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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 127 118 158
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +40
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 88 115 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.710% 1.875% 0.738%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.859% 5.864% 2.707%
Number of salaries quoted 83 112 36
Average salary £41,250 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.12% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1811 1961 1404
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 35.20% 31.97% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1354 1693 1154
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
South East

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Reading +5 35 £41,250 -17.50%
Windsor +11 14 £45,000 -
Newbury -3 13 £25,000 -35.48%
Maidenhead +18 10 £40,000 -23.80%
Slough -5 7 £47,500 +18.75%
Ascot - 7 £35,000 -
Wokingham -5 6 £32,500 -7.14%
Bracknell - 1 £60,000 -
MCTS
South East

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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.

1 163 (80.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 152 (74.88%) SQL Server
3 143 (70.44%) .NET
3 143 (70.44%) C#
4 142 (69.95%) MCP
5 140 (68.97%) MCAD
5 140 (68.97%) MCSD
5 140 (68.97%) TDD
6 125 (61.58%) MVC
6 125 (61.58%) ASP.NET
6 125 (61.58%) WCF
6 125 (61.58%) ASP.NET MVC
7 123 (60.59%) Rhino Mocks
7 123 (60.59%) Scrum
7 123 (60.59%) NUnit
8 122 (60.10%) Web Application Development
9 115 (56.65%) Castle Windsor
10 113 (55.67%) Razor View Engine
11 106 (52.22%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 94 (46.31%) Microsoft
13 87 (42.86%) NHibernate
14 74 (36.45%) Kanban
15 72 (35.47%) Windows
16 69 (33.99%) LINQ
17 56 (27.59%) MCITP
18 54 (26.60%) BDD
19 51 (25.12%) SQL Server 2008
20 49 (24.14%) MonoRail
21 44 (21.67%) Moq
22 42 (20.69%) VMware

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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
1 143 (70.44%) .NET
2 125 (61.58%) ASP.NET
2 125 (61.58%) WCF
2 125 (61.58%) ASP.NET MVC
3 115 (56.65%) Castle Windsor
4 113 (55.67%) Razor View Engine
5 106 (52.22%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 87 (42.86%) NHibernate
7 69 (33.99%) LINQ
8 49 (24.14%) MonoRail
9 39 (19.21%) WPF
10 37 (18.23%) Ninject
11 36 (17.73%) Unity DI Container
11 36 (17.73%) Spring.NET
11 36 (17.73%) WinForms
12 32 (15.76%) HTML5
13 31 (15.27%) Ajax
14 30 (14.78%) Lucene
15 29 (14.29%) Silverlight
16 7 (3.448%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 26 (12.81%) MS Exchange
2 17 (8.374%) Exchange Server 2010
3 15 (7.389%) Lync
4 14 (6.897%) Exchange Server 2013
4 14 (6.897%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (5.911%) Office Communications Server
6 4 (1.970%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 16 (7.882%) MS Excel
2 12 (5.911%) Office 365
3 1 (0.493%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.360%) LAN
1 19 (9.360%) DNS
2 18 (8.867%) DHCP
3 17 (8.374%) WAN
3 17 (8.374%) Internet
4 11 (5.419%) TCP/IP
4 11 (5.419%) NetScaler
5 10 (4.926%) VPN
5 10 (4.926%) Wireless
5 10 (4.926%) LDAP
6 9 (4.433%) VoIP
6 9 (4.433%) SMTP
6 9 (4.433%) 802.11
6 9 (4.433%) Unified Communications
7 6 (2.956%) SAN
8 2 (0.985%) Firewall
9 1 (0.493%) NAS
9 1 (0.493%) HTTP
9 1 (0.493%) SNMP
9 1 (0.493%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (74.88%) SQL Server
2 51 (25.12%) SQL Server 2008
3 34 (16.75%) SQL Server 2012
4 9 (4.433%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 123 (60.59%) NUnit
1 123 (60.59%) Rhino Mocks
2 44 (21.67%) Moq
3 36 (17.73%) MSTest
4 31 (15.27%) Subversion
5 30 (14.78%) Selenium
5 30 (14.78%) Cucumber
General
1 24 (11.82%) Music
2 23 (11.33%) Music Industry
3 13 (6.404%) Games
4 8 (3.941%) Advertising
5 1 (0.493%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.493%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 143 (70.44%) Developer
2 125 (61.58%) .NET Developer
3 44 (21.67%) C# Developer
3 44 (21.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 33 (16.26%) Consultant
5 26 (12.81%) ASP.NET Developer
5 26 (12.81%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 12 (5.911%) Technical Consultant
7 10 (4.926%) Citrix Consultant
7 10 (4.926%) Microsoft Consultant
8 8 (3.941%) Technical Leader
8 8 (3.941%) Virtualisation Consultant
9 7 (3.448%) Senior Consultant
10 5 (2.463%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (2.463%) VMware Consultant
10 5 (2.463%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 4 (1.970%) Principal Consultant
12 3 (1.478%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.478%) Architect
12 3 (1.478%) Implementation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.73%) Inversion of Control
2 20 (9.852%) Tandem
3 12 (5.911%) EqualLogic
4 7 (3.448%) Blackberry
5 5 (2.463%) Computer Science
6 4 (1.970%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.478%) Celerra
8 2 (0.985%) Social Network
8 2 (0.985%) Clustering
9 1 (0.493%) DTV
9 1 (0.493%) CLARiiON
9 1 (0.493%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.493%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 72 (35.47%) Windows
2 31 (15.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (5.419%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (1.970%) Windows 7
4 4 (1.970%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.493%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (68.97%) TDD
2 125 (61.58%) MVC
3 123 (60.59%) Scrum
4 122 (60.10%) Web Application Development
5 74 (36.45%) Kanban
6 54 (26.60%) BDD
7 37 (18.23%) Dependency Injection
7 37 (18.23%) OO
8 36 (17.73%) MVVM
8 36 (17.73%) Continuous Integration
9 30 (14.78%) Scrum-ban
10 19 (9.360%) Agile Software Development
11 18 (8.867%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (8.867%) ITIL
12 17 (8.374%) Domain-Driven Design
13 16 (7.882%) CQRS
14 11 (5.419%) Identity Management
15 9 (4.433%) Time Management
15 9 (4.433%) Migration
15 9 (4.433%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 143 (70.44%) C#
2 18 (8.867%) SQL
3 4 (1.970%) C
4 1 (0.493%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.493%) Scala
Qualifications
1 163 (80.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 142 (69.95%) MCP
3 140 (68.97%) MCAD
3 140 (68.97%) MCSD
4 56 (27.59%) MCITP
5 27 (13.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 20 (9.852%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (9.360%) Citrix Certification
8 18 (8.867%) CCNA
9 17 (8.374%) MCSE
10 16 (7.882%) CCEE
10 16 (7.882%) CCIA
11 15 (7.389%) CCAA
12 14 (6.897%) MCSA
12 14 (6.897%) CCEA
13 11 (5.419%) CCA
14 10 (4.926%) Degree
15 4 (1.970%) VCAP
16 3 (1.478%) NCIE
16 3 (1.478%) VCDX
System Software
1 41 (20.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (16.75%) Active Directory
3 25 (12.32%) XenServer
4 18 (8.867%) XenDesktop
4 18 (8.867%) Hyper-V
5 16 (7.882%) XenApp
5 16 (7.882%) vSphere
6 14 (6.897%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (2.463%) VMware ESX
8 2 (0.985%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.493%) Xen
9 1 (0.493%) UAG
Systems Management
1 17 (8.374%) SCCM
1 17 (8.374%) SCOM
2 9 (4.433%) SCVMM
3 1 (0.493%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 94 (46.31%) Microsoft
2 42 (20.69%) VMware
3 32 (15.76%) Citrix
4 30 (14.78%) HP
5 20 (9.852%) Cisco
6 14 (6.897%) IBM
7 10 (4.926%) ProCurve
8 9 (4.433%) DataCore
9 7 (3.448%) Veeam
10 6 (2.956%) NetApp
10 6 (2.956%) EMC
11 5 (2.463%) Dell
12 4 (1.970%) AppSense
13 1 (0.493%) Blue Coat
13 1 (0.493%) Brocade
13 1 (0.493%) SonicWALL
13 1 (0.493%) Polycom
13 1 (0.493%) 3PAR
13 1 (0.493%) F5
13 1 (0.493%) Symantec
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.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, SQL Server 2012, Agile / SCRUM, TDD, Castle...
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Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Wokingham, Berkshire
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Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus
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