MCTS Jobs in the East of England

The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS 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 MCTS over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)

Rank

151

142

172

Rank change year-on-year

-9

+30

Permanent jobs citing MCTS

117

146

112

As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England

1.428%

1.673%

1.155%

As % of the Qualifications category

4.871%

5.462%

3.579%

Number of salaries quoted

115

136

112

Average salary

£40,000

£37,500

Average salary % change year-on-year

+6.66%

90% offered a salary of more than

£27,500

£31,250

£30,000

10% offered a salary of more than

£50,000

£55,000

£47,500

UK excluding London average salary

£40,000

£37,500

% change year-on-year

+6.66%

All Qualifications
East of England

Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category

2402

2673

3129

As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England

29.32%

30.64%

32.28%

Number of salaries quoted

1993

2202

2757

Average salary

£40,000

£38,500

Average salary % change year-on-year

+3.89%

90% offered a salary of more than

£27,500

£26,500

£25,500

10% offered a salary of more than

£57,500

£55,000

UK excluding London average salary

£40,000

£38,000

% change year-on-year

+5.26%

MCTS
England

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

MCTS
Salary Trend

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

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

MCTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cambridgeshire	-8	34	£40,000	-
Hertfordshire	-5	33	£35,000	-30.00%
Essex	+19	26	£47,500	+11.76%
Norfolk	-	15	£27,500	-
Bedfordshire	-17	7	£36,834	-7.91%
Suffolk	-24	3	£40,000	-11.11%
MCTS England

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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	241 (86.69%)	Microsoft Certification
2	222 (79.86%)	SQL Server
3	221 (79.50%)	MCP
4	191 (68.71%)	.NET
4	191 (68.71%)	C#
5	188 (67.63%)	TDD
6	187 (67.27%)	MCAD
6	187 (67.27%)	MCSD
7	152 (54.68%)	NUnit
7	152 (54.68%)	Rhino Mocks
8	148 (53.24%)	Scrum
9	131 (47.12%)	Windows
10	126 (45.32%)	Castle Windsor
11	122 (43.88%)	ASP.NET
12	117 (42.09%)	WCF

13	116 (41.73%)	WPF
13	116 (41.73%)	MVC
13	116 (41.73%)	ASP.NET MVC
13	116 (41.73%)	Web Application Development
14	112 (40.29%)	Kanban
15	101 (36.33%)	ASP.NET MVC 4
16	96 (34.53%)	Microsoft
17	95 (34.17%)	SQL Server 2008
18	91 (32.73%)	Moq
19	87 (31.29%)	NHibernate
20	84 (30.22%)	Razor View Engine
21	80 (28.78%)	Ninject
21	80 (28.78%)	Dependency Injection
22	71 (25.54%)	MVVM
23	70 (25.18%)	MCITP

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 Development
1	191 (68.71%)	.NET
2	126 (45.32%)	Castle Windsor
3	122 (43.88%)	ASP.NET
4	117 (42.09%)	WCF
5	116 (41.73%)	WPF
5	116 (41.73%)	ASP.NET MVC
6	101 (36.33%)	ASP.NET MVC 4
7	87 (31.29%)	NHibernate
8	84 (30.22%)	Razor View Engine
9	80 (28.78%)	Ninject
10	65 (23.38%)	Unity DI Container
10	65 (23.38%)	Spring.NET
11	61 (21.94%)	WinForms
12	48 (17.27%)	Silverlight
13	40 (14.39%)	MonoRail
14	27 (9.712%)	LINQ
15	21 (7.554%)	Lucene
16	17 (6.115%)	Node.js
17	15 (5.396%)	KnockoutJS
18	6 (2.158%)	Web Services

Application Platforms
1	49 (17.63%)	MS Exchange
2	25 (8.993%)	Exchange Server 2007
3	24 (8.633%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	23 (8.273%)	Lync
5	14 (5.036%)	Office Communications Server
6	10 (3.597%)	SharePoint
7	7 (2.518%)	IIS
8	5 (1.799%)	Exchange Server 2003
9	4 (1.439%)	Exchange Server 2013
9	4 (1.439%)	Amazon AWS
10	3 (1.079%)	Windows Azure
11	1 (0.360%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
11	1 (0.360%)	SharePoint Server
11	1 (0.360%)	SharePoint 2010

Applications
1	39 (14.03%)	MS Excel
2	7 (2.518%)	MS Office
2	7 (2.518%)	Office 365
3	1 (0.360%)	InfoPath

Communications & Networking
1	28 (10.07%)	SAN
2	25 (8.993%)	Firewall
3	21 (7.554%)	LAN
4	19 (6.835%)	DNS
5	18 (6.475%)	WAN
6	16 (5.755%)	DHCP
7	15 (5.396%)	Internet
8	13 (4.676%)	Network Security
9	11 (3.957%)	NAS
10	10 (3.597%)	iSCSI
10	10 (3.597%)	VPN
10	10 (3.597%)	VoIP
11	6 (2.158%)	Unified Communications
12	5 (1.799%)	NetScaler
13	4 (1.439%)	VLAN
13	4 (1.439%)	MPLS
14	3 (1.079%)	Broadband
15	1 (0.360%)	TCP/IP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	222 (79.86%)	SQL Server
2	95 (34.17%)	SQL Server 2008
3	30 (10.79%)	SQL Server 2012
4	19 (6.835%)	SQL Server 2005
5	7 (2.518%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
6	6 (2.158%)	SQL Server Integration Services
7	2 (0.719%)	NoSQL
8	1 (0.360%)	SQL Server 2000
8	1 (0.360%)	DTS

Development Applications
1	152 (54.68%)	NUnit
1	152 (54.68%)	Rhino Mocks
2	91 (32.73%)	Moq
3	65 (23.38%)	MSTest
4	21 (7.554%)	Selenium
4	21 (7.554%)	Cucumber
5	5 (1.799%)	Subversion
6	2 (0.719%)	Git (software)
7	1 (0.360%)	AdminStudio

General
1	40 (14.39%)	Finance
2	28 (10.07%)	Retail
3	26 (9.353%)	Music
3	26 (9.353%)	Music Industry
4	3 (1.079%)	Advertising
5	2 (0.719%)	Games
6	1 (0.360%)	Manufacturing

Job Titles
1	188 (67.63%)	Developer
2	153 (55.04%)	.NET Developer
3	40 (14.39%)	C# Developer
4	33 (11.87%)	C# .NET Developer
5	20 (7.194%)	Support Engineer
6	14 (5.036%)	Consultant
7	12 (4.317%)	Administrator
8	11 (3.957%)	IT Manager
8	11 (3.957%)	Wintel Engineer
9	10 (3.597%)	3rd Line Support Engineer
9	10 (3.597%)	3rd Line Support
10	9 (3.237%)	2nd Line Support
10	9 (3.237%)	Technical Support
10	9 (3.237%)	Server Support
11	6 (2.158%)	3rd Line Server Engineer
11	6 (2.158%)	SQL DBA
11	6 (2.158%)	ASP.NET Developer
11	6 (2.158%)	Server Engineer
11	6 (2.158%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
11	6 (2.158%)	Teradata DBA

Miscellaneous
1	65 (23.38%)	Inversion of Control
2	43 (15.47%)	Tandem
3	23 (8.273%)	Enterprise Software
4	7 (2.518%)	Replication
5	5 (1.799%)	Blackberry
5	5 (1.799%)	EPoS
5	5 (1.799%)	Data Protection Act
6	4 (1.439%)	Smartphone
7	3 (1.079%)	Celerra
7	3 (1.079%)	EqualLogic
8	2 (0.719%)	Computer Science
9	1 (0.360%)	Management Information System
9	1 (0.360%)	CLARiiON
9	1 (0.360%)	Clustering
9	1 (0.360%)	Social Network

Operating Systems
1	131 (47.12%)	Windows
2	38 (13.67%)	Windows Server 2008
3	19 (6.835%)	Windows 7
4	18 (6.475%)	Windows Server 2003
5	13 (4.676%)	Windows XP
6	10 (3.597%)	UNIX
7	5 (1.799%)	Linux
8	4 (1.439%)	Mac OS X Server
8	4 (1.439%)	Mac OS X
9	3 (1.079%)	Windows Vista
10	1 (0.360%)	Windows 2000 Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	188 (67.63%)	TDD
2	148 (53.24%)	Scrum
3	116 (41.73%)	MVC
3	116 (41.73%)	Web Application Development
4	112 (40.29%)	Kanban
5	80 (28.78%)	Dependency Injection
6	71 (25.54%)	MVVM
7	67 (24.10%)	BDD
8	65 (23.38%)	Continuous Integration
9	34 (12.23%)	Business Intelligence
10	33 (11.87%)	Domain-Driven Design
11	21 (7.554%)	OO
11	21 (7.554%)	Scrum-ban
12	18 (6.475%)	CQRS
13	15 (5.396%)	Agile Software Development
14	14 (5.036%)	ITIL
15	11 (3.957%)	Disaster Recovery
16	10 (3.597%)	Network Load Balancing
16	10 (3.597%)	E-Commerce
17	6 (2.158%)	Data Protection

Programming Languages
1	191 (68.71%)	C#
2	35 (12.59%)	VB
2	35 (12.59%)	VB.NET
3	15 (5.396%)	SQL
4	8 (2.878%)	T-SQL
5	6 (2.158%)	PowerShell
5	6 (2.158%)	C++
6	3 (1.079%)	Ruby
7	2 (0.719%)	C
8	1 (0.360%)	Java
8	1 (0.360%)	Perl
8	1 (0.360%)	VBScript
8	1 (0.360%)	Python
8	1 (0.360%)	Bash shell

Qualifications
1	241 (86.69%)	Microsoft Certification
2	221 (79.50%)	MCP
3	187 (67.27%)	MCAD
3	187 (67.27%)	MCSD
4	70 (25.18%)	MCITP
5	38 (13.67%)	MCSE
6	32 (11.51%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7	27 (9.712%)	Citrix Certification
8	22 (7.914%)	MCSA
9	19 (6.835%)	CCA
10	14 (5.036%)	CCEE
11	10 (3.597%)	CCNA
11	10 (3.597%)	Cisco Certification
11	10 (3.597%)	CCAA
12	9 (3.237%)	CCIA
13	7 (2.518%)	CCEA
14	6 (2.158%)	Degree
15	4 (1.439%)	A+ Certification
16	3 (1.079%)	Network+ Certification
16	3 (1.079%)	CCENT

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	10 (3.597%)	PCI DSS
2	1 (0.360%)	SLA
2	1 (0.360%)	QA

System Software
1	40 (14.39%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	35 (12.59%)	Active Directory
3	28 (10.07%)	XenApp
4	25 (8.993%)	XenDesktop
5	24 (8.633%)	XenServer
5	24 (8.633%)	vSphere
6	23 (8.273%)	Hyper-V
7	15 (5.396%)	Microsoft App-V
8	10 (3.597%)	VMware Server
8	10 (3.597%)	NFS
9	5 (1.799%)	VMware ESX
10	2 (0.719%)	VMware ESXi
11	1 (0.360%)	Terminal Services

Systems Management
1	19 (6.835%)	SCCM
2	13 (4.676%)	SCOM
3	10 (3.597%)	WSUS
4	4 (1.439%)	SCVMM
5	1 (0.360%)	Puppet

Vendors
1	96 (34.53%)	Microsoft
2	51 (18.35%)	VMware
3	42 (15.11%)	Citrix
4	24 (8.633%)	HP
5	15 (5.396%)	EMC
6	12 (4.317%)	CommVault
7	11 (3.957%)	CheckPoint
7	11 (3.957%)	Cisco
8	10 (3.597%)	LANDesk
8	10 (3.597%)	Remedy
8	10 (3.597%)	Avaya
9	9 (3.237%)	Dell
10	5 (1.799%)	NetApp
11	4 (1.439%)	Apple
12	3 (1.079%)	AppSense
13	2 (0.719%)	Facebook
13	2 (0.719%)	Veeam
13	2 (0.719%)	IBM
13	2 (0.719%)	Oracle
14	1 (0.360%)	Symantec

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