South Yorkshire MCSA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) in IT jobs within the South Yorkshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSA over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Andover Aylesbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belper Berkshire Birmingham Blandford Forum Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clevedon Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Deeside Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Droitwich East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Isle of Wight Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughton Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perthshire Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Redhill Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Thame Tilbury Truro Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	91	107
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching permanent IT job ads	29	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	6.776 %	0.840 %
Salaries quoted	29	3
Average minimum salary	£22,586	£18,333
Average salary	£26,621	£19,583
% change on same period last year	+35.93 %
Average maximum salary	£30,655	£20,833
UK excluding London average salary	£29,919	£29,691
% change on same period last year	+0.76 %
Qualifications South Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	428	476
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.230 %	0.198 %
Salaries quoted	351	414
Average minimum salary	£31,965	£29,605
Average salary	£35,159	£32,104
% change on same period last year	+9.51 %
Average maximum salary	£38,353	£34,603
UK excluding London average salary	£37,833	£38,491
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
MCSA Yorkshire

MCSA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCSA across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCSA
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCSA across the South Yorkshire region.

MCSA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSA across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

MCSA
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Rotherham	-	14	£26,893	-
Sheffield	-1	4	£28,000	+30.23 %

MCSA Yorkshire

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing MCSA 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 MCSA.

1 45 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 44 (97.78 %) Active Directory 3 42 (93.33 %) Windows 4 37 (82.22 %) Windows Server 2003 5 36 (80.00 %) MS Exchange 6 35 (77.78 %) Microsoft 7 33 (73.33 %) Citrix 8 30 (66.67 %) MOM 9 27 (60.00 %) Windows 2000 10 25 (55.56 %) MS Excel 11 17 (37.78 %) MCSE 12 14 (31.11 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 13 (28.89 %) MCP 14 12 (26.67 %) ITIL 15 10 (22.22 %) Remedy

16 7 (15.56 %) MCDST 17 5 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2000 18 4 (8.889 %) SCCM 18 4 (8.889 %) SCOM 18 4 (8.889 %) Firewall 19 3 (6.667 %) Security Cleared 19 3 (6.667 %) Windows Vista 19 3 (6.667 %) CheckPoint 19 3 (6.667 %) CCA 19 3 (6.667 %) Citrix Certification 19 3 (6.667 %) CCEA 19 3 (6.667 %) SMS 20 2 (4.444 %) Cisco 20 2 (4.444 %) Windows XP 20 2 (4.444 %) ISA Server

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing MCSA 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 MCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 36 (80.00 %) MS Exchange 2 14 (31.11 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (2.222 %) IIS 4 1 (2.222 %) SharePoint 4 1 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 25 (55.56 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (8.889 %) Firewall 2 3 (6.667 %) SMS 3 1 (2.222 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (2.222 %) DNS	General 1 1 (2.222 %) Health 1 1 (2.222 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 26 (57.78 %) Server Support 2 13 (28.89 %) Support Technician 2 13 (28.89 %) Server Support Technician 3 8 (17.78 %) Technical Specialist 3 8 (17.78 %) Analyst 4 7 (15.56 %) 3rd Line Support 5 6 (13.33 %) 2nd Line Support 6 5 (11.11 %) Administrator 6 5 (11.11 %) Systems Administrator 6 5 (11.11 %) Systems Support 6 5 (11.11 %) Technical Support 7 4 (8.889 %) Support Engineer 7 4 (8.889 %) Support Specialist 8 3 (6.667 %) Service Analyst 8 3 (6.667 %) Field Engineer 8 3 (6.667 %) Server Support Specialist 8 3 (6.667 %) Support Analyst 8 3 (6.667 %) Field Support Engineer 8 3 (6.667 %) Service Desk Analyst 8 3 (6.667 %) Active Directory Specialist	Operating Systems 1 42 (93.33 %) Windows 2 37 (82.22 %) Windows Server 2003 3 27 (60.00 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (6.667 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (4.444 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (26.67 %) ITIL 2 3 (6.667 %) Security Cleared	Qualifications 1 45 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 17 (37.78 %) MCSE 3 13 (28.89 %) MCP 4 7 (15.56 %) MCDST 5 3 (6.667 %) CCA 5 3 (6.667 %) Citrix Certification 5 3 (6.667 %) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.222 %) SLA	System Software 1 44 (97.78 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.444 %) ISA Server 3 1 (2.222 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 30 (66.67 %) MOM 2 4 (8.889 %) SCCM 2 4 (8.889 %) SCOM 3 1 (2.222 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 35 (77.78 %) Microsoft 2 33 (73.33 %) Citrix 3 10 (22.22 %) Remedy 4 3 (6.667 %) CheckPoint 5 2 (4.444 %) Cisco 6 1 (2.222 %) VMware 6 1 (2.222 %) HP 6 1 (2.222 %) Dell