Dudley MCDST Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST) in IT jobs within the Dudley region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCDST over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST)
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Bristol Cambridgeshire Cardiff City of London Croydon Derby Derbyshire Dudley Dunstable East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kingston Upon Thames Leeds London Luton Manchester Middlesbrough Midlands Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perthshire Peterborough Reading Salford Scotland Shropshire South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Teddington Telford UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	0	0
Average minimum salary	-	-
Average salary	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	-
UK excluding London average salary	£23,857	£22,623
% change on same period last year	+5.45 %
Qualifications Dudley
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	17
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.007 %
Salaries quoted	22	17
Average minimum salary	£21,693	£24,831
Average salary	£24,093	£26,985
% change on same period last year	-10.71 %
Average maximum salary	£26,493	£29,139
UK excluding London average salary	£37,834	£38,495
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
MCDST West Midlands

MCDST
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCDST across the Dudley region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCDST
Salary Trend

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

MCDST
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Dudley 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 1 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 1 (100.00 %) MCP 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (100.00 %) A+ Certification 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (100.00 %) Firewall

MCDST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Dudley 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.

Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) Firewall
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 1 (100.00 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (100.00 %) IT Support Analyst	Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003
Qualifications 1 1 (100.00 %) MCP 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (100.00 %) A+ Certification