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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 92 110 87
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -23
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 38 26 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.788% 1.147% 1.360%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.163% 3.295% 4.845%
Number of salaries quoted 35 24 22
Average salary £41,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,800 £28,950 £24,050
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
736 789 516
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 34.64% 34.82% 28.07%
Number of salaries quoted 573 712 388
Average salary £45,000 £43,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.65% -4.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £28,000 £29,000
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%
MCSE
Berkshire

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Salary Trend

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

Reading MCSE Salary Trend

MCSE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSE across the Reading region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Reading MCSE Salary Histogram

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 51 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 48 (94.12%) Windows
3 35 (68.63%) Windows Server 2008
4 33 (64.71%) Microsoft
5 32 (62.75%) VMware
6 29 (56.86%) Active Directory
7 25 (49.02%) MS Excel
8 23 (45.10%) VMware Infrastructure
9 21 (41.18%) Windows Server 2003
10 17 (33.33%) Cisco
10 17 (33.33%) ITIL
10 17 (33.33%) Service Delivery
11 16 (31.37%) Citrix
11 16 (31.37%) Degree
12 15 (29.41%) Windows 7
12 15 (29.41%) vSphere
12 15 (29.41%) MS Exchange
13 13 (25.49%) MCITP
14 12 (23.53%) HP
14 12 (23.53%) SAN
15 11 (21.57%) SQL Server
16 10 (19.61%) IIS
16 10 (19.61%) SQL
17 9 (17.65%) MCP
17 9 (17.65%) Project Management
17 9 (17.65%) Change Management
17 9 (17.65%) XenApp
18 8 (15.69%) SQL Server 2008
18 8 (15.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 8 (15.69%) Foundry

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (13.73%) HTML
1 7 (13.73%) XML
2 2 (3.922%) COM
3 1 (1.961%) .NET
3 1 (1.961%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 15 (29.41%) MS Exchange
2 10 (19.61%) IIS
3 7 (13.73%) Apache
3 7 (13.73%) SAS
3 7 (13.73%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (9.804%) SharePoint
4 5 (9.804%) Lync
5 4 (7.843%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 25 (49.02%) MS Excel
2 4 (7.843%) Office 365
3 2 (3.922%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) SAN
2 8 (15.69%) Firewall
2 8 (15.69%) Wireshark
3 7 (13.73%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (13.73%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (13.73%) tcpdump
3 7 (13.73%) snoop
3 7 (13.73%) FWSM
4 5 (9.804%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.882%) LDAP
6 2 (3.922%) LAN
6 2 (3.922%) WAN
6 2 (3.922%) SMTP
6 2 (3.922%) DHCP
6 2 (3.922%) HTTP
6 2 (3.922%) DNS
6 2 (3.922%) SSL
6 2 (3.922%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.961%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.961%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.57%) SQL Server
2 8 (15.69%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (1.961%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.961%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 3 (5.882%) Finance
2 2 (3.922%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Support Engineer
2 11 (21.57%) Consultant
3 8 (15.69%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (9.804%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (7.843%) Technical Consultant
7 3 (5.882%) Analyst
7 3 (5.882%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (5.882%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (5.882%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 2 (3.922%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (3.922%) Windows Server Engineer
8 2 (3.922%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (3.922%) SCCM Consultant
8 2 (3.922%) Support Specialist
8 2 (3.922%) Server Engineer
9 1 (1.961%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 1 (1.961%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
9 1 (1.961%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Firmware
1 7 (13.73%) Blackberry
2 5 (9.804%) Clustering
3 4 (7.843%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.882%) Thin Client
4 3 (5.882%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.961%) iPhone
5 1 (1.961%) Open Source
5 1 (1.961%) iPad
5 1 (1.961%) Replication
5 1 (1.961%) PKI
5 1 (1.961%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 48 (94.12%) Windows
2 35 (68.63%) Windows Server 2008
3 21 (41.18%) Windows Server 2003
4 15 (29.41%) Windows 7
5 8 (15.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (15.69%) Windows XP
6 7 (13.73%) Solaris
7 5 (9.804%) Windows Vista
8 4 (7.843%) Linux
9 3 (5.882%) Windows 8
9 3 (5.882%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (3.922%) Windows 2000 Server
10 2 (3.922%) Windows 2000
11 1 (1.961%) Android
11 1 (1.961%) NetWare
11 1 (1.961%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) ITIL
1 17 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 9 (17.65%) Change Management
2 9 (17.65%) Project Management
3 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (13.73%) Web Development
3 7 (13.73%) Problem Management
4 4 (7.843%) Migration
4 4 (7.843%) Identity Management
4 4 (7.843%) PRINCE2
5 2 (3.922%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (1.961%) Configuration Management
6 1 (1.961%) Validation
6 1 (1.961%) Integration Testing
6 1 (1.961%) Network Management
6 1 (1.961%) Software Deployment
6 1 (1.961%) Load Balancing
6 1 (1.961%) Resource Management
6 1 (1.961%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.61%) SQL
2 8 (15.69%) PowerShell
3 7 (13.73%) Java
3 7 (13.73%) Perl
4 1 (1.961%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (31.37%) Degree
3 13 (25.49%) MCITP
4 9 (17.65%) MCP
5 7 (13.73%) CCNA
5 7 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (11.76%) MCSA
6 6 (11.76%) CCNP
6 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
7 5 (9.804%) Citrix Certification
8 4 (7.843%) MCTS
8 4 (7.843%) SC Cleared
9 3 (5.882%) CCEA
9 3 (5.882%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (3.922%) DV Cleared
10 2 (3.922%) CCA
11 1 (1.961%) CNE
11 1 (1.961%) Novell Certification
11 1 (1.961%) RHCE
11 1 (1.961%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.961%) QA
System Software
1 29 (56.86%) Active Directory
2 23 (45.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (29.41%) vSphere
4 9 (17.65%) XenApp
5 6 (11.76%) Hyper-V
6 5 (9.804%) Terminal Services
7 4 (7.843%) VMware ESX
7 4 (7.843%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (5.882%) XenDesktop
9 2 (3.922%) XenServer
10 1 (1.961%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (1.961%) DFS Replication
10 1 (1.961%) Shibboleth
10 1 (1.961%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) SCCM
2 4 (7.843%) SCOM
3 3 (5.882%) SCVMM
3 3 (5.882%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (1.961%) MIIS
4 1 (1.961%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 33 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 32 (62.75%) VMware
3 17 (33.33%) Cisco
4 16 (31.37%) Citrix
5 12 (23.53%) HP
6 8 (15.69%) Juniper
6 8 (15.69%) Red Hat
6 8 (15.69%) Foundry
6 8 (15.69%) F5
7 7 (13.73%) Nortel
7 7 (13.73%) Egenera
7 7 (13.73%) Sun
8 5 (9.804%) NetApp
9 3 (5.882%) EMC
10 2 (3.922%) AppSense
10 2 (3.922%) Symantec
10 2 (3.922%) Northgate
11 1 (1.961%) PlateSpin
11 1 (1.961%) Vizioncore
11 1 (1.961%) Remedy
Reading, Berkshire
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Nationwide People Ltd
Salary: £40000 - 65000 Per Annum + 15 % bonus + bens
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