The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 17 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 Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 47 41 -
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.332% 0.904% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.235% 4.478% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £65,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
81 67 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 26.91% 20.18% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60 63 19
Average salary £77,500 £70,000 £68,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.71% +1.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £37,000 £42,750
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) MCP
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) PBX
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) Softphone
3 1 (33.33%) NAS
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) PBX
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Integration Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (66.67%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) CCSA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco