Peterborough MCDST Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST) in IT jobs within the Peterborough region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCDST over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST)
Location Aberdeen Banbury Barry Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester City of London Crewe Derbyshire Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Farnham Folkestone Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Inverness Ipswich Kent Kidderminster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Manchester Melton Mowbray Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Perthshire Peterborough Reading Saffron Walden Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Taunton UK Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	0	0
Average minimum salary	-	-
Average salary	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	-
UK excluding London average salary	£24,646	£25,585
% change on same period last year	-3.66 %
Qualifications Peterborough
Matching permanent IT job ads	69	91
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.041 %
Salaries quoted	59	77
Average minimum salary	£38,274	£30,096
Average salary	£41,287	£32,601
% change on same period last year	+26.64 %
Average maximum salary	£44,300	£35,107
UK excluding London average salary	£37,946	£37,910
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
MCDST Cambridgeshire

MCDST
Demand Trend

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

MCDST
Salary Trend

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

MCDST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Peterborough region citing MCDST 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 MCDST.

1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) CCNA 2 2 (66.67 %) Fat Client 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 2 (66.67 %) MetaFrame 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) MCP 2 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 2 2 (66.67 %) MCSA 2 2 (66.67 %) Thin Client 2 2 (66.67 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (33.33 %) Change Management

3 1 (33.33 %) Management Information System 3 1 (33.33 %) Education 3 1 (33.33 %) Government 3 1 (33.33 %) Local Government 3 1 (33.33 %) Application Packaging 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 3 1 (33.33 %) LAN 3 1 (33.33 %) WAN 3 1 (33.33 %) NetWare 3 1 (33.33 %) SLA 3 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 1 (33.33 %) Novell 3 1 (33.33 %) Lotus 3 1 (33.33 %) SCCM

MCDST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Peterborough region citing MCDST 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 MCDST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Education 1 1 (33.33 %) Government 1 1 (33.33 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) 1st Line Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Support Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Operations Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) Thin Client 1 2 (66.67 %) Fat Client 2 1 (33.33 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Change Management
Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) MCP 1 2 (66.67 %) MCSA 1 2 (66.67 %) CCNA 1 2 (66.67 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA
System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) MetaFrame 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (66.67 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (33.33 %) SCCM
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 3 1 (33.33 %) Novell 3 1 (33.33 %) Lotus