The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Dunstable region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 6 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 5.263% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 14.63% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
Average salary £36,834 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Dunstable
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
41 7 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 35.96% 20.59% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 36 6 3
Average salary £36,834 £49,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.82% +40.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £30,400 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £53,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
Bedfordshire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dunstable MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Salary Trend

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

Dunstable MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) MCP
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) MCSE
1 11 (100.00%) MCSA
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 11 (100.00%) HP
1 11 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 11 (100.00%) DHCP
1 11 (100.00%) Citrix
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (100.00%) SAN
1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 11 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 11 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 11 (100.00%) NAS
1 11 (100.00%) XenApp
1 11 (100.00%) XenServer
1 11 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 11 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 11 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 11 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 10 (90.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 10 (90.91%) LANDesk

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 11 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 11 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 11 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 10 (90.91%) Office Communications Server
2 10 (90.91%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) DHCP
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
1 11 (100.00%) SAN
1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
1 11 (100.00%) NAS
2 10 (90.91%) Network Security
2 10 (90.91%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 10 (90.91%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Wintel Support Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Wintel Support
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 11 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (9.091%) Configuration Management
2 1 (9.091%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) MCP
1 11 (100.00%) MCSE
1 11 (100.00%) MCSA
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (90.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 10 (90.91%) MCITP
3 9 (81.82%) CCA
3 9 (81.82%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.091%) QA
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 11 (100.00%) XenApp
1 11 (100.00%) XenServer
1 11 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (90.91%) Microsoft App-V
2 10 (90.91%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 11 (100.00%) HP
1 11 (100.00%) Citrix
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (90.91%) LANDesk
2 10 (90.91%) CommVault
2 10 (90.91%) EMC
3 1 (9.091%) VocaLink