The first table below looks at the demand for MCDST in IT jobs advertised for the Derby region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCDST over the 3 months to 20 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 Derby region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST)
Rank 33 43 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Permanent jobs citing MCDST 3 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derby 1.395% 0.340% -
As % of the Qualifications category 3.947% 1.205% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £34,500 £16,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+109.09% -
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £23,000 £23,250
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -1.07%
All Qualifications
Derby
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
76 83 99
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derby 35.35% 28.23% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 65 81 80
Average salary £28,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.00% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £22,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCDST
Derbyshire

MCDST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derby MCDST Jobs Demand Trend

MCDST
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCDST across the Derby region.

Derby MCDST Salary Trend

MCDST
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derby region citing MCDST 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 MCDST.

1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) NAS
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL V3
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL V2
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle

MCDST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derby region citing MCDST 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 MCDST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) NAS
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Support Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) IT Support
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL V3
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL V2
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle