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The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the Thatcham 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkMicrosoft Windows
Location
3 months to
13 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank61
Rank change on same period last yearDown-5
Matching permanent IT job ads26
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.001 %0.003 %
As % of the category below50.00 %100.00 %
Salaries quoted26
Average minimum salary£19,000£16,667
Average salary£22,500£17,833
% change on same period last year+26.16 %
Average maximum salary£26,000£19,000
UK excluding London average salary£33,026£33,011
% change on same period last year+0.04 %
Thatcham IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
Thatcham
Matching permanent IT job ads46
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.002 %0.003 %
Salaries quoted46
Average minimum salary£19,143£16,923
Average salary£21,429£18,154
% change on same period last year+18.03 %
Average maximum salary£23,714£19,385
UK excluding London average salary£34,290£34,404
% change on same period last year-0.33 %
Windows BerkshireWindows
Berkshire

Windows
Demand Trend

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

Thatcham Windows Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Thatcham Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the Thatcham 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.

13 (60.00 %)MS Office
13 (60.00 %)Active Directory
22 (40.00 %)Windows XP
31 (20.00 %)TCP/IP
31 (20.00 %)VPN
31 (20.00 %)Retail
31 (20.00 %)Business Analysis
31 (20.00 %)AJAX
31 (20.00 %)SQL Server 2005
31 (20.00 %)Marketing
31 (20.00 %)Web Development
31 (20.00 %)Time Management
31 (20.00 %)Education
31 (20.00 %)Backup Exec
31 (20.00 %)WinForms
31 (20.00 %)Terminal Services
31 (20.00 %)Windows Server 2003
31 (20.00 %)C#
31 (20.00 %)HTML
31 (20.00 %)Java
31 (20.00 %)JavaScript
31 (20.00 %)SQL
31 (20.00 %).NET
31 (20.00 %)SQL Server
31 (20.00 %)ASP.NET
31 (20.00 %)JSP
31 (20.00 %)XML
31 (20.00 %)XSL
31 (20.00 %)Linux
31 (20.00 %)Swing

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the Thatcham 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.

Thatcham IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (20.00 %)HTML
11 (20.00 %).NET
11 (20.00 %)ASP.NET
11 (20.00 %)JSP
11 (20.00 %)XML
11 (20.00 %)XSL
11 (20.00 %)Swing
11 (20.00 %)WinForms
11 (20.00 %)AJAX
Thatcham IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
13 (60.00 %)MS Office
21 (20.00 %)MS Excel
Thatcham IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (20.00 %)TCP/IP
11 (20.00 %)VPN
Thatcham IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (20.00 %)SQL Server
11 (20.00 %)SQL Server 2005
Thatcham IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11 (20.00 %)Education
11 (20.00 %)Retail
11 (20.00 %)Marketing
Thatcham IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
13 (60.00 %)Support Engineer
22 (40.00 %)IT Support Engineer
22 (40.00 %)1st Line Support
22 (40.00 %)1st Line Support Engineer
31 (20.00 %)SQL Server Developer
31 (20.00 %)Network Support
31 (20.00 %)Software Support Engineer
31 (20.00 %)C#/ASP.NET Developer
31 (20.00 %)3rd Line Support Analyst
31 (20.00 %)3rd Line Support Engineer
31 (20.00 %)3rd Line Support
31 (20.00 %)2nd Line Support
31 (20.00 %).NET Developer
31 (20.00 %)C# Developer
31 (20.00 %)ASP.NET Developer
31 (20.00 %)SQL Developer
31 (20.00 %)Software Engineer
31 (20.00 %)Developer
31 (20.00 %)Analyst
31 (20.00 %)Support Analyst
Thatcham IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
12 (40.00 %)Windows XP
21 (20.00 %)Windows Server 2003
21 (20.00 %)Linux
Thatcham IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11 (20.00 %)E-Commerce
11 (20.00 %)Business Analysis
11 (20.00 %)Web Development
11 (20.00 %)Time Management
Thatcham IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11 (20.00 %)C#
11 (20.00 %)Java
11 (20.00 %)JavaScript
11 (20.00 %)SQL
Thatcham IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
13 (60.00 %)Active Directory
21 (20.00 %)Terminal Services
21 (20.00 %)Backup Exec