The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors currently tracked.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

Microsoft
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank91010
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads184051769712483
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK15.26 %14.43 %13.07 %
As % of the Vendors category32.03 %30.77 %29.46 %
Number of salaries quoted160531536710386
Average salary£40,000£40,000£39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+1.26 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£24,500£23,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£65,000£62,000
UK excluding London average salary£36,500£37,000£36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.35 %+2.77 %
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
574595751742374
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK47.65 %46.91 %44.38 %
Number of salaries quoted484194776133886
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,500£26,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£70,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000

Microsoft
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Microsoft Demand Trend

Microsoft
Salary Trend

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

Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+117227£40,000-
LondonNo change06759£47,500-
South EastDown-34135£40,000-
City of LondonUp+51685£50,000-
East of EnglandUp+21537£40,000+6.66 %
North WestDown-21177£35,000-
SurreyDown-61123£44,000+7.31 %
BerkshireUp+11024£40,000+1.26 %
South WestUp+51009£34,500+6.15 %
YorkshireUp+1943£33,000+1.53 %
West MidlandsNo change0844£35,000-
HampshireUp+1614£37,500+11.11 %
West YorkshireUp+1611£33,163+2.03 %
ManchesterDown-2594£32,500-10.95 %
East MidlandsDown-1562£34,250+2.23 %
ScotlandDown-1546£35,000-5.40 %
ReadingUp+1501£39,000-2.50 %
LeedsUp+1449£35,000+6.06 %
BuckinghamshireUp+4437£35,000-6.66 %
CambridgeshireUp+7432£40,000+14.28 %
HertfordshireUp+2398£40,000+3.22 %
BristolUp+5321£35,000+4.47 %
CheshireUp+1301£35,000-
CambridgeUp+7294£40,000+23.07 %
EssexUp+1290£35,000-
BirminghamDown-3271£35,500-5.33 %
OxfordshireUp+1251£35,000-9.09 %
WalesUp+5228£32,000+6.66 %
GloucestershireUp+3223£32,500-7.14 %
Milton KeynesUp+6208£35,500+1.42 %

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

114442 (39.44 %)MS Excel
213922 (38.02 %)Windows
313791 (37.66 %)SQL Server
412469 (34.05 %).NET
510927 (29.84 %)SQL
69958 (27.19 %)C#
77318 (19.98 %)Finance
86836 (18.67 %)ASP.NET
96723 (18.36 %)Active Directory
105653 (15.44 %)VMware
115609 (15.32 %)Microsoft Certification
125467 (14.93 %)SharePoint
135454 (14.89 %)MS Office
145179 (14.14 %)Windows Server 2008
154909 (13.40 %)Degree
164635 (12.66 %)MS Exchange
174512 (12.32 %)Windows Server 2003
184467 (12.20 %)SQL Server 2008
193813 (10.41 %)Citrix
193813 (10.41 %)JavaScript
203656 (9.983 %)Cisco
213623 (9.893 %)VMware Infrastructure
223601 (9.833 %)ITIL
233484 (9.514 %)Oracle
243455 (9.434 %)HTML
253394 (9.268 %)SQL Server 2005
263301 (9.014 %)CSS
273244 (8.858 %)XML
283048 (8.323 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
293009 (8.217 %)Project Management

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
112469 (34.05 %).NET
26836 (18.67 %)ASP.NET
33455 (9.434 %)HTML
43301 (9.014 %)CSS
53244 (8.858 %)XML
62776 (7.580 %)Web Services
72452 (6.696 %).NET Framework
82442 (6.668 %)WCF
91757 (4.798 %)jQuery
101629 (4.448 %)WPF
111597 (4.361 %)Ajax
121373 (3.749 %)ASP.NET MVC
131117 (3.050 %)Silverlight
14977 (2.668 %)WinForms
15960 (2.621 %)XSLT
16852 (2.327 %)LINQ
17831 (2.269 %)ASP
18766 (2.092 %)XHTML
19750 (2.048 %)NHibernate
20572 (1.562 %)COM
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15467 (14.93 %)SharePoint
24635 (12.66 %)MS Exchange
32816 (7.690 %)IIS
42077 (5.672 %)Exchange Server 2010
51886 (5.150 %)Exchange Server 2007
61455 (3.973 %)Exchange Server 2003
71432 (3.910 %)SharePoint 2010
81169 (3.192 %)SharePoint Server
9984 (2.687 %)BizTalk Server
10685 (1.871 %)CMS
11647 (1.767 %)Apache
12522 (1.425 %)Lync
13501 (1.368 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
14358 (0.978 %)Lotus Notes
15348 (0.950 %)Office Communications Server
16341 (0.931 %)Tomcat
17306 (0.836 %)WebLogic
18277 (0.756 %)Umbraco
19255 (0.696 %)SAS
20137 (0.374 %)Exchange Server 2000
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
114442 (39.44 %)MS Excel
25454 (14.89 %)MS Office
31251 (3.416 %)MS Visio
4982 (2.682 %)MS PowerPoint
5966 (2.638 %)MS Project
6343 (0.937 %)Photoshop
7174 (0.475 %)InfoPath
7174 (0.475 %)Office 365
8152 (0.415 %)Spreadsheet
9106 (0.289 %)Adobe Illustrator
1096 (0.262 %)Google Apps
1188 (0.240 %)PowerPivot
1271 (0.194 %)MATLAB
1354 (0.147 %)Acrobat
1451 (0.139 %)Fireworks
1545 (0.123 %)InDesign
1642 (0.115 %)SPSS
1723 (0.063 %)AutoCAD
1820 (0.055 %)FrameMaker
1820 (0.055 %)Adobe After Effects
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11646 (4.495 %)Dynamics CRM
2869 (2.373 %)Dynamics AX
3520 (1.420 %)Dynamics NAV
4131 (0.358 %)Dynamics GP
582 (0.224 %)Google Analytics
672 (0.197 %)Summit
755 (0.150 %)Oracle EBS
844 (0.120 %)Visualfiles
943 (0.117 %)Sage 200
1040 (0.109 %)SoftGrid
1139 (0.106 %)SAP BPC
1235 (0.096 %)SAP GRC
1235 (0.096 %)Oracle Financials
1333 (0.090 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1333 (0.090 %)SAP ERP
1430 (0.082 %)SAP FI
1430 (0.082 %)Oracle Applications
1529 (0.079 %)SalesLogix
1529 (0.079 %)Line 500
1628 (0.076 %)Oracle ERP
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12576 (7.034 %)TCP/IP
22402 (6.559 %)SAN
32241 (6.119 %)DNS
42210 (6.035 %)Firewall
52027 (5.535 %)Internet
61796 (4.904 %)LAN
71749 (4.776 %)WAN
81465 (4.000 %)DHCP
91299 (3.547 %)VPN
10684 (1.868 %)VoIP
11583 (1.592 %)Intranet
12568 (1.551 %)Wireless
13567 (1.548 %)NAS
14424 (1.158 %)VLAN
15360 (0.983 %)HTTP
16326 (0.890 %)Unified Communications
17322 (0.879 %)SSL
18310 (0.847 %)Network Security
19305 (0.833 %)MPLS
20268 (0.732 %)iSCSI
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
113791 (37.66 %)SQL Server
24467 (12.20 %)SQL Server 2008
33394 (9.268 %)SQL Server 2005
43048 (8.323 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
52885 (7.878 %)SQL Server Integration Services
61852 (5.057 %)Data Warehouse
71785 (4.874 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
81127 (3.077 %)ETL
9929 (2.537 %)SQL Server 2000
10794 (2.168 %)MySQL
11695 (1.898 %)OLAP
12642 (1.753 %)RDBMS
13610 (1.666 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
14574 (1.567 %)Crystal Reports
15422 (1.152 %)MS Access
16417 (1.139 %)Oracle 8/8i
17348 (0.950 %)DTS
18333 (0.909 %)BusinessObjects
19296 (0.808 %)Oracle 10g
20295 (0.806 %)Oracle 11g
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12865 (7.823 %)Visual Studio
21122 (3.064 %)Team Foundation Server
3939 (2.564 %)NUnit
4705 (1.925 %)Subversion
5530 (1.447 %)Rhino Mocks
6293 (0.800 %)Selenium
7281 (0.767 %)VSS/SourceSafe
8174 (0.475 %)QuickTest Pro
9162 (0.442 %)Eclipse
10158 (0.431 %)CruiseControl
11146 (0.399 %)JUnit
12138 (0.377 %)Moq
13121 (0.330 %)Git (software)
14111 (0.303 %)MSBuild
15110 (0.300 %)MSTest
15110 (0.300 %)MSI
16106 (0.289 %)JIRA
1788 (0.240 %)MorphX
1887 (0.238 %)Oracle Forms
1887 (0.238 %)Cucumber
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
17318 (19.98 %)Finance
21492 (4.074 %)Banking
31359 (3.711 %)Retail
41227 (3.351 %)Marketing
51009 (2.755 %)Advertising
6998 (2.725 %)Telecoms
7690 (1.884 %)Legal
8641 (1.750 %)Manufacturing
9544 (1.485 %)Law
10543 (1.483 %)Back Office
11469 (1.281 %)Investment Banking
12419 (1.144 %)Front Office
13412 (1.125 %)Games
14299 (0.816 %)German Language
15246 (0.672 %)French Language
16237 (0.647 %)Financial Institution
17233 (0.636 %)Publishing
18171 (0.467 %)Billing
19157 (0.429 %)Electronics
20139 (0.380 %)Aerospace
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
110587 (28.91 %)Developer
25979 (16.33 %)Analyst
33988 (10.89 %)Consultant
43935 (10.75 %).NET Developer
52390 (6.526 %)C# Developer
62282 (6.231 %)Support Analyst
72101 (5.737 %)Architect
81947 (5.317 %)Support Engineer
91742 (4.757 %)C# .NET Developer
101534 (4.189 %)Administrator
111321 (3.607 %)Senior Developer
121223 (3.340 %)Project Manager
131222 (3.337 %)ASP.NET Developer
141125 (3.072 %)Software Developer
151073 (2.930 %)Web Developer
16981 (2.679 %)DBA
17879 (2.400 %)Technical Support
18876 (2.392 %)SQL Developer
19845 (2.307 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
20812 (2.217 %)Business Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11422 (3.883 %)Computer Science
21159 (3.165 %)Blackberry
31014 (2.769 %)Clustering
4834 (2.277 %)Management Information System
5651 (1.778 %)Replication
6619 (1.690 %)N-Tier
7521 (1.423 %)Mathematics
8463 (1.264 %)Client/Server
9421 (1.150 %)Open Source
10341 (0.931 %)Hedge funds
11335 (0.915 %)Tandem
12334 (0.912 %)Cloud Computing
13315 (0.860 %)SaaS
14302 (0.825 %)iPhone
15262 (0.715 %)Derivative
16250 (0.683 %)Statistics
17191 (0.522 %)Fixed Income
18182 (0.497 %)Video Conferencing
19176 (0.481 %)Fat Client
19176 (0.481 %)Thin Client
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
113922 (38.02 %)Windows
25179 (14.14 %)Windows Server 2008
34512 (12.32 %)Windows Server 2003
42819 (7.698 %)Linux
52636 (7.198 %)Windows XP
62208 (6.029 %)Windows 7
71769 (4.831 %)UNIX
81090 (2.976 %)Windows Vista
9539 (1.472 %)Solaris
10494 (1.349 %)Windows 2000 Server
11474 (1.294 %)Windows 2000
12420 (1.147 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13242 (0.661 %)Android
14229 (0.625 %)AIX
15164 (0.448 %)Mac OS X
16128 (0.350 %)Windows Mobile
17119 (0.325 %)Apple iOS
18118 (0.322 %)Windows NT
19110 (0.300 %)CentOS
2078 (0.213 %)Mac OS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13601 (9.833 %)ITIL
23009 (8.217 %)Project Management
32772 (7.569 %)Business Intelligence
42570 (7.018 %)CRM
52363 (6.453 %)Agile Software Development
62198 (6.002 %)MVC
72159 (5.896 %)OO
82051 (5.601 %)Scrum
91758 (4.801 %)TDD
101344 (3.670 %)E-Commerce
111323 (3.613 %)Web Development
121316 (3.594 %)PRINCE2
131227 (3.351 %)ERP
141217 (3.323 %)Service Delivery
151194 (3.260 %)Migration
161035 (2.826 %)Disaster Recovery
171033 (2.821 %)Change Management
18925 (2.526 %)Business Analysis
19870 (2.376 %)UML
20776 (2.119 %)Unit Testing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
110927 (29.84 %)SQL
29958 (27.19 %)C#
33813 (10.41 %)JavaScript
43001 (8.195 %)T-SQL
52459 (6.715 %)VB.NET
62197 (5.999 %)Java
71721 (4.699 %)VB
81519 (4.148 %)C++
9882 (2.408 %)C
10724 (1.977 %)PHP
11692 (1.890 %)VBA
12679 (1.854 %)PowerShell
13629 (1.718 %)Perl
14585 (1.597 %)VBScript
15451 (1.232 %)PL/SQL
16410 (1.120 %)VB6
17384 (1.049 %)Python
18314 (0.857 %)X++
19229 (0.625 %)Shell Script
20172 (0.470 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
15609 (15.32 %)Microsoft Certification
24909 (13.40 %)Degree
32369 (6.469 %)MCSE
41966 (5.369 %)MCP
51669 (4.557 %)MCITP
61441 (3.935 %)Cisco Certification
71227 (3.351 %)MCTS
8990 (2.703 %)Security Cleared
9985 (2.690 %)CCNA
10803 (2.193 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11746 (2.037 %)MCSA
12694 (1.895 %)MCSD
13661 (1.805 %)Citrix Certification
14642 (1.753 %)SC Cleared
15603 (1.647 %)MCAD
16545 (1.488 %)ISEB
17483 (1.319 %)CCA
17483 (1.319 %)CCNP
18428 (1.169 %)ITIL Certification
19300 (0.819 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11290 (3.523 %)SLA
21132 (3.091 %)QA
3296 (0.808 %)ISO/IEC 27001
4229 (0.625 %)ISO 9001
5169 (0.461 %)Data Quality
6165 (0.451 %)PCI DSS
798 (0.268 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
842 (0.115 %)WAI
941 (0.112 %)COBIT
1035 (0.096 %)HL7
1132 (0.087 %)Solvency II
1222 (0.060 %)ISO 9000
1317 (0.046 %)GAMP
1317 (0.046 %)TickIT
1416 (0.044 %)JSP 440
1515 (0.041 %)WCAG
1612 (0.033 %)ISO 14001
1612 (0.033 %)BS7799
1710 (0.027 %)BS25999
189 (0.025 %)HMG Infosec
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
16723 (18.36 %)Active Directory
23623 (9.893 %)VMware Infrastructure
31511 (4.126 %)Hyper-V
41249 (3.411 %)vSphere
51228 (3.353 %)XenApp
6926 (2.529 %)VMware ESX
7741 (2.023 %)XenDesktop
8518 (1.414 %)XenServer
9423 (1.155 %)Terminal Services
10370 (1.010 %)VMware ESXi
11242 (0.661 %)ISA Server
12209 (0.571 %)Citrix Presentation Server
13155 (0.423 %)Xen
14129 (0.352 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
15121 (0.330 %)UAG
16109 (0.298 %)MetaFrame
1799 (0.270 %)NFS
1799 (0.270 %)VMware Server
1893 (0.254 %)Terminal Server
1981 (0.221 %)Oracle RMAN
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11191 (3.252 %)SCCM
2825 (2.253 %)SCOM
3560 (1.529 %)Backup Exec
4310 (0.847 %)NetBackup
5277 (0.756 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
6211 (0.576 %)WSUS
7191 (0.522 %)SCVMM
8178 (0.486 %)vCenter
9158 (0.431 %)Norton AntiVirus
10152 (0.415 %)Tivoli
11150 (0.410 %)MOM
12137 (0.374 %)HP Quality Center
13121 (0.330 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
14102 (0.279 %)Nagios
1592 (0.251 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1592 (0.251 %)HP SIM
1682 (0.224 %)WMI
1778 (0.213 %)Data Guard
1877 (0.210 %)ARCserve
1968 (0.186 %)OpenView
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15653 (15.44 %)VMware
23813 (10.41 %)Citrix
33656 (9.983 %)Cisco
43484 (9.514 %)Oracle
52147 (5.863 %)HP
61050 (2.867 %)SAP
71023 (2.793 %)IBM
8898 (2.452 %)NetApp
9800 (2.185 %)EMC
10782 (2.135 %)Symantec
11684 (1.868 %)Business Objects
12586 (1.600 %)Dell
13539 (1.472 %)Red Hat
14425 (1.161 %)Juniper
14425 (1.161 %)Adobe
15408 (1.114 %)Cognos
16407 (1.111 %)Lotus
17377 (1.029 %)Google
18354 (0.967 %)Avaya
19350 (0.956 %)Sun