The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Swindon region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 42 57 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 14 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 2.745% 1.019% -
As % of the Qualifications category 12.84% 3.175% -
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 0
Average salary £47,500 £39,250 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.01% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
109 189 114
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 21.37% 32.09% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 99 162 106
Average salary £47,500 £39,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.79% +16.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £22,550
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £47,250 £48,555
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCSD
Wiltshire

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCSD across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Swindon MCSD Salary Histogram

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 23 (100.00%) C#
1 23 (100.00%) .NET
1 23 (100.00%) MCP
1 23 (100.00%) MCAD
1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 23 (100.00%) TDD
1 23 (100.00%) NUnit
1 23 (100.00%) MCTS
1 23 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 20 (86.96%) SQL Server
3 19 (82.61%) ASP.NET
3 19 (82.61%) MVC
3 19 (82.61%) WCF
3 19 (82.61%) Razor View Engine
3 19 (82.61%) Web Application Development
3 19 (82.61%) ASP.NET MVC
3 19 (82.61%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 17 (73.91%) Kanban
4 17 (73.91%) Moq
4 17 (73.91%) Scrum
5 16 (69.57%) NHibernate
6 13 (56.52%) Castle Windsor
7 10 (43.48%) SQL Server 2012
7 10 (43.48%) BDD
7 10 (43.48%) HTML5
7 10 (43.48%) LINQ
7 10 (43.48%) Games
8 7 (30.43%) WinForms
8 7 (30.43%) Windows
8 7 (30.43%) WPF

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (82.61%) ASP.NET
2 19 (82.61%) WCF
2 19 (82.61%) ASP.NET MVC
2 19 (82.61%) Razor View Engine
2 19 (82.61%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 16 (69.57%) NHibernate
4 13 (56.52%) Castle Windsor
5 10 (43.48%) HTML5
5 10 (43.48%) LINQ
6 7 (30.43%) Ninject
6 7 (30.43%) Unity DI Container
6 7 (30.43%) WPF
6 7 (30.43%) WinForms
6 7 (30.43%) Spring.NET
7 6 (26.09%) Ajax
7 6 (26.09%) MonoRail
8 3 (13.04%) .NET Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (86.96%) SQL Server
2 10 (43.48%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 23 (100.00%) NUnit
1 23 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 17 (73.91%) Moq
3 7 (30.43%) MSTest
4 6 (26.09%) Subversion
General
1 10 (43.48%) Games
2 6 (26.09%) Retail
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (100.00%) Developer
1 23 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Junior Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Junior .NET Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Graduate Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Graduate .NET Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Graduate
2 3 (13.04%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) TDD
2 19 (82.61%) MVC
2 19 (82.61%) Web Application Development
3 17 (73.91%) Scrum
3 17 (73.91%) Kanban
4 10 (43.48%) BDD
5 7 (30.43%) Dependency Injection
5 7 (30.43%) MVVM
5 7 (30.43%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (26.09%) OO
7 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (17.39%) VB
2 4 (17.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (100.00%) MCP
1 23 (100.00%) MCAD
1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 23 (100.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
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