The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 17 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 16 6 9
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 56 88 74
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 9.964% 14.97% 13.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.57% 55.00% 53.24%
Number of salaries quoted 48 81 69
Average salary £26,000 £29,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.34% -10.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,000 £22,200 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £36,900 £38,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Tyne and Wear
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
162 160 139
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 28.83% 27.21% 25.50%
Number of salaries quoted 147 131 125
Average salary £34,000 £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £22,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £38,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
North East

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Tyne and Wear Windows Salary Histogram

Windows
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 17 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -4 53 £25,500 -15.00%
Sunderland -9 3 £45,000 +25.00%
South Shields -4 1 £18,000 -55.00%
Windows
North East

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 43 (35.54%) Microsoft
2 42 (34.71%) MS Excel
3 32 (26.45%) SQL Server
3 32 (26.45%) Active Directory
4 31 (25.62%) .NET
5 29 (23.97%) Windows Server 2008
6 27 (22.31%) SQL
6 27 (22.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (20.66%) Degree
8 23 (19.01%) Windows Server 2003
8 23 (19.01%) MS Office
8 23 (19.01%) MS Exchange
9 22 (18.18%) Linux
9 22 (18.18%) C#
10 20 (16.53%) UNIX
10 20 (16.53%) Firewall
11 17 (14.05%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (14.05%) CCNA
11 17 (14.05%) Cisco
12 16 (13.22%) ITIL
12 16 (13.22%) MCP
12 16 (13.22%) TCP/IP
12 16 (13.22%) SLA
12 16 (13.22%) VMware
13 15 (12.40%) DNS
13 15 (12.40%) DHCP
13 15 (12.40%) ASP.NET
14 14 (11.57%) MCSE
14 14 (11.57%) WinForms
14 14 (11.57%) Scrum

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 31 (25.62%) .NET
2 15 (12.40%) ASP.NET
3 14 (11.57%) WinForms
4 12 (9.917%) ASP.NET MVC
5 10 (8.264%) .NET Framework
5 10 (8.264%) WCF
6 9 (7.438%) WPF
6 9 (7.438%) Ninject
6 9 (7.438%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 5 (4.132%) Unity DI Container
7 5 (4.132%) Razor View Engine
7 5 (4.132%) Spring.NET
7 5 (4.132%) Node.js
7 5 (4.132%) Castle Windsor
7 5 (4.132%) Web Services
8 4 (3.306%) CSS
8 4 (3.306%) Windows SharePoint Services
8 4 (3.306%) KnockoutJS
9 3 (2.479%) HTML
9 3 (2.479%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 23 (19.01%) MS Exchange
2 9 (7.438%) Exchange Server 2003
2 9 (7.438%) Exchange Server 2007
3 7 (5.785%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (4.132%) SharePoint
5 4 (3.306%) Windows Azure
5 4 (3.306%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (2.479%) IIS
6 3 (2.479%) Lync
7 2 (1.653%) Lotus Notes
7 2 (1.653%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.826%) Apache
8 1 (0.826%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.826%) nginx
8 1 (0.826%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 42 (34.71%) MS Excel
2 23 (19.01%) MS Office
3 1 (0.826%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 4 (3.306%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (2.479%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.653%) Cognos Controller
3 2 (1.653%) Cognos Planning
3 2 (1.653%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.826%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.53%) Firewall
2 16 (13.22%) TCP/IP
3 15 (12.40%) DHCP
3 15 (12.40%) DNS
4 13 (10.74%) SAN
5 12 (9.917%) LAN
6 10 (8.264%) WAN
6 10 (8.264%) VPN
7 9 (7.438%) Wireless
7 9 (7.438%) Internet
8 8 (6.612%) VLAN
8 8 (6.612%) NAS
9 7 (5.785%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (4.959%) iSCSI
11 5 (4.132%) Intranet
12 4 (3.306%) SMTP
12 4 (3.306%) VoIP
12 4 (3.306%) Cisco IOS
13 2 (1.653%) RIP
13 2 (1.653%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.306%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.306%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (3.306%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (3.306%) MySQL
3 3 (2.479%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (1.653%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.653%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (1.653%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (1.653%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 2 (1.653%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (0.826%) Essbase
5 1 (0.826%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 7 (5.785%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.959%) NUnit
2 6 (4.959%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (4.959%) MSTest
3 5 (4.132%) Rhino Mocks
3 5 (4.132%) Moq
4 1 (0.826%) JIRA
General
1 7 (5.785%) Games
2 6 (4.959%) German Language
3 5 (4.132%) Music
4 4 (3.306%) French Language
4 4 (3.306%) Italian Language
5 3 (2.479%) Finance
5 3 (2.479%) Legal
6 2 (1.653%) Banking
7 1 (0.826%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.826%) Publishing
7 1 (0.826%) Automotive
7 1 (0.826%) Law
7 1 (0.826%) Spanish Language
7 1 (0.826%) Hebrew Language
7 1 (0.826%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (25.62%) Developer
2 24 (19.83%) Analyst
3 15 (12.40%) Support Analyst
4 14 (11.57%) Software Developer
5 13 (10.74%) .NET Developer
5 13 (10.74%) Network Support
6 11 (9.091%) Support Engineer
6 11 (9.091%) Desktop Support
7 10 (8.264%) Team Leader
8 9 (7.438%) Network Support Analyst
8 9 (7.438%) 2nd Line Support
8 9 (7.438%) Network Analyst
9 8 (6.612%) Technical Support
10 7 (5.785%) Service Analyst
10 7 (5.785%) Administrator
11 6 (4.959%) Junior
11 6 (4.959%) Service Desk Analyst
12 5 (4.132%) Java Developer
12 5 (4.132%) Junior Developer
12 5 (4.132%) Junior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.438%) Blackberry
2 6 (4.959%) Replication
3 5 (4.132%) Tandem
3 5 (4.132%) 3D Graphics
3 5 (4.132%) Computer Science
3 5 (4.132%) Inversion of Control
3 5 (4.132%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.306%) Clustering
4 4 (3.306%) Mainframe
4 4 (3.306%) Streaming Music
5 2 (1.653%) Handset
5 2 (1.653%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.826%) Symmetrix DMX
6 1 (0.826%) Celerra
6 1 (0.826%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.826%) SaaS
6 1 (0.826%) Social Media
6 1 (0.826%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.826%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.826%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.97%) Windows Server 2008
2 23 (19.01%) Windows Server 2003
3 22 (18.18%) Linux
4 20 (16.53%) UNIX
5 13 (10.74%) Windows 7
6 10 (8.264%) Windows XP
7 8 (6.612%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (4.959%) Windows 8
9 4 (3.306%) Solaris
10 2 (1.653%) Windows Phone
11 1 (0.826%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.826%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.826%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (13.22%) ITIL
2 14 (11.57%) Scrum
3 12 (9.917%) MVC
3 12 (9.917%) TDD
4 10 (8.264%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (7.438%) Problem Management
5 9 (7.438%) Dependency Injection
5 9 (7.438%) Web Application Development
6 8 (6.612%) Network Management
7 6 (4.959%) PRINCE2
7 6 (4.959%) CRM
7 6 (4.959%) OOD
8 5 (4.132%) E-Commerce
8 5 (4.132%) Service Management
8 5 (4.132%) E-business
8 5 (4.132%) MVVM
8 5 (4.132%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (4.132%) Multithreading
8 5 (4.132%) Kanban
8 5 (4.132%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.31%) SQL
2 22 (18.18%) C#
3 8 (6.612%) C
4 5 (4.132%) Java
5 4 (3.306%) VB
5 4 (3.306%) VB.NET
6 3 (2.479%) XAML
6 3 (2.479%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.479%) C++
7 1 (0.826%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.826%) PHP
7 1 (0.826%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.826%) Ruby
7 1 (0.826%) VBA
7 1 (0.826%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (22.31%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (20.66%) Degree
3 17 (14.05%) CCNA
3 17 (14.05%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (13.22%) MCP
5 14 (11.57%) MCSE
6 10 (8.264%) MCTS
7 9 (7.438%) MCDST
7 9 (7.438%) MCAD
7 9 (7.438%) MCSD
8 8 (6.612%) MCSA
9 5 (4.132%) PhD
9 5 (4.132%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 4 (3.306%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (3.306%) MCITP
11 3 (2.479%) Security Cleared
12 2 (1.653%) CCENT
12 2 (1.653%) SC Cleared
12 2 (1.653%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.653%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.22%) SLA
2 1 (0.826%) QA
System Software
1 32 (26.45%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (9.917%) VMware ESX
4 6 (4.959%) NFS
4 6 (4.959%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.132%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.306%) Forefront TMG
6 4 (3.306%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.826%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.306%) Backup Exec
2 2 (1.653%) WSUS
2 2 (1.653%) SCCM
2 2 (1.653%) SCOM
3 1 (0.826%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 43 (35.54%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.05%) Cisco
3 16 (13.22%) VMware
4 8 (6.612%) Oracle
4 8 (6.612%) Citrix
5 6 (4.959%) Apple
5 6 (4.959%) Symantec
6 4 (3.306%) Veritas
6 4 (3.306%) Sophos
7 2 (1.653%) EMC
7 2 (1.653%) Lotus
7 2 (1.653%) Remedy
7 2 (1.653%) Avaya
7 2 (1.653%) Cognos
7 2 (1.653%) IBM
8 1 (0.826%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.826%) Sun
8 1 (0.826%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.826%) Mitel
8 1 (0.826%) F5
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