The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 24 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 33 20 35
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +15
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 2 13 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 1.130% 9.220% 1.563%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.263% 43.33% 4.762%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 3
Average salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.18%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
38 30 63
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 21.47% 21.28% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 24 24 29
Average salary £50,000 £65,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.07% +44.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,667 £28,000 £23,800
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
Hertfordshire

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 15 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 15 (100.00%) MCP
1 15 (100.00%) MCAD
1 15 (100.00%) OO
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (100.00%) MVC
1 15 (100.00%) Finance
1 15 (100.00%) Scrum
1 15 (100.00%) TDD
1 15 (100.00%) NUnit
1 15 (100.00%) Lucene
1 15 (100.00%) MCTS
1 15 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 15 (100.00%) Selenium
1 15 (100.00%) WCF
1 15 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 15 (100.00%) LINQ
1 15 (100.00%) Kanban
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 15 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 15 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 15 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 15 (100.00%) BDD
1 15 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 15 (100.00%) Scrum-ban
1 15 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 15 (100.00%) Enterprise Software

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 15 (100.00%) .NET
1 15 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 15 (100.00%) Lucene
1 15 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 15 (100.00%) WCF
1 15 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 15 (100.00%) LINQ
1 15 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 15 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 15 (100.00%) NUnit
1 15 (100.00%) Selenium
1 15 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 15 (100.00%) Cucumber
General
1 15 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
1 15 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) OO
1 15 (100.00%) MVC
1 15 (100.00%) Scrum
1 15 (100.00%) TDD
1 15 (100.00%) Kanban
1 15 (100.00%) BDD
1 15 (100.00%) Scrum-ban
1 15 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) MCP
1 15 (100.00%) MCAD
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (100.00%) MCTS