West Yorkshire Windows Vista Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows Vista skills within the West Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Vista over the 3 months to 7 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows Vista
Location Aberdeen Amersham Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Billericay Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Castleford Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clevedon County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham England Epping Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horley Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isleworth Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Lymington Lymm Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nelson New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Romford Romsey Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Wirral Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	94	160
Rank change on same period last year	+66
Matching permanent IT job ads	97	38
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	7.185 %	2.718 %
Salaries quoted	83	35
Average minimum salary	£26,238	£27,811
Average salary	£28,446	£29,324
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Average maximum salary	£30,653	£30,838
UK excluding London average salary	£28,240	£36,967
% change on same period last year	-23.60 %
Operating Systems West Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1350	1398
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.707 %	0.579 %
Salaries quoted	1137	1144
Average minimum salary	£27,447	£27,232
Average salary	£29,211	£28,840
% change on same period last year	+1.28 %
Average maximum salary	£30,974	£30,447
UK excluding London average salary	£33,870	£34,553
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Windows Vista Yorkshire

Windows Vista
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Windows Vista across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows Vista
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows Vista across the West Yorkshire region.

Windows Vista
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Vista across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 7 August 2008.

Windows Vista
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Vista within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 7 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leeds	+43	63	£29,405	-1.38 %
Bradford	+4	17	£33,889	+99.34 %
Wakefield	-	9	£21,500	-
Batley	-	5	£23,300	-
Halifax	-	4	£27,000	-
Castleford	-	3	£19,167	-
Keighley	-	1	£20,000	-
Huddersfield	-	1	£27,500	-

Windows Vista Yorkshire

Windows Vista
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista.

1 149 (100.00 %) Windows 2 108 (72.48 %) Windows XP 3 98 (65.77 %) Microsoft 4 62 (41.61 %) Windows Server 2003 5 54 (36.24 %) Active Directory 6 47 (31.54 %) MS Excel 7 43 (28.86 %) MS Exchange 7 43 (28.86 %) SQL 8 40 (26.85 %) Microsoft Certification 9 39 (26.17 %) MS Office 9 39 (26.17 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 38 (25.50 %) ITIL 11 35 (23.49 %) SQL Server 11 35 (23.49 %) WAN 12 31 (20.81 %) TCP/IP

13 29 (19.46 %) SQL Server 2005 14 27 (18.12 %) LAN 14 27 (18.12 %) SQL Server 2000 15 26 (17.45 %) VPN 16 24 (16.11 %) MCP 17 23 (15.44 %) Windows 2000 Server 18 22 (14.77 %) VMware Infrastructure 18 22 (14.77 %) Symantec 18 22 (14.77 %) VMware 19 20 (13.42 %) Firewall 19 20 (13.42 %) MCSE 20 17 (11.41 %) CRM 20 17 (11.41 %) SAN 20 17 (11.41 %) Application Packaging 21 16 (10.74 %) LANDesk

Windows Vista
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Windows Vista 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 Vista. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (11.41 %) Application Packaging 2 7 (4.698 %) MFC 3 6 (4.027 %) ActiveX 4 4 (2.685 %) .NET 5 3 (2.013 %) WebServices 6 2 (1.342 %) ASP 6 2 (1.342 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 43 (28.86 %) MS Exchange 2 39 (26.17 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 14 (9.396 %) IIS 4 8 (5.369 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 7 (4.698 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 4 (2.685 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 3 (2.013 %) WorkSite 8 2 (1.342 %) BizTalk Server 9 1 (0.671 %) DotNetNuke 9 1 (0.671 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 47 (31.54 %) MS Excel 2 39 (26.17 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.671 %) AutoCAD 3 1 (0.671 %) MS Project 3 1 (0.671 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 16 (10.74 %) Microsoft CRM 2 3 (2.013 %) e-Work 3 1 (0.671 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 35 (23.49 %) WAN 2 31 (20.81 %) TCP/IP 3 27 (18.12 %) LAN 4 26 (17.45 %) VPN 5 20 (13.42 %) Firewall 6 17 (11.41 %) SAN 7 11 (7.383 %) MPLS 8 7 (4.698 %) HTTP 9 6 (4.027 %) C7 10 5 (3.356 %) DNS 11 4 (2.685 %) VoIP 11 4 (2.685 %) Internet 12 2 (1.342 %) GPRS 12 2 (1.342 %) DHCP 13 1 (0.671 %) Network Security 13 1 (0.671 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 35 (23.49 %) SQL Server 2 29 (19.46 %) SQL Server 2005 3 27 (18.12 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (0.671 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 11 (7.383 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (4.027 %) Subversion	General 1 14 (9.396 %) Law 2 13 (8.725 %) Retail 3 10 (6.711 %) Finance 4 8 (5.369 %) Health 5 6 (4.027 %) Education 5 6 (4.027 %) Marketing 6 5 (3.356 %) Pensions 7 4 (2.685 %) Legal 8 2 (1.342 %) Back Office 9 1 (0.671 %) Insurance 9 1 (0.671 %) Home Office
Job Titles 1 23 (15.44 %) Team Leader 2 22 (14.77 %) Desktop Team Leader 3 14 (9.396 %) Systems Support 4 12 (8.054 %) Systems Administrator 4 12 (8.054 %) Desktop Support 4 12 (8.054 %) 2nd Line Support 4 12 (8.054 %) Administrator 5 11 (7.383 %) Analyst 5 11 (7.383 %) Consultant 6 10 (6.711 %) Support Engineer 7 9 (6.040 %) Developer 8 8 (5.369 %) Support Analyst 9 7 (4.698 %) Desktop Engineer 9 7 (4.698 %) Support Manager 9 7 (4.698 %) 3rd Line Support 9 7 (4.698 %) Junior 10 6 (4.027 %) Technical Consultant 10 6 (4.027 %) C++ Developer 10 6 (4.027 %) Technical Engineer 11 5 (3.356 %) Presales Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 4 (2.685 %) NHS 1 4 (2.685 %) Clustering 2 3 (2.013 %) PKI 2 3 (2.013 %) Smartcard 2 3 (2.013 %) Client/Server 3 1 (0.671 %) Management Information System 3 1 (0.671 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 149 (100.00 %) Windows 2 108 (72.48 %) Windows XP 3 62 (41.61 %) Windows Server 2003 4 23 (15.44 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 15 (10.07 %) Windows 2000 6 11 (7.383 %) Linux 7 5 (3.356 %) UNIX 8 4 (2.685 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 38 (25.50 %) ITIL 2 17 (11.41 %) CRM 3 11 (7.383 %) PRINCE2 4 9 (6.040 %) Project Management 5 6 (4.027 %) Service Delivery 5 6 (4.027 %) Problem Management 5 6 (4.027 %) Time Management 6 4 (2.685 %) Network Load Balancing 7 3 (2.013 %) Performance Testing 7 3 (2.013 %) Test Scripting 7 3 (2.013 %) Manual Testing 7 3 (2.013 %) Workflow 8 2 (1.342 %) Configuration Management 8 2 (1.342 %) Unit Testing 8 2 (1.342 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 1 (0.671 %) Load Balancing 9 1 (0.671 %) Information Security 9 1 (0.671 %) Regression Testing 9 1 (0.671 %) Information Security Management 9 1 (0.671 %) Security Management
Programming Languages 1 43 (28.86 %) SQL 2 7 (4.698 %) C++ 3 4 (2.685 %) VB 3 4 (2.685 %) VC++ 4 2 (1.342 %) C 4 2 (1.342 %) C# 4 2 (1.342 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 40 (26.85 %) Microsoft Certification 2 24 (16.11 %) MCP 3 20 (13.42 %) MCSE 4 11 (7.383 %) MCDST 5 6 (4.027 %) A+ Certification 5 6 (4.027 %) Degree 6 5 (3.356 %) MCSA 7 4 (2.685 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 3 (2.013 %) Network+ Certification 8 3 (2.013 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.013 %) QA 2 1 (0.671 %) SLA	System Software 1 54 (36.24 %) Active Directory 2 22 (14.77 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 14 (9.396 %) Terminal Services 4 11 (7.383 %) VMware ESX 5 9 (6.040 %) Backup Exec 6 1 (0.671 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 8 (5.369 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (2.013 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 98 (65.77 %) Microsoft 2 22 (14.77 %) Symantec 2 22 (14.77 %) VMware 3 16 (10.74 %) LANDesk 4 8 (5.369 %) Avaya 5 7 (4.698 %) Remedy 5 7 (4.698 %) Cisco 6 4 (2.685 %) HP 7 3 (2.013 %) Interwoven 8 2 (1.342 %) Dell 8 2 (1.342 %) Citrix 8 2 (1.342 %) VERITAS 8 2 (1.342 %) Metastorm 9 1 (0.671 %) Fujitsu 9 1 (0.671 %) Kaspersky 9 1 (0.671 %) McAfee Security 9 1 (0.671 %) CheckPoint 9 1 (0.671 %) Red Hat 9 1 (0.671 %) IBM