The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 48 85 83
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 87 45 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 4.820% 2.228% 2.064%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.79% 4.907% 4.803%
Number of salaries quoted 86 45 43
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £44,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
680 917 937
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 37.67% 45.40% 42.98%
Number of salaries quoted 577 756 860
Average salary £40,000 £39,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.26% +5.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £26,800
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £56,600 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Microsoft Certification
Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridge Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

1 109 (75.17%) .NET
2 107 (73.79%) C#
3 91 (62.76%) SQL Server
4 87 (60.00%) Microsoft
5 77 (53.10%) ASP.NET
6 60 (41.38%) MCP
7 56 (38.62%) Windows
8 55 (37.93%) MCTS
9 54 (37.24%) TDD
9 54 (37.24%) NUnit
9 54 (37.24%) Scrum
9 54 (37.24%) MCAD
9 54 (37.24%) MCSD
9 54 (37.24%) Rhino Mocks
10 53 (36.55%) Moq
10 53 (36.55%) Kanban
11 50 (34.48%) MS Excel
12 45 (31.03%) WPF
13 40 (27.59%) WCF
14 32 (22.07%) WinForms
14 32 (22.07%) Oracle
15 28 (19.31%) Castle Windsor
16 27 (18.62%) Ninject
16 27 (18.62%) Razor View Engine
16 27 (18.62%) ASP.NET MVC
16 27 (18.62%) Dependency Injection
16 27 (18.62%) Inversion of Control
16 27 (18.62%) MSTest
16 27 (18.62%) MVVM
16 27 (18.62%) Continuous Integration

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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
1 109 (75.17%) .NET
2 77 (53.10%) ASP.NET
3 45 (31.03%) WPF
4 40 (27.59%) WCF
5 32 (22.07%) WinForms
6 28 (19.31%) Castle Windsor
7 27 (18.62%) Ninject
7 27 (18.62%) Razor View Engine
7 27 (18.62%) ASP.NET MVC
7 27 (18.62%) Spring.NET
7 27 (18.62%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 27 (18.62%) Unity DI Container
7 27 (18.62%) NHibernate
8 13 (8.966%) COM
8 13 (8.966%) DCOM
8 13 (8.966%) Web Services
9 5 (3.448%) Silverlight
10 2 (1.379%) CSS
10 2 (1.379%) HTML
11 1 (0.690%) MonoRail
Application Platforms
1 25 (17.24%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.897%) SharePoint 2010
2 10 (6.897%) MS Exchange
3 6 (4.138%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (3.448%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (3.448%) Lync
5 4 (2.759%) SharePoint 2013
5 4 (2.759%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (2.759%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (2.759%) IIS
6 3 (2.069%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (1.379%) Site Server
8 1 (0.690%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.690%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 50 (34.48%) MS Excel
2 8 (5.517%) MS Office
3 2 (1.379%) InfoPath
3 2 (1.379%) Office 365
4 1 (0.690%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.448%) TCP/IP
1 5 (3.448%) Intranet
1 5 (3.448%) Internet
1 5 (3.448%) Extranet
2 4 (2.759%) LAN
2 4 (2.759%) WAN
3 3 (2.069%) VoIP
3 3 (2.069%) Firewall
4 2 (1.379%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.690%) DNS
5 1 (0.690%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (62.76%) SQL Server
2 21 (14.48%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (7.586%) SQL Server 2012
4 8 (5.517%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (3.448%) Oracle 10g
5 5 (3.448%) Oracle 8/8i
5 5 (3.448%) Oracle 9i
5 5 (3.448%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.448%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 54 (37.24%) NUnit
1 54 (37.24%) Rhino Mocks
2 53 (36.55%) Moq
3 27 (18.62%) MSTest
4 1 (0.690%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.690%) Subversion
General
1 26 (17.93%) Music
1 26 (17.93%) Music Industry
2 19 (13.10%) Finance
3 6 (4.138%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.069%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.069%) Advertising
4 3 (2.069%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 108 (74.48%) Developer
2 54 (37.24%) .NET Developer
3 45 (31.03%) C# Developer
4 27 (18.62%) C# .NET Developer
4 27 (18.62%) Web Developer
4 27 (18.62%) Applications Developer
4 27 (18.62%) ASP.NET Developer
4 27 (18.62%) Web Applications Developer
4 27 (18.62%) .NET Web Developer
4 27 (18.62%) .NET Applications Developer
5 20 (13.79%) Software Developer
6 18 (12.41%) C# Software Developer
7 15 (10.34%) Senior Software Developer
7 15 (10.34%) Senior Developer
8 14 (9.655%) Consultant
9 13 (8.966%) Senior C# Developer
10 9 (6.207%) Support Engineer
11 7 (4.828%) SharePoint Developer
12 6 (4.138%) Analyst
13 5 (3.448%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.62%) Inversion of Control
2 18 (12.41%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.690%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.690%) Taxonomies
3 1 (0.690%) Social Network
3 1 (0.690%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 56 (38.62%) Windows
2 15 (10.34%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (4.828%) Windows 7
4 6 (4.138%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (3.448%) Windows XP
6 4 (2.759%) Windows 8
6 4 (2.759%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (37.24%) TDD
1 54 (37.24%) Scrum
2 53 (36.55%) Kanban
3 27 (18.62%) Dependency Injection
3 27 (18.62%) MVVM
3 27 (18.62%) Continuous Integration
3 27 (18.62%) Web Application Development
3 27 (18.62%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (18.62%) MVC
4 26 (17.93%) BDD
5 8 (5.517%) ITIL
6 5 (3.448%) Workflow
6 5 (3.448%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (3.448%) Asset Management
7 1 (0.690%) Project Management
7 1 (0.690%) OO
7 1 (0.690%) Identity Management
7 1 (0.690%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 107 (73.79%) C#
2 27 (18.62%) JavaScript
3 26 (17.93%) VB
3 26 (17.93%) VB.NET
4 17 (11.72%) SQL
5 3 (2.069%) C
6 1 (0.690%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (41.38%) MCP
2 55 (37.93%) MCTS
3 54 (37.24%) MCAD
3 54 (37.24%) MCSD
4 27 (18.62%) Degree
5 16 (11.03%) MCITP
6 13 (8.966%) MCSE
7 3 (2.069%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.069%) HNC
7 3 (2.069%) HND
7 3 (2.069%) MCDST
8 2 (1.379%) MCSA
8 2 (1.379%) CCNP
8 2 (1.379%) CCNA
9 1 (0.690%) RHCE
9 1 (0.690%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 17 (11.72%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.379%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (1.379%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.690%) XenApp
3 1 (0.690%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (8.276%) SCCM
2 9 (6.207%) SCOM
2 9 (6.207%) SCVMM
3 1 (0.690%) WSUS
Vendors
1 87 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (22.07%) Oracle
3 6 (4.138%) Cisco
4 5 (3.448%) Citrix
5 4 (2.759%) HP
6 3 (2.069%) NetApp
6 3 (2.069%) Apple
6 3 (2.069%) VMware
7 1 (0.690%) EMC
7 1 (0.690%) Google
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