The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT jobs advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSA 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 Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 79 78 81
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +3
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 2 4 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 0.207% 0.498% 0.210%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.683% 2.235% 0.873%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 2
Average salary £24,750 £27,500 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +19.56%
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £32,500 £29,750
% change year-on-year
-6.15% +9.24%
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%
MCSA
Yorkshire

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire MCSA Salary Trend

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
York +4 1 £23,000 -16.36%
Middlesbrough - 1 £26,500 -
MCSA
Yorkshire

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 13 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 13 (100.00%) Citrix
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (92.31%) VMware
2 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 12 (92.31%) Active Directory
2 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 12 (92.31%) MCSE
3 11 (84.62%) SQL Server
3 11 (84.62%) HP
3 11 (84.62%) Finance
3 11 (84.62%) SQL Server 2005
3 11 (84.62%) MCITP
3 11 (84.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (84.62%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (84.62%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (84.62%) Hyper-V
3 11 (84.62%) XenApp
3 11 (84.62%) XenServer
3 11 (84.62%) XenDesktop
3 11 (84.62%) Windows 7
4 9 (69.23%) Exchange Server 2007
5 8 (61.54%) NAS
5 8 (61.54%) Exchange Server 2010
5 8 (61.54%) MCTS
5 8 (61.54%) DNS
5 8 (61.54%) Firewall
5 8 (61.54%) SAN
5 8 (61.54%) DHCP
5 8 (61.54%) MCP

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 Platforms
1 13 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 9 (69.23%) Exchange Server 2007
3 8 (61.54%) Exchange Server 2010
4 7 (53.85%) Lync
4 7 (53.85%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (7.692%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (46.15%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.692%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) NAS
1 8 (61.54%) DNS
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
1 8 (61.54%) SAN
1 8 (61.54%) DHCP
2 7 (53.85%) Network Security
2 7 (53.85%) iSCSI
3 1 (7.692%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) SQL Server
1 11 (84.62%) SQL Server 2005
1 11 (84.62%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (7.692%) Technical Support Officer
2 1 (7.692%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (7.692%) Analyst
2 1 (7.692%) Technical Support
2 1 (7.692%) Service Analyst
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 11 (84.62%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (84.62%) Windows 7
3 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (7.692%) ITIL
2 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
2 1 (7.692%) Problem Management
2 1 (7.692%) Change Control
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (92.31%) MCSE
3 11 (84.62%) MCITP
4 8 (61.54%) MCTS
4 8 (61.54%) MCP
5 7 (53.85%) CCA
5 7 (53.85%) Citrix Certification
5 7 (53.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (7.692%) HNC
6 1 (7.692%) HND
6 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Active Directory
2 11 (84.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (84.62%) Hyper-V
2 11 (84.62%) XenApp
2 11 (84.62%) XenServer
2 11 (84.62%) XenDesktop
3 7 (53.85%) NFS
3 7 (53.85%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Citrix
2 12 (92.31%) VMware
2 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
3 11 (84.62%) HP
4 7 (53.85%) EMC
4 7 (53.85%) CommVault
4 7 (53.85%) LANDesk