The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 21 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 Hounslow region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hounslow - - -
As % of the Qualifications category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Hounslow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
32 30 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hounslow 47.76% 52.63% 26.25%
Number of salaries quoted 21 28 19
Average salary £60,000 £45,000 £35,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% +25.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £37,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £55,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
London

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Salary Trend

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

Hounslow MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hounslow 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.

1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) MCP
1 2 (66.67%) MCAD
1 2 (66.67%) MCSD
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) NUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Lucene
1 2 (66.67%) NHibernate
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) WCF
1 2 (66.67%) LINQ
1 2 (66.67%) Kanban
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) BDD
1 2 (66.67%) Castle Windsor
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum-ban
1 2 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
1 2 (66.67%) Web Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (33.33%) CCEE

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hounslow 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.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) Lucene
1 2 (66.67%) NHibernate
1 2 (66.67%) WCF
1 2 (66.67%) LINQ
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Castle Windsor
1 2 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) NUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Kanban
1 2 (66.67%) BDD
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum-ban
1 2 (66.67%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) MCP
1 2 (66.67%) MCAD
1 2 (66.67%) MCSD
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCEE
2 1 (33.33%) CCAA
2 1 (33.33%) CCIA
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (33.33%) MCITP
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
1 1 (33.33%) XenServer
1 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix