The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Farnborough 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 Farnborough region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 36 31 25
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -6
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 2 8 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 1.093% 3.604% 3.306%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.941% 7.692% 8.000%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 4
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Farnborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
68 104 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 37.16% 46.85% 41.32%
Number of salaries quoted 52 98 49
Average salary £47,000 £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.05% +18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £18,800 £29,000 £30,700
10% offered a salary of more than £69,000 £48,863 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
Hampshire

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough 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 Farnborough region.

Farnborough MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) MCP
1 3 (100.00%) MCAD
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) MCTS
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2012
2 2 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (66.67%) MonoRail
2 2 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
2 2 (66.67%) Castle Windsor
2 2 (66.67%) NHibernate
2 2 (66.67%) NUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Tandem
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Streaming Music
3 1 (33.33%) Music
3 1 (33.33%) Ninject
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (66.67%) Castle Windsor
2 2 (66.67%) MonoRail
2 2 (66.67%) NHibernate
3 1 (33.33%) Ninject
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) NUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 1 (33.33%) Music
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Tandem
2 1 (33.33%) Streaming Music
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) MCP
1 3 (100.00%) MCAD
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
Farnborough, South East
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, SQL Server 2012, Agile / SCRUM, TDD, Castle...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013