The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Tamworth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 20 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 Tamworth region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank - 7 6
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 0 11 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tamworth - 47.83% 10.00%
As % of the Qualifications category - 73.33% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 1
Average salary - £35,000 £17,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +105.88%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Tamworth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
12 15 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tamworth 41.38% 65.22% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 4
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £24,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +44.32%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,300 £34,000 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £31,750 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
Staffordshire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tamworth 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 Tamworth region.

Tamworth MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tamworth 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) MCP
1 6 (100.00%) MCAD
1 6 (100.00%) MCSD
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
1 6 (100.00%) NUnit
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) WCF
1 6 (100.00%) Kanban
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 6 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 6 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 6 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
2 4 (66.67%) Web Application Development
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum-ban
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) HTML5
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) LINQ
2 4 (66.67%) Lucene
2 4 (66.67%) NHibernate
2 4 (66.67%) VB
2 4 (66.67%) VB.NET

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tamworth 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) WCF
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 6 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 6 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 4 (66.67%) HTML5
2 4 (66.67%) LINQ
2 4 (66.67%) Lucene
2 4 (66.67%) NHibernate
3 2 (33.33%) WinForms
3 2 (33.33%) Spring.NET
3 2 (33.33%) WPF
3 2 (33.33%) Ninject
3 2 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) NUnit
1 6 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (33.33%) MSTest
3 2 (33.33%) Moq
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 2 (33.33%) Music
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
1 6 (100.00%) Kanban
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum-ban
2 4 (66.67%) Web Application Development
3 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (33.33%) MVVM
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) VB
1 4 (66.67%) VB.NET
2 2 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) MCP
1 6 (100.00%) MCAD
1 6 (100.00%) MCSD
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft