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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 72 64 56
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -8
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 17 20 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 2.107% 2.714% 2.510%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.692% 7.435% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 17 20 13
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
221 269 130
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 27.39% 36.50% 25.10%
Number of salaries quoted 194 252 121
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 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCSD
East Sussex

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton MCSD Jobs Demand Trend

MCSD
Salary Trend

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

Brighton MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 37 (100.00%) .NET
1 37 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 37 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 37 (100.00%) C#
1 37 (100.00%) MCAD
1 37 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (72.97%) Windows
3 26 (70.27%) VB
3 26 (70.27%) VB.NET
3 26 (70.27%) MVC
3 26 (70.27%) Scrum
3 26 (70.27%) WinForms
3 26 (70.27%) Agile Software Development
3 26 (70.27%) TDD
3 26 (70.27%) NUnit
3 26 (70.27%) MCTS
3 26 (70.27%) WCF
3 26 (70.27%) WPF
3 26 (70.27%) Spring.NET
3 26 (70.27%) ASP.NET MVC
3 26 (70.27%) Dependency Injection
3 26 (70.27%) Inversion of Control
3 26 (70.27%) MSTest
3 26 (70.27%) MVVM
3 26 (70.27%) Rhino Mocks
3 26 (70.27%) Moq
3 26 (70.27%) Castle Windsor
3 26 (70.27%) Ninject
3 26 (70.27%) Razor View Engine
3 26 (70.27%) Web Application Development

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 37 (100.00%) .NET
1 37 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 26 (70.27%) WinForms
2 26 (70.27%) WCF
2 26 (70.27%) WPF
2 26 (70.27%) Spring.NET
2 26 (70.27%) ASP.NET MVC
2 26 (70.27%) Castle Windsor
2 26 (70.27%) Ninject
2 26 (70.27%) Razor View Engine
2 26 (70.27%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 26 (70.27%) Unity DI Container
3 11 (29.73%) Silverlight
3 11 (29.73%) jQuery
3 11 (29.73%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (70.27%) NUnit
1 26 (70.27%) MSTest
1 26 (70.27%) Rhino Mocks
1 26 (70.27%) Moq
Job Titles
1 37 (100.00%) Developer
2 36 (97.30%) .NET Developer
3 11 (29.73%) C# Developer
4 10 (27.03%) C# Web Developer
4 10 (27.03%) Web Developer
4 10 (27.03%) .NET Web Developer
4 10 (27.03%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 26 (70.27%) Inversion of Control
2 10 (27.03%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 27 (72.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (70.27%) MVC
1 26 (70.27%) Scrum
1 26 (70.27%) Agile Software Development
1 26 (70.27%) TDD
1 26 (70.27%) Dependency Injection
1 26 (70.27%) MVVM
1 26 (70.27%) Web Application Development
1 26 (70.27%) Continuous Integration
1 26 (70.27%) Kanban
2 1 (2.703%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) C#
2 26 (70.27%) VB
2 26 (70.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (100.00%) MCAD
1 37 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (70.27%) MCTS
2 26 (70.27%) MCP
Brighton, South East
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013