East Midlands MCSD Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) in IT jobs within the East Midlands region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Location Abingdon Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London Coventry Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Gerrards Cross Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isleworth Kent Kettering Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Rochester Rugby Scotland Sheffield Skipton Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Stanmore Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tunbridge Wells UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	164	148
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching permanent IT job ads	12	39
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	1.142 %	2.657 %
Salaries quoted	11	35
Average minimum salary	£35,714	£38,514
Average salary	£39,464	£42,014
% change on same period last year	-6.06 %
Average maximum salary	£43,214	£45,514
UK excluding London average salary	£39,299	£38,483
% change on same period last year	+2.12 %
Qualifications East Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	1051	1468
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.555 %	0.601 %
Salaries quoted	959	1210
Average minimum salary	£29,632	£29,899
Average salary	£31,788	£32,082
% change on same period last year	-0.91 %
Average maximum salary	£33,943	£34,265
UK excluding London average salary	£37,731	£38,242
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
MCSD England

MCSD
Demand Trend

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

MCSD
Salary Trend

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

MCSD
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSD across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCSD
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSD within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northamptonshire	-14	8	£43,313	-6.72 %
Leicestershire	-	3	£37,500	-
Nottinghamshire	0	3	£38,333	+17.17 %
Derbyshire	+7	1	£16,000	-53.89 %

MCSD England

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing MCSD 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 MCSD.

1 33 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 29 (87.88 %) .NET 3 26 (78.79 %) C# 4 24 (72.73 %) Microsoft 5 22 (66.67 %) SQL Server 6 21 (63.64 %) MCAD 7 16 (48.48 %) XML 8 14 (42.42 %) SQL 9 13 (39.39 %) MCTS 10 12 (36.36 %) ASP.NET 11 10 (30.30 %) MCSA 12 9 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005 13 8 (24.24 %) BizTalk Server 13 8 (24.24 %) MS Excel 13 8 (24.24 %) MCP

13 8 (24.24 %) SharePoint 13 8 (24.24 %) WebServices 14 7 (21.21 %) VB.NET 14 7 (21.21 %) SQL Server 2000 14 7 (21.21 %) MCPD 14 7 (21.21 %) SharePoint Server 2007 15 6 (18.18 %) HTML 16 5 (15.15 %) JavaScript 16 5 (15.15 %) Visual Studio 16 5 (15.15 %) Degree 17 4 (12.12 %) Dynamics CRM 17 4 (12.12 %) ADO.NET 17 4 (12.12 %) SOAP 17 4 (12.12 %) Transact-SQL 17 4 (12.12 %) CRM

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing MCSD 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 MCSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 29 (87.88 %) .NET 2 16 (48.48 %) XML 3 12 (36.36 %) ASP.NET 4 8 (24.24 %) WebServices 5 6 (18.18 %) HTML 6 4 (12.12 %) SOAP 6 4 (12.12 %) ADO.NET 7 3 (9.091 %) XSLT 7 3 (9.091 %) WinForms 7 3 (9.091 %) .NET Framework 8 1 (3.030 %) Adobe Flex 8 1 (3.030 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 8 (24.24 %) SharePoint 1 8 (24.24 %) BizTalk Server 2 7 (21.21 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (6.061 %) IIS 4 1 (3.030 %) Content Management Server 4 1 (3.030 %) CMS
Applications 1 8 (24.24 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 4 (12.12 %) Dynamics CRM 2 3 (9.091 %) Dynamics AX 2 3 (9.091 %) Dynamics NAV 3 1 (3.030 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (3.030 %) Navision
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 9 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (21.21 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 2 (6.061 %) DTS 4 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (3.030 %) ETL 5 1 (3.030 %) MS Access 5 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 5 (15.15 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (6.061 %) NUnit 3 1 (3.030 %) Flash
General 1 3 (9.091 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 26 (78.79 %) Developer 2 12 (36.36 %) .NET Developer 3 9 (27.27 %) C# Developer 4 6 (18.18 %) Programmer 5 5 (15.15 %) Solutions Architect 5 5 (15.15 %) Architect 6 4 (12.12 %) Senior Developer 7 3 (9.091 %) Applications Developer 7 3 (9.091 %) Web Developer 7 3 (9.091 %) Software Developer 7 3 (9.091 %) .NET Solutions Architect 7 3 (9.091 %) .NET Architect 8 2 (6.061 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (6.061 %) Sharepoint Architect 8 2 (6.061 %) SQL Developer 8 2 (6.061 %) Senior Software Developer 8 2 (6.061 %) Web Applications Developer 9 1 (3.030 %) .NET Web Developer 9 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server Developer 9 1 (3.030 %) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.030 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 3 (9.091 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.12 %) CRM 2 3 (9.091 %) Data Modelling 3 2 (6.061 %) SOA 3 2 (6.061 %) UML 3 2 (6.061 %) OO 3 2 (6.061 %) Digital Marketing 4 1 (3.030 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (3.030 %) Scrum 4 1 (3.030 %) Extreme Programming 4 1 (3.030 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (3.030 %) TDD 4 1 (3.030 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 26 (78.79 %) C# 2 14 (42.42 %) SQL 3 7 (21.21 %) VB.NET 4 5 (15.15 %) JavaScript 5 4 (12.12 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (3.030 %) Java
Qualifications 1 33 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 21 (63.64 %) MCAD 3 13 (39.39 %) MCTS 4 10 (30.30 %) MCSA 5 8 (24.24 %) MCP 6 7 (21.21 %) MCPD 7 5 (15.15 %) Degree 8 2 (6.061 %) MCITP 9 1 (3.030 %) HND	Vendors 1 24 (72.73 %) Microsoft