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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 34 59 50
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -9
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 29 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 5.967% 0.911% 0.779%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.58% 3.876% 3.614%
Number of salaries quoted 29 5 3
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -23.52%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
118 129 83
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 24.28% 23.50% 21.56%
Number of salaries quoted 104 116 67
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +16.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,500 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,100 £42,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
North West

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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
Blackburn +6 10 £25,000 -44.44%
Preston +6 9 £35,000 +7.69%
Lancaster - 9 £40,000 -
Lytham St Annes - 1 £35,000 -
MCTS
North West

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 35 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 35 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 32 (91.43%) .NET
2 32 (91.43%) MVC
2 32 (91.43%) ASP.NET
2 32 (91.43%) MCP
2 32 (91.43%) MCAD
2 32 (91.43%) MCSD
2 32 (91.43%) TDD
2 32 (91.43%) WCF
2 32 (91.43%) ASP.NET MVC
2 32 (91.43%) Web Application Development
2 32 (91.43%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 30 (85.71%) C#
4 26 (74.29%) SQL Server 2012
5 25 (71.43%) Dependency Injection
5 25 (71.43%) Ninject
6 19 (54.29%) Node.js
6 19 (54.29%) Games
6 19 (54.29%) Domain-Driven Design
6 19 (54.29%) KnockoutJS
7 13 (37.14%) Scrum
7 13 (37.14%) Castle Windsor
7 13 (37.14%) Rhino Mocks
7 13 (37.14%) Kanban
7 13 (37.14%) NUnit
8 10 (28.57%) Google
8 10 (28.57%) Music
8 10 (28.57%) Android
8 10 (28.57%) iPhone

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 32 (91.43%) .NET
1 32 (91.43%) ASP.NET
1 32 (91.43%) WCF
1 32 (91.43%) ASP.NET MVC
1 32 (91.43%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 25 (71.43%) Ninject
3 19 (54.29%) Node.js
3 19 (54.29%) KnockoutJS
4 13 (37.14%) Castle Windsor
5 7 (20.00%) LINQ
5 7 (20.00%) NHibernate
5 7 (20.00%) Lucene
6 6 (17.14%) WPF
6 6 (17.14%) Razor View Engine
6 6 (17.14%) Spring.NET
6 6 (17.14%) WinForms
6 6 (17.14%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.571%) MS Exchange
1 3 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Internet
2 3 (8.571%) Firewall
2 3 (8.571%) DHCP
2 3 (8.571%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 26 (74.29%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) Rhino Mocks
1 13 (37.14%) NUnit
2 7 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 7 (20.00%) Selenium
3 6 (17.14%) Moq
3 6 (17.14%) MSTest
General
1 19 (54.29%) Games
2 10 (28.57%) Music
3 7 (20.00%) Advertising
4 4 (11.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 32 (91.43%) Developer
1 32 (91.43%) .NET Developer
2 3 (8.571%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (8.571%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) iPhone
1 10 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 6 (17.14%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Android
2 9 (25.71%) Windows
3 3 (8.571%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (8.571%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (91.43%) MVC
1 32 (91.43%) TDD
1 32 (91.43%) Web Application Development
2 25 (71.43%) Dependency Injection
3 19 (54.29%) Domain-Driven Design
4 13 (37.14%) Scrum
4 13 (37.14%) Kanban
5 7 (20.00%) OO
5 7 (20.00%) BDD
5 7 (20.00%) Scrum-ban
6 6 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (17.14%) MVVM
7 3 (8.571%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 30 (85.71%) C#
2 2 (5.714%) VB
2 2 (5.714%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 32 (91.43%) MCP
2 32 (91.43%) MCAD
2 32 (91.43%) MCSD
3 3 (8.571%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (8.571%) MCSE
3 3 (8.571%) MCSA
3 3 (8.571%) CCA
3 3 (8.571%) Citrix Certification
3 3 (8.571%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (8.571%) MCITP
System Software
1 3 (8.571%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.571%) XenApp
1 3 (8.571%) XenServer
1 3 (8.571%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Google
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.571%) VMware
2 3 (8.571%) AppSense
2 3 (8.571%) Citrix
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