The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 41 33 46
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +13
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 11 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 3.152% 0.637% 2.066%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.30% 2.564% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 5
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £27,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +20.37%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
57 39 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 16.33% 24.84% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 38 32 38
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £21,301 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £36,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Microsoft Certification
Cheshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 25 (92.59%) SQL Server
1 25 (92.59%) MCTS
2 22 (81.48%) MVC
2 22 (81.48%) TDD
2 22 (81.48%) .NET
2 22 (81.48%) ASP.NET MVC
2 22 (81.48%) BDD
2 22 (81.48%) ASP.NET
2 22 (81.48%) C#
2 22 (81.48%) MCP
2 22 (81.48%) MCAD
2 22 (81.48%) MCSD
2 22 (81.48%) Web Application Development
2 22 (81.48%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 15 (55.56%) CQRS
3 15 (55.56%) Razor View Engine
3 15 (55.56%) Domain-Driven Design
3 15 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (55.56%) WCF
4 7 (25.93%) LINQ
4 7 (25.93%) NHibernate
4 7 (25.93%) NUnit
4 7 (25.93%) Scrum
4 7 (25.93%) Kanban
4 7 (25.93%) Rhino Mocks
4 7 (25.93%) Moq
4 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (25.93%) SQL Server 2012
5 5 (18.52%) Windows
5 5 (18.52%) VMware

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 22 (81.48%) .NET
1 22 (81.48%) ASP.NET MVC
1 22 (81.48%) ASP.NET
1 22 (81.48%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 15 (55.56%) Razor View Engine
2 15 (55.56%) WCF
3 7 (25.93%) LINQ
3 7 (25.93%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) SAS
2 1 (3.704%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (3.704%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.704%) SAN
1 1 (3.704%) Internet
1 1 (3.704%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (92.59%) SQL Server
2 15 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (25.93%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) NUnit
1 7 (25.93%) Rhino Mocks
1 7 (25.93%) Moq
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Developer
1 15 (55.56%) .NET Developer
2 3 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (11.11%) Administrator
2 3 (11.11%) SAS Administrator
3 1 (3.704%) Technical Support
3 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (3.704%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.704%) Blackberry
1 1 (3.704%) iPhone
1 1 (3.704%) iPad
1 1 (3.704%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 4 (14.81%) Linux
3 1 (3.704%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.704%) UNIX
3 1 (3.704%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (3.704%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.704%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) MVC
1 22 (81.48%) TDD
1 22 (81.48%) BDD
1 22 (81.48%) Web Application Development
2 15 (55.56%) CQRS
2 15 (55.56%) Domain-Driven Design
3 7 (25.93%) Scrum
3 7 (25.93%) Kanban
3 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (14.81%) ITIL
5 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 3 (11.11%) Capacity Management
6 1 (3.704%) Project Management
6 1 (3.704%) Service Management
6 1 (3.704%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.704%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) C#
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (92.59%) MCTS
2 22 (81.48%) MCP
2 22 (81.48%) MCAD
2 22 (81.48%) MCSD
3 3 (11.11%) MCSA
3 3 (11.11%) MCITP
4 1 (3.704%) CCA
4 1 (3.704%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (3.704%) CISSP
4 1 (3.704%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.704%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (3.704%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.704%) MCSE
4 1 (3.704%) CCNP
4 1 (3.704%) CCNA
4 1 (3.704%) CCEE
4 1 (3.704%) CCAA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) VMware ESX
2 2 (7.407%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.407%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.704%) Citrix Presentation Server
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) VMware
2 2 (7.407%) Citrix
3 1 (3.704%) Cisco
3 1 (3.704%) Microsoft
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