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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 182 149 185
Rank change year-on-year
-33 +36
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 82 124 93
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.992% 1.425% 0.975%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.370% 4.667% 3.033%
Number of salaries quoted 82 123 92
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £63,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2433 2657 3066
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 29.44% 30.54% 32.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2019 2191 2702
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
England

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England MCSD Jobs Demand Trend

MCSD
Salary Trend

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

East of England MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSD across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England MCSD Salary Histogram

MCSD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSD within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Essex +11 25 £47,500 +11.76%
Cambridgeshire -3 25 £40,000 -
Hertfordshire -3 19 £35,000 -33.33%
Norfolk +8 12 £27,500 -21.42%
Bedfordshire -24 1 £45,000 +12.50%
MCSD
England

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

1 190 (100.00%) C#
1 190 (100.00%) .NET
1 190 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 190 (100.00%) MCP
1 190 (100.00%) MCAD
1 190 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 187 (98.42%) TDD
2 187 (98.42%) MCTS
3 152 (80.00%) NUnit
3 152 (80.00%) Rhino Mocks
4 148 (77.89%) Scrum
5 126 (66.32%) Castle Windsor
6 121 (63.68%) ASP.NET
7 119 (62.63%) WCF
8 118 (62.11%) WPF
9 116 (61.05%) MVC
9 116 (61.05%) ASP.NET MVC
9 116 (61.05%) Web Application Development
10 112 (58.95%) Kanban
11 101 (53.16%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 91 (47.89%) Moq
13 87 (45.79%) NHibernate
14 84 (44.21%) Razor View Engine
15 80 (42.11%) Dependency Injection
15 80 (42.11%) Ninject
16 75 (39.47%) SQL Server 2008
17 70 (36.84%) MVVM
18 67 (35.26%) BDD
19 65 (34.21%) Continuous Integration
19 65 (34.21%) Inversion of Control

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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
1 190 (100.00%) .NET
2 126 (66.32%) Castle Windsor
3 121 (63.68%) ASP.NET
4 119 (62.63%) WCF
5 118 (62.11%) WPF
6 116 (61.05%) ASP.NET MVC
7 101 (53.16%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 87 (45.79%) NHibernate
9 84 (44.21%) Razor View Engine
10 80 (42.11%) Ninject
11 65 (34.21%) Unity DI Container
11 65 (34.21%) Spring.NET
12 61 (32.11%) WinForms
13 48 (25.26%) Silverlight
14 40 (21.05%) MonoRail
15 27 (14.21%) LINQ
16 21 (11.05%) Lucene
17 17 (8.947%) Node.js
18 15 (7.895%) KnockoutJS
19 5 (2.632%) .NET Framework
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.053%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 75 (39.47%) SQL Server 2008
3 30 (15.79%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (1.053%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 152 (80.00%) NUnit
1 152 (80.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 91 (47.89%) Moq
3 65 (34.21%) MSTest
4 21 (11.05%) Cucumber
4 21 (11.05%) Selenium
5 5 (2.632%) Subversion
6 3 (1.579%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.053%) Git (software)
General
1 30 (15.79%) Finance
2 26 (13.68%) Music
2 26 (13.68%) Music Industry
3 17 (8.947%) Retail
4 2 (1.053%) Advertising
4 2 (1.053%) Games
Job Titles
1 187 (98.42%) Developer
2 153 (80.53%) .NET Developer
3 38 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 33 (17.37%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (3.158%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 6 (3.158%) ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (2.632%) WinForms Developer
7 3 (1.579%) Analyst
8 2 (1.053%) Architect
8 2 (1.053%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (1.053%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (1.053%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.053%) Technical Developer
8 2 (1.053%) .NET Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.053%) .NET Architect
9 1 (0.526%) Support Analyst
9 1 (0.526%) Applications Support
9 1 (0.526%) Applications Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 65 (34.21%) Inversion of Control
2 43 (22.63%) Tandem
3 22 (11.58%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.526%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 61 (32.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (98.42%) TDD
2 148 (77.89%) Scrum
3 116 (61.05%) MVC
3 116 (61.05%) Web Application Development
4 112 (58.95%) Kanban
5 80 (42.11%) Dependency Injection
6 70 (36.84%) MVVM
7 67 (35.26%) BDD
8 65 (34.21%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (17.37%) Business Intelligence
9 33 (17.37%) Domain-Driven Design
10 21 (11.05%) Scrum-ban
11 20 (10.53%) OO
12 18 (9.474%) CQRS
13 14 (7.368%) Agile Software Development
14 3 (1.579%) ITIL
14 3 (1.579%) RUP
14 3 (1.579%) PRINCE2
14 3 (1.579%) Configuration Management
15 2 (1.053%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 190 (100.00%) C#
2 35 (18.42%) VB
2 35 (18.42%) VB.NET
3 5 (2.632%) C++
4 2 (1.053%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 190 (100.00%) MCP
1 190 (100.00%) MCAD
1 190 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 187 (98.42%) MCTS
Vendors
1 51 (26.84%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.053%) Facebook
Bishop's Stortford, South East
.NET Developer, C#, WPF, C#.NET, dot NET, .NET 4.5, SQL Server 2012, Agile / SCRUM, TDD, Castle Monorail, Castle Windsor, NHibernate, RhinoMocks, NUnit, Analyst Programmer, Engineer, Architect,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Our client will provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Our client will provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Harpenden, South East
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bedford, South East
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Basildon, South East
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
C# Developer, .NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, Server Side, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection, Ninject / Spring.net, , IoC, Unity / Castle Windsor,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
C# Developer, .NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, Server Side, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection, Ninject / Spring.net, , IoC, Unity / Castle Windsor,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Healthcare
Posted: 20 May 2013
Norwich, East Anglia
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Norwich, Norfolk
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £20000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013