The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 19 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 Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 44 32 62
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +30
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 19 23 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 3.417% 5.623% 1.634%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.34% 18.85% 7.246%
Number of salaries quoted 14 23 10
Average salary £36,000 £38,500 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.49% +26.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,800 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £45,000 £38,550
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
154 122 138
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 27.70% 29.83% 22.55%
Number of salaries quoted 131 118 127
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,400 £24,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Microsoft Certification
South Wales

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 33 (97.06%) Microsoft
2 20 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 20 (58.82%) Windows
3 18 (52.94%) MS Exchange
4 17 (50.00%) DNS
4 17 (50.00%) MCSE
5 16 (47.06%) DHCP
5 16 (47.06%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (44.12%) MS Excel
6 15 (44.12%) MCSA
7 14 (41.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 14 (41.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (38.24%) Lync
9 12 (35.29%) Office Communications Server
9 12 (35.29%) MCITP
9 12 (35.29%) ASP.NET
9 12 (35.29%) .NET
10 11 (32.35%) SQL Server
10 11 (32.35%) C#
11 10 (29.41%) SharePoint
11 10 (29.41%) VoIP
11 10 (29.41%) Telecoms
11 10 (29.41%) Finance
11 10 (29.41%) CMS
11 10 (29.41%) Content Management
11 10 (29.41%) Sitecore CMS
11 10 (29.41%) Sitecore
11 10 (29.41%) Video Conferencing
11 10 (29.41%) Dialogic
11 10 (29.41%) Unified Communications

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 12 (35.29%) ASP.NET
1 12 (35.29%) .NET
2 8 (23.53%) Razor View Engine
2 8 (23.53%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 8 (23.53%) Castle Windsor
2 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC
2 8 (23.53%) .NET Framework
3 6 (17.65%) CSS
4 4 (11.76%) HTML
5 2 (5.882%) XHTML
5 2 (5.882%) WinForms
5 2 (5.882%) jQuery
5 2 (5.882%) HTML5
6 1 (2.941%) COM
Application Platforms
1 18 (52.94%) MS Exchange
2 16 (47.06%) Exchange Server 2010
3 13 (38.24%) Lync
4 12 (35.29%) Office Communications Server
5 10 (29.41%) SharePoint
5 10 (29.41%) CMS
5 10 (29.41%) Sitecore CMS
6 8 (23.53%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (17.65%) BizTalk Server
7 6 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (8.824%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (5.882%) Umbraco
10 1 (2.941%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (44.12%) MS Excel
2 3 (8.824%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (50.00%) DNS
2 16 (47.06%) DHCP
3 10 (29.41%) VoIP
3 10 (29.41%) Unified Communications
4 6 (17.65%) TCP/IP
5 3 (8.824%) VLAN
5 3 (8.824%) SAN
6 2 (5.882%) Firewall
6 2 (5.882%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (5.882%) NAS
6 2 (5.882%) Cisco PIX
7 1 (2.941%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Team Foundation Server
1 8 (23.53%) ReSharper
1 8 (23.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (29.41%) Telecoms
1 10 (29.41%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Retail
3 2 (5.882%) Financial Institution
3 2 (5.882%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Implementation Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) BizTalk Developer
4 5 (14.71%) .NET Developer
5 3 (8.824%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.824%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (8.824%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 3 (8.824%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (5.882%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Web Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (2.941%) Lead Web Developer
7 1 (2.941%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (2.941%) 3rd Line Server Support
7 1 (2.941%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
7 1 (2.941%) Server Analyst
7 1 (2.941%) Web Manager
7 1 (2.941%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (2.941%) Server Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (8.824%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.882%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (5.882%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.941%) EqualLogic
4 1 (2.941%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (58.82%) Windows
2 14 (41.18%) Windows Server 2008
2 14 (41.18%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (8.824%) Android
4 3 (8.824%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (5.882%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.941%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Content Management
2 8 (23.53%) Unit Testing
2 8 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (23.53%) TDD
2 8 (23.53%) Scrum
2 8 (23.53%) OO
2 8 (23.53%) CRM
3 5 (14.71%) ITIL
4 3 (8.824%) Incident Management
5 2 (5.882%) Web Development
5 2 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (5.882%) Software Engineering
6 1 (2.941%) Information Security
6 1 (2.941%) Matrix Management
6 1 (2.941%) Project Management
6 1 (2.941%) MVC
6 1 (2.941%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) C#
2 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.824%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.824%) SQL
4 2 (5.882%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) MCSE
2 15 (44.12%) MCSA
3 12 (35.29%) MCITP
4 5 (14.71%) Degree
5 3 (8.824%) MCP
6 1 (2.941%) MCTS
6 1 (2.941%) MCPD
6 1 (2.941%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.941%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.941%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.941%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.824%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.882%) VMware ESX
3 2 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.941%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) SCCM
2 1 (2.941%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (2.941%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 33 (97.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (29.41%) Sitecore
2 10 (29.41%) Dialogic
3 6 (17.65%) Cisco
4 5 (14.71%) VMware
5 4 (11.76%) Dell
6 3 (8.824%) Apple
6 3 (8.824%) HP
7 2 (5.882%) Alterian
8 1 (2.941%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.941%) Citrix