The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification 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 Certification
Rank 55 68 73
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 91 69 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 4.236% 3.044% 2.241%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.94% 8.647% 7.818%
Number of salaries quoted 83 67 31
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -1.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,800 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
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
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%
Microsoft Certification
Berkshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend

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

Reading Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

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

Reading Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 110 (75.86%) Microsoft
2 97 (66.90%) Windows
3 61 (42.07%) MCSE
4 60 (41.38%) SQL Server
5 58 (40.00%) MCP
6 54 (37.24%) Windows Server 2008
7 52 (35.86%) MS Excel
8 49 (33.79%) Active Directory
9 48 (33.10%) .NET
10 46 (31.72%) C#
11 44 (30.34%) MCTS
12 42 (28.97%) ASP.NET
13 39 (26.90%) VMware
13 39 (26.90%) WCF
14 37 (25.52%) Scrum
14 37 (25.52%) TDD
15 33 (22.76%) MCSD
16 32 (22.07%) MCAD
16 32 (22.07%) MVC
16 32 (22.07%) NUnit
16 32 (22.07%) ASP.NET MVC
16 32 (22.07%) Rhino Mocks
16 32 (22.07%) Castle Windsor
16 32 (22.07%) Razor View Engine
16 32 (22.07%) Web Application Development
17 31 (21.38%) Windows Server 2003
18 30 (20.69%) SQL
19 29 (20.00%) MCITP
20 28 (19.31%) VMware Infrastructure
21 27 (18.62%) MS Exchange

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 48 (33.10%) .NET
2 42 (28.97%) ASP.NET
3 39 (26.90%) WCF
4 32 (22.07%) ASP.NET MVC
4 32 (22.07%) Castle Windsor
4 32 (22.07%) Razor View Engine
5 19 (13.10%) NHibernate
5 19 (13.10%) MonoRail
5 19 (13.10%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 14 (9.655%) WPF
7 13 (8.966%) Ninject
7 13 (8.966%) Unity DI Container
7 13 (8.966%) Spring.NET
7 13 (8.966%) WinForms
7 13 (8.966%) HTML
8 8 (5.517%) Web Services
8 8 (5.517%) XML
9 6 (4.138%) CSS
10 4 (2.759%) Application Packaging
10 4 (2.759%) COM
Application Platforms
1 27 (18.62%) MS Exchange
2 19 (13.10%) IIS
3 16 (11.03%) Exchange Server 2010
4 15 (10.34%) SharePoint
5 11 (7.586%) Office Communications Server
5 11 (7.586%) Lync
5 11 (7.586%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (4.828%) SAS
6 7 (4.828%) Apache
6 7 (4.828%) Exchange Server 2003
7 5 (3.448%) SharePoint 2010
8 4 (2.759%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (2.759%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (2.069%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 3 (2.069%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.690%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 52 (35.86%) MS Excel
2 13 (8.966%) Office 365
3 4 (2.759%) MS Office
4 2 (1.379%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.690%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.690%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.690%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.690%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.690%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.72%) Firewall
1 17 (11.72%) SAN
2 10 (6.897%) WAN
2 10 (6.897%) LAN
3 9 (6.207%) Wireshark
4 8 (5.517%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (5.517%) TCP/IP
4 8 (5.517%) VPN
5 7 (4.828%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (4.828%) tcpdump
5 7 (4.828%) snoop
5 7 (4.828%) FWSM
6 6 (4.138%) FTP
7 5 (3.448%) NAS
8 4 (2.759%) DNS
8 4 (2.759%) LDAP
9 3 (2.069%) DHCP
9 3 (2.069%) NetScaler
10 2 (1.379%) Unified Communications
10 2 (1.379%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (41.38%) SQL Server
2 23 (15.86%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (6.897%) SQL Server 2012
4 7 (4.828%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (3.448%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (1.379%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.690%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.690%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 32 (22.07%) NUnit
1 32 (22.07%) Rhino Mocks
2 13 (8.966%) Moq
2 13 (8.966%) MSTest
3 1 (0.690%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.690%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.690%) MSI
3 1 (0.690%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.690%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 6 (4.138%) Finance
2 5 (3.448%) Retail
3 3 (2.069%) Telecoms
3 3 (2.069%) Advertising
3 3 (2.069%) Spanish Language
4 2 (1.379%) Local Government
5 1 (0.690%) Law
5 1 (0.690%) Legal
5 1 (0.690%) Billing
Job Titles
1 44 (30.34%) Developer
2 32 (22.07%) .NET Developer
3 22 (15.17%) Consultant
4 19 (13.10%) Support Engineer
5 9 (6.207%) Microsoft Consultant
6 8 (5.517%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.517%) 3rd Line Support
6 8 (5.517%) Analyst
7 7 (4.828%) Support Analyst
7 7 (4.828%) Administrator
7 7 (4.828%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (4.138%) Windows Engineer
8 6 (4.138%) SharePoint Developer
8 6 (4.138%) Technical Support
8 6 (4.138%) Technical Consultant
8 6 (4.138%) Applications Support
9 5 (3.448%) Software Developer
9 5 (3.448%) Technical Engineer
9 5 (3.448%) Applications Support Engineer
9 5 (3.448%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.10%) Tandem
2 13 (8.966%) Inversion of Control
3 11 (7.586%) Blackberry
4 10 (6.897%) Clustering
5 7 (4.828%) Firmware
6 5 (3.448%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.069%) Thin Client
7 3 (2.069%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.379%) PKI
8 2 (1.379%) Replication
9 1 (0.690%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.690%) PDA
9 1 (0.690%) Statistics
9 1 (0.690%) Computer Science
9 1 (0.690%) iPhone
9 1 (0.690%) Open Source
9 1 (0.690%) iPad
9 1 (0.690%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 97 (66.90%) Windows
2 54 (37.24%) Windows Server 2008
3 31 (21.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 27 (18.62%) Windows 7
5 13 (8.966%) Windows XP
6 9 (6.207%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (6.207%) Windows Vista
7 7 (4.828%) Solaris
8 5 (3.448%) Linux
9 4 (2.759%) Windows 8
9 4 (2.759%) Windows 2000
10 3 (2.069%) Windows 2000 Server
10 3 (2.069%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.690%) Android
11 1 (0.690%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.52%) Scrum
1 37 (25.52%) TDD
2 32 (22.07%) MVC
2 32 (22.07%) Web Application Development
3 25 (17.24%) ITIL
4 24 (16.55%) Service Delivery
5 18 (12.41%) Agile Software Development
6 14 (9.655%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (9.655%) MVVM
7 13 (8.966%) Dependency Injection
7 13 (8.966%) Kanban
7 13 (8.966%) Project Management
8 12 (8.276%) Identity Management
9 10 (6.897%) Change Management
10 8 (5.517%) Migration
11 7 (4.828%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (4.828%) Web Development
11 7 (4.828%) Problem Management
12 5 (3.448%) PRINCE2
13 3 (2.069%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 46 (31.72%) C#
2 30 (20.69%) SQL
3 13 (8.966%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.828%) Java
4 7 (4.828%) Perl
5 6 (4.138%) VB6
5 6 (4.138%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.138%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.138%) VB
6 1 (0.690%) C
6 1 (0.690%) PHP
6 1 (0.690%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.690%) C++
6 1 (0.690%) XAML
6 1 (0.690%) X++
Qualifications
1 61 (42.07%) MCSE
2 58 (40.00%) MCP
3 44 (30.34%) MCTS
4 33 (22.76%) MCSD
5 32 (22.07%) MCAD
6 29 (20.00%) MCITP
7 22 (15.17%) Degree
8 18 (12.41%) MCSA
9 9 (6.207%) CCNA
9 9 (6.207%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (5.517%) Security Cleared
11 7 (4.828%) CCNP
12 6 (4.138%) SC Cleared
13 5 (3.448%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (3.448%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (2.759%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (2.759%) Citrix Certification
15 2 (1.379%) DV Cleared
15 2 (1.379%) JNCIS
15 2 (1.379%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.069%) SLA
2 2 (1.379%) QA
3 1 (0.690%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (33.79%) Active Directory
2 28 (19.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (11.03%) vSphere
4 10 (6.897%) Hyper-V
5 9 (6.207%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (6.207%) XenApp
6 6 (4.138%) VMware ESX
7 5 (3.448%) Terminal Services
8 3 (2.069%) XenDesktop
9 2 (1.379%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.379%) DFS Replication
9 2 (1.379%) XenServer
10 1 (0.690%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.690%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 17 (11.72%) SCCM
2 11 (7.586%) SCOM
3 6 (4.138%) SCVMM
4 4 (2.759%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (1.379%) MIIS
6 1 (0.690%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.690%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 110 (75.86%) Microsoft
2 39 (26.90%) VMware
3 25 (17.24%) Cisco
4 16 (11.03%) Citrix
5 13 (8.966%) HP
6 9 (6.207%) Juniper
6 9 (6.207%) Red Hat
6 9 (6.207%) F5
6 9 (6.207%) Foundry
7 7 (4.828%) Sun
7 7 (4.828%) Nortel
7 7 (4.828%) Egenera
8 6 (4.138%) NetApp
9 5 (3.448%) Oracle
10 3 (2.069%) EMC
10 3 (2.069%) Symantec
11 2 (1.379%) AppSense
11 2 (1.379%) Northgate
12 1 (0.690%) Dell
12 1 (0.690%) Wyse
Reading, Berkshire
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Reading, Berkshire
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