The first table below looks at the demand for MCAD in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCAD over the 3 months to 21 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD)
Rank 54 88 77
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -11
Permanent jobs citing MCAD 27 28 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 2.764% 2.010% 1.992%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.091% 8.211% 6.614%
Number of salaries quoted 27 28 25
Average salary £47,500 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.76% +21.42%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
297 341 378
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 30.40% 24.48% 30.12%
Number of salaries quoted 240 268 308
Average salary £40,000 £41,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.61% +10.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCAD
East of England

MCAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex MCAD Jobs Demand Trend

MCAD
Salary Trend

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

Essex MCAD Salary Trend

MCAD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCAD within the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 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
Basildon - 17 £47,500 -
Chelmsford +10 7 £40,000 -11.11%
Brentwood - 3 £40,000 -
MCAD
East of England

MCAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing MCAD 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 MCAD.

1 47 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 46 (97.87%) C#
2 46 (97.87%) .NET
2 46 (97.87%) SQL Server
2 46 (97.87%) MCP
2 46 (97.87%) MCSD
2 46 (97.87%) TDD
2 46 (97.87%) NUnit
2 46 (97.87%) MCTS
2 46 (97.87%) Rhino Mocks
2 46 (97.87%) Castle Windsor
3 42 (89.36%) WPF
3 42 (89.36%) Scrum
4 35 (74.47%) Silverlight
4 35 (74.47%) NHibernate
4 35 (74.47%) MonoRail
5 31 (65.96%) Microsoft
6 26 (55.32%) Tandem
7 22 (46.81%) SQL Server 2008
8 16 (34.04%) MVVM
9 11 (23.40%) Unity DI Container
9 11 (23.40%) Ninject
9 11 (23.40%) Spring.NET
9 11 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (23.40%) Kanban
9 11 (23.40%) Moq
9 11 (23.40%) Dependency Injection
9 11 (23.40%) Inversion of Control
9 11 (23.40%) MSTest
9 11 (23.40%) ASP.NET

MCAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing MCAD 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 MCAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 46 (97.87%) .NET
1 46 (97.87%) Castle Windsor
2 42 (89.36%) WPF
3 35 (74.47%) Silverlight
3 35 (74.47%) NHibernate
3 35 (74.47%) MonoRail
4 11 (23.40%) Unity DI Container
4 11 (23.40%) Ninject
4 11 (23.40%) Spring.NET
4 11 (23.40%) ASP.NET
5 7 (14.89%) WinForms
6 6 (12.77%) WCF
6 6 (12.77%) Razor View Engine
6 6 (12.77%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (10.64%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 5 (10.64%) LINQ
8 4 (8.511%) Ajax
Applications
1 1 (2.128%) CATIA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (97.87%) SQL Server
2 22 (46.81%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (19.15%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 46 (97.87%) NUnit
1 46 (97.87%) Rhino Mocks
2 11 (23.40%) Moq
2 11 (23.40%) MSTest
3 4 (8.511%) Subversion
General
1 5 (10.64%) Finance
2 4 (8.511%) Retail
3 1 (2.128%) Automotive
3 1 (2.128%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.128%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 46 (97.87%) Developer
2 41 (87.23%) .NET Developer
3 5 (10.64%) WinForms Developer
3 5 (10.64%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 26 (55.32%) Tandem
2 11 (23.40%) Inversion of Control
3 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (97.87%) TDD
2 42 (89.36%) Scrum
3 16 (34.04%) MVVM
4 11 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (23.40%) Kanban
4 11 (23.40%) Dependency Injection
5 10 (21.28%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (12.77%) MVC
6 6 (12.77%) Web Application Development
7 4 (8.511%) OO
Programming Languages
1 46 (97.87%) C#
2 5 (10.64%) C++
Qualifications
1 47 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 46 (97.87%) MCP
2 46 (97.87%) MCSD
2 46 (97.87%) MCTS
3 1 (2.128%) HNC
Vendors
1 31 (65.96%) Microsoft
Basildon, South East
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013