The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 40 22 25
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 32 67 54
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 4.482% 7.120% 6.368%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.49% 28.63% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 27 56 31
Average salary £35,000 £32,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.37% -14.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £20,350 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £38,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
South Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
194 234 198
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 27.17% 24.87% 23.35%
Number of salaries quoted 163 190 144
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,600 £21,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,200 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Microsoft Certification
Yorkshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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 -1 25 £37,500 +7.14%
Rotherham -4 3 £20,000 -
Doncaster -16 1 £35,000 -
Microsoft Certification
Yorkshire

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 55 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 44 (55.00%) SQL Server
3 42 (52.50%) Windows
4 41 (51.25%) MCP
5 30 (37.50%) ASP.NET
5 30 (37.50%) C#
5 30 (37.50%) .NET
6 29 (36.25%) MCSE
7 26 (32.50%) MCTS
8 24 (30.00%) MCSD
8 24 (30.00%) MVC
9 23 (28.75%) MCAD
9 23 (28.75%) TDD
9 23 (28.75%) WCF
9 23 (28.75%) ASP.NET MVC
9 23 (28.75%) Web Application Development
9 23 (28.75%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 20 (25.00%) WPF
10 20 (25.00%) MS Excel
11 19 (23.75%) Active Directory
11 19 (23.75%) SQL Server 2008
12 18 (22.50%) Windows Server 2008
12 18 (22.50%) Tandem
12 18 (22.50%) SharePoint
13 17 (21.25%) MCITP
13 17 (21.25%) Degree
14 16 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
14 16 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
14 16 (20.00%) Ninject
14 16 (20.00%) VMware

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 30 (37.50%) ASP.NET
1 30 (37.50%) .NET
2 23 (28.75%) WCF
2 23 (28.75%) ASP.NET MVC
2 23 (28.75%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 20 (25.00%) WPF
4 16 (20.00%) Ninject
5 12 (15.00%) Node.js
5 12 (15.00%) KnockoutJS
6 11 (13.75%) Razor View Engine
6 11 (13.75%) Castle Windsor
7 9 (11.25%) WinForms
8 7 (8.750%) MonoRail
8 7 (8.750%) NHibernate
9 5 (6.250%) Silverlight
10 4 (5.000%) Unity DI Container
10 4 (5.000%) Spring.NET
11 3 (3.750%) CSS
11 3 (3.750%) HTML
12 1 (1.250%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 18 (22.50%) SharePoint
2 11 (13.75%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (8.750%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (6.250%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (5.000%) Lync
6 3 (3.750%) MS Exchange
6 3 (3.750%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (2.500%) SharePoint 2013
7 2 (2.500%) Windows Azure
7 2 (2.500%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (1.250%) Magento
8 1 (1.250%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (1.250%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (1.250%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (1.250%) Joomla!
8 1 (1.250%) Apache
8 1 (1.250%) IIS
8 1 (1.250%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (1.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 20 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 8 (10.00%) MS Office
3 4 (5.000%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 7 (8.750%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (8.750%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.000%) DNS
2 3 (3.750%) SAN
2 3 (3.750%) LAN
2 3 (3.750%) DHCP
2 3 (3.750%) Firewall
3 2 (2.500%) LDAP
3 2 (2.500%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.250%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.250%) SNMP
4 1 (1.250%) VPN
4 1 (1.250%) Internet
4 1 (1.250%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (55.00%) SQL Server
2 19 (23.75%) SQL Server 2008
3 16 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 15 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (10.00%) SQL Server 2012
7 5 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
7 5 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (6.250%) Oracle 9i
7 5 (6.250%) Oracle 10g
8 4 (5.000%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.500%) OLTP
9 2 (2.500%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.250%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.250%) DTS
10 1 (1.250%) MySQL
10 1 (1.250%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Rhino Mocks
1 11 (13.75%) NUnit
2 4 (5.000%) Moq
2 4 (5.000%) MSTest
General
1 11 (13.75%) Retail
2 4 (5.000%) Military
3 3 (3.750%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.750%) Finance
4 2 (2.500%) Electronics
4 2 (2.500%) Back Office
4 2 (2.500%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.250%) Marketing
5 1 (1.250%) Games
5 1 (1.250%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (37.50%) Developer
2 24 (30.00%) .NET Developer
3 14 (17.50%) DBA
4 10 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Analyst
5 8 (10.00%) SQL DBA
6 7 (8.750%) IT Support
6 7 (8.750%) Server Engineer
6 7 (8.750%) Windows Server Engineer
7 6 (7.500%) SQL Server DBA
7 6 (7.500%) Server Support
7 6 (7.500%) Server Support Engineer
7 6 (7.500%) Windows Support Engineer
8 5 (6.250%) C# Software Developer
8 5 (6.250%) Support Analyst
8 5 (6.250%) Software Developer
8 5 (6.250%) C# Developer
9 4 (5.000%) Development DBA
9 4 (5.000%) SQL Server Development DBA
10 3 (3.750%) Windows Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Tandem
2 5 (6.250%) Computer Science
2 5 (6.250%) Blackberry
3 4 (5.000%) Chip and PIN
3 4 (5.000%) Inversion of Control
4 3 (3.750%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.500%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.500%) IVR
5 2 (2.500%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.500%) PKI
5 2 (2.500%) iPad
5 2 (2.500%) iPhone
6 1 (1.250%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.250%) SaaS
6 1 (1.250%) Open Source
6 1 (1.250%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 42 (52.50%) Windows
2 18 (22.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (12.50%) Windows XP
5 8 (10.00%) Windows 7
6 6 (7.500%) Windows Vista
7 4 (5.000%) Windows 2000
8 3 (3.750%) Windows XP Embedded
8 3 (3.750%) Mac OS X
9 2 (2.500%) Windows 8
9 2 (2.500%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.250%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.00%) MVC
2 23 (28.75%) TDD
2 23 (28.75%) Web Application Development
3 16 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
4 12 (15.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 11 (13.75%) Scrum
6 9 (11.25%) ITIL
6 9 (11.25%) CRM
7 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (8.750%) Analytics
8 7 (8.750%) Change Management
9 6 (7.500%) Service Management
9 6 (7.500%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (6.250%) Workflow
10 5 (6.250%) Database Security
11 4 (5.000%) ETL
11 4 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (5.000%) Kanban
11 4 (5.000%) Database Tuning
11 4 (5.000%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.50%) C#
2 14 (17.50%) SQL
3 9 (11.25%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.500%) Java
4 2 (2.500%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.250%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.250%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (51.25%) MCP
2 29 (36.25%) MCSE
3 26 (32.50%) MCTS
4 24 (30.00%) MCSD
5 23 (28.75%) MCAD
6 17 (21.25%) MCITP
6 17 (21.25%) Degree
7 6 (7.500%) MCSA
7 6 (7.500%) MCDBA
8 5 (6.250%) Security Cleared
9 4 (5.000%) CCNA
9 4 (5.000%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (5.000%) MCDST
10 3 (3.750%) NCDA
10 3 (3.750%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (3.750%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (2.500%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.500%) CCA
11 2 (2.500%) Microsoft Certified Master
11 2 (2.500%) VTSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.250%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (23.75%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.750%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.500%) XenApp
4 5 (6.250%) Hyper-V
5 4 (5.000%) XenDesktop
6 3 (3.750%) vSphere
6 3 (3.750%) IAG
7 2 (2.500%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.500%) UAG
8 1 (1.250%) XenServer
8 1 (1.250%) Forefront TMG
8 1 (1.250%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.250%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) SCCM
2 6 (7.500%) SCOM
3 3 (3.750%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (2.500%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 2 (2.500%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.500%) Legato
4 2 (2.500%) Unicenter
4 2 (2.500%) SCVMM
5 1 (1.250%) WSUS
Vendors
1 55 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.00%) VMware
3 11 (13.75%) HP
4 8 (10.00%) Symantec
5 7 (8.750%) Cisco
5 7 (8.750%) IBM
6 6 (7.500%) Citrix
6 6 (7.500%) Oracle
7 3 (3.750%) Avaya
7 3 (3.750%) NetApp
7 3 (3.750%) Apple
7 3 (3.750%) Dell
7 3 (3.750%) Remedy
7 3 (3.750%) Sophos
7 3 (3.750%) AppSense
8 2 (2.500%) MobileIron
8 2 (2.500%) McAfee
8 2 (2.500%) Websense
8 2 (2.500%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.500%) CA
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
SQL/DB2 will be involved in the role so applicants must have worked with this in the past. Having Microsoft qualifications would go in your favour along with...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £24000 per annum + Company Car
Posted: 22 May 2013