The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 104 101 111
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +10
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 36 51 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.443% 1.801% 1.146%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.417% 4.749% 3.263%
Number of salaries quoted 35 46 34
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £37,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Qualifications
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
815 1074 1042
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 32.68% 37.92% 35.13%
Number of salaries quoted 691 913 965
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £25,425
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
East of England

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Cambridgeshire MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridge -7 31 £40,000 - 3
Peterborough 0 5 £30,000 -25.00%
MCTS
East of England

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 58 (75.32%) SQL Server
1 58 (75.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 52 (67.53%) .NET
2 52 (67.53%) C#
2 52 (67.53%) MCP
2 52 (67.53%) MCAD
2 52 (67.53%) MCSD
2 52 (67.53%) TDD
3 51 (66.23%) NUnit
3 51 (66.23%) Scrum
3 51 (66.23%) Kanban
3 51 (66.23%) Rhino Mocks
3 51 (66.23%) Moq
4 44 (57.14%) Windows
5 27 (35.06%) ASP.NET
5 27 (35.06%) VB
5 27 (35.06%) VB.NET
5 27 (35.06%) WCF
5 27 (35.06%) MVC
5 27 (35.06%) BDD
5 27 (35.06%) ASP.NET MVC
5 27 (35.06%) Razor View Engine
5 27 (35.06%) Web Application Development
5 27 (35.06%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 26 (33.77%) NHibernate
6 26 (33.77%) Music Industry
7 25 (32.47%) WPF
7 25 (32.47%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (32.47%) Spring.NET
7 25 (32.47%) WinForms

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 52 (67.53%) .NET
2 27 (35.06%) ASP.NET
2 27 (35.06%) WCF
2 27 (35.06%) ASP.NET MVC
2 27 (35.06%) Razor View Engine
2 27 (35.06%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 26 (33.77%) NHibernate
4 25 (32.47%) WPF
4 25 (32.47%) Spring.NET
4 25 (32.47%) WinForms
4 25 (32.47%) Unity DI Container
4 25 (32.47%) Castle Windsor
4 25 (32.47%) Ninject
Application Platforms
1 11 (14.29%) MS Exchange
2 8 (10.39%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (7.792%) Lync
4 4 (5.195%) SharePoint
4 4 (5.195%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (2.597%) IIS
5 2 (2.597%) Office Communications Server
5 2 (2.597%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (1.299%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 13 (16.88%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.299%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.494%) SAN
2 3 (3.896%) Unified Communications
3 2 (2.597%) LAN
3 2 (2.597%) WAN
3 2 (2.597%) DNS
3 2 (2.597%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.299%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (75.32%) SQL Server
2 15 (19.48%) SQL Server 2012
3 12 (15.58%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 51 (66.23%) NUnit
1 51 (66.23%) Rhino Mocks
1 51 (66.23%) Moq
2 25 (32.47%) MSTest
General
1 26 (33.77%) Music Industry
2 1 (1.299%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 52 (67.53%) Developer
2 27 (35.06%) .NET Developer
3 25 (32.47%) C# Developer
3 25 (32.47%) C# .NET Developer
4 10 (12.99%) Support Engineer
5 7 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 7 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (7.792%) Server Support
7 5 (6.494%) Consultant
8 4 (5.195%) Technical Support
8 4 (5.195%) Project Engineer
8 4 (5.195%) Server Engineer
8 4 (5.195%) Server Support Engineer
8 4 (5.195%) 3rd Line Server Support
8 4 (5.195%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
9 3 (3.896%) Field Engineer
9 3 (3.896%) Virtualisation Consultant
9 3 (3.896%) Field Service Engineer
10 2 (2.597%) Systems Support
10 2 (2.597%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 25 (32.47%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (5.195%) EPoS
3 1 (1.299%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.299%) EqualLogic
3 1 (1.299%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 44 (57.14%) Windows
2 9 (11.69%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (5.195%) Linux
4 4 (5.195%) Windows XP
4 4 (5.195%) Mac OS X
4 4 (5.195%) Mac OS X Server
5 2 (2.597%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (67.53%) TDD
2 51 (66.23%) Scrum
2 51 (66.23%) Kanban
3 27 (35.06%) MVC
3 27 (35.06%) BDD
3 27 (35.06%) Web Application Development
4 25 (32.47%) Continuous Integration
4 25 (32.47%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (32.47%) MVVM
4 25 (32.47%) Dependency Injection
5 5 (6.494%) ITIL
6 4 (5.195%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (2.597%) PRINCE2
7 2 (2.597%) PRINCE
7 2 (2.597%) MOF
7 2 (2.597%) TOGAF
8 1 (1.299%) CQRS
8 1 (1.299%) Data Management
8 1 (1.299%) Identity Management
8 1 (1.299%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 52 (67.53%) C#
2 27 (35.06%) VB
2 27 (35.06%) VB.NET
3 2 (2.597%) C
4 1 (1.299%) SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (75.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 52 (67.53%) MCP
2 52 (67.53%) MCAD
2 52 (67.53%) MCSD
3 24 (31.17%) MCITP
4 14 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 12 (15.58%) Citrix Certification
6 8 (10.39%) CCEE
7 7 (9.091%) CCA
8 6 (7.792%) MCSE
9 5 (6.494%) CCAA
10 4 (5.195%) CCIA
11 3 (3.896%) CCENT
11 3 (3.896%) CCEA
11 3 (3.896%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (3.896%) CCNA
12 2 (2.597%) HND
13 1 (1.299%) VCAP
13 1 (1.299%) NCIE
13 1 (1.299%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 10 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (11.69%) Active Directory
3 8 (10.39%) Hyper-V
3 8 (10.39%) XenApp
3 8 (10.39%) XenDesktop
4 5 (6.494%) vSphere
4 5 (6.494%) XenServer
5 2 (2.597%) VMware ESX
5 2 (2.597%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.299%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (9.091%) SCCM
2 3 (3.896%) SCOM
3 1 (1.299%) SCVMM
3 1 (1.299%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (1.299%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 16 (20.78%) VMware
2 14 (18.18%) Citrix
3 10 (12.99%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.39%) HP
5 7 (9.091%) Dell
6 4 (5.195%) Apple
7 3 (3.896%) NetApp
7 3 (3.896%) EMC
8 2 (2.597%) Cisco
8 2 (2.597%) Symantec
9 1 (1.299%) 3PAR
9 1 (1.299%) AppSense
9 1 (1.299%) Veeam
9 1 (1.299%) SonicWALL
9 1 (1.299%) Draytek
9 1 (1.299%) McAfee
9 1 (1.299%) Veritas
9 1 (1.299%) CommVault
9 1 (1.299%) IBM
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Our client will provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD...
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Posted: 17 June 2013
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
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