The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Preston region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 21 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 Preston region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 20 28 13
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -15
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 9 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 7.627% 2.362% 2.083%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.00% 8.333% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 1
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +16.07%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Preston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
30 36 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 25.42% 28.35% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 29 34 6
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £22,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £36,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
Lancashire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 9 (75.00%) MCP
3 9 (75.00%) MCAD
3 9 (75.00%) MCSD
3 9 (75.00%) MVC
3 9 (75.00%) Scrum
3 9 (75.00%) TDD
3 9 (75.00%) NUnit
3 9 (75.00%) .NET
3 9 (75.00%) WCF
3 9 (75.00%) Kanban
3 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 9 (75.00%) Rhino Mocks
3 9 (75.00%) Castle Windsor
3 9 (75.00%) Web Application Development
3 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 7 (58.33%) SQL Server 2012
4 7 (58.33%) Cucumber
4 7 (58.33%) BDD
4 7 (58.33%) Scrum-ban
4 7 (58.33%) LINQ
4 7 (58.33%) Selenium
4 7 (58.33%) NHibernate
4 7 (58.33%) Lucene
4 7 (58.33%) Advertising
4 7 (58.33%) C#
4 7 (58.33%) OO

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 9 (75.00%) .NET
1 9 (75.00%) WCF
1 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 9 (75.00%) Castle Windsor
1 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 7 (58.33%) LINQ
2 7 (58.33%) NHibernate
2 7 (58.33%) Lucene
3 2 (16.67%) Unity DI Container
3 2 (16.67%) Ninject
3 2 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (16.67%) Spring.NET
3 2 (16.67%) WPF
3 2 (16.67%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DHCP
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (58.33%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) NUnit
1 9 (75.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 7 (58.33%) Cucumber
2 7 (58.33%) Selenium
3 2 (16.67%) Moq
3 2 (16.67%) MSTest
General
1 7 (58.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
1 9 (75.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) MVC
1 9 (75.00%) Scrum
1 9 (75.00%) TDD
1 9 (75.00%) Kanban
1 9 (75.00%) Web Application Development
2 7 (58.33%) BDD
2 7 (58.33%) Scrum-ban
2 7 (58.33%) OO
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (16.67%) MVVM
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) VB
2 2 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (75.00%) MCP
2 9 (75.00%) MCAD
2 9 (75.00%) MCSD
3 3 (25.00%) MCSE
3 3 (25.00%) MCSA
3 3 (25.00%) CCA
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (25.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (25.00%) XenApp
1 3 (25.00%) XenServer
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Citrix
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) AppSense
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