The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the West Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 19 June 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 West Wales 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 2 5 9
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 21 17 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Wales 28.00% 25.37% 16.90%
As % of the Vendors category 58.33% 70.83% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19 17 10
Average salary £35,000 £23,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+48.93% -21.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,800 £22,500 £24,800
10% offered a salary of more than £40,400 £33,500 £32,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
All Vendors
West Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
36 24 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Wales 48.00% 35.82% 25.35%
Number of salaries quoted 33 22 10
Average salary £32,500 £26,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.64% -11.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £22,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
Wales

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Wales 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 West Wales region.

West Wales Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the West Wales region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Wales Microsoft Salary Histogram

Microsoft
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the West Wales region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Swansea +3 21 £35,000 +48.93% 3
Microsoft
Wales

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Wales 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 27 (65.85%) C#
2 21 (51.22%) MS Excel
3 20 (48.78%) .NET
4 15 (36.59%) SQL Server
4 15 (36.59%) SQL
5 14 (34.15%) Windows
6 13 (31.71%) ASP.NET
6 13 (31.71%) CSS
6 13 (31.71%) HTML
6 13 (31.71%) JavaScript
6 13 (31.71%) Finance
7 9 (21.95%) MVC
7 9 (21.95%) Degree
8 8 (19.51%) WCF
8 8 (19.51%) Scrum
8 8 (19.51%) CRM
8 8 (19.51%) .NET Framework
9 7 (17.07%) Oracle
9 7 (17.07%) Web Services
9 7 (17.07%) MS Office
10 6 (14.63%) XML
10 6 (14.63%) VB.NET
10 6 (14.63%) Dynamics CRM
11 5 (12.20%) WPF
11 5 (12.20%) Management Information System
11 5 (12.20%) VBA
11 5 (12.20%) SharePoint
11 5 (12.20%) Open Source
11 5 (12.20%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (12.20%) Kanban

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Wales 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 20 (48.78%) .NET
2 13 (31.71%) ASP.NET
2 13 (31.71%) CSS
2 13 (31.71%) HTML
3 8 (19.51%) WCF
3 8 (19.51%) .NET Framework
4 7 (17.07%) Web Services
5 6 (14.63%) XML
6 5 (12.20%) WPF
6 5 (12.20%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (12.20%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 4 (9.756%) jQuery
7 4 (9.756%) Flash
7 4 (9.756%) XHTML
7 4 (9.756%) WinForms
8 3 (7.317%) NHibernate
8 3 (7.317%) XSLT
8 3 (7.317%) LINQ
8 3 (7.317%) Silverlight
8 3 (7.317%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 5 (12.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.317%) Windows Azure
3 2 (4.878%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (4.878%) MS Exchange
3 2 (4.878%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (51.22%) MS Excel
2 7 (17.07%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.878%) Line 500
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.756%) Internet
2 2 (4.878%) DHCP
2 2 (4.878%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.756%) MySQL
3 3 (7.317%) Essbase
3 3 (7.317%) GIS
3 3 (7.317%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (7.317%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (7.317%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (7.317%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (4.878%) QlikView
4 2 (4.878%) MS Access
4 2 (4.878%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.878%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (4.878%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.878%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (9.756%) Visual Studio
2 3 (7.317%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (7.317%) Mercurial
3 2 (4.878%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (4.878%) NUnit
4 1 (2.439%) CruiseControl
4 1 (2.439%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (2.439%) NCover
4 1 (2.439%) MSTest
4 1 (2.439%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (2.439%) Moq
General
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
2 3 (7.317%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.878%) Back Office
3 2 (4.878%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (53.66%) Developer
2 10 (24.39%) .NET Developer
2 10 (24.39%) C# Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Analyst
3 8 (19.51%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (12.20%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (12.20%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (9.756%) Consultant
5 4 (9.756%) Analyst Programmer
5 4 (9.756%) Programmer
5 4 (9.756%) VB.NET Developer
5 4 (9.756%) Service Manager
6 3 (7.317%) CRM Consultant
6 3 (7.317%) Analyst Developer
6 3 (7.317%) Applications Support
6 3 (7.317%) Technical Consultant
6 3 (7.317%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.317%) Applications Developer
6 3 (7.317%) IT Manager
6 3 (7.317%) CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Management Information System
1 5 (12.20%) Open Source
2 3 (7.317%) Blackberry
3 2 (4.878%) Clustering
4 1 (2.439%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 14 (34.15%) Windows
2 4 (9.756%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (9.756%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (9.756%) Windows XP
2 4 (9.756%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (7.317%) Apple iOS
3 3 (7.317%) Android
4 2 (4.878%) Windows 2000
4 2 (4.878%) Windows Vista
5 1 (2.439%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.439%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.95%) MVC
2 8 (19.51%) Scrum
2 8 (19.51%) CRM
3 5 (12.20%) Kanban
3 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (9.756%) PRINCE2
4 4 (9.756%) OO
4 4 (9.756%) Content Management
5 3 (7.317%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (7.317%) Operations Management
5 3 (7.317%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (7.317%) Validation
5 3 (7.317%) Six Sigma
5 3 (7.317%) ERP
5 3 (7.317%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (7.317%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (7.317%) Analytics
6 2 (4.878%) User Experience Design
6 2 (4.878%) Test Scripting
6 2 (4.878%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) C#
2 15 (36.59%) SQL
3 13 (31.71%) JavaScript
4 6 (14.63%) VB.NET
5 5 (12.20%) VBA
6 4 (9.756%) ActionScript
6 4 (9.756%) VB
7 1 (2.439%) VB6
7 1 (2.439%) C
7 1 (2.439%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.439%) PHP
7 1 (2.439%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Degree
2 4 (9.756%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (7.317%) MCSE
3 3 (7.317%) MCP
4 2 (4.878%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.878%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.878%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.878%) ISEB
5 1 (2.439%) MCTS
5 1 (2.439%) MCAD
5 1 (2.439%) MCSD
5 1 (2.439%) HNC
5 1 (2.439%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.878%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.756%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Oracle
2 3 (7.317%) Cognos
3 2 (4.878%) Novell
3 2 (4.878%) Sage
3 2 (4.878%) VMware
3 2 (4.878%) Fujitsu
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