The first table below looks at the demand for MTS skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MTS over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Application Platforms category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)
Rank 839 853 823
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -30
Permanent jobs citing MTS 5 17 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.005% 0.015% 0.022%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.023% 0.073% 0.113%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 23
Average salary £37,500 £36,750 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.04% -4.54%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.04% -2.00%
All Application Platforms
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
21605 23369 22046
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 21.51% 20.55% 19.13%
Number of salaries quoted 18552 20459 19064
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
MTS
UK

MTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England MTS Jobs Demand Trend

MTS
Salary Trend

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

England MTS Salary Trend

MTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MTS within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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
West Midlands - 3 £37,500 -
South East +4 2 £37,500 -
MTS
UK

MTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing MTS 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 MTS.

1 6 (60.00%) .NET
1 6 (60.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Advertising
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) XML
4 3 (30.00%) XSL
4 3 (30.00%) MUMPS
4 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
4 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (30.00%) VB
4 3 (30.00%) VB.NET
4 3 (30.00%) IIS
4 3 (30.00%) COM+
4 3 (30.00%) DCOM
4 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (30.00%) Asset Management
4 3 (30.00%) VB6
4 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Facebook
5 2 (20.00%) Twitter
5 2 (20.00%) HTML5

MTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing MTS 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 MTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) XML
3 3 (30.00%) XSL
3 3 (30.00%) COM+
3 3 (30.00%) DCOM
4 2 (20.00%) CSS
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (20.00%) HTML5
5 1 (10.00%) J2EE
5 1 (10.00%) ASP
5 1 (10.00%) Web Services
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) SAS
3 1 (10.00%) FileNet
3 1 (10.00%) LiveLink
3 1 (10.00%) Captiva
3 1 (10.00%) Alfresco
3 1 (10.00%) Documentum
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) OLAP
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Advertising
3 2 (20.00%) Games
3 2 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Support
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Support Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) IT Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Exchange Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Documentum Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (20.00%) Social Media
1 2 (20.00%) Social Gaming
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) Solaris
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) CRM
2 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (20.00%) ETL
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) MVC
2 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Content Management
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Content Management
3 1 (10.00%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (30.00%) VB
2 3 (30.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (30.00%) MUMPS
2 3 (30.00%) VB6
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) PhD
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (10.00%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cognos
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce.com
1 2 (20.00%) NYFIX
1 2 (20.00%) GL TRADE
1 2 (20.00%) Facebook
1 2 (20.00%) Twitter
2 1 (10.00%) MarketAxess
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) EccoWare
2 1 (10.00%) Kofax
2 1 (10.00%) ReadSoft
2 1 (10.00%) Open Text
2 1 (10.00%) Alterian
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Murex
2 1 (10.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
London
KDB+ / Apama / .Net... MTS, Bloomberg, TradeWeb, BrokerTec, LIFFE and EUREX)... Skills: Unix/Linux knowledge and practical usage... Unix or Perl scripting knowledge (preferable) Sybase SQL knowledge and practical...
Citi
Salary: Competitive salary offered
Posted: 24 April 2013