The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Brentwood region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 20 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 Brentwood region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 20 9 3
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 4 1 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentwood 4.301% 4.348% 30.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.333% 10.00% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 6
Average salary £40,000 £21,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+86.04% -46.25%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Brentwood
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
48 10 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentwood 51.61% 43.48% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 18 10 8
Average salary £41,250 £27,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -31.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,050 £22,100 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £40,000 £65,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
Essex

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brentwood Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend

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

Brentwood Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Brentwood region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Brentwood Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brentwood region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) WinForms
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) NUnit
2 5 (83.33%) MCTS
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%) 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%) MCP
2 5 (83.33%) MCAD
2 5 (83.33%) MCSD
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%) Mobile Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) MS Office
3 1 (16.67%) SLA
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brentwood region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. 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
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
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 6 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) C# Developer
1 5 (83.33%) WinForms Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
2 1 (16.67%) Smartphone
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
1 5 (83.33%) MVVM
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) MCP
1 5 (83.33%) MCAD
1 5 (83.33%) MCSD
1 5 (83.33%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) HP
1 1 (16.67%) Dell
1 1 (16.67%) Apple