The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 22 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 52 38 47
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +9
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 14 31 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 2.083% 4.572% 1.829%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.714% 13.19% 7.317%
Number of salaries quoted 14 25 6
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +45.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £27,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
245 235 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 36.46% 34.66% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 189 166 99
Average salary £47,500 £41,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.85% -1.20%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,200 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
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 Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Slough region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Slough Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 25 (86.21%) Microsoft
2 21 (72.41%) MCSE
3 18 (62.07%) Windows
4 16 (55.17%) Active Directory
5 15 (51.72%) Windows Server 2008
6 14 (48.28%) MCSA
7 12 (41.38%) MS Excel
7 12 (41.38%) MCP
7 12 (41.38%) VMware
7 12 (41.38%) MCITP
8 11 (37.93%) MCTS
8 11 (37.93%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (37.93%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (31.03%) MS Office
9 9 (31.03%) MS Exchange
9 9 (31.03%) Exchange Server 2010
9 9 (31.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (24.14%) DNS
10 7 (24.14%) Cisco
10 7 (24.14%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (20.69%) CCNA
11 6 (20.69%) HP
11 6 (20.69%) LAN
11 6 (20.69%) WAN
11 6 (20.69%) DHCP
11 6 (20.69%) SQL
11 6 (20.69%) Replication
11 6 (20.69%) MCDST
11 6 (20.69%) Exchange Server 2003
11 6 (20.69%) Degree

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 1 (3.448%) jQuery
1 1 (3.448%) Application Packaging
1 1 (3.448%) Silverlight
1 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.448%) .NET
1 1 (3.448%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 9 (31.03%) MS Exchange
1 9 (31.03%) Exchange Server 2010
2 6 (20.69%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (17.24%) Office Communications Server
3 5 (17.24%) Exchange Server 2013
4 4 (13.79%) Lync
5 2 (6.897%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (3.448%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (41.38%) MS Excel
2 9 (31.03%) MS Office
3 5 (17.24%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) DNS
2 6 (20.69%) LAN
2 6 (20.69%) WAN
2 6 (20.69%) DHCP
3 3 (10.34%) NetScaler
4 2 (6.897%) Firewall
5 1 (3.448%) SNMP
5 1 (3.448%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.448%) VPN
5 1 (3.448%) LDAP
5 1 (3.448%) SAN
5 1 (3.448%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.448%) OLAP
2 1 (3.448%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 2 (6.897%) Advertising
2 2 (6.897%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Consultant
1 7 (24.14%) Support Engineer
1 7 (24.14%) Field Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Field Service Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Desktop Support
2 6 (20.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Desktop Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (6.897%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Support Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Network Consultant
5 2 (6.897%) Senior Network Consultant
5 2 (6.897%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Replication
2 5 (17.24%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.448%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.448%) Clustering
3 1 (3.448%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (62.07%) Windows
2 15 (51.72%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (37.93%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.897%) Windows XP
4 2 (6.897%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.448%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.448%) UNIX
5 1 (3.448%) Linux
5 1 (3.448%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.448%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (13.79%) Identity Management
2 3 (10.34%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (10.34%) Migration
3 2 (6.897%) Service Management
3 2 (6.897%) Change Management
3 2 (6.897%) ITIL
3 2 (6.897%) Information Management
3 2 (6.897%) Data Management
3 2 (6.897%) Security Management
4 1 (3.448%) Performance Management
4 1 (3.448%) Scrum
4 1 (3.448%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (3.448%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.448%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (3.448%) Configuration Management
4 1 (3.448%) Project Management
4 1 (3.448%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.448%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 1 (3.448%) T-SQL
2 1 (3.448%) C#
2 1 (3.448%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 21 (72.41%) MCSE
2 14 (48.28%) MCSA
3 12 (41.38%) MCP
3 12 (41.38%) MCITP
4 11 (37.93%) MCTS
5 9 (31.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (24.14%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (20.69%) CCNA
7 6 (20.69%) MCDST
7 6 (20.69%) Degree
8 4 (13.79%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (10.34%) CCIA
10 2 (6.897%) SSCP
10 2 (6.897%) CCEA
10 2 (6.897%) CISSP
10 2 (6.897%) GIAC
11 1 (3.448%) VCDX
11 1 (3.448%) NCDA
11 1 (3.448%) NCIE
11 1 (3.448%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.897%) SLA
2 1 (3.448%) QA
System Software
1 16 (55.17%) Active Directory
2 11 (37.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.79%) vSphere
4 3 (10.34%) XenApp
4 3 (10.34%) VMware ESX
5 1 (3.448%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.448%) XenServer
5 1 (3.448%) XenDesktop
5 1 (3.448%) UAG
5 1 (3.448%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.448%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) SCCM
1 4 (13.79%) SCOM
2 3 (10.34%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 25 (86.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (41.38%) VMware
3 7 (24.14%) Cisco
4 6 (20.69%) HP
5 5 (17.24%) IBM
6 4 (13.79%) Citrix
7 1 (3.448%) SonicWALL
7 1 (3.448%) ProCurve
7 1 (3.448%) NetApp
7 1 (3.448%) Apple