The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 83 71 53
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -18
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 13 22 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex 1.353% 2.350% 3.825%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.779% 6.607% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 28
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Qualifications
East Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
272 333 178
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex 28.30% 35.58% 24.32%
Number of salaries quoted 234 305 164
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +1.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
South East

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex MCTS Salary Trend

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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Brighton -8 13 £42,500 +6.25% 2
MCTS
South East

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the East Sussex 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 35 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 35 (100.00%) Windows
2 33 (94.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 26 (74.29%) MVC
3 26 (74.29%) Scrum
3 26 (74.29%) WinForms
3 26 (74.29%) MCP
3 26 (74.29%) MCAD
3 26 (74.29%) MCSD
3 26 (74.29%) ASP.NET
3 26 (74.29%) C#
3 26 (74.29%) VB
3 26 (74.29%) VB.NET
3 26 (74.29%) .NET
3 26 (74.29%) Agile Software Development
3 26 (74.29%) TDD
3 26 (74.29%) NUnit
3 26 (74.29%) Continuous Integration
3 26 (74.29%) Kanban
3 26 (74.29%) ASP.NET MVC
3 26 (74.29%) Dependency Injection
3 26 (74.29%) Inversion of Control
3 26 (74.29%) MSTest
3 26 (74.29%) MVVM
3 26 (74.29%) Rhino Mocks
3 26 (74.29%) Moq
3 26 (74.29%) WCF
3 26 (74.29%) WPF
3 26 (74.29%) Castle Windsor
3 26 (74.29%) Ninject

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the East Sussex 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 26 (74.29%) WinForms
1 26 (74.29%) WCF
1 26 (74.29%) WPF
1 26 (74.29%) Spring.NET
1 26 (74.29%) ASP.NET MVC
1 26 (74.29%) Castle Windsor
1 26 (74.29%) Ninject
1 26 (74.29%) Razor View Engine
1 26 (74.29%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 26 (74.29%) Unity DI Container
1 26 (74.29%) .NET
1 26 (74.29%) ASP.NET
2 7 (20.00%) COM+
Application Platforms
1 9 (25.71%) IIS
1 9 (25.71%) SharePoint
1 9 (25.71%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (5.714%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) LAN
1 9 (25.71%) WAN
1 9 (25.71%) SAN
1 9 (25.71%) NetScreen
2 7 (20.00%) Firewall
2 7 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (25.71%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 26 (74.29%) NUnit
1 26 (74.29%) MSTest
1 26 (74.29%) Rhino Mocks
1 26 (74.29%) Moq
General
1 2 (5.714%) Finance
Job Titles
1 26 (74.29%) Developer
1 26 (74.29%) .NET Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (5.714%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 26 (74.29%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (74.29%) MVC
1 26 (74.29%) Scrum
1 26 (74.29%) Agile Software Development
1 26 (74.29%) TDD
1 26 (74.29%) Continuous Integration
1 26 (74.29%) Kanban
1 26 (74.29%) Dependency Injection
1 26 (74.29%) MVVM
1 26 (74.29%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) C#
1 26 (74.29%) VB
1 26 (74.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (94.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (74.29%) MCP
2 26 (74.29%) MCAD
2 26 (74.29%) MCSD
3 9 (25.71%) CCNA
3 9 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (25.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 9 (25.71%) MCITP
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) vSphere
2 7 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.714%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Cisco
1 9 (25.71%) EMC
1 9 (25.71%) VMware
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
Brighton, South East
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013