The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Welwyn Garden City region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Welwyn Garden City region.

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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 18 5 9
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 29 22 66
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 11.46% 18.18% 24.35%
As % of the Vendors category 34.52% 46.81% 42.58%
Number of salaries quoted 29 14 65
Average salary £39,500 £39,750 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.62% +4.60%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £29,850 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Welwyn Garden City
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
84 47 155
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 33.20% 38.84% 57.20%
Number of salaries quoted 83 29 152
Average salary £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.70% +8.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £28,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £61,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Hertfordshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Welwyn Garden City region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Welwyn Garden City Microsoft Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Welwyn Garden City region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Welwyn Garden City Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City region 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.

1 38 (57.58%) SQL Server
2 35 (53.03%) SQL
3 30 (45.45%) Windows
4 29 (43.94%) MS Excel
5 21 (31.82%) .NET
5 21 (31.82%) C#
5 21 (31.82%) Replication
5 21 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
6 18 (27.27%) T-SQL
6 18 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
7 16 (24.24%) SQL Server 2008
7 16 (24.24%) E-Commerce
7 16 (24.24%) Citrix
7 16 (24.24%) Windows Server 2003
8 15 (22.73%) SAN
8 15 (22.73%) VMware
8 15 (22.73%) Finance
8 15 (22.73%) MVC
9 14 (21.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 14 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
10 13 (19.70%) Capacity Planning
10 13 (19.70%) Migration
10 13 (19.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (19.70%) Linux
11 12 (18.18%) Red Hat
11 12 (18.18%) BizTalk Server
11 12 (18.18%) Data Security
11 12 (18.18%) NAS
11 12 (18.18%) Xen
11 12 (18.18%) SQL Server 2012

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City region 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.

Application Development
1 21 (31.82%) .NET
2 11 (16.67%) WCF
2 11 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 11 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 7 (10.61%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 7 (10.61%) NHibernate
3 7 (10.61%) .NET Framework
4 6 (9.091%) LINQ
4 6 (9.091%) Razor View Engine
5 5 (7.576%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 1 (1.515%) WF
6 1 (1.515%) COM
6 1 (1.515%) SOAP
6 1 (1.515%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 12 (18.18%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (13.64%) IIS
3 8 (12.12%) SharePoint
4 7 (10.61%) MS Exchange
5 5 (7.576%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (7.576%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (1.515%) MS Project Server
7 1 (1.515%) Apache
Applications
1 29 (43.94%) MS Excel
2 11 (16.67%) MS Office
3 4 (6.061%) MS Visio
4 3 (4.545%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (1.515%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.061%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 15 (22.73%) SAN
2 12 (18.18%) NAS
3 5 (7.576%) Internet
4 4 (6.061%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.061%) DNS
5 3 (4.545%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (4.545%) Firewall
5 3 (4.545%) LAN
6 2 (3.030%) SMTP
6 2 (3.030%) ATM
7 1 (1.515%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.515%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.515%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.515%) Wireless
7 1 (1.515%) HTTP
7 1 (1.515%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (57.58%) SQL Server
2 18 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
3 16 (24.24%) SQL Server 2008
4 13 (19.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (18.18%) SQL Server 2012
6 10 (15.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (6.061%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (6.061%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (3.030%) SQL Server 2000
8 2 (3.030%) MS Access
9 1 (1.515%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (10.61%) NUnit
1 7 (10.61%) Visual Studio
2 3 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (3.030%) WatiN
4 1 (1.515%) ClearQuest
4 1 (1.515%) RequisitePro
General
1 15 (22.73%) Finance
2 9 (13.64%) Retail
3 6 (9.091%) Back Office
4 2 (3.030%) Banking
4 2 (3.030%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.030%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 20 (30.30%) Developer
2 19 (28.79%) C# Developer
3 15 (22.73%) C# .NET Developer
4 12 (18.18%) Administrator
5 10 (15.15%) Analyst
5 10 (15.15%) DBA
5 10 (15.15%) SQL DBA
5 10 (15.15%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 9 (13.64%) Teradata DBA
6 9 (13.64%) .NET Developer
7 5 (7.576%) Agile C# Developer
7 5 (7.576%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.576%) Senior C# Developer
7 5 (7.576%) Junior
8 4 (6.061%) Architect
8 4 (6.061%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (6.061%) Infrastructure Designer
8 4 (6.061%) Designer
9 3 (4.545%) Web Tester
9 3 (4.545%) Junior Architect
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.82%) Replication
2 5 (7.576%) Computer Science
2 5 (7.576%) BBC
2 5 (7.576%) Clustering
3 2 (3.030%) EPoS
3 2 (3.030%) APACS
3 2 (3.030%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 30 (45.45%) Windows
2 16 (24.24%) Windows Server 2003
3 14 (21.21%) Windows Server 2008
4 13 (19.70%) Linux
5 9 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.061%) UNIX
7 2 (3.030%) Windows XP
7 2 (3.030%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (24.24%) E-Commerce
3 15 (22.73%) MVC
4 13 (19.70%) Capacity Planning
4 13 (19.70%) Migration
5 12 (18.18%) Data Security
6 11 (16.67%) Scrum
6 11 (16.67%) PRINCE2
7 9 (13.64%) TOGAF
8 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (10.61%) TDD
9 7 (10.61%) ITIL
10 5 (7.576%) Unit Testing
10 5 (7.576%) Integration Testing
10 5 (7.576%) Risk Management
10 5 (7.576%) Project Management
11 4 (6.061%) CRM
11 4 (6.061%) Automated Testing
11 4 (6.061%) Change Management
11 4 (6.061%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 35 (53.03%) SQL
2 21 (31.82%) C#
3 18 (27.27%) T-SQL
4 6 (9.091%) C
5 4 (6.061%) VB
5 4 (6.061%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.545%) Bash shell
6 3 (4.545%) Perl
7 1 (1.515%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (10.61%) Degree
3 5 (7.576%) MCAD
3 5 (7.576%) ISEB
4 4 (6.061%) MCSE
5 1 (1.515%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.515%) CCVP
5 1 (1.515%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.515%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.515%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.545%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.515%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (18.18%) Xen
3 8 (12.12%) Hyper-V
4 7 (10.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (4.545%) NetBackup
2 3 (4.545%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.515%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) Citrix
2 15 (22.73%) VMware
3 12 (18.18%) Red Hat
4 10 (15.15%) Oracle
5 9 (13.64%) HP
6 5 (7.576%) Razor Risk
7 3 (4.545%) Postini
7 3 (4.545%) CommVault
8 2 (3.030%) McAfee
8 2 (3.030%) Juniper
9 1 (1.515%) Cisco
9 1 (1.515%) NetApp
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