The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Brentwood region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Brentwood region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 24 - 7
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 2 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentwood 1.905% - 6.250%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.762% - 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
Average salary £51,250 - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Qualifications
Brentwood
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
42 9 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentwood 40.00% 40.91% 56.25%
Number of salaries quoted 23 9 9
Average salary £46,000 £30,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+53.33% -25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £22,100 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
Essex

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brentwood 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 Brentwood region.

Brentwood MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brentwood 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) MCP
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (83.33%) MCAD
2 5 (83.33%) MCSD
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) C++
2 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
2 5 (83.33%) WinForms
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) NUnit
2 5 (83.33%) NHibernate
2 5 (83.33%) WPF
2 5 (83.33%) LINQ
2 5 (83.33%) MonoRail
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) MVVM
2 5 (83.33%) Rhino Mocks
2 5 (83.33%) Castle Windsor
2 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (16.67%) XenApp
3 1 (16.67%) XenServer
3 1 (16.67%) MCITP
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (16.67%) MCSE

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brentwood 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 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
1 5 (83.33%) WinForms
1 5 (83.33%) NHibernate
1 5 (83.33%) WPF
1 5 (83.33%) LINQ
1 5 (83.33%) MonoRail
1 5 (83.33%) Castle Windsor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) NUnit
1 5 (83.33%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) C# Developer
1 5 (83.33%) WinForms Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
1 5 (83.33%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) MCP
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (83.33%) MCAD
2 5 (83.33%) MCSD
3 1 (16.67%) MCITP
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (16.67%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) XenApp
1 1 (16.67%) XenServer
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) HP
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix
1 1 (16.67%) VMware