The first table below looks at the demand for Windows 7 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 7 over the 3 months to 22 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows 7
Rank 67 39 62
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +23
Permanent jobs citing Windows 7 9 23 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 1.291% 4.144% 1.229%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.659% 14.84% 4.762%
Number of salaries quoted 6 18 6
Average salary £23,375 £33,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.74% +12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Operating Systems
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
246 155 168
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 35.29% 27.93% 25.81%
Number of salaries quoted 237 126 150
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £44,800 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows 7
East of England

Windows 7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Suffolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Suffolk Windows 7 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows 7
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows 7 across the Suffolk region.

Suffolk Windows 7 Salary Trend

Windows 7
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Ipswich -23 5 £22,500 -35.71%
Windows 7
East of England

Windows 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk region citing Windows 7 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 7.

1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
3 13 (61.90%) Active Directory
4 12 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (52.38%) DNS
5 11 (52.38%) ITIL
6 10 (47.62%) SharePoint
6 10 (47.62%) MS Exchange
7 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (42.86%) SharePoint 2010
8 7 (33.33%) LAN
8 7 (33.33%) WAN
9 6 (28.57%) SLA
9 6 (28.57%) Cisco
9 6 (28.57%) VPN
9 6 (28.57%) Citrix
9 6 (28.57%) SAN
9 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
9 6 (28.57%) MS Office
9 6 (28.57%) Terminal Services
9 6 (28.57%) Business Continuity
9 6 (28.57%) Document Management
9 6 (28.57%) VMware
9 6 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
10 5 (23.81%) Service Management
10 5 (23.81%) Migration
10 5 (23.81%) MS Excel
11 4 (19.05%) Windows XP
11 4 (19.05%) NetApp
11 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification

Windows 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk region citing Windows 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (14.29%) Silverlight
1 3 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (9.524%) XML
2 2 (9.524%) WSH
3 1 (4.762%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (4.762%) NHibernate
3 1 (4.762%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.762%) WCF
3 1 (4.762%) WPF
3 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (4.762%) LINQ
3 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 10 (47.62%) SharePoint
1 10 (47.62%) MS Exchange
2 9 (42.86%) SharePoint 2010
3 6 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (4.762%) MSMQ
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) MS Office
2 5 (23.81%) MS Excel
3 3 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) DNS
2 7 (33.33%) LAN
2 7 (33.33%) WAN
3 6 (28.57%) VPN
3 6 (28.57%) SAN
4 2 (9.524%) Ethernet
4 2 (9.524%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.762%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.762%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Support Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Help Desk Support
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Help Desk Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.524%) Service Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Desktop Technician
4 2 (9.524%) Messaging Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Exchange Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Citrix Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Infrastructure Technician
4 2 (9.524%) Storage Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Support Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) iPad
1 3 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 2 (9.524%) Mathematics
3 1 (4.762%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.762%) EPoS
3 1 (4.762%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.762%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (19.05%) Windows XP
5 3 (14.29%) Windows Vista
5 3 (14.29%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) ITIL
2 6 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 6 (28.57%) Document Management
3 5 (23.81%) Service Management
3 5 (23.81%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) Online Marketing
6 2 (9.524%) Risk Management
7 1 (4.762%) Time Management
7 1 (4.762%) MVC
7 1 (4.762%) SOA
7 1 (4.762%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) C#
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (9.524%) VBScript
2 2 (9.524%) VB
3 1 (4.762%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (9.524%) MCP
2 2 (9.524%) MCSA
2 2 (9.524%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Active Directory
2 6 (28.57%) Terminal Services
3 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (19.05%) VMware ESX
4 2 (9.524%) XenServer
4 2 (9.524%) XenDesktop
4 2 (9.524%) vSphere
4 2 (9.524%) VMFS
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Cisco
2 6 (28.57%) Citrix
2 6 (28.57%) VMware
3 4 (19.05%) NetApp