England Windows Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows skills within the England 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 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexhill-On-Sea Bexley Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall Corsham Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hoddesdon Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melksham Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouth Monmouthshire Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rochdale Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	7	6
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	17407	28491
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	15.05 %	14.54 %
As % of the category below	64.72 %	60.83 %
Salaries quoted	15240	24072
Average minimum salary	£34,188	£34,208
Average salary	£36,764	£36,852
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Average maximum salary	£39,340	£39,496
UK excluding London average salary	£33,132	£33,036
% change on same period last year	+0.28 %
Operating Systems England
Matching permanent IT job ads	26897	46837
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	23.25 %	23.90 %
Salaries quoted	23230	38568
Average minimum salary	£35,529	£36,065
Average salary	£38,291	£38,978
% change on same period last year	-1.76 %
Average maximum salary	£41,052	£41,891
UK excluding London average salary	£34,281	£34,122
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Windows UK

Windows
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Windows across the England 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 citing Windows across the England region.

Windows
Salary Histogram

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

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 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	+1	6868	£43,199	+1.36 %
South East	+1	4069	£35,273	+1.42 %
East of England	-1	1493	£34,041	+0.82 %
South West	+2	1280	£32,090	+4.12 %
North West	-4	1151	£29,318	-7.71 %
Yorkshire	+2	941	£30,080	-0.32 %
West Midlands	-4	875	£31,966	+3.27 %
East Midlands	+3	695	£30,802	+6.11 %
North East	+5	133	£30,619	-1.02 %
Midlands	+6	58	£50,026	+11.99 %
South Coast	+7	7	£46,667	+22.48 %

Windows UK

Windows
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 14491 (33.44 %) Windows Server 2003 2 13335 (30.77 %) Microsoft 3 11583 (26.73 %) Active Directory 4 10564 (24.38 %) SQL Server 5 9984 (23.04 %) SQL 6 8519 (19.66 %) UNIX 7 8239 (19.01 %) Windows XP 8 7281 (16.80 %) MS Exchange 8 7281 (16.80 %) MS Excel 9 7139 (16.48 %) .NET 10 7118 (16.43 %) Finance 11 6884 (15.89 %) Linux 12 6655 (15.36 %) Microsoft Certification 13 6004 (13.86 %) TCP/IP 14 5961 (13.76 %) C#

15 5513 (12.72 %) Windows 2000 16 5292 (12.21 %) MS Office 17 5018 (11.58 %) C++ 18 4850 (11.19 %) MCSE 19 4745 (10.95 %) Oracle 20 4517 (10.42 %) Citrix 21 4468 (10.31 %) Exchange Server 2003 22 4462 (10.30 %) Cisco 23 4450 (10.27 %) Degree 24 4234 (9.771 %) VMware 25 3878 (8.950 %) Firewall 26 3819 (8.814 %) WAN 27 3806 (8.784 %) LAN 28 3608 (8.327 %) IIS 29 3425 (7.904 %) DNS

Windows
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 7139 (16.48 %) .NET 2 3097 (7.147 %) ASP.NET 3 3072 (7.090 %) XML 4 2212 (5.105 %) HTML 5 1706 (3.937 %) WebServices 6 1360 (3.139 %) WinForms 7 1126 (2.599 %) CSS 8 976 (2.252 %) ASP 9 905 (2.089 %) J2EE 10 853 (1.969 %) AJAX 11 792 (1.828 %) .NET Framework 12 751 (1.733 %) MFC 13 677 (1.562 %) STL 14 590 (1.362 %) WebSphere 15 490 (1.131 %) WCF 16 485 (1.119 %) XSLT 17 398 (0.919 %) Middleware 18 373 (0.861 %) JSP 19 372 (0.859 %) WPF 20 351 (0.810 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 7281 (16.80 %) MS Exchange 2 4468 (10.31 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3608 (8.327 %) IIS 4 2181 (5.033 %) SharePoint 5 1622 (3.743 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1189 (2.744 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 1077 (2.486 %) Apache 8 979 (2.259 %) Lotus Notes 9 630 (1.454 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 534 (1.232 %) Tomcat 11 473 (1.092 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 12 349 (0.805 %) BizTalk Server 13 343 (0.792 %) WebLogic 14 316 (0.729 %) Exchange Server 5.5 15 315 (0.727 %) CMS 16 296 (0.683 %) Lotus Domino 17 253 (0.584 %) SharePoint Portal Server 18 234 (0.540 %) JBoss 19 169 (0.390 %) WebSphere Application Server 20 112 (0.258 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 7281 (16.80 %) MS Excel 2 5292 (12.21 %) MS Office 3 337 (0.778 %) MS Visio 4 242 (0.558 %) MS PowerPoint 5 240 (0.554 %) Photoshop 6 129 (0.298 %) MS Project 7 117 (0.270 %) InfoPath 8 61 (0.141 %) Spreadsheet 9 55 (0.127 %) MATLAB 10 46 (0.106 %) AutoCAD 11 40 (0.092 %) DeltaView 12 38 (0.088 %) Adobe Illustrator 13 33 (0.076 %) Acrobat 14 30 (0.069 %) CATIA 15 25 (0.058 %) QuarkXPress 16 22 (0.051 %) CA Clarity 17 20 (0.046 %) Fireworks 17 20 (0.046 %) InDesign 18 17 (0.039 %) Quicktime 19 13 (0.030 %) Paint Shop Pro	Business Applications 1 160 (0.369 %) SoftGrid 2 111 (0.256 %) Microsoft CRM 3 109 (0.252 %) Oracle Applications 4 70 (0.162 %) Oracle 11i 5 69 (0.159 %) Oracle EBS 6 55 (0.127 %) Oracle Financials 7 54 (0.125 %) assyst 8 41 (0.095 %) Dynamics CRM 9 40 (0.092 %) Endur 10 38 (0.088 %) Navision 10 38 (0.088 %) Summit 11 35 (0.081 %) GoldMine 12 33 (0.076 %) SalesLogix 13 32 (0.074 %) SAP CRM 14 29 (0.067 %) Dynamics AX 15 27 (0.062 %) Teamcenter 16 24 (0.055 %) SAP R/3 17 21 (0.048 %) Axapta 18 20 (0.046 %) Kondor+ 19 19 (0.044 %) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking 1 6004 (13.86 %) TCP/IP 2 3878 (8.950 %) Firewall 3 3819 (8.814 %) WAN 4 3806 (8.784 %) LAN 5 3425 (7.904 %) DNS 6 2755 (6.358 %) SAN 7 2455 (5.666 %) Internet 8 2426 (5.599 %) VPN 9 1970 (4.546 %) DHCP 10 994 (2.294 %) VoIP 11 818 (1.888 %) Wireless 12 657 (1.516 %) Network Security 13 603 (1.392 %) Intranet 14 530 (1.223 %) HTTP 15 463 (1.069 %) SMTP 16 459 (1.059 %) Cisco PIX 17 388 (0.895 %) FTP 18 385 (0.889 %) SSL 19 320 (0.739 %) VLAN 20 313 (0.722 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10564 (24.38 %) SQL Server 2 3273 (7.553 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2400 (5.539 %) SQL Server 2000 4 958 (2.211 %) MySQL 5 792 (1.828 %) RDBMS 6 644 (1.486 %) Oracle 10g 7 468 (1.080 %) Oracle 9i 8 448 (1.034 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 427 (0.985 %) DTS 10 389 (0.898 %) MS Access 11 381 (0.879 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 373 (0.861 %) Crystal Reports 13 358 (0.826 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 348 (0.803 %) DB2 15 294 (0.678 %) Datawarehouse 16 235 (0.542 %) Oracle Reports 17 199 (0.459 %) GIS 18 178 (0.411 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 19 176 (0.406 %) Informix 19 176 (0.406 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 1471 (3.395 %) Visual Studio 2 219 (0.505 %) Subversion 3 201 (0.464 %) MSI 4 198 (0.457 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 190 (0.438 %) NUnit 6 168 (0.388 %) ClearCase 7 141 (0.325 %) Oracle Forms 8 137 (0.316 %) Ant 9 134 (0.309 %) Eclipse 10 126 (0.291 %) InstallShield 11 84 (0.194 %) Dreamweaver 12 81 (0.187 %) JUnit 13 80 (0.185 %) TestDirector 14 76 (0.175 %) QuickTest Pro 15 73 (0.168 %) LoadRunner 16 71 (0.164 %) WinRunner 17 56 (0.129 %) AdminStudio 18 52 (0.120 %) ClearQuest 19 46 (0.106 %) PVCS 20 44 (0.102 %) Rational Rose	General 1 7118 (16.43 %) Finance 2 2628 (6.065 %) Banking 3 2129 (4.913 %) Pensions 4 1567 (3.616 %) Health 5 1286 (2.968 %) Telecoms 6 1162 (2.682 %) Investment Banking 7 1152 (2.659 %) Insurance 8 1002 (2.312 %) Front Office 9 899 (2.075 %) Education 10 851 (1.964 %) Law 11 840 (1.939 %) Retail 12 730 (1.685 %) Legal 13 692 (1.597 %) Back Office 14 598 (1.380 %) Government 15 550 (1.269 %) Marketing 16 467 (1.078 %) Games 17 374 (0.863 %) Financial Institution 18 288 (0.665 %) Manufacturing 19 253 (0.584 %) Electronics 20 235 (0.542 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 8289 (19.13 %) Analyst 2 7010 (16.18 %) Developer 3 4573 (10.55 %) Support Analyst 4 3431 (7.918 %) Support Engineer 5 3126 (7.214 %) Administrator 6 2292 (5.290 %) Consultant 7 1834 (4.233 %) Software Engineer 8 1787 (4.124 %) .NET Developer 9 1713 (3.953 %) C# Developer 10 1648 (3.803 %) Systems Administrator 11 1567 (3.616 %) Technical Support 12 1513 (3.492 %) Applications Support 13 1454 (3.356 %) Desktop Support 14 1312 (3.028 %) 2nd Line Support 15 1290 (2.977 %) Architect 16 1273 (2.938 %) C++ Developer 17 1226 (2.829 %) Systems Engineer 18 1103 (2.546 %) DBA 19 1046 (2.414 %) Team Leader 20 1044 (2.409 %) Network Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1633 (3.769 %) Blackberry 2 1219 (2.813 %) Clustering 3 1168 (2.696 %) Derivative 4 1018 (2.349 %) Computer Science 5 830 (1.915 %) Client/Server 6 553 (1.276 %) Multithreading 7 538 (1.242 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 491 (1.133 %) Equities 9 474 (1.094 %) Mainframe 10 466 (1.075 %) N-Tier 11 432 (0.997 %) Fixed Income 12 412 (0.951 %) Replication 13 383 (0.884 %) German Language 14 374 (0.863 %) Mathematics 15 368 (0.849 %) Management Information System 16 338 (0.780 %) PDA 17 336 (0.775 %) French Language 18 300 (0.692 %) Equity Derivative 19 240 (0.554 %) Fat Client 19 240 (0.554 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 14491 (33.44 %) Windows Server 2003 2 8519 (19.66 %) UNIX 3 8239 (19.01 %) Windows XP 4 6884 (15.89 %) Linux 5 5513 (12.72 %) Windows 2000 6 3359 (7.752 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 2757 (6.363 %) Windows Vista 8 2051 (4.733 %) Solaris 9 1168 (2.696 %) Windows Server 2008 10 1113 (2.569 %) Windows NT 11 860 (1.985 %) Red Hat Linux 12 745 (1.719 %) AIX 13 646 (1.491 %) Windows Mobile 14 415 (0.958 %) Mac OS X 15 414 (0.955 %) HPUX 16 292 (0.674 %) Windows CE 17 203 (0.468 %) NetWare 18 178 (0.411 %) Debian 19 158 (0.365 %) SUSE 20 144 (0.332 %) Mac OS	Processes & Methodologies 1 3355 (7.743 %) ITIL 2 1996 (4.606 %) OO 3 1845 (4.258 %) Project Management 4 1007 (2.324 %) Disaster Recovery 5 871 (2.010 %) Agile Software Development 6 816 (1.883 %) UML 7 794 (1.832 %) Migration 8 721 (1.664 %) Web Development 9 707 (1.632 %) E-Commerce 10 650 (1.500 %) CRM 11 647 (1.493 %) PRINCE2 12 634 (1.463 %) Service Delivery 13 558 (1.288 %) Software Engineering 14 555 (1.281 %) Service Management 15 520 (1.200 %) Change Management 16 491 (1.133 %) Electronic Trading 17 478 (1.103 %) OOD 18 470 (1.085 %) Business Intelligence 19 434 (1.002 %) Scrum 20 429 (0.990 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 9984 (23.04 %) SQL 2 5961 (13.76 %) C# 3 5018 (11.58 %) C++ 4 3294 (7.602 %) Java 5 2429 (5.606 %) VB 6 2263 (5.223 %) C 7 1893 (4.369 %) JavaScript 8 1709 (3.944 %) VB.NET 9 1624 (3.748 %) Perl 10 1182 (2.728 %) Transact-SQL 11 1085 (2.504 %) PHP 12 839 (1.936 %) VBScript 13 796 (1.837 %) VC++ 14 762 (1.759 %) Python 15 700 (1.615 %) PL/SQL 15 700 (1.615 %) VB6 16 621 (1.433 %) VBA 17 507 (1.170 %) Shell Script 18 273 (0.630 %) COBOL 19 201 (0.464 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 6655 (15.36 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4850 (11.19 %) MCSE 3 4450 (10.27 %) Degree 4 2233 (5.153 %) MCP 5 1743 (4.023 %) Cisco Certification 6 1337 (3.086 %) CCNA 7 1164 (2.686 %) MCSA 8 1023 (2.361 %) Security Cleared 9 591 (1.364 %) CCNP 10 416 (0.960 %) Citrix Certification 11 415 (0.958 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 12 380 (0.877 %) MCSD 13 379 (0.875 %) ITIL Certification 14 367 (0.847 %) SC Cleared 15 302 (0.697 %) MCAD 16 272 (0.628 %) CCA 17 262 (0.605 %) ISEB 18 230 (0.531 %) MCTS 19 197 (0.455 %) CCEA 20 186 (0.429 %) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1218 (2.811 %) SLA 2 728 (1.680 %) QA 3 160 (0.369 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 131 (0.302 %) ISO27001 5 61 (0.141 %) ISO9001 6 56 (0.129 %) ISO9000 7 43 (0.099 %) PCI DSS 8 38 (0.088 %) HL7 9 30 (0.069 %) TickIT 9 30 (0.069 %) COBIT 10 26 (0.060 %) BS7799 11 20 (0.046 %) ISO17799 12 13 (0.030 %) DICOM 13 11 (0.025 %) JTAG 14 8 (0.018 %) WAI 15 3 (0.007 %) ISO14001 16 2 (0.005 %) RosettaNet 16 2 (0.005 %) 21 CFR Part 11 16 2 (0.005 %) GAMP 16 2 (0.005 %) ISO/IEC 20000	System Software 1 11583 (26.73 %) Active Directory 2 1839 (4.244 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1004 (2.317 %) VMware ESX 4 779 (1.798 %) Backup Exec 5 674 (1.555 %) ISA Server 6 639 (1.475 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 608 (1.403 %) Terminal Services 8 432 (0.997 %) NetBackup 9 404 (0.932 %) Terminal Server 10 272 (0.628 %) MetaFrame 11 205 (0.473 %) Oracle RAC 12 194 (0.448 %) Oracle RMAN 13 184 (0.425 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 14 182 (0.420 %) NFS 15 121 (0.279 %) Hyper-V 16 100 (0.231 %) VMware Server 17 68 (0.157 %) Xen 18 50 (0.115 %) MailMarshal 19 46 (0.106 %) MSMQ 19 46 (0.106 %) Samba
Systems Management 1 625 (1.442 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 510 (1.177 %) MOM 3 271 (0.625 %) Tivoli 4 245 (0.565 %) SCOM 5 233 (0.538 %) OpenView 6 220 (0.508 %) SCCM 7 201 (0.464 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 172 (0.397 %) WSUS 9 168 (0.388 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 10 129 (0.298 %) Data Guard 11 128 (0.295 %) MAILsweeper 12 126 (0.291 %) ZENworks 13 124 (0.286 %) Legato 14 111 (0.256 %) Nagios 15 105 (0.242 %) EMC NetWorker 16 104 (0.240 %) OpenView Configuration Management 17 90 (0.208 %) ARCserve 18 80 (0.185 %) BMC PATROL 19 64 (0.148 %) Unicenter 20 50 (0.115 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 13335 (30.77 %) Microsoft 2 4745 (10.95 %) Oracle 3 4517 (10.42 %) Citrix 4 4462 (10.30 %) Cisco 5 4234 (9.771 %) VMware 6 2435 (5.620 %) HP 7 1387 (3.201 %) IBM 8 1093 (2.522 %) Lotus 9 1024 (2.363 %) VERITAS 10 949 (2.190 %) Red Hat 11 785 (1.812 %) Sybase 12 759 (1.752 %) Sun 13 734 (1.694 %) Symantec 14 663 (1.530 %) Dell 15 600 (1.385 %) CheckPoint 16 564 (1.302 %) EMC 17 533 (1.230 %) Reuters 18 502 (1.159 %) Bloomberg 19 497 (1.147 %) Novell 20 465 (1.073 %) Remedy