The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 21 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 Milton Keynes region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 76 60 75
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +15
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 28 27 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 2.159% 2.621% 1.700%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.459% 8.207% 6.250%
Number of salaries quoted 26 26 13
Average salary £38,000 £36,250 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.82% -3.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,750 £20,000 £27,200
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £44,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
331 329 256
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 25.52% 31.94% 27.21%
Number of salaries quoted 281 282 220
Average salary £40,000 £36,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.58% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,500 £25,550
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSE
Buckinghamshire

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Salary Trend

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

Milton Keynes MCSE Salary Trend

MCSE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSE across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Milton Keynes MCSE Salary Histogram

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 64 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 52 (81.25%) Windows
3 40 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
3 40 (62.50%) Active Directory
4 39 (60.94%) ITIL
5 37 (57.81%) MCITP
6 35 (54.69%) CCNA
7 32 (50.00%) Microsoft
8 30 (46.88%) MS Exchange
9 29 (45.31%) VMware
10 26 (40.63%) Exchange Server 2010
11 25 (39.06%) Linux
12 24 (37.50%) Cisco
13 23 (35.94%) SQL
13 23 (35.94%) SQL Server
14 20 (31.25%) SAN
15 19 (29.69%) MS Excel
16 18 (28.13%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (26.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 17 (26.56%) TCP/IP
18 16 (25.00%) Oracle
19 13 (20.31%) Service Delivery
19 13 (20.31%) Firewall
19 13 (20.31%) DNS
20 12 (18.75%) CCNP
20 12 (18.75%) UNIX
20 12 (18.75%) Degree
21 11 (17.19%) Exchange Server 2003
21 11 (17.19%) IIS
21 11 (17.19%) ITIL Certification

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 5 (7.813%) WebSphere
1 5 (7.813%) Middleware
2 1 (1.563%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.563%) Application Packaging
2 1 (1.563%) COM
Application Platforms
1 30 (46.88%) MS Exchange
2 26 (40.63%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (17.19%) Exchange Server 2003
3 11 (17.19%) IIS
4 6 (9.375%) SharePoint
5 5 (7.813%) WebSphere MQ
6 4 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (4.688%) Lync
7 3 (4.688%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (3.125%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (3.125%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 19 (29.69%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.688%) MS Office
3 2 (3.125%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (31.25%) SAN
2 17 (26.56%) TCP/IP
3 13 (20.31%) Firewall
3 13 (20.31%) DNS
4 8 (12.50%) Wireless
4 8 (12.50%) VLAN
4 8 (12.50%) NAS
5 7 (10.94%) Network Security
5 7 (10.94%) VPN
6 6 (9.375%) WAN
6 6 (9.375%) SMTP
6 6 (9.375%) FTP
6 6 (9.375%) HTTP
6 6 (9.375%) SNMP
6 6 (9.375%) LAN
6 6 (9.375%) HTTPS
6 6 (9.375%) SSL
7 5 (7.813%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (7.813%) MPLS
8 3 (4.688%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (35.94%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.94%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (1.563%) MSI
General
1 3 (4.688%) French Language
1 3 (4.688%) German Language
1 3 (4.688%) Italian Language
2 2 (3.125%) Finance
2 2 (3.125%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (28.13%) 3rd Line Support
2 17 (26.56%) Support Engineer
3 15 (23.44%) Analyst
4 11 (17.19%) Technical Engineer
5 9 (14.06%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 9 (14.06%) Server Analyst
6 7 (10.94%) Support Analyst
7 6 (9.375%) Architect
7 6 (9.375%) Infrastructure Manager
7 6 (9.375%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 6 (9.375%) Storage Systems Administrator
8 5 (7.813%) Web Manager
8 5 (7.813%) Technical Support Engineer
8 5 (7.813%) Infrastructure Architect
8 5 (7.813%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.813%) IT Manager
8 5 (7.813%) Technical Support
8 5 (7.813%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (6.250%) Network Engineer
9 4 (6.250%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.375%) Cryptography
2 4 (6.250%) Blackberry
2 4 (6.250%) iPhone
3 3 (4.688%) iPad
4 2 (3.125%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.563%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 52 (81.25%) Windows
2 25 (39.06%) Linux
3 18 (28.13%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (18.75%) UNIX
5 4 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (4.688%) Android
7 2 (3.125%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.125%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (1.563%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.563%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.563%) Windows 8
8 1 (1.563%) Windows Phone
8 1 (1.563%) Windows XP
8 1 (1.563%) AIX
8 1 (1.563%) HPUX
8 1 (1.563%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (60.94%) ITIL
2 13 (20.31%) Service Delivery
3 9 (14.06%) Data Security
4 6 (9.375%) Process Management
4 6 (9.375%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (9.375%) Capacity Management
5 5 (7.813%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (7.813%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (7.813%) Technical Architecture
5 5 (7.813%) Configuration Management
6 4 (6.250%) Business Development
7 3 (4.688%) Mobile Device Management
8 2 (3.125%) Identity Management
8 2 (3.125%) Change Management
8 2 (3.125%) Incident Management
9 1 (1.563%) Logistics
9 1 (1.563%) Performance Management
9 1 (1.563%) Project Management
9 1 (1.563%) Service Management
9 1 (1.563%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.94%) SQL
2 7 (10.94%) VB
3 6 (9.375%) Perl
3 6 (9.375%) Bash shell
4 1 (1.563%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 64 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 40 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
3 37 (57.81%) MCITP
4 35 (54.69%) CCNA
5 17 (26.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (18.75%) CCNP
6 12 (18.75%) Degree
7 11 (17.19%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (10.94%) MCTS
9 5 (7.813%) CCEE
9 5 (7.813%) CCAA
9 5 (7.813%) CCIA
9 5 (7.813%) CCIE
9 5 (7.813%) CCA
9 5 (7.813%) Citrix Certification
9 5 (7.813%) CCEA
10 3 (4.688%) MCP
10 3 (4.688%) MCSA
11 1 (1.563%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (9.375%) PCI DSS
3 4 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.375%) NFS
3 6 (9.375%) XenApp
3 6 (9.375%) Postfix
4 5 (7.813%) XenServer
4 5 (7.813%) Terminal Services
5 3 (4.688%) vSphere
5 3 (4.688%) ISA Server
6 2 (3.125%) VMware ESX
6 2 (3.125%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (1.563%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.563%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.563%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.563%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.563%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Backup Exec
2 6 (9.375%) Nagios
3 4 (6.250%) SCCM
4 3 (4.688%) SCOM
5 2 (3.125%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.563%) MOM
Vendors
1 32 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 29 (45.31%) VMware
3 24 (37.50%) Cisco
4 16 (25.00%) Oracle
5 9 (14.06%) Symantec
5 9 (14.06%) HP
6 8 (12.50%) Dell
7 7 (10.94%) Citrix
7 7 (10.94%) NetApp
7 7 (10.94%) CheckPoint
8 6 (9.375%) CommVault
8 6 (9.375%) Juniper
9 5 (7.813%) Riverbed
9 5 (7.813%) IBM
9 5 (7.813%) EMC
9 5 (7.813%) Apple
10 1 (1.563%) LANDesk
10 1 (1.563%) Dialogic
10 1 (1.563%) AppSense
10 1 (1.563%) Mitel
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