Microsoft Certification Jobs in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 48 40 52
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +12
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 77 99 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 4.271% 5.054% 4.279%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.42% 19.19% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 69 94 64
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £21,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £44,000 £44,950
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 377 516 322
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 20.91% 26.34% 19.68%
Number of salaries quoted 276 463 261
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 £52,500 £46,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
North West

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cheshire Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 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 +7 31 £25,000 -20.63%
Macclesfield +6 18 £33,750 +3.84%
Chester -6 10 £35,000 +7.69%
Runcorn +1 6 £30,000 -9.77%
Northwich - 3 £25,000 -
Ellesmere Port +3 2 £37,500 -
Crewe - 2 £25,500 -
Microsoft Certification
North West

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 128 (70.33%) C#
1 128 (70.33%) .NET
2 122 (67.03%) ASP.NET
3 113 (62.09%) MCP
3 113 (62.09%) MCTS
4 112 (61.54%) MVC
5 111 (60.99%) Windows
6 104 (57.14%) SQL Server
7 99 (54.40%) ASP.NET MVC
8 91 (50.00%) WCF
9 87 (47.80%) Microsoft
10 79 (43.41%) TDD
10 79 (43.41%) MCAD
10 79 (43.41%) MCSD
10 79 (43.41%) Web Application Development
10 79 (43.41%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 63 (34.62%) WPF
12 61 (33.52%) Razor View Engine
13 54 (29.67%) Scrum
14 53 (29.12%) WinForms
14 53 (29.12%) NUnit
14 53 (29.12%) Ninject
14 53 (29.12%) Rhino Mocks
14 53 (29.12%) Dependency Injection
15 49 (26.92%) Kanban
15 49 (26.92%) Moq
16 48 (26.37%) SQL Server 2008
16 48 (26.37%) SQL
17 46 (25.27%) Castle Windsor
18 42 (23.08%) MVVM

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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
1 128 (70.33%) .NET
2 122 (67.03%) ASP.NET
3 99 (54.40%) ASP.NET MVC
4 91 (50.00%) WCF
5 79 (43.41%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 63 (34.62%) WPF
7 61 (33.52%) Razor View Engine
8 53 (29.12%) WinForms
8 53 (29.12%) Ninject
9 46 (25.27%) Castle Windsor
10 42 (23.08%) Unity DI Container
10 42 (23.08%) Spring.NET
11 33 (18.13%) .NET Framework
12 32 (17.58%) XML
13 26 (14.29%) HTML
14 24 (13.19%) Ajax
15 22 (12.09%) jQuery
16 18 (9.890%) SOAP
17 17 (9.341%) CSS
18 14 (7.692%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 36 (19.78%) MS Exchange
2 26 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 24 (13.19%) SharePoint
4 21 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2003
5 15 (8.242%) Exchange Server 2007
6 10 (5.495%) IIS
7 9 (4.945%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (4.396%) SharePoint 2010
9 2 (1.099%) SAS
10 1 (0.549%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.549%) Office Communications Server
10 1 (0.549%) Zimbra
10 1 (0.549%) Lync
10 1 (0.549%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 40 (21.98%) MS Excel
2 8 (4.396%) MS Office
3 7 (3.846%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (0.549%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.890%) SAN
2 15 (8.242%) VoIP
3 14 (7.692%) TCP/IP
4 12 (6.593%) VPN
4 12 (6.593%) DNS
4 12 (6.593%) Firewall
5 10 (5.495%) DHCP
6 5 (2.747%) LAN
6 5 (2.747%) WAN
7 4 (2.198%) NAS
8 3 (1.648%) SNMP
9 1 (0.549%) Internet
9 1 (0.549%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 48 (26.37%) SQL Server 2008
3 32 (17.58%) SQL Server 2005
4 9 (4.945%) SQL Server 2012
5 4 (2.198%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 53 (29.12%) NUnit
1 53 (29.12%) Rhino Mocks
2 49 (26.92%) Moq
3 42 (23.08%) MSTest
4 15 (8.242%) Visual Studio
5 9 (4.945%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.099%) Subversion
General
1 30 (16.48%) Finance
2 11 (6.044%) Music
3 2 (1.099%) Retail
3 2 (1.099%) Legal
4 1 (0.549%) Banking
Job Titles
1 107 (58.79%) Developer
2 86 (47.25%) .NET Developer
3 25 (13.74%) Junior Developer
3 25 (13.74%) Junior
4 20 (10.99%) Graduate
4 20 (10.99%) Graduate Developer
5 19 (10.44%) Junior .NET Developer
5 19 (10.44%) Graduate .NET Developer
6 15 (8.242%) Software Developer
6 15 (8.242%) Support Engineer
7 14 (7.692%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.593%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.495%) Senior Server Engineer
9 10 (5.495%) Server Engineer
10 9 (4.945%) .NET Software Developer
11 8 (4.396%) Support Technician
12 7 (3.846%) IT Support
13 6 (3.297%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 6 (3.297%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.297%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 42 (23.08%) Inversion of Control
2 39 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (13.19%) Computer Science
4 11 (6.044%) Streaming Music
5 10 (5.495%) Client/Server
5 10 (5.495%) N-Tier
6 8 (4.396%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.747%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.747%) Mathematics
8 3 (1.648%) Blackberry
9 2 (1.099%) iPhone
9 2 (1.099%) Tandem
10 1 (0.549%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.549%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.549%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.549%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 111 (60.99%) Windows
2 37 (20.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 33 (18.13%) Windows Server 2008
4 22 (12.09%) Windows XP
5 19 (10.44%) Windows 7
6 11 (6.044%) Linux
7 10 (5.495%) Windows Vista
8 9 (4.945%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (2.198%) Windows 8
9 4 (2.198%) Windows NT
10 3 (1.648%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.549%) UNIX
11 1 (0.549%) CentOS
11 1 (0.549%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.549%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (61.54%) MVC
2 79 (43.41%) TDD
2 79 (43.41%) Web Application Development
3 54 (29.67%) Scrum
4 53 (29.12%) Dependency Injection
5 49 (26.92%) Kanban
6 42 (23.08%) MVVM
6 42 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
7 37 (20.33%) OO
8 26 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
9 22 (12.09%) BDD
10 19 (10.44%) Agile Software Development
11 18 (9.890%) ITIL
12 15 (8.242%) CQRS
13 9 (4.945%) Web Development
13 9 (4.945%) Capacity Management
14 8 (4.396%) Performance Management
15 7 (3.846%) Business Intelligence
15 7 (3.846%) Change Control
16 5 (2.747%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 128 (70.33%) C#
2 48 (26.37%) SQL
3 37 (20.33%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.09%) T-SQL
5 14 (7.692%) XPath
6 11 (6.044%) VB
6 11 (6.044%) VB.NET
7 5 (2.747%) C++
8 3 (1.648%) Java
9 2 (1.099%) C
Qualifications
1 113 (62.09%) MCP
1 113 (62.09%) MCTS
2 79 (43.41%) MCAD
2 79 (43.41%) MCSD
3 33 (18.13%) MCSE
4 29 (15.93%) MCITP
5 17 (9.341%) CCNA
5 17 (9.341%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (7.143%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (6.044%) Degree
8 10 (5.495%) MCPD
9 9 (4.945%) MCSA
10 2 (1.099%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.549%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.549%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.549%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.549%) CCNP
11 1 (0.549%) CCA
11 1 (0.549%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.549%) CISSP
System Software
1 36 (19.78%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.593%) vSphere
3 9 (4.945%) ISA Server
3 9 (4.945%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.099%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.099%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.549%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 10 (5.495%) SCCM
2 7 (3.846%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 87 (47.80%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.38%) VMware
3 19 (10.44%) Cisco
4 13 (7.143%) HP
5 11 (6.044%) NetApp
6 10 (5.495%) Citrix
7 9 (4.945%) SolarWinds
8 8 (4.396%) FrontRange
9 2 (1.099%) SonicWALL
9 2 (1.099%) Draytek
9 2 (1.099%) Sophos
10 1 (0.549%) Altiris
10 1 (0.549%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.549%) LANDesk
.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: 20 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: 21 May 2013
.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: 21 May 2013
.NET Developer - Prestigious Software House - Warrington
Warrington, North West
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 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: 21 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
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
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer - Prestigious Software House
Warrington, North West
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Senior Server Engineer - Macclesfield, Cheshire
Macclesfield, North West
Own Change Control process for Infrastructure Services in the UKJob Qualifications:Solid technical experience of server technologies which should include the following:*Windows 2003 / 2008 Server (Windows Server...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: Benefits
Posted: 3 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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