The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSA 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 231 216 192
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -24
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 17 25 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.235% 0.348% 0.579%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.974% 1.389% 2.385%
Number of salaries quoted 13 25 35
Average salary £25,000 £27,000 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £21,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £25,750 £37,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £32,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year
-6.15% +10.16%
All Qualifications
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1745 1800 1635
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 24.16% 25.04% 24.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1435 1543 1411
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,807 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCSA
England

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Salary Trend

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

North West MCSA Salary Trend

MCSA
Salary Histogram

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

North West MCSA Salary Histogram

MCSA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the North West 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
Cheshire +18 10 £25,000 +19.04%
Manchester -14 8 £25,000 -7.40%
Merseyside +24 4 £25,000 -14.52%
Lancashire - 1 - -
MCSA
England

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing MCSA 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 MCSA.

1 40 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 32 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (80.00%) Windows
3 28 (70.00%) Active Directory
4 26 (65.00%) MS Exchange
4 26 (65.00%) MCITP
5 23 (57.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 22 (55.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 20 (50.00%) MCSE
8 18 (45.00%) ITIL
8 18 (45.00%) DNS
9 17 (42.50%) MCP
9 17 (42.50%) VMware
10 15 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
11 14 (35.00%) MS Excel
11 14 (35.00%) DHCP
11 14 (35.00%) Citrix
12 13 (32.50%) Exchange Server 2007
13 12 (30.00%) MCTS
13 12 (30.00%) Windows XP
14 10 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
15 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
16 8 (20.00%) MS Office
16 8 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
16 8 (20.00%) XenApp
17 7 (17.50%) XenServer
17 7 (17.50%) Windows 7
17 7 (17.50%) SQL
17 7 (17.50%) CCA
17 7 (17.50%) Citrix Certification

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing MCSA 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 MCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (7.500%) WCF
1 3 (7.500%) LINQ
1 3 (7.500%) .NET
1 3 (7.500%) ASP.NET
1 3 (7.500%) XML
1 3 (7.500%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 26 (65.00%) MS Exchange
2 15 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 13 (32.50%) Exchange Server 2007
4 10 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (7.500%) SAS
6 2 (5.000%) SharePoint
6 2 (5.000%) IIS
6 2 (5.000%) Lync
Applications
1 14 (35.00%) MS Excel
2 8 (20.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.500%) TIBCO iProcess
1 3 (7.500%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 18 (45.00%) DNS
2 14 (35.00%) DHCP
3 7 (17.50%) VPN
4 5 (12.50%) SAN
4 5 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 3 (7.500%) Firewall
5 3 (7.500%) LAN
5 3 (7.500%) VoIP
5 3 (7.500%) WAN
6 2 (5.000%) Broadband
6 2 (5.000%) DSL
6 2 (5.000%) Internet
6 2 (5.000%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) Service Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) Support Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Administrator
2 7 (17.50%) Service Desk Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Wintel Analyst
5 3 (7.500%) C# Developer
5 3 (7.500%) Developer
5 3 (7.500%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.500%) Server Engineer
5 3 (7.500%) Support Analyst
5 3 (7.500%) SAS Administrator
5 3 (7.500%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.000%) Service Desk Team Leader
6 2 (5.000%) Technical Support Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.500%) CLARiiON
1 1 (2.500%) Clustering
1 1 (2.500%) Fat Client
1 1 (2.500%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 32 (80.00%) Windows
2 23 (57.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 22 (55.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (30.00%) Windows XP
5 7 (17.50%) Windows 7
6 5 (12.50%) Linux
7 3 (7.500%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.500%) UNIX
8 1 (2.500%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) ITIL
2 6 (15.00%) Change Control
3 5 (12.50%) Time Management
4 4 (10.00%) Problem Management
4 4 (10.00%) Change Management
4 4 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (7.500%) Capacity Management
5 3 (7.500%) Scrum
5 3 (7.500%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (7.500%) PRINCE2
5 3 (7.500%) SOA
5 3 (7.500%) OOP
5 3 (7.500%) E-Commerce
6 2 (5.000%) PRINCE
6 2 (5.000%) Knowledge Management
6 2 (5.000%) Incident Management
6 2 (5.000%) Service Management
6 2 (5.000%) Workflow
6 2 (5.000%) Software Deployment
7 1 (2.500%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) SQL
2 4 (10.00%) VBScript
2 4 (10.00%) VB
3 3 (7.500%) XPath
3 3 (7.500%) C
3 3 (7.500%) C#
3 3 (7.500%) Java
4 2 (5.000%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 40 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (65.00%) MCITP
3 20 (50.00%) MCSE
4 17 (42.50%) MCP
5 12 (30.00%) MCTS
6 7 (17.50%) CCA
6 7 (17.50%) Citrix Certification
7 6 (15.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (10.00%) CCNA
8 4 (10.00%) CCEA
9 3 (7.500%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (5.000%) JNCIA
11 1 (2.500%) CISA
11 1 (2.500%) CISM
11 1 (2.500%) PCI QSA
11 1 (2.500%) SC Cleared
11 1 (2.500%) Security Cleared
11 1 (2.500%) CCDA
11 1 (2.500%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.500%) SLA
2 1 (2.500%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (20.00%) XenApp
3 7 (17.50%) XenServer
4 4 (10.00%) XenDesktop
4 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (7.500%) VMware ESX
6 2 (5.000%) VMware Server
6 2 (5.000%) vSphere
7 1 (2.500%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) SCCM
2 3 (7.500%) SCOM
3 2 (5.000%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (42.50%) VMware
3 14 (35.00%) Citrix
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco
4 4 (10.00%) AppSense
5 3 (7.500%) NetApp
5 3 (7.500%) TIBCO
6 2 (5.000%) Oracle
6 2 (5.000%) Apple
7 1 (2.500%) Brocade
7 1 (2.500%) HP
7 1 (2.500%) EMC
7 1 (2.500%) Sun
7 1 (2.500%) Avaya
7 1 (2.500%) Juniper
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