The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 17 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 Wiltshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 9 8 6
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 116 172 190
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 13.26% 16.91% 17.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.24% 61.87% 66.20%
Number of salaries quoted 108 147 180
Average salary £36,000 £36,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.36% +14.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,900 £21,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,400 £49,700 £42,600
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
210 278 287
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 24.00% 27.34% 26.11%
Number of salaries quoted 197 229 265
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% +9.37%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £21,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,450 £45,100 £49,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
South West

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Wiltshire Windows Salary Histogram

Windows
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Swindon +4 55 £35,000 -6.66%
Chippenham -4 15 £35,000 +18.64%
Salisbury +6 11 £30,000 -7.69%
Warminster - 3 £36,000 -
Corsham 0 1 £45,000 -21.73%
Windows
South West

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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.

1 120 (34.78%) VMware
2 111 (32.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 109 (31.59%) Windows Server 2003
4 105 (30.43%) Cisco
4 105 (30.43%) Microsoft
4 105 (30.43%) Active Directory
5 100 (28.99%) SQL Server
6 90 (26.09%) MS Excel
7 83 (24.06%) VMware Infrastructure
8 79 (22.90%) C#
8 79 (22.90%) MS Exchange
9 78 (22.61%) SQL
9 78 (22.61%) ITIL
10 66 (19.13%) .NET
11 65 (18.84%) TCP/IP
12 57 (16.52%) Windows 7
13 56 (16.23%) Degree
13 56 (16.23%) Firewall
14 53 (15.36%) C++
15 49 (14.20%) UNIX
16 47 (13.62%) Microsoft Certification
16 47 (13.62%) SAN
17 46 (13.33%) Security Cleared
18 42 (12.17%) DNS
19 41 (11.88%) Exchange Server 2010
20 40 (11.59%) Linux
21 39 (11.30%) DHCP
21 39 (11.30%) WPF
22 38 (11.01%) MS Office
23 37 (10.72%) Oracle

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 66 (19.13%) .NET
2 39 (11.30%) WPF
3 37 (10.72%) XML
4 29 (8.406%) MFC
5 28 (8.116%) HTML
5 28 (8.116%) STL
6 27 (7.826%) .NET Framework
7 22 (6.377%) ATL
8 21 (6.087%) ASP.NET
9 13 (3.768%) J2EE
10 12 (3.478%) WCF
11 11 (3.188%) ASP.NET MVC
12 10 (2.899%) Silverlight
13 9 (2.609%) LINQ
13 9 (2.609%) jQuery
13 9 (2.609%) JSON
13 9 (2.609%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 7 (2.029%) Ninject
14 7 (2.029%) RESTful
14 7 (2.029%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 79 (22.90%) MS Exchange
2 41 (11.88%) Exchange Server 2010
3 23 (6.667%) IIS
4 20 (5.797%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (4.058%) Apache
5 14 (4.058%) Tomcat
6 12 (3.478%) Exchange Server 2007
7 10 (2.899%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 9 (2.609%) SharePoint
9 7 (2.029%) SharePoint Server
10 6 (1.739%) Lotus Notes
11 5 (1.449%) Lync
12 3 (0.870%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.580%) CICS
14 1 (0.290%) Exchange Server 2013
14 1 (0.290%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 90 (26.09%) MS Excel
2 38 (11.01%) MS Office
3 2 (0.580%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.580%) CATIA
4 1 (0.290%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.290%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 3 (0.870%) Oracle 11i
1 3 (0.870%) Maximo
1 3 (0.870%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.580%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.580%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.290%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.290%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 65 (18.84%) TCP/IP
2 56 (16.23%) Firewall
3 47 (13.62%) SAN
4 42 (12.17%) DNS
5 39 (11.30%) DHCP
6 32 (9.275%) WAN
7 30 (8.696%) VPN
8 29 (8.406%) LAN
9 26 (7.536%) HTTP
10 25 (7.246%) MPLS
11 23 (6.667%) IP Telephony
12 21 (6.087%) X.21
12 21 (6.087%) ISDN
13 17 (4.928%) SMTP
13 17 (4.928%) X.400
14 14 (4.058%) Ethernet
14 14 (4.058%) NAS
15 13 (3.768%) SSL
16 12 (3.478%) S/MIME
16 12 (3.478%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (28.99%) SQL Server
2 27 (7.826%) SQL Server 2005
3 19 (5.507%) SQL Server 2008
4 15 (4.348%) SQL Server 2000
5 10 (2.899%) RDBMS
6 9 (2.609%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (2.029%) MS Access
8 5 (1.449%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (1.159%) Oracle 8/8i
10 2 (0.580%) DB2
10 2 (0.580%) Oracle 10g
10 2 (0.580%) MySQL
10 2 (0.580%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (0.580%) SQL Server 2012
10 2 (0.580%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.580%) Oracle 11g
11 1 (0.290%) Oracle OLAP
11 1 (0.290%) GIS
11 1 (0.290%) SQL Server 7
11 1 (0.290%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (3.768%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (2.319%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.739%) NUnit
3 6 (1.739%) Moq
4 5 (1.449%) MSTest
4 5 (1.449%) Rhino Mocks
4 5 (1.449%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.870%) ReSharper
6 2 (0.580%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.580%) SilkPerformer
7 1 (0.290%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.290%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
7 1 (0.290%) StyleCop
7 1 (0.290%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (4.638%) Back Office
2 14 (4.058%) Finance
3 11 (3.188%) Telecoms
4 7 (2.029%) Financial Institution
5 6 (1.739%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.449%) Retail
7 3 (0.870%) Local Government
8 2 (0.580%) Advertising
8 2 (0.580%) Military
8 2 (0.580%) Banking
8 2 (0.580%) Electronics
9 1 (0.290%) Marketing
9 1 (0.290%) Legal
Job Titles
1 56 (16.23%) Developer
2 54 (15.65%) Analyst
3 42 (12.17%) Support Engineer
4 34 (9.855%) .NET Developer
5 32 (9.275%) Software Engineer
6 31 (8.986%) C++ Software Engineer
7 27 (7.826%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (7.536%) Technical Engineer
9 24 (6.957%) Architect
10 23 (6.667%) Technical Support
11 22 (6.377%) C# Developer
11 22 (6.377%) Technical Support Engineer
12 20 (5.797%) Support Analyst
13 19 (5.507%) Administrator
14 18 (5.217%) Systems Administrator
15 17 (4.928%) Technical Analyst
16 15 (4.348%) Consultant
17 14 (4.058%) Software Developer
18 13 (3.768%) Systems Engineer
18 13 (3.768%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.43%) Computer Science
2 33 (9.565%) Clustering
3 23 (6.667%) Blackberry
4 14 (4.058%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.188%) Smartphone
6 8 (2.319%) Thin Client
6 8 (2.319%) Fat Client
7 7 (2.029%) Social Media
7 7 (2.029%) Inversion of Control
7 7 (2.029%) Replication
7 7 (2.029%) CCTV
8 6 (1.739%) Statistics
8 6 (1.739%) iPhone
9 5 (1.449%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.159%) PKI
11 3 (0.870%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.870%) iPad
11 3 (0.870%) Artificial Intelligence
11 3 (0.870%) CLARiiON
12 2 (0.580%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 111 (32.17%) Windows Server 2008
2 109 (31.59%) Windows Server 2003
3 57 (16.52%) Windows 7
4 49 (14.20%) UNIX
5 40 (11.59%) Linux
6 15 (4.348%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (4.348%) Android
7 14 (4.058%) Windows XP
8 10 (2.899%) Solaris
8 10 (2.899%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.739%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.449%) Windows 2000 Server
11 4 (1.159%) AIX
11 4 (1.159%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.580%) Windows 2000
12 2 (0.580%) zOS
12 2 (0.580%) SUSE
13 1 (0.290%) Windows Mobile
13 1 (0.290%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.290%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (22.61%) ITIL
2 31 (8.986%) Business Continuity
3 30 (8.696%) OO
4 26 (7.536%) Multithreading
5 19 (5.507%) Performance Management
6 18 (5.217%) Service Management
7 17 (4.928%) Service Delivery
8 16 (4.638%) Problem Management
8 16 (4.638%) ITIL V3
9 14 (4.058%) Network Load Balancing
10 13 (3.768%) Information Security
10 13 (3.768%) MVC
11 12 (3.478%) Unit Testing
12 11 (3.188%) ITSM
12 11 (3.188%) Migration
12 11 (3.188%) Web Application Development
13 10 (2.899%) Project Management
13 10 (2.899%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (2.609%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (2.609%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (22.90%) C#
2 78 (22.61%) SQL
3 53 (15.36%) C++
4 23 (6.667%) Java
5 19 (5.507%) C
6 16 (4.638%) VB.NET
7 13 (3.768%) VB
7 13 (3.768%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.029%) VB6
9 5 (1.449%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.159%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.159%) PHP
10 4 (1.159%) PHP5
11 3 (0.870%) VBA
12 2 (0.580%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.580%) XAML
12 2 (0.580%) VBScript
13 1 (0.290%) Delphi
13 1 (0.290%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.290%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 56 (16.23%) Degree
2 47 (13.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 46 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 37 (10.72%) SC Cleared
5 32 (9.275%) MCSE
6 25 (7.246%) MCP
7 20 (5.797%) CCNA
7 20 (5.797%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (4.928%) MCSA
8 17 (4.928%) MCTS
9 13 (3.768%) DV Cleared
10 12 (3.478%) MCITP
11 7 (2.029%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (2.029%) HND
12 6 (1.739%) CCNP
13 5 (1.449%) MCAD
13 5 (1.449%) MCSD
14 4 (1.159%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.870%) PMP
15 3 (0.870%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.377%) SLA
2 2 (0.580%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.580%) QA
3 1 (0.290%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 105 (30.43%) Active Directory
2 83 (24.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (8.986%) vSphere
4 19 (5.507%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (4.348%) Xen
6 14 (4.058%) NFS
7 11 (3.188%) Hyper-V
7 11 (3.188%) VMware ESX
8 9 (2.609%) Terminal Services
9 8 (2.319%) XenApp
10 7 (2.029%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 5 (1.449%) Nmap
12 4 (1.159%) UAG
12 4 (1.159%) XenServer
12 4 (1.159%) XenDesktop
12 4 (1.159%) ISA Server
13 2 (0.580%) NLBS
14 1 (0.290%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.290%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.290%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 26 (7.536%) SCCM
2 21 (6.087%) Tivoli
3 19 (5.507%) Norton AntiVirus
4 12 (3.478%) MIMEsweeper
5 11 (3.188%) SCOM
6 8 (2.319%) WSUS
7 7 (2.029%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (1.449%) Netcool
8 5 (1.449%) Nessus
8 5 (1.449%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 3 (0.870%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.580%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 2 (0.580%) ARCserve
10 2 (0.580%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 2 (0.580%) OpenView
10 2 (0.580%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.580%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.290%) CiscoWorks
11 1 (0.290%) OVSD
11 1 (0.290%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 120 (34.78%) VMware
2 105 (30.43%) Cisco
2 105 (30.43%) Microsoft
3 37 (10.72%) Oracle
4 36 (10.43%) Citrix
5 30 (8.696%) IBM
6 29 (8.406%) HP
7 25 (7.246%) Symantec
8 21 (6.087%) Riverbed
9 17 (4.928%) McAfee
9 17 (4.928%) Juniper
10 15 (4.348%) Sophos
10 15 (4.348%) Red Hat
10 15 (4.348%) Twitter
11 12 (3.478%) M86 Security
12 10 (2.899%) CheckPoint
13 8 (2.319%) Apple
14 6 (1.739%) Lotus
14 6 (1.739%) SAP
15 5 (1.449%) Nortel
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