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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank - - 16
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Egham - - 1.493%
As % of the Qualifications category - - 4.000%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Egham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
10 14 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Egham 3.356% 9.790% 37.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 24
Average salary £17,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-51.42% -12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
Surrey

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Egham 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 Egham region.

Egham MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Egham 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 5 (100.00%) MCP
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) MCAD
2 3 (60.00%) MCSD
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Subversion
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) NHibernate
2 3 (60.00%) Social Network
2 3 (60.00%) WCF
2 3 (60.00%) LINQ
2 3 (60.00%) MonoRail
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (60.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 3 (60.00%) Castle Windsor
2 3 (60.00%) Razor View Engine
2 3 (60.00%) Web Application Development
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) NUnit
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 8
3 2 (40.00%) Video Conferencing

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Egham 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 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (60.00%) Ajax
1 3 (60.00%) NHibernate
1 3 (60.00%) WCF
1 3 (60.00%) LINQ
1 3 (60.00%) MonoRail
1 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (60.00%) Castle Windsor
1 3 (60.00%) Razor View Engine
1 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (40.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) NUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Subversion
1 3 (60.00%) Rhino Mocks
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Support
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Social Network
2 2 (40.00%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (40.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) OO
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) TDD
1 3 (60.00%) Web Application Development
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) MCP
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (60.00%) MCAD
2 3 (60.00%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) CA
1 2 (40.00%) Symantec
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy
1 2 (40.00%) VMware