The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 22 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 49 69 -
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 11 15 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 2.381% 2.206% -
As % of the Qualifications category 9.649% 6.696% -
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 0
Average salary £37,500 £50,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
114 224 125
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 24.68% 32.94% 27.65%
Number of salaries quoted 91 185 104
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,100 £30,000 £30,450
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
North West

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 22 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
Liverpool +10 8 £37,500 -25.00%
Wirral - 3 £40,000 -
MCTS
North West

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 23 (71.88%) Microsoft Certification
1 23 (71.88%) SQL Server
2 22 (68.75%) C#
2 22 (68.75%) ASP.NET
2 22 (68.75%) MCP
2 22 (68.75%) .NET
2 22 (68.75%) WCF
3 21 (65.63%) ASP.NET MVC
3 21 (65.63%) TDD
3 21 (65.63%) MCAD
3 21 (65.63%) MCSD
3 21 (65.63%) MVC
3 21 (65.63%) Web Application Development
3 21 (65.63%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 20 (62.50%) Razor View Engine
5 19 (59.38%) OO
6 14 (43.75%) SQL Server 2012
7 13 (40.63%) VB.NET
7 13 (40.63%) Domain-Driven Design
8 12 (37.50%) VB
8 12 (37.50%) Windows
8 12 (37.50%) CQRS
8 12 (37.50%) BDD
9 11 (34.38%) Internet
10 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
10 10 (31.25%) MCITP
11 8 (25.00%) NUnit
11 8 (25.00%) MS Excel
11 8 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
11 8 (25.00%) Castle Windsor

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 22 (68.75%) ASP.NET
1 22 (68.75%) .NET
1 22 (68.75%) WCF
2 21 (65.63%) ASP.NET MVC
2 21 (65.63%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 20 (62.50%) Razor View Engine
4 8 (25.00%) Castle Windsor
5 6 (18.75%) WPF
5 6 (18.75%) Ninject
6 5 (15.63%) Unity DI Container
6 5 (15.63%) Spring.NET
6 5 (15.63%) WinForms
7 3 (9.375%) MonoRail
7 3 (9.375%) Ajax
7 3 (9.375%) NHibernate
8 2 (6.250%) .NET Framework
9 1 (3.125%) KnockoutJS
9 1 (3.125%) Node.js
9 1 (3.125%) XHTML
9 1 (3.125%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 6 (18.75%) MS Exchange
1 6 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (15.63%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (3.125%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (3.125%) Lync
4 1 (3.125%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (3.125%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 8 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.125%) Office 365
2 1 (3.125%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) Internet
2 5 (15.63%) SAN
3 1 (3.125%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.125%) Unified Communications
3 1 (3.125%) DHCP
3 1 (3.125%) HTTP
3 1 (3.125%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.125%) VPN
3 1 (3.125%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (71.88%) SQL Server
2 14 (43.75%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (9.375%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (6.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (6.250%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) NUnit
1 8 (25.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 5 (15.63%) Moq
2 5 (15.63%) MSTest
3 3 (9.375%) Subversion
General
1 5 (15.63%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Law
2 4 (12.50%) Legal
3 3 (9.375%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (75.00%) Developer
2 21 (65.63%) .NET Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.375%) Consultant
5 2 (6.250%) VMware Consultant
5 2 (6.250%) SQL Developer
5 2 (6.250%) SQL DBA
5 2 (6.250%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 2 (6.250%) DBA
5 2 (6.250%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (6.250%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.125%) VMware Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.125%) SCCM Consultant
6 1 (3.125%) Junior
6 1 (3.125%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.125%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.125%) Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) Graduate
6 1 (3.125%) Junior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (15.63%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (12.50%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.125%) CLARiiON
4 1 (3.125%) Clustering
4 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.125%) Celerra
4 1 (3.125%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.125%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.125%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) TDD
1 21 (65.63%) MVC
1 21 (65.63%) Web Application Development
2 19 (59.38%) OO
3 13 (40.63%) Domain-Driven Design
4 12 (37.50%) CQRS
4 12 (37.50%) BDD
5 7 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (18.75%) Dependency Injection
7 5 (15.63%) ITIL
7 5 (15.63%) Scrum
7 5 (15.63%) MVVM
7 5 (15.63%) Kanban
7 5 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (12.50%) ITIL V3
9 1 (3.125%) High Availability
9 1 (3.125%) Configuration Management
9 1 (3.125%) Identity Management
9 1 (3.125%) Content Management
9 1 (3.125%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) C#
2 13 (40.63%) VB.NET
3 12 (37.50%) VB
4 3 (9.375%) SQL
5 2 (6.250%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.125%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (71.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 22 (68.75%) MCP
3 21 (65.63%) MCAD
3 21 (65.63%) MCSD
4 10 (31.25%) MCITP
5 3 (9.375%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (6.250%) MCSE
6 2 (6.250%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (6.250%) CCIA
6 2 (6.250%) CCEE
7 1 (3.125%) CCAA
7 1 (3.125%) VCAP
7 1 (3.125%) NCDA
7 1 (3.125%) NCIE
7 1 (3.125%) CCEA
7 1 (3.125%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.125%) CCA
7 1 (3.125%) MCSA
7 1 (3.125%) CCNA
7 1 (3.125%) MCPD
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
1 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (18.75%) XenApp
2 6 (18.75%) vSphere
3 5 (15.63%) VMware ESX
4 4 (12.50%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 2 (6.250%) XenServer
5 2 (6.250%) XenDesktop
6 1 (3.125%) Terminal Services
6 1 (3.125%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (3.125%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (6.250%) SCCM
1 2 (6.250%) SCOM
1 2 (6.250%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) Citrix
4 2 (6.250%) HP
5 1 (3.125%) Dell
5 1 (3.125%) EMC
5 1 (3.125%) NetApp
5 1 (3.125%) Cisco
5 1 (3.125%) IBM
5 1 (3.125%) Veeam
Liverpool, Merseyside
Our client can provide you with industry recognised training in: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD, BDD, DDD, OSS, ALT...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Liverpool, North West
Our client can provide you with industry recognised training in: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD, BDD, DDD, OSS, ALT...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Liverpool, North West
Our client can provide training into: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD, BDD, DDD, OSS, ALT.NET and CQRS... (.NET...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013