The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills 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 Windows 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Welwyn Garden City region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 7 3 6
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 42 25 74
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 16.60% 20.66% 27.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.63% 86.21% 89.16%
Number of salaries quoted 42 22 73
Average salary £47,500 £42,250 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.42% +12.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,300 £25,100
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Welwyn Garden City
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
64 29 83
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 25.30% 23.97% 30.63%
Number of salaries quoted 62 24 82
Average salary £45,000 £42,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,300 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £63,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
Hertfordshire

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City Windows Jobs Demand Trend

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Salary Histogram

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

Welwyn Garden City Windows Salary Histogram

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 40 (49.38%) Windows Server 2003
2 39 (48.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 38 (46.91%) SQL Server
4 30 (37.04%) Microsoft
4 30 (37.04%) Replication
5 29 (35.80%) SQL
6 27 (33.33%) Finance
7 26 (32.10%) Migration
7 26 (32.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (30.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (30.86%) VMware
9 24 (29.63%) BizTalk Server
9 24 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
10 20 (24.69%) Linux
11 19 (23.46%) SAN
12 18 (22.22%) Citrix
12 18 (22.22%) C#
12 18 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 16 (19.75%) Active Directory
14 15 (18.52%) MS Exchange
14 15 (18.52%) MS Excel
14 15 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
14 15 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
14 15 (18.52%) Degree
15 14 (17.28%) Xen
15 14 (17.28%) NAS
15 14 (17.28%) Red Hat
15 14 (17.28%) ITIL
15 14 (17.28%) C
16 12 (14.81%) Java

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (11.11%) .NET
2 8 (9.877%) Qt
2 8 (9.877%) .NET Framework
3 7 (8.642%) Cocoa
3 7 (8.642%) OpenGL
3 7 (8.642%) Web Services
3 7 (8.642%) JSON
3 7 (8.642%) NHibernate
3 7 (8.642%) WCF
3 7 (8.642%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 7 (8.642%) Cocoa Touch
4 6 (7.407%) ASP.NET MVC
4 6 (7.407%) Razor View Engine
4 6 (7.407%) LINQ
4 6 (7.407%) ASP.NET
5 5 (6.173%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 3 (3.704%) Ajax
7 1 (1.235%) COM
7 1 (1.235%) SOAP
7 1 (1.235%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 24 (29.63%) BizTalk Server
2 15 (18.52%) MS Exchange
3 8 (9.877%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (9.877%) IIS
4 7 (8.642%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (7.407%) SharePoint
6 5 (6.173%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (4.938%) Apache
8 1 (1.235%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (1.235%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 15 (18.52%) MS Excel
2 8 (9.877%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 19 (23.46%) SAN
2 14 (17.28%) NAS
3 12 (14.81%) TCP/IP
4 10 (12.35%) LAN
5 7 (8.642%) DNS
6 5 (6.173%) Internet
6 5 (6.173%) VPN
6 5 (6.173%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (4.938%) HTTP
8 3 (3.704%) Firewall
8 3 (3.704%) DHCP
9 2 (2.469%) ATM
9 2 (2.469%) SMTP
10 1 (1.235%) Wireless
10 1 (1.235%) Ethernet
10 1 (1.235%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (46.91%) SQL Server
2 26 (32.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 25 (30.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 18 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (7.407%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (7.407%) SQL Server 2000
6 4 (4.938%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (4.938%) DTS
7 3 (3.704%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.704%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (3.704%) SQL Server 2012
8 2 (2.469%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.235%) GIS
9 1 (1.235%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (1.235%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 7 (8.642%) NUnit
1 7 (8.642%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (4.938%) Xcode
3 2 (2.469%) WatiN
3 2 (2.469%) OpenDeploy
4 1 (1.235%) JIRA
4 1 (1.235%) Subversion
4 1 (1.235%) Git (software)
General
1 27 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (13.58%) Retail
3 7 (8.642%) Marketing
4 6 (7.407%) Back Office
5 3 (3.704%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.704%) Japanese Language
6 2 (2.469%) Banking
6 2 (2.469%) Local Government
7 1 (1.235%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (24.69%) SQL DBA
1 20 (24.69%) DBA
2 17 (20.99%) SQL Server DBA
2 17 (20.99%) Developer
3 10 (12.35%) Systems Engineer
4 8 (9.877%) Senior SQL DBA
4 8 (9.877%) Senior DBA
4 8 (9.877%) Senior SQL Server DBA
5 7 (8.642%) Architect
5 7 (8.642%) C# Developer
6 6 (7.407%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (7.407%) Analyst
7 5 (6.173%) Junior
7 5 (6.173%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.173%) Administrator
7 5 (6.173%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (6.173%) Senior C# Developer
7 5 (6.173%) iOS Developer
7 5 (6.173%) Agile C# Developer
8 4 (4.938%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (37.04%) Replication
2 8 (9.877%) iPhone
2 8 (9.877%) Clustering
3 7 (8.642%) Computer Science
4 5 (6.173%) BBC
5 3 (3.704%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.704%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.469%) Open Source
6 2 (2.469%) CMDB
6 2 (2.469%) EPoS
6 2 (2.469%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.469%) APACS
7 1 (1.235%) AS400
7 1 (1.235%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.235%) Chemistry
7 1 (1.235%) iSeries
7 1 (1.235%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 40 (49.38%) Windows Server 2003
2 39 (48.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 20 (24.69%) Linux
4 9 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (9.877%) Android
6 7 (8.642%) UNIX
6 7 (8.642%) bada
7 5 (6.173%) Apple iOS
8 4 (4.938%) Mac OS X
9 3 (3.704%) Windows 7
10 2 (2.469%) Windows XP
11 1 (1.235%) Windows 2000
11 1 (1.235%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.10%) Migration
2 15 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (17.28%) ITIL
4 11 (13.58%) E-Commerce
5 10 (12.35%) Scrum
6 9 (11.11%) PRINCE2
6 9 (11.11%) TOGAF
7 8 (9.877%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (8.642%) Problem Management
9 6 (7.407%) Unit Testing
9 6 (7.407%) TDD
9 6 (7.407%) MVC
10 5 (6.173%) Risk Management
10 5 (6.173%) Project Management
10 5 (6.173%) CRM
10 5 (6.173%) Release Management
11 4 (4.938%) Incident Management
11 4 (4.938%) Business Continuity
12 3 (3.704%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 29 (35.80%) SQL
2 18 (22.22%) C#
3 14 (17.28%) C
4 12 (14.81%) Java
5 8 (9.877%) C++
5 8 (9.877%) T-SQL
6 6 (7.407%) VB
6 6 (7.407%) PHP
7 5 (6.173%) Objective-C
8 3 (3.704%) Perl
8 3 (3.704%) Ruby
9 2 (2.469%) Bash shell
10 1 (1.235%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Degree
2 12 (14.81%) MCSE
2 12 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (9.877%) MCITP
4 5 (6.173%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.173%) CCNA
5 4 (4.938%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.704%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (3.704%) NCDA
7 2 (2.469%) ISEB
8 1 (1.235%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.235%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.704%) SLA
1 3 (3.704%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.235%) QA
System Software
1 24 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (19.75%) Active Directory
3 14 (17.28%) Xen
4 8 (9.877%) Hyper-V
5 5 (6.173%) VMware ESX
5 5 (6.173%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (8.642%) Backup Exec
2 2 (2.469%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.469%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 30 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 25 (30.86%) VMware
3 18 (22.22%) Citrix
4 14 (17.28%) Red Hat
5 12 (14.81%) Oracle
6 10 (12.35%) HP
7 7 (8.642%) Symbian
8 5 (6.173%) Symantec
8 5 (6.173%) Cisco
8 5 (6.173%) Razor Risk
9 4 (4.938%) Apple
10 3 (3.704%) NetApp
11 2 (2.469%) Endeca
11 2 (2.469%) Postini
11 2 (2.469%) CommVault
11 2 (2.469%) Juniper
11 2 (2.469%) JBoss
11 2 (2.469%) McAfee
11 2 (2.469%) TIBCO
11 2 (2.469%) ATG
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Job Title: Infrastructure Designer (Technical Project Lead) Location: Welwyn Garden City Key Skills: Red Hat Linux, Citrix, SQL, Oracle, Storage (Local, SAN, NAS)A new opportunity has arisen...
Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 23 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
OmniLedger sell and support a range of systems that include our own highly successful Pyramid Financial software, along with Windows and Linux operating systems, internet and email systems...
Omniledger Ltd
Salary: From £16,000 to £20,000 per annum Salary dependant on experience.
Posted: 19 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Championing the incident management process across the business... * Provide SLA and KPI reporting to the management teams. * Motivate and develop a team of staff within a NOC environment...
Crimson Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £55001 per annum + Attractive
Posted: 17 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
In addition to C++ any of the following skills will be advantageous -, multi-threading, Client server/web based development, DirectX/OpenGL, SQL/Databases, MacOS/iOS, Ajax, XML, HTTP...
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: £25000 to £35000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013