The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Northamptonshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 62 59 55
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -4
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 6 4 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 0.860% 0.603% 3.178%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.511% 1.762% 8.725%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 24
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +28.57%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
133 227 298
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 19.05% 34.24% 36.43%
Number of salaries quoted 118 211 283
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £48,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCSD
East Midlands

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire MCSD Salary Trend

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 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Corby - 4 £40,000 -
Wellingborough - 2 £35,000 - 2
MCSD
East Midlands

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 31 (100.00%) C#
1 31 (100.00%) .NET
1 31 (100.00%) MCP
1 31 (100.00%) MCAD
1 31 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 31 (100.00%) WCF
2 29 (93.55%) MVC
2 29 (93.55%) ASP.NET
2 29 (93.55%) SQL Server
2 29 (93.55%) TDD
2 29 (93.55%) MCTS
2 29 (93.55%) ASP.NET MVC
2 29 (93.55%) Web Application Development
2 29 (93.55%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 28 (90.32%) Razor View Engine
3 28 (90.32%) Rhino Mocks
3 28 (90.32%) Castle Windsor
3 28 (90.32%) NUnit
4 26 (83.87%) Microsoft
5 20 (64.52%) WPF
6 19 (61.29%) Ninject
6 19 (61.29%) Dependency Injection
7 18 (58.06%) Inversion of Control
7 18 (58.06%) MSTest
7 18 (58.06%) MVVM
7 18 (58.06%) Moq
7 18 (58.06%) Spring.NET
7 18 (58.06%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (58.06%) Kanban
7 18 (58.06%) Windows

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 31 (100.00%) .NET
1 31 (100.00%) WCF
2 29 (93.55%) ASP.NET
2 29 (93.55%) ASP.NET MVC
2 29 (93.55%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 28 (90.32%) Razor View Engine
3 28 (90.32%) Castle Windsor
4 20 (64.52%) WPF
5 19 (61.29%) Ninject
6 18 (58.06%) Spring.NET
6 18 (58.06%) WinForms
6 18 (58.06%) Unity DI Container
7 10 (32.26%) Ajax
7 10 (32.26%) NHibernate
7 10 (32.26%) MonoRail
8 4 (12.90%) .NET Framework
9 1 (3.226%) KnockoutJS
9 1 (3.226%) Node.js
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (93.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 28 (90.32%) Rhino Mocks
1 28 (90.32%) NUnit
2 18 (58.06%) MSTest
2 18 (58.06%) Moq
3 10 (32.26%) Subversion
4 2 (6.452%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (32.26%) Retail
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 1 (3.226%) Games
Job Titles
1 30 (96.77%) Developer
2 29 (93.55%) .NET Developer
3 3 (9.677%) Junior Developer
3 3 (9.677%) Junior .NET Developer
3 3 (9.677%) Graduate Developer
3 3 (9.677%) Junior
3 3 (9.677%) Graduate
3 3 (9.677%) Graduate .NET Developer
4 2 (6.452%) Analyst
5 1 (3.226%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.226%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.226%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (3.226%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.226%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (3.226%) Technical Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (58.06%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.452%) Computer Science
3 2 (6.452%) Tandem
4 1 (3.226%) iPhone
4 1 (3.226%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (58.06%) Windows
2 1 (3.226%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (93.55%) MVC
1 29 (93.55%) TDD
1 29 (93.55%) Web Application Development
2 19 (61.29%) Dependency Injection
3 18 (58.06%) MVVM
3 18 (58.06%) Continuous Integration
3 18 (58.06%) Kanban
3 18 (58.06%) Scrum
4 14 (45.16%) OO
5 2 (6.452%) PRINCE2
5 2 (6.452%) Configuration Management
5 2 (6.452%) RUP
5 2 (6.452%) ITIL
6 1 (3.226%) Change Management
6 1 (3.226%) Domain-Driven Design
6 1 (3.226%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) MCP
1 31 (100.00%) MCAD
1 31 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (93.55%) MCTS
Vendors
1 26 (83.87%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.226%) Google
Wellingborough, East Midlands
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
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NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013