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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 25 31 28
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 18 5 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 9.524% 3.311% 4.000%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.96% 27.78% 44.44%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 7
Average salary £33,750 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.84% +8.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Macclesfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
53 18 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 28.04% 11.92% 9.000%
Number of salaries quoted 43 16 15
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -1.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,650 £29,750
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £40,000 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
Cheshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Macclesfield 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 Macclesfield region.

Macclesfield Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

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

Macclesfield Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Macclesfield 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 31 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (80.65%) SQL Server
3 24 (77.42%) SQL Server 2008
4 18 (58.06%) SQL Server 2005
5 16 (51.61%) Exchange Server 2003
5 16 (51.61%) Windows Server 2003
5 16 (51.61%) SQL
5 16 (51.61%) Windows
5 16 (51.61%) Active Directory
5 16 (51.61%) SharePoint
5 16 (51.61%) MS Exchange
5 16 (51.61%) Windows Server 2008
5 16 (51.61%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (48.39%) MS Excel
6 15 (48.39%) Visual Studio
6 15 (48.39%) ASP.NET
6 15 (48.39%) C#
6 15 (48.39%) JavaScript
6 15 (48.39%) .NET
6 15 (48.39%) MVC
6 15 (48.39%) jQuery
7 13 (41.94%) MCP
8 10 (32.26%) ITIL
8 10 (32.26%) SAN
8 10 (32.26%) NetApp
8 10 (32.26%) HP
8 10 (32.26%) IIS
8 10 (32.26%) VMware
8 10 (32.26%) vSphere
9 9 (29.03%) ASP.NET MVC

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Macclesfield 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 (48.39%) .NET
1 15 (48.39%) ASP.NET
1 15 (48.39%) jQuery
2 9 (29.03%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (29.03%) HTML
2 9 (29.03%) SOAP
2 9 (29.03%) Web Services
2 9 (29.03%) XML
2 9 (29.03%) XHTML
2 9 (29.03%) Ajax
2 9 (29.03%) JSON
2 9 (29.03%) WCF
3 6 (19.35%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 16 (51.61%) SharePoint
1 16 (51.61%) MS Exchange
1 16 (51.61%) Exchange Server 2003
1 16 (51.61%) Exchange Server 2010
2 10 (32.26%) IIS
3 9 (29.03%) SharePoint Server
4 8 (25.81%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 15 (48.39%) MS Excel
2 6 (19.35%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) SAN
2 8 (25.81%) VoIP
3 6 (19.35%) DHCP
3 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
3 6 (19.35%) VPN
3 6 (19.35%) DNS
3 6 (19.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (80.65%) SQL Server
2 24 (77.42%) SQL Server 2008
3 18 (58.06%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) Visual Studio
2 9 (29.03%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Developer
2 10 (32.26%) Server Engineer
2 10 (32.26%) Senior Server Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) IT Support
3 6 (19.35%) Junior
3 6 (19.35%) Junior Developer
3 6 (19.35%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Support Engineer
4 3 (9.677%) Web Developer
5 2 (6.452%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.226%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.226%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Senior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (51.61%) Windows
1 16 (51.61%) Windows Server 2003
1 16 (51.61%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (22.58%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (19.35%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) MVC
2 10 (32.26%) ITIL
3 9 (29.03%) OO
3 9 (29.03%) Web Development
4 7 (22.58%) Performance Management
4 7 (22.58%) Change Control
4 7 (22.58%) Capacity Management
5 6 (19.35%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) SQL
2 15 (48.39%) C#
2 15 (48.39%) JavaScript
3 9 (29.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) MCP
2 9 (29.03%) MCSE
2 9 (29.03%) MCTS
2 9 (29.03%) MCITP
3 8 (25.81%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (19.35%) Degree
System Software
1 16 (51.61%) Active Directory
2 10 (32.26%) vSphere
3 9 (29.03%) ISA Server
4 2 (6.452%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) SCCM
2 7 (22.58%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 31 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (32.26%) HP
2 10 (32.26%) NetApp
2 10 (32.26%) VMware
3 9 (29.03%) SolarWinds
4 8 (25.81%) Cisco
4 8 (25.81%) FrontRange
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