Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

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 9 February 2010 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.

LinkMicrosoft Windows
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank966
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads101201581830728
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK12.85 %15.65 %15.21 %
As % of the Operating Systems category60.16 %64.58 %61.36 %
Salaries quoted86001385926071
Average salary£35,000£34,000£34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.940 %-1.440 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,000£22,000£22,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£61,000£55,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£31,500£32,000
% change year-on-year
+3.170 %-1.560 %
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
168232449350082
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK21.36 %24.23 %24.78 %
Salaries quoted141882106341193
Average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£57,500£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£32,500

Windows
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 9 February 2010 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 9 February 2010. 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
EnglandDown-39735£35,000+2.94 %
LondonDown-54015£45,000+12.50 %
South EastDown-52053£35,000+0.43 %
City of LondonDown-51330£47,000-1.05 %
East of EnglandDown-3821£30,000-7.69 %
North WestUp+3818£30,000+7.14 %
South WestDown-3693£32,000+1.58 %
BerkshireDown-2631£35,000-
YorkshireDown-3498£27,500-1.78 %
ManchesterUp+1440£29,000+3.57 %
SurreyDown-4403£37,500+15.38 %
West MidlandsDown-4387£32,000+6.66 %
East MidlandsDown-1373£30,000-
HampshireDown-3343£35,000+1.44 %
West YorkshireNo change0313£29,000-3.33 %
CambridgeshireDown-1311£33,000-5.71 %
HertfordshireDown-3299£32,500-
CheshireUp+3249£40,000+33.33 %
ReadingNo change0233£35,250+0.71 %
CambridgeDown-2226£35,000-
BuckinghamshireDown-4216£34,500+12.74 %
ScotlandNo change0212£30,500-8.27 %
LeedsDown-1189£28,250-5.83 %
OxfordshireDown-3189£32,500-
BristolDown-3181£35,000+7.69 %
GloucestershireDown-1154£35,000+9.37 %
NottinghamshireDown-1126£30,500+1.66 %
BirminghamDown-6117£32,500+8.33 %
South YorkshireUp+1115£22,500-10.00 %
WiltshireDown-15115£31,750+5.83 %

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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.

15566 (27.70 %)Windows Server 2003
25448 (27.12 %)Microsoft
35135 (25.56 %)SQL Server
45068 (25.22 %)SQL
54679 (23.29 %)Active Directory
63996 (19.89 %)UNIX
73821 (19.02 %).NET
83797 (18.90 %)Linux
93561 (17.72 %)Finance
103430 (17.07 %)C#
113194 (15.90 %)Windows XP
122894 (14.40 %)Microsoft Certification
132829 (14.08 %)MS Exchange
142688 (13.38 %)MS Excel
152609 (12.99 %)C++
162498 (12.43 %)VMware
172389 (11.89 %)Oracle
182234 (11.12 %)TCP/IP
192168 (10.79 %)MS Office
202144 (10.67 %)Citrix
212094 (10.42 %)Degree
222093 (10.42 %)MCSE
232061 (10.26 %)Java
241991 (9.909 %)Windows Server 2008
251923 (9.571 %)Cisco
261833 (9.123 %)IIS
271756 (8.740 %)ASP.NET
281605 (7.988 %)Firewall
291596 (7.943 %)ITIL
301566 (7.794 %)SQL Server 2005

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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
13821 (19.02 %).NET
21756 (8.740 %)ASP.NET
31562 (7.774 %)XML
41090 (5.425 %)HTML
5987 (4.912 %)Web Services
6858 (4.270 %)WinForms
7700 (3.484 %)CSS
8593 (2.951 %)AJAX
9561 (2.792 %)WPF
10486 (2.419 %)ASP
11485 (2.414 %)WCF
12481 (2.394 %).NET Framework
13425 (2.115 %)J2EE
14415 (2.065 %)WebSphere
15348 (1.732 %)MFC
16338 (1.682 %)STL
17299 (1.488 %)Middleware
18271 (1.349 %)XHTML
19250 (1.244 %)XSLT
20211 (1.050 %)Silverlight
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12829 (14.08 %)MS Exchange
21833 (9.123 %)IIS
31547 (7.700 %)Exchange Server 2003
41186 (5.903 %)Exchange Server 2007
51066 (5.306 %)SharePoint
6669 (3.330 %)Apache
7421 (2.095 %)Tomcat
8361 (1.797 %)Lotus Notes
9346 (1.722 %)SharePoint Server 2007
10259 (1.289 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
11228 (1.135 %)WebLogic
12222 (1.105 %)Exchange Server 2000
13165 (0.821 %)BizTalk Server
14155 (0.771 %)CMS
15126 (0.627 %)WebSphere MQ
16109 (0.543 %)Lotus Domino
1794 (0.468 %)MQSeries
1888 (0.438 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1971 (0.353 %)SAS
2068 (0.338 %)Oracle HTTP Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12688 (13.38 %)MS Excel
22168 (10.79 %)MS Office
3218 (1.085 %)MS Visio
4127 (0.632 %)Photoshop
5125 (0.622 %)MS PowerPoint
685 (0.423 %)InfoPath
782 (0.408 %)MS Project
835 (0.174 %)Adobe Illustrator
929 (0.144 %)Acrobat
1024 (0.119 %)Fireworks
1118 (0.090 %)MATLAB
1217 (0.085 %)QuarkXPress
1316 (0.080 %)Spreadsheet
1414 (0.070 %)AutoCAD
158 (0.040 %)Quicktime
167 (0.035 %)DeltaView
167 (0.035 %)ImageReady
175 (0.025 %)SPSS
175 (0.025 %)NASTRAN
175 (0.025 %)MicroStation
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
197 (0.483 %)RMDS
276 (0.378 %)Dynamics CRM
356 (0.279 %)Microsoft CRM
443 (0.214 %)Oracle Applications
540 (0.199 %)SoftGrid
638 (0.189 %)Navision
732 (0.159 %)Oracle EBS
831 (0.154 %)Oracle 11i
922 (0.109 %)assyst
1021 (0.105 %)ION MarketView
1120 (0.100 %)Great Plains
1218 (0.090 %)Oracle EBS R12
1218 (0.090 %)Front Arena
1317 (0.085 %)Endur
1415 (0.075 %)Summit
1514 (0.070 %)Dynamics AX
1612 (0.060 %)Dynamics GP
1612 (0.060 %)BusinessWorks
1711 (0.055 %)Movex
1711 (0.055 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12234 (11.12 %)TCP/IP
21605 (7.988 %)Firewall
31353 (6.734 %)DNS
41324 (6.590 %)LAN
51254 (6.241 %)WAN
61253 (6.236 %)SAN
71096 (5.455 %)Internet
8918 (4.569 %)VPN
9727 (3.618 %)DHCP
10476 (2.369 %)VoIP
11265 (1.319 %)Intranet
12251 (1.249 %)NAS
13241 (1.199 %)Wireless
14237 (1.180 %)Network Security
15227 (1.130 %)HTTP
16208 (1.035 %)SMTP
17189 (0.941 %)FTP
18177 (0.881 %)SSL
19168 (0.836 %)LDAP
20138 (0.687 %)Cisco ASA
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15135 (25.56 %)SQL Server
21566 (7.794 %)SQL Server 2005
3811 (4.036 %)SQL Server 2000
4687 (3.419 %)MySQL
5616 (3.066 %)SQL Server 2008
6392 (1.951 %)RDBMS
7310 (1.543 %)Oracle 10g
8235 (1.170 %)SQL Server Integration Services
9220 (1.095 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
10219 (1.090 %)Crystal Reports
10219 (1.090 %)Oracle 8/8i
11207 (1.030 %)Datawarehouse
12192 (0.956 %)DB2
13172 (0.856 %)ETL
14160 (0.796 %)DTS
15134 (0.667 %)Oracle 9i
16133 (0.662 %)Oracle 11g
17117 (0.582 %)Oracle Reports
18114 (0.567 %)OLAP
19107 (0.533 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1546 (2.717 %)Visual Studio
2195 (0.971 %)Subversion
3110 (0.547 %)NUnit
4106 (0.528 %)VSS/SourceSafe
5104 (0.518 %)Ant
696 (0.478 %)ClearCase
779 (0.393 %)Team Foundation Server
871 (0.353 %)InstallShield
970 (0.348 %)JUnit
1066 (0.328 %)QuickTest Pro
1165 (0.324 %)Oracle Forms
1262 (0.309 %)StarTeam
1352 (0.259 %)Dreamweaver
1451 (0.254 %)Maven
1550 (0.249 %)TestDirector
1647 (0.234 %)Eclipse
1745 (0.224 %)LoadRunner
1841 (0.204 %)WinRunner
1935 (0.174 %)ClearQuest
2033 (0.164 %)Visual Studio Team System
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13561 (17.72 %)Finance
21514 (7.535 %)Banking
3828 (4.121 %)Front Office
4714 (3.554 %)Investment Banking
5677 (3.370 %)Pensions
6627 (3.121 %)Education
7594 (2.956 %)Telecoms
8543 (2.703 %)Health
9366 (1.822 %)Insurance
10342 (1.702 %)Retail
11311 (1.548 %)Marketing
12303 (1.508 %)Back Office
13276 (1.374 %)Government
14237 (1.180 %)Financial Institution
15188 (0.936 %)Law
16168 (0.836 %)Games
17151 (0.752 %)Legal
18132 (0.657 %)Manufacturing
19124 (0.617 %)Publishing
20117 (0.582 %)Electronics
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14182 (20.81 %)Developer
23519 (17.51 %)Analyst
32058 (10.24 %)Support Analyst
41683 (8.376 %)Support Engineer
51308 (6.510 %)Administrator
61208 (6.012 %)Consultant
7998 (4.967 %).NET Developer
8944 (4.698 %)C# Developer
9885 (4.405 %)IT Support
10836 (4.161 %)Architect
11825 (4.106 %)Systems Administrator
12771 (3.837 %)Technical Support
13728 (3.623 %)Applications Support
14716 (3.564 %)C++ Developer
15710 (3.534 %)Senior Developer
16694 (3.454 %)Software Engineer
17643 (3.200 %)Team Leader
18592 (2.946 %)Desktop Support
19574 (2.857 %)Systems Engineer
20553 (2.752 %)2nd Line Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1817 (4.066 %)Blackberry
2662 (3.295 %)Computer Science
3657 (3.270 %)Client/Server
4553 (2.752 %)Derivative
5527 (2.623 %)Clustering
6394 (1.961 %)Multithreading
7384 (1.911 %)Fixed Income
8326 (1.623 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
9292 (1.453 %)Replication
10239 (1.190 %)Equities
11238 (1.185 %)German Language
12199 (0.990 %)Mathematics
13186 (0.926 %)Management Information System
14185 (0.921 %)French Language
15172 (0.856 %)N-Tier
16153 (0.761 %)Fat Client
16153 (0.761 %)Thin Client
17149 (0.742 %)Open Source
18138 (0.687 %)iPhone
19133 (0.662 %)Equity Derivative
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15566 (27.70 %)Windows Server 2003
23996 (19.89 %)UNIX
33797 (18.90 %)Linux
43194 (15.90 %)Windows XP
51991 (9.909 %)Windows Server 2008
61550 (7.715 %)Windows 2000
71312 (6.530 %)Windows Vista
81034 (5.146 %)Solaris
9975 (4.853 %)Windows 2000 Server
10478 (2.379 %)Red Hat Linux
11380 (1.891 %)Windows NT
12327 (1.628 %)AIX
13308 (1.533 %)Windows 7
14298 (1.483 %)Windows Mobile
15241 (1.199 %)HPUX
16180 (0.896 %)Mac OS X
17161 (0.801 %)Windows CE
18139 (0.692 %)Android
19103 (0.513 %)Debian
2093 (0.463 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11596 (7.943 %)ITIL
2998 (4.967 %)OO
3786 (3.912 %)Project Management
4481 (2.394 %)Agile Software Development
5478 (2.379 %)Web Development
6476 (2.369 %)Disaster Recovery
7447 (2.225 %)Migration
8446 (2.220 %)E-Commerce
9390 (1.941 %)Service Delivery
10384 (1.911 %)CRM
11351 (1.747 %)Workflow
12337 (1.677 %)UML
13300 (1.493 %)Electronic Trading
14295 (1.468 %)Configuration Management
15277 (1.379 %)Change Management
16270 (1.344 %)Unit Testing
17264 (1.314 %)SOA
18235 (1.170 %)Software Engineering
19227 (1.130 %)Scrum
20224 (1.115 %)User Acceptance Testing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15068 (25.22 %)SQL
23430 (17.07 %)C#
32609 (12.99 %)C++
42061 (10.26 %)Java
51421 (7.072 %)C
61046 (5.206 %)JavaScript
71023 (5.092 %)VB
8999 (4.972 %)VB.NET
9742 (3.693 %)Perl
10627 (3.121 %)T-SQL
11513 (2.553 %)PHP
12492 (2.449 %)VBScript
13309 (1.538 %)PL/SQL
14291 (1.448 %)Shell Script
15290 (1.443 %)Python
16256 (1.274 %)VBA
17253 (1.259 %)VB6
18242 (1.204 %)VC++
19148 (0.737 %)Bash shell
20114 (0.567 %)PowerShell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12894 (14.40 %)Microsoft Certification
22094 (10.42 %)Degree
32093 (10.42 %)MCSE
4957 (4.763 %)MCP
5790 (3.932 %)Cisco Certification
6766 (3.812 %)Security Cleared
7711 (3.539 %)CCNA
8540 (2.688 %)MCSA
9390 (1.941 %)SC Cleared
10334 (1.662 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11317 (1.578 %)MCTS
12280 (1.394 %)MCITP
13248 (1.234 %)Citrix Certification
14182 (0.906 %)MCSD
15172 (0.856 %)CCA
16170 (0.846 %)ITIL Certification
17169 (0.841 %)MCAD
18166 (0.826 %)ISEB
19154 (0.766 %)CCNP
20116 (0.577 %)CCEA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1676 (3.365 %)SLA
2547 (2.722 %)QA
382 (0.408 %)ISO27001
456 (0.279 %)PCI DSS
543 (0.214 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
626 (0.129 %)ISO9001
722 (0.109 %)JTAG
819 (0.095 %)COBIT
915 (0.075 %)BS7799
108 (0.040 %)HL7
116 (0.030 %)ISO/IEC 20000
116 (0.030 %)ISO9000
125 (0.025 %)ISO17799
134 (0.020 %)WCAG
134 (0.020 %)DICOM
134 (0.020 %)TickIT
143 (0.015 %)BS15000
143 (0.015 %)WAI
152 (0.010 %)GxP
161 (0.005 %)RosettaNet
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14679 (23.29 %)Active Directory
21278 (6.361 %)VMware Infrastructure
3540 (2.688 %)VMware ESX
4323 (1.608 %)Hyper-V
5318 (1.583 %)Citrix Presentation Server
6261 (1.299 %)Backup Exec
7245 (1.219 %)ISA Server
8223 (1.110 %)XenApp
9222 (1.105 %)Terminal Services
10184 (0.916 %)NetBackup
11163 (0.811 %)XenServer
12129 (0.642 %)MetaFrame
13119 (0.592 %)vSphere
14112 (0.557 %)MSMQ
15106 (0.528 %)Oracle RMAN
16100 (0.498 %)Oracle RAC
1797 (0.483 %)NFS
1896 (0.478 %)Xen
1989 (0.443 %)Terminal Server
2071 (0.353 %)XenDesktop
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1363 (1.807 %)SCCM
2230 (1.145 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
3192 (0.956 %)SCOM
4168 (0.836 %)MSI
5134 (0.667 %)MOM
5134 (0.667 %)Norton AntiVirus
6118 (0.587 %)OpenView
7114 (0.567 %)WSUS
8106 (0.528 %)Tivoli
981 (0.403 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1078 (0.388 %)Data Guard
1149 (0.244 %)Nagios
1245 (0.224 %)CONTROL-M
1337 (0.184 %)Legato
1337 (0.184 %)EMC NetWorker
1436 (0.179 %)HP Quality Center
1530 (0.149 %)DameWare
1626 (0.129 %)McAfee ePO
1723 (0.114 %)AutoSys
1723 (0.114 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15448 (27.12 %)Microsoft
22498 (12.43 %)VMware
32389 (11.89 %)Oracle
42144 (10.67 %)Citrix
51923 (9.571 %)Cisco
61258 (6.261 %)HP
7500 (2.489 %)IBM
8464 (2.309 %)Red Hat
9418 (2.080 %)Sybase
10417 (2.075 %)Lotus
11359 (1.787 %)Symantec
12320 (1.593 %)Reuters
13294 (1.463 %)Sun
14273 (1.359 %)Bloomberg
15269 (1.339 %)EMC
16267 (1.329 %)Veritas
17240 (1.195 %)Altiris
18235 (1.170 %)Adobe
19231 (1.150 %)JBoss
20223 (1.110 %)Remedy