The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 24 May 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 39 36 35
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -1
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 8 14 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 2.339% 3.406% 1.471%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.273% 10.53% 4.348%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 4
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
110 133 92
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 32.16% 32.36% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 82 109 75
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £20,000 £20,750
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £58,750 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
Scotland

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Salary Trend

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

Aberdeen MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 22 (91.67%) Windows
2 18 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (70.83%) Microsoft
4 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 12 (50.00%) MCITP
5 11 (45.83%) Problem Management
5 11 (45.83%) MS Excel
6 10 (41.67%) MCP
6 10 (41.67%) SQL Server
6 10 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (37.50%) .NET
7 9 (37.50%) SQL
7 9 (37.50%) DHCP
7 9 (37.50%) DNS
8 8 (33.33%) C#
9 7 (29.17%) MVC
9 7 (29.17%) WinForms
9 7 (29.17%) TDD
9 7 (29.17%) MCAD
9 7 (29.17%) MCSD
9 7 (29.17%) ASP.NET
9 7 (29.17%) ASP.NET MVC
9 7 (29.17%) Dependency Injection
9 7 (29.17%) WCF
9 7 (29.17%) WPF
9 7 (29.17%) Ninject
9 7 (29.17%) Web Application Development
9 7 (29.17%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 6 (25.00%) VMware
10 6 (25.00%) MCSE

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (37.50%) .NET
2 7 (29.17%) WinForms
2 7 (29.17%) ASP.NET
2 7 (29.17%) ASP.NET MVC
2 7 (29.17%) WCF
2 7 (29.17%) WPF
2 7 (29.17%) Ninject
2 7 (29.17%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 5 (20.83%) KnockoutJS
3 5 (20.83%) Node.js
4 2 (8.333%) Spring.NET
4 2 (8.333%) Castle Windsor
4 2 (8.333%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (8.333%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) IIS
2 5 (20.83%) Lync
3 4 (16.67%) Office Communications Server
4 2 (8.333%) SharePoint
4 2 (8.333%) MS Exchange
5 1 (4.167%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (4.167%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (4.167%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (45.83%) MS Excel
2 3 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) DHCP
1 9 (37.50%) DNS
2 4 (16.67%) Firewall
3 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.333%) SAN
5 1 (4.167%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MSTest
1 2 (8.333%) Rhino Mocks
1 2 (8.333%) Moq
1 2 (8.333%) NUnit
General
1 5 (20.83%) Music
2 2 (8.333%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) .NET Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) DBA
4 2 (8.333%) Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.167%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.167%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (4.167%) SQL DBA
5 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.167%) IT Administrator
5 1 (4.167%) Deployment Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Streaming Music
1 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.333%) Clustering
2 2 (8.333%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (4.167%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (91.67%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (20.83%) Windows 7
4 3 (12.50%) Linux
5 2 (8.333%) Windows XP
6 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Problem Management
2 7 (29.17%) MVC
2 7 (29.17%) TDD
2 7 (29.17%) Dependency Injection
2 7 (29.17%) Web Application Development
3 5 (20.83%) ITIL
3 5 (20.83%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (8.333%) Time Management
4 2 (8.333%) Kanban
4 2 (8.333%) MVVM
4 2 (8.333%) Scrum
5 1 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.167%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (4.167%) Migration
5 1 (4.167%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (4.167%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.167%) VB
3 1 (4.167%) VB.NET
3 1 (4.167%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (50.00%) MCITP
3 10 (41.67%) MCP
4 7 (29.17%) MCAD
4 7 (29.17%) MCSD
5 6 (25.00%) MCSE
6 4 (16.67%) Degree
7 3 (12.50%) A+ Certification
7 3 (12.50%) MCDST
8 2 (8.333%) VCDX
8 2 (8.333%) VCP5
8 2 (8.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (8.333%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (4.167%) MCSA
9 1 (4.167%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 4 (16.67%) XenApp
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) SCCM
2 2 (8.333%) WSUS
2 2 (8.333%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (4.167%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) VMware
3 4 (16.67%) Citrix
3 4 (16.67%) Dell
4 3 (12.50%) EMC
5 2 (8.333%) CommVault
5 2 (8.333%) HP
6 1 (4.167%) NetApp
6 1 (4.167%) Lotus
6 1 (4.167%) Oracle
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