The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 58 50 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 9 17 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 1.533% 2.926% -
As % of the Qualifications category 5.357% 11.04% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 0
Average salary £35,000 £27,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.27% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
168 154 91
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 28.62% 26.51% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 140 149 81
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,175 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCSD
West Midlands

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSD within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cannock - 9 £35,000 -
MCSD
West Midlands

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 32 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 31 (96.88%) .NET
2 31 (96.88%) ASP.NET
3 30 (93.75%) MCP
3 30 (93.75%) MCAD
3 30 (93.75%) SQL Server
3 30 (93.75%) MVC
3 30 (93.75%) TDD
3 30 (93.75%) MCTS
3 30 (93.75%) WCF
3 30 (93.75%) ASP.NET MVC
4 29 (90.63%) Kanban
4 29 (90.63%) Rhino Mocks
4 29 (90.63%) Castle Windsor
4 29 (90.63%) Razor View Engine
4 29 (90.63%) Web Application Development
4 29 (90.63%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 29 (90.63%) NUnit
4 29 (90.63%) Scrum
5 26 (81.25%) C#
5 26 (81.25%) Ninject
5 26 (81.25%) Dependency Injection
6 25 (78.13%) Inversion of Control
6 25 (78.13%) MSTest
6 25 (78.13%) Spring.NET
6 25 (78.13%) Continuous Integration
6 25 (78.13%) Moq
6 25 (78.13%) Unity DI Container
7 14 (43.75%) WPF
7 14 (43.75%) Windows

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 31 (96.88%) .NET
1 31 (96.88%) ASP.NET
2 30 (93.75%) WCF
2 30 (93.75%) ASP.NET MVC
3 29 (90.63%) Castle Windsor
3 29 (90.63%) Razor View Engine
3 29 (90.63%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 26 (81.25%) Ninject
5 25 (78.13%) Spring.NET
5 25 (78.13%) Unity DI Container
6 14 (43.75%) WPF
6 14 (43.75%) WinForms
7 4 (12.50%) Lucene
7 4 (12.50%) NHibernate
7 4 (12.50%) LINQ
7 4 (12.50%) HTML5
8 1 (3.125%) .NET Framework
8 1 (3.125%) Node.js
8 1 (3.125%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.125%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.125%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (93.75%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 29 (90.63%) Rhino Mocks
1 29 (90.63%) NUnit
2 25 (78.13%) MSTest
2 25 (78.13%) Moq
3 4 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 4 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (6.250%) Music
3 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (93.75%) Developer
1 30 (93.75%) .NET Developer
2 2 (6.250%) Software Manager
2 2 (6.250%) Software Development Manager
2 2 (6.250%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 25 (78.13%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (3.125%) Streaming Music
2 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (93.75%) MVC
1 30 (93.75%) TDD
2 29 (90.63%) Kanban
2 29 (90.63%) Web Application Development
2 29 (90.63%) Scrum
3 26 (81.25%) Dependency Injection
4 25 (78.13%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (40.63%) MVVM
6 12 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (12.50%) Scrum-ban
7 4 (12.50%) BDD
8 2 (6.250%) TOGAF
8 2 (6.250%) Programme Management
8 2 (6.250%) Service Management
8 2 (6.250%) Six Sigma
8 2 (6.250%) PRINCE2
8 2 (6.250%) ITIL
9 1 (3.125%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) C#
2 5 (15.63%) VB
2 5 (15.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (93.75%) MCP
2 30 (93.75%) MCAD
2 30 (93.75%) MCTS
3 2 (6.250%) Degree
3 2 (6.250%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
Cannock, West Midlands
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cannock, Staffordshire
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cannock, West Midlands
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013