The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 19 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 78 72 67
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -5
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 8 20 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.906% 2.130% 0.619%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.920% 5.731% 1.970%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 4
Average salary £25,000 £40,000 £28,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.50% +39.13%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Qualifications
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
274 349 203
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 31.03% 37.17% 31.42%
Number of salaries quoted 259 332 194
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £23,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
Hampshire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Southampton MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 9 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
3 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 6 (66.67%) MCP
3 6 (66.67%) MCAD
3 6 (66.67%) MCSD
3 6 (66.67%) C#
3 6 (66.67%) .NET
3 6 (66.67%) MVC
3 6 (66.67%) Scrum
3 6 (66.67%) TDD
3 6 (66.67%) WCF
3 6 (66.67%) Kanban
3 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 6 (66.67%) Web Application Development
3 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 6 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
4 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (55.56%) Unity DI Container
4 5 (55.56%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (55.56%) Inversion of Control
4 5 (55.56%) MSTest
4 5 (55.56%) Spring.NET
4 5 (55.56%) MVVM
4 5 (55.56%) Rhino Mocks
4 5 (55.56%) Moq
4 5 (55.56%) Castle Windsor
4 5 (55.56%) Ninject
4 5 (55.56%) WPF
4 5 (55.56%) WinForms

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
1 6 (66.67%) WCF
1 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 6 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
2 5 (55.56%) Unity DI Container
2 5 (55.56%) Spring.NET
2 5 (55.56%) Castle Windsor
2 5 (55.56%) Ninject
2 5 (55.56%) WPF
2 5 (55.56%) WinForms
2 5 (55.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Lync
2 1 (11.11%) Sitefinity
2 1 (11.11%) Kentico
2 1 (11.11%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (11.11%) DotNetNuke
2 1 (11.11%) Immediacy CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Umbraco
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) SMTP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MSTest
1 5 (55.56%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (55.56%) Moq
1 5 (55.56%) NUnit
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
1 6 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Graduate .NET Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Junior Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Junior .NET Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Graduate Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Junior
2 5 (55.56%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (55.56%) Inversion of Control
1 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) MVC
1 6 (66.67%) Scrum
1 6 (66.67%) TDD
1 6 (66.67%) Kanban
1 6 (66.67%) Web Application Development
2 5 (55.56%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (55.56%) MVVM
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) BDD
3 1 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (11.11%) Content Management
3 1 (11.11%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (66.67%) MCP
2 6 (66.67%) MCAD
2 6 (66.67%) MCSD
3 3 (33.33%) MCSE
3 3 (33.33%) MCITP
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Server
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) WMI
1 3 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Citrix
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Sitecore
2 1 (11.11%) Ektron
2 1 (11.11%) EPiServer
2 1 (11.11%) Alterian
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
Southampton, Hampshire
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013