The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the St Helens region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 17 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 Helens region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 5 11 5
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 3 4 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Helens 23.08% 11.76% 51.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% 23.53% 85.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 17
Average salary £25,000 £35,750 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.06% -4.66%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
St Helens
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3 17 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Helens 23.08% 50.00% 60.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 19
Average salary £25,000 £44,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-43.18% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
Merseyside

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Helens 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 Helens region.

St Helens Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Helens 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) MCSA
1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) VoIP
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) MCITP
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Time Management

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Helens 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 Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) VoIP
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) MCSE
1 3 (100.00%) MCSA
1 3 (100.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft