South West Windows Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the South West 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 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Armagh County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horley Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isleworth Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ormskirk Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Totnes Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	5
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	1557	1477
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.822 %	0.605 %
As % of the category below	65.97 %	54.91 %
Salaries quoted	1364	1269
Average minimum salary	£28,515	£27,692
Average salary	£31,051	£30,494
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Average maximum salary	£33,586	£33,296
UK excluding London average salary	£32,377	£32,950
% change on same period last year	-1.74 %
Operating Systems South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	2360	2690
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.246 %	1.102 %
Salaries quoted	2044	2156
Average minimum salary	£29,815	£30,648
Average salary	£32,979	£33,841
% change on same period last year	-2.54 %
Average maximum salary	£36,143	£37,035
UK excluding London average salary	£34,472	£35,006
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
Windows England

Windows
Demand Trend

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

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Windows
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Windows
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Bristol	-2	365	£31,630	+7.15 %
Gloucestershire	-3	349	£31,641	+8.84 %
Wiltshire	0	320	£29,222	+3.18 %
Somerset	-3	174	£31,287	-9.32 %
Devon	+9	164	£30,658	+5.40 %
Dorset	+9	147	£32,778	+2.67 %
Cornwall	-1	13	£21,864	-21.05 %
Avon	+2	8	£29,750	+2.97 %

Windows England

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South West region citing Windows 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.

1 921 (29.38 %) SQL Server 2 885 (28.23 %) Microsoft 3 765 (24.40 %) SQL 4 620 (19.78 %) .NET 5 581 (18.53 %) C++ 6 546 (17.42 %) C# 6 546 (17.42 %) UNIX 7 516 (16.46 %) Active Directory 8 503 (16.04 %) Linux 9 465 (14.83 %) MS Excel 10 425 (13.56 %) Windows Server 2003 11 412 (13.14 %) C 12 403 (12.85 %) Windows 2000 13 397 (12.66 %) Oracle 14 383 (12.22 %) MS Office

15 367 (11.71 %) MS Exchange 16 358 (11.42 %) TCP/IP 17 332 (10.59 %) Microsoft Certification 18 304 (9.697 %) Citrix 19 299 (9.537 %) ASP.NET 20 298 (9.506 %) Windows XP 21 290 (9.250 %) VB.NET 22 289 (9.219 %) SQL Server 2000 23 287 (9.155 %) LAN 24 284 (9.059 %) Visual Studio 25 281 (8.963 %) Finance 25 281 (8.963 %) Exchange Server 2003 26 274 (8.740 %) XML 26 274 (8.740 %) VB 27 267 (8.517 %) Degree

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South West region citing Windows 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 620 (19.78 %) .NET 2 299 (9.537 %) ASP.NET 3 274 (8.740 %) XML 4 233 (7.432 %) HTML 5 158 (5.040 %) WebServices 6 116 (3.700 %) ASP 7 112 (3.573 %) AJAX 8 104 (3.317 %) CSS 9 87 (2.775 %) MFC 10 84 (2.679 %) .NET Framework 11 60 (1.914 %) WinForms 12 54 (1.722 %) WebSphere 13 48 (1.531 %) J2EE 14 39 (1.244 %) Middleware 15 37 (1.180 %) XHTML 16 36 (1.148 %) JSP 17 34 (1.085 %) XSLT 18 29 (0.925 %) SOAP 19 22 (0.702 %) Servlets 20 21 (0.670 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 367 (11.71 %) MS Exchange 2 281 (8.963 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 244 (7.783 %) IIS 4 170 (5.423 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 131 (4.179 %) SharePoint 6 127 (4.051 %) Lotus Notes 7 66 (2.105 %) Apache 8 62 (1.978 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 29 (0.925 %) WebSphere MQ 10 26 (0.829 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 26 (0.829 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 25 (0.797 %) WebLogic 12 24 (0.766 %) MQSeries 13 21 (0.670 %) Lotus Domino 14 18 (0.574 %) MapXtreme 15 13 (0.415 %) SharePoint Portal Server 15 13 (0.415 %) Tomcat 15 13 (0.415 %) JBoss 16 12 (0.383 %) Exchange Server 5.5 17 11 (0.351 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 465 (14.83 %) MS Excel 2 383 (12.22 %) MS Office 3 29 (0.925 %) MS PowerPoint 4 11 (0.351 %) MATLAB 5 9 (0.287 %) InfoPath 6 8 (0.255 %) MS Visio 7 6 (0.191 %) Photoshop 7 6 (0.191 %) MS Project 8 2 (0.064 %) AutoCAD 9 1 (0.032 %) RoboHelp 9 1 (0.032 %) Fireworks 9 1 (0.032 %) FrameMaker 9 1 (0.032 %) CATIA 9 1 (0.032 %) PrintSoft PReS	Business Applications 1 58 (1.850 %) Summit 2 14 (0.447 %) Oracle 11i 3 12 (0.383 %) Oracle Applications 4 11 (0.351 %) Oracle EBS 5 9 (0.287 %) Pegasus Opera 6 5 (0.159 %) SoftGrid 6 5 (0.159 %) JDE EnterpriseOne 6 5 (0.159 %) SAP Business One 7 4 (0.128 %) Line 500 7 4 (0.128 %) Navision 8 3 (0.096 %) Teamcenter 8 3 (0.096 %) SMARTEAM 8 3 (0.096 %) ENOVIA 8 3 (0.096 %) assyst 8 3 (0.096 %) Oracle Financials 9 2 (0.064 %) WebTrends 9 2 (0.064 %) Great Plains 9 2 (0.064 %) Axapta 9 2 (0.064 %) Dynamics NAV 9 2 (0.064 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 358 (11.42 %) TCP/IP 2 287 (9.155 %) LAN 3 265 (8.453 %) WAN 4 228 (7.273 %) Internet 5 202 (6.443 %) Firewall 6 178 (5.678 %) DNS 6 178 (5.678 %) SAN 7 89 (2.839 %) FTP 8 84 (2.679 %) SMTP 9 83 (2.648 %) VPN 10 72 (2.297 %) DHCP 11 67 (2.137 %) HTTP 12 66 (2.105 %) Intranet 13 48 (1.531 %) VoIP 14 42 (1.340 %) Network Security 15 38 (1.212 %) Wireless 16 36 (1.148 %) HTTPS 17 23 (0.734 %) Broadband 17 23 (0.734 %) Reverse Proxy 18 19 (0.606 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 921 (29.38 %) SQL Server 2 289 (9.219 %) SQL Server 2000 3 245 (7.815 %) SQL Server 2005 4 109 (3.477 %) MySQL 5 81 (2.584 %) SQL Server 7 6 59 (1.882 %) InterBase 6 59 (1.882 %) Cognos Impromptu 7 58 (1.850 %) DTS 8 48 (1.531 %) MS Access 9 43 (1.372 %) RDBMS 10 41 (1.308 %) GIS 11 37 (1.180 %) Oracle 10g 12 35 (1.116 %) Crystal Reports 13 34 (1.085 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 25 (0.797 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 23 (0.734 %) Oracle 9i 16 22 (0.702 %) Datawarehouse 17 21 (0.670 %) SQL Server Integration Services 18 19 (0.606 %) Oracle Reports 19 15 (0.478 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 284 (9.059 %) Visual Studio 2 25 (0.797 %) Flash 3 20 (0.638 %) ClearCase 4 18 (0.574 %) Oracle Forms 5 17 (0.542 %) WinRunner 5 17 (0.542 %) TestDirector 5 17 (0.542 %) Subversion 6 14 (0.447 %) PVCS 7 13 (0.415 %) ClearQuest 7 13 (0.415 %) InstallShield 8 12 (0.383 %) Ant 9 9 (0.287 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 7 (0.223 %) Rational Rose 10 7 (0.223 %) QuickTest Pro 10 7 (0.223 %) StarTeam 11 6 (0.191 %) MSI 12 5 (0.159 %) Eclipse 13 4 (0.128 %) LabVIEW 14 3 (0.096 %) ERwin 15 2 (0.064 %) LoadRunner	General 1 281 (8.963 %) Finance 2 199 (6.348 %) Pensions 3 145 (4.625 %) Telecoms 4 101 (3.222 %) Government 5 97 (3.094 %) Health 6 53 (1.691 %) Legal 7 48 (1.531 %) Marketing 8 45 (1.435 %) Banking 8 45 (1.435 %) Education 9 43 (1.372 %) Electronics 10 41 (1.308 %) Back Office 11 34 (1.085 %) Manufacturing 12 31 (0.989 %) Insurance 12 31 (0.989 %) Local Government 13 23 (0.734 %) Multimedia 13 23 (0.734 %) Electric 14 20 (0.638 %) Retail 15 19 (0.606 %) Law 16 16 (0.510 %) Publishing 16 16 (0.510 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 680 (21.69 %) Developer 2 517 (16.49 %) Analyst 3 281 (8.963 %) Software Engineer 4 263 (8.389 %) Support Analyst 5 231 (7.368 %) Support Engineer 6 173 (5.518 %) Consultant 7 171 (5.455 %) Software Developer 8 158 (5.040 %) .NET Developer 9 145 (4.625 %) Administrator 10 132 (4.211 %) C# Developer 11 126 (4.019 %) C++ Developer 12 117 (3.732 %) Systems Engineer 13 104 (3.317 %) DBA 14 101 (3.222 %) Technical Support 15 70 (2.233 %) Server Support 16 69 (2.201 %) Network Support 17 68 (2.169 %) 2nd Line Support 18 67 (2.137 %) Systems Administrator 18 67 (2.137 %) Web Developer 18 67 (2.137 %) C++ Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 151 (4.817 %) Client/Server 2 66 (2.105 %) Clustering 3 55 (1.754 %) Computer Science 4 46 (1.467 %) Blackberry 5 41 (1.308 %) Replication 6 36 (1.148 %) N-Tier 7 25 (0.797 %) Artificial Intelligence 8 24 (0.766 %) Speech Recognition 8 24 (0.766 %) Device Driver 9 23 (0.734 %) Mathematics 10 22 (0.702 %) Fat Client 10 22 (0.702 %) Thin Client 11 19 (0.606 %) Multithreading 12 17 (0.542 %) PDA 13 16 (0.510 %) EPoS 14 15 (0.478 %) Mainframe 15 14 (0.447 %) French Language 16 13 (0.415 %) Remote Sensing 17 12 (0.383 %) Firmware 18 11 (0.351 %) RIA
Operating Systems 1 546 (17.42 %) UNIX 2 503 (16.04 %) Linux 3 425 (13.56 %) Windows Server 2003 4 403 (12.85 %) Windows 2000 5 298 (9.506 %) Windows XP 6 156 (4.976 %) Windows NT 7 151 (4.817 %) Solaris 8 40 (1.276 %) Windows CE 9 33 (1.053 %) Windows Mobile 10 31 (0.989 %) AIX 11 29 (0.925 %) Windows Vista 12 22 (0.702 %) Embedded Linux 13 18 (0.574 %) HPUX 14 14 (0.447 %) VxWorks 14 14 (0.447 %) SUSE 15 11 (0.351 %) Mac OS X 16 10 (0.319 %) Nucleus RTOS 17 8 (0.255 %) MVS 18 7 (0.223 %) Ubuntu 19 5 (0.159 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 248 (7.911 %) OO 2 178 (5.678 %) Security Cleared 3 155 (4.944 %) ITIL 4 119 (3.796 %) UML 5 104 (3.317 %) Project Management 6 94 (2.998 %) Software Engineering 7 89 (2.839 %) Software Testing 8 64 (2.041 %) E-Commerce 8 64 (2.041 %) OOD 8 64 (2.041 %) SC Cleared 9 59 (1.882 %) Web Development 9 59 (1.882 %) Service Management 10 56 (1.786 %) Disaster Recovery 11 52 (1.659 %) Service Delivery 11 52 (1.659 %) OOA/OOD 12 48 (1.531 %) Migration 13 47 (1.499 %) CRM 14 42 (1.340 %) Configuration Management 15 33 (1.053 %) Agile Software Development 16 32 (1.021 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 765 (24.40 %) SQL 2 581 (18.53 %) C++ 3 546 (17.42 %) C# 4 412 (13.14 %) C 5 290 (9.250 %) VB.NET 6 274 (8.740 %) VB 7 219 (6.986 %) Java 8 138 (4.402 %) VC++ 9 106 (3.381 %) JavaScript 10 105 (3.349 %) Transact-SQL 11 85 (2.711 %) VB6 12 80 (2.552 %) PHP 13 70 (2.233 %) Perl 13 70 (2.233 %) Delphi 14 54 (1.722 %) VBScript 15 42 (1.340 %) Shell Script 16 40 (1.276 %) VBA 17 23 (0.734 %) Python 17 23 (0.734 %) Ada 18 19 (0.606 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 332 (10.59 %) Microsoft Certification 2 267 (8.517 %) Degree 3 218 (6.954 %) MCSE 4 85 (2.711 %) MCP 5 81 (2.584 %) MCSA 6 64 (2.041 %) ISEB 7 63 (2.010 %) Cisco Certification 8 62 (1.978 %) CCNA 9 34 (1.085 %) HND 10 33 (1.053 %) HNC 11 32 (1.021 %) MCITP 12 21 (0.670 %) CCNP 13 18 (0.574 %) Citrix Certification 14 13 (0.415 %) Oracle Certification 15 12 (0.383 %) OCP 15 12 (0.383 %) CCA 16 10 (0.319 %) MCDST 17 9 (0.287 %) MCPD 17 9 (0.287 %) MCT 17 9 (0.287 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 73 (2.329 %) QA 2 64 (2.041 %) SLA 3 12 (0.383 %) HMG Infosec 4 5 (0.159 %) TickIT 4 5 (0.159 %) ISO9001 5 4 (0.128 %) ISO27001 6 1 (0.032 %) ISO/IEC 20000	System Software 1 516 (16.46 %) Active Directory 2 78 (2.488 %) VMware ESX 3 70 (2.233 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 60 (1.914 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 55 (1.754 %) NetBackup 6 46 (1.467 %) Terminal Services 7 45 (1.435 %) Backup Exec 8 41 (1.308 %) Oracle RAC 9 34 (1.085 %) ISA Server 10 14 (0.447 %) Terminal Server 11 10 (0.319 %) Oracle RMAN 12 6 (0.191 %) MetaFrame 13 5 (0.159 %) NFS 14 4 (0.128 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 15 3 (0.096 %) MSMQ 16 1 (0.032 %) Orbix 16 1 (0.032 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 43 (1.372 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 19 (0.606 %) MOM 3 18 (0.574 %) AutoSys 4 17 (0.542 %) Tivoli 5 15 (0.478 %) Legato 6 14 (0.447 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 7 10 (0.319 %) MAILsweeper 8 9 (0.287 %) Unicenter 8 9 (0.287 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 9 8 (0.255 %) OpenView Configuration Management 9 8 (0.255 %) DameWare 9 8 (0.255 %) ARCserve 9 8 (0.255 %) EMC NetWorker 10 7 (0.223 %) Foglight 11 5 (0.159 %) SCOM 12 4 (0.128 %) Norton AntiVirus 13 3 (0.096 %) OpenView 13 3 (0.096 %) SCCM 13 3 (0.096 %) WSUS 14 2 (0.064 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 885 (28.23 %) Microsoft 2 397 (12.66 %) Oracle 3 304 (9.697 %) Citrix 4 220 (7.018 %) Cisco 5 197 (6.284 %) VMware 6 172 (5.486 %) HP 7 141 (4.498 %) Lotus 8 77 (2.456 %) IBM 8 77 (2.456 %) VERITAS 9 61 (1.946 %) Dell 10 56 (1.786 %) Symantec 11 50 (1.595 %) Sybase 12 40 (1.276 %) Intel 12 40 (1.276 %) Red Hat 13 38 (1.212 %) Sage 14 37 (1.180 %) Compaq 14 37 (1.180 %) Sun 15 34 (1.085 %) SAP 16 25 (0.797 %) EMC 17 24 (0.766 %) Progress