The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 68 42 74
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +32
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 36 46 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 2.784% 4.398% 1.592%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.84% 13.65% 5.929%
Number of salaries quoted 35 46 15
Average salary £37,000 £30,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.33% -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
332 337 253
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 25.68% 32.22% 26.86%
Number of salaries quoted 282 288 217
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -1.36%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
Buckinghamshire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

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

Milton Keynes MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 68 (68.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 65 (65.66%) SQL Server
3 63 (63.64%) .NET
4 61 (61.62%) Scrum
4 61 (61.62%) C#
4 61 (61.62%) MCP
4 61 (61.62%) MCAD
4 61 (61.62%) MCSD
4 61 (61.62%) TDD
4 61 (61.62%) NUnit
4 61 (61.62%) Rhino Mocks
5 55 (55.56%) Windows
6 49 (49.49%) Kanban
6 49 (49.49%) Moq
7 38 (38.38%) Castle Windsor
7 38 (38.38%) OO
8 35 (35.35%) ASP.NET
8 35 (35.35%) MVC
8 35 (35.35%) WCF
8 35 (35.35%) MCITP
8 35 (35.35%) NHibernate
8 35 (35.35%) Web Application Development
8 35 (35.35%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 35 (35.35%) Razor View Engine
8 35 (35.35%) ASP.NET MVC
9 32 (32.32%) VMware
9 32 (32.32%) HP
9 32 (32.32%) Citrix
10 29 (29.29%) Active Directory
10 29 (29.29%) MS Excel

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 63 (63.64%) .NET
2 38 (38.38%) Castle Windsor
3 35 (35.35%) ASP.NET
3 35 (35.35%) WCF
3 35 (35.35%) NHibernate
3 35 (35.35%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 35 (35.35%) Razor View Engine
3 35 (35.35%) ASP.NET MVC
4 26 (26.26%) Spring.NET
4 26 (26.26%) WPF
4 26 (26.26%) WinForms
4 26 (26.26%) Ninject
4 26 (26.26%) Unity DI Container
5 12 (12.12%) LINQ
5 12 (12.12%) Ajax
5 12 (12.12%) MonoRail
Application Platforms
1 7 (7.071%) Lync
2 5 (5.051%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (5.051%) MS Exchange
2 5 (5.051%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (3.030%) Office Communications Server
4 2 (2.020%) IIS
4 2 (2.020%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 29 (29.29%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.020%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.040%) NetScaler
2 2 (2.020%) Wireless
2 2 (2.020%) SAN
2 2 (2.020%) WLAN
2 2 (2.020%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.020%) VPN
2 2 (2.020%) DNS
2 2 (2.020%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (65.66%) SQL Server
2 28 (28.28%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (7.071%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 61 (61.62%) NUnit
1 61 (61.62%) Rhino Mocks
2 49 (49.49%) Moq
3 26 (26.26%) MSTest
4 12 (12.12%) Subversion
5 2 (2.020%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (23.23%) Music
1 23 (23.23%) Music Industry
2 2 (2.020%) French Language
2 2 (2.020%) German Language
2 2 (2.020%) Italian Language
2 2 (2.020%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 62 (62.63%) Developer
2 35 (35.35%) .NET Developer
3 26 (26.26%) C# Developer
3 26 (26.26%) C# .NET Developer
4 24 (24.24%) Support Engineer
5 16 (16.16%) Technical Support Engineer
5 16 (16.16%) Technical Engineer
5 16 (16.16%) Technical Support
6 11 (11.11%) Technical Support Specialist
6 11 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
6 11 (11.11%) Support Specialist
7 9 (9.091%) Consultant
8 8 (8.081%) SCCM Specialist
9 5 (5.051%) SCCM Engineer
9 5 (5.051%) Virtualisation Consultant
9 5 (5.051%) Citrix Consultant
10 3 (3.030%) VMware Consultant
10 3 (3.030%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (3.030%) Exchange Specialist
10 3 (3.030%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.26%) Inversion of Control
2 12 (12.12%) Social Network
3 2 (2.020%) Blackberry
3 2 (2.020%) iPhone
3 2 (2.020%) SaaS
3 2 (2.020%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.010%) EqualLogic
4 1 (1.010%) Celerra
4 1 (1.010%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 55 (55.56%) Windows
2 2 (2.020%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (2.020%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (2.020%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (61.62%) Scrum
1 61 (61.62%) TDD
2 49 (49.49%) Kanban
3 38 (38.38%) OO
4 35 (35.35%) MVC
4 35 (35.35%) Web Application Development
5 27 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (26.26%) Continuous Integration
6 26 (26.26%) Dependency Injection
6 26 (26.26%) MVVM
7 25 (25.25%) ITIL
8 23 (23.23%) BDD
9 21 (21.21%) Service Delivery
10 2 (2.020%) Identity Management
11 1 (1.010%) Time Management
11 1 (1.010%) Data Protection
11 1 (1.010%) TOGAF
11 1 (1.010%) Operations Management
11 1 (1.010%) Resource Management
11 1 (1.010%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 61 (61.62%) C#
2 5 (5.051%) SQL
3 1 (1.010%) C
Qualifications
1 68 (68.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 61 (61.62%) MCP
2 61 (61.62%) MCAD
2 61 (61.62%) MCSD
3 35 (35.35%) MCITP
4 21 (21.21%) ITIL Certification
5 15 (15.15%) Citrix Certification
5 15 (15.15%) CCEE
6 12 (12.12%) CCAA
7 11 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (11.11%) CCEA
7 11 (11.11%) CCIA
8 10 (10.10%) CCA
9 7 (7.071%) MCSE
10 3 (3.030%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (2.020%) CCNA
11 2 (2.020%) HP AIS
11 2 (2.020%) VCAP
12 1 (1.010%) NCDA
12 1 (1.010%) NCIE
System Software
1 29 (29.29%) Active Directory
2 15 (15.15%) XenApp
3 12 (12.12%) XenServer
4 11 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (10.10%) XenDesktop
6 7 (7.071%) Hyper-V
7 6 (6.061%) vSphere
8 4 (4.040%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (2.020%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 17 (17.17%) SCCM
2 5 (5.051%) Backup Exec
3 4 (4.040%) SCOM
4 3 (3.030%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 32 (32.32%) VMware
1 32 (32.32%) HP
1 32 (32.32%) Citrix
2 28 (28.28%) Dell
3 26 (26.26%) Microsoft
4 25 (25.25%) IBM
5 24 (24.24%) EMC
6 22 (22.22%) Cisco
7 21 (21.21%) Oracle
7 21 (21.21%) Riverbed
8 5 (5.051%) Symantec
9 4 (4.040%) Veeam
10 3 (3.030%) NetApp
11 2 (2.020%) Apple
11 2 (2.020%) Symbian
12 1 (1.010%) Business Objects
12 1 (1.010%) Cognos
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
C# Developer, .NET, WPF, C#.NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Spring.net, IoC, Unity, Castle...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
C# Developer, .NET, WPF, C#.NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Spring.net, IoC, Unity, Castle...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
I am looking urgently for candidates with: - Experience of trouble shooting with desktops, servers and networks - Current Microsoft certifications ( MCITP , MCTS) - It is important to have excellent attention...
Computer Futures
Salary: £20000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013