Yorkshire Windows Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the 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 over the last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Dursley Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle Heywood High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Leominster Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ormskirk Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 12 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	10
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	1501	1061
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.724 %	0.472 %
As % of the category below	57.22 %	53.89 %
Salaries quoted	1218	945
Average minimum salary	£27,901	£26,378
Average salary	£29,332	£27,726
% change on same period last year	+5.79 %
Average maximum salary	£30,762	£29,074
UK excluding London average salary	£32,402	£32,756
% change on same period last year	-1.08 %
Operating Systems Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2623	1969
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.264 %	0.875 %
Salaries quoted	2133	1638
Average minimum salary	£30,425	£28,923
Average salary	£32,159	£30,475
% change on same period last year	+5.52 %
Average maximum salary	£33,892	£32,028
UK excluding London average salary	£34,675	£34,921
% change on same period last year	-0.70 %
Windows England

Windows
Demand Trend

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

Windows
Salary Trend

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

Windows
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows across the Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

Windows
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	West Yorkshire	0	876	£29,004	+5.66 %
2	South Yorkshire	+1	341	£28,959	+7.20 %
3	North Yorkshire	-1	207	£31,399	+10.41 %
4	East Yorkshire	+18	53	£26,433	-18.35 %

Windows England

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows.

1 1026 (35.56 %) Microsoft 2 801 (27.76 %) Active Directory 2 801 (27.76 %) SQL 3 753 (26.10 %) SQL Server 4 611 (21.18 %) Windows 2000 5 543 (18.82 %) MS Excel 6 525 (18.20 %) .NET 7 465 (16.12 %) C# 8 461 (15.98 %) Unix 9 449 (15.56 %) Microsoft Certification 10 423 (14.66 %) TCP/IP 11 418 (14.49 %) LAN 12 408 (14.14 %) MS Exchange 13 406 (14.07 %) WAN 14 405 (14.04 %) Linux

15 404 (14.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 16 402 (13.93 %) Oracle 17 382 (13.24 %) Citrix 18 359 (12.44 %) Windows Server 2003 19 357 (12.37 %) Finance 20 311 (10.78 %) MCSE 21 310 (10.75 %) ITIL 22 308 (10.68 %) Windows NT 23 286 (9.913 %) Firewall 24 283 (9.809 %) MS Office 25 280 (9.705 %) XML 26 278 (9.636 %) VB 27 262 (9.081 %) Exchange Server 2000 28 258 (8.943 %) Windows XP 29 248 (8.596 %) ASP.NET

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Windows also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Windows. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 525 (18.20 %) .NET 2 280 (9.705 %) XML 3 248 (8.596 %) ASP.NET 4 170 (5.893 %) HTML 5 121 (4.194 %) ASP 6 115 (3.986 %) WinForms 7 86 (2.981 %) XSLT 8 82 (2.842 %) J2EE 9 79 (2.738 %) CSS 10 73 (2.530 %) WebServices 11 51 (1.768 %) .NET Framework 12 41 (1.421 %) WCF 13 39 (1.352 %) WPF 14 33 (1.144 %) SOAP 14 33 (1.144 %) XHTML 15 29 (1.005 %) SAP Basis 16 28 (0.971 %) JSP 17 22 (0.763 %) ADO.NET 17 22 (0.763 %) Middleware 18 21 (0.728 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 408 (14.14 %) MS Exchange 2 404 (14.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 262 (9.081 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 188 (6.516 %) IIS 5 166 (5.754 %) SharePoint 6 64 (2.218 %) Lotus Notes 7 58 (2.010 %) Apache 8 53 (1.837 %) Tomcat 9 41 (1.421 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 39 (1.352 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 37 (1.282 %) BizTalk Server 12 32 (1.109 %) CMS 13 29 (1.005 %) SharePoint Server 2007 14 26 (0.901 %) WebLogic 15 25 (0.867 %) JBoss 16 16 (0.555 %) MQSeries 17 14 (0.485 %) Lotus Domino 17 14 (0.485 %) Oracle Application Server 18 12 (0.416 %) LiveLink 18 12 (0.416 %) Documentum
Applications 1 543 (18.82 %) MS Excel 2 283 (9.809 %) MS Office 3 44 (1.525 %) MS Visio 4 15 (0.520 %) MS Project 5 10 (0.347 %) Photoshop 6 2 (0.069 %) Fireworks 6 2 (0.069 %) MS PowerPoint 7 1 (0.035 %) SmartSuite 7 1 (0.035 %) AutoCAD 7 1 (0.035 %) CorelDRAW 7 1 (0.035 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 20 (0.693 %) Navision 2 19 (0.659 %) Oracle Financials 3 14 (0.485 %) Microsoft CRM 3 14 (0.485 %) Movex 4 10 (0.347 %) Dynamics CRM 5 9 (0.312 %) Oracle EBS 6 7 (0.243 %) Oracle Applications 6 7 (0.243 %) Dynamics AX 7 6 (0.208 %) GoldMine 7 6 (0.208 %) Oracle iRecruitment 7 6 (0.208 %) Dynamics NAV 7 6 (0.208 %) Great Plains 7 6 (0.208 %) Axapta 8 5 (0.173 %) Pivotal CRM 9 4 (0.139 %) SalesLogix 9 4 (0.139 %) Oracle 11i 10 3 (0.104 %) Pegasus Opera 10 3 (0.104 %) SAP FI 10 3 (0.104 %) SAP FI/CO 10 3 (0.104 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 423 (14.66 %) TCP/IP 2 418 (14.49 %) LAN 3 406 (14.07 %) WAN 4 286 (9.913 %) Firewall 5 216 (7.487 %) Internet 6 215 (7.452 %) VPN 7 200 (6.932 %) DNS 8 156 (5.407 %) SAN 9 98 (3.397 %) DHCP 10 81 (2.808 %) VoIP 11 55 (1.906 %) WINS 12 44 (1.525 %) Intranet 13 40 (1.386 %) Wireless 14 39 (1.352 %) Network Security 15 30 (1.040 %) HTTP 16 26 (0.901 %) FTP 16 26 (0.901 %) MPLS 17 24 (0.832 %) SMS 18 21 (0.728 %) VLAN 19 15 (0.520 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 753 (26.10 %) SQL Server 2 189 (6.551 %) SQL Server 2005 3 170 (5.893 %) SQL Server 2000 4 139 (4.818 %) Oracle 9i 5 111 (3.847 %) Oracle 10g 6 99 (3.432 %) DB2 7 74 (2.565 %) MySQL 8 72 (2.496 %) RDBMS 9 44 (1.525 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 30 (1.040 %) DTS 11 28 (0.971 %) Crystal Reports 12 23 (0.797 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 18 (0.624 %) Informix 14 17 (0.589 %) SQL Server 7 15 15 (0.520 %) DataStage 16 11 (0.381 %) MS Access 17 9 (0.312 %) Adabas 17 9 (0.312 %) ETL 17 9 (0.312 %) GIS 18 8 (0.277 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 127 (4.402 %) Visual Studio 2 32 (1.109 %) MSI 3 16 (0.555 %) TestDirector 4 15 (0.520 %) Subversion 4 15 (0.520 %) WebLOAD 5 12 (0.416 %) QuickTest Pro 5 12 (0.416 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 9 (0.312 %) NUnit 7 8 (0.277 %) Oracle Forms 8 7 (0.243 %) Ant 9 6 (0.208 %) Eclipse 10 5 (0.173 %) Flash 11 4 (0.139 %) LoadRunner 11 4 (0.139 %) FrontPage 12 3 (0.104 %) Oracle APEX 12 3 (0.104 %) TestPartner 12 3 (0.104 %) WebSpeed 12 3 (0.104 %) Dreamweaver 13 2 (0.069 %) JUnit 13 2 (0.069 %) LabVIEW	General 1 357 (12.37 %) Finance 2 178 (6.170 %) Health 3 142 (4.922 %) Pensions 4 68 (2.357 %) Retail 5 59 (2.045 %) Education 6 51 (1.768 %) Insurance 7 46 (1.594 %) Telecoms 7 46 (1.594 %) Back Office 8 45 (1.560 %) Banking 9 43 (1.490 %) Manufacturing 10 40 (1.386 %) Legal 11 36 (1.248 %) Law 12 23 (0.797 %) Publishing 13 22 (0.763 %) Financial Institution 14 17 (0.589 %) Marketing 15 16 (0.555 %) Construction 16 15 (0.520 %) Electric 17 14 (0.485 %) Investment Banking 18 11 (0.381 %) Multimedia 19 10 (0.347 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 547 (18.96 %) Analyst 2 546 (18.93 %) Developer 3 277 (9.601 %) Support Analyst 4 214 (7.418 %) Support Engineer 5 210 (7.279 %) DBA 6 189 (6.551 %) C# Developer 7 178 (6.170 %) Administrator 8 162 (5.615 %) .NET Developer 9 132 (4.575 %) Consultant 10 113 (3.917 %) Technical Support 11 98 (3.397 %) Support Technician 12 94 (3.258 %) Server Support 12 94 (3.258 %) Oracle DBA 13 85 (2.946 %) VB Developer 14 81 (2.808 %) Architect 15 80 (2.773 %) 2nd Line Support 16 76 (2.634 %) Team Leader 17 70 (2.426 %) Desktop Support 18 69 (2.392 %) Network Support 19 68 (2.357 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 110 (3.813 %) Clustering 2 65 (2.253 %) N-Tier 3 56 (1.941 %) Computer Science 4 55 (1.906 %) Asset Management 5 46 (1.594 %) Mainframe 6 41 (1.421 %) Client/Server 7 36 (1.248 %) Thin Client 7 36 (1.248 %) Fat Client 8 33 (1.144 %) NHS 9 29 (1.005 %) AS400 10 21 (0.728 %) PDA 11 18 (0.624 %) Blackberry 12 17 (0.589 %) Equities 13 12 (0.416 %) Derivative 13 12 (0.416 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 14 9 (0.312 %) NPfIT 14 9 (0.312 %) Statistics 14 9 (0.312 %) Multithreading 15 8 (0.277 %) E-Learning 16 5 (0.173 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 611 (21.18 %) Windows 2000 2 461 (15.98 %) Unix 3 405 (14.04 %) Linux 4 359 (12.44 %) Windows Server 2003 5 308 (10.68 %) Windows NT 6 258 (8.943 %) Windows XP 7 129 (4.471 %) AIX 8 102 (3.536 %) Solaris 9 31 (1.075 %) NetWare 10 23 (0.797 %) HPUX 11 15 (0.520 %) Mac OS X 12 13 (0.451 %) Windows Mobile 13 10 (0.347 %) zOS 14 8 (0.277 %) Windows CE 14 8 (0.277 %) MVS 15 5 (0.173 %) Fedora 16 4 (0.139 %) VMS 17 3 (0.104 %) OS/400 17 3 (0.104 %) SUSE 17 3 (0.104 %) Mac OS X Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 310 (10.75 %) ITIL 2 145 (5.026 %) OO 3 80 (2.773 %) Project Management 4 72 (2.496 %) Service Delivery 5 56 (1.941 %) UML 6 54 (1.872 %) CRM 7 48 (1.664 %) ERP 8 47 (1.629 %) Disaster Recovery 9 46 (1.594 %) Load Balancing 10 37 (1.282 %) E-Commerce 11 36 (1.248 %) Quality Management 11 36 (1.248 %) Workflow 12 34 (1.179 %) Network Design 13 33 (1.144 %) Technical Architecture 13 33 (1.144 %) Agile Software Development 13 33 (1.144 %) SOA 14 32 (1.109 %) DSDM 15 27 (0.936 %) OOD 15 27 (0.936 %) PRINCE2 15 27 (0.936 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 801 (27.76 %) SQL 2 465 (16.12 %) C# 3 278 (9.636 %) VB 4 180 (6.239 %) Java 5 140 (4.853 %) VB6 6 135 (4.679 %) C++ 7 120 (4.159 %) JavaScript 8 112 (3.882 %) C 9 104 (3.605 %) VB.NET 10 86 (2.981 %) PL/SQL 11 60 (2.080 %) Transact-SQL 12 44 (1.525 %) VBScript 13 41 (1.421 %) Perl 14 33 (1.144 %) PHP 15 24 (0.832 %) Shell Script 16 12 (0.416 %) JCL 16 12 (0.416 %) VC++ 17 11 (0.381 %) Delphi 17 11 (0.381 %) Ruby 18 10 (0.347 %) Progress 4GL	Qualifications 1 449 (15.56 %) Microsoft Certification 2 311 (10.78 %) MCSE 3 215 (7.452 %) Degree 4 188 (6.516 %) MCP 5 95 (3.293 %) MCSA 6 61 (2.114 %) Cisco Certification 7 53 (1.837 %) CCNA 8 38 (1.317 %) Citrix Certification 9 31 (1.075 %) CCA 10 27 (0.936 %) ISEB 11 21 (0.728 %) CCNP 11 21 (0.728 %) ITIL Certification 11 21 (0.728 %) MCDST 12 17 (0.589 %) HND 13 12 (0.416 %) CCEA 14 10 (0.347 %) A+ Certification 15 5 (0.173 %) MOS 15 5 (0.173 %) ISEB Practitioner 16 4 (0.139 %) EMC Certification 16 4 (0.139 %) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 96 (3.328 %) SLA 2 49 (1.698 %) QA 3 5 (0.173 %) SNOMED CT 4 2 (0.069 %) ISO27001 4 2 (0.069 %) COBIT 5 1 (0.035 %) GAMP 5 1 (0.035 %) ISO9001 5 1 (0.035 %) HL7	System Software 1 801 (27.76 %) Active Directory 2 112 (3.882 %) Oracle RAC 3 101 (3.501 %) Oracle RMAN 4 80 (2.773 %) Terminal Services 5 63 (2.184 %) ISA Server 6 39 (1.352 %) NetBackup 7 30 (1.040 %) Backup Exec 8 27 (0.936 %) MetaFrame 9 18 (0.624 %) Terminal Server 10 16 (0.555 %) Citrix Presentation Server 11 15 (0.520 %) VMware ESX 12 8 (0.277 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 13 7 (0.243 %) RACF 14 4 (0.139 %) Novell eDirectory 15 3 (0.104 %) Squid 16 2 (0.069 %) VMware Workstation 17 1 (0.035 %) MSMQ 17 1 (0.035 %) NDS 17 1 (0.035 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 81 (2.808 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 66 (2.288 %) MOM 3 33 (1.144 %) OpenView 4 28 (0.971 %) Tivoli 5 20 (0.693 %) ARCserve 6 15 (0.520 %) Nagios 7 11 (0.381 %) SCOM 8 10 (0.347 %) ZENworks 9 9 (0.312 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 7 (0.243 %) Tivoli NetView 10 7 (0.243 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 7 (0.243 %) SCCM 11 6 (0.208 %) WSUS 11 6 (0.208 %) CONTROL-M 11 6 (0.208 %) Unicenter 11 6 (0.208 %) Legato 12 5 (0.173 %) HP Data Protector 13 4 (0.139 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 14 3 (0.104 %) OpenView Configuration Management 15 2 (0.069 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 1026 (35.56 %) Microsoft 2 402 (13.93 %) Oracle 3 382 (13.24 %) Citrix 4 243 (8.423 %) Cisco 5 176 (6.101 %) VMware 6 111 (3.847 %) HP 7 75 (2.600 %) IBM 8 66 (2.288 %) Lotus 9 58 (2.010 %) SAP 10 56 (1.941 %) VERITAS 11 41 (1.421 %) CheckPoint 12 35 (1.213 %) Red Hat 12 35 (1.213 %) McAfee Security 13 32 (1.109 %) Sun 14 31 (1.075 %) Remedy 15 30 (1.040 %) Novell 16 29 (1.005 %) Symantec 17 28 (0.971 %) Sage 17 28 (0.971 %) LANDesk 18 21 (0.728 %) EMC