Midlands MCSD Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) in IT jobs within the Midlands region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Location Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Gerrards Cross Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Haslemere Havant Hertfordshire Hoddesdon Horsham Ipswich Isleworth Kent Kettering Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Rugby Scotland Sheffield Skipton Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tunbridge Wells UK Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	94
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.246 %
Salaries quoted	0	1
Average minimum salary	-	£20,000
Average salary	-	£20,000
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£20,000
UK excluding London average salary	£38,613	£38,648
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
Qualifications Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	159	407
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.171 %
Salaries quoted	125	307
Average minimum salary	£38,610	£39,728
Average salary	£42,634	£43,933
% change on same period last year	-2.95 %
Average maximum salary	£46,658	£48,138
UK excluding London average salary	£37,856	£38,565
% change on same period last year	-1.83 %
MCSD England

MCSD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCSD across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCSD
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCSD across the Midlands region.

MCSD
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands region citing MCSD 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 MCSD.

1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) MCP 1 2 (100.00 %) MCDBA 1 2 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 2 (100.00 %) Business Intelligence 1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands region citing MCSD 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 MCSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Server Specialist 1 2 (100.00 %) Business Intelligence Specialist	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Business Intelligence
Qualifications 1 2 (100.00 %) MCP 1 2 (100.00 %) MCDBA 1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification	Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft