The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Newbury region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 24 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 Newbury region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 45 41 48
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +7
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 10 23 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newbury 2.899% 4.423% 0.293%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.547% 14.20% 0.935%
Number of salaries quoted 10 23 1
Average salary £25,000 £37,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% -16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Newbury
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
117 162 107
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newbury 33.91% 31.15% 31.38%
Number of salaries quoted 112 150 98
Average salary £32,500 £40,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £32,500 £27,550
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £51,050
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
Berkshire

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newbury MCSD Jobs Demand Trend

MCSD
Salary Trend

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

Newbury MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSD across the Newbury region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Newbury MCSD Salary Histogram

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newbury 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 38 (100.00%) C#
1 38 (100.00%) .NET
1 38 (100.00%) MCP
1 38 (100.00%) MCAD
1 38 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 38 (100.00%) Scrum
1 38 (100.00%) MCTS
1 38 (100.00%) TDD
1 38 (100.00%) NUnit
1 38 (100.00%) Kanban
1 38 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 38 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
2 35 (92.11%) SQL Server
3 22 (57.89%) ASP.NET
3 22 (57.89%) MVC
3 22 (57.89%) Microsoft
3 22 (57.89%) WCF
3 22 (57.89%) Razor View Engine
3 22 (57.89%) Web Application Development
3 22 (57.89%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 22 (57.89%) ASP.NET MVC
4 19 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
4 19 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
4 19 (50.00%) MSTest
4 19 (50.00%) HTML5
4 19 (50.00%) MVVM
4 19 (50.00%) Moq
4 19 (50.00%) Cucumber
4 19 (50.00%) BDD
4 19 (50.00%) Unity DI Container

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newbury 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.

Application Development
1 38 (100.00%) .NET
1 38 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
2 22 (57.89%) ASP.NET
2 22 (57.89%) WCF
2 22 (57.89%) Razor View Engine
2 22 (57.89%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 22 (57.89%) ASP.NET MVC
3 19 (50.00%) HTML5
3 19 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
3 19 (50.00%) Ninject
3 19 (50.00%) Spring.NET
3 19 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 19 (50.00%) WPF
3 19 (50.00%) LINQ
3 19 (50.00%) Lucene
3 19 (50.00%) WinForms
4 3 (7.895%) .NET Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (92.11%) SQL Server
2 17 (44.74%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (5.263%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 38 (100.00%) NUnit
1 38 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 19 (50.00%) MSTest
2 19 (50.00%) Moq
2 19 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 19 (50.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 38 (100.00%) Developer
2 22 (57.89%) .NET Developer
3 16 (42.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 16 (42.11%) C# Developer
4 3 (7.895%) Graduate
4 3 (7.895%) Junior
4 3 (7.895%) Junior Developer
4 3 (7.895%) Junior .NET Developer
4 3 (7.895%) Graduate Developer
4 3 (7.895%) Graduate .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (7.895%) Tandem
2 3 (7.895%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Scrum
1 38 (100.00%) TDD
1 38 (100.00%) Kanban
2 22 (57.89%) MVC
2 22 (57.89%) Web Application Development
3 19 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
3 19 (50.00%) MVVM
3 19 (50.00%) BDD
3 19 (50.00%) Scrum-ban
3 19 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 16 (42.11%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (34.21%) OO
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 38 (100.00%) MCP
1 38 (100.00%) MCAD
1 38 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 38 (100.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 22 (57.89%) Microsoft
Newbury, Thames Valley
C# Developer, .NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, Server Side, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection, Ninject / Spring.net, , IoC, Unity / Castle Windsor,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
C# Developer, .NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, Server Side, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection, Ninject / Spring.net, , IoC, Unity / Castle Windsor,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Newbury, Thames Valley
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013