The first table below looks at the demand for MCAD in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCAD over the 3 months to 17 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD)
Rank 150 133 139
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +6
Permanent jobs citing MCAD 7 21 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.224% 0.611% 0.494%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.793% 1.959% 1.628%
Number of salaries quoted 7 21 17
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -34.78%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
883 1072 1044
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 28.21% 31.17% 30.37%
Number of salaries quoted 505 781 777
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCAD
UK

MCAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland MCAD Jobs Demand Trend

MCAD
Salary Trend

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

Scotland MCAD Salary Trend

MCAD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCAD within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -28 7 £40,000 +6.66%
MCAD
UK

MCAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing MCAD 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 MCAD.

1 20 (100.00%) C#
1 20 (100.00%) .NET
1 20 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 20 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 20 (100.00%) MCP
1 20 (100.00%) MCSD
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 20 (100.00%) MVC
1 20 (100.00%) TDD
1 20 (100.00%) MCTS
1 20 (100.00%) Music
1 20 (100.00%) WCF
1 20 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 20 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 20 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 15 (75.00%) Razor View Engine
2 15 (75.00%) Kanban
2 15 (75.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 15 (75.00%) Moq
2 15 (75.00%) BDD
2 15 (75.00%) Music Industry
2 15 (75.00%) NHibernate
2 15 (75.00%) NUnit
2 15 (75.00%) Scrum
3 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (35.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 5 (25.00%) KnockoutJS
5 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 5 (25.00%) Dependency Injection

MCAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing MCAD 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 MCAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (100.00%) .NET
1 20 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 20 (100.00%) WCF
1 20 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 20 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 15 (75.00%) NHibernate
2 15 (75.00%) Razor View Engine
3 5 (25.00%) KnockoutJS
3 5 (25.00%) Node.js
3 5 (25.00%) Ninject
3 5 (25.00%) WPF
3 5 (25.00%) WinForms
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (35.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 15 (75.00%) NUnit
1 15 (75.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 15 (75.00%) Moq
General
1 20 (100.00%) Music
2 15 (75.00%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 20 (100.00%) Developer
1 20 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Streaming Music
1 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) TDD
1 20 (100.00%) MVC
1 20 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 15 (75.00%) BDD
2 15 (75.00%) Scrum
2 15 (75.00%) Kanban
3 5 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 5 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) MCP
1 20 (100.00%) MCSD
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 20 (100.00%) MCTS
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