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 19 March 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
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank966
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads110731325531087
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK12.89 %15.63 %15.23 %
As % of the Operating Systems category59.40 %63.70 %61.63 %
Salaries quoted94101142426650
Average salary£35,000£34,216£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.290 %-2.240 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£22,000£22,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£55,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,000£31,500
% change year-on-year
+1.560 %+1.580 %
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
186402080750438
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK21.70 %24.53 %24.71 %
Salaries quoted156871754841822
Average salary£38,000£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.570 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,000£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£33,500£32,500£32,500
% change year-on-year
+3.070 %-

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 19 March 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 19 March 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-410642£35,500+2.89 %
LondonDown-54633£45,000+12.50 %
South EastDown-72132£35,000-
City of LondonDown-61434£45,000-
East of EnglandDown-1947£32,500-
North WestUp+1822£30,000+3.44 %
South WestDown-1719£34,000+7.93 %
BerkshireDown-5547£36,250+0.69 %
YorkshireDown-2520£29,250+17.00 %
SurreyDown-3463£37,500+7.14 %
ManchesterUp+1434£26,500-5.35 %
East MidlandsUp+1388£28,500-5.00 %
CambridgeshireUp+1386£32,500-
West MidlandsDown-3370£31,500+5.00 %
West YorkshireDown-1334£30,000+9.09 %
HampshireDown-3330£35,000-
HertfordshireDown-4329£35,000+7.69 %
CambridgeUp+2275£33,000+1.53 %
OxfordshireDown-4244£32,500+12.06 %
CheshireUp+2236£37,500+7.14 %
ReadingDown-1198£37,500+4.89 %
BristolDown-3198£35,000+6.06 %
LeedsDown-2193£30,000+7.14 %
ScotlandDown-4191£30,250-8.33 %
BuckinghamshireDown-8176£32,500+10.16 %
GloucestershireDown-1159£35,000+12.90 %
KentUp+3135£34,000+23.63 %
WiltshireDown-12131£30,000-9.09 %
NottinghamshireDown-1121£30,750+8.84 %
GloucesterUp+7111£37,500-

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 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.

15803 (27.49 %)Microsoft
25739 (27.19 %)Windows Server 2003
35550 (26.30 %)SQL Server
45306 (25.14 %)SQL
55037 (23.87 %)Active Directory
64260 (20.18 %)UNIX
74041 (19.15 %).NET
84029 (19.09 %)Linux
93750 (17.77 %)Finance
103623 (17.17 %)C#
113268 (15.48 %)Windows XP
122972 (14.08 %)MS Exchange
132875 (13.62 %)MS Excel
142867 (13.58 %)Microsoft Certification
152814 (13.33 %)C++
162677 (12.68 %)VMware
172376 (11.26 %)Oracle
182374 (11.25 %)Windows Server 2008
192329 (11.03 %)Degree
202314 (10.96 %)TCP/IP
212291 (10.85 %)MS Office
222241 (10.62 %)Citrix
232205 (10.45 %)Java
242033 (9.632 %)MCSE
251958 (9.277 %)IIS
261946 (9.220 %)Cisco
271811 (8.580 %)ASP.NET
281770 (8.386 %)Firewall
291748 (8.282 %)Banking
301697 (8.040 %)XML

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 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
14041 (19.15 %).NET
21811 (8.580 %)ASP.NET
31697 (8.040 %)XML
41162 (5.506 %)HTML
51059 (5.018 %)Web Services
6918 (4.349 %)WinForms
7771 (3.653 %)CSS
8623 (2.952 %)AJAX
8623 (2.952 %)WPF
9609 (2.885 %)WCF
10498 (2.360 %).NET Framework
11487 (2.307 %)ASP
12425 (2.014 %)J2EE
13417 (1.976 %)WebSphere
14385 (1.824 %)STL
15329 (1.559 %)MFC
16312 (1.478 %)Middleware
17296 (1.402 %)XSLT
18292 (1.383 %)Silverlight
19281 (1.331 %)XHTML
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12972 (14.08 %)MS Exchange
21958 (9.277 %)IIS
31626 (7.704 %)Exchange Server 2003
41299 (6.155 %)Exchange Server 2007
51207 (5.719 %)SharePoint
6683 (3.236 %)Apache
7441 (2.089 %)Tomcat
8384 (1.819 %)SharePoint Server 2007
9318 (1.507 %)Lotus Notes
10266 (1.260 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
11229 (1.085 %)WebLogic
12223 (1.057 %)Exchange Server 2000
13165 (0.782 %)BizTalk Server
14164 (0.777 %)CMS
15120 (0.569 %)WebSphere MQ
16109 (0.516 %)Lotus Domino
1786 (0.407 %)MQSeries
1876 (0.360 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1969 (0.327 %)SAS
1969 (0.327 %)Oracle HTTP Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12875 (13.62 %)MS Excel
22291 (10.85 %)MS Office
3251 (1.189 %)MS Visio
4128 (0.606 %)Photoshop
5126 (0.597 %)MS PowerPoint
6104 (0.493 %)InfoPath
799 (0.469 %)MS Project
833 (0.156 %)Adobe Illustrator
930 (0.142 %)Spreadsheet
1029 (0.137 %)Fireworks
1122 (0.104 %)Acrobat
1221 (0.099 %)MATLAB
1317 (0.081 %)AutoCAD
1413 (0.062 %)QuarkXPress
158 (0.038 %)Quicktime
158 (0.038 %)SPSS
167 (0.033 %)ImageReady
175 (0.024 %)DeltaView
175 (0.024 %)MicroStation
175 (0.024 %)ProjectWise
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
190 (0.426 %)Dynamics CRM
286 (0.407 %)RMDS
380 (0.379 %)Microsoft CRM
449 (0.232 %)SoftGrid
535 (0.166 %)Oracle Applications
632 (0.152 %)Oracle EBS
729 (0.137 %)Oracle 11i
826 (0.123 %)Dynamics AX
922 (0.104 %)Great Plains
1020 (0.095 %)Oracle EBS R12
1119 (0.090 %)Navision
1216 (0.076 %)assyst
1314 (0.066 %)SAP Business One
1412 (0.057 %)ION MarketView
1412 (0.057 %)Summit
1412 (0.057 %)BusinessWorks
1511 (0.052 %)Movex
1610 (0.047 %)Oracle Financials
1610 (0.047 %)Front Arena
1610 (0.047 %)Dynamics GP
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12314 (10.96 %)TCP/IP
21770 (8.386 %)Firewall
31383 (6.553 %)SAN
41372 (6.501 %)DNS
51323 (6.268 %)LAN
61220 (5.780 %)WAN
71199 (5.681 %)Internet
8951 (4.506 %)VPN
9769 (3.644 %)DHCP
10492 (2.331 %)VoIP
11288 (1.365 %)Intranet
11288 (1.365 %)NAS
12272 (1.289 %)Network Security
13238 (1.128 %)Wireless
14223 (1.057 %)HTTP
15220 (1.042 %)SMTP
16197 (0.933 %)LDAP
17189 (0.895 %)SSL
18177 (0.839 %)FTP
19161 (0.763 %)VLAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15550 (26.30 %)SQL Server
21670 (7.912 %)SQL Server 2005
3815 (3.861 %)SQL Server 2000
4761 (3.606 %)SQL Server 2008
5725 (3.435 %)MySQL
6387 (1.834 %)RDBMS
7298 (1.412 %)Oracle 10g
8266 (1.260 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
9259 (1.227 %)SQL Server Integration Services
10222 (1.052 %)Crystal Reports
11206 (0.976 %)Datawarehouse
12200 (0.948 %)Oracle 8/8i
13180 (0.853 %)ETL
14178 (0.843 %)DB2
15156 (0.739 %)DTS
16146 (0.692 %)Oracle 9i
17124 (0.588 %)Oracle 11g
18117 (0.554 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
19106 (0.502 %)OLAP
20104 (0.493 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1554 (2.625 %)Visual Studio
2205 (0.971 %)Subversion
3148 (0.701 %)NUnit
4143 (0.678 %)ClearCase
5111 (0.526 %)VSS/SourceSafe
691 (0.431 %)Ant
786 (0.407 %)Team Foundation Server
877 (0.365 %)InstallShield
974 (0.351 %)JUnit
1061 (0.289 %)Oracle Forms
1160 (0.284 %)QuickTest Pro
1257 (0.270 %)Eclipse
1257 (0.270 %)Dreamweaver
1257 (0.270 %)Maven
1351 (0.242 %)StarTeam
1438 (0.180 %)ClearQuest
1536 (0.171 %)TestDirector
1635 (0.166 %)Visual Studio Team System
1731 (0.147 %)JIRA
1828 (0.133 %)CruiseControl
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13750 (17.77 %)Finance
21748 (8.282 %)Banking
3890 (4.217 %)Front Office
4788 (3.734 %)Investment Banking
5715 (3.388 %)Pensions
6651 (3.084 %)Education
7611 (2.895 %)Telecoms
8552 (2.615 %)Health
9394 (1.867 %)Insurance
10354 (1.677 %)Back Office
11315 (1.492 %)Marketing
12302 (1.431 %)Retail
13254 (1.203 %)Government
14247 (1.170 %)Financial Institution
15246 (1.166 %)Law
16204 (0.967 %)Legal
17182 (0.862 %)Games
18150 (0.711 %)Publishing
19128 (0.606 %)Manufacturing
20115 (0.545 %)Electronics
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14480 (21.23 %)Developer
23751 (17.77 %)Analyst
32185 (10.35 %)Support Analyst
41659 (7.860 %)Support Engineer
51365 (6.467 %)Administrator
61281 (6.069 %)Consultant
71025 (4.856 %)C# Developer
81009 (4.781 %).NET Developer
9935 (4.430 %)IT Support
10886 (4.198 %)Architect
11862 (4.084 %)Systems Administrator
12853 (4.042 %)C++ Developer
13809 (3.833 %)Technical Support
14761 (3.606 %)Applications Support
15746 (3.535 %)Software Engineer
15746 (3.535 %)Senior Developer
16623 (2.952 %)Team Leader
17605 (2.866 %)2nd Line Support
18600 (2.843 %)Desktop Support
19591 (2.800 %)Software Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1849 (4.023 %)Blackberry
2703 (3.331 %)Computer Science
3629 (2.980 %)Client/Server
4614 (2.909 %)Derivative
5565 (2.677 %)Clustering
6451 (2.137 %)Multithreading
7445 (2.108 %)Fixed Income
8410 (1.943 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
9323 (1.530 %)Equities
10315 (1.492 %)Replication
11221 (1.047 %)Mathematics
12209 (0.990 %)German Language
13184 (0.872 %)French Language
14182 (0.862 %)N-Tier
15170 (0.805 %)Open Source
16168 (0.796 %)Management Information System
17165 (0.782 %)iPhone
18164 (0.777 %)Fat Client
18164 (0.777 %)Thin Client
19155 (0.734 %)Equity Derivative
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15739 (27.19 %)Windows Server 2003
24260 (20.18 %)UNIX
34029 (19.09 %)Linux
43268 (15.48 %)Windows XP
52374 (11.25 %)Windows Server 2008
61467 (6.951 %)Windows 2000
71375 (6.515 %)Windows Vista
81077 (5.103 %)Solaris
9935 (4.430 %)Windows 2000 Server
10516 (2.445 %)Windows 7
11506 (2.397 %)Red Hat Linux
12347 (1.644 %)AIX
13345 (1.635 %)Windows NT
14338 (1.601 %)Windows Mobile
15271 (1.284 %)HPUX
16171 (0.810 %)Windows CE
17170 (0.805 %)Mac OS X
18165 (0.782 %)Android
1998 (0.464 %)CentOS
2094 (0.445 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11650 (7.818 %)ITIL
21055 (4.999 %)OO
3837 (3.966 %)Project Management
4557 (2.639 %)Agile Software Development
5503 (2.383 %)E-Commerce
6497 (2.355 %)Web Development
7494 (2.341 %)Disaster Recovery
8474 (2.246 %)Migration
9439 (2.080 %)CRM
10381 (1.805 %)Service Delivery
11334 (1.582 %)UML
12328 (1.554 %)Workflow
13327 (1.549 %)Configuration Management
14303 (1.436 %)Change Management
15300 (1.421 %)Scrum
16298 (1.412 %)SOA
17278 (1.317 %)Unit Testing
18268 (1.270 %)TDD
19267 (1.265 %)Electronic Trading
20264 (1.251 %)Risk Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15306 (25.14 %)SQL
23623 (17.17 %)C#
32814 (13.33 %)C++
42205 (10.45 %)Java
51453 (6.884 %)C
61077 (5.103 %)JavaScript
71041 (4.932 %)VB
8954 (4.520 %)VB.NET
9797 (3.776 %)Perl
10631 (2.990 %)T-SQL
11568 (2.691 %)PHP
12496 (2.350 %)VBScript
13414 (1.962 %)Shell Script
14336 (1.592 %)PL/SQL
15299 (1.417 %)Python
16284 (1.346 %)VBA
17267 (1.265 %)VB6
18256 (1.213 %)VC++
19148 (0.701 %)Bash shell
20133 (0.630 %)PowerShell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12867 (13.58 %)Microsoft Certification
22329 (11.03 %)Degree
32033 (9.632 %)MCSE
4961 (4.553 %)MCP
5774 (3.667 %)Cisco Certification
6696 (3.298 %)Security Cleared
7695 (3.293 %)CCNA
8531 (2.516 %)MCSA
9365 (1.729 %)MCTS
10363 (1.720 %)MCITP
11357 (1.691 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12350 (1.658 %)SC Cleared
13261 (1.237 %)Citrix Certification
14199 (0.943 %)MCSD
15186 (0.881 %)CCA
15186 (0.881 %)ITIL Certification
16181 (0.858 %)MCAD
17178 (0.843 %)ISEB
18164 (0.777 %)CCNP
19147 (0.696 %)CCEA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1640 (3.032 %)SLA
2525 (2.487 %)QA
376 (0.360 %)ISO27001
465 (0.308 %)PCI DSS
556 (0.265 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
627 (0.128 %)ISO9001
725 (0.118 %)COBIT
817 (0.081 %)BS7799
916 (0.076 %)JTAG
109 (0.043 %)MiFID
109 (0.043 %)HL7
117 (0.033 %)ISO/IEC 20000
125 (0.024 %)ISO17799
134 (0.019 %)ISO9000
134 (0.019 %)DICOM
134 (0.019 %)WCAG
134 (0.019 %)TickIT
143 (0.014 %)BS15000
152 (0.009 %)GxP
161 (0.005 %)Basel II
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15037 (23.87 %)Active Directory
21357 (6.429 %)VMware Infrastructure
3609 (2.885 %)VMware ESX
4395 (1.872 %)Hyper-V
5362 (1.715 %)Citrix Presentation Server
6296 (1.402 %)ISA Server
7283 (1.341 %)XenApp
8239 (1.132 %)Terminal Services
9178 (0.843 %)XenServer
10155 (0.734 %)MetaFrame
11150 (0.711 %)vSphere
12115 (0.545 %)MSMQ
13110 (0.521 %)NFS
13110 (0.521 %)Oracle RMAN
14105 (0.497 %)XenDesktop
1594 (0.445 %)Oracle RAC
1692 (0.436 %)Xen
1789 (0.422 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1876 (0.360 %)Terminal Server
1966 (0.313 %)Samba
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1455 (2.156 %)SCCM
2314 (1.488 %)Backup Exec
3252 (1.194 %)SCOM
4249 (1.180 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
5192 (0.910 %)NetBackup
6150 (0.711 %)MOM
7149 (0.706 %)Norton AntiVirus
8148 (0.701 %)WSUS
9147 (0.696 %)MSI
10113 (0.535 %)Tivoli
11108 (0.512 %)OpenView
1281 (0.384 %)Data Guard
1374 (0.351 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1448 (0.227 %)EMC NetWorker
1547 (0.223 %)Nagios
1644 (0.208 %)Legato
1742 (0.199 %)CONTROL-M
1836 (0.171 %)HP Quality Center
1933 (0.156 %)McAfee ePO
2030 (0.142 %)AutoSys
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15803 (27.49 %)Microsoft
22677 (12.68 %)VMware
32376 (11.26 %)Oracle
42241 (10.62 %)Citrix
51946 (9.220 %)Cisco
61257 (5.956 %)HP
7570 (2.701 %)IBM
8494 (2.341 %)Red Hat
9419 (1.985 %)Sybase
10398 (1.886 %)Symantec
11360 (1.706 %)Lotus
12326 (1.545 %)Reuters
13305 (1.445 %)Bloomberg
14280 (1.327 %)Altiris
15270 (1.279 %)Sun
16269 (1.275 %)Veritas
17267 (1.265 %)EMC
18264 (1.251 %)JBoss
19250 (1.184 %)Dell
20246 (1.166 %)NetApp