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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 41 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 50 26 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 5.280% 2.505% -
As % of the Qualifications category 18.45% 6.404% -
Number of salaries quoted 50 26 0
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Nottingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
271 406 410
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 28.62% 39.11% 34.17%
Number of salaries quoted 247 327 293
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
Nottinghamshire

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Salary Histogram

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

Nottingham MCSD Salary Histogram

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham 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 81 (100.00%) .NET
1 81 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 81 (100.00%) TDD
2 78 (96.30%) C#
3 70 (86.42%) Scrum
3 70 (86.42%) MCP
3 70 (86.42%) MCAD
3 70 (86.42%) NUnit
3 70 (86.42%) MCTS
3 70 (86.42%) Rhino Mocks
4 67 (82.72%) Moq
4 67 (82.72%) Kanban
5 66 (81.48%) WCF
5 66 (81.48%) ASP.NET
5 66 (81.48%) MVC
6 65 (80.25%) SQL Server
7 58 (71.60%) WPF
8 57 (70.37%) ASP.NET MVC
9 55 (67.90%) Razor View Engine
9 55 (67.90%) Web Application Development
9 55 (67.90%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 50 (61.73%) Castle Windsor
11 47 (58.02%) Ninject
11 47 (58.02%) MVVM
11 47 (58.02%) Unity DI Container
11 47 (58.02%) Dependency Injection
11 47 (58.02%) Inversion of Control
11 47 (58.02%) MSTest
11 47 (58.02%) Spring.NET
11 47 (58.02%) Continuous Integration

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham 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 81 (100.00%) .NET
2 66 (81.48%) WCF
2 66 (81.48%) ASP.NET
3 58 (71.60%) WPF
4 57 (70.37%) ASP.NET MVC
5 55 (67.90%) Razor View Engine
5 55 (67.90%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 50 (61.73%) Castle Windsor
7 47 (58.02%) Ninject
7 47 (58.02%) Unity DI Container
7 47 (58.02%) Spring.NET
7 47 (58.02%) WinForms
8 26 (32.10%) .NET Framework
9 23 (28.40%) NHibernate
10 14 (17.28%) Ajax
11 11 (13.58%) CSS
11 11 (13.58%) XML
11 11 (13.58%) HTML
12 3 (3.704%) MonoRail
12 3 (3.704%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 11 (13.58%) IIS
2 7 (8.642%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.704%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (80.25%) SQL Server
2 23 (28.40%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 70 (86.42%) NUnit
1 70 (86.42%) Rhino Mocks
2 67 (82.72%) Moq
3 47 (58.02%) MSTest
4 11 (13.58%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (13.58%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.704%) Subversion
General
1 16 (19.75%) Finance
2 10 (12.35%) Music
2 10 (12.35%) Music Industry
3 3 (3.704%) Games
Job Titles
1 77 (95.06%) Developer
1 77 (95.06%) .NET Developer
2 26 (32.10%) Junior
2 26 (32.10%) Junior Developer
2 26 (32.10%) Junior .NET Developer
2 26 (32.10%) Graduate Developer
2 26 (32.10%) Graduate
2 26 (32.10%) Graduate .NET Developer
3 7 (8.642%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (6.173%) C# Developer
4 5 (6.173%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (6.173%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (4.938%) .NET Programmer
5 4 (4.938%) ASP.NET Programmer
5 4 (4.938%) C# Programmer
5 4 (4.938%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 47 (58.02%) Inversion of Control
2 26 (32.10%) Computer Science
3 16 (19.75%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 47 (58.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) TDD
2 70 (86.42%) Scrum
3 67 (82.72%) Kanban
4 66 (81.48%) MVC
5 55 (67.90%) Web Application Development
6 47 (58.02%) MVVM
6 47 (58.02%) Dependency Injection
6 47 (58.02%) Continuous Integration
7 26 (32.10%) Agile Software Development
8 20 (24.69%) BDD
9 10 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 78 (96.30%) C#
2 14 (17.28%) VB.NET
3 11 (13.58%) SQL
4 3 (3.704%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 70 (86.42%) MCP
2 70 (86.42%) MCAD
2 70 (86.42%) MCTS
Vendors
1 16 (19.75%) Microsoft
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Nottingham, East Midlands
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
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