Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT jobs within the London 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.

LinkMicrosoft
Location
3 months to
8 Jan 2009
Same period last year
Rank1214
Rank change on same period last yearUp+2
Matching permanent IT job ads48198856
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled4.165 %4.520 %
As % of the category below26.35 %23.31 %
Salaries quoted40737364
Average minimum salary£41,000£39,898
Average salary£44,291£43,660
% change on same period last year+1.44 %
Average maximum salary£47,581£47,421
UK excluding London average salary£35,958£35,930
% change on same period last year+0.08 %
London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
London
Matching permanent IT job ads1828837996
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled15.81 %19.39 %
Salaries quoted1500329642
Average minimum salary£45,935£45,813
Average salary£49,710£49,960
% change on same period last year-0.50 %
Average maximum salary£53,485£54,108
UK excluding London average salary£40,848£41,897
% change on same period last year-2.50 %
Microsoft EnglandMicrosoft
England

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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

London Microsoft Demand Trend

Microsoft
Salary Trend

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

London Microsoft Salary Trend

Microsoft
Salary Histogram

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

London 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 London 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonUp+41051£45,514+1.50 %
Docklands, LondonUp+888£54,304+20.10 %
CroydonDown-156£43,222+3.45 %
UxbridgeUp+347£39,974+10.73 %
BarnetDown-138£37,711-31.33 %
Canary WharfUp+1032£50,546+26.93 %
LutonNo change024£33,696-12.68 %
BromleyDown-322£30,113-1.43 %
Kingston Upon ThamesNo change018£34,944+9.53 %
EnfieldNew entry-18£31,361-
WimbledonDown-216£37,679-12.04 %
SurbitonUp+214£44,231+13.47 %
EalingUp+914£44,286-6.27 %
TwickenhamUp+713£28,923-25.06 %
FelthamNew entry-12£32,500-
BexleyNew entry-11£32,727-
RomfordDown-211£35,300-15.27 %
ClaphamDown-39£35,444+2.32 %
WembleyUp+79£34,000-11.86 %
HammersmithUp+28£25,000-26.39 %
MitchamDown-37£36,786+29.07 %
IlfordUp+76£38,200+52.80 %
HarrowDown-65£26,200-23.65 %
ChessingtonNew entry-4£48,125-
HounslowDown-82£23,500-45.09 %
SouthwarkDown-42£32,500-56.66 %
PaddingtonNew entry-2£24,000-
TeddingtonDown-12£29,750-13.76 %
South CroydonUp+41£25,000-37.50 %
WestminsterNew entry-1£35,000-
HayesNew entry-1£32,500-
BeckenhamNew entry-1£30,000-
BexleyheathNo change01£40,000-5.88 %
ErithNew entry-1£32,500-
GreenfordUp+81£45,000-1.45 %
Microsoft EnglandMicrosoft
England

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the London 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.

14855 (38.42 %)Windows
24534 (35.88 %)MS Excel
34245 (33.59 %)SQL Server
44108 (32.51 %).NET
53263 (25.82 %)SQL
63116 (24.66 %)C#
72919 (23.10 %)Finance
82568 (20.32 %)Active Directory
92378 (18.82 %)Windows Server 2003
102253 (17.83 %)ASP.NET
112234 (17.68 %)Microsoft Certification
122154 (17.05 %)MS Office
131870 (14.80 %)MS Exchange
141550 (12.27 %)SQL Server 2005
151525 (12.07 %)SharePoint
161296 (10.26 %)XML
171294 (10.24 %)MCSE
181276 (10.10 %)Degree
191246 (9.860 %)Windows XP
201146 (9.069 %)Exchange Server 2003
211136 (8.989 %)Cisco
221080 (8.546 %)Oracle
231055 (8.349 %)TCP/IP
241019 (8.064 %)VMware
251014 (8.024 %)Banking
261004 (7.945 %)Windows 2000
27944 (7.470 %)Project Management
28913 (7.225 %)Citrix
29876 (6.932 %)SQL Server 2000
30797 (6.307 %)VB.NET

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the London 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.

London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
14108 (32.51 %).NET
22253 (17.83 %)ASP.NET
31296 (10.26 %)XML
4775 (6.133 %)HTML
5694 (5.492 %)WebServices
6639 (5.057 %)CSS
7559 (4.424 %).NET Framework
8556 (4.400 %)AJAX
9519 (4.107 %)ASP
10353 (2.793 %)WinForms
11292 (2.311 %)XSLT
12284 (2.247 %)J2EE
13267 (2.113 %)WCF
14265 (2.097 %)Silverlight
15245 (1.939 %)XHTML
16205 (1.622 %)COM
17191 (1.511 %)WPF
18171 (1.353 %)WF
19146 (1.155 %)Flash
20140 (1.108 %)ASP.NET 2.0
London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11870 (14.80 %)MS Exchange
21525 (12.07 %)SharePoint
31146 (9.069 %)Exchange Server 2003
4767 (6.069 %)IIS
5584 (4.621 %)SharePoint Server 2007
6583 (4.613 %)Exchange Server 2007
7521 (4.123 %)BizTalk Server
8423 (3.347 %)Exchange Server 2000
9350 (2.770 %)CMS
10178 (1.409 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
11160 (1.266 %)Lotus Notes
1296 (0.760 %)Content Management Server
1391 (0.720 %)WebLogic
1490 (0.712 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1589 (0.704 %)SAS
1682 (0.649 %)Apache
1781 (0.641 %)Commerce Server
1849 (0.388 %)WebSphere Application Server
1948 (0.380 %)Exchange Server 5.5
2046 (0.364 %)Commerce Server 2007
London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
14534 (35.88 %)MS Excel
22154 (17.05 %)MS Office
3292 (2.311 %)MS Visio
4284 (2.247 %)MS Project
5234 (1.852 %)MS PowerPoint
6139 (1.100 %)Photoshop
789 (0.704 %)Spreadsheet
832 (0.253 %)InfoPath
928 (0.222 %)DeltaView
928 (0.222 %)Adobe Illustrator
1025 (0.198 %)CA Clarity
1119 (0.150 %)Fireworks
1215 (0.119 %)AutoCAD
1215 (0.119 %)InDesign
1313 (0.103 %)SPSS
1412 (0.095 %)Acrobat
1510 (0.079 %)RoboHelp
169 (0.071 %)Paint Shop Pro
178 (0.063 %)QuarkXPress
187 (0.055 %)FrameMaker
London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
1159 (1.258 %)Dynamics CRM
2157 (1.242 %)Microsoft CRM
3119 (0.942 %)Dynamics AX
475 (0.593 %)Axapta
562 (0.491 %)Dynamics NAV
657 (0.451 %)Great Plains
756 (0.443 %)Navision
839 (0.309 %)Oracle Financials
839 (0.309 %)SoftGrid
933 (0.261 %)SAP Business One
1027 (0.214 %)Dynamics GP
1119 (0.150 %)Oracle EBS
1119 (0.150 %)Oracle Applications
1218 (0.142 %)JDE OneWorld
1313 (0.103 %)SAP R/3
1313 (0.103 %)Movex
1410 (0.079 %)SAP CRM
1410 (0.079 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1410 (0.079 %)Line 500
1410 (0.079 %)Sage 1000
London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11055 (8.349 %)TCP/IP
2761 (6.022 %)Firewall
3700 (5.539 %)Internet
4669 (5.294 %)LAN
5647 (5.120 %)WAN
6596 (4.716 %)DNS
7485 (3.838 %)VPN
8466 (3.688 %)DHCP
9420 (3.324 %)SAN
10299 (2.366 %)Intranet
11228 (1.804 %)VoIP
12174 (1.377 %)Cisco PIX
13167 (1.322 %)Network Security
14122 (0.965 %)Wireless
15120 (0.950 %)SMTP
1693 (0.736 %)VLAN
1786 (0.681 %)Cisco ASA
1881 (0.641 %)Extranet
1961 (0.483 %)MPLS
1961 (0.483 %)HTTP
London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
14245 (33.59 %)SQL Server
21550 (12.27 %)SQL Server 2005
3876 (6.932 %)SQL Server 2000
4506 (4.004 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
5497 (3.933 %)Datawarehouse
6473 (3.743 %)SQL Server Integration Services
7387 (3.062 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
8325 (2.572 %)ETL
9295 (2.334 %)BusinessObjects
10237 (1.875 %)Crystal Reports
11219 (1.733 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
12218 (1.725 %)DTS
13208 (1.646 %)OLAP
14204 (1.614 %)MySQL
15195 (1.543 %)MS Access
16175 (1.385 %)RDBMS
17111 (0.878 %)SQL Server 2008
1891 (0.720 %)Oracle 10g
1987 (0.688 %)DB2
2077 (0.609 %)Oracle 9i
London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1522 (4.131 %)Visual Studio
2114 (0.902 %)NUnit
3105 (0.831 %)VSS/SourceSafe
468 (0.538 %)QuickTest Pro
555 (0.435 %)Subversion
654 (0.427 %)WinRunner
747 (0.372 %)Oracle Forms
846 (0.364 %)TestDirector
938 (0.301 %)Dreamweaver
1028 (0.222 %)LoadRunner
1125 (0.198 %)ClearCase
1221 (0.166 %)InstallShield
1320 (0.158 %)MSI
1320 (0.158 %)JUnit
1417 (0.135 %)CruiseControl
1417 (0.135 %)JIRA
1515 (0.119 %)ERwin
1614 (0.111 %)Eclipse
1713 (0.103 %)Ant
1713 (0.103 %)PowerBuilder
London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12919 (23.10 %)Finance
21014 (8.024 %)Banking
3662 (5.239 %)Insurance
4496 (3.925 %)Law
5479 (3.790 %)Health
6460 (3.640 %)Legal
7452 (3.577 %)Investment Banking
8441 (3.490 %)Retail
9412 (3.260 %)Marketing
10393 (3.110 %)Pensions
11336 (2.659 %)Front Office
12329 (2.603 %)Back Office
13321 (2.540 %)Education
14272 (2.152 %)Telecoms
15159 (1.258 %)Publishing
16152 (1.203 %)Financial Institution
17142 (1.124 %)Government
18118 (0.934 %)Games
1986 (0.681 %)Construction
2084 (0.665 %)Advertising
London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
13363 (26.61 %)Developer
22270 (17.96 %)Analyst
31203 (9.520 %).NET Developer
41024 (8.103 %)Support Analyst
5970 (7.676 %)C# Developer
6947 (7.494 %)Consultant
7619 (4.898 %)Architect
8607 (4.803 %)Project Manager
9560 (4.431 %)Administrator
10488 (3.862 %)Support Engineer
11420 (3.324 %)Senior Developer
12376 (2.975 %)ASP.NET Developer
13364 (2.880 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
14320 (2.532 %)SQL Developer
15314 (2.485 %)Desktop Support
16296 (2.342 %)DBA
17288 (2.279 %)Web Developer
18283 (2.239 %)Applications Support
19257 (2.034 %)Junior
20255 (2.018 %)Team Leader
London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1445 (3.521 %)Blackberry
2237 (1.875 %)Derivative
3221 (1.749 %)Client/Server
4215 (1.701 %)Clustering
5213 (1.686 %)N-Tier
5213 (1.686 %)Computer Science
6195 (1.543 %)Fixed Income
7129 (1.021 %)Equities
8126 (0.997 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
9120 (0.950 %)Management Information System
10110 (0.870 %)Mathematics
1196 (0.760 %)Replication
1295 (0.752 %)Tandem
1394 (0.744 %)Web 2.0
1469 (0.546 %)Data Integration
1566 (0.522 %)PMI
1665 (0.514 %)Statistics
1762 (0.491 %)Equity Derivative
1860 (0.475 %)E-Learning
1956 (0.443 %)Market Risk
London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
14855 (38.42 %)Windows
22378 (18.82 %)Windows Server 2003
31246 (9.860 %)Windows XP
41004 (7.945 %)Windows 2000
5631 (4.993 %)Linux
6623 (4.930 %)Windows 2000 Server
7576 (4.558 %)UNIX
8526 (4.162 %)Windows Vista
9326 (2.580 %)Windows Server 2008
10208 (1.646 %)Solaris
11130 (1.029 %)Windows NT
12126 (0.997 %)Red Hat Linux
1379 (0.625 %)Mac OS X
1445 (0.356 %)AIX
1526 (0.206 %)HPUX
1625 (0.198 %)Mac OS
1724 (0.190 %)Windows Mobile
1724 (0.190 %)SUSE
1823 (0.182 %)NetWare
1919 (0.150 %)Debian
London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1944 (7.470 %)Project Management
2720 (5.698 %)Business Intelligence
3709 (5.611 %)OO
4632 (5.001 %)ITIL
5549 (4.344 %)Agile Software Development
6527 (4.170 %)CRM
7455 (3.601 %)PRINCE2
8421 (3.331 %)E-Commerce
9413 (3.268 %)Scrum
10280 (2.216 %)Business Analysis
11276 (2.184 %)UML
12267 (2.113 %)Migration
13248 (1.962 %)Web Development
14245 (1.939 %)Document Management
15239 (1.891 %)Content Management
16230 (1.820 %)TDD
17220 (1.741 %)Disaster Recovery
18205 (1.622 %)ERP
19203 (1.606 %)Asset Management
20182 (1.440 %)Service Delivery
London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
13263 (25.82 %)SQL
23116 (24.66 %)C#
3797 (6.307 %)VB.NET
4760 (6.014 %)JavaScript
5709 (5.611 %)VB
6657 (5.199 %)Java
7627 (4.962 %)Transact-SQL
8572 (4.526 %)C++
9405 (3.205 %)VBA
10311 (2.461 %)C
11242 (1.915 %)VB6
12201 (1.591 %)Perl
13188 (1.488 %)PHP
14179 (1.416 %)VBScript
15159 (1.258 %)PL/SQL
16119 (0.942 %)VC++
1799 (0.783 %)XPath
1880 (0.633 %)Shell Script
1959 (0.467 %)Python
2051 (0.404 %)SAS Macro
London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
12234 (17.68 %)Microsoft Certification
21294 (10.24 %)MCSE
31276 (10.10 %)Degree
4685 (5.421 %)MCP
5552 (4.368 %)Cisco Certification
6463 (3.664 %)CCNA
7351 (2.778 %)MCSA
8261 (2.065 %)MCSD
9244 (1.931 %)CCNP
10177 (1.401 %)MCAD
11154 (1.219 %)MCTS
12131 (1.037 %)Citrix Certification
13100 (0.791 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1494 (0.744 %)ISEB
1589 (0.704 %)CCA
1589 (0.704 %)CCEA
1688 (0.696 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1688 (0.696 %)Security Cleared
1768 (0.538 %)MOS
1866 (0.522 %)ITIL Certification
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1218 (1.725 %)SLA
2214 (1.693 %)QA
322 (0.174 %)ISO9000
420 (0.158 %)ISO27001
518 (0.142 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
616 (0.127 %)HL7
79 (0.071 %)ISO9001
87 (0.055 %)DICOM
95 (0.040 %)Basel II
95 (0.040 %)WAI
104 (0.032 %)COBIT
113 (0.024 %)BS7799
121 (0.008 %)PCI DSS
London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
12568 (20.32 %)Active Directory
2490 (3.878 %)VMware Infrastructure
3236 (1.868 %)ISA Server
4232 (1.836 %)VMware ESX
5228 (1.804 %)Backup Exec
6204 (1.614 %)Citrix Presentation Server
795 (0.752 %)Terminal Server
880 (0.633 %)Terminal Services
965 (0.514 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1053 (0.419 %)VMware Server
1149 (0.388 %)MSMQ
1241 (0.324 %)VMware Workstation
1241 (0.324 %)NetBackup
1338 (0.301 %)Hyper-V
1426 (0.206 %)MetaFrame
1525 (0.198 %)VMware GSX
1623 (0.182 %)Xen
1711 (0.087 %)Oracle RAC
189 (0.071 %)NFS
196 (0.047 %)MailMarshal
London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1278 (2.200 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
2143 (1.132 %)MOM
3115 (0.910 %)SCOM
492 (0.728 %)MAILsweeper
584 (0.665 %)SCCM
683 (0.657 %)OpenView
763 (0.499 %)WSUS
847 (0.372 %)ARCserve
942 (0.332 %)Tivoli
1038 (0.301 %)Norton AntiVirus
1126 (0.206 %)OVSD
1220 (0.158 %)Nagios
1315 (0.119 %)BMC PATROL
1414 (0.111 %)Unicenter
1512 (0.095 %)AutoSys
1512 (0.095 %)ZENworks
1610 (0.079 %)CiscoWorks
179 (0.071 %)Legato
188 (0.063 %)MIMEsweeper
197 (0.055 %)ServiceCenter
London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
11136 (8.989 %)Cisco
21080 (8.546 %)Oracle
31019 (8.064 %)VMware
4913 (7.225 %)Citrix
5574 (4.542 %)HP
6295 (2.334 %)Business Objects
7285 (2.255 %)IBM
8252 (1.994 %)Symantec
9235 (1.860 %)Sybase
10218 (1.725 %)SAP
11208 (1.646 %)EMC
12195 (1.543 %)Dell
13183 (1.448 %)Lotus
14180 (1.424 %)VERITAS
15171 (1.353 %)Reuters
16159 (1.258 %)Bloomberg
17152 (1.203 %)Cognos
18150 (1.187 %)Sun
19138 (1.092 %)Adobe
20135 (1.068 %)Red Hat