The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 21 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 South Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 66 62 74
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +12
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 9 20 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 1.243% 2.125% 0.354%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.478% 8.439% 1.500%
Number of salaries quoted 9 20 3
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
South Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
201 237 200
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 27.76% 25.19% 23.61%
Number of salaries quoted 167 193 141
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £51,000 £50,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
Yorkshire

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSD across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South Yorkshire MCSD Salary Histogram

MCSD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSD within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Sheffield +2 7 £37,500 +7.14%
Doncaster -11 2 £35,000 -
MCSD
Yorkshire

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 24 (100.00%) C#
1 24 (100.00%) .NET
1 24 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 24 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 24 (100.00%) MCP
1 24 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 24 (100.00%) MVC
2 23 (95.83%) TDD
2 23 (95.83%) MCTS
2 23 (95.83%) MCAD
2 23 (95.83%) WCF
2 23 (95.83%) ASP.NET MVC
2 23 (95.83%) Web Application Development
2 23 (95.83%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 18 (75.00%) Tandem
4 16 (66.67%) Ninject
4 16 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
5 15 (62.50%) WPF
6 12 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 12 (50.00%) Node.js
6 12 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
7 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
7 11 (45.83%) Castle Windsor
7 11 (45.83%) Razor View Engine
7 11 (45.83%) Rhino Mocks
7 11 (45.83%) NUnit
7 11 (45.83%) Retail
7 11 (45.83%) Scrum
8 8 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
9 7 (29.17%) MonoRail

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 24 (100.00%) .NET
1 24 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 23 (95.83%) WCF
2 23 (95.83%) ASP.NET MVC
2 23 (95.83%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 16 (66.67%) Ninject
4 15 (62.50%) WPF
5 12 (50.00%) Node.js
5 12 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
6 11 (45.83%) Castle Windsor
6 11 (45.83%) Razor View Engine
7 7 (29.17%) MonoRail
7 7 (29.17%) NHibernate
8 4 (16.67%) WinForms
8 4 (16.67%) Spring.NET
8 4 (16.67%) Unity DI Container
9 1 (4.167%) jQuery
9 1 (4.167%) CSS
9 1 (4.167%) Web Services
9 1 (4.167%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) Magento
1 1 (4.167%) Apache
1 1 (4.167%) IIS
1 1 (4.167%) Joomla!
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.167%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (4.167%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Rhino Mocks
1 11 (45.83%) NUnit
2 4 (16.67%) Moq
2 4 (16.67%) MSTest
General
1 11 (45.83%) Retail
2 1 (4.167%) Games
Job Titles
1 24 (100.00%) Developer
1 24 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (4.167%) Junior Developer
2 1 (4.167%) Junior
2 1 (4.167%) Junior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (75.00%) Tandem
2 4 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (4.167%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) MVC
2 23 (95.83%) TDD
2 23 (95.83%) Web Application Development
3 16 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
4 12 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 11 (45.83%) Scrum
6 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (16.67%) Kanban
6 4 (16.67%) MVVM
7 1 (4.167%) Unit Testing
7 1 (4.167%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.167%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) MCP
1 24 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (95.83%) MCTS
2 23 (95.83%) MCAD
3 1 (4.167%) Degree
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft