The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Altrincham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 17 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 Altrincham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 8 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Altrincham 5.442% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 9.091% - -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
Average salary £37,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Altrincham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
88 9 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Altrincham 59.86% 9.783% 9.524%
Number of salaries quoted 85 8 4
Average salary £35,000 £25,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.00% -23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £20,200 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £50,000 £29,300
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
Manchester

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Altrincham 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 Altrincham region.

Altrincham MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Altrincham 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 28 (100.00%) C#
1 28 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 28 (100.00%) .NET
1 28 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 20 (71.43%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (71.43%) Scrum
2 20 (71.43%) SQL Server
3 16 (57.14%) MCP
3 16 (57.14%) MCAD
3 16 (57.14%) MCSD
3 16 (57.14%) TDD
3 16 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (57.14%) MVC
3 16 (57.14%) Web Application Development
3 16 (57.14%) WCF
3 16 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 13 (46.43%) Dependency Injection
4 13 (46.43%) Ninject
5 12 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 12 (42.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 12 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
5 12 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (42.86%) Java
5 12 (42.86%) PHP
5 12 (42.86%) PL/SQL
5 12 (42.86%) SQL
5 12 (42.86%) VB.NET
5 12 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 12 (42.86%) J2EE

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Altrincham 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 28 (100.00%) .NET
1 28 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 28 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 16 (57.14%) WCF
2 16 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 13 (46.43%) Ninject
4 12 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 12 (42.86%) J2EE
5 11 (39.29%) Razor View Engine
6 8 (28.57%) Unity DI Container
6 8 (28.57%) Castle Windsor
6 8 (28.57%) WinForms
6 8 (28.57%) .NET Framework
6 8 (28.57%) WPF
6 8 (28.57%) Spring.NET
7 5 (17.86%) Node.js
7 5 (17.86%) KnockoutJS
Applications
1 12 (42.86%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Broadband
2 3 (10.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 12 (42.86%) Oracle 9i
2 12 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 12 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
2 12 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 12 (42.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (17.86%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) NUnit
1 8 (28.57%) MSTest
1 8 (28.57%) Rhino Mocks
1 8 (28.57%) Moq
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Music
2 5 (17.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (100.00%) Developer
1 28 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 14 (50.00%) Junior Developer
2 14 (50.00%) Junior .NET Developer
2 14 (50.00%) Junior
3 8 (28.57%) Graduate
3 8 (28.57%) Graduate Developer
3 8 (28.57%) Graduate .NET Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Senior .NET Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (71.43%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 8 (28.57%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Scrum
2 16 (57.14%) TDD
2 16 (57.14%) MVC
2 16 (57.14%) Web Application Development
3 13 (46.43%) Dependency Injection
4 12 (42.86%) SSADM
5 8 (28.57%) MVVM
5 8 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (28.57%) Kanban
5 8 (28.57%) Domain-Driven Design
6 3 (10.71%) BDD
6 3 (10.71%) CQRS
6 3 (10.71%) OO
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) C#
2 12 (42.86%) Java
2 12 (42.86%) PHP
2 12 (42.86%) PL/SQL
2 12 (42.86%) SQL
2 12 (42.86%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) MCP
1 16 (57.14%) MCAD
1 16 (57.14%) MCSD
1 16 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Oracle
1 12 (42.86%) Microsoft