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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 189 156 117
Rank change year-on-year
-33 -39
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 54 93 132
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.752% 1.310% 1.922%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.096% 5.181% 7.976%
Number of salaries quoted 46 92 110
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,200 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1744 1795 1655
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 24.27% 25.29% 24.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1433 1537 1435
Average salary £36,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSE
England

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West MCSE Salary Trend

MCSE
Salary Histogram

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

North West MCSE Salary Histogram

MCSE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester -37 27 £37,500 +10.29%
Cheshire -6 22 £25,000 -37.50%
Merseyside +13 8 £27,500 -31.25%
Lancashire -4 1 £37,500 +44.23%
MCSE
England

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 128 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 106 (82.81%) Windows
3 89 (69.53%) Microsoft
4 74 (57.81%) Windows Server 2008
5 70 (54.69%) VMware
6 66 (51.56%) Active Directory
7 64 (50.00%) MCITP
8 63 (49.22%) MS Exchange
9 62 (48.44%) Windows Server 2003
10 53 (41.41%) ITIL
11 49 (38.28%) MS Excel
12 42 (32.81%) MCP
13 41 (32.03%) Cisco
14 40 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
14 40 (31.25%) Citrix
15 37 (28.91%) HP
15 37 (28.91%) CCNA
16 36 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
17 31 (24.22%) SAN
17 31 (24.22%) Exchange Server 2010
18 29 (22.66%) VoIP
19 26 (20.31%) SharePoint
19 26 (20.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 25 (19.53%) Windows XP
21 24 (18.75%) TCP/IP
21 24 (18.75%) Windows 7
22 23 (17.97%) SQL
23 22 (17.19%) VPN
23 22 (17.19%) DNS
23 22 (17.19%) ITIL Certification

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 8 (6.250%) ASP.NET
1 8 (6.250%) .NET
2 4 (3.125%) Web Services
2 4 (3.125%) LINQ
2 4 (3.125%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (2.344%) WCF
3 3 (2.344%) XML
3 3 (2.344%) XSLT
4 1 (0.781%) Ajax
4 1 (0.781%) WPF
4 1 (0.781%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.781%) XHTML
4 1 (0.781%) HTML
4 1 (0.781%) CSS
4 1 (0.781%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 63 (49.22%) MS Exchange
2 31 (24.22%) Exchange Server 2010
3 26 (20.31%) SharePoint
4 21 (16.41%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (10.94%) IIS
6 12 (9.375%) Exchange Server 2007
7 9 (7.031%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (6.250%) Lync
8 8 (6.250%) SharePoint 2010
9 4 (3.125%) Office Communications Server
10 2 (1.563%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (1.563%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.781%) Exchange Server 2000
11 1 (0.781%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 49 (38.28%) MS Excel
2 15 (11.72%) MS Office
2 15 (11.72%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 3 (2.344%) TIBCO iProcess
1 3 (2.344%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.781%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.781%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (24.22%) SAN
2 29 (22.66%) VoIP
3 24 (18.75%) TCP/IP
4 22 (17.19%) VPN
4 22 (17.19%) DNS
5 21 (16.41%) Firewall
6 12 (9.375%) DHCP
7 11 (8.594%) WAN
7 11 (8.594%) LAN
8 9 (7.031%) NAS
9 6 (4.688%) SNMP
10 5 (3.906%) Unified Communications
11 4 (3.125%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (3.125%) iSCSI
12 3 (2.344%) Wireless
13 2 (1.563%) Asterisk PBX
13 2 (1.563%) FWSM
13 2 (1.563%) MPLS
13 2 (1.563%) SCCP
13 2 (1.563%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.41%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.813%) SQL Server 2005
3 9 (7.031%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.344%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.781%) Visual Studio
1 1 (0.781%) MSI
General
1 14 (10.94%) Finance
2 6 (4.688%) Banking
3 4 (3.125%) Advertising
4 1 (0.781%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (14.84%) Systems Administrator
2 19 (14.84%) Administrator
3 16 (12.50%) Windows Systems Administrator
3 16 (12.50%) Windows Administrator
4 14 (10.94%) Server Engineer
5 12 (9.375%) Support Technician
5 12 (9.375%) Support Engineer
6 11 (8.594%) 2nd Line Support
7 10 (7.813%) Consultant
7 10 (7.813%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (7.031%) Senior Server Engineer
9 8 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (5.469%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 7 (5.469%) Desktop Support
10 7 (5.469%) Analyst
11 5 (3.906%) Team Leader
11 5 (3.906%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 5 (3.906%) Technical Support
12 4 (3.125%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.94%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (3.906%) Blackberry
3 4 (3.125%) Clustering
4 3 (2.344%) iPhone
4 3 (2.344%) iPad
5 2 (1.563%) Open Source
6 1 (0.781%) CLARiiON
6 1 (0.781%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.781%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.781%) W3C
6 1 (0.781%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 106 (82.81%) Windows
2 74 (57.81%) Windows Server 2008
3 62 (48.44%) Windows Server 2003
4 25 (19.53%) Windows XP
5 24 (18.75%) Windows 7
6 18 (14.06%) Windows Vista
7 15 (11.72%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (10.16%) Linux
9 7 (5.469%) Windows 2000
9 7 (5.469%) Windows NT
10 4 (3.125%) UNIX
11 3 (2.344%) Windows 8
12 2 (1.563%) Windows Phone
12 2 (1.563%) Windows XP Embedded
12 2 (1.563%) Android
13 1 (0.781%) Mac OS X Server
13 1 (0.781%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.781%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (41.41%) ITIL
2 14 (10.94%) Network Design
3 13 (10.16%) Performance Management
4 12 (9.375%) PRINCE2
5 11 (8.594%) Capacity Management
6 10 (7.813%) Change Management
7 9 (7.031%) Change Control
8 8 (6.250%) Network Management
9 6 (4.688%) Migration
9 6 (4.688%) Service Delivery
10 5 (3.906%) Configuration Management
11 4 (3.125%) High Availability
11 4 (3.125%) Infrastructure Management
11 4 (3.125%) Service Management
11 4 (3.125%) Network Load Balancing
11 4 (3.125%) Time Management
12 3 (2.344%) Workflow
12 3 (2.344%) Scrum
12 3 (2.344%) Agile Software Development
12 3 (2.344%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.97%) SQL
2 4 (3.125%) C#
3 3 (2.344%) XPath
3 3 (2.344%) Java
3 3 (2.344%) C
4 1 (0.781%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.781%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 128 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 64 (50.00%) MCITP
3 42 (32.81%) MCP
4 40 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
5 37 (28.91%) CCNA
6 26 (20.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 22 (17.19%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (16.41%) MCTS
8 21 (16.41%) MCSA
9 13 (10.16%) Citrix Certification
10 9 (7.031%) A+ Certification
11 6 (4.688%) CCA
11 6 (4.688%) HP APS
12 5 (3.906%) CCEE
13 4 (3.125%) CCIA
13 4 (3.125%) VCAP
13 4 (3.125%) CCNP
14 3 (2.344%) Security Cleared
14 3 (2.344%) CISSP
15 2 (1.563%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.94%) SLA
2 3 (2.344%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.563%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 66 (51.56%) Active Directory
2 36 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (17.19%) Hyper-V
4 20 (15.63%) vSphere
5 12 (9.375%) XenApp
6 9 (7.031%) ISA Server
7 8 (6.250%) XenServer
8 5 (3.906%) Terminal Server
9 4 (3.125%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 4 (3.125%) XenDesktop
10 3 (2.344%) Samba
10 3 (2.344%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (2.344%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (1.563%) IAG
11 2 (1.563%) Xen
11 2 (1.563%) VMware Server
11 2 (1.563%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 22 (17.19%) SCCM
2 8 (6.250%) SolarWinds Orion
3 7 (5.469%) SCOM
4 3 (2.344%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (1.563%) CiscoWorks
6 1 (0.781%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.781%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.781%) MOM
Vendors
1 89 (69.53%) Microsoft
2 70 (54.69%) VMware
3 41 (32.03%) Cisco
4 40 (31.25%) Citrix
5 37 (28.91%) HP
6 15 (11.72%) SolarWinds
6 15 (11.72%) NetApp
7 7 (5.469%) FrontRange
8 6 (4.688%) Dell
9 5 (3.906%) AppSense
9 5 (3.906%) Red Hat
10 4 (3.125%) EMC
11 3 (2.344%) IBM
11 3 (2.344%) TIBCO
11 3 (2.344%) Reuters
11 3 (2.344%) Bloomberg
12 2 (1.563%) Apple
12 2 (1.563%) Symantec
12 2 (1.563%) Remedy
12 2 (1.563%) CheckPoint
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