The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 62 62 71
Rank change year-on-year
0 +9
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 30 30 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 2.757% 2.166% 2.225%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.27% 6.667% 6.869%
Number of salaries quoted 25 27 26
Average salary £37,500 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
292 450 495
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 26.84% 32.49% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 166 339 358
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 £56,500 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Microsoft Certification
Scotland

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Edinburgh Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 47 (79.66%) Microsoft
2 30 (50.85%) Windows
3 25 (42.37%) C#
3 25 (42.37%) .NET
4 21 (35.59%) Active Directory
5 20 (33.90%) SQL Server
6 17 (28.81%) ASP.NET
7 16 (27.12%) WCF
7 16 (27.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 15 (25.42%) Windows Server 2003
9 14 (23.73%) MCP
9 14 (23.73%) MCSE
9 14 (23.73%) MS Excel
9 14 (23.73%) .NET Framework
10 13 (22.03%) SQL
10 13 (22.03%) Cisco
10 13 (22.03%) MS Exchange
10 13 (22.03%) VMware
11 12 (20.34%) SharePoint
11 12 (20.34%) Citrix
12 11 (18.64%) JavaScript
12 11 (18.64%) CSS
13 10 (16.95%) MCSA
13 10 (16.95%) SQL Server 2008
14 9 (15.25%) Degree
14 9 (15.25%) Scrum
14 9 (15.25%) Web Services
14 9 (15.25%) ITIL
14 9 (15.25%) Oracle
15 8 (13.56%) Visual Studio

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (42.37%) .NET
2 17 (28.81%) ASP.NET
3 16 (27.12%) WCF
4 14 (23.73%) .NET Framework
5 11 (18.64%) CSS
6 9 (15.25%) Web Services
7 8 (13.56%) jQuery
7 8 (13.56%) Silverlight
7 8 (13.56%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 6 (10.17%) HTML
8 6 (10.17%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (10.17%) HTML5
9 5 (8.475%) Regular Expression
9 5 (8.475%) XML
10 4 (6.780%) WinForms
10 4 (6.780%) WPF
10 4 (6.780%) WF
11 3 (5.085%) Ajax
11 3 (5.085%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 2 (3.390%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 13 (22.03%) MS Exchange
2 12 (20.34%) SharePoint
3 6 (10.17%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (8.475%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (6.780%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (6.780%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (5.085%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (3.390%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (3.390%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (1.695%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (23.73%) MS Excel
2 4 (6.780%) MS Office
3 1 (1.695%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.390%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (3.390%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) DNS
1 6 (10.17%) SAN
2 4 (6.780%) DHCP
2 4 (6.780%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.780%) Network Security
3 3 (5.085%) LAN
4 1 (1.695%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.695%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.695%) Firewall
4 1 (1.695%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (33.90%) SQL Server
2 10 (16.95%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (8.475%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (8.475%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (8.475%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (6.780%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.780%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (6.780%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 3 (5.085%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Visual Studio
2 7 (11.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (6.780%) Subversion
3 4 (6.780%) Git (software)
4 2 (3.390%) NUnit
4 2 (3.390%) Rhino Mocks
4 2 (3.390%) Moq
General
1 8 (13.56%) Finance
2 3 (5.085%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.390%) Music
3 2 (3.390%) Music Industry
4 1 (1.695%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (42.37%) Developer
2 16 (27.12%) .NET Developer
3 10 (16.95%) Senior Developer
4 8 (13.56%) Systems Support
5 6 (10.17%) Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) Software Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Support Engineer
6 5 (8.475%) Microsoft Developer
6 5 (8.475%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (8.475%) C# Developer
6 5 (8.475%) Senior Software Developer
6 5 (8.475%) Senior C# Developer
6 5 (8.475%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (6.780%) Systems Support Engineer
7 4 (6.780%) Database Developer
7 4 (6.780%) Team Leader
7 4 (6.780%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (6.780%) Service Analyst
7 4 (6.780%) Help Desk Analyst
7 4 (6.780%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.475%) SWIFT
2 4 (6.780%) Blackberry
2 4 (6.780%) Computer Science
3 3 (5.085%) EqualLogic
3 3 (5.085%) Clustering
3 3 (5.085%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 30 (50.85%) Windows
2 16 (27.12%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (25.42%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (10.17%) Windows XP
5 3 (5.085%) Windows 7
5 3 (5.085%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.390%) Linux
7 1 (1.695%) Android
7 1 (1.695%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.695%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.25%) Scrum
1 9 (15.25%) ITIL
2 7 (11.86%) Business Development
2 7 (11.86%) MVC
3 6 (10.17%) CRM
4 5 (8.475%) Automated Testing
4 5 (8.475%) TDD
4 5 (8.475%) OO
4 5 (8.475%) OOD
5 4 (6.780%) Data Modelling
5 4 (6.780%) PRINCE2
5 4 (6.780%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (6.780%) Information Security
5 4 (6.780%) Workflow
5 4 (6.780%) Analytics
5 4 (6.780%) Information Governance
5 4 (6.780%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (6.780%) Performance Testing
5 4 (6.780%) Unit Testing
5 4 (6.780%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 25 (42.37%) C#
2 13 (22.03%) SQL
3 11 (18.64%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.475%) XPath
4 5 (8.475%) VB.NET
4 5 (8.475%) XQuery
5 2 (3.390%) VB
6 1 (1.695%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.695%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) MCP
1 14 (23.73%) MCSE
2 10 (16.95%) MCSA
3 9 (15.25%) Degree
4 8 (13.56%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (11.86%) CCNA
6 4 (6.780%) CCDA
6 4 (6.780%) A+ Certification
6 4 (6.780%) CISSP
6 4 (6.780%) MCDBA
6 4 (6.780%) Security+ Certification
6 4 (6.780%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (6.780%) CISA
6 4 (6.780%) CISM
6 4 (6.780%) MCPD
6 4 (6.780%) MCTS
6 4 (6.780%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.780%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.780%) Security Cleared
7 3 (5.085%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) SLA
2 4 (6.780%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.780%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (35.59%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.17%) vSphere
4 4 (6.780%) XenApp
4 4 (6.780%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.085%) Terminal Server
6 1 (1.695%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (5.085%) DameWare
2 1 (1.695%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 47 (79.66%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.03%) Cisco
2 13 (22.03%) VMware
3 12 (20.34%) Citrix
4 9 (15.25%) Oracle
5 7 (11.86%) Dell
5 7 (11.86%) Juniper
6 4 (6.780%) HP
6 4 (6.780%) SAP
7 3 (5.085%) Apple
8 1 (1.695%) ProCurve
8 1 (1.695%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.695%) Veritas
8 1 (1.695%) Symantec
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will have excellent working knowledge of Microsoft, Citrix and VMWare and will ideally hold Microsoft certifications, although these aren't essential... Any experience of Symantec Backup Exec...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
You will have excellent working knowledge of Microsoft, Citrix and VMWare and will ideally hold Microsoft certifications, although these aren't essential... Any experience of Symantec Backup Exec...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013