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 Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 19 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 Guildford region.

 Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank2966-
Rank change year-on-year
Up+37New entry-
Matching permanent IT job ads710
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford2.692 %0.195 %-
As % of the Qualifications category8.235 %0.455 %-
Salaries quoted710
Average salary£52,500£47,500-
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.52 %-
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£39,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.260 %
Guildford IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
85220194
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford32.69 %42.88 %25.80 %
Salaries quoted80199186
Average salary£45,000£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.880 %+6.250 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£20,500£24,000£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£50,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
MCTS SurreyMCTS
Surrey

MCTS
Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Guildford MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Guildford 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.

115 (88.24 %)C#
115 (88.24 %)SQL Server
214 (82.35 %)SQL Server 2005
313 (76.47 %)Business Intelligence
410 (58.82 %)Microsoft Certification
410 (58.82 %).NET
59 (52.94 %)MVC
59 (52.94 %)Scrum
59 (52.94 %)ASP.NET
59 (52.94 %)MCP
59 (52.94 %)MCAD
59 (52.94 %)MCSD
59 (52.94 %)AJAX
59 (52.94 %)TDD
59 (52.94 %)WCF
68 (47.06 %)Extreme Programming
77 (41.18 %)SharePoint
77 (41.18 %)CSS
77 (41.18 %)HTML
77 (41.18 %)JavaScript
77 (41.18 %)WPF
77 (41.18 %)SQL Server 2008
86 (35.29 %)MS Excel
86 (35.29 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
86 (35.29 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
86 (35.29 %)SQL Server Integration Services
86 (35.29 %)MDX
86 (35.29 %)SQL
86 (35.29 %)Datawarehouse
86 (35.29 %)Hyperion

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Guildford 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.

Guildford IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
110 (58.82 %).NET
29 (52.94 %)ASP.NET
29 (52.94 %)AJAX
29 (52.94 %)WCF
37 (41.18 %)WPF
37 (41.18 %)HTML
37 (41.18 %)CSS
46 (35.29 %)MDX
52 (11.76 %)NHibernate
52 (11.76 %)XML
52 (11.76 %)MonoRail
61 (5.882 %)Silverlight
Guildford IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (41.18 %)SharePoint
21 (5.882 %)MS Exchange
21 (5.882 %)Exchange Server 2003
21 (5.882 %)SharePoint Server 2007
21 (5.882 %)Exchange Server 2007
Guildford IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (35.29 %)MS Excel
Guildford IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (5.882 %)Internet
Guildford IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
115 (88.24 %)SQL Server
214 (82.35 %)SQL Server 2005
37 (41.18 %)SQL Server 2008
46 (35.29 %)Datawarehouse
46 (35.29 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
46 (35.29 %)SQL Server Integration Services
46 (35.29 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
55 (29.41 %)Oracle BI EE
Guildford IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (11.76 %)NUnit
21 (5.882 %)Subversion
Guildford IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
19 (52.94 %)Developer
19 (52.94 %).NET Developer
27 (41.18 %)Consultant
36 (35.29 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Consultant
42 (11.76 %)C# Developer
42 (11.76 %)ASP.NET Developer
42 (11.76 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
51 (5.882 %)Senior Business Intelligence (BI) Consu…
51 (5.882 %)SharePoint Consultant
51 (5.882 %)Business Consultant
51 (5.882 %)3rd Line Support
51 (5.882 %)Senior Consultant
Guildford IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (5.882 %)Windows
11 (5.882 %)NetWare
11 (5.882 %)Windows Server 2003
Guildford IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
113 (76.47 %)Business Intelligence
29 (52.94 %)MVC
29 (52.94 %)Scrum
29 (52.94 %)TDD
38 (47.06 %)Extreme Programming
41 (5.882 %)E-Commerce
Guildford IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
115 (88.24 %)C#
27 (41.18 %)JavaScript
36 (35.29 %)SQL
Guildford IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
110 (58.82 %)Microsoft Certification
29 (52.94 %)MCP
29 (52.94 %)MCAD
29 (52.94 %)MCSD
31 (5.882 %)MCSE
31 (5.882 %)MCSA
31 (5.882 %)MCDBA
31 (5.882 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
31 (5.882 %)MCDST
31 (5.882 %)MCITP
Guildford IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (5.882 %)Active Directory
11 (5.882 %)Terminal Server
11 (5.882 %)Terminal Services
11 (5.882 %)Hyper-V
Guildford IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16 (35.29 %)Hyperion
16 (35.29 %)Informatica
25 (29.41 %)Oracle
31 (5.882 %)Cisco
31 (5.882 %)Microsoft
31 (5.882 %)Citrix
31 (5.882 %)VMware
31 (5.882 %)Altiris