The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 37 51 81
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +30
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 63 41 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 5.860% 3.501% 1.631%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.21% 9.339% 4.846%
Number of salaries quoted 63 41 20
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,800
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £52,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Nottinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
297 439 454
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 27.63% 37.49% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 269 358 321
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
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 Nottinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire 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
Nottingham +15 63 £37,500 -6.25%
MCTS
East Midlands

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 89 (82.41%) SQL Server
2 83 (76.85%) MCP
2 83 (76.85%) C#
2 83 (76.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 82 (75.93%) .NET
4 70 (64.81%) Scrum
4 70 (64.81%) MCAD
4 70 (64.81%) MCSD
4 70 (64.81%) TDD
4 70 (64.81%) NUnit
4 70 (64.81%) Rhino Mocks
5 67 (62.04%) Moq
5 67 (62.04%) ASP.NET MVC
5 67 (62.04%) WCF
5 67 (62.04%) Kanban
5 67 (62.04%) ASP.NET
5 67 (62.04%) MVC
6 59 (54.63%) WPF
7 55 (50.93%) Razor View Engine
7 55 (50.93%) Web Application Development
7 55 (50.93%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 53 (49.07%) SQL Server 2008
9 50 (46.30%) Castle Windsor
10 48 (44.44%) Windows
11 47 (43.52%) WinForms
11 47 (43.52%) Ninject
11 47 (43.52%) Unity DI Container
11 47 (43.52%) Dependency Injection
11 47 (43.52%) Inversion of Control
11 47 (43.52%) MSTest

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 82 (75.93%) .NET
2 67 (62.04%) ASP.NET MVC
2 67 (62.04%) WCF
2 67 (62.04%) ASP.NET
3 59 (54.63%) WPF
4 55 (50.93%) Razor View Engine
4 55 (50.93%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 50 (46.30%) Castle Windsor
6 47 (43.52%) WinForms
6 47 (43.52%) Ninject
6 47 (43.52%) Unity DI Container
6 47 (43.52%) Spring.NET
7 38 (35.19%) .NET Framework
8 23 (21.30%) NHibernate
9 12 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 12 (11.11%) XML
9 12 (11.11%) XSLT
10 3 (2.778%) Ajax
10 3 (2.778%) LINQ
10 3 (2.778%) MonoRail
Application Platforms
1 1 (0.926%) Lync
1 1 (0.926%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.852%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.74%) SAN
2 3 (2.778%) Internet
3 1 (0.926%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (82.41%) SQL Server
2 53 (49.07%) SQL Server 2008
3 30 (27.78%) SQL Server 2005
4 22 (20.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 22 (20.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
6 14 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (7.407%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 70 (64.81%) NUnit
1 70 (64.81%) Rhino Mocks
2 67 (62.04%) Moq
3 47 (43.52%) MSTest
4 3 (2.778%) Subversion
General
1 16 (14.81%) Finance
2 11 (10.19%) Games
3 10 (9.259%) Music
3 10 (9.259%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 71 (65.74%) Developer
2 70 (64.81%) .NET Developer
3 26 (24.07%) Graduate .NET Developer
3 26 (24.07%) Graduate
3 26 (24.07%) Junior Developer
3 26 (24.07%) Junior .NET Developer
3 26 (24.07%) Graduate Developer
3 26 (24.07%) Junior
4 22 (20.37%) DBA
5 20 (18.52%) SQL DBA
6 11 (10.19%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.481%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (3.704%) SQL Server DBA
9 2 (1.852%) Consultant
10 1 (0.926%) IT Support
10 1 (0.926%) Microsoft Consultant
10 1 (0.926%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 1 (0.926%) Support Engineer
10 1 (0.926%) 3rd Line Support
10 1 (0.926%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 47 (43.52%) Inversion of Control
2 26 (24.07%) Computer Science
3 17 (15.74%) Replication
4 16 (14.81%) Tandem
5 12 (11.11%) Client/Server
5 12 (11.11%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 48 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (64.81%) Scrum
1 70 (64.81%) TDD
2 67 (62.04%) Kanban
2 67 (62.04%) MVC
3 55 (50.93%) Web Application Development
4 47 (43.52%) Dependency Injection
4 47 (43.52%) MVVM
4 47 (43.52%) Continuous Integration
5 20 (18.52%) BDD
6 15 (13.89%) Agile Software Development
7 14 (12.96%) Migration
7 14 (12.96%) Data Migration
8 12 (11.11%) OO
9 10 (9.259%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (7.407%) High Availability
11 4 (3.704%) Information Security
11 4 (3.704%) Database Security
12 1 (0.926%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 83 (76.85%) C#
2 34 (31.48%) SQL
3 12 (11.11%) XPath
3 12 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.704%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.778%) VB
5 3 (2.778%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 83 (76.85%) MCP
1 83 (76.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 70 (64.81%) MCAD
2 70 (64.81%) MCSD
3 25 (23.15%) MCITP
4 12 (11.11%) MCPD
5 2 (1.852%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (1.852%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.852%) CCEE
6 1 (0.926%) CCAA
6 1 (0.926%) CCIA
6 1 (0.926%) MCDST
6 1 (0.926%) CCEA
6 1 (0.926%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.926%) CCA
6 1 (0.926%) CCNA
6 1 (0.926%) MCSE
6 1 (0.926%) MCSA
System Software
1 3 (2.778%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (2.778%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.852%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.852%) XenApp
2 2 (1.852%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.926%) vSphere
3 1 (0.926%) XenServer
3 1 (0.926%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.926%) SCCM
1 1 (0.926%) SCOM
1 1 (0.926%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 30 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.778%) VMware
3 2 (1.852%) HP
3 2 (1.852%) Citrix
4 1 (0.926%) Veeam
4 1 (0.926%) Cisco
4 1 (0.926%) IBM
4 1 (0.926%) Dell
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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