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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank - 22 11
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 0 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Herefordshire - 6.667% 7.407%
As % of the Qualifications category - 22.73% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 2
Average salary - £26,000 £27,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.58%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Herefordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
10 22 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Herefordshire 37.04% 29.33% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 3
Average salary £22,500 £28,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.05% -18.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,126 £26,000 £26,850
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £35,000 £34,300
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Herefordshire Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend

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

Herefordshire Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Herefordshire region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) MCSE
2 4 (57.14%) MS Excel
3 3 (42.86%) MS Access
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 3 (42.86%) MCP
3 3 (42.86%) MCAD
3 3 (42.86%) MCSD
3 3 (42.86%) MVC
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) WinForms
3 3 (42.86%) MCTS
3 3 (42.86%) WCF
3 3 (42.86%) WPF
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Kanban
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) NUnit
3 3 (42.86%) Spring.NET
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (42.86%) Dependency Injection
3 3 (42.86%) Inversion of Control
3 3 (42.86%) MSTest
3 3 (42.86%) MVVM

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Herefordshire region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
1 3 (42.86%) WinForms
1 3 (42.86%) WCF
1 3 (42.86%) WPF
1 3 (42.86%) Spring.NET
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (42.86%) Castle Windsor
1 3 (42.86%) Ninject
1 3 (42.86%) Razor View Engine
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 3 (42.86%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MS Excel
2 2 (28.57%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MS Access
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) NUnit
1 3 (42.86%) MSTest
1 3 (42.86%) Rhino Mocks
1 3 (42.86%) Moq
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Support
2 2 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Field Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) MVC
1 3 (42.86%) Scrum
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (42.86%) Kanban
1 3 (42.86%) TDD
1 3 (42.86%) Dependency Injection
1 3 (42.86%) MVVM
1 3 (42.86%) Web Application Development
2 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) MCSE
2 3 (42.86%) MCP
2 3 (42.86%) MCAD
2 3 (42.86%) MCSD
2 3 (42.86%) MCTS
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Lotus
3 1 (14.29%) Lumension