The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT jobs advertised for the Dunstable region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSA 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 Dunstable region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 7 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 6.140% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 16.28% - -
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
Average salary £36,834 - -
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-6.15% +8.33%
All Qualifications
Dunstable
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
43 7 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 37.72% 21.88% 21.88%
Number of salaries quoted 38 5 4
Average salary £36,834 £60,000 £23,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.61% +155.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,800 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £46,250 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSA
Bedfordshire

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dunstable MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Salary Trend

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

Dunstable MCSA Salary Trend

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable region citing MCSA 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 MCSA.

1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
1 15 (100.00%) MCSE
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 15 (100.00%) HP
1 15 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 15 (100.00%) Citrix
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 15 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 15 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 15 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 15 (100.00%) XenApp
1 15 (100.00%) XenServer
1 15 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 15 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 14 (93.33%) MCITP
2 14 (93.33%) Finance
3 11 (73.33%) DNS
3 11 (73.33%) Firewall
3 11 (73.33%) MCTS
3 11 (73.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 11 (73.33%) SAN
3 11 (73.33%) DHCP
3 11 (73.33%) MCP
3 11 (73.33%) NAS
3 11 (73.33%) Exchange Server 2010

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable region citing MCSA 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 MCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 15 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 11 (73.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 11 (73.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (66.67%) Lync
3 10 (66.67%) Office Communications Server
4 4 (26.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) DNS
1 11 (73.33%) Firewall
1 11 (73.33%) SAN
1 11 (73.33%) DHCP
1 11 (73.33%) NAS
2 10 (66.67%) Network Security
2 10 (66.67%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 14 (93.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (6.667%) Wintel Support
2 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
2 1 (6.667%) Wintel Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
1 15 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 15 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
2 1 (6.667%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) MCSE
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (93.33%) MCITP
3 11 (73.33%) MCTS
3 11 (73.33%) MCP
4 10 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (60.00%) CCA
5 9 (60.00%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 15 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 15 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 15 (100.00%) XenApp
1 15 (100.00%) XenServer
1 15 (100.00%) XenDesktop
2 10 (66.67%) NFS
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 15 (100.00%) HP
1 15 (100.00%) Citrix
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (66.67%) EMC
2 10 (66.67%) CommVault
2 10 (66.67%) LANDesk
3 1 (6.667%) VocaLink