The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Stockport region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Stockport 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 10 21 10
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 52 17 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 25.62% 8.500% 15.08%
As % of the Vendors category 50.49% 23.61% 36.00%
Number of salaries quoted 51 16 24
Average salary £29,000 £29,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.69% -1.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £18,500 £23,250 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £35,500 £33,750 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -
All Vendors
Stockport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
103 72 75
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 50.74% 36.00% 41.90%
Number of salaries quoted 102 65 69
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £38,500 £37,050
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Manchester

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Stockport region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Stockport Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 50 (61.73%) .NET
2 48 (59.26%) MS Excel
3 47 (58.02%) ASP.NET
4 44 (54.32%) C#
5 37 (45.68%) SQL Server
6 35 (43.21%) Degree
7 34 (41.98%) SQL
8 31 (38.27%) Windows
8 31 (38.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (34.57%) JavaScript
10 25 (30.86%) HTML
10 25 (30.86%) .NET Framework
11 24 (29.63%) MCP
12 19 (23.46%) CSS
13 18 (22.22%) WinForms
14 15 (18.52%) MVC
14 15 (18.52%) jQuery
14 15 (18.52%) ASP.NET MVC
15 12 (14.81%) WCF
15 12 (14.81%) WPF
15 12 (14.81%) Telerik
15 12 (14.81%) MS PowerPoint
15 12 (14.81%) MVVM
15 12 (14.81%) Android
15 12 (14.81%) Web Application Development
16 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET MVC 4
16 11 (13.58%) Castle Windsor
16 11 (13.58%) Ninject
16 11 (13.58%) Razor View Engine
16 11 (13.58%) Unity DI Container

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 50 (61.73%) .NET
2 47 (58.02%) ASP.NET
3 25 (30.86%) HTML
3 25 (30.86%) .NET Framework
4 19 (23.46%) CSS
5 18 (22.22%) WinForms
6 15 (18.52%) jQuery
6 15 (18.52%) ASP.NET MVC
7 12 (14.81%) WCF
7 12 (14.81%) WPF
8 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 11 (13.58%) Castle Windsor
8 11 (13.58%) Ninject
8 11 (13.58%) Razor View Engine
8 11 (13.58%) Unity DI Container
8 11 (13.58%) Spring.NET
9 7 (8.642%) Silverlight
9 7 (8.642%) ADO.NET
10 6 (7.407%) Ajax
11 5 (6.173%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 9 (11.11%) IIS
2 7 (8.642%) MS Exchange
3 4 (4.938%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (3.704%) Office Communications Server
4 3 (3.704%) Lync
5 1 (1.235%) Windows Azure
5 1 (1.235%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 48 (59.26%) MS Excel
2 12 (14.81%) MS PowerPoint
3 11 (13.58%) MS Office
4 10 (12.35%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.235%) SAP Business One
1 1 (1.235%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.235%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.407%) VoIP
2 4 (4.938%) WAN
2 4 (4.938%) DHCP
2 4 (4.938%) LAN
2 4 (4.938%) VPN
2 4 (4.938%) DNS
3 3 (3.704%) ADSL
3 3 (3.704%) 3G
4 2 (2.469%) Network Security
4 2 (2.469%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.235%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (45.68%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.877%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.235%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (13.58%) Rhino Mocks
1 11 (13.58%) Moq
1 11 (13.58%) MSTest
1 11 (13.58%) NUnit
2 5 (6.173%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.235%) Subversion
General
1 6 (7.407%) Portuguese Language
2 5 (6.173%) Finance
3 3 (3.704%) Back Office
3 3 (3.704%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.235%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (49.38%) Developer
2 21 (25.93%) .NET Developer
3 14 (17.28%) Analyst
4 12 (14.81%) C# Developer
5 11 (13.58%) C# .NET Developer
5 11 (13.58%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 10 (12.35%) Software Developer
6 10 (12.35%) .NET Software Developer
7 8 (9.877%) ASP.NET Developer
8 7 (8.642%) Analyst Programmer
8 7 (8.642%) Programmer
8 7 (8.642%) C# Analyst Programmer
8 7 (8.642%) C# Programmer
9 6 (7.407%) Designer
9 6 (7.407%) Front-End Developer
9 6 (7.407%) Data Analyst
10 5 (6.173%) Web Designer
10 5 (6.173%) Web Developer
10 5 (6.173%) Junior Developer
10 5 (6.173%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Inversion of Control
2 7 (8.642%) LIMS
3 5 (6.173%) Mobile App
3 5 (6.173%) Social Media
4 3 (3.704%) SCADA
4 3 (3.704%) Blackberry
4 3 (3.704%) iPhone
5 1 (1.235%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 31 (38.27%) Windows
2 12 (14.81%) Android
3 9 (11.11%) Apple iOS
4 5 (6.173%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (6.173%) Windows XP
4 5 (6.173%) Windows 7
5 3 (3.704%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.52%) MVC
2 12 (14.81%) MVVM
2 12 (14.81%) Web Application Development
3 11 (13.58%) Time Management
3 11 (13.58%) Kanban
3 11 (13.58%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (13.58%) Dependency Injection
3 11 (13.58%) Scrum
3 11 (13.58%) TDD
4 7 (8.642%) Information Management
5 6 (7.407%) Web Development
6 5 (6.173%) Web Design
6 5 (6.173%) Project Management
7 4 (4.938%) PRINCE2
8 1 (1.235%) Incident Management
8 1 (1.235%) Stress Testing
8 1 (1.235%) Unit Testing
8 1 (1.235%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (1.235%) Data Security
8 1 (1.235%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 44 (54.32%) C#
2 34 (41.98%) SQL
3 28 (34.57%) JavaScript
4 10 (12.35%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.235%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.235%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (43.21%) Degree
2 31 (38.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (29.63%) MCP
4 11 (13.58%) MCTS
4 11 (13.58%) MCAD
4 11 (13.58%) MCSD
5 3 (3.704%) MCITP
5 3 (3.704%) MCSE
5 3 (3.704%) MCSA
6 1 (1.235%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.235%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 9 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.235%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.235%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 12 (14.81%) Telerik
2 11 (13.58%) Infragistics
3 7 (8.642%) Adobe
4 4 (4.938%) Cisco
5 3 (3.704%) Wonderware
5 3 (3.704%) Siemens
6 2 (2.469%) Sage
7 1 (1.235%) VMware
7 1 (1.235%) IBM
7 1 (1.235%) NetApp
7 1 (1.235%) HP
7 1 (1.235%) Citrix
7 1 (1.235%) McAfee
7 1 (1.235%) SAP
7 1 (1.235%) Oracle
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