The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 20 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 Peterborough region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank - - 40
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 0 0 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough - - 3.401%
As % of the Qualifications category - - 21.28%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 10
Average salary - - £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Peterborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
70 70 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 19.23% 22.80% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 56 65 43
Average salary £34,000 £27,250 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+24.77% -27.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £20,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £43,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
Cambridgeshire

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) MCP
1 5 (100.00%) MCAD
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) MCTS
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 5 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 4 (80.00%) CQRS
2 4 (80.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 4 (80.00%) VB
2 4 (80.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (20.00%) NUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) NHibernate
3 1 (20.00%) Music
3 1 (20.00%) Music Industry
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Rhino Mocks

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (20.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (20.00%) Moq
General
1 1 (20.00%) Music
1 1 (20.00%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Junior .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 4 (80.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 4 (80.00%) CQRS
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) VB
2 4 (80.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) MCP
1 5 (100.00%) MCAD
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (100.00%) MCTS