The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 61 41 51
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +10
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 29 29 61
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 2.718% 3.872% 5.432%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.683% 18.24% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 29 27 59
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,400 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Qualifications
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
334 159 351
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 31.30% 21.23% 31.26%
Number of salaries quoted 305 143 330
Average salary £40,000 £36,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.58% -3.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,928 £22,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,600 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
South East

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Kent region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Kent MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the Kent region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Dartford - 8 £40,000 -
Tunbridge Wells -3 7 £45,000 +12.50% 2
Maidstone -6 6 £40,000 +60.00% 2
Whitstable - 3 £35,000 -
MCTS
South East

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 37 (94.87%) MCP
1 37 (94.87%) Microsoft Certification
2 34 (87.18%) MCAD
2 34 (87.18%) MCSD
2 34 (87.18%) .NET
2 34 (87.18%) SQL Server
3 32 (82.05%) TDD
4 31 (79.49%) Scrum
4 31 (79.49%) Kanban
5 29 (74.36%) Rhino Mocks
5 29 (74.36%) NUnit
6 28 (71.79%) SQL Server 2012
7 27 (69.23%) Moq
8 26 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 26 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 26 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
8 26 (66.67%) Web Application Development
8 26 (66.67%) WCF
8 26 (66.67%) MVC
8 26 (66.67%) C#
8 26 (66.67%) ASP.NET
9 20 (51.28%) BDD
10 17 (43.59%) NHibernate
11 15 (38.46%) Music Industry
12 14 (35.90%) VB
12 14 (35.90%) VB.NET
12 14 (35.90%) Castle Windsor
13 12 (30.77%) Ninject
13 12 (30.77%) Dependency Injection
13 12 (30.77%) Inversion of Control

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 34 (87.18%) .NET
2 26 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 26 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 26 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
2 26 (66.67%) WCF
2 26 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 17 (43.59%) NHibernate
4 14 (35.90%) Castle Windsor
5 12 (30.77%) Ninject
5 12 (30.77%) Spring.NET
5 12 (30.77%) Unity DI Container
6 8 (20.51%) WPF
6 8 (20.51%) WinForms
7 4 (10.26%) HTML5
8 2 (5.128%) ASP
8 2 (5.128%) HTML
8 2 (5.128%) CSS
8 2 (5.128%) LINQ
8 2 (5.128%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.128%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.564%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (7.692%) MS Excel
1 3 (7.692%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.692%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.128%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.564%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (87.18%) SQL Server
2 28 (71.79%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (5.128%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 29 (74.36%) Rhino Mocks
1 29 (74.36%) NUnit
2 27 (69.23%) Moq
3 12 (30.77%) MSTest
4 2 (5.128%) Selenium
4 2 (5.128%) Cucumber
General
1 15 (38.46%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 34 (87.18%) Developer
2 32 (82.05%) .NET Developer
3 3 (7.692%) Analyst
4 2 (5.128%) Citrix Engineer
4 2 (5.128%) Help Desk Engineer
4 2 (5.128%) ASP Developer
4 2 (5.128%) Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (5.128%) Classic ASP Developer
5 1 (2.564%) Citrix Architect
5 1 (2.564%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.564%) Architect
5 1 (2.564%) Technical Architect
5 1 (2.564%) Consultant
5 1 (2.564%) Technical Support
5 1 (2.564%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (2.564%) Citrix Consultant
5 1 (2.564%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (2.564%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Windows
2 3 (7.692%) Windows 8
2 3 (7.692%) Windows Vista
2 3 (7.692%) Windows XP
3 1 (2.564%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.564%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.564%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (82.05%) TDD
2 31 (79.49%) Scrum
2 31 (79.49%) Kanban
3 26 (66.67%) Web Application Development
3 26 (66.67%) MVC
4 20 (51.28%) BDD
5 12 (30.77%) Dependency Injection
5 12 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (20.51%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (20.51%) MVVM
7 4 (10.26%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (7.692%) Domain-Driven Design
8 3 (7.692%) CQRS
9 2 (5.128%) Scrum-ban
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) C#
2 14 (35.90%) VB
2 14 (35.90%) VB.NET
3 2 (5.128%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (94.87%) MCP
1 37 (94.87%) Microsoft Certification
2 34 (87.18%) MCAD
2 34 (87.18%) MCSD
3 3 (7.692%) MCSE
4 2 (5.128%) CCA
4 2 (5.128%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (5.128%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.128%) CCNA
4 2 (5.128%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (5.128%) CCEE
4 2 (5.128%) CCIA
5 1 (2.564%) CCVP
5 1 (2.564%) CCNP
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.692%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.128%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.128%) XenApp
3 2 (5.128%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (5.128%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) Citrix
2 5 (12.82%) VMware
3 2 (5.128%) HP
3 2 (5.128%) Dell
3 2 (5.128%) NetApp
3 2 (5.128%) Wyse
4 1 (2.564%) MobileIron
4 1 (2.564%) AppSense
4 1 (2.564%) Cisco
4 1 (2.564%) Avaya
West Malling, South East
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), HTML5, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
West Malling, Kent
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Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
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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: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
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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...
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Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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