The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSA 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 121 128 112
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -16
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 11 5 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.513% 0.220% 0.376%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.471% 0.631% 1.313%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 7
Average salary £40,750 £32,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.38% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,700 £28,500 £32,900
10% offered a salary of more than £60,250 £34,000 £38,100
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-6.15% +8.33%
All Qualifications
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
748 793 533
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 34.86% 34.86% 28.61%
Number of salaries quoted 582 719 403
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £28,000 £29,100
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSA
Berkshire

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCSA across the Reading region.

Reading MCSA Salary Trend

MCSA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSA across the Reading region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Reading MCSA Salary Histogram

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing MCSA 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 MCSA.

1 17 (100.00%) Windows
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 12 (70.59%) MS Exchange
2 12 (70.59%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (64.71%) MCITP
3 11 (64.71%) SQL
3 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
4 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (35.29%) Blackberry
5 6 (35.29%) Firewall
5 6 (35.29%) Identity Management
5 6 (35.29%) VMware
5 6 (35.29%) Cisco
5 6 (35.29%) SAN
5 6 (35.29%) MCSE
5 6 (35.29%) MCTS
5 6 (35.29%) Degree
5 6 (35.29%) SCCM
5 6 (35.29%) SCOM
5 6 (35.29%) Office Communications Server
5 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (35.29%) vSphere
5 6 (35.29%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (35.29%) Office 365
5 6 (35.29%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
6 5 (29.41%) MS Excel
6 5 (29.41%) FTP
6 5 (29.41%) T-SQL

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing MCSA 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 MCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (23.53%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 12 (70.59%) MS Exchange
2 6 (35.29%) Office Communications Server
2 6 (35.29%) Exchange Server 2010
2 6 (35.29%) Exchange Server 2013
3 5 (29.41%) IIS
4 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (11.76%) Lync
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Office 365
2 5 (29.41%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
1 6 (35.29%) SAN
2 5 (29.41%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (29.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Support Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Consultant
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Consultant
3 5 (29.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Applications Support Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Applications Support
3 5 (29.41%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.882%) SCCM Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (70.59%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (23.53%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Identity Management
2 4 (23.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 5 (29.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (64.71%) MCITP
3 6 (35.29%) MCSE
3 6 (35.29%) MCTS
3 6 (35.29%) Degree
4 5 (29.41%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (23.53%) CCNP
5 4 (23.53%) CCNA
5 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (35.29%) vSphere
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) SCCM
1 6 (35.29%) SCOM
2 2 (11.76%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) VMware
2 6 (35.29%) Cisco
3 5 (29.41%) Oracle
Reading, Berkshire
Systems Administrator, Network Engineer, Network Administrator, Support, Windows server, MCSA/MSCE, CCNA/CCNP, VWware, Hyper-V... You will be an ambitious self-starter with either an MCSA or...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013