The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT jobs advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 71 50 55
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +5
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 9 22 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 1.320% 3.112% 1.085%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.945% 9.735% 4.688%
Number of salaries quoted 8 16 2
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £27,848
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +25.68%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,500 £23,570
10% offered a salary of more than £36,840 £52,000 £32,127
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
182 226 128
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 26.69% 31.97% 23.15%
Number of salaries quoted 158 182 108
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,098
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +5.74%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,550 £20,950
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £42,155 £49,978
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSE
East Midlands

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Salary Trend

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

Leicestershire MCSE Salary Trend

MCSE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSE across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leicestershire MCSE Salary Histogram

MCSE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 17 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 -9 5 £35,000 -
Hinckley - 1 £25,000 -
MCSE
East Midlands

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 16 (88.89%) MS Exchange
3 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
4 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
4 14 (77.78%) MS Excel
4 14 (77.78%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (72.22%) VMware
5 13 (72.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (66.67%) vSphere
6 12 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
6 12 (66.67%) MCP
6 12 (66.67%) SQL Server
6 12 (66.67%) TCP/IP
7 11 (61.11%) IIS
7 11 (61.11%) VBScript
7 11 (61.11%) Clustering
7 11 (61.11%) Change Management
7 11 (61.11%) SCOM
7 11 (61.11%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (50.00%) Management Information System
8 9 (50.00%) Capacity Management
9 6 (33.33%) MCITP
9 6 (33.33%) Citrix
10 5 (27.78%) Firewall
11 4 (22.22%) MCSA
11 4 (22.22%) HP
12 3 (16.67%) MCTS
12 3 (16.67%) SLA

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire region citing MCSE 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 MCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.556%) HTML
1 1 (5.556%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 16 (88.89%) MS Exchange
2 12 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 11 (61.11%) IIS
4 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (11.11%) Commerce Server
5 2 (11.11%) Commerce Server 2007
6 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 14 (77.78%) MS Excel
2 3 (16.67%) MS Office
3 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.556%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
3 3 (16.67%) SAN
4 2 (11.11%) Internet
4 2 (11.11%) VPN
4 2 (11.11%) WAN
4 2 (11.11%) NetScaler
5 1 (5.556%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.556%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (5.556%) DHCP
5 1 (5.556%) LAN
5 1 (5.556%) VoIP
5 1 (5.556%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Systems Support
3 4 (22.22%) Systems Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Server Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Server Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Services Delivery Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Service Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Server Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.556%) Technical Support Team Leader
5 1 (5.556%) Field Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Technical Team Leader
5 1 (5.556%) Support Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Support Team Leader
5 1 (5.556%) Field Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Clustering
2 9 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.556%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.556%) Data Integration
3 1 (5.556%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.556%) Biometrics
3 1 (5.556%) Smartcard
3 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 14 (77.78%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (72.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
5 1 (5.556%) Android
5 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Change Management
1 11 (61.11%) Capacity Planning
2 9 (50.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 2 (11.11%) Budget Control
3 2 (11.11%) Project Management
3 2 (11.11%) Service Management
3 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL
3 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.556%) DNA
4 1 (5.556%) Identity Management
4 1 (5.556%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Time Management
4 1 (5.556%) Cyber Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) VBScript
2 2 (11.11%) VB
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (66.67%) MCP
3 6 (33.33%) MCITP
4 4 (22.22%) MCSA
5 3 (16.67%) MCTS
6 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (11.11%) MCPD
7 1 (5.556%) Degree
7 1 (5.556%) CCAA
7 1 (5.556%) CCNA
7 1 (5.556%) CCA
7 1 (5.556%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (5.556%) CCEA
7 1 (5.556%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (5.556%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 12 (66.67%) vSphere
2 12 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.556%) XenApp
3 1 (5.556%) XenServer
3 1 (5.556%) XenDesktop
3 1 (5.556%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) SCOM
2 1 (5.556%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (72.22%) VMware
3 6 (33.33%) Citrix
4 4 (22.22%) HP
5 3 (16.67%) Symantec
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco
6 2 (11.11%) Altiris
6 2 (11.11%) Dell
7 1 (5.556%) Sophos
7 1 (5.556%) BT
7 1 (5.556%) CA
7 1 (5.556%) Apple
7 1 (5.556%) Sage
7 1 (5.556%) WatchGuard
7 1 (5.556%) Veeam
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