Northamptonshire MCSD Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) in IT jobs within the Northamptonshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Location Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edenbridge Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Gerrards Cross Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Haslemere Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hoddesdon Horsham Ipswich Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Mansfield Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells UK Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Whitstable Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	63
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching permanent IT job ads	8	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	3.620 %	4.437 %
Salaries quoted	7	13
Average minimum salary	£40,000	£47,462
Average salary	£44,071	£48,615
% change on same period last year	-9.34 %
Average maximum salary	£48,143	£49,769
UK excluding London average salary	£37,791	£38,591
% change on same period last year	-2.07 %
Qualifications Northamptonshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	221	293
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.129 %	0.129 %
Salaries quoted	203	248
Average minimum salary	£29,941	£35,437
Average salary	£32,358	£37,473
% change on same period last year	-13.64 %
Average maximum salary	£34,776	£39,510
UK excluding London average salary	£37,899	£38,417
% change on same period last year	-1.35 %
MCSD East Midlands

MCSD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCSD across the Northamptonshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCSD
Salary Trend

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

MCSD
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSD across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

MCSD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSD within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northampton	-15	6	£50,700	+4.28 %

MCSD East Midlands

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 16 (100.00 %) .NET 1 16 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 15 (93.75 %) SQL Server 3 14 (87.50 %) XML 3 14 (87.50 %) MCAD 4 13 (81.25 %) ASP.NET 4 13 (81.25 %) C# 5 12 (75.00 %) Microsoft 6 10 (62.50 %) MS Excel 6 10 (62.50 %) SQL 6 10 (62.50 %) WebServices 7 9 (56.25 %) VB.NET 7 9 (56.25 %) MCTS 8 8 (50.00 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 8 (50.00 %) SharePoint

8 8 (50.00 %) BizTalk Server 9 7 (43.75 %) JavaScript 10 6 (37.50 %) HTML 10 6 (37.50 %) SOAP 10 6 (37.50 %) CRM 10 6 (37.50 %) MCSA 10 6 (37.50 %) Dynamics NAV 10 6 (37.50 %) Dynamics CRM 10 6 (37.50 %) Dynamics AX 11 5 (31.25 %) Visual Studio 12 3 (18.75 %) CSS 13 2 (12.50 %) NUnit 13 2 (12.50 %) MCITP 13 2 (12.50 %) MCPD 13 2 (12.50 %) Marketing

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 16 (100.00 %) .NET 2 14 (87.50 %) XML 3 13 (81.25 %) ASP.NET 4 10 (62.50 %) WebServices 5 6 (37.50 %) HTML 5 6 (37.50 %) SOAP 6 3 (18.75 %) CSS 7 2 (12.50 %) ADO.NET 7 2 (12.50 %) DOM 7 2 (12.50 %) XHTML 7 2 (12.50 %) WinForms 7 2 (12.50 %) AJAX 7 2 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 7 2 (12.50 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 8 (50.00 %) SharePoint 1 8 (50.00 %) BizTalk Server 1 8 (50.00 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (12.50 %) ColdFusion 2 2 (12.50 %) IIS
Applications 1 10 (62.50 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 6 (37.50 %) Dynamics NAV 1 6 (37.50 %) Dynamics CRM 1 6 (37.50 %) Dynamics AX
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (93.75 %) SQL Server 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 5 (31.25 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (12.50 %) Flash 2 2 (12.50 %) NUnit
General 1 2 (12.50 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 8 (50.00 %) Architect 1 8 (50.00 %) Developer 1 8 (50.00 %) Solutions Architect 2 6 (37.50 %) .NET Developer 2 6 (37.50 %) .NET Architect 2 6 (37.50 %) .NET Solutions Architect 3 3 (18.75 %) C# Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) Web Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) Sharepoint Architect 5 1 (6.250 %) .NET Programmer 5 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Programmer 5 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (37.50 %) CRM 2 2 (12.50 %) SOA 2 2 (12.50 %) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages 1 13 (81.25 %) C# 2 10 (62.50 %) SQL 3 9 (56.25 %) VB.NET 4 7 (43.75 %) JavaScript 5 2 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 16 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 14 (87.50 %) MCAD 3 9 (56.25 %) MCTS 4 6 (37.50 %) MCSA 5 2 (12.50 %) MCITP 5 2 (12.50 %) MCPD 6 1 (6.250 %) MCP
Vendors 1 12 (75.00 %) Microsoft