The first table below looks at the demand for the Microsoft Consultant role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Consultant
Rank 636 597 523
Rank change year-on-year
-39 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Consultant 234 299 395
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.215% 0.248% 0.308%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.228% 0.261% 0.327%
Number of salaries quoted 224 261 344
Average salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £37,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £62,700 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -2.50%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102828 114458 120840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.97% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 85533 98230 102542
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Microsoft Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft Consultant within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Microsoft Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Consultant
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft Consultant within the UK.

Microsoft Consultant Salary Trend

Microsoft Consultant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Consultant over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Microsoft Consultant Salary Histogram

Microsoft Consultant
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -42 206 £54,500 +9.00% 19
London +17 107 £58,750 +11.90% 8
South East +6 48 £57,500 +15.00% 3
Berkshire +15 25 £60,000 +4.34% 1
Reading -6 17 £60,000 -6.61% 1
City of London -12 17 £52,500 -4.54% 2
Surrey +25 16 £56,250 +32.35%
West Midlands -9 15 £50,000 - 1
North West -12 10 £42,000 -4.00% 1
East of England - 10 £47,500 - 2
Scotland +12 8 £40,000 -3.03% 3
Hampshire +12 8 £50,000 +17.64%
East Midlands 0 8 £52,500 +5.00% 1
Yorkshire -6 8 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Oxfordshire -12 7 £52,500 -8.69% 2
Manchester -18 7 £42,000 +29.23% 1
Buckinghamshire +7 6 £58,750 +38.23%
Oxford -14 6 £48,750 -15.21% 1
Cambridgeshire - 6 £47,500 - 1
Birmingham -21 5 £47,500 -5.00% 1
Aberdeen - 5 £40,000 - 1
Guildford -4 4 £60,000 -
Milton Keynes -17 4 £55,000 +12.82%
West Yorkshire -20 4 £46,250 -2.63% 1
Leeds -23 4 £48,750 +2.63% 1
Reigate - 4 £55,000 -
Huntingdon - 4 £47,500 -
Midlands +13 3 £50,000 +11.11%
South Yorkshire +7 3 £50,000 -16.66% 2
Nottinghamshire -10 3 £52,500 -

Microsoft Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Microsoft Consultant in their job title 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 with Microsoft Consultant in their job title.

1 470 (94.95%) Microsoft
2 265 (53.54%) MS Excel
3 174 (35.15%) SQL Server
4 160 (32.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 140 (28.28%) Windows
6 137 (27.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 130 (26.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 126 (25.45%) Business Intelligence
9 125 (25.25%) SharePoint
10 121 (24.44%) .NET
11 119 (24.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 103 (20.81%) C#
13 100 (20.20%) Active Directory
14 98 (19.80%) Lync
15 92 (18.59%) SQL Server 2008
15 92 (18.59%) CRM
16 91 (18.38%) MS Exchange
16 91 (18.38%) SCCM
17 89 (17.98%) Data Warehouse
18 83 (16.77%) MCITP
19 81 (16.36%) Dynamics CRM
20 80 (16.16%) SCOM
21 76 (15.35%) SQL
22 75 (15.15%) Windows Server 2008
23 72 (14.55%) Exchange Server 2010
24 71 (14.34%) Advertising
25 70 (14.14%) Finance
26 68 (13.74%) Hyper-V
27 59 (11.92%) SQL Server 2005
28 57 (11.52%) Degree

Microsoft Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Microsoft Consultant in their job title 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 with Microsoft Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 121 (24.44%) .NET
2 31 (6.263%) ASP.NET
3 21 (4.242%) COM
4 19 (3.838%) REST
5 18 (3.636%) SOAP
6 17 (3.434%) Web Services
7 15 (3.030%) AppFabric
7 15 (3.030%) Middleware
8 10 (2.020%) MDX
9 9 (1.818%) Silverlight
10 8 (1.616%) WCF
11 7 (1.414%) .NET Framework
11 7 (1.414%) jQuery
12 5 (1.010%) CSS
13 4 (0.808%) Application Packaging
13 4 (0.808%) HTML
14 3 (0.606%) XSLT
14 3 (0.606%) WPF
14 3 (0.606%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 3 (0.606%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 125 (25.25%) SharePoint
2 98 (19.80%) Lync
3 91 (18.38%) MS Exchange
4 72 (14.55%) Exchange Server 2010
5 51 (10.30%) Office Communications Server
6 34 (6.869%) SharePoint 2010
7 30 (6.061%) BizTalk Server
8 28 (5.657%) Windows Azure
9 26 (5.253%) Exchange Server 2003
10 21 (4.242%) Exchange Server 2007
11 15 (3.030%) SharePoint Server
12 13 (2.626%) Exchange Server 2013
13 9 (1.818%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 9 (1.818%) IBM Notes
14 8 (1.616%) Lotus Domino
15 6 (1.212%) SharePoint 2013
15 6 (1.212%) IIS
16 5 (1.010%) Exchange Server 2000
17 3 (0.606%) Exchange Server 5.5
18 1 (0.202%) GroupWise
Applications
1 265 (53.54%) MS Excel
2 46 (9.293%) Office 365
3 33 (6.667%) MS Office
4 8 (1.616%) MS Project
5 4 (0.808%) PowerPivot
5 4 (0.808%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (0.404%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 81 (16.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (9.091%) Dynamics AX
3 41 (8.283%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (2.222%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.808%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.404%) Pegasus Opera
6 2 (0.404%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 1 (0.202%) Lawson
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.687%) Unified Communications
2 27 (5.455%) TCP/IP
2 27 (5.455%) Firewall
3 22 (4.444%) DNS
4 17 (3.434%) SAN
5 15 (3.030%) VoIP
6 13 (2.626%) NAS
7 12 (2.424%) SMTP
7 12 (2.424%) DHCP
8 10 (2.020%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (2.020%) Ethernet
8 10 (2.020%) Internet
9 9 (1.818%) SSL
10 8 (1.616%) LDAP
10 8 (1.616%) POP3
11 5 (1.010%) LAN
11 5 (1.010%) WLAN
11 5 (1.010%) VPN
11 5 (1.010%) Wireless
12 4 (0.808%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (35.15%) SQL Server
2 137 (27.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 130 (26.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 119 (24.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 92 (18.59%) SQL Server 2008
6 89 (17.98%) Data Warehouse
7 59 (11.92%) SQL Server 2005
8 36 (7.273%) OLAP
9 30 (6.061%) SQL Server 2012
10 23 (4.646%) PerformancePoint
11 17 (3.434%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.616%) Data Mining
13 6 (1.212%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.808%) SQL Server 2000
15 2 (0.404%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 2 (0.404%) BusinessObjects
16 1 (0.202%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (1.414%) MorphX
2 2 (0.404%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.202%) MSI
3 1 (0.202%) CruiseControl
3 1 (0.202%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (0.202%) MSBuild
General
1 71 (14.34%) Advertising
2 70 (14.14%) Finance
3 19 (3.838%) Manufacturing
4 17 (3.434%) Telecoms
5 12 (2.424%) Banking
6 8 (1.616%) German Language
7 6 (1.212%) Marketing
7 6 (1.212%) Retail
8 5 (1.010%) Multimedia
9 3 (0.606%) Games
9 3 (0.606%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 18 (3.636%) Blackberry
2 10 (2.020%) Handset
3 9 (1.818%) Data Integration
4 7 (1.414%) PKI
4 7 (1.414%) iPhone
5 5 (1.010%) E-Learning
5 5 (1.010%) Digital Media
6 4 (0.808%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (0.808%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.808%) Clustering
7 3 (0.606%) NHS
7 3 (0.606%) Online Games
7 3 (0.606%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.202%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.202%) Web 2.0
8 1 (0.202%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.202%) iPad
8 1 (0.202%) HP StorageWorks
8 1 (0.202%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 140 (28.28%) Windows
2 75 (15.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 27 (5.455%) Windows Server 2003
4 26 (5.253%) Windows 7
5 20 (4.040%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (2.626%) Windows XP
7 11 (2.222%) Solaris
7 11 (2.222%) OpenVMS
7 11 (2.222%) UNIX
7 11 (2.222%) Windows 8
8 5 (1.010%) Windows Phone
9 4 (0.808%) Windows NT
9 4 (0.808%) Windows 2000
10 1 (0.202%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (25.45%) Business Intelligence
2 92 (18.59%) CRM
3 56 (11.31%) ETL
4 39 (7.879%) Migration
5 35 (7.071%) ERP
6 27 (5.455%) Project Management
7 26 (5.253%) Service Delivery
8 22 (4.444%) Information Management
9 20 (4.040%) Kimball Methodology
10 19 (3.838%) Enterprise Architecture
11 17 (3.434%) Project Planning
11 17 (3.434%) Business Development
12 16 (3.232%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (3.232%) Scrum
12 16 (3.232%) RUP
13 15 (3.030%) Waterfall
13 15 (3.030%) Time Management
13 15 (3.030%) Data Modelling
14 14 (2.828%) Business Analysis
14 14 (2.828%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 103 (20.81%) C#
2 76 (15.35%) SQL
3 22 (4.444%) C
4 21 (4.242%) T-SQL
5 13 (2.626%) PowerShell
6 12 (2.424%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.414%) X++
8 5 (1.010%) Scala
9 2 (0.404%) Java
10 1 (0.202%) VB
10 1 (0.202%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.202%) XPath
Qualifications
1 160 (32.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 83 (16.77%) MCITP
3 57 (11.52%) Degree
4 55 (11.11%) MCSE
5 44 (8.889%) MCTS
6 25 (5.051%) MCSD
7 24 (4.848%) MCP
8 23 (4.646%) MCDBA
9 21 (4.242%) MCSA
10 18 (3.636%) Microsoft Certified Master
11 15 (3.030%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (2.020%) CCA
12 10 (2.020%) Citrix Certification
12 10 (2.020%) CCEA
12 10 (2.020%) CCNA
13 9 (1.818%) CCEE
13 9 (1.818%) CCAA
13 9 (1.818%) CCIA
14 5 (1.010%) CCNP
14 5 (1.010%) VTSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.626%) ISO 9001
2 5 (1.010%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.010%) QA
3 4 (0.808%) COBIT
3 4 (0.808%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.202%) SLA
System Software
1 100 (20.20%) Active Directory
2 68 (13.74%) Hyper-V
3 42 (8.485%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (6.061%) XenDesktop
5 24 (4.848%) UAG
6 23 (4.646%) XenApp
7 20 (4.040%) XenServer
8 18 (3.636%) Microsoft App-V
9 16 (3.232%) vSphere
10 10 (2.020%) Forefront TMG
11 4 (0.808%) Terminal Server
12 2 (0.404%) VMware ESX
12 2 (0.404%) ISA Server
13 1 (0.202%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 91 (18.38%) SCCM
2 80 (16.16%) SCOM
3 49 (9.899%) SCVMM
4 8 (1.616%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 8 (1.616%) MAILsweeper
4 8 (1.616%) Norton AntiVirus
4 8 (1.616%) Tivoli
5 6 (1.212%) WSUS
6 5 (1.010%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.404%) AppDNA
7 2 (0.404%) Opalis
7 2 (0.404%) MIIS
8 1 (0.202%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 470 (94.95%) Microsoft
2 54 (10.91%) VMware
3 48 (9.697%) Citrix
4 32 (6.465%) Hitachi
4 32 (6.465%) Cisco
5 15 (3.030%) SAP
6 13 (2.626%) HP
7 10 (2.020%) CheckPoint
8 9 (1.818%) Symantec
8 9 (1.818%) Lotus
9 8 (1.616%) NetApp
9 8 (1.616%) McAfee
9 8 (1.616%) Sage
10 7 (1.414%) Avaya
10 7 (1.414%) Dialogic
11 6 (1.212%) Polycom
11 6 (1.212%) Nortel
12 5 (1.010%) Juniper
12 5 (1.010%) Mitel
12 5 (1.010%) Brocade
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Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + plus an incredible benefits package
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Peterborough, East Anglia
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Manchester, Lancashire
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Salary: £37000 - £47000 per annum + Benefits
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Oxford, Oxfordshire
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Salary: £45000.00 per annum + Car + Pension
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London
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Salary: £55000 - £75000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
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Oxfordshire, South East
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Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus, Pension
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UK
Venturi
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Venturi
Salary: £45000 - £75000 per annum + Bonus / Benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Venturi
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
London
Nigel Frank International Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £75000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
Nigel Frank International Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
Venturi
Salary: £55000 - £75000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 18 June 2013
Northamptonshire
Mortimer Bell International
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Harrington Boyd
Salary: £23000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 + Excellent
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