The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 23 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 69 54 39
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 18 32 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 2.302% 4.199% 6.680%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.571% 12.60% 26.61%
Number of salaries quoted 18 32 33
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
210 254 124
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 26.85% 33.33% 25.10%
Number of salaries quoted 187 242 117
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,300 £28,000 £28,500
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%
Microsoft Certification
East Sussex

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 55 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 42 (76.36%) Windows
3 40 (72.73%) MCAD
3 40 (72.73%) MCSD
3 40 (72.73%) C#
3 40 (72.73%) ASP.NET
3 40 (72.73%) .NET
3 40 (72.73%) MCTS
4 26 (47.27%) WinForms
4 26 (47.27%) MVC
4 26 (47.27%) Scrum
4 26 (47.27%) TDD
4 26 (47.27%) NUnit
4 26 (47.27%) WCF
4 26 (47.27%) WPF
4 26 (47.27%) Kanban
4 26 (47.27%) ASP.NET MVC
4 26 (47.27%) MCP
4 26 (47.27%) VB
4 26 (47.27%) VB.NET
4 26 (47.27%) MVVM
4 26 (47.27%) Rhino Mocks
4 26 (47.27%) Moq
4 26 (47.27%) Razor View Engine
4 26 (47.27%) Web Application Development
4 26 (47.27%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 24 (43.64%) Unity DI Container
5 24 (43.64%) Spring.NET
5 24 (43.64%) Castle Windsor
5 24 (43.64%) Ninject

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 40 (72.73%) ASP.NET
1 40 (72.73%) .NET
2 26 (47.27%) WinForms
2 26 (47.27%) WCF
2 26 (47.27%) WPF
2 26 (47.27%) ASP.NET MVC
2 26 (47.27%) Razor View Engine
2 26 (47.27%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 24 (43.64%) Unity DI Container
3 24 (43.64%) Spring.NET
3 24 (43.64%) Castle Windsor
3 24 (43.64%) Ninject
4 14 (25.45%) Web Services
4 14 (25.45%) Silverlight
4 14 (25.45%) jQuery
5 12 (21.82%) COM+
6 2 (3.636%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 14 (25.45%) SharePoint
1 14 (25.45%) SharePoint 2010
2 12 (21.82%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.27%) LAN
1 15 (27.27%) WAN
1 15 (27.27%) TCP/IP
1 15 (27.27%) NetScreen
1 15 (27.27%) SAN
2 14 (25.45%) Firewall
3 1 (1.818%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (30.91%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.818%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.818%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 26 (47.27%) NUnit
1 26 (47.27%) Rhino Mocks
1 26 (47.27%) Moq
2 24 (43.64%) MSTest
General
1 4 (7.273%) Finance
Job Titles
1 40 (72.73%) Developer
2 39 (70.91%) .NET Developer
3 14 (25.45%) C# Developer
4 13 (23.64%) C# .NET Developer
4 13 (23.64%) C# Web Developer
4 13 (23.64%) .NET Web Developer
4 13 (23.64%) Web Developer
5 11 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
5 11 (20.00%) Administrator
6 3 (5.455%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.636%) Architect
7 2 (3.636%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 24 (43.64%) Inversion of Control
2 13 (23.64%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 42 (76.36%) Windows
2 15 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
2 15 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
3 14 (25.45%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.818%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.818%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) MVC
1 26 (47.27%) Scrum
1 26 (47.27%) TDD
1 26 (47.27%) Kanban
1 26 (47.27%) MVVM
1 26 (47.27%) Web Application Development
2 24 (43.64%) Dependency Injection
2 24 (43.64%) Agile Software Development
2 24 (43.64%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (5.455%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (5.455%) Change Management
4 2 (3.636%) BDD
5 1 (1.818%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (72.73%) C#
2 26 (47.27%) VB
2 26 (47.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 40 (72.73%) MCAD
1 40 (72.73%) MCSD
1 40 (72.73%) MCTS
2 26 (47.27%) MCP
3 14 (25.45%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (25.45%) CCNA
3 14 (25.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 14 (25.45%) MCITP
4 1 (1.818%) MCSE
4 1 (1.818%) MCSA
System Software
1 14 (25.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 14 (25.45%) vSphere
2 1 (1.818%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 14 (25.45%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) VMware
1 15 (27.27%) Cisco
1 15 (27.27%) EMC
2 14 (25.45%) Microsoft
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: 22 May 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: 20 May 2013