The first table below looks at the demand for MCAD in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCAD over the 3 months to 21 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD)
Rank 99 90 -
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -
Permanent jobs citing MCAD 25 37 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.343% 1.848% -
As % of the Qualifications category 3.556% 4.061% -
Number of salaries quoted 25 37 0
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
703 911 928
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 37.78% 45.50% 43.20%
Number of salaries quoted 591 753 856
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCAD
Cambridgeshire

MCAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge MCAD Jobs Demand Trend

MCAD
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge MCAD Salary Trend

MCAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing MCAD 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 MCAD.

1 60 (100.00%) C#
1 60 (100.00%) .NET
1 60 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 60 (100.00%) MCP
1 60 (100.00%) MCSD
1 60 (100.00%) Scrum
1 60 (100.00%) TDD
1 60 (100.00%) NUnit
1 60 (100.00%) MCTS
1 60 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 60 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 57 (95.00%) Moq
2 57 (95.00%) Kanban
3 33 (55.00%) Castle Windsor
4 30 (50.00%) Ninject
4 30 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
4 30 (50.00%) Web Application Development
4 30 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 30 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
4 30 (50.00%) MVC
4 30 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 30 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 30 (50.00%) Spring.NET
4 30 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 30 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
4 30 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
4 30 (50.00%) MSTest
4 30 (50.00%) MVVM
4 30 (50.00%) NHibernate
4 30 (50.00%) WCF

MCAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing MCAD 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 MCAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 60 (100.00%) .NET
2 33 (55.00%) Castle Windsor
3 30 (50.00%) Ninject
3 30 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
3 30 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 30 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
3 30 (50.00%) Spring.NET
3 30 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 30 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 30 (50.00%) WCF
3 30 (50.00%) WPF
3 30 (50.00%) WinForms
3 30 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (5.000%) Ajax
4 3 (5.000%) LINQ
4 3 (5.000%) MonoRail
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 20 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 60 (100.00%) NUnit
1 60 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 57 (95.00%) Moq
3 30 (50.00%) MSTest
4 3 (5.000%) Subversion
General
1 27 (45.00%) Music
1 27 (45.00%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 60 (100.00%) Developer
2 30 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 30 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 30 (50.00%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (5.000%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 30 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) Scrum
1 60 (100.00%) TDD
2 57 (95.00%) Kanban
3 30 (50.00%) Web Application Development
3 30 (50.00%) MVC
3 30 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 30 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 30 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
3 30 (50.00%) MVVM
4 27 (45.00%) BDD
5 4 (6.667%) OO
Programming Languages
1 60 (100.00%) C#
2 26 (43.33%) VB
2 26 (43.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 60 (100.00%) MCP
1 60 (100.00%) MCSD
1 60 (100.00%) MCTS
1 60 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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