The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Basildon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 20 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 Basildon region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 13 21 35
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +14
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 27 5 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 19.42% 5.102% 4.908%
As % of the Qualifications category 61.36% 23.81% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 21 4 7
Average salary £47,500 £32,250 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+47.28% -28.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Basildon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
44 21 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 31.65% 21.43% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 29 17 46
Average salary £47,500 £32,250 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+47.28% -35.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £21,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £65,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
Essex

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend

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

Basildon Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Basildon region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Basildon Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Certification.

1 41 (95.35%) Microsoft
2 40 (93.02%) SQL Server
3 31 (72.09%) .NET
4 30 (69.77%) C#
4 30 (69.77%) MCP
4 30 (69.77%) MCAD
4 30 (69.77%) MCSD
4 30 (69.77%) TDD
4 30 (69.77%) NUnit
4 30 (69.77%) MCTS
4 30 (69.77%) Rhino Mocks
4 30 (69.77%) Castle Windsor
5 29 (67.44%) MonoRail
5 29 (67.44%) NHibernate
6 26 (60.47%) Scrum
6 26 (60.47%) WPF
6 26 (60.47%) SQL Server 2008
7 25 (58.14%) Silverlight
7 25 (58.14%) Tandem
8 18 (41.86%) SQL Server 2012
9 12 (27.91%) Windows
10 10 (23.26%) SQL
10 10 (23.26%) MCDBA
10 10 (23.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (23.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (20.93%) SQL Server 2005
11 9 (20.93%) Service Delivery
11 9 (20.93%) Finance
11 9 (20.93%) Oracle 8/8i
11 9 (20.93%) Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (72.09%) .NET
2 30 (69.77%) Castle Windsor
3 29 (67.44%) MonoRail
3 29 (67.44%) NHibernate
4 26 (60.47%) WPF
5 25 (58.14%) Silverlight
6 5 (11.63%) WCF
6 5 (11.63%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (11.63%) ASP.NET
6 5 (11.63%) Razor View Engine
6 5 (11.63%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 4 (9.302%) Ajax
8 1 (2.326%) HTML
8 1 (2.326%) Application Packaging
8 1 (2.326%) COM
8 1 (2.326%) XML
8 1 (2.326%) XSD
8 1 (2.326%) WinForms
8 1 (2.326%) Ninject
8 1 (2.326%) Spring.NET
Applications
1 2 (4.651%) MS Office
2 1 (2.326%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.326%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (93.02%) SQL Server
2 26 (60.47%) SQL Server 2008
3 18 (41.86%) SQL Server 2012
4 10 (23.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (23.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (20.93%) SQL Server 2005
5 9 (20.93%) SQL Server 2000
5 9 (20.93%) Oracle 8/8i
5 9 (20.93%) MySQL
5 9 (20.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (18.60%) Oracle 11g
6 8 (18.60%) Oracle 9i
6 8 (18.60%) Oracle 10g
6 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 30 (69.77%) NUnit
1 30 (69.77%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (9.302%) Subversion
3 1 (2.326%) MSTest
3 1 (2.326%) Moq
General
1 9 (20.93%) Finance
2 4 (9.302%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (69.77%) Developer
1 30 (69.77%) .NET Developer
2 8 (18.60%) DBA
2 8 (18.60%) SQL DBA
3 4 (9.302%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (4.651%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (2.326%) Server Administrator
5 1 (2.326%) Desktop Manager
5 1 (2.326%) SQL Server Consultant
5 1 (2.326%) Teradata DBA
5 1 (2.326%) Administrator
5 1 (2.326%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 25 (58.14%) Tandem
2 3 (6.977%) Smartphone
2 3 (6.977%) Replication
2 3 (6.977%) Clustering
3 2 (4.651%) Blackberry
3 2 (4.651%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (2.326%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (2.326%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.91%) Windows
2 9 (20.93%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (20.93%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (6.977%) Android
3 3 (6.977%) Apple iOS
4 2 (4.651%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (69.77%) TDD
2 26 (60.47%) Scrum
3 9 (20.93%) Service Delivery
4 8 (18.60%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (13.95%) ITIL
6 5 (11.63%) MVC
6 5 (11.63%) Web Application Development
7 4 (9.302%) OO
8 2 (4.651%) High Availability
9 1 (2.326%) Migration
9 1 (2.326%) MVVM
9 1 (2.326%) PRINCE
9 1 (2.326%) Change Management
9 1 (2.326%) Wealth Management
9 1 (2.326%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (2.326%) Kanban
9 1 (2.326%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 30 (69.77%) C#
2 10 (23.26%) SQL
3 9 (20.93%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.326%) VB.NET
4 1 (2.326%) XPath
4 1 (2.326%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (69.77%) MCP
1 30 (69.77%) MCAD
1 30 (69.77%) MCSD
1 30 (69.77%) MCTS
2 10 (23.26%) MCDBA
3 8 (18.60%) MCITP
4 1 (2.326%) MCT
4 1 (2.326%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.326%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.651%) SLA
Vendors
1 41 (95.35%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.93%) Oracle
3 2 (4.651%) HP
3 2 (4.651%) Dell
3 2 (4.651%) Apple
Basildon, South East
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
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Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Basildon, South East
You .Ideally you'll hold as many of the following skills as possible:*T-SQL Scripting experience*Microsoft MS SQL Service 2000, 2005, 2008 Database Administration Experience*Working...
JAM
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013