The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 17 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 Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 40 22 35
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +13
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 14 20 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 4.473% 7.905% 5.724%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.44% 36.36% 17.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 16
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +10.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,800 £32,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £42,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
72 55 100
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 23.00% 21.74% 33.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59 51 96
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,800 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
Suffolk

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Ipswich region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Ipswich Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 36 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (47.50%) Windows
3 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
4 16 (40.00%) Firewall
5 14 (35.00%) ITIL
5 14 (35.00%) SQL Server
6 13 (32.50%) MS Excel
6 13 (32.50%) VMware
7 12 (30.00%) DNS
8 11 (27.50%) SQL
8 11 (27.50%) T-SQL
8 11 (27.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (27.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (27.50%) SQL Server 2005
8 11 (27.50%) SQL Server 2008
9 10 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (25.00%) CCNA
9 10 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (25.00%) DHCP
10 9 (22.50%) TCP/IP
10 9 (22.50%) MS Exchange
10 9 (22.50%) Citrix
10 9 (22.50%) MCTS
10 9 (22.50%) Windows Server 2008
11 8 (20.00%) VCAP
11 8 (20.00%) Replication
11 8 (20.00%) CCA
11 8 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
11 8 (20.00%) Web Services
11 8 (20.00%) CCNP

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 8 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (5.000%) .NET
3 1 (2.500%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 9 (22.50%) MS Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (7.500%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (7.500%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.000%) IIS
5 1 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 13 (32.50%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.500%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (40.00%) Firewall
2 12 (30.00%) DNS
3 10 (25.00%) DHCP
4 9 (22.50%) TCP/IP
5 6 (15.00%) LAN
5 6 (15.00%) VoIP
5 6 (15.00%) WAN
5 6 (15.00%) Internet
6 3 (7.500%) SAN
6 3 (7.500%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (5.000%) MPLS
7 2 (5.000%) SMTP
7 2 (5.000%) VPN
7 2 (5.000%) SSL
8 1 (2.500%) Network Security
8 1 (2.500%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (27.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 11 (27.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 11 (27.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (7.500%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (7.500%) OLAP
4 3 (7.500%) MySQL
5 1 (2.500%) DTS
5 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 3 (7.500%) Finance
2 1 (2.500%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) DBA
1 10 (25.00%) Administrator
1 10 (25.00%) SQL DBA
1 10 (25.00%) Teradata DBA
2 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 3 (7.500%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) Consultant
6 2 (5.000%) Developer
6 2 (5.000%) Graduate
6 2 (5.000%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) Support Specialist
6 2 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (2.500%) Help Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Replication
2 7 (17.50%) Computer Science
3 6 (15.00%) Clustering
3 6 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.000%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 19 (47.50%) Windows
2 9 (22.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (17.50%) Linux
4 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (7.500%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.500%) Windows 2000
5 3 (7.500%) Windows XP
5 3 (7.500%) UNIX
6 2 (5.000%) Windows Vista
7 1 (2.500%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) ITIL
2 11 (27.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (15.00%) Data Protection
3 6 (15.00%) Service Management
4 3 (7.500%) High Availability
5 2 (5.000%) Workflow
6 1 (2.500%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (2.500%) TOGAF
6 1 (2.500%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (2.500%) Network Architecture
6 1 (2.500%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) SQL
1 11 (27.50%) T-SQL
2 2 (5.000%) C#
3 1 (2.500%) Java
3 1 (2.500%) Perl
3 1 (2.500%) Python
3 1 (2.500%) Ruby
3 1 (2.500%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.500%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) CCNA
1 10 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (22.50%) MCTS
3 8 (20.00%) VCAP
3 8 (20.00%) CCNP
3 8 (20.00%) CCA
3 8 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
4 7 (17.50%) Degree
5 5 (12.50%) MCP
6 3 (7.500%) MCSE
6 3 (7.500%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (7.500%) MCITP
7 1 (2.500%) RHCE
7 1 (2.500%) CCSA
System Software
1 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.500%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.000%) XenApp
6 1 (2.500%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (2.500%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (32.50%) VMware
3 9 (22.50%) Citrix
4 6 (15.00%) Cisco
5 4 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.500%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.000%) NetApp
8 1 (2.500%) CheckPoint
Ipswich, Suffolk
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