The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 38 17 36
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +19
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 1 15 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 0.549% 9.146% 2.966%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.703% 35.71% 8.750%
Number of salaries quoted 1 15 7
Average salary £30,000 £65,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-53.84% +18.18%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Qualifications
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
37 42 80
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 20.33% 25.61% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 16 38 33
Average salary £45,000 £65,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.76% +18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £34,100 £24,100
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
Hertfordshire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 13 (100.00%) MCP
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (92.31%) NHibernate
2 12 (92.31%) Selenium
2 12 (92.31%) WCF
2 12 (92.31%) Silverlight
2 12 (92.31%) LINQ
2 12 (92.31%) Kanban
2 12 (92.31%) MVC
2 12 (92.31%) Finance
2 12 (92.31%) Scrum
2 12 (92.31%) TDD
2 12 (92.31%) NUnit
2 12 (92.31%) Lucene
2 12 (92.31%) MCAD
2 12 (92.31%) MCSD
2 12 (92.31%) C#
2 12 (92.31%) .NET
2 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET
2 12 (92.31%) OO
2 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET MVC
2 12 (92.31%) Rhino Mocks
2 12 (92.31%) Cucumber
2 12 (92.31%) BDD
2 12 (92.31%) Castle Windsor
2 12 (92.31%) Scrum-ban
2 12 (92.31%) Web Application Development
2 12 (92.31%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (92.31%) SQL Server 2008

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 12 (92.31%) NHibernate
1 12 (92.31%) WCF
1 12 (92.31%) Silverlight
1 12 (92.31%) LINQ
1 12 (92.31%) Lucene
1 12 (92.31%) .NET
1 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET
1 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET MVC
1 12 (92.31%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (7.692%) Lync
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) Unified Communications
1 1 (7.692%) DHCP
1 1 (7.692%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) Selenium
1 12 (92.31%) NUnit
1 12 (92.31%) Rhino Mocks
1 12 (92.31%) Cucumber
General
1 12 (92.31%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
1 12 (92.31%) .NET Developer
2 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
2 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Windows
1 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Kanban
1 12 (92.31%) MVC
1 12 (92.31%) Scrum
1 12 (92.31%) TDD
1 12 (92.31%) OO
1 12 (92.31%) BDD
1 12 (92.31%) Scrum-ban
1 12 (92.31%) Web Application Development
2 1 (7.692%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) MCP
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (92.31%) MCAD
2 12 (92.31%) MCSD
3 1 (7.692%) MCSE
3 1 (7.692%) MCITP
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (7.692%) Microsoft