The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Worcestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Worcestershire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 8 3 11
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 50 82 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 22.32% 29.93% 17.92%
As % of the Vendors category 56.82% 63.57% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 49 76 32
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,450 £19,000 £21,600
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% -1.35%
All Vendors
Worcestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
88 129 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 39.29% 47.08% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 86 120 61
Average salary £37,000 £32,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.84% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £24,020
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £55,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Microsoft
West Midlands

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

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

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire 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
Worcester +3 31 £34,500 +53.33%
Evesham -2 6 £28,000 +2.75%
Redditch -9 3 £25,000 -37.50%
Bromsgrove -4 2 £37,500 -
Kidderminster 0 1 £35,000 +7.69%
Microsoft
West Midlands

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 70 (58.82%) .NET
2 60 (50.42%) SQL
3 54 (45.38%) SQL Server
4 53 (44.54%) C#
5 43 (36.13%) ASP.NET
6 42 (35.29%) Oracle
6 42 (35.29%) MS Excel
7 41 (34.45%) Windows
8 40 (33.61%) JavaScript
9 36 (30.25%) HTML
10 35 (29.41%) SharePoint
11 34 (28.57%) XML
12 30 (25.21%) MVC
13 26 (21.85%) jQuery
13 26 (21.85%) Java
13 26 (21.85%) Linux
13 26 (21.85%) Scrum
14 25 (21.01%) VB.NET
14 25 (21.01%) Web Development
15 23 (19.33%) Citrix
16 22 (18.49%) COM
17 21 (17.65%) C++
17 21 (17.65%) Tomcat
17 21 (17.65%) Ajax
18 20 (16.81%) Finance
18 20 (16.81%) SQL Server 2008
19 19 (15.97%) Active Directory
19 19 (15.97%) XSLT
19 19 (15.97%) PL/SQL
19 19 (15.97%) CSS

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 70 (58.82%) .NET
2 43 (36.13%) ASP.NET
3 36 (30.25%) HTML
4 34 (28.57%) XML
5 26 (21.85%) jQuery
6 22 (18.49%) COM
7 21 (17.65%) Ajax
8 19 (15.97%) XSLT
8 19 (15.97%) CSS
9 17 (14.29%) Web Services
10 16 (13.45%) ASP.NET MVC
10 16 (13.45%) .NET Framework
11 7 (5.882%) ASP
12 5 (4.202%) WCF
12 5 (4.202%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 5 (4.202%) Razor View Engine
12 5 (4.202%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 5 (4.202%) ADO.NET
12 5 (4.202%) NHibernate
12 5 (4.202%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 35 (29.41%) SharePoint
2 21 (17.65%) Tomcat
3 16 (13.45%) WebLogic
4 10 (8.403%) IIS
5 9 (7.563%) MS Exchange
6 7 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (3.361%) NetWeaver
8 3 (2.521%) Apache
8 3 (2.521%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (1.681%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (1.681%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.840%) WordPress
10 1 (0.840%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.840%) CMS
Applications
1 42 (35.29%) MS Excel
2 12 (10.08%) MS Office
3 2 (1.681%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.840%) Office 365
4 1 (0.840%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.840%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.13%) WAN
2 11 (9.244%) LAN
3 9 (7.563%) Firewall
4 7 (5.882%) VoIP
5 6 (5.042%) DNS
6 5 (4.202%) DHCP
6 5 (4.202%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (3.361%) SAN
7 4 (3.361%) iSCSI
7 4 (3.361%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (2.521%) Wireless
9 2 (1.681%) Intranet
9 2 (1.681%) Internet
9 2 (1.681%) HTTP
9 2 (1.681%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.840%) Extranet
10 1 (0.840%) SSH
10 1 (0.840%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (45.38%) SQL Server
2 20 (16.81%) SQL Server 2008
3 16 (13.45%) TOAD
3 16 (13.45%) SQLPlus
4 11 (9.244%) MySQL
5 6 (5.042%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (5.042%) SQL Server 2012
6 4 (3.361%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (2.521%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (1.681%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.840%) OLAP
9 1 (0.840%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.840%) QlikView
9 1 (0.840%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (11.76%) Visual Studio
2 5 (4.202%) NUnit
2 5 (4.202%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (4.202%) Rhino Mocks
2 5 (4.202%) Moq
General
1 20 (16.81%) Finance
2 7 (5.882%) French Language
3 3 (2.521%) Advertising
4 2 (1.681%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (52.94%) Developer
2 24 (20.17%) .NET Developer
3 21 (17.65%) Web Developer
4 14 (11.76%) .NET Web Developer
5 13 (10.92%) Support Engineer
6 11 (9.244%) Software Engineer
7 10 (8.403%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.563%) Graduate
8 9 (7.563%) Analyst
8 9 (7.563%) Software Support Engineer
9 8 (6.723%) IT Support
9 8 (6.723%) CRM Developer
10 7 (5.882%) Junior Software Developer
10 7 (5.882%) Graduate Software Developer
10 7 (5.882%) Graduate Developer
10 7 (5.882%) Junior Developer
10 7 (5.882%) Test Analyst
10 7 (5.882%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.882%) Junior
10 7 (5.882%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.202%) Management Information System
1 5 (4.202%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.361%) Thin Client
2 4 (3.361%) Fat Client
3 2 (1.681%) NHS
3 2 (1.681%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (0.840%) Learning Management System
4 1 (0.840%) Clustering
4 1 (0.840%) E-Learning
4 1 (0.840%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 41 (34.45%) Windows
2 26 (21.85%) Linux
3 9 (7.563%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (6.723%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (5.882%) UNIX
6 4 (3.361%) Windows 2000 Server
6 4 (3.361%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.681%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.681%) Windows Vista
7 2 (1.681%) Windows XP
7 2 (1.681%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.840%) Android
8 1 (0.840%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.21%) MVC
2 26 (21.85%) Scrum
3 25 (21.01%) Web Development
4 16 (13.45%) Software Engineering
5 15 (12.61%) TDD
5 15 (12.61%) CRM
6 9 (7.563%) Project Management
7 8 (6.723%) Test Scripting
8 7 (5.882%) Change Management
9 6 (5.042%) Agile Software Development
9 6 (5.042%) Network Design
10 5 (4.202%) Systems Analysis
10 5 (4.202%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (4.202%) Kanban
10 5 (4.202%) ITIL
10 5 (4.202%) BDD
11 4 (3.361%) V-Model
11 4 (3.361%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (3.361%) Information Management
11 4 (3.361%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (50.42%) SQL
2 53 (44.54%) C#
3 40 (33.61%) JavaScript
4 26 (21.85%) Java
5 25 (21.01%) VB.NET
6 21 (17.65%) C++
7 19 (15.97%) PL/SQL
8 10 (8.403%) VB
9 9 (7.563%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.202%) VB6
11 4 (3.361%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.361%) ABAP
11 4 (3.361%) PHP
12 3 (2.521%) PHP5
13 2 (1.681%) VBScript
14 1 (0.840%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.840%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (4.202%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (4.202%) MCAD
2 5 (4.202%) MCSD
2 5 (4.202%) CCNP
2 5 (4.202%) CCNA
3 4 (3.361%) Citrix Certification
3 4 (3.361%) Degree
3 4 (3.361%) CCEE
3 4 (3.361%) CCAA
3 4 (3.361%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (2.521%) ISEB
5 1 (0.840%) MCP
5 1 (0.840%) HNC
5 1 (0.840%) MCSE
5 1 (0.840%) CIW
5 1 (0.840%) MCITP
5 1 (0.840%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.13%) QA
2 2 (1.681%) SLA
3 1 (0.840%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (15.97%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.244%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.882%) XenApp
3 7 (5.882%) XenDesktop
4 6 (5.042%) VMware ESX
5 4 (3.361%) vSphere
5 4 (3.361%) XenServer
6 1 (0.840%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.840%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (5.042%) SCCM
2 2 (1.681%) SCOM
2 2 (1.681%) WMI
3 1 (0.840%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.840%) Splunk
Vendors
1 42 (35.29%) Oracle
2 23 (19.33%) Citrix
3 16 (13.45%) JBoss
4 15 (12.61%) VMware
5 13 (10.92%) HP
6 10 (8.403%) Cisco
7 7 (5.882%) SAP
8 6 (5.042%) Juniper
9 5 (4.202%) Dell
9 5 (4.202%) CheckPoint
10 4 (3.361%) Business Objects
10 4 (3.361%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.521%) Apple
11 3 (2.521%) SonicWALL
12 1 (0.840%) Twitter
12 1 (0.840%) Sage
12 1 (0.840%) AppSense
12 1 (0.840%) Mitel
12 1 (0.840%) Tripwire
12 1 (0.840%) Adobe
Worcester, Worcestershire
Using Adobe suites, HTML and Flash your role purpose will be to create, maintain and develop E-Learning material that meets the customer and business needs of the...
Spring Technology
Salary: £25000.00 - £32000.00 per annum + Excellent
Posted: 13 May 2013