MCTS Jobs in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 88 84 107
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +23
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 32 40 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.789% 2.076% 0.543%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.602% 7.952% 2.786%
Number of salaries quoted 29 39 8
Average salary £35,000 £31,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £21,500 £28,950
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,500 £31,050
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 372 503 323
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 20.79% 26.10% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 269 450 261
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £21,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £46,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
North West

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Warrington 0 16 £25,000 -20.63%
Chester -5 10 £35,000 +7.69%
Macclesfield -8 3 £37,500 +15.38%
Ellesmere Port +4 2 £37,500 -
MCTS
North West

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 114 (97.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 99 (84.62%) C#
2 99 (84.62%) .NET
2 99 (84.62%) ASP.NET
2 99 (84.62%) MCP
2 99 (84.62%) MVC
3 92 (78.63%) WCF
3 92 (78.63%) ASP.NET MVC
4 83 (70.94%) SQL Server
5 79 (67.52%) MCAD
5 79 (67.52%) MCSD
5 79 (67.52%) TDD
5 79 (67.52%) Web Application Development
5 79 (67.52%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 68 (58.12%) Windows
7 64 (54.70%) WPF
8 61 (52.14%) Razor View Engine
9 53 (45.30%) Ninject
9 53 (45.30%) Dependency Injection
9 53 (45.30%) Rhino Mocks
9 53 (45.30%) WinForms
9 53 (45.30%) NUnit
10 51 (43.59%) Scrum
11 49 (41.88%) Kanban
11 49 (41.88%) Moq
12 46 (39.32%) Castle Windsor
13 42 (35.90%) MVVM
13 42 (35.90%) Inversion of Control
13 42 (35.90%) MSTest
13 42 (35.90%) Unity DI Container

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 99 (84.62%) .NET
1 99 (84.62%) ASP.NET
2 92 (78.63%) WCF
2 92 (78.63%) ASP.NET MVC
3 79 (67.52%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 64 (54.70%) WPF
5 61 (52.14%) Razor View Engine
6 53 (45.30%) Ninject
6 53 (45.30%) WinForms
7 46 (39.32%) Castle Windsor
8 42 (35.90%) Spring.NET
8 42 (35.90%) Unity DI Container
9 30 (25.64%) .NET Framework
10 20 (17.09%) XML
11 11 (9.402%) XSLT
11 11 (9.402%) Ajax
11 11 (9.402%) NHibernate
11 11 (9.402%) Node.js
11 11 (9.402%) KnockoutJS
12 9 (7.692%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (5.983%) MS Exchange
2 5 (4.274%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (1.709%) SAS
3 2 (1.709%) Lync
4 1 (0.855%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.855%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.855%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (0.855%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 8 (6.838%) MS Office
1 8 (6.838%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.855%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.983%) SAN
2 6 (5.128%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.128%) VPN
3 4 (3.419%) NAS
4 3 (2.564%) Firewall
5 2 (1.709%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.709%) NetScaler
5 2 (1.709%) DNS
5 2 (1.709%) LAN
5 2 (1.709%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (70.94%) SQL Server
2 36 (30.77%) SQL Server 2008
3 20 (17.09%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (8.547%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (0.855%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.855%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.855%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.855%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 53 (45.30%) NUnit
1 53 (45.30%) Rhino Mocks
2 49 (41.88%) Moq
3 42 (35.90%) MSTest
4 11 (9.402%) Visual Studio
5 9 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.709%) Subversion
General
1 28 (23.93%) Finance
2 11 (9.402%) Music
3 2 (1.709%) Retail
4 1 (0.855%) Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (71.79%) Developer
2 73 (62.39%) .NET Developer
3 19 (16.24%) Junior Developer
3 19 (16.24%) Junior .NET Developer
3 19 (16.24%) Graduate Developer
3 19 (16.24%) Graduate .NET Developer
3 19 (16.24%) Graduate
3 19 (16.24%) Junior
4 9 (7.692%) Software Engineer
5 6 (5.128%) Senior Developer
5 6 (5.128%) Support Engineer
5 6 (5.128%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (5.128%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (4.274%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (2.564%) Web Developer
7 3 (2.564%) Consultant
8 2 (1.709%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (1.709%) Software Developer
8 2 (1.709%) Administrator
8 2 (1.709%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 42 (35.90%) Inversion of Control
2 39 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (16.24%) Computer Science
4 11 (9.402%) Client/Server
4 11 (9.402%) N-Tier
4 11 (9.402%) Streaming Music
5 2 (1.709%) Tandem
6 1 (0.855%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.855%) Celerra
6 1 (0.855%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.855%) iPhone
6 1 (0.855%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 68 (58.12%) Windows
2 13 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 13 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (6.838%) Windows 7
4 7 (5.983%) Linux
5 6 (5.128%) Windows XP
6 4 (3.419%) Windows NT
7 2 (1.709%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.855%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.855%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (84.62%) MVC
2 79 (67.52%) TDD
2 79 (67.52%) Web Application Development
3 53 (45.30%) Dependency Injection
4 51 (43.59%) Scrum
5 49 (41.88%) Kanban
6 42 (35.90%) MVVM
6 42 (35.90%) Continuous Integration
7 38 (32.48%) OO
8 26 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
9 22 (18.80%) BDD
10 15 (12.82%) CQRS
11 14 (11.97%) Agile Software Development
12 9 (7.692%) Web Development
13 8 (6.838%) Business Intelligence
14 7 (5.983%) ITIL
15 4 (3.419%) PRINCE2
15 4 (3.419%) Change Management
16 2 (1.709%) OOP
16 2 (1.709%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 99 (84.62%) C#
2 23 (19.66%) SQL
3 20 (17.09%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.402%) VB
4 11 (9.402%) VB.NET
4 11 (9.402%) XPath
5 10 (8.547%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 114 (97.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 99 (84.62%) MCP
3 79 (67.52%) MCAD
3 79 (67.52%) MCSD
4 11 (9.402%) MCITP
4 11 (9.402%) MCPD
5 9 (7.692%) MCSE
6 6 (5.128%) MCSA
7 5 (4.274%) CCNA
7 5 (4.274%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.419%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.419%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.709%) Citrix Certification
9 2 (1.709%) CCEA
9 2 (1.709%) CCEE
9 2 (1.709%) CCAA
9 2 (1.709%) CCIA
10 1 (0.855%) VCDX
10 1 (0.855%) VCAP
10 1 (0.855%) CCA
System Software
1 12 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.274%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.419%) vSphere
4 3 (2.564%) VMware ESX
5 2 (1.709%) XenApp
5 2 (1.709%) XenServer
5 2 (1.709%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.855%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.855%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.855%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (26.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.402%) VMware
3 7 (5.983%) Citrix
4 3 (2.564%) Cisco
5 2 (1.709%) HP
6 1 (0.855%) Dell
6 1 (0.855%) EMC
6 1 (0.855%) IBM
6 1 (0.855%) NetApp
6 1 (0.855%) AppSense
6 1 (0.855%) Altiris
6 1 (0.855%) LANDesk
6 1 (0.855%) Veeam
.NET, ASP.NET, C# - Fortune 500 Company - Chester
Chester, North West
Our client can provide training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD, ORM, LINQ and NHibernate... (...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
.NET Developer - World Class Entertainment Co - Ellesmere Port
Ellesmere Port, North West
Our client can provide you with Greenfield project work and exposure to: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), AJAX, Agile, TDD, Castle Monorail, Castle Windsor,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
.NET Developer - World Class Entertainment Co - Ellesmere Port
Ellesmere Port, Merseyside
Our client can provide you with Greenfield project work and exposure to: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), AJAX, Agile, TDD, Castle Monorail, Castle Windsor,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
.NET Developer - Video Technology Co - Warrington
Warrington, Cheshire
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
.NET Developer - Video Technology Co - Warrington
Warrington, North West
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
C# .NET Developer
Macclesfield, Cheshire
C# ASP.NET Web Developer, Macclesfield, Manchester. Lead Developer, Senior Developer, C#, Microsoft .NET (2 / 3 / 3.5 / 4), ASP.NET (2, 3.5, 4), AJAX, MVC / MVP,...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Lead SQL DBA - Chester - 50-60k
Chester, North West
An expert level Database Administrator is required to join and lead a large production support team, for my household name client in Chester.
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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