The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 22 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 48 29 -
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 16 23 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 4.071% 6.336% -
As % of the Qualifications category 14.29% 18.70% -
Number of salaries quoted 16 23 0
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
112 123 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 28.50% 33.88% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 95 103 53
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £19,900
10% offered a salary of more than £42,100 £61,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
Leicestershire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Leicester MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 32 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 28 (87.50%) MCP
2 28 (87.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (59.38%) Windows
4 16 (50.00%) MCAD
4 16 (50.00%) MCSD
4 16 (50.00%) .NET
4 16 (50.00%) C#
4 16 (50.00%) Scrum
4 16 (50.00%) TDD
4 16 (50.00%) NUnit
4 16 (50.00%) WPF
4 16 (50.00%) Kanban
4 16 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
4 16 (50.00%) Moq
5 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
6 13 (40.63%) Broadband
6 13 (40.63%) C++
6 13 (40.63%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (40.63%) Music
6 13 (40.63%) Telecoms
6 13 (40.63%) Castle Windsor
6 13 (40.63%) Ninject
6 13 (40.63%) Spring.NET
6 13 (40.63%) Dependency Injection
6 13 (40.63%) Inversion of Control
6 13 (40.63%) MSTest
6 13 (40.63%) MVVM
6 13 (40.63%) Unity DI Container
7 12 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 16 (50.00%) .NET
1 16 (50.00%) WPF
2 13 (40.63%) Castle Windsor
2 13 (40.63%) Ninject
2 13 (40.63%) Spring.NET
2 13 (40.63%) Unity DI Container
3 3 (9.375%) Razor View Engine
3 3 (9.375%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (9.375%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 3 (9.375%) ASP.NET
3 3 (9.375%) WinForms
3 3 (9.375%) NHibernate
3 3 (9.375%) LINQ
3 3 (9.375%) WCF
4 1 (3.125%) Velocity
4 1 (3.125%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.125%) Spring
4 1 (3.125%) JSP
4 1 (3.125%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 12 (37.50%) MS Exchange
2 10 (31.25%) SharePoint
3 7 (21.88%) IIS
4 6 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2003
5 5 (15.63%) SharePoint 2010
5 5 (15.63%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (12.50%) Lync
7 1 (3.125%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MS Office
2 3 (9.375%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (40.63%) Broadband
2 7 (21.88%) Firewall
3 6 (18.75%) FTP
4 1 (3.125%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (15.63%) SQL Server 2012
2 5 (15.63%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (9.375%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 16 (50.00%) NUnit
1 16 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 16 (50.00%) Moq
2 13 (40.63%) MSTest
3 1 (3.125%) GitHub
General
1 13 (40.63%) Music
1 13 (40.63%) Telecoms
2 12 (37.50%) Back Office
3 7 (21.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Developer
1 16 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 15 (46.88%) Support Engineer
3 11 (34.38%) IT Support Engineer
3 11 (34.38%) Senior Support Engineer
3 11 (34.38%) IT Support
3 11 (34.38%) Senior IT Support
4 10 (31.25%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (9.375%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) Senior Citrix Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) Citrix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (40.63%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (9.375%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (59.38%) Windows
2 12 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 12 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (34.38%) Windows XP
4 6 (18.75%) Windows 7
4 6 (18.75%) Windows 2000 Server
5 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (15.63%) Windows 2000
5 5 (15.63%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Scrum
1 16 (50.00%) TDD
1 16 (50.00%) Kanban
2 13 (40.63%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (40.63%) Dependency Injection
2 13 (40.63%) MVVM
3 6 (18.75%) Information Security
3 6 (18.75%) Problem Management
3 6 (18.75%) Direct Marketing
3 6 (18.75%) Change Control
4 3 (9.375%) Web Application Development
4 3 (9.375%) BDD
4 3 (9.375%) MVC
5 1 (3.125%) Time Management
5 1 (3.125%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) C#
2 13 (40.63%) C++
3 5 (15.63%) SQL
4 1 (3.125%) Java
4 1 (3.125%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (87.50%) MCP
1 28 (87.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (50.00%) MCAD
2 16 (50.00%) MCSD
3 10 (31.25%) MCITP
4 5 (15.63%) Degree
5 4 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (12.50%) Citrix Certification
5 4 (12.50%) CCEE
6 1 (3.125%) MCSA
6 1 (3.125%) CCA
6 1 (3.125%) CCEA
6 1 (3.125%) CCAA
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.50%) XenDesktop
2 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 4 (12.50%) XenApp
3 1 (3.125%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) SCCM
2 1 (3.125%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Symantec
3 4 (12.50%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) HP
3 4 (12.50%) Dell
3 4 (12.50%) Citrix
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