The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Stockport region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD 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 Stockport region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 7 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 3.431% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 12.50% - -
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
Average salary £32,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Stockport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
56 44 61
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 27.45% 20.95% 34.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53 34 58
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £18,000 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,350 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCSD
Manchester

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 13 (100.00%) Scrum
1 13 (100.00%) WinForms
1 13 (100.00%) TDD
1 13 (100.00%) NUnit
1 13 (100.00%) MCTS
1 13 (100.00%) WCF
1 13 (100.00%) WPF
1 13 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 13 (100.00%) Kanban
1 13 (100.00%) Spring.NET
1 13 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 13 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 13 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 13 (100.00%) MSTest
1 13 (100.00%) MVVM
1 13 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 13 (100.00%) Moq
1 13 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 13 (100.00%) Ninject
1 13 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 13 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 13 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
1 13 (100.00%) C#
1 13 (100.00%) .NET
1 13 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 13 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 13 (100.00%) MCP
1 13 (100.00%) MCAD
1 13 (100.00%) Windows

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 13 (100.00%) WinForms
1 13 (100.00%) WCF
1 13 (100.00%) WPF
1 13 (100.00%) Spring.NET
1 13 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 13 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 13 (100.00%) Ninject
1 13 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 13 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 13 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
1 13 (100.00%) .NET
1 13 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) NUnit
1 13 (100.00%) MSTest
1 13 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 13 (100.00%) Moq
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Scrum
1 13 (100.00%) TDD
1 13 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 13 (100.00%) Kanban
1 13 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 13 (100.00%) MVVM
1 13 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) MCTS
1 13 (100.00%) MCP
1 13 (100.00%) MCAD
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft