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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 37 27 37
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +10
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 29 29 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 7.379% 8.101% 2.473%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.89% 24.17% 9.722%
Number of salaries quoted 25 26 3
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +77.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,000 £21,300
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £50,000 £23,700
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
112 120 72
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 28.50% 33.52% 25.44%
Number of salaries quoted 95 101 56
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £33,329
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £61,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
Leicestershire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

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

Leicester Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 49 (87.50%) MCP
2 37 (66.07%) SQL Server
3 32 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 30 (53.57%) Windows
5 27 (48.21%) MS Exchange
5 27 (48.21%) Windows Server 2008
6 26 (46.43%) MCTS
7 25 (44.64%) Windows Server 2003
8 21 (37.50%) VMware
9 19 (33.93%) Active Directory
10 18 (32.14%) IIS
10 18 (32.14%) VMware Infrastructure
11 17 (30.36%) vSphere
12 15 (26.79%) Capacity Management
12 15 (26.79%) WPF
12 15 (26.79%) TDD
12 15 (26.79%) C#
12 15 (26.79%) .NET
12 15 (26.79%) MCSD
13 14 (25.00%) MCAD
13 14 (25.00%) MCSE
13 14 (25.00%) NUnit
13 14 (25.00%) Scrum
13 14 (25.00%) Kanban
13 14 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
13 14 (25.00%) Moq
14 13 (23.21%) Castle Windsor
14 13 (23.21%) Ninject
14 13 (23.21%) MVVM
14 13 (23.21%) Dependency Injection

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 15 (26.79%) WPF
1 15 (26.79%) .NET
2 13 (23.21%) Castle Windsor
2 13 (23.21%) Ninject
2 13 (23.21%) Unity DI Container
2 13 (23.21%) Spring.NET
3 2 (3.571%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.571%) HTML
3 2 (3.571%) WCF
4 1 (1.786%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.786%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (1.786%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 1 (1.786%) Spring
4 1 (1.786%) Ajax
4 1 (1.786%) NHibernate
4 1 (1.786%) Velocity
4 1 (1.786%) LINQ
4 1 (1.786%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.786%) WinForms
4 1 (1.786%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 27 (48.21%) MS Exchange
2 18 (32.14%) IIS
3 12 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2007
4 8 (14.29%) SharePoint
4 8 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
5 5 (8.929%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (8.929%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.786%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 11 (19.64%) MS Excel
2 6 (10.71%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (23.21%) Broadband
2 11 (19.64%) TCP/IP
3 9 (16.07%) Firewall
4 7 (12.50%) FTP
4 7 (12.50%) SAN
5 1 (1.786%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.786%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.786%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.786%) LAN
5 1 (1.786%) VoIP
5 1 (1.786%) WAN
5 1 (1.786%) DHCP
5 1 (1.786%) DNS
5 1 (1.786%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (66.07%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.929%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (8.929%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (1.786%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) NUnit
1 14 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 14 (25.00%) Moq
2 13 (23.21%) MSTest
3 1 (1.786%) GitHub
3 1 (1.786%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.786%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (23.21%) Music
1 13 (23.21%) Telecoms
1 13 (23.21%) Back Office
2 7 (12.50%) Marketing
3 2 (3.571%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Support Engineer
2 15 (26.79%) IT Support
2 15 (26.79%) .NET Developer
2 15 (26.79%) Developer
3 12 (21.43%) Senior Support Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) IT Support Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Senior IT Support
4 10 (17.86%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Analyst
5 7 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
5 7 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 7 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
6 5 (8.929%) Systems Support Engineer
6 5 (8.929%) Systems Support
7 4 (7.143%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (7.143%) Administrator
7 4 (7.143%) Server Administrator
7 4 (7.143%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
8 3 (5.357%) IT Support Analyst
9 2 (3.571%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Inversion of Control
2 10 (17.86%) Management Information System
3 9 (16.07%) Clustering
4 1 (1.786%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 30 (53.57%) Windows
2 27 (48.21%) Windows Server 2008
3 25 (44.64%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (21.43%) Windows XP
5 9 (16.07%) Windows 7
6 8 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
7 6 (10.71%) Windows 2000
7 6 (10.71%) Windows Vista
8 5 (8.929%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.79%) Capacity Management
1 15 (26.79%) TDD
2 14 (25.00%) Scrum
2 14 (25.00%) Kanban
3 13 (23.21%) MVVM
3 13 (23.21%) Dependency Injection
3 13 (23.21%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (16.07%) Change Management
4 9 (16.07%) ITIL
4 9 (16.07%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (16.07%) Change Control
5 6 (10.71%) Direct Marketing
5 6 (10.71%) Problem Management
5 6 (10.71%) Information Security
6 5 (8.929%) Service Management
7 2 (3.571%) Service Delivery
7 2 (3.571%) Project Management
7 2 (3.571%) PRINCE2
7 2 (3.571%) MVC
7 2 (3.571%) Budget Control
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) C#
2 13 (23.21%) C++
3 9 (16.07%) VBScript
4 6 (10.71%) SQL
5 4 (7.143%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.786%) Java
6 1 (1.786%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.786%) VB
6 1 (1.786%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 49 (87.50%) MCP
2 26 (46.43%) MCTS
3 15 (26.79%) MCSD
4 14 (25.00%) MCAD
4 14 (25.00%) MCSE
5 9 (16.07%) MCITP
6 5 (8.929%) Degree
7 4 (7.143%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (3.571%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (3.571%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (3.571%) MCSA
8 2 (3.571%) CCAA
9 1 (1.786%) VCDX
9 1 (1.786%) CCIA
9 1 (1.786%) CCEE
9 1 (1.786%) NCDA
9 1 (1.786%) NCIE
9 1 (1.786%) VCAP
9 1 (1.786%) CCA
9 1 (1.786%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.571%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (33.93%) Active Directory
2 18 (32.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (30.36%) vSphere
4 4 (7.143%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.571%) XenApp
5 2 (3.571%) XenServer
5 2 (3.571%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (16.07%) SCOM
2 5 (8.929%) SCCM
3 2 (3.571%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.786%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 32 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 21 (37.50%) VMware
3 8 (14.29%) Symantec
3 8 (14.29%) Citrix
4 7 (12.50%) HP
4 7 (12.50%) NetApp
5 6 (10.71%) SAP
6 3 (5.357%) Cisco
7 1 (1.786%) Veeam
7 1 (1.786%) WatchGuard
Leicester, Leicestershire
Excellent opportunity for a 1st line support operative to become part of a dynamic IT department within a growing organisation. Topps Tiles is the largest retailer of tiles...
Topps Tiles
Salary: £17,000 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013
Leicester, East Midlands
My client can provide training in: .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection, Ninject / Spring.net, IoC, Unity / Castle Windsor, TDD, NUnit / MSTest, Mocking, Moq /...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013