Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 17 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Oxford region.

 Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Location
3 months to
17 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank5254100
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Up+46
Matching permanent IT job ads445
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford0.891 %0.726 %0.340 %
As % of the Qualifications category5.263 %2.797 %1.089 %
Salaries quoted445
Average salary£45,000£40,000£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50 %-20.00 %
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
-+6.660 %
Oxford IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
76143459
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford16.93 %25.95 %31.25 %
Salaries quoted67135432
Average salary£32,500£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£47,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
MCTS OxfordshireMCTS
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MCTS
Demand Trend

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

Oxford MCTS Demand Trend

MCTS
Salary Trend

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

Oxford MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT jobs across the Oxford 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.

19 (100.00 %)SQL Server
28 (88.89 %)Microsoft Certification
28 (88.89 %)SQL Server 2005
37 (77.78 %)SQL Server 2000
37 (77.78 %).NET
46 (66.67 %)Windows
46 (66.67 %)Microsoft CRM
46 (66.67 %)CRM
46 (66.67 %)SharePoint
46 (66.67 %)Microsoft
55 (55.56 %)ASP.NET
55 (55.56 %)MCAD
55 (55.56 %)MCSD
55 (55.56 %)C#
55 (55.56 %)Dynamics CRM
55 (55.56 %)MCPD
55 (55.56 %)SharePoint Server 2007
55 (55.56 %)WPF
64 (44.44 %)MS Excel
73 (33.33 %)SQL Server Integration Services
73 (33.33 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
73 (33.33 %)SQL Server 2008
73 (33.33 %)SQL
82 (22.22 %)T-SQL
82 (22.22 %)Java
82 (22.22 %)OLAP
82 (22.22 %)IIS
82 (22.22 %)VSS/SourceSafe
82 (22.22 %)Oracle
82 (22.22 %)Linux

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT jobs across the Oxford 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.

Oxford IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
17 (77.78 %).NET
25 (55.56 %)ASP.NET
25 (55.56 %)WPF
32 (22.22 %)CSLA.NET
32 (22.22 %)WCF
Oxford IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
16 (66.67 %)SharePoint
25 (55.56 %)SharePoint Server 2007
32 (22.22 %)IIS
32 (22.22 %)Tomcat
41 (11.11 %)Exchange Server 2007
41 (11.11 %)MS Exchange
Oxford IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (44.44 %)MS Excel
Oxford IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (66.67 %)Microsoft CRM
25 (55.56 %)Dynamics CRM
Oxford IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (11.11 %)Firewall
11 (11.11 %)TCP/IP
11 (11.11 %)VPN
Oxford IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
19 (100.00 %)SQL Server
28 (88.89 %)SQL Server 2005
37 (77.78 %)SQL Server 2000
43 (33.33 %)SQL Server Integration Services
43 (33.33 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
43 (33.33 %)SQL Server 2008
52 (22.22 %)OLAP
52 (22.22 %)Oracle 8/8i
52 (22.22 %)DTS
52 (22.22 %)Oracle OLAP
61 (11.11 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
61 (11.11 %)Datawarehouse
Oxford IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (22.22 %)VSS/SourceSafe
Oxford IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16 (66.67 %)Developer
25 (55.56 %).NET Developer
33 (33.33 %)ASP.NET Developer
33 (33.33 %)C# Developer
33 (33.33 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
42 (22.22 %)DBA
42 (22.22 %)SQL Server DBA
42 (22.22 %)SQL DBA
51 (11.11 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Developer
51 (11.11 %)Administrator
51 (11.11 %)Systems Administrator
Oxford IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (66.67 %)Windows
22 (22.22 %)Linux
31 (11.11 %)Windows Server 2008
31 (11.11 %)Windows Server 2003
Oxford IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16 (66.67 %)CRM
22 (22.22 %)Configuration Management
22 (22.22 %)Data Migration
22 (22.22 %)Data Analysis
22 (22.22 %)Migration
31 (11.11 %)Project Planning
31 (11.11 %)Business Intelligence
Oxford IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (55.56 %)C#
23 (33.33 %)SQL
32 (22.22 %)T-SQL
32 (22.22 %)Java
Oxford IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
18 (88.89 %)Microsoft Certification
25 (55.56 %)MCAD
25 (55.56 %)MCSD
25 (55.56 %)MCPD
32 (22.22 %)MCDBA
41 (11.11 %)MCITP
41 (11.11 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
41 (11.11 %)MCSE
Oxford IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (11.11 %)Active Directory
Oxford IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16 (66.67 %)Microsoft
22 (22.22 %)Oracle
31 (11.11 %)VMware