The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 24 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 Northamptonshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 46 57 56
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -1
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 23 11 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 3.480% 1.461% 2.875%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.67% 3.957% 8.550%
Number of salaries quoted 20 11 22
Average salary £40,000 £37,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.10% +5.71%
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
138 278 269
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 20.88% 36.92% 33.63%
Number of salaries quoted 126 255 253
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £40,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
East Midlands

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Salary Trend

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

Northamptonshire MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Northamptonshire MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Northampton +5 12 £32,500 -27.77%
Corby - 7 £40,000 -
Towcester - 1 £35,000 -
Wellingborough - 1 £40,000 -
MCTS
East Midlands

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 39 (84.78%) C#
2 38 (82.61%) .NET
3 37 (80.43%) SQL Server
4 36 (78.26%) Microsoft
5 35 (76.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (65.22%) MVC
6 30 (65.22%) MCP
6 30 (65.22%) MCAD
6 30 (65.22%) MCSD
6 30 (65.22%) ASP.NET
6 30 (65.22%) TDD
6 30 (65.22%) WCF
6 30 (65.22%) ASP.NET MVC
6 30 (65.22%) Web Application Development
6 30 (65.22%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 29 (63.04%) Razor View Engine
7 29 (63.04%) Castle Windsor
7 29 (63.04%) Rhino Mocks
7 29 (63.04%) NUnit
8 23 (50.00%) Windows
9 20 (43.48%) Dependency Injection
9 20 (43.48%) Ninject
10 19 (41.30%) Inversion of Control
10 19 (41.30%) MSTest
10 19 (41.30%) MVVM
10 19 (41.30%) Moq
10 19 (41.30%) Spring.NET
10 19 (41.30%) WPF
10 19 (41.30%) Kanban
10 19 (41.30%) Continuous Integration

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (82.61%) .NET
2 30 (65.22%) ASP.NET
2 30 (65.22%) WCF
2 30 (65.22%) ASP.NET MVC
2 30 (65.22%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 29 (63.04%) Razor View Engine
3 29 (63.04%) Castle Windsor
4 20 (43.48%) Ninject
5 19 (41.30%) Spring.NET
5 19 (41.30%) WPF
5 19 (41.30%) WinForms
5 19 (41.30%) Unity DI Container
6 10 (21.74%) MonoRail
6 10 (21.74%) NHibernate
6 10 (21.74%) Ajax
7 3 (6.522%) HTML
8 2 (4.348%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.174%) Windows SharePoint Services
9 1 (2.174%) KnockoutJS
9 1 (2.174%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 8 (17.39%) SharePoint
2 5 (10.87%) Lync
3 3 (6.522%) IIS
4 1 (2.174%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (2.174%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (2.174%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 12 (26.09%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.522%) MS Office
2 3 (6.522%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.174%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.174%) Unified Communications
1 1 (2.174%) DHCP
1 1 (2.174%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.174%) DNS
1 1 (2.174%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (80.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (10.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (10.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (8.696%) MS Access
4 3 (6.522%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 3 (6.522%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 3 (6.522%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (6.522%) DTS
4 3 (6.522%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (6.522%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 29 (63.04%) Rhino Mocks
1 29 (63.04%) NUnit
2 19 (41.30%) MSTest
2 19 (41.30%) Moq
3 10 (21.74%) Subversion
4 3 (6.522%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (21.74%) Retail
2 4 (8.696%) Finance
3 1 (2.174%) Music
3 1 (2.174%) Games
Job Titles
1 34 (73.91%) Developer
2 30 (65.22%) .NET Developer
3 4 (8.696%) Software Engineer
4 3 (6.522%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (6.522%) Junior .NET Developer
4 3 (6.522%) Graduate Developer
4 3 (6.522%) Graduate .NET Developer
4 3 (6.522%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (6.522%) Graduate
4 3 (6.522%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.522%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (6.522%) Junior Developer
4 3 (6.522%) Junior
5 2 (4.348%) SQL DBA
5 2 (4.348%) DBA
6 1 (2.174%) Microsoft Consultant
6 1 (2.174%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (2.174%) Senior Citrix Engineer
6 1 (2.174%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (2.174%) Teradata DBA
Miscellaneous
1 19 (41.30%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (8.696%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.348%) Computer Science
3 2 (4.348%) Tandem
4 1 (2.174%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.174%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 23 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.174%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (65.22%) MVC
1 30 (65.22%) TDD
1 30 (65.22%) Web Application Development
2 20 (43.48%) Dependency Injection
3 19 (41.30%) MVVM
3 19 (41.30%) Kanban
3 19 (41.30%) Continuous Integration
3 19 (41.30%) Scrum
4 14 (30.43%) OO
5 5 (10.87%) Project Management
6 4 (8.696%) Data Analysis
7 3 (6.522%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (4.348%) ITIL
9 1 (2.174%) TOGAF
9 1 (2.174%) Time Management
9 1 (2.174%) Domain-Driven Design
9 1 (2.174%) PRINCE2
9 1 (2.174%) PRINCE
9 1 (2.174%) MOF
Programming Languages
1 39 (84.78%) C#
2 9 (19.57%) SQL
3 4 (8.696%) T-SQL
3 4 (8.696%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.522%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.174%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (76.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (65.22%) MCP
2 30 (65.22%) MCAD
2 30 (65.22%) MCSD
3 6 (13.04%) MCITP
4 5 (10.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (8.696%) Citrix Certification
5 4 (8.696%) CCEE
6 1 (2.174%) MCPD
6 1 (2.174%) CCAA
6 1 (2.174%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 1 (2.174%) MCSE
6 1 (2.174%) CCEA
6 1 (2.174%) CCA
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Hyper-V
2 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.696%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.696%) XenApp
3 4 (8.696%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.174%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (2.174%) SCCM
1 1 (2.174%) SCOM
Vendors
1 36 (78.26%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) VMware
3 4 (8.696%) Siemens
3 4 (8.696%) HP
3 4 (8.696%) Dell
3 4 (8.696%) Citrix
3 4 (8.696%) Cisco
4 3 (6.522%) Oracle
4 3 (6.522%) Business Objects
4 3 (6.522%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.174%) Google
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