Berkshire MCSD Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) in IT jobs within the Berkshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Location Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexley Bexleyheath Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chertsey Cheshire City of London Clapham Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edenbridge Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Gerrards Cross Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Whitstable Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	190	212
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching permanent IT job ads	50	74
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	2.839 %	2.642 %
Salaries quoted	50	71
Average minimum salary	£40,020	£32,609
Average salary	£46,059	£38,665
% change on same period last year	+19.12 %
Average maximum salary	£52,098	£44,722
UK excluding London average salary	£37,183	£39,153
% change on same period last year	-5.03 %
Qualifications Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1761	2801
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.136 %	1.254 %
Salaries quoted	1542	2275
Average minimum salary	£38,342	£37,403
Average salary	£42,426	£40,680
% change on same period last year	+4.29 %
Average maximum salary	£46,510	£43,956
UK excluding London average salary	£37,971	£38,036
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
MCSD South East

MCSD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCSD across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCSD
Salary Trend

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

MCSD
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSD across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

MCSD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSD within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bracknell	+9	11	£34,545	-19.05 %
Reading	+12	6	£47,917	+38.51 %
Newbury	-	6	£42,500	-
Wokingham	-	5	£35,000	-
Maidenhead	+26	2	£40,000	+6.90 %
Slough	-6	1	£50,000	+53.84 %

MCSD South East

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 99 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 98 (98.99 %) .NET 3 83 (83.84 %) MCAD 4 76 (76.77 %) SQL Server 5 71 (71.72 %) C# 5 71 (71.72 %) ASP.NET 6 65 (65.66 %) SQL Server 2005 7 57 (57.58 %) MCP 8 53 (53.54 %) Microsoft 9 43 (43.43 %) XML 9 43 (43.43 %) VB.NET 10 42 (42.42 %) MS Excel 11 39 (39.39 %) SharePoint 12 38 (38.38 %) AJAX 12 38 (38.38 %) WCF

12 38 (38.38 %) WPF 12 38 (38.38 %) WF 13 35 (35.35 %) SharePoint Server 2007 14 32 (32.32 %) MCTS 14 32 (32.32 %) SQL Server 2000 15 31 (31.31 %) SQL 16 29 (29.29 %) Scrum 17 27 (27.27 %) JavaScript 18 25 (25.25 %) HTML 19 24 (24.24 %) E-Commerce 20 23 (23.23 %) MCITP 21 21 (21.21 %) VB 22 18 (18.18 %) Extreme Programming 23 17 (17.17 %) Silverlight 23 17 (17.17 %) InfoPath

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 98 (98.99 %) .NET 2 71 (71.72 %) ASP.NET 3 43 (43.43 %) XML 4 38 (38.38 %) AJAX 4 38 (38.38 %) WCF 4 38 (38.38 %) WPF 4 38 (38.38 %) WF 5 25 (25.25 %) HTML 6 17 (17.17 %) Silverlight 7 15 (15.15 %) CSS 8 14 (14.14 %) WebServices 9 12 (12.12 %) Windows SharePoint Services 10 6 (6.061 %) XHTML 11 4 (4.040 %) ASP 12 3 (3.030 %) Adobe Flex 13 2 (2.020 %) .NET Framework 14 1 (1.010 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 39 (39.39 %) SharePoint 2 35 (35.35 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 15 (15.15 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 13 (13.13 %) BizTalk Server 5 6 (6.061 %) CMS 6 2 (2.020 %) IIS
Applications 1 42 (42.42 %) MS Excel 2 17 (17.17 %) InfoPath 3 13 (13.13 %) MS Office 4 3 (3.030 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 7 (7.071 %) Microsoft CRM 2 6 (6.061 %) Dynamics CRM 3 3 (3.030 %) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking 1 13 (13.13 %) Internet 2 6 (6.061 %) Intranet 3 2 (2.020 %) LAN 3 2 (2.020 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 76 (76.77 %) SQL Server 2 65 (65.66 %) SQL Server 2005 3 32 (32.32 %) SQL Server 2000 4 14 (14.14 %) DTS 5 13 (13.13 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 13 (13.13 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 12 (12.12 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 6 (6.061 %) PerformancePoint 7 6 (6.061 %) Datawarehouse 7 6 (6.061 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 6 (6.061 %) ETL 7 6 (6.061 %) BusinessObjects 8 2 (2.020 %) SQL Server 2008 9 1 (1.010 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 3 (3.030 %) Visual Studio	General 1 14 (14.14 %) Retail 2 11 (11.11 %) Automotive 3 8 (8.081 %) Auditing 4 2 (2.020 %) Banking 5 1 (1.010 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (1.010 %) Health
Job Titles 1 58 (58.59 %) Developer 2 37 (37.37 %) .NET Developer 3 28 (28.28 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 20 (20.20 %) Consultant 5 17 (17.17 %) C# Developer 6 15 (15.15 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 14 (14.14 %) VB.NET Developer 8 13 (13.13 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 9 11 (11.11 %) Sharepoint Architect 9 11 (11.11 %) Architect 10 8 (8.081 %) SharePoint Consultant 11 6 (6.061 %) Project Manager 11 6 (6.061 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 11 6 (6.061 %) VB Developer 12 5 (5.051 %) Team Leader 12 5 (5.051 %) Microsoft Developer 13 4 (4.040 %) SharePoint Developer 13 4 (4.040 %) ASP Developer 13 4 (4.040 %) Senior Project Manager 13 4 (4.040 %) Senior Manager	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.061 %) PMI 2 4 (4.040 %) Data Integration 3 3 (3.030 %) French Language 3 3 (3.030 %) German Language 4 2 (2.020 %) Client/Server 5 1 (1.010 %) Biotechnology
Operating Systems 1 14 (14.14 %) Windows 2 13 (13.13 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (1.010 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (29.29 %) Scrum 2 24 (24.24 %) E-Commerce 3 18 (18.18 %) Extreme Programming 4 14 (14.14 %) Business Intelligence 5 7 (7.071 %) CRM 6 6 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 6 6 (6.061 %) Web Development 7 4 (4.040 %) SOA 8 3 (3.030 %) Workflow 8 3 (3.030 %) Integration Testing 9 2 (2.020 %) SC Cleared 9 2 (2.020 %) BC Cleared 9 2 (2.020 %) Security Cleared 9 2 (2.020 %) Document Management 10 1 (1.010 %) TDD 10 1 (1.010 %) Migration 10 1 (1.010 %) OO 10 1 (1.010 %) ERP 10 1 (1.010 %) EAI
Programming Languages 1 71 (71.72 %) C# 2 43 (43.43 %) VB.NET 3 31 (31.31 %) SQL 4 27 (27.27 %) JavaScript 5 21 (21.21 %) VB 6 12 (12.12 %) Transact-SQL 7 6 (6.061 %) VB6 8 2 (2.020 %) Java 8 2 (2.020 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 99 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 83 (83.84 %) MCAD 3 57 (57.58 %) MCP 4 32 (32.32 %) MCTS 5 23 (23.23 %) MCITP 6 11 (11.11 %) MCDBA 7 6 (6.061 %) PMP 7 6 (6.061 %) PMI Certification 8 1 (1.010 %) MCSE 8 1 (1.010 %) MCPD 8 1 (1.010 %) Degree
System Software 1 1 (1.010 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 53 (53.54 %) Microsoft 2 6 (6.061 %) Kalido 2 6 (6.061 %) ProClarity 2 6 (6.061 %) Business Objects 2 6 (6.061 %) Cognos 3 3 (3.030 %) Sage 4 1 (1.010 %) Siebel 4 1 (1.010 %) SAP 4 1 (1.010 %) Oracle