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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD)
Rank - 87 97
Permanent jobs citing MCAD 0 3 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh - 0.220% 0.255%
As % of the Qualifications category - 0.679% 0.780%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 4
Average salary - £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
286 442 513
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 26.70% 32.45% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 166 334 365
Average salary £37,500 £39,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCAD
Scotland

MCAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh MCAD Jobs Demand Trend

MCAD
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh MCAD Salary Trend

MCAD
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing MCAD 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 MCAD.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) MCSD
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) MCTS
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Music
1 1 (100.00%) Music Industry
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (100.00%) Moq
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4

MCAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing MCAD 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 MCAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (100.00%) Moq
General
1 1 (100.00%) Music
1 1 (100.00%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) MCSD
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCTS