The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 167 133 127
Rank change year-on-year
-34 -6
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 26 44 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.609% 1.179% 1.166%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.462% 4.793% 4.493%
Number of salaries quoted 25 41 41
Average salary £38,750 £34,000 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.97% +21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Qualifications
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1056 918 1046
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 24.75% 24.60% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 907 759 929
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 £23,250 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCSE
North West

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester MCSE Salary Trend

MCSE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSE across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bolton -1 5 £25,000 -37.50%
Altrincham - 5 £28,500 - 1
Stockport - 5 £25,000 -
Sale -8 2 £41,250 +3.12%
Salford - 2 £41,250 -
Bury - 2 £41,250 -
Oldham - 2 £41,250 -
MCSE
North West

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 68 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 54 (79.41%) Microsoft
3 53 (77.94%) Windows
4 34 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 32 (47.06%) MS Excel
5 32 (47.06%) Windows Server 2008
6 28 (41.18%) MCITP
6 28 (41.18%) VMware
7 27 (39.71%) MS Exchange
8 26 (38.24%) MCP
9 25 (36.76%) ITIL
10 24 (35.29%) Windows Server 2003
11 22 (32.35%) Cisco
12 21 (30.88%) Citrix
13 19 (27.94%) HP
13 19 (27.94%) Hyper-V
14 17 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
14 17 (25.00%) VoIP
14 17 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (22.06%) DNS
16 14 (20.59%) TCP/IP
16 14 (20.59%) VPN
16 14 (20.59%) CCNA
16 14 (20.59%) MCSA
17 13 (19.12%) SLA
17 13 (19.12%) SAN
17 13 (19.12%) Office 365
18 12 (17.65%) Network Design
18 12 (17.65%) SCCM
19 11 (16.18%) Windows XP

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (5.882%) .NET
1 4 (5.882%) ASP.NET
2 3 (4.412%) Web Services
2 3 (4.412%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.471%) WCF
3 1 (1.471%) LINQ
3 1 (1.471%) XML
3 1 (1.471%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 27 (39.71%) MS Exchange
2 8 (11.76%) Lync
3 6 (8.824%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (7.353%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (5.882%) Office Communications Server
5 4 (5.882%) IIS
6 2 (2.941%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (1.471%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 32 (47.06%) MS Excel
2 13 (19.12%) Office 365
3 10 (14.71%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.471%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (1.471%) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking
1 17 (25.00%) VoIP
2 15 (22.06%) DNS
3 14 (20.59%) TCP/IP
3 14 (20.59%) VPN
4 13 (19.12%) SAN
5 10 (14.71%) Firewall
6 8 (11.76%) LAN
6 8 (11.76%) WAN
6 8 (11.76%) DHCP
7 6 (8.824%) Unified Communications
8 4 (5.882%) NAS
9 3 (4.412%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (4.412%) iSCSI
9 3 (4.412%) Wireless
10 2 (2.941%) MPLS
10 2 (2.941%) SSL
10 2 (2.941%) SNMP
10 2 (2.941%) SMTP
10 2 (2.941%) PBX
10 2 (2.941%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.824%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.941%) MySQL
General
1 9 (13.24%) Finance
2 4 (5.882%) Advertising
3 1 (1.471%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (14.71%) Consultant
2 9 (13.24%) Systems Administrator
2 9 (13.24%) 2nd Line Support
2 9 (13.24%) Administrator
2 9 (13.24%) Windows Administrator
2 9 (13.24%) Windows Systems Administrator
3 8 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Analyst
5 6 (8.824%) Desktop Support
5 6 (8.824%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.353%) Team Leader
6 5 (7.353%) Server Engineer
7 4 (5.882%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (5.882%) Support Analyst
7 4 (5.882%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.882%) Service Desk Team Leader
7 4 (5.882%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 3 (4.412%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (4.412%) 2nd Line Support Technician
8 3 (4.412%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (4.412%) Clustering
3 2 (2.941%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (2.941%) iPhone
3 2 (2.941%) Open Source
3 2 (2.941%) iPad
4 1 (1.471%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.471%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 53 (77.94%) Windows
2 32 (47.06%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (35.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (16.18%) Windows XP
5 9 (13.24%) Windows 7
5 9 (13.24%) Windows Vista
6 6 (8.824%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (7.353%) Windows 2000
8 3 (4.412%) UNIX
9 2 (2.941%) Windows XP Embedded
9 2 (2.941%) Windows NT
9 2 (2.941%) Linux
9 2 (2.941%) Windows Phone
9 2 (2.941%) Android
9 2 (2.941%) Windows 8
10 1 (1.471%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.76%) ITIL
2 12 (17.65%) Network Design
3 7 (10.29%) PRINCE2
4 5 (7.353%) Service Delivery
4 5 (7.353%) Change Management
5 4 (5.882%) Configuration Management
5 4 (5.882%) Performance Management
5 4 (5.882%) Network Management
6 3 (4.412%) High Availability
6 3 (4.412%) Incident Management
6 3 (4.412%) Network Load Balancing
6 3 (4.412%) Capacity Management
6 3 (4.412%) Time Management
6 3 (4.412%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (4.412%) Service Management
7 2 (2.941%) Knowledge Management
7 2 (2.941%) Migration
7 2 (2.941%) Build Automation
7 2 (2.941%) Software Deployment
7 2 (2.941%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) SQL
2 1 (1.471%) XPath
2 1 (1.471%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.471%) C
2 1 (1.471%) C#
2 1 (1.471%) Java
Qualifications
1 68 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (41.18%) MCITP
3 26 (38.24%) MCP
4 17 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (20.59%) MCSA
5 14 (20.59%) CCNA
6 9 (13.24%) A+ Certification
7 7 (10.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (8.824%) MCTS
8 6 (8.824%) HP APS
8 6 (8.824%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (7.353%) Citrix Certification
9 5 (7.353%) CCEE
10 4 (5.882%) VCAP
10 4 (5.882%) CCIA
11 3 (4.412%) CCNP
12 2 (2.941%) CCIP
12 2 (2.941%) CCIE
12 2 (2.941%) CCSP
12 2 (2.941%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.12%) SLA
2 3 (4.412%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.941%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 34 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (27.94%) Hyper-V
3 17 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (8.824%) vSphere
4 6 (8.824%) XenApp
5 5 (7.353%) XenServer
6 4 (5.882%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (4.412%) XenDesktop
8 2 (2.941%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (2.941%) VMware Server
8 2 (2.941%) Samba
8 2 (2.941%) IAG
8 2 (2.941%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (17.65%) SCCM
2 5 (7.353%) SCOM
3 4 (5.882%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (2.941%) CiscoWorks
5 1 (1.471%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.471%) MOM
5 1 (1.471%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 54 (79.41%) Microsoft
2 28 (41.18%) VMware
3 22 (32.35%) Cisco
4 21 (30.88%) Citrix
5 19 (27.94%) HP
6 5 (7.353%) NetApp
7 3 (4.412%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.412%) Reuters
7 3 (4.412%) Bloomberg
7 3 (4.412%) EMC
8 2 (2.941%) Oracle
8 2 (2.941%) Dell
8 2 (2.941%) Symantec
8 2 (2.941%) Remedy
8 2 (2.941%) AppSense
8 2 (2.941%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.471%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.471%) Brocade
9 1 (1.471%) PlateSpin
9 1 (1.471%) SolarWinds
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Salary: tbc
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