Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Gatwick region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Gatwick region.

 Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank2134-
Rank change year-on-year
Up+13New entry-
Matching permanent IT job ads210
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gatwick1.835 %0.800 %-
As % of the Qualifications category7.143 %4.000 %-
Salaries quoted210
Average salary£50,000£42,500-
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64 %-
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£39,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.260 %
Gatwick IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
Gatwick
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
282528
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gatwick25.69 %20.00 %41.79 %
Salaries quoted272526
Average salary£50,000£37,000£55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.13 %-32.72 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,750£32,500£35,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£53,750£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
MCTS West SussexMCTS
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MCTS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCTS across the Gatwick region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Gatwick MCTS Demand Trend

MCTS
Salary Trend

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

Gatwick MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs across the Gatwick 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.

12 (100.00 %)PHP
12 (100.00 %)SQL
12 (100.00 %)MySQL
12 (100.00 %)SQL Server
12 (100.00 %)UNIX
12 (100.00 %)Windows
12 (100.00 %)Linux
12 (100.00 %)Apache
12 (100.00 %)Cisco
12 (100.00 %)Dell
12 (100.00 %)SAN
12 (100.00 %)NetApp
12 (100.00 %)Health
12 (100.00 %)Brocade
12 (100.00 %)Pensions
12 (100.00 %)NAS
21 (50.00 %)VMware Infrastructure
21 (50.00 %)Red Hat Linux
21 (50.00 %)VMware
21 (50.00 %)Red Hat

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs across the Gatwick 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.

Gatwick IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (100.00 %)Apache
Gatwick IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (100.00 %)SAN
12 (100.00 %)NAS
Gatwick IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (100.00 %)MySQL
12 (100.00 %)SQL Server
Gatwick IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (100.00 %)Health
12 (100.00 %)Pensions
Gatwick IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12 (100.00 %)Analyst
12 (100.00 %)Systems Analyst
12 (100.00 %)Database Analyst
Gatwick IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12 (100.00 %)UNIX
12 (100.00 %)Windows
12 (100.00 %)Linux
21 (50.00 %)Red Hat Linux
Gatwick IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12 (100.00 %)PHP
12 (100.00 %)SQL
Gatwick IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (50.00 %)VMware Infrastructure
Gatwick IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (100.00 %)Cisco
12 (100.00 %)Dell
12 (100.00 %)NetApp
12 (100.00 %)Brocade
21 (50.00 %)VMware
21 (50.00 %)Red Hat