The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification 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 Certification
Rank 22 37 53
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +16
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 53 31 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 9.029% 5.336% 1.704%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.55% 20.13% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 43 31 10
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £29,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £47,500 £31,600
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
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%
Microsoft Certification
West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Staffordshire Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification 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 - 23 £35,000 -
Stoke-on-Trent +2 10 £51,000 +85.45%
Tamworth +2 8 £35,000 -
Burton-upon-Trent -9 2 £23,250 +1.08%
Stafford - 2 £22,000 -
Lichfield +4 1 £50,000 +55.64%
Microsoft Certification
West Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 53 (55.21%) SQL Server
2 51 (53.13%) .NET
3 45 (46.88%) ASP.NET
3 45 (46.88%) Microsoft
4 43 (44.79%) C#
5 39 (40.63%) Degree
6 36 (37.50%) MCP
7 35 (36.46%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (35.42%) TDD
9 33 (34.38%) Scrum
10 32 (33.33%) MCSD
10 32 (33.33%) MCSE
11 30 (31.25%) Windows
11 30 (31.25%) MCAD
11 30 (31.25%) SQL
11 30 (31.25%) MVC
11 30 (31.25%) WCF
11 30 (31.25%) MCTS
11 30 (31.25%) ASP.NET MVC
12 29 (30.21%) Rhino Mocks
12 29 (30.21%) Castle Windsor
12 29 (30.21%) Razor View Engine
12 29 (30.21%) Web Application Development
12 29 (30.21%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 29 (30.21%) Kanban
12 29 (30.21%) NUnit
13 26 (27.08%) Ninject
13 26 (27.08%) Dependency Injection
14 25 (26.04%) Inversion of Control
14 25 (26.04%) MSTest

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 51 (53.13%) .NET
2 45 (46.88%) ASP.NET
3 30 (31.25%) WCF
3 30 (31.25%) ASP.NET MVC
4 29 (30.21%) Castle Windsor
4 29 (30.21%) Razor View Engine
4 29 (30.21%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 26 (27.08%) Ninject
6 25 (26.04%) Unity DI Container
6 25 (26.04%) Spring.NET
7 14 (14.58%) WinForms
7 14 (14.58%) XHTML
7 14 (14.58%) CSS
7 14 (14.58%) XML
7 14 (14.58%) WPF
8 8 (8.333%) HTML5
9 4 (4.167%) XSLT
9 4 (4.167%) LINQ
9 4 (4.167%) Ajax
9 4 (4.167%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 8 (8.333%) MS Exchange
2 6 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (3.125%) Lync
3 3 (3.125%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.083%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (2.083%) SharePoint 2013
4 2 (2.083%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.042%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (1.042%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 18 (18.75%) MS Excel
2 4 (4.167%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.42%) LAN
1 10 (10.42%) WAN
2 7 (7.292%) Firewall
3 5 (5.208%) SAN
4 4 (4.167%) Wireless
4 4 (4.167%) DHCP
4 4 (4.167%) DNS
5 3 (3.125%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (3.125%) WLAN
6 2 (2.083%) MPLS
6 2 (2.083%) Internet
7 1 (1.042%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.042%) HTTP
7 1 (1.042%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.042%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (55.21%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.292%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (4.167%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.125%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (3.125%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.083%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.083%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.042%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.042%) OLTP
6 1 (1.042%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 29 (30.21%) Rhino Mocks
1 29 (30.21%) NUnit
2 25 (26.04%) MSTest
2 25 (26.04%) Moq
3 4 (4.167%) Selenium
3 4 (4.167%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.042%) Hudson
4 1 (1.042%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.042%) JIRA
4 1 (1.042%) Maven
4 1 (1.042%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.042%) Git (software)
4 1 (1.042%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.042%) Ant
4 1 (1.042%) CruiseControl
4 1 (1.042%) Subversion
4 1 (1.042%) Bugzilla
General
1 13 (13.54%) Finance
2 3 (3.125%) Automotive
2 3 (3.125%) Manufacturing
3 2 (2.083%) Music
4 1 (1.042%) Games
4 1 (1.042%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (47.92%) Developer
2 39 (40.63%) .NET Developer
3 12 (12.50%) Analyst
4 9 (9.375%) Team Leader
4 9 (9.375%) Development Team Leader
5 8 (8.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.292%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (7.292%) .NET Team Leader
6 7 (7.292%) VB.NET Developer
6 7 (7.292%) C# Developer
7 6 (6.250%) SQL Developer
8 5 (5.208%) Web Team Leader
8 5 (5.208%) Web Development Team Leader
8 5 (5.208%) Network Engineer
9 4 (4.167%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (4.167%) Support Technician
9 4 (4.167%) Support Analyst
9 4 (4.167%) Network Analyst
9 4 (4.167%) Administrator
9 4 (4.167%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.04%) Inversion of Control
2 14 (14.58%) Computer Science
3 4 (4.167%) N-Tier
4 3 (3.125%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.083%) SaaS
6 1 (1.042%) Streaming Music
6 1 (1.042%) Online Games
6 1 (1.042%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 30 (31.25%) Windows
2 5 (5.208%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (3.125%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (2.083%) Windows XP
4 2 (2.083%) Windows 2000 Server
4 2 (2.083%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.042%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.042%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.46%) Continuous Integration
2 34 (35.42%) TDD
3 33 (34.38%) Scrum
4 30 (31.25%) MVC
5 29 (30.21%) Web Application Development
5 29 (30.21%) Kanban
6 26 (27.08%) Dependency Injection
7 24 (25.00%) ITIL
8 17 (17.71%) PRINCE2
8 17 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (17.71%) Service Management
9 16 (16.67%) TOGAF
10 15 (15.63%) Six Sigma
10 15 (15.63%) Programme Management
11 13 (13.54%) MVVM
12 12 (12.50%) Project Management
13 11 (11.46%) Incident Management
14 10 (10.42%) Software Engineering
15 7 (7.292%) Web Development
15 7 (7.292%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 43 (44.79%) C#
2 30 (31.25%) SQL
3 22 (22.92%) VB.NET
4 14 (14.58%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.208%) VB
6 1 (1.042%) Ruby
6 1 (1.042%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.042%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.042%) Python
Qualifications
1 39 (40.63%) Degree
2 36 (37.50%) MCP
3 32 (33.33%) MCSD
3 32 (33.33%) MCSE
4 30 (31.25%) MCAD
4 30 (31.25%) MCTS
5 13 (13.54%) MCITP
6 12 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (10.42%) CCNA
8 6 (6.250%) MCSA
8 6 (6.250%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (4.167%) CCNP
10 3 (3.125%) VCP5
11 2 (2.083%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (2.083%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.083%) CCAA
12 1 (1.042%) CCENT
12 1 (1.042%) SC Cleared
12 1 (1.042%) Security Cleared
12 1 (1.042%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.083%) SLA
3 1 (1.042%) COBIT
3 1 (1.042%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.042%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 13 (13.54%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.208%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.167%) MetaFrame
3 4 (4.167%) vSphere
4 2 (2.083%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (1.042%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.042%) XenApp
Vendors
1 45 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.79%) Cisco
3 14 (14.58%) VMware
4 13 (13.54%) Citrix
5 5 (5.208%) CheckPoint
6 4 (4.167%) NetApp
7 1 (1.042%) AccuRev
7 1 (1.042%) Juniper
7 1 (1.042%) HP
7 1 (1.042%) Dell
7 1 (1.042%) Lotus
7 1 (1.042%) Oracle
7 1 (1.042%) Altiris
7 1 (1.042%) Symantec
7 1 (1.042%) Remedy
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
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
Stafford, Staffordshire
Inside 2 years you could be give the chance to move into the consulting teams and be working on large-scale enterprise projects to implement the latest version...
EMBS- People Transfer
Salary: To £22,000 + MCSE 2012 Training
Posted: 23 May 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Development Team Leader (C#.NET / VB.NET +Web + SQL) to £55K+Car... Required Skills 2 years project and/or team leadership experience 2 years experience overseeing live support...
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £47000 - £55000 per annum + +FE Car, Bonus, Bens
Posted: 20 May 2013