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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 253 259 383
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +124
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 1057 1074 635
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 1.045% 0.947% 0.539%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.796% 3.448% 2.078%
Number of salaries quoted 1040 1069 624
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27848 31150 30564
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.53% 27.48% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 22693 26719 25735
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
UK

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSD across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England MCSD Salary Histogram

MCSD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSD within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +65 372 £48,000 +6.66%
South East -42 261 £40,000 -
North West +60 132 £35,000 +7.69%
East of England -33 82 £40,000 -
East Midlands -2 77 £37,500 -6.25%
West Midlands -6 49 £35,000 -
South West +5 44 £40,000 -
Yorkshire -7 32 £37,500 +7.14%
North East -8 6 £35,000 -6.66%
MCSD
UK

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 2215 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2176 (98.24%) .NET
3 2096 (94.63%) C#
4 2060 (93.00%) SQL Server
5 2052 (92.64%) MCAD
6 2032 (91.74%) MCP
7 1962 (88.58%) MCTS
8 1916 (86.50%) TDD
9 1875 (84.65%) ASP.NET
10 1785 (80.59%) WCF
11 1753 (79.14%) MVC
12 1734 (78.28%) ASP.NET MVC
13 1669 (75.35%) Web Application Development
14 1464 (66.09%) ASP.NET MVC 4
15 1451 (65.51%) NUnit
16 1421 (64.15%) Rhino Mocks
17 1410 (63.66%) Scrum
18 1312 (59.23%) Razor View Engine
19 1120 (50.56%) WPF
20 1052 (47.49%) Kanban
21 1019 (46.00%) Castle Windsor
22 947 (42.75%) NHibernate
23 931 (42.03%) Moq
24 779 (35.17%) Ninject
24 779 (35.17%) Dependency Injection
25 712 (32.14%) Microsoft
26 703 (31.74%) BDD
27 702 (31.69%) Windows
28 672 (30.34%) WinForms
29 654 (29.53%) SQL Server 2008

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 2176 (98.24%) .NET
2 1875 (84.65%) ASP.NET
3 1785 (80.59%) WCF
4 1734 (78.28%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1464 (66.09%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 1312 (59.23%) Razor View Engine
7 1120 (50.56%) WPF
8 1019 (46.00%) Castle Windsor
9 947 (42.75%) NHibernate
10 779 (35.17%) Ninject
11 672 (30.34%) WinForms
12 540 (24.38%) LINQ
13 529 (23.88%) Spring.NET
13 529 (23.88%) Unity DI Container
14 398 (17.97%) MonoRail
15 355 (16.03%) Ajax
16 315 (14.22%) .NET Framework
17 295 (13.32%) Silverlight
18 258 (11.65%) Node.js
19 250 (11.29%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 214 (9.661%) SharePoint
2 120 (5.418%) BizTalk Server
3 83 (3.747%) SharePoint Server
4 55 (2.483%) SharePoint 2013
5 34 (1.535%) CMS
6 33 (1.490%) SharePoint 2010
7 32 (1.445%) Umbraco
8 31 (1.400%) Immediacy CMS
8 31 (1.400%) DotNetNuke
8 31 (1.400%) Kentico
8 31 (1.400%) Sitefinity
8 31 (1.400%) Sitecore CMS
9 30 (1.354%) Windows Azure
9 30 (1.354%) IIS
10 2 (0.090%) Confluence
10 2 (0.090%) Apache
11 1 (0.045%) Site Server
11 1 (0.045%) MS Exchange
11 1 (0.045%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.045%) Magento
Applications
1 108 (4.876%) MS Excel
2 25 (1.129%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 73 (3.296%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.226%) Applix TM1
3 1 (0.045%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking
1 166 (7.494%) Internet
2 64 (2.889%) Broadband
3 4 (0.181%) HTTP
3 4 (0.181%) SAN
4 2 (0.090%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.090%) LAN
4 2 (0.090%) WAN
5 1 (0.045%) Extranet
5 1 (0.045%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.045%) VPN
5 1 (0.045%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2060 (93.00%) SQL Server
2 654 (29.53%) SQL Server 2008
3 564 (25.46%) SQL Server 2012
4 67 (3.025%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 56 (2.528%) SQL Server 2005
6 53 (2.393%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 49 (2.212%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (2.077%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 37 (1.670%) OLAP
10 17 (0.767%) Data Mining
11 8 (0.361%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.361%) SQL Server 2000
12 5 (0.226%) Ingres
12 5 (0.226%) ReportNet
12 5 (0.226%) NovaView
12 5 (0.226%) Cognos Powerplay
12 5 (0.226%) Informix
12 5 (0.226%) DB2
12 5 (0.226%) Oracle OLAP
13 4 (0.181%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1451 (65.51%) NUnit
2 1421 (64.15%) Rhino Mocks
3 931 (42.03%) Moq
4 529 (23.88%) MSTest
5 326 (14.72%) Subversion
6 95 (4.289%) Selenium
7 92 (4.153%) Cucumber
8 86 (3.883%) Visual Studio
9 34 (1.535%) Team Foundation Server
10 25 (1.129%) Oracle Forms
11 10 (0.451%) Git (software)
12 6 (0.271%) Visual Studio Team System
13 4 (0.181%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
13 4 (0.181%) WiX
13 4 (0.181%) CruiseControl
14 3 (0.135%) MSBuild
15 2 (0.090%) JIRA
15 2 (0.090%) Hudson
15 2 (0.090%) K2 blackpoint
16 1 (0.045%) MSI
General
1 403 (18.19%) Music
2 362 (16.34%) Finance
3 242 (10.93%) Games
4 155 (6.998%) Music Industry
5 142 (6.411%) Banking
6 115 (5.192%) Retail
7 64 (2.889%) Telecoms
8 54 (2.438%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.851%) Advertising
10 7 (0.316%) Front Office
11 3 (0.135%) Marketing
11 3 (0.135%) Automotive
11 3 (0.135%) Law
12 2 (0.090%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2073 (93.59%) Developer
2 1765 (79.68%) .NET Developer
3 441 (19.91%) C# Developer
4 347 (15.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 186 (8.397%) ASP.NET Developer
6 181 (8.172%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 167 (7.540%) Junior
8 166 (7.494%) Junior Developer
9 156 (7.043%) Junior .NET Developer
10 152 (6.862%) Graduate
11 124 (5.598%) Graduate Developer
12 120 (5.418%) Graduate .NET Developer
13 80 (3.612%) Consultant
14 54 (2.438%) Agile C# Developer
15 45 (2.032%) Business Intelligence Consultant
16 40 (1.806%) WinForms Developer
17 38 (1.716%) Software Developer
18 37 (1.670%) Senior Developer
19 29 (1.309%) SharePoint Developer
20 26 (1.174%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 529 (23.88%) Inversion of Control
2 267 (12.05%) Tandem
3 174 (7.856%) Enterprise Software
4 164 (7.404%) Computer Science
5 80 (3.612%) Social Network
6 78 (3.521%) Client/Server
7 62 (2.799%) DTV
8 55 (2.483%) Streaming Music
9 54 (2.438%) iPhone
10 44 (1.986%) Mobile App
11 19 (0.858%) Mathematics
12 13 (0.587%) Data Integration
13 12 (0.542%) Online Games
13 12 (0.542%) Open Source
14 10 (0.451%) Physics
15 7 (0.316%) Hedge funds
16 4 (0.181%) CMDB
16 4 (0.181%) Video Conferencing
16 4 (0.181%) Management Information System
16 4 (0.181%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 702 (31.69%) Windows
2 42 (1.896%) Android
3 11 (0.497%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (0.271%) Windows Vista
4 6 (0.271%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.181%) Windows 7
5 4 (0.181%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.045%) Solaris
6 1 (0.045%) Windows 2000
6 1 (0.045%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.045%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1916 (86.50%) TDD
2 1753 (79.14%) MVC
3 1669 (75.35%) Web Application Development
4 1410 (63.66%) Scrum
5 1052 (47.49%) Kanban
6 779 (35.17%) Dependency Injection
7 703 (31.74%) BDD
8 581 (26.23%) MVVM
9 552 (24.92%) Continuous Integration
10 474 (21.40%) OO
11 451 (20.36%) Domain-Driven Design
12 246 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
13 201 (9.074%) CQRS
14 184 (8.307%) Agile Software Development
15 92 (4.153%) Scrum-ban
16 81 (3.657%) CRM
17 61 (2.754%) OOA/OOD
18 57 (2.573%) OOD
19 52 (2.348%) OOP
20 46 (2.077%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2096 (94.63%) C#
2 370 (16.70%) VB.NET
3 329 (14.85%) VB
4 221 (9.977%) JavaScript
5 163 (7.359%) SQL
6 93 (4.199%) T-SQL
7 65 (2.935%) C++
8 18 (0.813%) Java
9 9 (0.406%) XPath
10 8 (0.361%) Ruby
11 5 (0.226%) VBA
12 3 (0.135%) PHP
13 2 (0.090%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.045%) XQuery
14 1 (0.045%) Ada
14 1 (0.045%) C
14 1 (0.045%) VB6
14 1 (0.045%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.045%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2215 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2052 (92.64%) MCAD
3 2032 (91.74%) MCP
4 1962 (88.58%) MCTS
5 197 (8.894%) Degree
6 50 (2.257%) MCITP
7 39 (1.761%) MCDBA
8 20 (0.903%) MCSE
9 15 (0.677%) MCPD
10 10 (0.451%) SC Cleared
10 10 (0.451%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.451%) Security Cleared
11 4 (0.181%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.090%) HND
13 1 (0.045%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.045%) ISEB
13 1 (0.045%) CCNA
13 1 (0.045%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.045%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (0.722%) QA
2 13 (0.587%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.045%) SLA
3 1 (0.045%) Section 508
3 1 (0.045%) COBIT
System Software
1 6 (0.271%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.090%) UAG
3 1 (0.045%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (0.181%) SCCM
Vendors
1 712 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 41 (1.851%) Google
3 37 (1.670%) Oracle
4 31 (1.400%) Alterian
4 31 (1.400%) EPiServer
4 31 (1.400%) Sitecore
4 31 (1.400%) Ektron
5 30 (1.354%) Sun
6 8 (0.361%) Facebook
7 7 (0.316%) SAP
8 6 (0.271%) HP
9 5 (0.226%) Dell
9 5 (0.226%) Hyperion
9 5 (0.226%) Cisco
9 5 (0.226%) Cognos
9 5 (0.226%) Business Objects
9 5 (0.226%) Sybase
9 5 (0.226%) Applix
10 4 (0.181%) Ab Initio
10 4 (0.181%) Kalido
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