The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 23 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 40 33 50
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +17
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 12 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 3.561% 0.641% 0.397%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.34% 2.564% 2.381%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 1
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +22.64%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
59 39 42
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 17.51% 25.00% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 40 32 39
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,200 £21,301 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £42,500 £36,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
Cheshire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 23 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (86.96%) ASP.NET
2 20 (86.96%) C#
2 20 (86.96%) MCP
2 20 (86.96%) MCAD
2 20 (86.96%) MCSD
2 20 (86.96%) MVC
2 20 (86.96%) TDD
2 20 (86.96%) .NET
2 20 (86.96%) ASP.NET MVC
2 20 (86.96%) BDD
2 20 (86.96%) Web Application Development
2 20 (86.96%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 12 (52.17%) CQRS
3 12 (52.17%) Razor View Engine
3 12 (52.17%) WCF
3 12 (52.17%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (52.17%) Domain-Driven Design
4 8 (34.78%) LINQ
4 8 (34.78%) Kanban
4 8 (34.78%) NHibernate
4 8 (34.78%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (34.78%) NUnit
4 8 (34.78%) Scrum
4 8 (34.78%) Rhino Mocks
4 8 (34.78%) Moq
4 8 (34.78%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (13.04%) Capacity Management
5 3 (13.04%) VMware

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 20 (86.96%) ASP.NET
1 20 (86.96%) .NET
1 20 (86.96%) ASP.NET MVC
1 20 (86.96%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 12 (52.17%) Razor View Engine
2 12 (52.17%) WCF
3 8 (34.78%) LINQ
3 8 (34.78%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (52.17%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (34.78%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) NUnit
1 8 (34.78%) Rhino Mocks
1 8 (34.78%) Moq
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) .NET Developer
1 12 (52.17%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) SAS Administrator
2 3 (13.04%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (13.04%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) MVC
1 20 (86.96%) TDD
1 20 (86.96%) BDD
1 20 (86.96%) Web Application Development
2 12 (52.17%) CQRS
2 12 (52.17%) Domain-Driven Design
3 8 (34.78%) Kanban
3 8 (34.78%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (34.78%) Scrum
4 3 (13.04%) Capacity Management
4 3 (13.04%) ITIL
4 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) C#
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (86.96%) MCP
2 20 (86.96%) MCAD
2 20 (86.96%) MCSD
3 3 (13.04%) MCITP
3 3 (13.04%) MCSA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) VMware
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: 22 May 2013
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