The first table below looks at the demand for MCAD in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCAD over the 3 months to 23 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD)
Rank 92 72 73
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +1
Permanent jobs citing MCAD 1 10 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.093% 1.049% 0.112%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.358% 3.472% 0.319%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 1
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
279 288 313
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 25.98% 30.22% 35.01%
Number of salaries quoted 232 256 299
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £51,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCAD
East of England

MCAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire MCAD Jobs Demand Trend

MCAD
Salary Trend

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

Bedfordshire MCAD Salary Trend

MCAD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCAD within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedford -8 1 £45,000 +80.00%
MCAD
East of England

MCAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing MCAD 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 MCAD.

1 14 (100.00%) C#
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
1 14 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 14 (100.00%) MCP
1 14 (100.00%) MCSD
1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 14 (100.00%) WCF
1 14 (100.00%) WPF
2 11 (78.57%) MCTS
2 11 (78.57%) ASP.NET MVC
2 11 (78.57%) Dependency Injection
2 11 (78.57%) Ninject
2 11 (78.57%) Web Application Development
2 11 (78.57%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 11 (78.57%) ASP.NET
2 11 (78.57%) MVC
2 11 (78.57%) TDD
3 10 (71.43%) KnockoutJS
3 10 (71.43%) Domain-Driven Design
3 10 (71.43%) Node.js
4 8 (57.14%) Tandem
4 8 (57.14%) Retail
5 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
6 3 (21.43%) RUP
6 3 (21.43%) ITIL
6 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
6 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
6 3 (21.43%) Visual Studio
6 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
7 2 (14.29%) Problem Management

MCAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing MCAD 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 MCAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
1 14 (100.00%) WCF
1 14 (100.00%) WPF
2 11 (78.57%) ASP.NET MVC
2 11 (78.57%) Ninject
2 11 (78.57%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 11 (78.57%) ASP.NET
3 10 (71.43%) KnockoutJS
3 10 (71.43%) Node.js
4 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
5 1 (7.143%) WinForms
5 1 (7.143%) Unity DI Container
5 1 (7.143%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (7.143%) Castle Windsor
5 1 (7.143%) Spring.NET
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.143%) NUnit
2 1 (7.143%) MSTest
2 1 (7.143%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (7.143%) Moq
General
1 8 (57.14%) Retail
2 2 (14.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 9 (64.29%) .NET Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Support Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Tandem
2 1 (7.143%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Dependency Injection
1 11 (78.57%) Web Application Development
1 11 (78.57%) MVC
1 11 (78.57%) TDD
2 10 (71.43%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (21.43%) RUP
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
3 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (7.143%) Scrum
5 1 (7.143%) MVVM
5 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.143%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) MCP
1 14 (100.00%) MCSD
1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (78.57%) MCTS
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
Bedford, 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...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
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...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013