Manchester MCAD Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) in IT jobs within the Manchester region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCAD over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD)
Location Abingdon Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chertsey Cheshire City of London Coventry Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Gerrards Cross Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Ipswich Isleworth Kent Kettering Kidlington Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Reading Rochester Scotland Sheffield Skipton Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stanmore Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	176	194
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching permanent IT job ads	11	25
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.947 %	1.670 %
Salaries quoted	11	25
Average minimum salary	£22,636	£31,560
Average salary	£24,273	£33,940
% change on same period last year	-28.48 %
Average maximum salary	£25,909	£36,320
UK excluding London average salary	£39,814	£38,169
% change on same period last year	+4.30 %
Qualifications Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	1162	1497
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.613 %	0.613 %
Salaries quoted	914	1305
Average minimum salary	£32,311	£38,988
Average salary	£35,811	£42,357
% change on same period last year	-15.45 %
Average maximum salary	£39,312	£45,727
UK excluding London average salary	£37,731	£38,242
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
MCAD North West

MCAD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCAD across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCAD
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCAD across the Manchester region.

MCAD
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCAD across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCAD
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCAD within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bury	-	3	£34,000	-

MCAD North West

MCAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing MCAD 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 MCAD.

1 18 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 17 (94.44 %) C# 2 17 (94.44 %) .NET 3 14 (77.78 %) ASP.NET 4 13 (72.22 %) SQL Server 5 10 (55.56 %) SQL 5 10 (55.56 %) MCSD 6 8 (44.44 %) CSS 6 8 (44.44 %) XHTML 6 8 (44.44 %) E-Commerce 7 7 (38.89 %) MCP 7 7 (38.89 %) Microsoft 7 7 (38.89 %) VB.NET 8 6 (33.33 %) Finance 8 6 (33.33 %) CMS

8 6 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 8 6 (33.33 %) JavaScript 8 6 (33.33 %) Internet 8 6 (33.33 %) DAB 9 3 (16.67 %) SCJP 9 3 (16.67 %) Pensions 9 3 (16.67 %) ISTQB 9 3 (16.67 %) SCJA 9 3 (16.67 %) MCTS 9 3 (16.67 %) Java 9 3 (16.67 %) J2EE 10 2 (11.11 %) MS Excel 10 2 (11.11 %) B2B 10 2 (11.11 %) B2C 10 2 (11.11 %) AJAX

MCAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing MCAD 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 MCAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (94.44 %) .NET 2 14 (77.78 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (44.44 %) CSS 3 8 (44.44 %) XHTML 4 3 (16.67 %) J2EE 5 2 (11.11 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 6 (33.33 %) CMS 2 1 (5.556 %) Oracle Application Server 2 1 (5.556 %) Oracle 9iAS
Applications 1 2 (11.11 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 6 (33.33 %) Internet 1 6 (33.33 %) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (72.22 %) SQL Server 2 6 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (5.556 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (5.556 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 1 (5.556 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 6 (33.33 %) Finance 2 3 (16.67 %) Pensions 3 1 (5.556 %) Aerospace	Job Titles 1 15 (83.33 %) Developer 2 7 (38.89 %) Web Developer 3 6 (33.33 %) Analyst 3 6 (33.33 %) Developer Analyst 4 4 (22.22 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (22.22 %) C# Developer 5 3 (16.67 %) Tester 5 3 (16.67 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 3 (16.67 %) Graduate Developer 5 3 (16.67 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 5 3 (16.67 %) .NET Programmer 5 3 (16.67 %) C# Analyst Programmer 5 3 (16.67 %) Graduate 5 3 (16.67 %) Analyst Programmer 5 3 (16.67 %) Programmer 5 3 (16.67 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) Instructor 6 1 (5.556 %) Technical Instructor 6 1 (5.556 %) Trainer 6 1 (5.556 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems 1 1 (5.556 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (44.44 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (11.11 %) B2B 2 2 (11.11 %) B2C
Programming Languages 1 17 (94.44 %) C# 2 10 (55.56 %) SQL 3 7 (38.89 %) VB.NET 4 6 (33.33 %) JavaScript 5 3 (16.67 %) Java 6 1 (5.556 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 18 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 10 (55.56 %) MCSD 3 7 (38.89 %) MCP 4 3 (16.67 %) SCJP 4 3 (16.67 %) MCTS 4 3 (16.67 %) ISTQB 4 3 (16.67 %) SCJA 5 1 (5.556 %) MCSE 5 1 (5.556 %) MCDBA 5 1 (5.556 %) MCT
Vendors 1 7 (38.89 %) Microsoft 2 1 (5.556 %) Oracle 2 1 (5.556 %) Cisco