The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Sutton Coldfield 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 Sutton Coldfield region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 12 - 13
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 6 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sutton Coldfield 9.677% - 3.448%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.57% - 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 1
Average salary £27,000 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Sutton Coldfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
21 4 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sutton Coldfield 33.87% 80.00% 17.24%
Number of salaries quoted 21 4 4
Average salary £27,000 £27,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.81% -21.42%
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 Sutton Coldfield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Sutton Coldfield 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 Sutton Coldfield region.

Sutton Coldfield Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sutton Coldfield 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 7 (100.00%) MCP
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) MCSA
4 2 (28.57%) Windows XP
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (28.57%) MCITP
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Vista
4 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (14.29%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (14.29%) MSTest
5 1 (14.29%) MVVM
5 1 (14.29%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (14.29%) Moq
5 1 (14.29%) Castle Windsor
5 1 (14.29%) Ninject
5 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (14.29%) Unity DI Container
5 1 (14.29%) WCF
5 1 (14.29%) WPF
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) Music

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sutton Coldfield 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 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) WinForms
1 1 (14.29%) WCF
1 1 (14.29%) WPF
1 1 (14.29%) Spring.NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (14.29%) Castle Windsor
1 1 (14.29%) Ninject
1 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (14.29%) Unity DI Container
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) NUnit
1 1 (14.29%) MSTest
1 1 (14.29%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (14.29%) Moq
General
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 1 (14.29%) Music
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Support Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Administrator
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Server Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows XP
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Vista
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) MVC
1 1 (14.29%) Scrum
1 1 (14.29%) TDD
1 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (14.29%) Kanban
1 1 (14.29%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (14.29%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) MCP
2 2 (28.57%) MCSA
2 2 (28.57%) MCITP
3 1 (14.29%) MCTS
3 1 (14.29%) MCAD
3 1 (14.29%) MCSD
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Citrix
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft