The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the City of London 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 288 250 299
Rank change year-on-year
-38 +49
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 29 78 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.248% 0.593% 0.242%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.045% 2.634% 1.161%
Number of salaries quoted 21 73 37
Average salary £45,500 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.05% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £22,600
10% offered a salary of more than £69,000 £64,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2775 2961 3188
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 23.77% 22.52% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2397 2687 2873
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
London

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

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

City of London MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 58 (57.43%) SQL Server
2 56 (55.45%) Microsoft
3 53 (52.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 51 (50.50%) Windows
5 48 (47.52%) MCITP
6 41 (40.59%) SQL Server 2008
7 35 (34.65%) Windows Server 2008
8 34 (33.66%) .NET
9 33 (32.67%) C#
10 30 (29.70%) VMware
10 30 (29.70%) SQL
10 30 (29.70%) ASP.NET
11 29 (28.71%) OO
11 29 (28.71%) VMware Infrastructure
12 28 (27.72%) Active Directory
13 25 (24.75%) MCP
13 25 (24.75%) MVC
13 25 (24.75%) Finance
14 23 (22.77%) MS Excel
15 22 (21.78%) WCF
16 21 (20.79%) MS Exchange
16 21 (20.79%) MCAD
16 21 (20.79%) MCSD
17 20 (19.80%) MS Office
17 20 (19.80%) TDD
17 20 (19.80%) Exchange Server 2010
17 20 (19.80%) Web Application Development
18 19 (18.81%) ASP.NET MVC
18 19 (18.81%) Internet
19 18 (17.82%) SharePoint

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 34 (33.66%) .NET
2 30 (29.70%) ASP.NET
3 22 (21.78%) WCF
4 19 (18.81%) ASP.NET MVC
5 18 (17.82%) Razor View Engine
5 18 (17.82%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 15 (14.85%) XML
7 13 (12.87%) Ajax
8 12 (11.88%) XSLT
8 12 (11.88%) Web Services
9 11 (10.89%) jQuery
9 11 (10.89%) LINQ to SQL
10 6 (5.941%) WinForms
11 5 (4.950%) SAML
12 3 (2.970%) HTML
12 3 (2.970%) CSS
12 3 (2.970%) .NET Framework
13 2 (1.980%) Application Packaging
13 2 (1.980%) WPF
13 2 (1.980%) WF
Application Platforms
1 21 (20.79%) MS Exchange
2 20 (19.80%) Exchange Server 2010
3 18 (17.82%) SharePoint
4 14 (13.86%) SharePoint 2010
5 11 (10.89%) CMS
6 9 (8.911%) Exchange Server 2007
7 8 (7.921%) IIS
7 8 (7.921%) Lync
8 5 (4.950%) Exchange Server 2013
8 5 (4.950%) Windows Azure
9 3 (2.970%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (1.980%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (1.980%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (1.980%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (1.980%) Umbraco
10 2 (1.980%) Immediacy CMS
11 1 (0.990%) Office Communications Server
11 1 (0.990%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (22.77%) MS Excel
2 20 (19.80%) MS Office
3 13 (12.87%) Office 365
4 4 (3.960%) InfoPath
5 2 (1.980%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.990%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.960%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.81%) Internet
2 18 (17.82%) DNS
3 15 (14.85%) SAN
4 9 (8.911%) DHCP
4 9 (8.911%) TCP/IP
5 8 (7.921%) Kerberos
5 8 (7.921%) Firewall
6 4 (3.960%) NAS
7 3 (2.970%) Unified Communications
7 3 (2.970%) LAN
8 2 (1.980%) WLAN
8 2 (1.980%) SNMP
8 2 (1.980%) Wireless
8 2 (1.980%) Network Security
8 2 (1.980%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.980%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.990%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.990%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.990%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.990%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (57.43%) SQL Server
2 41 (40.59%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (12.87%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (6.931%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (5.941%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (5.941%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.970%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (2.970%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (1.980%) DTS
8 1 (0.990%) PowerCenter
8 1 (0.990%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (0.990%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 14 (13.86%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (5.941%) Subversion
3 2 (1.980%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.990%) AdminStudio
General
1 25 (24.75%) Finance
2 18 (17.82%) Games
2 18 (17.82%) Music
3 4 (3.960%) Law
4 3 (2.970%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.980%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.980%) Retail
5 2 (1.980%) Multimedia
5 2 (1.980%) Legal
5 2 (1.980%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (40.59%) Developer
2 31 (30.69%) .NET Developer
3 21 (20.79%) Junior
3 21 (20.79%) Junior Developer
3 21 (20.79%) Junior .NET Developer
4 20 (19.80%) Consultant
5 11 (10.89%) C# Developer
5 11 (10.89%) ASP.NET Developer
5 11 (10.89%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 11 (10.89%) C# .NET Developer
6 9 (8.911%) Infrastructure Architect
6 9 (8.911%) Architect
7 7 (6.931%) SQL Developer
7 7 (6.931%) Technical Consultant
8 6 (5.941%) Support Engineer
8 6 (5.941%) Microsoft Developer
8 6 (5.941%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
8 6 (5.941%) Senior Architect
9 5 (4.950%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 5 (4.950%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Computer Science
2 3 (2.970%) Data Integration
2 3 (2.970%) Blackberry
3 2 (1.980%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.980%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.990%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.990%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 51 (50.50%) Windows
2 35 (34.65%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (15.84%) Windows 7
4 11 (10.89%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (9.901%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (4.950%) Windows XP
7 3 (2.970%) Linux
8 2 (1.980%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.990%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.990%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (28.71%) OO
2 25 (24.75%) MVC
3 20 (19.80%) TDD
3 20 (19.80%) Web Application Development
4 18 (17.82%) CQRS
4 18 (17.82%) Domain-Driven Design
4 18 (17.82%) BDD
5 17 (16.83%) CRM
6 13 (12.87%) OOA/OOD
7 12 (11.88%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (11.88%) Migration
8 9 (8.911%) Project Management
9 8 (7.921%) UML
9 8 (7.921%) ITIL
9 8 (7.921%) Business Development
10 6 (5.941%) Content Management
11 5 (4.950%) ETL
11 5 (4.950%) Configuration Management
12 4 (3.960%) Service Delivery
13 3 (2.970%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 33 (32.67%) C#
2 30 (29.70%) SQL
3 12 (11.88%) VB.NET
3 12 (11.88%) JavaScript
4 9 (8.911%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.960%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.980%) Scala
6 2 (1.980%) Perl
6 2 (1.980%) C
7 1 (0.990%) Java
7 1 (0.990%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (52.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 48 (47.52%) MCITP
3 25 (24.75%) MCP
4 21 (20.79%) MCAD
4 21 (20.79%) MCSD
5 16 (15.84%) MCPD
5 16 (15.84%) Degree
6 10 (9.901%) NVQ Level 3
6 10 (9.901%) A+ Certification
7 8 (7.921%) MCSA
8 7 (6.931%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (6.931%) MCSE
9 6 (5.941%) MCDBA
10 4 (3.960%) CCNP
10 4 (3.960%) Security Cleared
10 4 (3.960%) Microsoft Certified Master
10 4 (3.960%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (2.970%) CCA
11 3 (2.970%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (1.980%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.980%) SLA
2 1 (0.990%) QA
System Software
1 29 (28.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (27.72%) Active Directory
3 17 (16.83%) Hyper-V
4 9 (8.911%) Forefront TMG
4 9 (8.911%) UAG
5 8 (7.921%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (5.941%) XenApp
7 5 (4.950%) vSphere
8 3 (2.970%) XenServer
8 3 (2.970%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (1.980%) VMware ESX
10 1 (0.990%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 1 (0.990%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.990%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.990%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.990%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.990%) IAG
Systems Management
1 14 (13.86%) SCCM
1 14 (13.86%) SCOM
2 5 (4.950%) SCVMM
3 1 (0.990%) Cacti
3 1 (0.990%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (0.990%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (0.990%) MAILsweeper
3 1 (0.990%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 56 (55.45%) Microsoft
2 30 (29.70%) VMware
3 15 (14.85%) Citrix
4 13 (12.87%) Cisco
5 6 (5.941%) Polycom
5 6 (5.941%) Ektron
6 5 (4.950%) HP
7 4 (3.960%) Nortel
7 4 (3.960%) Avaya
7 4 (3.960%) Dialogic
7 4 (3.960%) Mitel
8 3 (2.970%) Blue Coat
9 2 (1.980%) Brocade
9 2 (1.980%) EPiServer
9 2 (1.980%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.980%) F5
9 2 (1.980%) Juniper
9 2 (1.980%) Symantec
9 2 (1.980%) Dell
9 2 (1.980%) EMC
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