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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank - 14 10
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 0 13 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gateshead - 13.98% 2.778%
As % of the Qualifications category - 41.94% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 0 13 1
Average salary - £37,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Gateshead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1 31 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gateshead 14.29% 33.33% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 27 9
Average salary - £37,500 £19,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +97.36%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
Tyne and Wear

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gateshead MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Salary Trend

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

Gateshead MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gateshead region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

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%) MCSD
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) NUnit
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Spring.NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 3 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 3 (100.00%) MSTest
1 3 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 3 (100.00%) Moq
1 3 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 3 (100.00%) Ninject
1 3 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 3 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 3 (100.00%) Unity DI Container

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gateshead region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. 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%) Spring.NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 3 (100.00%) Ninject
1 3 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 3 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) NUnit
1 3 (100.00%) MSTest
1 3 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 3 (100.00%) Moq
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 3 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) MCP
1 3 (100.00%) MCAD
1 3 (100.00%) MCSD
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification