The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 18 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 88 83 110
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +27
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 29 46 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.671% 2.282% 0.810%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.685% 5.100% 1.947%
Number of salaries quoted 29 43 17
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +26.98%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £45,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Qualifications
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
619 902 873
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 35.66% 44.74% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 531 758 813
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 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,825 £51,500 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
Cambridgeshire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Cambridge MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 53 (80.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 51 (77.27%) C#
2 51 (77.27%) .NET
2 51 (77.27%) SQL Server
2 51 (77.27%) MCP
2 51 (77.27%) MCAD
2 51 (77.27%) MCSD
2 51 (77.27%) Scrum
2 51 (77.27%) TDD
2 51 (77.27%) NUnit
2 51 (77.27%) Kanban
2 51 (77.27%) Rhino Mocks
2 51 (77.27%) Moq
3 35 (53.03%) Windows
4 26 (39.39%) ASP.NET
4 26 (39.39%) VB
4 26 (39.39%) VB.NET
4 26 (39.39%) MVC
4 26 (39.39%) BDD
4 26 (39.39%) Razor View Engine
4 26 (39.39%) ASP.NET MVC
4 26 (39.39%) Music Industry
4 26 (39.39%) WCF
4 26 (39.39%) NHibernate
4 26 (39.39%) Web Application Development
4 26 (39.39%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 25 (37.88%) Unity DI Container
5 25 (37.88%) WinForms
5 25 (37.88%) WPF
5 25 (37.88%) Continuous Integration

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 51 (77.27%) .NET
2 26 (39.39%) ASP.NET
2 26 (39.39%) ASP.NET MVC
2 26 (39.39%) NHibernate
2 26 (39.39%) WCF
2 26 (39.39%) Razor View Engine
2 26 (39.39%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 25 (37.88%) Unity DI Container
3 25 (37.88%) WPF
3 25 (37.88%) Spring.NET
3 25 (37.88%) Castle Windsor
3 25 (37.88%) Ninject
3 25 (37.88%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.545%) MS Exchange
1 3 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (3.030%) Lync
2 2 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (1.515%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (1.515%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.515%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 6 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.515%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.061%) SAN
1 4 (6.061%) Unified Communications
2 3 (4.545%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.515%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (77.27%) SQL Server
2 14 (21.21%) SQL Server 2012
3 12 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 51 (77.27%) NUnit
1 51 (77.27%) Rhino Mocks
1 51 (77.27%) Moq
2 25 (37.88%) MSTest
General
1 26 (39.39%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 51 (77.27%) Developer
2 26 (39.39%) .NET Developer
3 25 (37.88%) C# Developer
3 25 (37.88%) C# .NET Developer
4 7 (10.61%) Consultant
5 4 (6.061%) Virtualisation Consultant
6 3 (4.545%) Field Engineer
6 3 (4.545%) Field Service Engineer
7 2 (3.030%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.030%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.030%) Technical Support Engineer
7 2 (3.030%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (3.030%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.030%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.030%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.030%) Server Support
7 2 (3.030%) Systems Support
7 2 (3.030%) Technical Support
7 2 (3.030%) Architect
7 2 (3.030%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 25 (37.88%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (4.545%) EPoS
3 2 (3.030%) EqualLogic
3 2 (3.030%) Celerra
4 1 (1.515%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.515%) CLARiiON
4 1 (1.515%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 35 (53.03%) Windows
2 4 (6.061%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (4.545%) Linux
3 3 (4.545%) Windows XP
3 3 (4.545%) Mac OS X
3 3 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (4.545%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (77.27%) Scrum
1 51 (77.27%) TDD
1 51 (77.27%) Kanban
2 26 (39.39%) MVC
2 26 (39.39%) BDD
2 26 (39.39%) Web Application Development
3 25 (37.88%) Continuous Integration
3 25 (37.88%) Dependency Injection
3 25 (37.88%) MVVM
3 25 (37.88%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (4.545%) ITIL
4 3 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (3.030%) PRINCE2
5 2 (3.030%) PRINCE
5 2 (3.030%) MOF
5 2 (3.030%) TOGAF
6 1 (1.515%) Data Protection
6 1 (1.515%) High Availability
6 1 (1.515%) Identity Management
6 1 (1.515%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (77.27%) C#
2 26 (39.39%) VB
2 26 (39.39%) VB.NET
3 2 (3.030%) C
4 1 (1.515%) SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (80.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 51 (77.27%) MCP
2 51 (77.27%) MCAD
2 51 (77.27%) MCSD
3 15 (22.73%) MCITP
4 8 (12.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (9.091%) CCIA
5 6 (9.091%) CCEE
5 6 (9.091%) Citrix Certification
6 5 (7.576%) CCAA
7 3 (4.545%) CCEA
7 3 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.545%) CCNA
7 3 (4.545%) CCA
7 3 (4.545%) CCENT
8 2 (3.030%) VCDX
8 2 (3.030%) MCSE
8 2 (3.030%) NCIE
8 2 (3.030%) VCAP
9 1 (1.515%) NCDA
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.61%) vSphere
3 6 (9.091%) XenApp
3 6 (9.091%) XenServer
3 6 (9.091%) XenDesktop
4 5 (7.576%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.545%) Active Directory
5 3 (4.545%) VMware ESX
6 2 (3.030%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.515%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (6.061%) SCCM
1 4 (6.061%) SCOM
2 2 (3.030%) SCVMM
3 1 (1.515%) ARCserve
3 1 (1.515%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Citrix
1 8 (12.12%) VMware
2 5 (7.576%) HP
3 4 (6.061%) EMC
3 4 (6.061%) NetApp
4 3 (4.545%) Apple
4 3 (4.545%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.545%) Dell
5 2 (3.030%) IBM
5 2 (3.030%) Symantec
5 2 (3.030%) Veeam
6 1 (1.515%) 3PAR
6 1 (1.515%) AppSense
6 1 (1.515%) McAfee
6 1 (1.515%) Veritas
6 1 (1.515%) Cisco
6 1 (1.515%) CommVault
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