Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Edinburgh region.

 Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank594870
Rank change year-on-year
Down-11Up+22
Matching permanent IT job ads11823
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh1.471 %1.254 %1.408 %
As % of the Qualifications category5.288 %4.233 %6.354 %
Salaries quoted11821
Average salary£35,000£40,000£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50 %-20.00 %
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-12.50 %
Edinburgh IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
208189362
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh27.81 %29.62 %22.15 %
Salaries quoted122146269
Average salary£35,000£38,000£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.890 %+16.92 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,031£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,250£50,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
MCSD ScotlandMCSD
Scotland

MCSD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCSD across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Edinburgh MCSD Demand Trend

MCSD
Salary Trend

The 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
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSD across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Edinburgh MCSD Salary Histogram

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

113 (100.00 %).NET
113 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
212 (92.31 %)C#
310 (76.92 %)JavaScript
310 (76.92 %)SQL Server
310 (76.92 %)ASP.NET
310 (76.92 %)MCAD
310 (76.92 %)MCTS
49 (69.23 %)Microsoft
58 (61.54 %)CSS
67 (53.85 %)MCP
76 (46.15 %)CRM
76 (46.15 %)SharePoint
76 (46.15 %)Microsoft CRM
85 (38.46 %)MS Excel
85 (38.46 %)SQL
85 (38.46 %)Finance
94 (30.77 %)SQL Server 2005
94 (30.77 %)HTML
103 (23.08 %)PL/SQL
103 (23.08 %)Oracle
103 (23.08 %)Crystal Reports
103 (23.08 %)UML
103 (23.08 %)OO
103 (23.08 %)OOD
103 (23.08 %)VBA
112 (15.38 %)TDD
112 (15.38 %)NUnit
112 (15.38 %)Banking
112 (15.38 %)SQL Server Reporting Services

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

Edinburgh IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
113 (100.00 %).NET
210 (76.92 %)ASP.NET
38 (61.54 %)CSS
44 (30.77 %)HTML
52 (15.38 %)XML
52 (15.38 %)AJAX
52 (15.38 %)NHibernate
52 (15.38 %)WCF
52 (15.38 %)MonoRail
Edinburgh IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
16 (46.15 %)SharePoint
Edinburgh IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
15 (38.46 %)MS Excel
22 (15.38 %)InfoPath
Edinburgh IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (46.15 %)Microsoft CRM
Edinburgh IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
110 (76.92 %)SQL Server
24 (30.77 %)SQL Server 2005
33 (23.08 %)Crystal Reports
42 (15.38 %)Oracle Reports
42 (15.38 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
42 (15.38 %)SQL Server Integration Services
42 (15.38 %)SQL Server 2008
Edinburgh IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (15.38 %)NUnit
Edinburgh IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15 (38.46 %)Finance
22 (15.38 %)Banking
Edinburgh IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
113 (100.00 %)Developer
210 (76.92 %).NET Developer
39 (69.23 %)C# Developer
45 (38.46 %)ASP.NET Developer
45 (38.46 %)Consultant
45 (38.46 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
53 (23.08 %).NET Consultant
62 (15.38 %)SharePoint Consultant
62 (15.38 %)SharePoint Developer
Edinburgh IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16 (46.15 %)CRM
23 (23.08 %)OOD
23 (23.08 %)UML
23 (23.08 %)OO
32 (15.38 %)Scrum
32 (15.38 %)TDD
Edinburgh IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
112 (92.31 %)C#
210 (76.92 %)JavaScript
35 (38.46 %)SQL
43 (23.08 %)PL/SQL
43 (23.08 %)VBA
52 (15.38 %)T-SQL
Edinburgh IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
113 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
210 (76.92 %)MCTS
210 (76.92 %)MCAD
37 (53.85 %)MCP
Edinburgh IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
19 (69.23 %)Microsoft
23 (23.08 %)Oracle