The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swansea region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 23 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 Swansea region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 8 12 6
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -6
Permanent jobs citing Windows 5 13 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 11.11% 15.48% 20.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 71.43% 72.22% 64.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 12
Average salary £35,000 £23,500 £26,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+48.93% -10.47%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Swansea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
7 18 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 15.56% 21.43% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 15
Average salary £35,000 £22,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+59.09% -22.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £18,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £36,400 £31,000 £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
West Wales

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swansea Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Swansea Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 17 (65.38%) C++
2 12 (46.15%) C
3 11 (42.31%) .NET
3 11 (42.31%) SQL Server
4 10 (38.46%) ASP.NET
4 10 (38.46%) C#
5 9 (34.62%) SQL
5 9 (34.62%) Software Engineering
6 7 (26.92%) WinForms
7 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (23.08%) MySQL
7 6 (23.08%) OO
7 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
8 5 (19.23%) UML
8 5 (19.23%) Embedded C
8 5 (19.23%) Embedded C++
8 5 (19.23%) HTML
8 5 (19.23%) CSS
8 5 (19.23%) Embedded Software Development
9 4 (15.38%) Test Scripting
9 4 (15.38%) Visual Studio
9 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
9 4 (15.38%) .NET Framework
10 3 (11.54%) WCF
10 3 (11.54%) WPF
10 3 (11.54%) Silverlight
10 3 (11.54%) LINQ
10 3 (11.54%) Oracle 11g
10 3 (11.54%) GIS
10 3 (11.54%) MVC

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 11 (42.31%) .NET
2 10 (38.46%) ASP.NET
3 7 (26.92%) WinForms
4 5 (19.23%) HTML
4 5 (19.23%) CSS
5 4 (15.38%) .NET Framework
6 3 (11.54%) WCF
6 3 (11.54%) WPF
6 3 (11.54%) Silverlight
6 3 (11.54%) LINQ
6 3 (11.54%) XML
6 3 (11.54%) XSLT
6 3 (11.54%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (3.846%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
1 3 (11.54%) Windows Azure
2 1 (3.846%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) MS Excel
2 2 (7.692%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) SQL Server
2 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (23.08%) MySQL
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (11.54%) GIS
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Visual Studio
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (11.54%) Mercurial
3 2 (7.692%) Subversion
General
1 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.692%) Avionics
2 2 (7.692%) Finance
2 2 (7.692%) Automotive
2 2 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Developer
2 11 (42.31%) Software Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Software Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Software Team Leader
4 4 (15.38%) Team Leader
5 3 (11.54%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) .NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) C# Developer
5 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (7.692%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.692%) Systems Developer
6 2 (7.692%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (7.692%) Real Time Software Engineer
6 2 (7.692%) Real Time Engineer
7 1 (3.846%) Administrator
7 1 (3.846%) IT Manager
7 1 (3.846%) Web Developer
7 1 (3.846%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Android
1 3 (11.54%) Apple iOS
2 2 (7.692%) Windows 2000
2 2 (7.692%) Windows XP
2 2 (7.692%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Software Engineering
2 6 (23.08%) OO
3 5 (19.23%) UML
3 5 (19.23%) Embedded Software Development
4 4 (15.38%) Test Scripting
5 3 (11.54%) MVC
6 2 (7.692%) Configuration Management
7 1 (3.846%) E-Commerce
7 1 (3.846%) ERP
7 1 (3.846%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) C++
2 12 (46.15%) C
3 10 (38.46%) C#
4 9 (34.62%) SQL
5 5 (19.23%) Embedded C
5 5 (19.23%) Embedded C++
6 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.846%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (11.54%) MCSE
2 2 (7.692%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.692%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.692%) MCP
3 1 (3.846%) HNC
3 1 (3.846%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.692%) DO-178B
1 2 (7.692%) JTAG
System Software
1 1 (3.846%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 2 (7.692%) Twitter
3 2 (7.692%) Embarcadero
3 2 (7.692%) Novell
3 2 (7.692%) Borland
3 2 (7.692%) Fujitsu