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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 67 48 -
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 12 25 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 1.729% 3.531% -
As % of the Qualifications category 6.667% 11.11% -
Number of salaries quoted 11 25 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
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
180 225 118
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 25.94% 31.78% 23.00%
Number of salaries quoted 155 179 98
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £23,750 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,125 £48,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCSD
East Midlands

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire MCSD Jobs Demand Trend

MCSD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCSD across the Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSD within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Leicester -16 12 £40,000 -
MCSD
East Midlands

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire region citing MCSD 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 MCSD.

1 17 (100.00%) C#
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 17 (100.00%) TDD
1 17 (100.00%) WPF
2 16 (94.12%) MCTS
2 16 (94.12%) NUnit
2 16 (94.12%) Scrum
2 16 (94.12%) MCP
2 16 (94.12%) MCAD
2 16 (94.12%) Kanban
2 16 (94.12%) Rhino Mocks
2 16 (94.12%) Moq
3 13 (76.47%) Castle Windsor
3 13 (76.47%) Ninject
3 13 (76.47%) Spring.NET
3 13 (76.47%) Dependency Injection
3 13 (76.47%) Inversion of Control
3 13 (76.47%) MSTest
3 13 (76.47%) MVVM
3 13 (76.47%) Unity DI Container
3 13 (76.47%) Broadband
3 13 (76.47%) C++
3 13 (76.47%) Music
3 13 (76.47%) Telecoms
3 13 (76.47%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (23.53%) WCF
4 4 (23.53%) MVC
4 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire region citing MCSD 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 MCSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
1 17 (100.00%) WPF
2 13 (76.47%) Castle Windsor
2 13 (76.47%) Ninject
2 13 (76.47%) Spring.NET
2 13 (76.47%) Unity DI Container
3 4 (23.53%) WCF
3 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
4 3 (17.65%) NHibernate
4 3 (17.65%) LINQ
4 3 (17.65%) WinForms
4 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (17.65%) Razor View Engine
4 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 1 (5.882%) Ajax
5 1 (5.882%) CSS
5 1 (5.882%) XML
5 1 (5.882%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) Windows Azure
1 1 (5.882%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 16 (94.12%) NUnit
1 16 (94.12%) Rhino Mocks
1 16 (94.12%) Moq
2 13 (76.47%) MSTest
3 1 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (76.47%) Music
1 13 (76.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
1 17 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (5.882%) C# Developer
2 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (5.882%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (76.47%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (17.65%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) TDD
2 16 (94.12%) Scrum
2 16 (94.12%) Kanban
3 13 (76.47%) Dependency Injection
3 13 (76.47%) MVVM
3 13 (76.47%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (23.53%) MVC
5 3 (17.65%) Web Application Development
5 3 (17.65%) BDD
6 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) C#
2 13 (76.47%) C++
3 1 (5.882%) SQL
3 1 (5.882%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (94.12%) MCTS
2 16 (94.12%) MCP
2 16 (94.12%) MCAD
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
Leicester, East Midlands
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Posted: 22 May 2013