England Microsoft Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs within the England region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexhill-On-Sea Bexley Billericay Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Keighley Kent Kettering Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Ringwood Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shropshire Sittingbourne Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tonbridge Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	9	9
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	13933	22540
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	12.04 %	11.50 %
As % of the category below	30.13 %	27.45 %
Salaries quoted	12030	19051
Average minimum salary	£35,341	£35,197
Average salary	£38,284	£38,411
% change on same period last year	-0.32 %
Average maximum salary	£41,228	£41,625
UK excluding London average salary	£35,958	£35,930
% change on same period last year	+0.08 %
Vendors England
Matching permanent IT job ads	46236	82106
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	39.96 %	41.90 %
Salaries quoted	38641	65740
Average minimum salary	£40,207	£41,049
Average salary	£43,663	£44,859
% change on same period last year	-2.66 %
Average maximum salary	£47,119	£48,670
UK excluding London average salary	£40,848	£41,897
% change on same period last year	-2.50 %
Microsoft UK

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Microsoft Corporation.

Microsoft
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Microsoft
Salary Trend

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

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft across the England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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 England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. 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	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
London	+2	4819	£44,291	+1.44 %
South East	+1	3431	£38,315	+3.07 %
East of England	-1	1109	£35,977	+6.86 %
Yorkshire	+3	1053	£32,148	+3.08 %
North West	-1	1051	£31,444	-11.99 %
South West	+1	1022	£33,644	-1.44 %
West Midlands	-1	822	£34,431	+2.02 %
East Midlands	0	571	£32,834	+2.13 %
Midlands	+2	96	£59,440	+28.71 %
North East	0	65	£31,680	+2.36 %

Microsoft UK

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 13335 (38.16 %) Windows 2 12625 (36.12 %) MS Excel 3 11803 (33.77 %) SQL Server 4 11408 (32.64 %) .NET 5 8945 (25.59 %) SQL 6 8293 (23.73 %) C# 7 6639 (19.00 %) Microsoft Certification 8 6504 (18.61 %) Active Directory 9 6495 (18.58 %) ASP.NET 10 6142 (17.57 %) Windows Server 2003 11 5426 (15.53 %) Finance 12 5280 (15.11 %) MS Office 13 4571 (13.08 %) MS Exchange 14 4035 (11.55 %) XML 15 3907 (11.18 %) SQL Server 2005

16 3860 (11.04 %) SharePoint 17 3650 (10.44 %) MCSE 18 3566 (10.20 %) Degree 19 3280 (9.385 %) Windows XP 20 3013 (8.621 %) Oracle 21 2949 (8.438 %) Citrix 22 2873 (8.221 %) VB.NET 23 2838 (8.120 %) VMware 24 2823 (8.077 %) Cisco 25 2678 (7.663 %) TCP/IP 26 2660 (7.611 %) HTML 27 2537 (7.259 %) VB 28 2526 (7.228 %) SQL Server 2000 29 2509 (7.179 %) Exchange Server 2003 30 2418 (6.919 %) JavaScript

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 11408 (32.64 %) .NET 2 6495 (18.58 %) ASP.NET 3 4035 (11.55 %) XML 4 2660 (7.611 %) HTML 5 1943 (5.560 %) WebServices 6 1882 (5.385 %) CSS 7 1685 (4.821 %) .NET Framework 8 1654 (4.733 %) ASP 9 1515 (4.335 %) AJAX 10 854 (2.444 %) WinForms 11 834 (2.386 %) XSLT 12 715 (2.046 %) WCF 13 709 (2.029 %) XHTML 14 518 (1.482 %) J2EE 15 511 (1.462 %) WPF 16 496 (1.419 %) Silverlight 17 493 (1.411 %) COM 18 432 (1.236 %) XSL 19 412 (1.179 %) Flash 20 401 (1.147 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 4571 (13.08 %) MS Exchange 2 3860 (11.04 %) SharePoint 3 2509 (7.179 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 2310 (6.610 %) IIS 5 1550 (4.435 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 1205 (3.448 %) BizTalk Server 7 1111 (3.179 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 847 (2.424 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 593 (1.697 %) CMS 10 492 (1.408 %) Lotus Notes 11 311 (0.890 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 12 300 (0.858 %) SharePoint Portal Server 13 262 (0.750 %) Apache 14 246 (0.704 %) SAS 15 196 (0.561 %) Content Management Server 16 166 (0.475 %) Lotus Domino 16 166 (0.475 %) Office Communications Server 17 138 (0.395 %) Exchange Server 5.5 18 136 (0.389 %) Commerce Server 19 132 (0.378 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 12625 (36.12 %) MS Excel 2 5280 (15.11 %) MS Office 3 750 (2.146 %) MS Project 4 679 (1.943 %) MS Visio 5 557 (1.594 %) MS PowerPoint 6 318 (0.910 %) Photoshop 7 204 (0.584 %) InfoPath 8 160 (0.458 %) Spreadsheet 9 75 (0.215 %) AutoCAD 10 74 (0.212 %) Acrobat 11 70 (0.200 %) Fireworks 12 60 (0.172 %) Adobe Illustrator 13 49 (0.140 %) SPSS 14 40 (0.114 %) CA Clarity 15 36 (0.103 %) DeltaView 16 29 (0.083 %) RoboHelp 17 28 (0.080 %) FrameMaker 18 27 (0.077 %) InDesign 19 21 (0.060 %) Paint Shop Pro 20 15 (0.043 %) MATLAB	Business Applications 1 572 (1.637 %) Microsoft CRM 2 532 (1.522 %) Dynamics CRM 3 422 (1.207 %) Dynamics AX 4 301 (0.861 %) Navision 5 295 (0.844 %) Dynamics NAV 6 233 (0.667 %) Axapta 7 121 (0.346 %) SoftGrid 8 88 (0.252 %) Great Plains 9 81 (0.232 %) Oracle Applications 10 79 (0.226 %) Line 500 11 76 (0.217 %) Oracle Financials 11 76 (0.217 %) GoldMine 12 67 (0.192 %) SAP Business One 13 57 (0.163 %) Dynamics GP 14 49 (0.140 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 14 49 (0.140 %) Oracle EBS 15 48 (0.137 %) SalesLogix 16 37 (0.106 %) SAP CRM 17 36 (0.103 %) Oracle 11i 18 23 (0.066 %) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking 1 2678 (7.663 %) TCP/IP 2 2075 (5.937 %) Internet 3 2042 (5.843 %) Firewall 4 1974 (5.648 %) WAN 5 1963 (5.617 %) LAN 6 1638 (4.687 %) DNS 7 1212 (3.468 %) VPN 8 1196 (3.422 %) SAN 9 1019 (2.916 %) DHCP 10 828 (2.369 %) Intranet 11 540 (1.545 %) VoIP 12 451 (1.290 %) Wireless 13 353 (1.010 %) Network Security 14 289 (0.827 %) Cisco PIX 15 266 (0.761 %) HTTP 16 237 (0.678 %) SMTP 17 189 (0.541 %) VLAN 18 183 (0.524 %) Extranet 19 160 (0.458 %) SSL 20 150 (0.429 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11803 (33.77 %) SQL Server 2 3907 (11.18 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2526 (7.228 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1360 (3.891 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1180 (3.376 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1095 (3.133 %) Datawarehouse 7 921 (2.635 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 643 (1.840 %) Crystal Reports 9 629 (1.800 %) DTS 10 603 (1.725 %) MS Access 11 575 (1.645 %) BusinessObjects 12 540 (1.545 %) ETL 13 521 (1.491 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 14 515 (1.474 %) MySQL 15 510 (1.459 %) RDBMS 16 414 (1.185 %) OLAP 17 287 (0.821 %) SQL Server 2008 18 271 (0.775 %) Oracle 10g 19 240 (0.687 %) Oracle 9i 20 201 (0.575 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 1962 (5.614 %) Visual Studio 2 311 (0.890 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 188 (0.538 %) NUnit 4 171 (0.489 %) Dreamweaver 5 123 (0.352 %) Oracle Forms 6 106 (0.303 %) Subversion 7 101 (0.289 %) TestDirector 8 99 (0.283 %) QuickTest Pro 9 91 (0.260 %) WinRunner 10 81 (0.232 %) Visual Studio Team System 11 76 (0.217 %) MSI 12 64 (0.183 %) LoadRunner 13 62 (0.177 %) InstallShield 14 48 (0.137 %) MorphX 15 47 (0.134 %) ClearCase 16 42 (0.120 %) Rational Rose 17 40 (0.114 %) Eclipse 18 31 (0.089 %) JUnit 19 28 (0.080 %) Ant 20 27 (0.077 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 5426 (15.53 %) Finance 2 1850 (5.293 %) Pensions 3 1545 (4.421 %) Health 4 1276 (3.651 %) Insurance 5 1258 (3.600 %) Banking 6 1082 (3.096 %) Retail 7 947 (2.710 %) Education 8 869 (2.486 %) Marketing 9 772 (2.209 %) Telecoms 10 669 (1.914 %) Law 11 631 (1.805 %) Legal 12 560 (1.602 %) Government 13 532 (1.522 %) Back Office 14 470 (1.345 %) Investment Banking 15 349 (0.999 %) Front Office 16 337 (0.964 %) Manufacturing 17 313 (0.896 %) Publishing 18 252 (0.721 %) Construction 19 243 (0.695 %) Games 20 205 (0.587 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 9129 (26.12 %) Developer 2 5619 (16.08 %) Analyst 3 3532 (10.11 %) .NET Developer 4 3002 (8.590 %) Consultant 5 2284 (6.535 %) Support Analyst 6 2257 (6.458 %) C# Developer 7 1668 (4.773 %) Support Engineer 8 1630 (4.664 %) Architect 9 1423 (4.072 %) Administrator 10 1211 (3.465 %) Project Manager 11 1189 (3.402 %) ASP.NET Developer 12 1108 (3.170 %) Senior Developer 13 1045 (2.990 %) Web Developer 14 1029 (2.944 %) Software Developer 15 953 (2.727 %) C# ASP.NET Developer 16 858 (2.455 %) DBA 17 802 (2.295 %) Team Leader 18 797 (2.280 %) Technical Support 19 744 (2.129 %) Programmer 19 744 (2.129 %) SQL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 797 (2.280 %) Clustering 2 776 (2.220 %) Blackberry 3 715 (2.046 %) Computer Science 4 654 (1.871 %) Client/Server 5 498 (1.425 %) N-Tier 6 402 (1.150 %) Management Information System 7 278 (0.795 %) Replication 8 262 (0.750 %) Mathematics 9 250 (0.715 %) Derivative 10 200 (0.572 %) Thin Client 10 200 (0.572 %) Fat Client 11 196 (0.561 %) Fixed Income 12 181 (0.518 %) Tandem 13 158 (0.452 %) German Language 14 149 (0.426 %) Equities 15 147 (0.421 %) French Language 16 146 (0.418 %) Mainframe 17 145 (0.415 %) Statistics 18 140 (0.401 %) NHS 19 139 (0.398 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 13335 (38.16 %) Windows 2 6142 (17.57 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3280 (9.385 %) Windows XP 4 2403 (6.876 %) Windows 2000 5 1711 (4.896 %) UNIX 6 1689 (4.833 %) Linux 7 1621 (4.638 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 1457 (4.169 %) Windows Vista 9 689 (1.971 %) Windows Server 2008 10 499 (1.428 %) Solaris 11 376 (1.076 %) Windows NT 12 251 (0.718 %) Red Hat Linux 13 152 (0.435 %) HPUX 14 149 (0.426 %) NetWare 15 128 (0.366 %) AIX 16 124 (0.355 %) Mac OS X 17 123 (0.352 %) Windows Mobile 18 54 (0.155 %) SUSE 19 51 (0.146 %) OS/400 20 45 (0.129 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 2375 (6.796 %) Project Management 2 2074 (5.934 %) ITIL 3 1841 (5.268 %) OO 4 1600 (4.578 %) Business Intelligence 5 1533 (4.386 %) CRM 6 1146 (3.279 %) Agile Software Development 7 1111 (3.179 %) PRINCE2 8 982 (2.810 %) Web Development 9 946 (2.707 %) E-Commerce 10 925 (2.647 %) Scrum 11 878 (2.512 %) UML 12 832 (2.381 %) ERP 13 658 (1.883 %) Business Analysis 14 629 (1.800 %) Migration 15 606 (1.734 %) Content Management 16 553 (1.582 %) Disaster Recovery 17 543 (1.554 %) Service Delivery 18 452 (1.293 %) Change Management 19 439 (1.256 %) SOA 20 438 (1.253 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 8945 (25.59 %) SQL 2 8293 (23.73 %) C# 3 2873 (8.221 %) VB.NET 4 2537 (7.259 %) VB 5 2418 (6.919 %) JavaScript 6 1954 (5.591 %) Transact-SQL 7 1585 (4.535 %) C++ 8 1543 (4.415 %) Java 9 1159 (3.316 %) C 10 868 (2.484 %) VB6 11 787 (2.252 %) VBA 12 629 (1.800 %) VBScript 13 492 (1.408 %) PHP 14 464 (1.328 %) PL/SQL 15 297 (0.850 %) VC++ 16 261 (0.747 %) Perl 17 170 (0.486 %) Delphi 18 162 (0.464 %) Shell Script 19 157 (0.449 %) XPath 20 125 (0.358 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 6639 (19.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3650 (10.44 %) MCSE 3 3566 (10.20 %) Degree 4 1873 (5.359 %) MCP 5 1277 (3.654 %) Cisco Certification 6 1033 (2.956 %) CCNA 7 897 (2.567 %) MCSA 8 692 (1.980 %) MCSD 9 518 (1.482 %) MCAD 10 478 (1.368 %) MCTS 11 476 (1.362 %) Security Cleared 12 454 (1.299 %) CCNP 13 451 (1.290 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 14 421 (1.205 %) Citrix Certification 15 299 (0.856 %) ISEB 16 291 (0.833 %) CCA 17 245 (0.701 %) PRINCE2 Certification 18 226 (0.647 %) ITIL Certification 19 197 (0.564 %) MCDST 20 193 (0.552 %) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 806 (2.306 %) SLA 2 537 (1.537 %) QA 3 100 (0.286 %) ISO27001 4 82 (0.235 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 46 (0.132 %) ISO9001 6 44 (0.126 %) ISO9000 7 39 (0.112 %) WAI 8 27 (0.077 %) BS7799 9 21 (0.060 %) Basel II 10 18 (0.052 %) COBIT 10 18 (0.052 %) HL7 11 13 (0.037 %) PCI DSS 11 13 (0.037 %) BS15000 12 12 (0.034 %) JSP 440 12 12 (0.034 %) DICOM 13 9 (0.026 %) CESG Infosec 14 6 (0.017 %) 21 CFR Part 11 15 5 (0.014 %) WCAG 15 5 (0.014 %) PCI QSA 16 3 (0.009 %) ISO/IEC 20000	System Software 1 6504 (18.61 %) Active Directory 2 1398 (4.000 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 612 (1.751 %) ISA Server 4 593 (1.697 %) VMware ESX 5 548 (1.568 %) Backup Exec 6 495 (1.416 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 434 (1.242 %) Terminal Services 8 258 (0.738 %) Terminal Server 9 185 (0.529 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 10 175 (0.501 %) NetBackup 11 131 (0.375 %) MetaFrame 12 95 (0.272 %) Hyper-V 13 93 (0.266 %) MSMQ 14 81 (0.232 %) VMware Server 15 55 (0.157 %) Xen 16 46 (0.132 %) VMware Workstation 17 39 (0.112 %) MailMarshal 18 38 (0.109 %) Oracle RAC 19 30 (0.086 %) VMware GSX 20 27 (0.077 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 623 (1.783 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 428 (1.225 %) MOM 3 224 (0.641 %) SCOM 4 201 (0.575 %) SCCM 5 180 (0.515 %) OpenView 6 141 (0.403 %) Norton AntiVirus 7 130 (0.372 %) Tivoli 8 121 (0.346 %) WSUS 9 102 (0.292 %) ARCserve 10 101 (0.289 %) MAILsweeper 11 66 (0.189 %) ZENworks 12 47 (0.134 %) BMC PATROL 13 43 (0.123 %) Unicenter 14 38 (0.109 %) OpenView Configuration Management 15 37 (0.106 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 16 31 (0.089 %) HP Data Protector 17 28 (0.080 %) CiscoWorks 18 27 (0.077 %) OVSD 19 24 (0.069 %) MIMEsweeper 20 22 (0.063 %) Legato	Vendors 1 3013 (8.621 %) Oracle 2 2949 (8.438 %) Citrix 3 2838 (8.120 %) VMware 4 2823 (8.077 %) Cisco 5 1604 (4.590 %) HP 6 940 (2.690 %) IBM 7 620 (1.774 %) SAP 8 575 (1.645 %) Business Objects 8 575 (1.645 %) Lotus 9 525 (1.502 %) EMC 10 508 (1.454 %) Symantec 11 475 (1.359 %) VERITAS 12 456 (1.305 %) Cognos 13 426 (1.219 %) Sun 14 396 (1.133 %) Dell 15 337 (0.964 %) CheckPoint 16 332 (0.950 %) Adobe 17 306 (0.876 %) Sage 18 285 (0.815 %) Red Hat 19 283 (0.810 %) Novell