The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 33 15 28
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +13
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 5 17 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 2.778% 12.06% 4.469%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.50% 54.84% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 17 4
Average salary £30,000 £65,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-53.84% +18.18%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
40 31 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 22.22% 21.99% 33.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26 24 30
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 £28,517 £28,000 £24,250
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
Microsoft Certification
Hertfordshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the St Albans region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

St Albans Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 17 (77.27%) SQL Server
1 17 (77.27%) MCP
1 17 (77.27%) MCTS
2 16 (72.73%) Kanban
2 16 (72.73%) SQL Server 2008
2 16 (72.73%) TDD
2 16 (72.73%) NUnit
2 16 (72.73%) Lucene
2 16 (72.73%) NHibernate
2 16 (72.73%) Selenium
2 16 (72.73%) WCF
2 16 (72.73%) Silverlight
2 16 (72.73%) LINQ
2 16 (72.73%) ASP.NET MVC
2 16 (72.73%) Rhino Mocks
2 16 (72.73%) Cucumber
2 16 (72.73%) BDD
2 16 (72.73%) Castle Windsor
2 16 (72.73%) Scrum-ban
2 16 (72.73%) Web Application Development
2 16 (72.73%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (72.73%) Scrum
2 16 (72.73%) MVC
2 16 (72.73%) Finance
2 16 (72.73%) MCAD
2 16 (72.73%) MCSD
2 16 (72.73%) ASP.NET
2 16 (72.73%) C#
2 16 (72.73%) .NET
2 16 (72.73%) OO

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 16 (72.73%) Lucene
1 16 (72.73%) NHibernate
1 16 (72.73%) WCF
1 16 (72.73%) Silverlight
1 16 (72.73%) LINQ
1 16 (72.73%) ASP.NET MVC
1 16 (72.73%) Castle Windsor
1 16 (72.73%) ASP.NET
1 16 (72.73%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) MS Exchange
2 2 (9.091%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (4.545%) Lync
3 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) VPN
2 3 (13.64%) Wireless
3 1 (4.545%) DNS
3 1 (4.545%) DHCP
3 1 (4.545%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (77.27%) SQL Server
2 16 (72.73%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) NUnit
1 16 (72.73%) Selenium
1 16 (72.73%) Rhino Mocks
1 16 (72.73%) Cucumber
General
1 16 (72.73%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Developer
2 16 (72.73%) .NET Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Support Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) IT Support
5 1 (4.545%) Junior
5 1 (4.545%) Administrator
5 1 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Server Administrator
5 1 (4.545%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Junior Developer
5 1 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Junior SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (72.73%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Kanban
1 16 (72.73%) TDD
1 16 (72.73%) BDD
1 16 (72.73%) Scrum-ban
1 16 (72.73%) Web Application Development
1 16 (72.73%) Scrum
1 16 (72.73%) MVC
1 16 (72.73%) OO
2 4 (18.18%) Migration
3 1 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (4.545%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) MCP
1 17 (77.27%) MCTS
2 16 (72.73%) MCAD
2 16 (72.73%) MCSD
3 1 (4.545%) MCSE
3 1 (4.545%) MCITP
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Symantec