The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 91 90 96
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +6
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 1 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.095% 0.224% 0.324%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.352% 0.694% 0.988%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 5
Average salary £27,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.66% -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
284 432 506
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 26.87% 32.24% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 165 332 366
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 £25,600 £27,300 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
Scotland

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) MCTS
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (66.67%) Web Application Development
2 2 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
2 2 (66.67%) Moq
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) NUnit
2 2 (66.67%) NHibernate
2 2 (66.67%) Music
2 2 (66.67%) Music Industry
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) MCP
2 2 (66.67%) MCAD
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (66.67%) NHibernate
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) NUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
1 2 (66.67%) Moq
General
1 2 (66.67%) Music
1 2 (66.67%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) MCTS
2 2 (66.67%) MCP
2 2 (66.67%) MCAD