The first table below looks at the demand for MCDST in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCDST over the 3 months to 23 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 Gloucestershire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST)
Rank 91 103 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Permanent jobs citing MCDST 2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.226% 0.080% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.467% 0.160% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
Average salary £23,500 £18,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.02% -
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £22,500 £23,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.17%
All Qualifications
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
428 624 550
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 48.42% 49.92% 46.03%
Number of salaries quoted 363 508 463
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCDST
South West

MCDST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire MCDST Jobs Demand Trend

MCDST
Salary Trend

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

Gloucestershire MCDST Salary Trend

MCDST
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCDST within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cheltenham - 2 £23,500 -
MCDST
South West

MCDST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing MCDST 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 MCDST.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) MCITP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Sysprep
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) EPoS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall

MCDST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing MCDST 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 MCDST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCITP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) MCSA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
1 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco