The first table below looks at the demand for Windows skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wrexham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows over the 3 months to 22 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 Wrexham region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows
Rank 4 6 4
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 6 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wrexham 42.86% 29.41% 25.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 38.46% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 1
Average salary £32,000 £19,000 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+68.42% -20.83%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Operating Systems
Wrexham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
6 13 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wrexham 42.86% 76.47% 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 3
Average salary £29,250 £35,000 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.42% +45.83%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Windows
North Wales

Windows
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wrexham 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 Wrexham region.

Wrexham Windows Salary Trend

Windows
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wrexham 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 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) T-SQL
1 4 (66.67%) VB.NET
1 4 (66.67%) ActionScript
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) CMS
1 4 (66.67%) Smartphone
1 4 (66.67%) WCF
1 4 (66.67%) WPF
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Broadband
2 2 (33.33%) ISDN
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) VoIP
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wrexham 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 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) WCF
1 4 (66.67%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Broadband
1 2 (33.33%) ISDN
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) T-SQL
1 4 (66.67%) VB.NET
1 4 (66.67%) ActionScript
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft