The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Shropshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification 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 Certification
Rank 26 26 21
Rank change year-on-year
0 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 9 8 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 4.091% 4.938% 7.692%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.25% 14.81% 38.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 12
Average salary £31,500 £32,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.07% +18.18%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
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%
Microsoft Certification
West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shropshire 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 Shropshire region.

Shropshire Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Shropshire Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Telford -1 8 £32,000 +4.91%
Oswestry - 1 £22,000 -
Microsoft Certification
West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) MS Excel
2 7 (58.33%) Windows
3 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (41.67%) C#
4 5 (41.67%) .NET
5 4 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (33.33%) SQL
5 4 (33.33%) MCSE
5 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
5 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
5 4 (33.33%) VMware
5 4 (33.33%) WPF
5 4 (33.33%) Silverlight
5 4 (33.33%) Degree
6 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (25.00%) Citrix
6 3 (25.00%) C
6 3 (25.00%) Windows CE
7 2 (16.67%) Cisco
7 2 (16.67%) Firewall
7 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
7 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
7 2 (16.67%) MCP
7 2 (16.67%) SAN
7 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
7 2 (16.67%) VPN

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) WPF
2 4 (33.33%) Silverlight
3 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 1 (8.333%) WCF
5 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (8.333%) HTML5
5 1 (8.333%) Castle Windsor
5 1 (8.333%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 1 (8.333%) NHibernate
5 1 (8.333%) LINQ
5 1 (8.333%) COM
5 1 (8.333%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (8.333%) nginx
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (8.333%) Apache
3 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
3 1 (8.333%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (58.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (8.333%) NAS
2 1 (8.333%) VLAN
2 1 (8.333%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (8.333%) Network Security
2 1 (8.333%) DNS
2 1 (8.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (8.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) TeamCity
1 1 (8.333%) Selenium
1 1 (8.333%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (8.333%) Cucumber
1 1 (8.333%) NUnit
1 1 (8.333%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Support
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows CE
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (8.333%) CentOS
4 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
4 1 (8.333%) Linux
4 1 (8.333%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
1 1 (8.333%) BDD
1 1 (8.333%) Scrum-ban
1 1 (8.333%) Change Control
1 1 (8.333%) Web Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) Kanban
1 1 (8.333%) ITIL
1 1 (8.333%) Project Management
1 1 (8.333%) MVC
1 1 (8.333%) Scrum
1 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (8.333%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) C
4 1 (8.333%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.333%) Bash shell
4 1 (8.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) MCSE
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) MCP
2 2 (16.67%) MCTS
2 2 (16.67%) MCITP
3 1 (8.333%) CCEE
3 1 (8.333%) CCAA
3 1 (8.333%) CCIA
3 1 (8.333%) CCNP
3 1 (8.333%) CCA
3 1 (8.333%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.333%) MCAD
3 1 (8.333%) MCSD
3 1 (8.333%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (8.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (8.333%) MCDST
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.333%) XenApp
3 1 (8.333%) XenServer
3 1 (8.333%) XenDesktop
3 1 (8.333%) vSphere
3 1 (8.333%) Shibboleth
3 1 (8.333%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (8.333%) VMware Server
3 1 (8.333%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) ARCserve
1 1 (8.333%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
5 1 (8.333%) NetApp
5 1 (8.333%) Veritas
5 1 (8.333%) Dell
5 1 (8.333%) Symantec
5 1 (8.333%) McAfee
5 1 (8.333%) Altiris