The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 17 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 Northampton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 52 48 51
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +3
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 4 4 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 1.018% 0.879% 2.301%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.000% 2.210% 6.250%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 9
Average salary £25,000 £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-44.44% +28.57%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
100 181 176
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 25.45% 39.78% 36.82%
Number of salaries quoted 86 176 171
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,150 £21,500 £26,300
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £37,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
Northamptonshire

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton MCSD Jobs Demand Trend

MCSD
Salary Trend

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

Northampton MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSD across the Northampton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Northampton MCSD Salary Histogram

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton region citing MCSD 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 MCSD.

1 19 (100.00%) C#
1 19 (100.00%) .NET
1 19 (100.00%) MCP
1 19 (100.00%) MCAD
1 19 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 19 (100.00%) WCF
2 18 (94.74%) WPF
2 18 (94.74%) Microsoft
3 17 (89.47%) MVC
3 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET
3 17 (89.47%) SQL Server
3 17 (89.47%) TDD
3 17 (89.47%) MCTS
3 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET MVC
3 17 (89.47%) Dependency Injection
3 17 (89.47%) Ninject
3 17 (89.47%) Web Application Development
3 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 16 (84.21%) Castle Windsor
4 16 (84.21%) Unity DI Container
4 16 (84.21%) Razor View Engine
4 16 (84.21%) Spring.NET
4 16 (84.21%) Continuous Integration
4 16 (84.21%) Kanban
4 16 (84.21%) Inversion of Control
4 16 (84.21%) MSTest
4 16 (84.21%) MVVM
4 16 (84.21%) Rhino Mocks
4 16 (84.21%) Moq
4 16 (84.21%) NUnit

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton region citing MCSD 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 MCSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (100.00%) .NET
1 19 (100.00%) WCF
2 18 (94.74%) WPF
3 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET MVC
3 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET
3 17 (89.47%) Ninject
3 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 16 (84.21%) Unity DI Container
4 16 (84.21%) Razor View Engine
4 16 (84.21%) Castle Windsor
4 16 (84.21%) WinForms
4 16 (84.21%) Spring.NET
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.263%) Node.js
6 1 (5.263%) KnockoutJS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (89.47%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 16 (84.21%) NUnit
1 16 (84.21%) MSTest
1 16 (84.21%) Rhino Mocks
1 16 (84.21%) Moq
2 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (5.263%) Games
1 1 (5.263%) Music
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Developer
2 17 (89.47%) .NET Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Junior Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Junior .NET Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Graduate Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Graduate .NET Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Graduate
3 3 (15.79%) Junior
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.263%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (84.21%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (10.53%) Tandem
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.263%) iPhone
3 1 (5.263%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (84.21%) Windows
2 1 (5.263%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) MVC
1 17 (89.47%) TDD
1 17 (89.47%) Dependency Injection
1 17 (89.47%) Web Application Development
2 16 (84.21%) MVVM
2 16 (84.21%) Continuous Integration
2 16 (84.21%) Kanban
2 16 (84.21%) Scrum
3 2 (10.53%) ITIL
3 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2
3 2 (10.53%) RUP
3 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.263%) Change Management
4 1 (5.263%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.263%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) MCP
1 19 (100.00%) MCAD
1 19 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (89.47%) MCTS
Vendors
1 18 (94.74%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.263%) Google