The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSA over the 3 months to 21 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 181 158 155
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -3
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 8 18 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.195% 0.494% 0.539%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.756% 2.081% 2.119%
Number of salaries quoted 8 18 18
Average salary £25,000 £27,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.40% +8.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,550 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £41,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-6.15% +8.33%
All Qualifications
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1058 865 991
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 25.82% 23.76% 25.42%
Number of salaries quoted 908 722 880
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSA
North West

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Salary Trend

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

Manchester MCSA Salary Trend

MCSA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSA across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Manchester MCSA Salary Histogram

MCSA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 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
Bolton - 4 £25,000 -
Stockport - 3 £25,000 -
Rochdale - 2 £23,500 -
MCSA
North West

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing MCSA 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 MCSA.

1 25 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (84.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (72.00%) MCITP
4 17 (68.00%) Windows
4 17 (68.00%) Active Directory
5 15 (60.00%) MS Exchange
6 14 (56.00%) MCSE
6 14 (56.00%) DNS
7 13 (52.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 11 (44.00%) Citrix
8 11 (44.00%) MCP
8 11 (44.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 10 (40.00%) DHCP
10 9 (36.00%) MS Excel
10 9 (36.00%) ITIL
10 9 (36.00%) Exchange Server 2003
11 8 (32.00%) VMware
12 6 (24.00%) Exchange Server 2010
12 6 (24.00%) Change Control
13 5 (20.00%) SAN
13 5 (20.00%) XenApp
13 5 (20.00%) SCCM
13 5 (20.00%) Time Management
14 4 (16.00%) XenServer
14 4 (16.00%) XenDesktop
14 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
14 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
14 4 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
14 4 (16.00%) Problem Management
14 4 (16.00%) CCA

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing MCSA 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 MCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (12.00%) .NET
1 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (12.00%) XML
1 3 (12.00%) XSLT
1 3 (12.00%) LINQ
1 3 (12.00%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 15 (60.00%) MS Exchange
2 9 (36.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (24.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (8.000%) Lync
5 2 (8.000%) IIS
5 2 (8.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (36.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (8.000%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) BusinessWorks
1 3 (12.00%) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) DNS
2 10 (40.00%) DHCP
3 5 (20.00%) SAN
4 3 (12.00%) LAN
4 3 (12.00%) VoIP
4 3 (12.00%) WAN
5 2 (8.000%) Network Security
5 2 (8.000%) Internet
5 2 (8.000%) DSL
5 2 (8.000%) VPN
5 2 (8.000%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Service Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Wintel Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Support Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Server Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) C# Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) IT Support
5 2 (8.000%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Technical Support Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Team Leader
5 2 (8.000%) Service Desk Team Leader
5 2 (8.000%) Technical Support
5 2 (8.000%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (4.000%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.000%) CLARiiON
1 1 (4.000%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Windows
2 13 (52.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (44.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (16.00%) Windows XP
5 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (8.000%) Linux
6 1 (4.000%) Solaris
6 1 (4.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) ITIL
2 6 (24.00%) Change Control
3 5 (20.00%) Time Management
4 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (16.00%) Problem Management
4 4 (16.00%) Change Management
5 3 (12.00%) OOP
5 3 (12.00%) SOA
5 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
5 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (12.00%) Scrum
6 2 (8.000%) Software Deployment
6 2 (8.000%) Workflow
6 2 (8.000%) Knowledge Management
6 2 (8.000%) Incident Management
6 2 (8.000%) PRINCE
6 2 (8.000%) Service Management
7 1 (4.000%) Risk Management
7 1 (4.000%) Business Development
7 1 (4.000%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
1 4 (16.00%) VBScript
1 4 (16.00%) VB
2 3 (12.00%) C
2 3 (12.00%) C#
2 3 (12.00%) Java
2 3 (12.00%) XPath
3 2 (8.000%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (72.00%) MCITP
3 14 (56.00%) MCSE
4 11 (44.00%) MCP
5 4 (16.00%) CCA
5 4 (16.00%) Citrix Certification
5 4 (16.00%) CCEA
6 3 (12.00%) CCNA
6 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (8.000%) JNCIA
8 1 (4.000%) CCDA
8 1 (4.000%) CISA
8 1 (4.000%) CISM
8 1 (4.000%) CISSP
8 1 (4.000%) MCTS
8 1 (4.000%) PCI QSA
8 1 (4.000%) SC Cleared
8 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.000%) SLA
2 1 (4.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (68.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) XenApp
3 4 (16.00%) XenServer
3 4 (16.00%) XenDesktop
3 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.000%) vSphere
4 2 (8.000%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) SCCM
2 3 (12.00%) SCOM
3 2 (8.000%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (84.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (44.00%) Citrix
3 8 (32.00%) VMware
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco
5 3 (12.00%) TIBCO
5 3 (12.00%) NetApp
6 2 (8.000%) Apple
6 2 (8.000%) Oracle
7 1 (4.000%) Sun
7 1 (4.000%) Juniper
7 1 (4.000%) HP
7 1 (4.000%) EMC
7 1 (4.000%) Brocade
7 1 (4.000%) AppSense