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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank - 11 -
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sunderland - 4.545% -
As % of the Qualifications category - 14.29% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £36,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Sunderland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
17 7 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sunderland 37.78% 31.82% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 4
Average salary £36,500 £38,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.19% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £31,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £39,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
Tyne and Wear

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sunderland MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCTS across the Sunderland region.

Sunderland MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sunderland region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) MCP
1 5 (100.00%) MCAD
1 5 (100.00%) MCSD
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) NUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) Kanban
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (100.00%) Moq
1 5 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 5 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 3 (60.00%) Unity DI Container
2 3 (60.00%) Castle Windsor
2 3 (60.00%) Ninject
2 3 (60.00%) Spring.NET
2 3 (60.00%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (60.00%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (60.00%) MSTest
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sunderland region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 3 (60.00%) Unity DI Container
2 3 (60.00%) Spring.NET
2 3 (60.00%) Castle Windsor
2 3 (60.00%) Ninject
3 2 (40.00%) NHibernate
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) LINQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) NUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (100.00%) Moq
2 3 (60.00%) MSTest
General
1 1 (20.00%) Music
1 1 (20.00%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Junior .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (20.00%) DTV
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) Kanban
1 5 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) MCP
1 5 (100.00%) MCAD
1 5 (100.00%) MCSD
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification