The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire 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 11 2 9
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 111 216 143
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 12.33% 20.30% 12.76%
As % of the Vendors category 26.88% 38.16% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 103 194 130
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £22,800 £20,600
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
All Vendors
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
413 566 533
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 45.89% 53.20% 47.55%
Number of salaries quoted 351 466 494
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £23,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £52,919
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
South West

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Swindon -2 50 £36,500 +0.29% 12
Chippenham -6 17 £38,500 +14.07% 3
Salisbury -5 4 £37,500 +15.72% 3
Warminster - 3 £36,000 -
Trowbridge -1 2 - -
Corsham - 1 £20,000 -
Microsoft
South West

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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.

1 116 (49.79%) SQL Server
2 100 (42.92%) Windows
3 86 (36.91%) MS Excel
4 84 (36.05%) .NET
5 68 (29.18%) C#
6 65 (27.90%) SQL
7 56 (24.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 53 (22.75%) Active Directory
9 50 (21.46%) MS Office
9 50 (21.46%) ASP.NET
10 49 (21.03%) ITIL
11 43 (18.45%) VMware
12 40 (17.17%) Oracle
13 38 (16.31%) MS Exchange
13 38 (16.31%) SQL Server 2008
14 37 (15.88%) SQL Server 2005
15 35 (15.02%) Windows Server 2003
16 33 (14.16%) Windows Server 2008
17 32 (13.73%) VB.NET
18 27 (11.59%) XML
18 27 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
19 25 (10.73%) Security Cleared
19 25 (10.73%) Project Management
19 25 (10.73%) MCSE
20 24 (10.30%) JavaScript
20 24 (10.30%) SQL Server 2000
21 23 (9.871%) CSS
21 23 (9.871%) Web Services
21 23 (9.871%) Firewall
21 23 (9.871%) SQL Server Reporting Services

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 84 (36.05%) .NET
2 50 (21.46%) ASP.NET
3 27 (11.59%) XML
4 23 (9.871%) CSS
4 23 (9.871%) Web Services
5 22 (9.442%) .NET Framework
6 18 (7.725%) ASP.NET MVC
7 17 (7.296%) WPF
7 17 (7.296%) Ajax
8 15 (6.438%) HTML
9 13 (5.579%) jQuery
10 11 (4.721%) WCF
10 11 (4.721%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 8 (3.433%) JSON
11 8 (3.433%) LINQ
12 7 (3.004%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 7 (3.004%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 7 (3.004%) RESTful
12 7 (3.004%) NHibernate
13 6 (2.575%) MonoRail
Application Platforms
1 38 (16.31%) MS Exchange
2 19 (8.155%) SharePoint
3 16 (6.867%) Exchange Server 2010
4 15 (6.438%) IIS
5 9 (3.863%) ArcGIS
6 8 (3.433%) Exchange Server 2003
7 7 (3.004%) Lync
8 6 (2.575%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (1.717%) Office Communications Server
9 4 (1.717%) Liferay
10 3 (1.288%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (1.288%) Exchange Server 2007
11 2 (0.858%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.858%) IBM Notes
12 1 (0.429%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.429%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.429%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.429%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 86 (36.91%) MS Excel
2 50 (21.46%) MS Office
3 8 (3.433%) MS PowerPoint
4 6 (2.575%) MS Visio
5 5 (2.146%) MS Project
6 3 (1.288%) Office 365
7 1 (0.429%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.429%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 8 (3.433%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.575%) Changepoint
3 5 (2.146%) Maximo
4 4 (1.717%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (1.288%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.871%) Firewall
2 19 (8.155%) Internet
3 17 (7.296%) LAN
3 17 (7.296%) VPN
4 15 (6.438%) SAN
5 14 (6.009%) WAN
6 13 (5.579%) MPLS
7 10 (4.292%) NAS
8 9 (3.863%) DNS
9 8 (3.433%) VoIP
9 8 (3.433%) TCP/IP
10 6 (2.575%) DHCP
11 4 (1.717%) BSS
11 4 (1.717%) iSCSI
11 4 (1.717%) BGP
11 4 (1.717%) EIGRP
11 4 (1.717%) OSPF
11 4 (1.717%) HTTP
12 3 (1.288%) Network Security
13 1 (0.429%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (49.79%) SQL Server
2 38 (16.31%) SQL Server 2008
3 37 (15.88%) SQL Server 2005
4 24 (10.30%) SQL Server 2000
5 23 (9.871%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 14 (6.009%) RDBMS
7 9 (3.863%) MS Access
8 8 (3.433%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (3.004%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.858%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.858%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.858%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.858%) Ingres
10 2 (0.858%) MySQL
11 1 (0.429%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.429%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.429%) SAP BI
11 1 (0.429%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 20 (8.584%) Team Foundation Server
2 18 (7.725%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.004%) NUnit
4 6 (2.575%) Subversion
4 6 (2.575%) Rhino Mocks
5 3 (1.288%) ReSharper
6 1 (0.429%) StyleCop
6 1 (0.429%) Moq
6 1 (0.429%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.429%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 13 (5.579%) Finance
2 9 (3.863%) Retail
3 6 (2.575%) Local Government
3 6 (2.575%) Advertising
3 6 (2.575%) Electronics
4 4 (1.717%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.288%) Back Office
5 3 (1.288%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.288%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.429%) Military
6 1 (0.429%) Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (37.77%) Developer
2 45 (19.31%) .NET Developer
3 27 (11.59%) Analyst
4 17 (7.296%) Support Engineer
4 17 (7.296%) Applications Developer
5 16 (6.867%) Senior Developer
6 14 (6.009%) 2nd Line Support
7 12 (5.150%) Architect
7 12 (5.150%) Senior .NET Developer
8 11 (4.721%) C# Developer
8 11 (4.721%) Consultant
8 11 (4.721%) Server Support
8 11 (4.721%) Programmer
9 10 (4.292%) Support Analyst
9 10 (4.292%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (3.863%) Server Engineer
10 9 (3.863%) SQL DBA
10 9 (3.863%) DBA
10 9 (3.863%) VB.NET Programmer
10 9 (3.863%) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.867%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.009%) Blackberry
3 12 (5.150%) Clustering
4 9 (3.863%) Smartphone
5 8 (3.433%) Computer Science
5 8 (3.433%) Replication
6 7 (3.004%) Social Media
7 5 (2.146%) Firmware
7 5 (2.146%) SCORM
8 4 (1.717%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.717%) CESG
9 3 (1.288%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.288%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.288%) Mathematics
10 2 (0.858%) iPhone
10 2 (0.858%) Open Source
10 2 (0.858%) Inversion of Control
10 2 (0.858%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.858%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.429%) Biometrics
Operating Systems
1 100 (42.92%) Windows
2 35 (15.02%) Windows Server 2003
3 33 (14.16%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (6.009%) Windows 7
5 13 (5.579%) Android
6 12 (5.150%) UNIX
7 11 (4.721%) Windows XP
8 8 (3.433%) Apple iOS
8 8 (3.433%) Linux
9 6 (2.575%) Windows Vista
9 6 (2.575%) Mac OS
10 5 (2.146%) Solaris
11 4 (1.717%) Windows 2000 Server
12 2 (0.858%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.429%) Windows Phone
13 1 (0.429%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.429%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (21.03%) ITIL
2 25 (10.73%) Project Management
3 22 (9.442%) MVC
4 16 (6.867%) Service Delivery
5 15 (6.438%) CRM
6 13 (5.579%) Migration
7 12 (5.150%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (4.721%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (4.721%) OO
8 11 (4.721%) Time Management
9 9 (3.863%) Web Application Development
10 8 (3.433%) Business Development
10 8 (3.433%) PRINCE2
10 8 (3.433%) Validation
10 8 (3.433%) Scrum
11 7 (3.004%) Service Management
11 7 (3.004%) Change Control
11 7 (3.004%) Unit Testing
11 7 (3.004%) Requirements Analysis
12 6 (2.575%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 68 (29.18%) C#
2 65 (27.90%) SQL
3 32 (13.73%) VB.NET
4 24 (10.30%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.296%) Java
6 16 (6.867%) VB
7 15 (6.438%) T-SQL
8 13 (5.579%) VB6
9 5 (2.146%) C++
10 4 (1.717%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.288%) VC++
12 2 (0.858%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.858%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.858%) C
13 1 (0.429%) VBScript
13 1 (0.429%) XAML
13 1 (0.429%) X++
Qualifications
1 56 (24.03%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (10.73%) Security Cleared
2 25 (10.73%) MCSE
3 22 (9.442%) MCITP
4 21 (9.013%) Degree
5 20 (8.584%) SC Cleared
6 17 (7.296%) MCP
7 16 (6.867%) MCTS
8 15 (6.438%) MCSA
9 10 (4.292%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (3.863%) CCNA
10 9 (3.863%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (2.575%) MCAD
11 6 (2.575%) MCSD
12 5 (2.146%) HND
13 3 (1.288%) A+ Certification
13 3 (1.288%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.858%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.858%) VTSP
14 2 (0.858%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.584%) SLA
2 4 (1.717%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (1.288%) QA
4 1 (0.429%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 53 (22.75%) Active Directory
2 27 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.863%) vSphere
4 4 (1.717%) NFS
5 3 (1.288%) VMware ESX
6 2 (0.858%) XenApp
6 2 (0.858%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.858%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.429%) MetaFrame
7 1 (0.429%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.429%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.429%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.429%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.429%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.429%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 22 (9.442%) SCCM
2 13 (5.579%) SCOM
3 4 (1.717%) Tivoli
4 3 (1.288%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (1.288%) Backup Exec
4 3 (1.288%) WSUS
5 2 (0.858%) SCVMM
5 2 (0.858%) Netcool
5 2 (0.858%) ARCserve
5 2 (0.858%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.429%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.429%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 43 (18.45%) VMware
2 40 (17.17%) Oracle
3 22 (9.442%) HP
4 19 (8.155%) Cisco
5 17 (7.296%) IBM
6 13 (5.579%) Citrix
7 6 (2.575%) NetApp
7 6 (2.575%) Business Objects
8 5 (2.146%) McAfee
9 4 (1.717%) Remedy
10 3 (1.288%) SAP
10 3 (1.288%) Apple
10 3 (1.288%) Symantec
10 3 (1.288%) Sophos
10 3 (1.288%) Toshiba
10 3 (1.288%) Intergraph
11 2 (0.858%) Telerik
11 2 (0.858%) Lotus
11 2 (0.858%) Hyperion
12 1 (0.429%) Progress
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