The first table below looks at the demand for MCDST in IT jobs advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCDST over the 3 months to 23 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST)
Rank - 81 82
Permanent jobs citing MCDST 0 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in North Yorkshire - 0.125% 0.105%
As % of the Qualifications category - 0.559% 0.437%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
Average salary - £21,500 £17,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +26.47%
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £22,500 £23,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.17%
All Qualifications
North Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
293 179 229
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 30.39% 22.29% 24.05%
Number of salaries quoted 199 160 204
Average salary £42,500 £36,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.05% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £58,400 £51,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCDST
Yorkshire

MCDST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire MCDST Jobs Demand Trend

MCDST
Salary Trend

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

North Yorkshire MCDST Salary Trend

MCDST
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North Yorkshire region citing MCDST 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 MCDST.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management

MCDST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North Yorkshire region citing MCDST 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 MCDST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management