The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Shropshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 24 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 Shropshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank - 30 26
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 0 4 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire - 2.469% 4.487%
As % of the Qualifications category - 7.407% 22.58%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 7
Average salary - £32,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.18%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Shropshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
59 54 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 26.82% 33.33% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 27 35 29
Average salary £33,000 £32,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.53% +18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £21,050 £16,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
West Midlands

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shropshire MCSD Jobs Demand Trend

MCSD
Salary Trend

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

Shropshire MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire region citing MCSD 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 MCSD.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) MCAD
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Lucene
1 1 (100.00%) MCTS
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum-ban
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire region citing MCSD 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 MCSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Lucene
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum-ban
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) MCAD
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft