Microsoft Certification Jobs in Lancashire
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 21 44 33
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 42 17 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 8.714% 3.080% 4.922%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.90% 13.08% 22.62%
Number of salaries quoted 40 17 19
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 £20,500 £17,700
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £41,600 £41,700
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 117 130 84
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 24.27% 23.55% 21.76%
Number of salaries quoted 103 116 68
Average salary £35,000 £32,750 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.87% +16.96%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,500 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,500 £42,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Microsoft Certification
North West

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Lancashire Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 23 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 11 £25,000 -3.84%
Preston +9 10 £35,000 +7.69%
Lancaster - 10 £40,000 -
Blackpool - 6 £37,500 -
Burnley - 3 £22,500 -
Lytham St Annes - 1 £35,000 -
Microsoft Certification
North West

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 51 (79.69%) SQL Server
2 38 (59.38%) .NET
3 36 (56.25%) ASP.NET
4 35 (54.69%) MCP
4 35 (54.69%) Microsoft
4 35 (54.69%) MCTS
5 32 (50.00%) TDD
5 32 (50.00%) WCF
5 32 (50.00%) MVC
5 32 (50.00%) MCAD
5 32 (50.00%) MCSD
5 32 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 32 (50.00%) Web Application Development
5 32 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 31 (48.44%) C#
7 30 (46.88%) Windows
8 29 (45.31%) SQL Server 2012
9 25 (39.06%) Ninject
9 25 (39.06%) Dependency Injection
10 20 (31.25%) Active Directory
11 19 (29.69%) Games
11 19 (29.69%) Domain-Driven Design
11 19 (29.69%) Node.js
11 19 (29.69%) KnockoutJS
12 16 (25.00%) SQL
13 13 (20.31%) MS Office
13 13 (20.31%) Scrum
13 13 (20.31%) NUnit
13 13 (20.31%) Castle Windsor
13 13 (20.31%) Rhino Mocks

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 38 (59.38%) .NET
2 36 (56.25%) ASP.NET
3 32 (50.00%) WCF
3 32 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 32 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 25 (39.06%) Ninject
5 19 (29.69%) Node.js
5 19 (29.69%) KnockoutJS
6 13 (20.31%) Castle Windsor
7 7 (10.94%) LINQ
7 7 (10.94%) NHibernate
7 7 (10.94%) Lucene
8 6 (9.375%) Razor View Engine
8 6 (9.375%) Unity DI Container
8 6 (9.375%) Spring.NET
8 6 (9.375%) WPF
8 6 (9.375%) WinForms
9 1 (1.563%) jQuery
9 1 (1.563%) HTML
9 1 (1.563%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (15.63%) SharePoint
2 9 (14.06%) MS Exchange
3 8 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
4 6 (9.375%) Exchange Server 2003
5 5 (7.813%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.563%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (20.31%) MS Office
2 8 (12.50%) MS Excel
3 7 (10.94%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (3.125%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) DHCP
2 9 (14.06%) VPN
2 9 (14.06%) Internet
3 8 (12.50%) DNS
4 6 (9.375%) LAN
4 6 (9.375%) WAN
4 6 (9.375%) TCP/IP
5 5 (7.813%) Firewall
6 3 (4.688%) IMAP
7 2 (3.125%) NAS
7 2 (3.125%) SAN
7 2 (3.125%) SCCP
7 2 (3.125%) SSL
7 2 (3.125%) WLAN
7 2 (3.125%) Wireless
8 1 (1.563%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (79.69%) SQL Server
2 29 (45.31%) SQL Server 2012
3 7 (10.94%) Crystal Reports
3 7 (10.94%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (4.688%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (4.688%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (4.688%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 3 (4.688%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (4.688%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.688%) MS Access
4 3 (4.688%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (4.688%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (4.688%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
5 1 (1.563%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 13 (20.31%) NUnit
1 13 (20.31%) Rhino Mocks
2 7 (10.94%) Cucumber
2 7 (10.94%) Selenium
3 6 (9.375%) Moq
3 6 (9.375%) MSTest
General
1 19 (29.69%) Games
2 10 (15.63%) Music
3 7 (10.94%) Advertising
4 4 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 41 (64.06%) Developer
2 35 (54.69%) .NET Developer
3 8 (12.50%) Support Technician
4 7 (10.94%) IT Support Technician
4 7 (10.94%) IT Support
5 3 (4.688%) ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (4.688%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (4.688%) Senior Developer
5 3 (4.688%) Administrator
5 3 (4.688%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (4.688%) Network Engineer
5 3 (4.688%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.688%) VB.NET Developer
5 3 (4.688%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (4.688%) MI Developer
6 2 (3.125%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.125%) Analyst
6 2 (3.125%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (3.125%) Lead Developer
6 2 (3.125%) Dynamics AX Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) iPhone
1 10 (15.63%) Mobile App
2 7 (10.94%) Blackberry
3 6 (9.375%) Inversion of Control
4 3 (4.688%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.563%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.563%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.563%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 30 (46.88%) Windows
2 11 (17.19%) Windows XP
3 10 (15.63%) Android
4 9 (14.06%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (14.06%) Windows 7
5 8 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (4.688%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.563%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.00%) TDD
1 32 (50.00%) MVC
1 32 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 25 (39.06%) Dependency Injection
3 19 (29.69%) Domain-Driven Design
4 13 (20.31%) Scrum
4 13 (20.31%) Kanban
5 7 (10.94%) OO
5 7 (10.94%) BDD
5 7 (10.94%) Scrum-ban
6 6 (9.375%) MVVM
6 6 (9.375%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (7.813%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (6.250%) ITIL
9 3 (4.688%) Kimball Methodology
10 2 (3.125%) Security Architecture
10 2 (3.125%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 2 (3.125%) Content Management
11 1 (1.563%) Technical Architecture
11 1 (1.563%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (48.44%) C#
2 16 (25.00%) SQL
3 6 (9.375%) VB.NET
4 4 (6.250%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.125%) VB
5 2 (3.125%) X++
6 1 (1.563%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (54.69%) MCP
1 35 (54.69%) MCTS
2 32 (50.00%) MCAD
2 32 (50.00%) MCSD
3 7 (10.94%) MCSE
4 5 (7.813%) CCNA
4 5 (7.813%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.250%) Citrix Certification
5 4 (6.250%) MCSA
5 4 (6.250%) Degree
5 4 (6.250%) MCITP
5 4 (6.250%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (4.688%) CCA
6 3 (4.688%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (3.125%) ISACA
7 2 (3.125%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.125%) Security Cleared
7 2 (3.125%) CISSP
7 2 (3.125%) GIAC
7 2 (3.125%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.563%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.375%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.250%) XenApp
3 4 (6.250%) XenServer
4 2 (3.125%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.563%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.563%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.563%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.125%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (54.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.75%) Citrix
3 10 (15.63%) Google
4 8 (12.50%) Cisco
5 7 (10.94%) VMware
5 7 (10.94%) Oracle
6 5 (7.813%) HP
7 4 (6.250%) NetApp
8 3 (4.688%) AppSense
8 3 (4.688%) Dell
8 3 (4.688%) Avaya
9 1 (1.563%) Intel
.NET Developer - Global TV Network - Preston
Preston, North West
Our client can provide you with industry recognized training in: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, Castle Windsor, Lucene.net, TDD, BDD, NUnit, RhinoMocks, Cucumber, Selenium,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
.NET Developer - Global Internet Icon - Lancaster
Lancaster, North West
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, SQL Server 2012, KnockoutJS, T4 Template, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Node.js, Agile,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
.NET Developer - Digital Download Site - Blackburn
Blackburn, North West
You will be trained in all aspects of: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, SQL Server 2012, KnockoutJS, T4 Template, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Node.js, Agile,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
IT Infrastructure Specialist
Preston, Lancashire
Information Technology related degree, or equivalent proven knowledge in IT and Technology fields with associated qualifications such as CCNA, CCNP, VCP *Extensive knowledge of MS Windows 2000/XP,...
Reed Technology
Salary: £24000 - £31000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
APPV Rollout Technical / Project Lead
Blackpool, North West
This is a contract position working to roll out with APPV and SCCM.Key areas required are a strong technical knowledge within Microsoft including Active Directory 2008, Exchange...
Salary: £20.00 - £25.00 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
Application Deployment Specialist
Blackpool, North West
APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT SPECIALISTThis is a contract position working to roll out with AppV and SCCM.Key areas required are a strong technical knowledge within Microsoft including Active Directory...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25.00 - £35.00 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013
Site Support Engineer / Field Service Engineer (Telecoms) £20K
Preston, Lancashire
Server and PC hardware/software in a Microsoft/Linux networking environment. - Analogue and digital/VOIP telephone networks. - TCP/IP network fundamentals including working with Windows software configurations... DESIRABLE...
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: £20,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
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