Northamptonshire MCSE Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 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 MCSE over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Accrington Aldershot Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blandford Forum Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chepstow Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clevedon Cobham Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fairford Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Greenford Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Isleworth Jersey Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Moreton-in-Marsh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Redruth Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Rotherham Royston Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thurrock Tring Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Wallington Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Widnes Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	17
Rank change on same period last year	-34
Matching permanent IT job ads	33	84
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	16.75 %	35.00 %
Salaries quoted	33	49
Average minimum salary	£26,294	£24,900
Average salary	£28,132	£26,040
% change on same period last year	+8.03 %
Average maximum salary	£29,971	£27,180
UK excluding London average salary	£33,938	£33,257
% change on same period last year	+2.04 %
Qualifications Northamptonshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	197	240
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.104 %	0.098 %
Salaries quoted	189	175
Average minimum salary	£31,019	£29,564
Average salary	£33,573	£31,377
% change on same period last year	+6.99 %
Average maximum salary	£36,127	£33,190
UK excluding London average salary	£37,731	£38,242
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
MCSE East Midlands

MCSE
Demand Trend

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

MCSE
Salary Trend

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

MCSE
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSE across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCSE
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	-13	21	£26,786	+1.64 %
Daventry	-5	5	£28,000	+12.00 %
Kettering	-12	1	£22,000	-9.27 %

MCSE East Midlands

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 77 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 66 (85.71 %) Windows 3 48 (62.34 %) Microsoft 3 48 (62.34 %) Active Directory 4 47 (61.04 %) MS Exchange 5 36 (46.75 %) MS Office 6 34 (44.16 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 28 (36.36 %) MCP 8 27 (35.06 %) SQL Server 9 25 (32.47 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 24 (31.17 %) Citrix 11 22 (28.57 %) VMware 12 20 (25.97 %) Internet 12 20 (25.97 %) Linux 12 20 (25.97 %) UNIX

13 19 (24.68 %) VoIP 13 19 (24.68 %) Terminal Server 13 19 (24.68 %) VMware Infrastructure 14 18 (23.38 %) Windows XP 15 16 (20.78 %) TCP/IP 15 16 (20.78 %) Windows 2000 16 15 (19.48 %) MS Excel 17 12 (15.58 %) MCSA 17 12 (15.58 %) Cisco 18 8 (10.39 %) Security Cleared 18 8 (10.39 %) SQL 19 7 (9.091 %) MOM 20 6 (7.792 %) Health 20 6 (7.792 %) Back Office 20 6 (7.792 %) Cisco Certification

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing MCSE 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 MCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (3.896 %) .NET 2 1 (1.299 %) ASP 2 1 (1.299 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 47 (61.04 %) MS Exchange 2 34 (44.16 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 25 (32.47 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 4 (5.195 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 4 (5.195 %) SharePoint 5 3 (3.896 %) IIS 6 2 (2.597 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 36 (46.75 %) MS Office 2 15 (19.48 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 20 (25.97 %) Internet 2 19 (24.68 %) VoIP 3 16 (20.78 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (6.494 %) DNS 4 5 (6.494 %) DHCP 5 4 (5.195 %) LAN 5 4 (5.195 %) WAN 5 4 (5.195 %) SAN 6 3 (3.896 %) Firewall 7 2 (2.597 %) VPN 8 1 (1.299 %) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (35.06 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.597 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 6 (7.792 %) Back Office 1 6 (7.792 %) Health 2 4 (5.195 %) Pensions 3 1 (1.299 %) Marketing 3 1 (1.299 %) Finance 3 1 (1.299 %) Education
Job Titles 1 33 (42.86 %) Support Engineer 2 24 (31.17 %) Technical Support 3 23 (29.87 %) 2nd Line Support 4 19 (24.68 %) Analyst 4 19 (24.68 %) Technical Support Engineer 4 19 (24.68 %) Technical Engineer 5 9 (11.69 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 9 (11.69 %) Senior Analyst 5 9 (11.69 %) Service Analyst 6 8 (10.39 %) Support Analyst 7 7 (9.091 %) Installations Engineer 8 5 (6.494 %) Technical Analyst 8 5 (6.494 %) Technical Support Analyst 9 4 (5.195 %) 3rd Line Support 10 3 (3.896 %) Technical Consultant 10 3 (3.896 %) Field Engineer 10 3 (3.896 %) Consultant 10 3 (3.896 %) Network Engineer 10 3 (3.896 %) Project Engineer 11 2 (2.597 %) Customer Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.896 %) Blackberry 2 2 (2.597 %) Clustering 3 1 (1.299 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.299 %) Thin Client 3 1 (1.299 %) Smartcard
Operating Systems 1 66 (85.71 %) Windows 2 20 (25.97 %) Linux 2 20 (25.97 %) UNIX 3 18 (23.38 %) Windows XP 4 16 (20.78 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (2.597 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (1.299 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (10.39 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (6.494 %) ITIL 3 4 (5.195 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (2.597 %) CRM 4 2 (2.597 %) Project Management 4 2 (2.597 %) Document Management 4 2 (2.597 %) Business Desktop Deployment 5 1 (1.299 %) Problem Management 5 1 (1.299 %) Incident Management 5 1 (1.299 %) Data Management
Programming Languages 1 8 (10.39 %) SQL 2 4 (5.195 %) C	Qualifications 1 77 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 28 (36.36 %) MCP 3 12 (15.58 %) MCSA 4 6 (7.792 %) CCNA 4 6 (7.792 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (1.299 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (6.494 %) SLA	System Software 1 48 (62.34 %) Active Directory 2 19 (24.68 %) Terminal Server 2 19 (24.68 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 4 (5.195 %) Terminal Services 4 3 (3.896 %) VMware Server 5 2 (2.597 %) ISA Server 6 1 (1.299 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 7 (9.091 %) MOM 2 3 (3.896 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (3.896 %) SCCM 2 3 (3.896 %) SCOM 3 1 (1.299 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 48 (62.34 %) Microsoft 2 24 (31.17 %) Citrix 3 22 (28.57 %) VMware 4 12 (15.58 %) Cisco 5 3 (3.896 %) Mitel 6 2 (2.597 %) HP 7 1 (1.299 %) Novell