The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 43 33 35
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +2
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 6 17 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 1.749% 4.462% 1.592%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.615% 12.32% 4.505%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 5
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Qualifications
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
130 138 111
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 37.90% 36.22% 35.35%
Number of salaries quoted 99 110 88
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -8.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £64,200 £69,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCSE
Scotland

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MCSE across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Aberdeen MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCSE across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen MCSE Salary Trend

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
3 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (70.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (70.00%) VMware
3 7 (70.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (50.00%) Degree
4 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (50.00%) MCITP
4 5 (50.00%) Citrix
5 4 (40.00%) DNS
5 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
5 4 (40.00%) ITIL
5 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
5 4 (40.00%) DHCP
5 4 (40.00%) MCTS
5 4 (40.00%) SCCM
6 3 (30.00%) WSUS
6 3 (30.00%) NAS
6 3 (30.00%) XenApp
6 3 (30.00%) Clustering
6 3 (30.00%) SQL
6 3 (30.00%) HP
6 3 (30.00%) Dell
6 3 (30.00%) SAN
7 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (20.00%) EMC
7 2 (20.00%) SLA
7 2 (20.00%) Cisco

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing MCSE 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 MCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
1 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (10.00%) GroupWise
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2000
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) IBM Notes
2 1 (10.00%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) DHCP
2 3 (30.00%) NAS
2 3 (30.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (10.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) IT Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Real Time Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Project Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (70.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (10.00%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) High Availability
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (50.00%) MCITP
3 4 (40.00%) MCTS
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (20.00%) MCSA
5 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (10.00%) CCNA
5 1 (10.00%) CCA
5 1 (10.00%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (30.00%) XenApp
4 1 (10.00%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (10.00%) UAG
4 1 (10.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM
2 3 (30.00%) WSUS
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (10.00%) SCOM
4 1 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (70.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Citrix
3 3 (30.00%) HP
3 3 (30.00%) Dell
4 2 (20.00%) EMC
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) Lotus
5 1 (10.00%) Symantec
5 1 (10.00%) McAfee
5 1 (10.00%) CommVault
5 1 (10.00%) Novell
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