The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 94 106 111
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +5
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 39 29 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.816% 1.279% 0.261%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.118% 3.634% 0.909%
Number of salaries quoted 34 27 4
Average salary £42,500 £50,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% +42.85%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
762 798 550
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 35.47% 35.20% 28.66%
Number of salaries quoted 588 720 419
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 £31,500 £27,500 £27,950
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
Berkshire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 44 (58.67%) Microsoft
1 44 (58.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 41 (54.67%) MCITP
3 34 (45.33%) SQL Server
4 33 (44.00%) MCP
5 32 (42.67%) Scrum
5 32 (42.67%) MVC
5 32 (42.67%) MCAD
5 32 (42.67%) MCSD
5 32 (42.67%) C#
5 32 (42.67%) .NET
5 32 (42.67%) ASP.NET
5 32 (42.67%) Windows
5 32 (42.67%) TDD
5 32 (42.67%) NUnit
5 32 (42.67%) WCF
5 32 (42.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 32 (42.67%) Rhino Mocks
5 32 (42.67%) Castle Windsor
5 32 (42.67%) Razor View Engine
5 32 (42.67%) Web Application Development
6 24 (32.00%) VMware
7 23 (30.67%) VMware Infrastructure
8 22 (29.33%) Citrix
9 20 (26.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (25.33%) NHibernate
10 19 (25.33%) Tandem
10 19 (25.33%) MonoRail
10 19 (25.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 18 (24.00%) SCCM

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 32 (42.67%) .NET
1 32 (42.67%) ASP.NET
1 32 (42.67%) WCF
1 32 (42.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 32 (42.67%) Castle Windsor
1 32 (42.67%) Razor View Engine
2 19 (25.33%) NHibernate
2 19 (25.33%) MonoRail
2 19 (25.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 13 (17.33%) Unity DI Container
3 13 (17.33%) Ninject
3 13 (17.33%) Spring.NET
3 13 (17.33%) WPF
3 13 (17.33%) WinForms
4 7 (9.333%) Application Packaging
5 2 (2.667%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 16 (21.33%) MS Exchange
1 16 (21.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 16 (21.33%) Lync
2 14 (18.67%) Exchange Server 2013
3 10 (13.33%) Office Communications Server
4 3 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 15 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 12 (16.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.67%) NetScaler
2 7 (9.333%) Unified Communications
3 4 (5.333%) SAN
4 3 (4.000%) LAN
5 2 (2.667%) Wireless
5 2 (2.667%) WLAN
6 1 (1.333%) DHCP
6 1 (1.333%) HTTP
6 1 (1.333%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.333%) DNS
6 1 (1.333%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (45.33%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 10 (13.33%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 32 (42.67%) NUnit
1 32 (42.67%) Rhino Mocks
2 13 (17.33%) MSTest
2 13 (17.33%) Moq
General
1 2 (2.667%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 33 (44.00%) Consultant
2 32 (42.67%) Developer
2 32 (42.67%) .NET Developer
3 11 (14.67%) Technical Consultant
4 10 (13.33%) Citrix Consultant
4 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Consultant
5 8 (10.67%) Virtualisation Consultant
6 7 (9.333%) Senior Consultant
7 5 (6.667%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 5 (6.667%) Principal Consultant
7 5 (6.667%) VMware Consultant
8 4 (5.333%) SCCM Consultant
9 3 (4.000%) Architect
9 3 (4.000%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.000%) Implementation Engineer
10 2 (2.667%) VMware Engineer
10 2 (2.667%) Senior Citrix Consultant
10 2 (2.667%) Technical Engineer
10 2 (2.667%) Citrix Engineer
10 2 (2.667%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.33%) Tandem
2 13 (17.33%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (5.333%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.000%) Celerra
4 3 (4.000%) EqualLogic
5 2 (2.667%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.333%) CLARiiON
6 1 (1.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 32 (42.67%) Windows
2 18 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (9.333%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (5.333%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (5.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.67%) Scrum
1 32 (42.67%) MVC
1 32 (42.67%) TDD
1 32 (42.67%) Web Application Development
2 13 (17.33%) MVVM
2 13 (17.33%) Dependency Injection
2 13 (17.33%) Kanban
2 13 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (17.33%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (14.67%) Identity Management
4 10 (13.33%) Migration
5 7 (9.333%) ITIL
6 3 (4.000%) PRINCE2
6 3 (4.000%) MOF
6 3 (4.000%) PRINCE
6 3 (4.000%) TOGAF
7 2 (2.667%) Change Control
7 2 (2.667%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (2.667%) Load Balancing
7 2 (2.667%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.67%) C#
2 13 (17.33%) SQL
3 5 (6.667%) C
4 2 (2.667%) Scala
5 1 (1.333%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (58.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 41 (54.67%) MCITP
3 33 (44.00%) MCP
4 32 (42.67%) MCAD
4 32 (42.67%) MCSD
5 20 (26.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 17 (22.67%) Citrix Certification
7 16 (21.33%) CCEE
7 16 (21.33%) CCIA
8 15 (20.00%) CCAA
9 13 (17.33%) CCEA
10 10 (13.33%) CCA
11 6 (8.000%) MCSE
11 6 (8.000%) MCSA
12 4 (5.333%) VCAP
12 4 (5.333%) CCNP
12 4 (5.333%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (4.000%) VCDX
13 3 (4.000%) HP AIS
13 3 (4.000%) NCIE
System Software
1 23 (30.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (22.67%) XenDesktop
2 17 (22.67%) Active Directory
3 16 (21.33%) XenApp
3 16 (21.33%) XenServer
3 16 (21.33%) vSphere
4 14 (18.67%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (9.333%) Hyper-V
6 5 (6.667%) VMware ESX
7 2 (2.667%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (24.00%) SCCM
1 18 (24.00%) SCOM
2 9 (12.00%) SCVMM
3 2 (2.667%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 44 (58.67%) Microsoft
2 24 (32.00%) VMware
3 22 (29.33%) Citrix
4 14 (18.67%) HP
5 7 (9.333%) Veeam
5 7 (9.333%) IBM
6 6 (8.000%) NetApp
6 6 (8.000%) EMC
7 5 (6.667%) Dell
8 4 (5.333%) AppSense
8 4 (5.333%) Cisco
9 2 (2.667%) F5
9 2 (2.667%) Blue Coat
9 2 (2.667%) Brocade
9 2 (2.667%) Polycom
9 2 (2.667%) Juniper
10 1 (1.333%) CommVault
10 1 (1.333%) Symantec
10 1 (1.333%) 3PAR
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