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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 54 83 81
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -2
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 27 28 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 2.839% 2.010% 1.783%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.441% 8.260% 6.005%
Number of salaries quoted 27 28 23
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
286 339 383
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 30.07% 24.34% 29.69%
Number of salaries quoted 232 259 314
Average salary £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% +12.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
East of England

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex MCSD Salary Trend

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 17 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 +11 7 £40,000 -11.11%
Brentwood - 3 £40,000 -
MCSD
East of England

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 46 (100.00%) C#
1 46 (100.00%) .NET
1 46 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 46 (100.00%) MCP
1 46 (100.00%) MCAD
1 46 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 46 (100.00%) TDD
1 46 (100.00%) NUnit
1 46 (100.00%) MCTS
1 46 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 46 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 42 (91.30%) WPF
2 42 (91.30%) Scrum
3 35 (76.09%) Silverlight
3 35 (76.09%) NHibernate
3 35 (76.09%) MonoRail
4 31 (67.39%) Microsoft
5 26 (56.52%) Tandem
6 22 (47.83%) SQL Server 2008
7 16 (34.78%) MVVM
8 11 (23.91%) Dependency Injection
8 11 (23.91%) Inversion of Control
8 11 (23.91%) MSTest
8 11 (23.91%) Ninject
8 11 (23.91%) Moq
8 11 (23.91%) Unity DI Container
8 11 (23.91%) Spring.NET
8 11 (23.91%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (23.91%) Kanban
8 11 (23.91%) ASP.NET

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 46 (100.00%) .NET
1 46 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
2 42 (91.30%) WPF
3 35 (76.09%) Silverlight
3 35 (76.09%) NHibernate
3 35 (76.09%) MonoRail
4 11 (23.91%) Spring.NET
4 11 (23.91%) Unity DI Container
4 11 (23.91%) Ninject
4 11 (23.91%) ASP.NET
5 7 (15.22%) WinForms
6 6 (13.04%) WCF
6 6 (13.04%) Razor View Engine
6 6 (13.04%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 5 (10.87%) LINQ
8 4 (8.696%) Ajax
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 22 (47.83%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (19.57%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 46 (100.00%) NUnit
1 46 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 11 (23.91%) Moq
2 11 (23.91%) MSTest
3 4 (8.696%) Subversion
General
1 5 (10.87%) Finance
2 4 (8.696%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (100.00%) Developer
2 41 (89.13%) .NET Developer
3 5 (10.87%) C# Developer
3 5 (10.87%) WinForms Developer
Miscellaneous
1 26 (56.52%) Tandem
2 11 (23.91%) Inversion of Control
3 5 (10.87%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) TDD
2 42 (91.30%) Scrum
3 16 (34.78%) MVVM
4 11 (23.91%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (23.91%) Kanban
4 11 (23.91%) Dependency Injection
5 10 (21.74%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (13.04%) MVC
6 6 (13.04%) Web Application Development
7 4 (8.696%) OO
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (10.87%) C++
Qualifications
1 46 (100.00%) MCP
1 46 (100.00%) MCAD
1 46 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 46 (100.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 31 (67.39%) Microsoft