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MCTS Jobs in the South West
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 15 MCTS job vacancies in the South West

The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 18 June 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 144 152 177
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +25
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 72 65 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 1.351% 1.158% 0.768%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.414% 3.205% 2.293%
Number of salaries quoted 59 65 48
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £32,500 £30,850
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £40,000 £40,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Qualifications
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 1631 2028 2093
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 30.61% 36.12% 33.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1416 1751 1761
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% +4.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
England

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Salary Trend

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

South West MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the South West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South West MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the South West region over the 3 months to 18 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Wiltshire +26 20 £47,500 - 2
Bristol 0 19 £40,000 - 6
Dorset -15 18 £47,500 +35.71% 3
Gloucestershire +7 9 £40,000 - 2
Cornwall - 4 £30,000 -
Somerset -10 1 £31,250 -3.84% 2
MCTS
England

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 124 (89.21%) Microsoft Certification
2 94 (67.63%) SQL Server
3 79 (56.83%) .NET
3 79 (56.83%) C#
4 78 (56.12%) MCP
5 75 (53.96%) MCAD
5 75 (53.96%) MCSD
5 75 (53.96%) TDD
6 71 (51.08%) ASP.NET
7 68 (48.92%) WCF
8 67 (48.20%) ASP.NET MVC
8 67 (48.20%) Web Application Development
8 67 (48.20%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 67 (48.20%) MVC
9 66 (47.48%) Windows
10 57 (41.01%) NUnit
11 56 (40.29%) Rhino Mocks
12 55 (39.57%) Microsoft
13 52 (37.41%) Razor View Engine
14 50 (35.97%) Moq
14 50 (35.97%) Kanban
14 50 (35.97%) Scrum
15 48 (34.53%) VMware
15 48 (34.53%) Windows Server 2008
16 47 (33.81%) BDD
16 47 (33.81%) MCITP
17 45 (32.37%) NHibernate
18 43 (30.94%) SQL Server 2012
19 41 (29.50%) VMware Infrastructure
20 38 (27.34%) MS Excel

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 79 (56.83%) .NET
2 71 (51.08%) ASP.NET
3 68 (48.92%) WCF
4 67 (48.20%) ASP.NET MVC
4 67 (48.20%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 52 (37.41%) Razor View Engine
6 45 (32.37%) NHibernate
7 27 (19.42%) LINQ
8 23 (16.55%) WPF
9 22 (15.83%) Ninject
10 17 (12.23%) Castle Windsor
11 15 (10.79%) Node.js
12 11 (7.914%) KnockoutJS
12 11 (7.914%) Unity DI Container
12 11 (7.914%) Spring.NET
12 11 (7.914%) WinForms
13 10 (7.194%) HTML5
14 8 (5.755%) .NET Framework
15 6 (4.317%) MonoRail
15 6 (4.317%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 31 (22.30%) MS Exchange
2 28 (20.14%) Exchange Server 2010
3 21 (15.11%) SharePoint
4 18 (12.95%) SharePoint 2010
5 17 (12.23%) IIS
6 6 (4.317%) Exchange Server 2003
7 4 (2.878%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (2.158%) Lync
8 3 (2.158%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (2.158%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.719%) DotNetNuke
9 1 (0.719%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 38 (27.34%) MS Excel
2 9 (6.475%) MS Office
3 3 (2.158%) Office 365
4 1 (0.719%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.719%) Changepoint
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.27%) DNS
2 22 (15.83%) TCP/IP
2 22 (15.83%) LAN
2 22 (15.83%) WAN
3 17 (12.23%) VPN
4 16 (11.51%) Firewall
5 15 (10.79%) iSCSI
6 7 (5.036%) DHCP
7 6 (4.317%) Internet
8 4 (2.878%) SAN
9 2 (1.439%) VoIP
10 1 (0.719%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.719%) Broadband
10 1 (0.719%) Network Security
10 1 (0.719%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.719%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (67.63%) SQL Server
2 43 (30.94%) SQL Server 2012
3 22 (15.83%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (2.878%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.878%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.158%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.439%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.439%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.439%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.719%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.719%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.719%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 57 (41.01%) NUnit
2 56 (40.29%) Rhino Mocks
3 50 (35.97%) Moq
4 12 (8.633%) MSTest
5 7 (5.036%) Subversion
6 4 (2.878%) Git (software)
6 4 (2.878%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.719%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.719%) CruiseControl
7 1 (0.719%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.719%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.719%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (12.23%) Retail
2 15 (10.79%) Marketing
3 12 (8.633%) Music Industry
4 10 (7.194%) Games
5 4 (2.878%) Advertising
6 3 (2.158%) Publishing
6 3 (2.158%) Finance
Job Titles
1 79 (56.83%) Developer
2 75 (53.96%) .NET Developer
3 19 (13.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (12.23%) Consultant
5 16 (11.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (10.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 15 (10.79%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (6.475%) Virtualisation Consultant
8 6 (4.317%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (4.317%) Technical Consultant
9 3 (2.158%) SQL DBA
9 3 (2.158%) Junior Developer
9 3 (2.158%) DBA
9 3 (2.158%) Analyst
9 3 (2.158%) Graduate
9 3 (2.158%) Project Manager
9 3 (2.158%) Junior
9 3 (2.158%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.158%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 3 (2.158%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.23%) DTV
1 17 (12.23%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.914%) Tandem
2 11 (7.914%) Inversion of Control
3 9 (6.475%) Blackberry
3 9 (6.475%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.158%) Computer Science
4 3 (2.158%) Replication
5 2 (1.439%) Clustering
5 2 (1.439%) Animation
5 2 (1.439%) EqualLogic
6 1 (0.719%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (0.719%) Celerra
6 1 (0.719%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 66 (47.48%) Windows
2 48 (34.53%) Windows Server 2008
3 36 (25.90%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (6.475%) Windows 7
5 4 (2.878%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.439%) Windows XP
6 2 (1.439%) Linux
7 1 (0.719%) Windows 2000
7 1 (0.719%) Solaris
7 1 (0.719%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.719%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.719%) Android
7 1 (0.719%) UNIX
7 1 (0.719%) CentOS
7 1 (0.719%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.719%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (53.96%) TDD
2 67 (48.20%) MVC
2 67 (48.20%) Web Application Development
3 50 (35.97%) Scrum
3 50 (35.97%) Kanban
4 47 (33.81%) BDD
5 25 (17.99%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (15.83%) Dependency Injection
7 18 (12.95%) ITIL
8 15 (10.79%) Information Security Management
8 15 (10.79%) Domain-Driven Design
8 15 (10.79%) ISMS
8 15 (10.79%) Security Management
8 15 (10.79%) Information Security
9 12 (8.633%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (7.914%) MVVM
11 10 (7.194%) OO
12 5 (3.597%) Project Management
12 5 (3.597%) Service Delivery
13 4 (2.878%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (56.83%) C#
2 10 (7.194%) SQL
3 8 (5.755%) VB
3 8 (5.755%) VB.NET
4 4 (2.878%) Ruby
4 4 (2.878%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.158%) PHP
5 3 (2.158%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (89.21%) Microsoft Certification
2 78 (56.12%) MCP
3 75 (53.96%) MCAD
3 75 (53.96%) MCSD
4 47 (33.81%) MCITP
5 33 (23.74%) MCSA
6 31 (22.30%) MCSE
7 10 (7.194%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (7.194%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (6.475%) CCNA
9 7 (5.036%) Degree
10 2 (1.439%) VTSP
10 2 (1.439%) MCPD
10 2 (1.439%) Security Cleared
10 2 (1.439%) MCDBA
10 2 (1.439%) CCIE
11 1 (0.719%) CCNP
11 1 (0.719%) HNC
11 1 (0.719%) HND
11 1 (0.719%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.719%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (29.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (25.18%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.07%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.439%) vSphere
5 1 (0.719%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (0.719%) XenApp
5 1 (0.719%) XenServer
5 1 (0.719%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.719%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.719%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.719%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 21 (15.11%) SCCM
2 18 (12.95%) SCOM
3 16 (11.51%) SCVMM
4 2 (1.439%) ZENworks
5 1 (0.719%) WSUS
5 1 (0.719%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 55 (39.57%) Microsoft
2 48 (34.53%) VMware
3 17 (12.23%) Cisco
4 15 (10.79%) NetSuite
5 9 (6.475%) HP
6 5 (3.597%) IBM
7 4 (2.878%) Facebook
8 3 (2.158%) Oracle
9 2 (1.439%) Dell
9 2 (1.439%) LANDesk
10 1 (0.719%) EMC
10 1 (0.719%) Citrix
10 1 (0.719%) Avaya
10 1 (0.719%) NetApp
10 1 (0.719%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.719%) Sage
10 1 (0.719%) SAP
10 1 (0.719%) Symbian
10 1 (0.719%) Mitel
10 1 (0.719%) Adobe
.NET Developer - Music Industry - Bournemouth, Dorset
Bournemouth, South West
Our client will provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
.NET Developer - Music Industry - Bournemouth, Dorset
Bournemouth, Dorset
Our client will provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
.NET Developer - Radio Station Group - Cirencester
Cirencester, South West
Our client can provide you with industry recognised training in: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
.NET Developer - Radio Station Group - Cirencester
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Our client can provide you with industry recognised training in: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
.NET Developer - Computer Gaming Company - Swindon
Swindon, South West
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), HTML5, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
.NET Developer - Computer Gaming Company - Swindon
Swindon, Wiltshire
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
C# Developer - Bournemouth - £30,000 to £35,000
Bournemouth, Dorset
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
SCOM Consultant
Weston-Super-Mare, Avon
Pertemps IT
Salary: £40-70K
Posted: 13 June 2013
SCOM - System Center Operations Manager - £40-70K + Benefits
Somerset
Pertemps IT
Salary: From £40,000 to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Analyst / Bristol - £40,000
Bristol, South West
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
SQL Server DBA - Bristol - £40,000 - £45,000
Bristol, South West
OPUS
Salary: GBP40000 to GBP45000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
SQL Server DBA - Bristol - £40,000 - £45,000
Bristol, Avon
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £40000 to £45000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Systems Analyst / Bristol - £40,000
Bristol, South West
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Systems Analyst / Bristol - £40,000
Bristol, South West
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Infrastructure Analyst
Aust, Bristol, South West
Brightside Group
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 22 May 2013
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