The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 49 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 1 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 0.397% 1.456% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.538% 3.371% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
Average salary £45,000 £25,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+80.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
65 89 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 25.79% 43.20% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 62 86 54
Average salary £38,000 £41,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.31% +22.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
Bedfordshire

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford MCSD Jobs Demand Trend

MCSD
Salary Trend

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

Bedford MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing MCSD 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 MCSD.

1 11 (100.00%) C#
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) MCP
1 11 (100.00%) MCAD
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (100.00%) WCF
1 11 (100.00%) WPF
2 9 (81.82%) ASP.NET
2 9 (81.82%) TDD
2 9 (81.82%) MVC
2 9 (81.82%) MCTS
2 9 (81.82%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (81.82%) Dependency Injection
2 9 (81.82%) Ninject
2 9 (81.82%) Web Application Development
2 9 (81.82%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 8 (72.73%) KnockoutJS
3 8 (72.73%) Node.js
3 8 (72.73%) Domain-Driven Design
3 8 (72.73%) Tandem
3 8 (72.73%) Retail
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) RUP
5 2 (18.18%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
5 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
5 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
6 1 (9.091%) Inversion of Control

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing MCSD 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 MCSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) WCF
1 11 (100.00%) WPF
2 9 (81.82%) ASP.NET
2 9 (81.82%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (81.82%) Ninject
2 9 (81.82%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 8 (72.73%) KnockoutJS
3 8 (72.73%) Node.js
4 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
5 1 (9.091%) Unity DI Container
5 1 (9.091%) Castle Windsor
5 1 (9.091%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (9.091%) WinForms
5 1 (9.091%) Spring.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.091%) NUnit
2 1 (9.091%) MSTest
2 1 (9.091%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (9.091%) Moq
General
1 8 (72.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 9 (81.82%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Applications Support
4 1 (9.091%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Tandem
2 1 (9.091%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) TDD
1 9 (81.82%) MVC
1 9 (81.82%) Dependency Injection
1 9 (81.82%) Web Application Development
2 8 (72.73%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 2 (18.18%) RUP
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.091%) Change Management
4 1 (9.091%) Problem Management
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.091%) Kanban
4 1 (9.091%) MVVM
4 1 (9.091%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) MCP
1 11 (100.00%) MCAD
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (81.82%) MCTS
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft