The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 24 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 25 34 28
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 15 14 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 5.085% 4.204% 5.338%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.73% 15.91% 20.27%
Number of salaries quoted 14 13 15
Average salary £53,750 £35,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+53.57% +1.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,250 £31,500 £27,600
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £58,500 £64,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
66 88 74
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 22.37% 26.43% 26.33%
Number of salaries quoted 50 81 71
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £30,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £61,600 £68,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Croydon Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 23 (79.31%) Microsoft
2 16 (55.17%) Windows
3 14 (48.28%) Active Directory
4 12 (41.38%) SQL
4 12 (41.38%) MCSE
5 11 (37.93%) MS Office
6 9 (31.03%) ITIL
6 9 (31.03%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (27.59%) SQL Server
7 8 (27.59%) VMware
7 8 (27.59%) MCITP
8 7 (24.14%) MCTS
8 7 (24.14%) MS Exchange
9 6 (20.69%) Project Management
9 6 (20.69%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
9 6 (20.69%) Exchange Server 2010
10 5 (17.24%) Finance
10 5 (17.24%) Degree
10 5 (17.24%) Cisco
10 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (17.24%) Windows XP
10 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
11 4 (13.79%) CRM
11 4 (13.79%) MCDBA
11 4 (13.79%) MySQL
11 4 (13.79%) Oracle
11 4 (13.79%) MCP
11 4 (13.79%) DNS
11 4 (13.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 3 (10.34%) Web Services
2 2 (6.897%) XML
3 1 (3.448%) Application Packaging
3 1 (3.448%) Middleware
3 1 (3.448%) XSD
3 1 (3.448%) SOAP
3 1 (3.448%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 7 (24.14%) MS Exchange
2 6 (20.69%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (13.79%) Lync
3 4 (13.79%) Office Communications Server
3 4 (13.79%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (10.34%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (10.34%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (3.448%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (3.448%) CMS
5 1 (3.448%) ESB
5 1 (3.448%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (3.448%) WebLogic
5 1 (3.448%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (37.93%) MS Office
2 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
3 4 (13.79%) Office 365
4 1 (3.448%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) DNS
2 3 (10.34%) Unified Communications
2 3 (10.34%) SAN
2 3 (10.34%) MPLS
2 3 (10.34%) OSPF
2 3 (10.34%) BGP
2 3 (10.34%) DHCP
3 2 (6.897%) LAN
3 2 (6.897%) WAN
4 1 (3.448%) Firewall
4 1 (3.448%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) MySQL
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (10.34%) dBASE
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle Discoverer
3 3 (10.34%) Ingres
4 2 (6.897%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (6.897%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (6.897%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (3.448%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (3.448%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (3.448%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (3.448%) AdminStudio
General
1 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Consultant
2 8 (27.59%) Technical Consultant
3 6 (20.69%) Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Service Desk Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Service Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Consultant
5 4 (13.79%) DBA
5 4 (13.79%) 1st Line Support
5 4 (13.79%) SQL DBA
6 3 (10.34%) CRM Consultant
6 3 (10.34%) Team Leader
6 3 (10.34%) Development Team Leader
6 3 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
7 2 (6.897%) Exchange Consultant
7 2 (6.897%) Help Desk Analyst
7 2 (6.897%) Administrator
7 2 (6.897%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 2 (6.897%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (6.897%) Teradata DBA
8 1 (3.448%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
1 3 (10.34%) Freedom of Information
1 3 (10.34%) Data Extraction
2 2 (6.897%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (6.897%) Clustering
3 1 (3.448%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.448%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.448%) iPhone
3 1 (3.448%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Windows
2 9 (31.03%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (17.24%) Windows XP
4 2 (6.897%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.448%) Windows Phone
5 1 (3.448%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.448%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) ITIL
2 6 (20.69%) Project Management
3 4 (13.79%) CRM
4 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
4 3 (10.34%) Data Security
4 3 (10.34%) Validation
4 3 (10.34%) Migration
4 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (10.34%) Systems Analysis
4 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis
4 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
4 3 (10.34%) Data Validation
4 3 (10.34%) Release Management
4 3 (10.34%) Integration Testing
4 3 (10.34%) RAD
5 2 (6.897%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (6.897%) Identity Management
6 1 (3.448%) BPEL
6 1 (3.448%) Process Management
6 1 (3.448%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) SQL
2 1 (3.448%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) MCSE
2 8 (27.59%) MCITP
3 7 (24.14%) MCTS
4 6 (20.69%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (17.24%) Degree
6 4 (13.79%) MCDBA
6 4 (13.79%) MCP
6 4 (13.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (10.34%) CCDE
7 3 (10.34%) CCNP
7 3 (10.34%) CCNA
7 3 (10.34%) CCDA
8 2 (6.897%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (6.897%) Security Cleared
9 1 (3.448%) SC Cleared
9 1 (3.448%) RHCE
9 1 (3.448%) HNC
9 1 (3.448%) HND
9 1 (3.448%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.79%) vSphere
4 1 (3.448%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.448%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (6.897%) SCCM
1 2 (6.897%) SCOM
1 2 (6.897%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 23 (79.31%) Microsoft
2 8 (27.59%) VMware
3 5 (17.24%) Cisco
4 4 (13.79%) Oracle
5 3 (10.34%) CheckPoint
5 3 (10.34%) HP
5 3 (10.34%) Dell
5 3 (10.34%) Sybase
5 3 (10.34%) Business Objects
6 1 (3.448%) Dialogic
6 1 (3.448%) Mitel
6 1 (3.448%) Adobe
6 1 (3.448%) Nortel
6 1 (3.448%) Citrix
6 1 (3.448%) Avaya
6 1 (3.448%) Lotus
6 1 (3.448%) Siebel
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