The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Derby 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 Derby region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 25 22 34
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +12
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 10 29 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derby 4.587% 9.898% 3.343%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.51% 32.58% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10 28 6
Average salary £27,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-32.50% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £26,700 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Derby
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
74 89 101
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derby 33.94% 30.38% 30.70%
Number of salaries quoted 63 87 81
Average salary £28,000 £40,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.00% -8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £21,250 £31,750
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Microsoft Certification
Derbyshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derby 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 Derby region.

Derby Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Derby region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Derby Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derby 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 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 10 (52.63%) C#
2 10 (52.63%) .NET
2 10 (52.63%) SQL Server
3 9 (47.37%) ASP.NET
4 8 (42.11%) VB.NET
4 8 (42.11%) MVC
5 7 (36.84%) VMware
5 7 (36.84%) MS Excel
5 7 (36.84%) HTML
5 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (31.58%) jQuery
6 6 (31.58%) MCP
7 5 (26.32%) XML
7 5 (26.32%) Citrix
7 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
8 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
8 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
8 4 (21.05%) WCF
8 4 (21.05%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 4 (21.05%) HTML5
8 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
8 4 (21.05%) CSS
8 4 (21.05%) WinForms
9 3 (15.79%) Symantec
9 3 (15.79%) SQL
9 3 (15.79%) WAN
9 3 (15.79%) MCSD
9 3 (15.79%) Windows

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derby 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 10 (52.63%) .NET
2 9 (47.37%) ASP.NET
3 7 (36.84%) HTML
3 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET MVC
4 6 (31.58%) jQuery
5 5 (26.32%) XML
6 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
6 4 (21.05%) WCF
6 4 (21.05%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (21.05%) HTML5
6 4 (21.05%) CSS
6 4 (21.05%) WinForms
7 2 (10.53%) WPF
7 2 (10.53%) Ajax
7 2 (10.53%) COM
8 1 (5.263%) Web Services
8 1 (5.263%) XSLT
8 1 (5.263%) Node.js
8 1 (5.263%) Ninject
8 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.53%) Lync
2 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) IIS
3 1 (5.263%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (5.263%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 7 (36.84%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.53%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) WAN
2 2 (10.53%) Internet
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 2 (10.53%) Firewall
3 1 (5.263%) SAN
3 1 (5.263%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (5.263%) 4G
3 1 (5.263%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.263%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
1 1 (5.263%) Advertising
1 1 (5.263%) Music
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) .NET Developer
3 6 (31.58%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 6 (31.58%) C# .NET Developer
3 6 (31.58%) C# Developer
3 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Administrator
4 4 (21.05%) Server Administrator
4 4 (21.05%) Support Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Software Developer
5 3 (15.79%) .NET Software Developer
5 3 (15.79%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Web Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.263%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Mobile App
1 1 (5.263%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.263%) Streaming Music
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.263%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) MVC
2 3 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (15.79%) TDD
3 1 (5.263%) ITIL
3 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.263%) Web Application Development
3 1 (5.263%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (5.263%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) C#
2 8 (42.11%) VB.NET
3 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
5 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.263%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) MCP
2 3 (15.79%) MCSD
2 3 (15.79%) MCSE
3 2 (10.53%) MCSA
4 1 (5.263%) MCAD
4 1 (5.263%) CCA
4 1 (5.263%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (5.263%) CCEA
4 1 (5.263%) CCAA
4 1 (5.263%) MCTS
4 1 (5.263%) MCITP
4 1 (5.263%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.263%) XenApp
4 1 (5.263%) XenServer
4 1 (5.263%) XenDesktop
4 1 (5.263%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
1 2 (10.53%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (10.53%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) VMware
3 5 (26.32%) Citrix
4 3 (15.79%) Symantec
5 2 (10.53%) HP
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco
5 2 (10.53%) Sophos
5 2 (10.53%) Websense
6 1 (5.263%) Twitter
6 1 (5.263%) Veeam
6 1 (5.263%) WatchGuard