The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 88 71 71
Rank change year-on-year
-17 0
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 7 14 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.643% 1.440% 0.355%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.518% 4.682% 1.045%
Number of salaries quoted 7 13 3
Average salary £36,834 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.91% -
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
278 299 287
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 25.53% 30.76% 33.96%
Number of salaries quoted 233 265 277
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 £27,000
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%
MCTS
East of England

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bedfordshire MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Dunstable - 5 £36,834 -
Bedford -8 1 £45,000 +80.00%
Shefford - 1 £37,500 -
MCTS
East of England

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 26 (100.00%) MCP
1 26 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 24 (92.31%) SQL Server
3 16 (61.54%) Windows
3 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
4 14 (53.85%) MCSE
4 14 (53.85%) MCSA
5 13 (50.00%) Citrix
5 13 (50.00%) Firewall
5 13 (50.00%) VMware
5 13 (50.00%) MCITP
5 13 (50.00%) XenApp
6 12 (46.15%) Network Security
6 12 (46.15%) Windows 7
6 12 (46.15%) SAN
6 12 (46.15%) Active Directory
6 12 (46.15%) HP
6 12 (46.15%) MS Exchange
7 11 (42.31%) DHCP
7 11 (42.31%) DNS
7 11 (42.31%) MCAD
7 11 (42.31%) MCSD
7 11 (42.31%) ASP.NET
7 11 (42.31%) C#
7 11 (42.31%) .NET
7 11 (42.31%) CommVault
7 11 (42.31%) MVC
7 11 (42.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (42.31%) TDD
7 11 (42.31%) Exchange Server 2010

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 11 (42.31%) ASP.NET
1 11 (42.31%) .NET
1 11 (42.31%) Ninject
1 11 (42.31%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 11 (42.31%) WCF
1 11 (42.31%) WPF
1 11 (42.31%) ASP.NET MVC
2 10 (38.46%) KnockoutJS
2 10 (38.46%) Node.js
3 1 (3.846%) Spring.NET
3 1 (3.846%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (3.846%) Castle Windsor
3 1 (3.846%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (3.846%) Web Services
3 1 (3.846%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 12 (46.15%) MS Exchange
2 11 (42.31%) Exchange Server 2010
2 11 (42.31%) Exchange Server 2007
3 10 (38.46%) Office Communications Server
3 10 (38.46%) Lync
4 1 (3.846%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) MS Office
2 2 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (50.00%) Firewall
2 12 (46.15%) Network Security
2 12 (46.15%) SAN
3 11 (42.31%) DHCP
3 11 (42.31%) DNS
3 11 (42.31%) NAS
4 10 (38.46%) iSCSI
5 3 (11.54%) WAN
6 2 (7.692%) Internet
7 1 (3.846%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (42.31%) SQL Server 2008
2 11 (42.31%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MSTest
1 1 (3.846%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (3.846%) Moq
1 1 (3.846%) NUnit
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 8 (30.77%) Retail
3 2 (7.692%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Wintel Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) .NET Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) Architect
4 2 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.692%) .NET Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (7.692%) .NET Architect
4 2 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Wintel Support Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Wintel Support
5 1 (3.846%) Technical Support
5 1 (3.846%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Tandem
2 1 (3.846%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (3.846%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Windows
2 12 (46.15%) Windows 7
3 11 (42.31%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (11.54%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) MVC
1 11 (42.31%) TDD
1 11 (42.31%) Web Application Development
1 11 (42.31%) Dependency Injection
2 10 (38.46%) Domain-Driven Design
2 10 (38.46%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (7.692%) ITIL
4 1 (3.846%) Kanban
4 1 (3.846%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (3.846%) MVVM
4 1 (3.846%) CRM
4 1 (3.846%) ERP
4 1 (3.846%) Change Management
4 1 (3.846%) Scrum
4 1 (3.846%) Configuration Management
4 1 (3.846%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) C#
2 1 (3.846%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.846%) SQL
2 1 (3.846%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (100.00%) MCP
1 26 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (53.85%) MCSE
2 14 (53.85%) MCSA
3 13 (50.00%) MCITP
4 11 (42.31%) MCAD
4 11 (42.31%) MCSD
4 11 (42.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (34.62%) CCA
5 9 (34.62%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (11.54%) A+ Certification
6 3 (11.54%) Degree
6 3 (11.54%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (7.692%) CCNA
7 2 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.846%) QA
System Software
1 13 (50.00%) XenApp
2 12 (46.15%) Active Directory
3 11 (42.31%) XenServer
3 11 (42.31%) XenDesktop
3 11 (42.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (42.31%) Hyper-V
4 10 (38.46%) Microsoft App-V
4 10 (38.46%) NFS
5 2 (7.692%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 13 (50.00%) Citrix
2 13 (50.00%) VMware
3 12 (46.15%) HP
4 11 (42.31%) CommVault
5 10 (38.46%) LANDesk
5 10 (38.46%) EMC
6 3 (11.54%) Cisco
7 1 (3.846%) FalconStor
7 1 (3.846%) VocaLink
7 1 (3.846%) Oracle
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