The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 101 128 152
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +24
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 97 45 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 2.369% 1.242% 0.455%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.168% 5.190% 1.768%
Number of salaries quoted 97 45 14
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £20,200 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £38,400 £37,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1058 867 1018
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 25.84% 23.92% 25.75%
Number of salaries quoted 901 721 904
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 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
North West

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Salary Trend

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

Manchester MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Manchester MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 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 +5 13 £40,000 +14.28%
Wigan - 8 £28,750 -
Stockport - 7 £32,500 -
Cheadle - 6 £32,500 -
Altrincham - 5 £37,500 -
Rochdale - 1 £52,500 -
MCTS
North West

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 184 (90.64%) .NET
1 184 (90.64%) ASP.NET
2 178 (87.68%) C#
3 164 (80.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 163 (80.30%) SQL Server
5 156 (76.85%) MCP
6 155 (76.35%) MVC
7 147 (72.41%) ASP.NET MVC
8 138 (67.98%) MCAD
8 138 (67.98%) MCSD
9 135 (66.50%) TDD
10 130 (64.04%) Web Application Development
11 127 (62.56%) WCF
12 123 (60.59%) ASP.NET MVC 4
13 113 (55.67%) Scrum
14 98 (48.28%) NUnit
15 97 (47.78%) Rhino Mocks
16 88 (43.35%) Razor View Engine
17 73 (35.96%) LINQ
18 72 (35.47%) WPF
19 70 (34.48%) NHibernate
20 65 (32.02%) Castle Windsor
21 64 (31.53%) Microsoft
22 63 (31.03%) Ninject
22 63 (31.03%) Dependency Injection
23 59 (29.06%) Moq
23 59 (29.06%) Kanban
24 56 (27.59%) VB.NET
25 49 (24.14%) SQL
25 49 (24.14%) Business Intelligence

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 184 (90.64%) .NET
1 184 (90.64%) ASP.NET
2 147 (72.41%) ASP.NET MVC
3 127 (62.56%) WCF
4 123 (60.59%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 88 (43.35%) Razor View Engine
6 73 (35.96%) LINQ
7 72 (35.47%) WPF
8 70 (34.48%) NHibernate
9 65 (32.02%) Castle Windsor
10 63 (31.03%) Ninject
11 38 (18.72%) MonoRail
12 36 (17.73%) KnockoutJS
12 36 (17.73%) Node.js
13 35 (17.24%) Ajax
14 32 (15.76%) WinForms
15 27 (13.30%) Spring.NET
15 27 (13.30%) Unity DI Container
16 26 (12.81%) HTML5
17 24 (11.82%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 8 (3.941%) Windows Azure
2 7 (3.448%) MS Exchange
3 5 (2.463%) CMS
4 3 (1.478%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.478%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.478%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.985%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.985%) Lync
5 2 (0.985%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.493%) IIS
6 1 (0.493%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (0.493%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.493%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.493%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.493%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.493%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 49 (24.14%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.985%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.985%) Fireworks
2 2 (0.985%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.985%) MS Office
3 1 (0.493%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (0.493%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.463%) Broadband
1 5 (2.463%) DNS
2 3 (1.478%) SAN
2 3 (1.478%) DHCP
2 3 (1.478%) SNMP
2 3 (1.478%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.478%) Firewall
2 3 (1.478%) NAS
3 2 (0.985%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.985%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (80.30%) SQL Server
2 46 (22.66%) SQL Server 2008
3 38 (18.72%) SQL Server 2012
4 30 (14.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 29 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 29 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 19 (9.360%) SQL Server 2005
7 12 (5.911%) Oracle 9i
8 3 (1.478%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 98 (48.28%) NUnit
2 97 (47.78%) Rhino Mocks
3 59 (29.06%) Moq
4 33 (16.26%) Subversion
5 27 (13.30%) MSTest
6 3 (1.478%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.985%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.493%) CruiseControl
8 1 (0.493%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.493%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 33 (16.26%) Games
2 31 (15.27%) Finance
3 17 (8.374%) Legal
4 12 (5.911%) Retail
5 5 (2.463%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.463%) Music
6 3 (1.478%) Marketing
7 1 (0.493%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 166 (81.77%) Developer
2 160 (78.82%) .NET Developer
3 29 (14.29%) Junior .NET Developer
3 29 (14.29%) Junior Developer
3 29 (14.29%) Junior
4 19 (9.360%) C# Developer
5 17 (8.374%) Development Manager
6 14 (6.897%) ASP.NET Developer
6 14 (6.897%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 14 (6.897%) C# .NET Developer
7 12 (5.911%) IT Development Manager
8 9 (4.433%) Graduate
8 9 (4.433%) Graduate Developer
8 9 (4.433%) Graduate .NET Developer
9 7 (3.448%) Senior Developer
10 6 (2.956%) Senior .NET Developer
11 5 (2.463%) WinForms Developer
12 3 (1.478%) Field Engineer
12 3 (1.478%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (1.478%) Mid-Level C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 27 (13.30%) Inversion of Control
3 26 (12.81%) Social Network
4 22 (10.84%) Computer Science
5 5 (2.463%) Tandem
6 3 (1.478%) EPoS
7 2 (0.985%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.493%) Clustering
8 1 (0.493%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 42 (20.69%) Windows
2 8 (3.941%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (1.970%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (1.970%) Linux
4 3 (1.478%) Windows XP
4 3 (1.478%) Windows NT
4 3 (1.478%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.478%) Mac OS X Server
5 2 (0.985%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.493%) UNIX
6 1 (0.493%) Solaris
6 1 (0.493%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (76.35%) MVC
2 135 (66.50%) TDD
3 130 (64.04%) Web Application Development
4 113 (55.67%) Scrum
5 63 (31.03%) Dependency Injection
6 59 (29.06%) Kanban
7 49 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
8 38 (18.72%) Domain-Driven Design
9 34 (16.75%) BDD
10 32 (15.76%) MVVM
11 31 (15.27%) OO
12 28 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (10.84%) ITIL
14 21 (10.34%) PRINCE2
15 17 (8.374%) Release Management
16 14 (6.897%) Software Engineering
17 12 (5.911%) SSADM
18 10 (4.926%) E-Commerce
19 9 (4.433%) Project Planning
20 8 (3.941%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 178 (87.68%) C#
2 56 (27.59%) VB.NET
3 49 (24.14%) SQL
4 32 (15.76%) VB
5 17 (8.374%) T-SQL
6 15 (7.389%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.911%) Java
7 12 (5.911%) PHP
7 12 (5.911%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.463%) C++
9 2 (0.985%) XPath
10 1 (0.493%) C
Qualifications
1 164 (80.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 156 (76.85%) MCP
3 138 (67.98%) MCAD
3 138 (67.98%) MCSD
4 34 (16.75%) Degree
5 12 (5.911%) MCITP
6 6 (2.956%) MCPD
6 6 (2.956%) MCSE
7 3 (1.478%) CCNA
7 3 (1.478%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.478%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.478%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.478%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.478%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.985%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.493%) MCSA
9 1 (0.493%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.493%) NCIE
System Software
1 8 (3.941%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.463%) vSphere
3 4 (1.970%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.478%) Samba
4 3 (1.478%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.985%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.493%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (0.493%) SCCM
1 1 (0.493%) SCOM
Vendors
1 64 (31.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.404%) Oracle
3 7 (3.448%) VMware
4 4 (1.970%) NetApp
5 3 (1.478%) Apple
6 2 (0.985%) Citrix
6 2 (0.985%) Adobe
7 1 (0.493%) Sun
7 1 (0.493%) EMC
7 1 (0.493%) CommVault
7 1 (0.493%) Symantec
7 1 (0.493%) AppSense
7 1 (0.493%) 3PAR
7 1 (0.493%) SonicWALL
7 1 (0.493%) Draytek
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