The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Thames Ditton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Thames Ditton 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year
-2 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 12 29 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Thames Ditton 35.29% 45.31% 25.00%
As % of the Vendors category 80.00% 69.05% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12 27 6
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +122.22%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Thames Ditton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
15 42 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Thames Ditton 44.12% 65.63% 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15 40 18
Average salary £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £47,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Surrey

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Thames Ditton 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 Thames Ditton region.

Thames Ditton Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Thames Ditton region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Thames Ditton Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Thames Ditton 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 63 (84.00%) C#
1 63 (84.00%) .NET
1 63 (84.00%) ASP.NET
2 50 (66.67%) CSS
2 50 (66.67%) XML
3 49 (65.33%) Windows
4 47 (62.67%) Scrum
4 47 (62.67%) Unit Testing
5 45 (60.00%) Ajax
6 44 (58.67%) XHTML
7 43 (57.33%) E-Commerce
7 43 (57.33%) Refactoring
7 43 (57.33%) NUnit
7 43 (57.33%) CruiseControl
7 43 (57.33%) Rapid Prototyping
7 43 (57.33%) Build Automation
7 43 (57.33%) User Stories
7 43 (57.33%) Continuous Integration
8 39 (52.00%) Web Services
9 38 (50.67%) Degree
10 35 (46.67%) SQL Server
10 35 (46.67%) SQL Server 2008
11 33 (44.00%) ActionScript 3.0
11 33 (44.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
11 33 (44.00%) ActionScript
11 33 (44.00%) Flash
12 32 (42.67%) Workflow
12 32 (42.67%) Finance
12 32 (42.67%) SQL Server 2005
12 32 (42.67%) TDD

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Thames Ditton 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 63 (84.00%) .NET
1 63 (84.00%) ASP.NET
2 50 (66.67%) CSS
2 50 (66.67%) XML
3 45 (60.00%) Ajax
4 44 (58.67%) XHTML
5 39 (52.00%) Web Services
6 33 (44.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 33 (44.00%) Flash
7 32 (42.67%) WF
8 26 (34.67%) COM+
8 26 (34.67%) ASP
9 12 (16.00%) jQuery
10 6 (8.000%) HTML
11 5 (6.667%) Windows SharePoint Services
12 1 (1.333%) WCF
12 1 (1.333%) soapUI
12 1 (1.333%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.667%) SharePoint
1 5 (6.667%) MS Project Server
2 4 (5.333%) Apache
2 4 (5.333%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.333%) MSMQ
Applications
1 12 (16.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (6.667%) MS Project
2 5 (6.667%) MS Office
2 5 (6.667%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.333%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (5.333%) NAS
1 4 (5.333%) iSCSI
1 4 (5.333%) SAN
2 1 (1.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (46.67%) SQL Server
1 35 (46.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 32 (42.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 14 (18.67%) Crystal Reports
4 5 (6.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (57.33%) NUnit
1 43 (57.33%) CruiseControl
2 5 (6.667%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (1.333%) Selenium
3 1 (1.333%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.333%) JIRA
3 1 (1.333%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.333%) MSBuild
3 1 (1.333%) JMeter
3 1 (1.333%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (42.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 63 (84.00%) Developer
2 49 (65.33%) .NET Developer
3 47 (62.67%) C# Developer
3 47 (62.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 36 (48.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 36 (48.00%) ASP.NET Developer
5 32 (42.67%) Agile .NET Developer
5 32 (42.67%) Agile C# Developer
6 15 (20.00%) Software Developer
7 14 (18.67%) ASP Developer
7 14 (18.67%) Microsoft Developer
8 12 (16.00%) .NET Software Developer
9 11 (14.67%) VB Developer
9 11 (14.67%) Classic ASP Developer
9 11 (14.67%) C# Software Developer
9 11 (14.67%) VB6 Developer
10 8 (10.67%) Administrator
11 5 (6.667%) Senior Developer
11 5 (6.667%) Web Developer
11 5 (6.667%) Senior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.667%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.333%) Clustering
3 3 (4.000%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (65.33%) Windows
2 4 (5.333%) CentOS
2 4 (5.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (62.67%) Scrum
1 47 (62.67%) Unit Testing
2 43 (57.33%) E-Commerce
2 43 (57.33%) Refactoring
2 43 (57.33%) Rapid Prototyping
2 43 (57.33%) Build Automation
2 43 (57.33%) User Stories
2 43 (57.33%) Continuous Integration
3 32 (42.67%) Workflow
3 32 (42.67%) TDD
3 32 (42.67%) Software Architecture
4 16 (21.33%) ITIL
5 9 (12.00%) Project Management
6 5 (6.667%) SEO
6 5 (6.667%) Web Development
6 5 (6.667%) Change Control
6 5 (6.667%) Web Application Development
7 4 (5.333%) Change Management
7 4 (5.333%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 63 (84.00%) C#
2 33 (44.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 33 (44.00%) ActionScript
3 26 (34.67%) VB6
3 26 (34.67%) VB
4 24 (32.00%) SQL
5 18 (24.00%) JavaScript
6 17 (22.67%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 38 (50.67%) Degree
2 4 (5.333%) MCITP
2 4 (5.333%) CCNA
2 4 (5.333%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.333%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.333%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.333%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (5.333%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (5.333%) HP SIM
1 4 (5.333%) Zenoss
1 4 (5.333%) SCOM
2 1 (1.333%) WebInspect
2 1 (1.333%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (6.667%) HP
1 5 (6.667%) Google
2 4 (5.333%) VMware
2 4 (5.333%) Cisco
2 4 (5.333%) JBoss
2 4 (5.333%) Oracle
3 1 (1.333%) Telerik
3 1 (1.333%) Red Gate