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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 14 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Norfolk 3.160% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 18.67% - -
Number of salaries quoted 14 0 0
Average salary £27,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Norfolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
75 110 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Norfolk 16.93% 22.18% 19.67%
Number of salaries quoted 70 96 49
Average salary £30,000 £34,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,100 £22,500 £19,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,550 £60,000 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
East of England

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

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

Norfolk MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Norwich - 12 £33,750 -
King's Lynn - 2 £23,500 -
MCTS
East of England

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Norfolk 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 21 (95.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (81.82%) MCP
2 18 (81.82%) SQL Server
3 17 (77.27%) C#
3 17 (77.27%) MCAD
3 17 (77.27%) MCSD
3 17 (77.27%) .NET
3 17 (77.27%) ASP.NET
3 17 (77.27%) MVC
3 17 (77.27%) TDD
3 17 (77.27%) WCF
3 17 (77.27%) ASP.NET MVC
3 17 (77.27%) Web Application Development
3 17 (77.27%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 11 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
4 11 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
4 11 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
4 11 (50.00%) Kanban
4 11 (50.00%) NUnit
4 11 (50.00%) Scrum
5 10 (45.45%) WPF
5 10 (45.45%) Dependency Injection
5 10 (45.45%) Ninject
6 7 (31.82%) BDD
6 7 (31.82%) Windows
7 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (27.27%) Selenium
7 6 (27.27%) LINQ
7 6 (27.27%) NHibernate
7 6 (27.27%) Lucene

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Norfolk 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 17 (77.27%) .NET
1 17 (77.27%) ASP.NET
1 17 (77.27%) WCF
1 17 (77.27%) ASP.NET MVC
1 17 (77.27%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 11 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
2 11 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
3 10 (45.45%) WPF
3 10 (45.45%) Ninject
4 6 (27.27%) LINQ
4 6 (27.27%) NHibernate
4 6 (27.27%) Lucene
4 6 (27.27%) Node.js
5 5 (22.73%) KnockoutJS
5 5 (22.73%) Unity DI Container
5 5 (22.73%) WinForms
5 5 (22.73%) Spring.NET
6 1 (4.545%) RESTful
6 1 (4.545%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.545%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
1 1 (4.545%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (81.82%) SQL Server
2 6 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (4.545%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 11 (50.00%) NUnit
2 6 (27.27%) Selenium
2 6 (27.27%) Cucumber
3 5 (22.73%) Moq
3 5 (22.73%) MSTest
4 1 (4.545%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (22.73%) Retail
2 1 (4.545%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Developer
1 17 (77.27%) .NET Developer
2 6 (27.27%) C# Developer
2 6 (27.27%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET Developer
2 6 (27.27%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (13.64%) Server Support
4 2 (9.091%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Support
5 1 (4.545%) Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Server Support Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Server Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Tandem
1 5 (22.73%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (4.545%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Windows
2 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (4.545%) Windows XP
2 1 (4.545%) Windows 7
2 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (4.545%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) MVC
1 17 (77.27%) TDD
1 17 (77.27%) Web Application Development
2 11 (50.00%) Kanban
2 11 (50.00%) Scrum
3 10 (45.45%) Dependency Injection
4 7 (31.82%) BDD
5 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (27.27%) Scrum-ban
6 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (22.73%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (22.73%) MVVM
6 5 (22.73%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) C#
2 5 (22.73%) VB
2 5 (22.73%) VB.NET
3 1 (4.545%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (95.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (81.82%) MCP
3 17 (77.27%) MCAD
3 17 (77.27%) MCSD
4 3 (13.64%) MCSE
5 1 (4.545%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) VMware ESX
1 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.545%) vSphere
1 1 (4.545%) XenApp
1 1 (4.545%) XenServer
1 1 (4.545%) XenDesktop
1 1 (4.545%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (4.545%) VMware
1 1 (4.545%) Juniper
1 1 (4.545%) Cisco
1 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.545%) HP
1 1 (4.545%) Citrix
1 1 (4.545%) Facebook
Norwich, East Anglia
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Norwich, Norfolk
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £20000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013