The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 24 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 Hampshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 164 122 162
Rank change year-on-year
-42 +40
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 17 55 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.492% 1.433% 0.193%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.423% 3.906% 0.721%
Number of salaries quoted 17 55 7
Average salary £25,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.50% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Hampshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1195 1408 971
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 34.62% 36.70% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 951 1251 841
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,700 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
South East

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSD across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hampshire MCSD Salary Histogram

MCSD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSD within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Basingstoke -1 12 £25,000 -37.50%
Farnborough -2 2 £40,000 -
Southampton -7 2 £25,000 -37.50%
Gosport -14 1 £35,000 +2.94%
MCSD
South East

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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 37 (100.00%) C#
1 37 (100.00%) .NET
1 37 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 31 (83.78%) TDD
2 31 (83.78%) MVC
2 31 (83.78%) ASP.NET
2 31 (83.78%) MCP
2 31 (83.78%) MCAD
2 31 (83.78%) MCTS
2 31 (83.78%) WCF
2 31 (83.78%) ASP.NET MVC
2 31 (83.78%) Web Application Development
2 31 (83.78%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 29 (78.38%) SQL Server
4 27 (72.97%) Scrum
4 27 (72.97%) Razor View Engine
5 24 (64.86%) Castle Windsor
5 24 (64.86%) NUnit
5 24 (64.86%) Rhino Mocks
6 21 (56.76%) Kanban
7 19 (51.35%) Dependency Injection
7 19 (51.35%) Ninject
8 18 (48.65%) WPF
8 18 (48.65%) WinForms
8 18 (48.65%) Windows
9 15 (40.54%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (40.54%) Inversion of Control
9 15 (40.54%) MSTest
9 15 (40.54%) Moq
9 15 (40.54%) Spring.NET

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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 37 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (83.78%) ASP.NET
2 31 (83.78%) WCF
2 31 (83.78%) ASP.NET MVC
2 31 (83.78%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 27 (72.97%) Razor View Engine
4 24 (64.86%) Castle Windsor
5 19 (51.35%) Ninject
6 18 (48.65%) WPF
6 18 (48.65%) WinForms
7 15 (40.54%) Spring.NET
7 15 (40.54%) Unity DI Container
8 9 (24.32%) NHibernate
9 8 (21.62%) .NET Framework
10 6 (16.22%) MonoRail
11 4 (10.81%) LINQ
11 4 (10.81%) Node.js
11 4 (10.81%) KnockoutJS
12 3 (8.108%) Lucene
12 3 (8.108%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.108%) Sitefinity
1 3 (8.108%) Kentico
1 3 (8.108%) CMS
1 3 (8.108%) DotNetNuke
1 3 (8.108%) Umbraco
1 3 (8.108%) Immediacy CMS
1 3 (8.108%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (5.405%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (5.405%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.405%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (78.38%) SQL Server
2 8 (21.62%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (16.22%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 24 (64.86%) NUnit
1 24 (64.86%) Rhino Mocks
2 15 (40.54%) MSTest
2 15 (40.54%) Moq
3 3 (8.108%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.108%) Selenium
4 2 (5.405%) K2 blackpoint
5 1 (2.703%) Subversion
General
1 6 (16.22%) Finance
2 2 (5.405%) Games
3 1 (2.703%) Music
Job Titles
1 35 (94.59%) Developer
1 35 (94.59%) .NET Developer
2 4 (10.81%) C# Developer
2 4 (10.81%) VB.NET Developer
2 4 (10.81%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (5.405%) Graduate .NET Developer
3 2 (5.405%) SharePoint Specialist
3 2 (5.405%) Junior .NET Developer
3 2 (5.405%) Graduate Developer
3 2 (5.405%) Junior Developer
3 2 (5.405%) Graduate
3 2 (5.405%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) Inversion of Control
2 6 (16.22%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (13.51%) Tandem
4 2 (5.405%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.703%) Social Network
5 1 (2.703%) Streaming Music
Operating Systems
1 18 (48.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (83.78%) TDD
1 31 (83.78%) MVC
1 31 (83.78%) Web Application Development
2 27 (72.97%) Scrum
3 21 (56.76%) Kanban
4 19 (51.35%) Dependency Injection
5 15 (40.54%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (40.54%) MVVM
6 7 (18.92%) Domain-Driven Design
7 6 (16.22%) BDD
8 5 (13.51%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (10.81%) OO
10 3 (8.108%) CQRS
10 3 (8.108%) Scrum-ban
10 3 (8.108%) Content Management
11 2 (5.405%) Waterfall
11 2 (5.405%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (10.81%) SQL
2 4 (10.81%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 31 (83.78%) MCP
2 31 (83.78%) MCAD
2 31 (83.78%) MCTS
3 4 (10.81%) MCPD
System Software
1 2 (5.405%) UAG
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 3 (8.108%) Alterian
3 3 (8.108%) EPiServer
3 3 (8.108%) Ektron
3 3 (8.108%) Sitecore
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: 22 May 2013
Basingstoke, South East
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013