %) BS7799 7 2 (0.075 %) CESG Infosec 7 2 (0.075 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 380 (14.22 %) Active Directory 2 41 (1.534 %) Terminal Services 2 41 (1.534 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 35 (1.310 %) VMware ESX 4 33 (1.235 %) Backup Exec 5 29 (1.085 %) MetaFrame 5 29 (1.085 %) MSMQ 6 17 (0.636 %) ISA Server 6 17 (0.636 %) NetBackup 7 7 (0.262 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 5 (0.187 %) MailMarshal 9 3 (0.112 %) Oracle RMAN 10 2 (0.075 %) Xen 10 2 (0.075 %) Samba 10 2 (0.075 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 63 (2.358 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 26 (0.973 %) Tivoli 3 22 (0.823 %) MOM 4 20 (0.749 %) AutoSys 5 10 (0.374 %) MAILsweeper 6 7 (0.262 %) ARCserve 6 7 (0.262 %) Legato 7 6 (0.225 %) SCCM 8 5 (0.187 %) OpenView 9 4 (0.150 %) Netcool 9 4 (0.150 %) OpenView Configuration Management 9 4 (0.150 %) Netcool/Proviso 9 4 (0.150 %) HP Data Protector 10 2 (0.075 %) WSUS 10 2 (0.075 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 2 (0.075 %) CiscoWorks 10 2 (0.075 %) Unicenter 11 1 (0.037 %) Nagios 11 1 (0.037 %) DameWare 11 1 (0.037 %) Veritas Storage Foundation	Vendors 1 236 (8.832 %) Citrix 2 209 (7.822 %) Cisco 3 204 (7.635 %) Oracle 4 133 (4.978 %) IBM 5 115 (4.304 %) VMware 6 80 (2.994 %) HP 7 79 (2.957 %) Lotus 8 47 (1.759 %) SAP 9 45 (1.684 %) Intel 10 31 (1.160 %) VERITAS 11 29 (1.085 %) Symantec 11 29 (1.085 %) Sun 12 24 (0.898 %) Sage 13 23 (0.861 %) Business Objects 13 23 (0.861 %) Compaq 14 20 (0.749 %) Dell 14 20 (0.749 %) Adobe 15 19 (0.711 %) Cognos 16 18 (0.674 %) Sybase 16 18 (0.674 %) Sophos