The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows 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 of the Operating Systems category.

Microsoft Windows
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank799
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads191281800613585
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK15.86 %14.68 %14.23 %
As % of the Operating Systems category59.37 %58.98 %58.26 %
Number of salaries quoted165791530111495
Average salary£38,500£38,000£37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.31 %+2.70 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,500£23,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£62,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£32,875
% change year-on-year
-+6.46 %
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
322193052723318
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK26.72 %24.90 %24.42 %
Number of salaries quoted276442574319496
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£24,500£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Windows
Demand Trend

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

Windows Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Salary Histogram

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

Windows Salary Histogram

Windows
Top 30 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 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+218013£40,000+5.26 %
LondonUp+47644£45,000-5.26 %
South EastNo change04396£37,500+0.27 %
City of LondonUp+41734£45,000-10.00 %
East of EnglandNo change01661£37,500-
North WestNo change01306£35,000+7.69 %
SurreyNo change01188£42,500+6.25 %
BerkshireDown-11139£37,500-3.84 %
South WestDown-1841£35,000+6.06 %
YorkshireNo change0790£33,500+8.06 %
HampshireUp+3732£36,000+3.04 %
West MidlandsDown-2709£32,500-5.79 %
ManchesterNo change0590£32,500+4.83 %
CambridgeshireUp+3585£37,500+4.16 %
ScotlandUp+2565£34,000-2.85 %
East MidlandsUp+3537£33,500+3.07 %
West YorkshireDown-2491£34,000+7.93 %
HertfordshireDown-1464£40,000-
CheshireUp+1450£35,000-
CambridgeUp+2449£37,500+2.73 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2417£35,000-4.10 %
ReadingDown-3401£37,500-
LeedsDown-1340£35,000+11.11 %
EssexUp+3287£37,500+0.67 %
GloucestershireDown-3244£40,000+14.28 %
OxfordshireUp+2230£35,000-1.40 %
BristolDown-5230£32,000-3.03 %
BirminghamDown-2224£35,000-6.66 %
MerseysideUp+7219£37,500+7.14 %
West SussexUp+1215£35,000+7.69 %

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

113922 (37.22 %)Microsoft
210444 (27.92 %)SQL Server
310418 (27.85 %)SQL
410180 (27.22 %)Active Directory
59521 (25.46 %)Windows Server 2008
68998 (24.06 %)Linux
78541 (22.84 %)Windows Server 2003
88361 (22.36 %)VMware
97398 (19.78 %).NET
106993 (18.70 %)MS Excel
116933 (18.54 %)C#
126538 (17.48 %)Finance
136126 (16.38 %)MS Exchange
146102 (16.32 %)UNIX
155406 (14.45 %)Degree
165220 (13.96 %)Citrix
175190 (13.88 %)Microsoft Certification
185029 (13.45 %)VMware Infrastructure
194971 (13.29 %)Windows XP
204783 (12.79 %)Cisco
214632 (12.38 %)ITIL
224519 (12.08 %)Oracle
234421 (11.82 %)MS Office
244402 (11.77 %)TCP/IP
254036 (10.79 %)Java
264018 (10.74 %)C++
273991 (10.67 %)Windows 7
283988 (10.66 %)SAN
293739 (9.997 %)Firewall
303648 (9.754 %)IIS

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
17398 (19.78 %).NET
23475 (9.291 %)ASP.NET
33247 (8.682 %)XML
42500 (6.684 %)HTML
52436 (6.513 %)Web Services
62330 (6.230 %)CSS
71803 (4.821 %)WinForms
81778 (4.754 %)WPF
91577 (4.216 %)WCF
101394 (3.727 %).NET Framework
111253 (3.350 %)Ajax
121251 (3.345 %)jQuery
13892 (2.385 %)J2EE
14793 (2.120 %)ASP.NET MVC
15771 (2.061 %)WebSphere
16745 (1.992 %)XSLT
17645 (1.725 %)Middleware
18624 (1.668 %)ASP
19603 (1.612 %)Silverlight
20572 (1.529 %)LINQ
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
16126 (16.38 %)MS Exchange
23648 (9.754 %)IIS
32840 (7.593 %)SharePoint
42769 (7.404 %)Exchange Server 2010
52614 (6.989 %)Exchange Server 2007
62033 (5.436 %)Exchange Server 2003
71816 (4.855 %)Apache
81045 (2.794 %)Tomcat
9803 (2.147 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
10628 (1.679 %)WebLogic
11595 (1.591 %)SharePoint 2010
12445 (1.190 %)SharePoint Server
13442 (1.182 %)CMS
14439 (1.174 %)Lotus Notes
15386 (1.032 %)Lync
16291 (0.778 %)BizTalk Server
17249 (0.666 %)WebSphere Application Server
18224 (0.599 %)Office Communications Server
19208 (0.556 %)WebSphere MQ
20138 (0.369 %)GlassFish
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16993 (18.70 %)MS Excel
24421 (11.82 %)MS Office
3675 (1.805 %)MS Visio
4382 (1.021 %)MS PowerPoint
5222 (0.594 %)Photoshop
6134 (0.358 %)MS Project
7126 (0.337 %)Office 365
8114 (0.305 %)Google Apps
9112 (0.299 %)MATLAB
1093 (0.249 %)InfoPath
1155 (0.147 %)Spreadsheet
1248 (0.128 %)Adobe Illustrator
1339 (0.104 %)Acrobat
1427 (0.072 %)Fireworks
1522 (0.059 %)DOC1
1621 (0.056 %)AutoCAD
1720 (0.053 %)Adobe Captivate
1815 (0.040 %)DeltaView
1912 (0.032 %)Windchill
1912 (0.032 %)PrintSoft PReS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1225 (0.602 %)Dynamics CRM
269 (0.184 %)RMDS
359 (0.158 %)Dynamics NAV
458 (0.155 %)Oracle Applications
551 (0.136 %)Dynamics AX
646 (0.123 %)Summit
745 (0.120 %)SoftGrid
836 (0.096 %)Google Analytics
836 (0.096 %)Oracle EBS R12
935 (0.094 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1033 (0.088 %)Oracle 11i
1130 (0.080 %)SAP ERP
1228 (0.075 %)Oracle EBS
1325 (0.067 %)Agresso
1325 (0.067 %)Line 500
1424 (0.064 %)BASE24
1522 (0.059 %)Oracle ERP
1621 (0.056 %)3000 Xtra
1718 (0.048 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
1718 (0.048 %)HFM
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14402 (11.77 %)TCP/IP
23988 (10.66 %)SAN
33739 (9.997 %)Firewall
43411 (9.120 %)DNS
52533 (6.773 %)LAN
62421 (6.473 %)WAN
72178 (5.823 %)DHCP
82149 (5.746 %)Internet
91978 (5.289 %)VPN
101020 (2.727 %)VoIP
11902 (2.412 %)NAS
12841 (2.249 %)HTTP
13691 (1.848 %)Wireless
14591 (1.580 %)Network Security
15538 (1.438 %)VLAN
16506 (1.353 %)SSL
17492 (1.315 %)iSCSI
18410 (1.096 %)Cisco ASA
19397 (1.061 %)LDAP
20394 (1.053 %)MPLS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
110444 (27.92 %)SQL Server
23076 (8.224 %)SQL Server 2008
32380 (6.363 %)SQL Server 2005
41689 (4.516 %)MySQL
5849 (2.270 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6759 (2.029 %)SQL Server Integration Services
7708 (1.893 %)SQL Server 2000
8677 (1.810 %)Oracle 8/8i
9670 (1.791 %)RDBMS
10514 (1.374 %)Data Warehouse
11478 (1.278 %)DB2
12460 (1.230 %)Oracle 11g
13420 (1.123 %)Oracle 10g
14330 (0.882 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
15323 (0.864 %)Crystal Reports
16314 (0.840 %)ETL
17233 (0.623 %)DTS
18193 (0.516 %)OLAP
19166 (0.444 %)PostgreSQL
20160 (0.428 %)Oracle Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11730 (4.626 %)Visual Studio
21123 (3.003 %)Subversion
3850 (2.273 %)NUnit
4614 (1.642 %)Team Foundation Server
5509 (1.361 %)Rhino Mocks
6430 (1.150 %)Eclipse
7374 (1.000 %)Ant
8361 (0.965 %)VSS/SourceSafe
9346 (0.925 %)Git (software)
10321 (0.858 %)Selenium
11317 (0.848 %)Maven
12315 (0.842 %)MSI
13293 (0.783 %)Moq
14250 (0.668 %)ClearCase
15246 (0.658 %)QuickTest Pro
16244 (0.652 %)JIRA
17209 (0.559 %)JUnit
18197 (0.527 %)Bugzilla
19188 (0.503 %)CruiseControl
20155 (0.414 %)LoadRunner
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16538 (17.48 %)Finance
21789 (4.783 %)Banking
31662 (4.444 %)Telecoms
41061 (2.837 %)Retail
5679 (1.815 %)Law
6672 (1.797 %)Legal
7652 (1.743 %)Games
8631 (1.687 %)Marketing
9593 (1.586 %)Back Office
10589 (1.575 %)Investment Banking
11573 (1.532 %)Front Office
12342 (0.914 %)Manufacturing
13336 (0.898 %)German Language
14316 (0.845 %)Advertising
15292 (0.781 %)Electronics
16266 (0.711 %)Financial Institution
17265 (0.709 %)French Language
18261 (0.698 %)Publishing
19184 (0.492 %)Music
20142 (0.380 %)Italian Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17633 (20.41 %)Developer
26459 (17.27 %)Analyst
33444 (9.208 %)Support Analyst
43031 (8.104 %)Support Engineer
52685 (7.179 %)Administrator
62445 (6.537 %).NET Developer
72319 (6.200 %)Consultant
81886 (5.043 %)C# Developer
91710 (4.572 %)Software Engineer
101679 (4.489 %)Systems Administrator
111376 (3.679 %)Technical Support
121359 (3.634 %)Architect
131317 (3.521 %)IT Support
141275 (3.409 %)Applications Support
151207 (3.227 %)Software Developer
161204 (3.219 %)C# .NET Developer
171156 (3.091 %)Senior Developer
181123 (3.003 %)Infrastructure Engineer
191106 (2.957 %)2nd Line Support
201055 (2.821 %)3rd Line Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12108 (5.636 %)Blackberry
22019 (5.398 %)Computer Science
31421 (3.799 %)Clustering
4737 (1.971 %)Management Information System
5728 (1.946 %)Replication
6702 (1.877 %)Mathematics
7622 (1.663 %)Client/Server
8621 (1.660 %)Hedge funds
9614 (1.642 %)iPhone
10597 (1.596 %)Open Source
11385 (1.029 %)SaaS
12372 (0.995 %)Derivative
13340 (0.909 %)N-Tier
14321 (0.858 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
15312 (0.834 %)iPad
16309 (0.826 %)Physics
17303 (0.810 %)Cloud Computing
18270 (0.722 %)Fat Client
18270 (0.722 %)Thin Client
19258 (0.690 %)Embedded Systems
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19521 (25.46 %)Windows Server 2008
28998 (24.06 %)Linux
38541 (22.84 %)Windows Server 2003
46102 (16.32 %)UNIX
54971 (13.29 %)Windows XP
63991 (10.67 %)Windows 7
71731 (4.628 %)Windows Vista
81533 (4.099 %)Solaris
91222 (3.267 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10967 (2.585 %)Android
11926 (2.476 %)Windows 2000
12842 (2.251 %)Windows 2000 Server
13660 (1.765 %)AIX
14605 (1.618 %)Windows Mobile
15599 (1.602 %)Apple iOS
16492 (1.315 %)Mac OS X
17329 (0.880 %)Debian
18308 (0.824 %)CentOS
19290 (0.775 %)Ubuntu
20270 (0.722 %)Windows NT
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14632 (12.38 %)ITIL
22355 (6.297 %)OO
31910 (5.107 %)Agile Software Development
41876 (5.016 %)Project Management
51549 (4.142 %)TDD
61487 (3.976 %)Scrum
71341 (3.585 %)Disaster Recovery
81297 (3.468 %)Service Delivery
91275 (3.409 %)MVC
101247 (3.334 %)E-Commerce
111004 (2.684 %)Migration
12912 (2.438 %)Web Development
13895 (2.393 %)Change Management
14860 (2.299 %)Business Intelligence
15851 (2.275 %)Multithreading
16850 (2.273 %)Service Management
17822 (2.198 %)CRM
18820 (2.192 %)UML
19798 (2.134 %)Software Engineering
20769 (2.056 %)Configuration Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
110418 (27.85 %)SQL
26933 (18.54 %)C#
34036 (10.79 %)Java
44018 (10.74 %)C++
53184 (8.513 %)JavaScript
61962 (5.246 %)C
71937 (5.179 %)Perl
81551 (4.147 %)T-SQL
91484 (3.968 %)VB.NET
101436 (3.839 %)VB
111337 (3.575 %)Python
121098 (2.936 %)PowerShell
131040 (2.781 %)PHP
14869 (2.323 %)Shell Script
15770 (2.059 %)VBScript
16574 (1.535 %)Bash shell
17523 (1.398 %)PL/SQL
18382 (1.021 %)VC++
19364 (0.973 %)VBA
20362 (0.968 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
15406 (14.45 %)Degree
25190 (13.88 %)Microsoft Certification
33107 (8.307 %)MCSE
41990 (5.321 %)MCITP
51963 (5.249 %)MCP
61750 (4.679 %)Cisco Certification
71496 (4.000 %)Security Cleared
81430 (3.823 %)CCNA
91068 (2.856 %)MCTS
101031 (2.757 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11960 (2.567 %)MCSA
12903 (2.414 %)SC Cleared
13682 (1.823 %)Citrix Certification
14601 (1.607 %)MCSD
15578 (1.545 %)MCAD
16570 (1.524 %)CCA
17500 (1.337 %)ISEB
18478 (1.278 %)ITIL Certification
19468 (1.251 %)CCNP
20357 (0.955 %)CISSP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11466 (3.920 %)SLA
21338 (3.577 %)QA
3332 (0.888 %)ISO/IEC 27001
4232 (0.620 %)PCI DSS
5195 (0.521 %)ISO 9001
6136 (0.364 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
750 (0.134 %)DO-178B
839 (0.104 %)COBIT
934 (0.091 %)BS7799
1026 (0.070 %)HL7
1125 (0.067 %)ISO 9000
1224 (0.064 %)TickIT
1224 (0.064 %)ISO/IEC 17799
1316 (0.043 %)ISO 8583
1316 (0.043 %)WAI
1413 (0.035 %)HIPAA
1512 (0.032 %)HMG Infosec
1610 (0.027 %)JSP 440
179 (0.024 %)WCAG
188 (0.021 %)JTAG
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
110180 (27.22 %)Active Directory
25029 (13.45 %)VMware Infrastructure
31923 (5.142 %)Hyper-V
41821 (4.869 %)vSphere
51567 (4.190 %)XenApp
61524 (4.075 %)VMware ESX
7866 (2.315 %)XenDesktop
8606 (1.620 %)XenServer
9580 (1.551 %)VMware ESXi
10547 (1.463 %)Terminal Services
11344 (0.920 %)Citrix Presentation Server
12317 (0.848 %)Xen
13297 (0.794 %)ISA Server
14281 (0.751 %)NFS
15168 (0.449 %)Oracle RAC
16157 (0.420 %)Terminal Server
17144 (0.385 %)MetaFrame
18138 (0.369 %)Oracle RMAN
18138 (0.369 %)VMware Server
19137 (0.366 %)UAG
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11489 (3.981 %)SCCM
2834 (2.230 %)SCOM
3791 (2.115 %)Backup Exec
4588 (1.572 %)NetBackup
5352 (0.941 %)WSUS
6290 (0.775 %)Nagios
7281 (0.751 %)vCenter
8259 (0.692 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
9257 (0.687 %)Tivoli
10221 (0.591 %)HP Quality Center
11216 (0.578 %)Norton AntiVirus
12179 (0.479 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
13151 (0.404 %)SCVMM
14150 (0.401 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
15138 (0.369 %)Puppet
16137 (0.366 %)MOM
17135 (0.361 %)Data Guard
18111 (0.297 %)ARCserve
19108 (0.289 %)WMI
20102 (0.273 %)McAfee ePO
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
113922 (37.22 %)Microsoft
28361 (22.36 %)VMware
35220 (13.96 %)Citrix
44783 (12.79 %)Cisco
54519 (12.08 %)Oracle
62800 (7.486 %)HP
71557 (4.163 %)Red Hat
81181 (3.158 %)IBM
91151 (3.077 %)Symantec
101078 (2.882 %)EMC
111077 (2.880 %)NetApp
12846 (2.262 %)Dell
13680 (1.818 %)JBoss
14652 (1.743 %)Juniper
15640 (1.711 %)CheckPoint
16572 (1.529 %)Sun
17541 (1.446 %)SAP
18474 (1.267 %)Apple
19468 (1.251 %)Lotus
20456 (1.219 %)Veritas