The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Maidstone 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 Maidstone region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 15 5 -
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 8 18 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 9.877% 36.73% -
As % of the Qualifications category 36.36% 85.71% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 17 0
Average salary £40,000 £25,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+60.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Maidstone
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
22 21 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 27.16% 42.86% 24.07%
Number of salaries quoted 21 20 26
Average salary £40,000 £25,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+60.00% -34.21%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
Kent

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidstone 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 Maidstone region.

Maidstone Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) MCP
2 9 (90.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (80.00%) VB
3 8 (80.00%) VB.NET
3 8 (80.00%) .NET
3 8 (80.00%) MCAD
3 8 (80.00%) MCSD
3 8 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (80.00%) Scrum
3 8 (80.00%) TDD
3 8 (80.00%) NUnit
3 8 (80.00%) WinForms
3 8 (80.00%) MCTS
3 8 (80.00%) WPF
3 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (80.00%) Kanban
3 8 (80.00%) Spring.NET
3 8 (80.00%) Dependency Injection
3 8 (80.00%) Inversion of Control
3 8 (80.00%) MSTest
3 8 (80.00%) MVVM
3 8 (80.00%) Rhino Mocks
3 8 (80.00%) Moq
3 8 (80.00%) Castle Windsor
3 8 (80.00%) Ninject
3 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 8 (80.00%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 8 (80.00%) .NET
1 8 (80.00%) WinForms
1 8 (80.00%) WPF
1 8 (80.00%) Spring.NET
1 8 (80.00%) Castle Windsor
1 8 (80.00%) Ninject
1 8 (80.00%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) VoIP
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) NUnit
1 8 (80.00%) MSTest
1 8 (80.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 8 (80.00%) Moq
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
1 8 (80.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Scrum
1 8 (80.00%) TDD
1 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Kanban
1 8 (80.00%) Dependency Injection
1 8 (80.00%) MVVM
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Security
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) VB
1 8 (80.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) MCP
2 8 (80.00%) MCAD
2 8 (80.00%) MCSD
2 8 (80.00%) MCTS
3 2 (20.00%) MCSA
4 1 (10.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Terminal Server
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) XenApp
1 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
1 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Mitel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
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