The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 35 46 32
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 19 37 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 4.241% 5.522% 8.279%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.67% 16.82% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 17 36 31
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £46,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
114 220 124
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 25.45% 32.84% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 91 182 103
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 £26,050 £30,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
North West

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Merseyside Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 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 +13 13 £37,500 -6.25%
St Helens +5 3 £25,000 -30.06%
Wirral +3 3 £40,000 +21.21%
Microsoft Certification
North West

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 28 (63.64%) Windows
2 26 (59.09%) MCP
3 24 (54.55%) SQL Server
3 24 (54.55%) Microsoft
4 22 (50.00%) .NET
4 22 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 22 (50.00%) C#
4 22 (50.00%) MCTS
4 22 (50.00%) WCF
5 20 (45.45%) TDD
5 20 (45.45%) ASP.NET MVC
5 20 (45.45%) MCAD
5 20 (45.45%) MCSD
5 20 (45.45%) MVC
5 20 (45.45%) Web Application Development
5 20 (45.45%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 19 (43.18%) Razor View Engine
7 18 (40.91%) OO
8 14 (31.82%) MCSE
8 14 (31.82%) Active Directory
9 13 (29.55%) VMware Infrastructure
9 13 (29.55%) Windows Server 2008
9 13 (29.55%) VMware
9 13 (29.55%) MCITP
10 12 (27.27%) Domain-Driven Design
10 12 (27.27%) VB
10 12 (27.27%) VB.NET
10 12 (27.27%) MS Exchange
11 11 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
11 11 (25.00%) Internet

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (50.00%) .NET
1 22 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 22 (50.00%) WCF
2 20 (45.45%) ASP.NET MVC
2 20 (45.45%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 19 (43.18%) Razor View Engine
4 8 (18.18%) Castle Windsor
5 6 (13.64%) Ninject
5 6 (13.64%) WPF
6 5 (11.36%) WinForms
6 5 (11.36%) Unity DI Container
6 5 (11.36%) Spring.NET
7 3 (6.818%) Ajax
7 3 (6.818%) NHibernate
7 3 (6.818%) MonoRail
8 1 (2.273%) Node.js
8 1 (2.273%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.273%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 12 (27.27%) MS Exchange
2 7 (15.91%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (2.273%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.273%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (2.273%) Lync
Applications
1 8 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.545%) MS Office
3 1 (2.273%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) Internet
2 5 (11.36%) DHCP
2 5 (11.36%) DNS
3 4 (9.091%) VPN
3 4 (9.091%) VoIP
4 3 (6.818%) WAN
4 3 (6.818%) LAN
5 2 (4.545%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.545%) Firewall
6 1 (2.273%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.273%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 11 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (4.545%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) NUnit
1 8 (18.18%) Rhino Mocks
2 5 (11.36%) Moq
2 5 (11.36%) MSTest
3 3 (6.818%) Subversion
4 2 (4.545%) Git (software)
General
1 7 (15.91%) Finance
2 3 (6.818%) Retail
3 1 (2.273%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) Developer
1 20 (45.45%) .NET Developer
2 5 (11.36%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.818%) Administrator
4 3 (6.818%) Architect
4 3 (6.818%) Help Desk Manager
4 3 (6.818%) Lead Architect
5 2 (4.545%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.545%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.273%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (2.273%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (2.273%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (2.273%) Graduate
6 1 (2.273%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.273%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (2.273%) Consultant
6 1 (2.273%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.273%) Desktop Support
6 1 (2.273%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (11.36%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (4.545%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.545%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.273%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (63.64%) Windows
2 13 (29.55%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (11.36%) Windows XP
5 4 (9.091%) Windows 7
6 3 (6.818%) Linux
7 2 (4.545%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.273%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) MVC
1 20 (45.45%) TDD
1 20 (45.45%) Web Application Development
2 18 (40.91%) OO
3 12 (27.27%) Domain-Driven Design
4 11 (25.00%) BDD
4 11 (25.00%) CQRS
5 10 (22.73%) ITIL
6 6 (13.64%) Dependency Injection
7 5 (11.36%) MVVM
7 5 (11.36%) Kanban
7 5 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (11.36%) Scrum
8 3 (6.818%) Time Management
8 3 (6.818%) Service Desk Management
9 2 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (4.545%) Service Delivery
10 1 (2.273%) Change Management
10 1 (2.273%) ITSM
10 1 (2.273%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (50.00%) C#
2 12 (27.27%) VB
2 12 (27.27%) VB.NET
3 5 (11.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (59.09%) MCP
2 22 (50.00%) MCTS
3 20 (45.45%) MCAD
3 20 (45.45%) MCSD
4 14 (31.82%) MCSE
5 13 (29.55%) MCITP
6 8 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (15.91%) MCSA
8 3 (6.818%) CCNA
8 3 (6.818%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (4.545%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (2.273%) CCA
10 1 (2.273%) VCDX
10 1 (2.273%) NCDA
10 1 (2.273%) NCIE
10 1 (2.273%) VCAP
10 1 (2.273%) CCEE
10 1 (2.273%) CCAA
10 1 (2.273%) CCIA
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 13 (29.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.818%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.545%) XenApp
4 2 (4.545%) XenDesktop
5 1 (2.273%) vSphere
5 1 (2.273%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 2 (4.545%) SCCM
2 1 (2.273%) SCOM
2 1 (2.273%) SCVMM
2 1 (2.273%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.273%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 13 (29.55%) VMware
3 5 (11.36%) Cisco
4 3 (6.818%) Citrix
5 1 (2.273%) NetApp
5 1 (2.273%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.273%) Symantec
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