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

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 89 - 52
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 1 0 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 0.123% - 3.377%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.448% - 13.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 18
Average salary £18,000 - £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £32,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-4.68% +6.66%
All Qualifications
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
223 260 137
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 27.40% 36.31% 25.70%
Number of salaries quoted 196 243 128
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +8.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSA
East Sussex

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Salary Trend

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

Brighton MCSA Salary Trend

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton region citing MCSA 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 MCSA.

1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Bourne shell
2 1 (50.00%) C-shell
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) DMZ
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (50.00%) Reuters
2 1 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (50.00%) NetScreen
2 1 (50.00%) CQG
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) Gentoo

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton region citing MCSA 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 MCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) COM+
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) DMZ
2 1 (50.00%) NetScreen
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) IMAP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) Network Support
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Support
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Network Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) Gentoo
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bourne shell
1 1 (50.00%) C-shell
1 1 (50.00%) AWK
1 1 (50.00%) Korn
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) MCITP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Reuters
2 1 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (50.00%) CQG
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) EMC