Midlands MCSE Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 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 MCSE over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barry Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Billericay Bingley Birmingham Bishop Auckland Blackburn Blackpool Bodmin Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Durham Dyfed Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverfordwest Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield Liphook Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Mayfield Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milford Haven Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ongar Oxford Oxfordshire Pembrokeshire Penrith Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rochdale Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	42
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching permanent IT job ads	13	43
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	9.559 %	12.25 %
Salaries quoted	11	33
Average minimum salary	£49,091	£37,515
Average salary	£52,273	£40,970
% change on same period last year	+27.58 %
Average maximum salary	£55,455	£44,424
UK excluding London average salary	£33,796	£33,554
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Qualifications Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	136	351
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.088 %	0.157 %
Salaries quoted	107	282
Average minimum salary	£44,888	£41,907
Average salary	£49,211	£46,050
% change on same period last year	+6.86 %
Average maximum salary	£53,534	£50,193
UK excluding London average salary	£37,971	£38,036
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
MCSE England

MCSE
Demand Trend

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

MCSE
Salary Trend

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

MCSE
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSE across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 33 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 26 (78.79 %) Windows 3 21 (63.64 %) Microsoft 4 13 (39.39 %) Windows Server 2003 4 13 (39.39 %) Active Directory 5 11 (33.33 %) Citrix 5 11 (33.33 %) SQL Server 6 9 (27.27 %) VMware 7 8 (24.24 %) IIS 7 8 (24.24 %) MS Excel 7 8 (24.24 %) SharePoint 7 8 (24.24 %) MS Exchange 8 7 (21.21 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 7 (21.21 %) VMware Infrastructure 9 6 (18.18 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

9 6 (18.18 %) HP 9 6 (18.18 %) Citrix Certification 9 6 (18.18 %) SQL 9 6 (18.18 %) NetApp 10 5 (15.15 %) SAN 10 5 (15.15 %) CCA 10 5 (15.15 %) IBM 10 5 (15.15 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 4 (12.12 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 4 (12.12 %) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP) 11 4 (12.12 %) MetaFrame 11 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2000 11 4 (12.12 %) Government 11 4 (12.12 %) VERITAS 12 3 (9.091 %) Thin Client

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 2 (6.061 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 8 (24.24 %) IIS 1 8 (24.24 %) SharePoint 1 8 (24.24 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (15.15 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 4 (12.12 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (9.091 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 3 (9.091 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 3 (9.091 %) BizTalk Server 5 2 (6.061 %) Office Communications Server 6 1 (3.030 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 8 (24.24 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (9.091 %) Axapta 1 3 (9.091 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 5 (15.15 %) SAN 2 3 (9.091 %) iSCSI 3 1 (3.030 %) DHCP 3 1 (3.030 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 4 (12.12 %) Government 2 2 (6.061 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (3.030 %) Retail 3 1 (3.030 %) Insurance 3 1 (3.030 %) Pensions 3 1 (3.030 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.030 %) Finance 3 1 (3.030 %) Education	Job Titles 1 16 (48.48 %) Consultant 2 5 (15.15 %) Architect 2 5 (15.15 %) Technical Consultant 3 4 (12.12 %) Administrator 4 3 (9.091 %) Citrix Consultant 4 3 (9.091 %) Technical Architect 4 3 (9.091 %) Senior Consultant 4 3 (9.091 %) Sales Consultant 4 3 (9.091 %) Presales Consultant 4 3 (9.091 %) Senior Citrix Consultant 5 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint Consultant 5 2 (6.061 %) Microsoft Consultant 5 2 (6.061 %) Microsoft Infrastructure Consultant 5 2 (6.061 %) Infrastructure Consultant 5 2 (6.061 %) Systems Administrator 5 2 (6.061 %) Storage Consultant 5 2 (6.061 %) Network Administrator 6 1 (3.030 %) Technical Support Consultant 6 1 (3.030 %) IT Trainer 6 1 (3.030 %) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 3 (9.091 %) Thin Client 1 3 (9.091 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 26 (78.79 %) Windows 2 13 (39.39 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (9.091 %) Windows XP 5 2 (6.061 %) Windows Server 2008 5 2 (6.061 %) UNIX 6 1 (3.030 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (9.091 %) ITIL 2 2 (6.061 %) Business Desktop Deployment	Programming Languages 1 6 (18.18 %) SQL 2 1 (3.030 %) C
Qualifications 1 33 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (18.18 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 6 (18.18 %) Citrix Certification 3 5 (15.15 %) CCA 4 4 (12.12 %) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP) 5 3 (9.091 %) Cisco Certification 5 3 (9.091 %) CCNA 6 2 (6.061 %) MCSA 6 2 (6.061 %) CCEA 7 1 (3.030 %) MCT 7 1 (3.030 %) MCP 7 1 (3.030 %) A+ Certification 7 1 (3.030 %) ITIL Certification 7 1 (3.030 %) MCDST 7 1 (3.030 %) HP ASE 7 1 (3.030 %) HP MASE	System Software 1 13 (39.39 %) Active Directory 2 7 (21.21 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 7 (21.21 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 4 (12.12 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (3.030 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 2 (6.061 %) MOM 1 2 (6.061 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (6.061 %) SCCM 1 2 (6.061 %) SCOM 1 2 (6.061 %) SCVMM 2 1 (3.030 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 21 (63.64 %) Microsoft 2 11 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 9 (27.27 %) VMware 4 6 (18.18 %) NetApp 4 6 (18.18 %) HP 5 5 (15.15 %) IBM 6 4 (12.12 %) VERITAS 7 3 (9.091 %) Brocade 7 3 (9.091 %) Cisco 8 2 (6.061 %) Dell 8 2 (6.061 %) Symantec 9 1 (3.030 %) Lotus 9 1 (3.030 %) EMC 9 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 9 1 (3.030 %) SAP