The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Tamworth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 5 7 5
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 8 11 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tamworth 30.77% 44.00% 27.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 66.67% 73.33% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 3
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Tamworth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
12 15 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tamworth 46.15% 60.00% 45.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 5
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,800 £34,000 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £34,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
Staffordshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tamworth 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 Tamworth region.

Tamworth Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tamworth 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 10 (71.43%) .NET
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (64.29%) VB.NET
3 8 (57.14%) SQL
4 6 (42.86%) C#
4 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
5 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
5 5 (35.71%) MCP
5 5 (35.71%) MCAD
5 5 (35.71%) MCSD
5 5 (35.71%) MS Excel
5 5 (35.71%) MVC
5 5 (35.71%) Scrum
5 5 (35.71%) TDD
5 5 (35.71%) NUnit
5 5 (35.71%) MCTS
5 5 (35.71%) Degree
5 5 (35.71%) WCF
5 5 (35.71%) Kanban
5 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (35.71%) Rhino Mocks
5 5 (35.71%) Castle Windsor
5 5 (35.71%) Razor View Engine
6 4 (28.57%) Web Application Development
6 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 4 (28.57%) Scrum-ban
6 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
6 4 (28.57%) BDD
6 4 (28.57%) LINQ
6 4 (28.57%) HTML5

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tamworth 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 10 (71.43%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
2 5 (35.71%) WCF
2 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (35.71%) Castle Windsor
2 5 (35.71%) Razor View Engine
3 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 4 (28.57%) LINQ
3 4 (28.57%) HTML5
3 4 (28.57%) NHibernate
3 4 (28.57%) Lucene
4 1 (7.143%) Unity DI Container
4 1 (7.143%) WinForms
4 1 (7.143%) WPF
4 1 (7.143%) Spring.NET
4 1 (7.143%) Ninject
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) SAN
1 4 (28.57%) LAN
1 4 (28.57%) WAN
2 1 (7.143%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) NUnit
1 5 (35.71%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 4 (28.57%) Selenium
3 1 (7.143%) MSTest
3 1 (7.143%) Moq
General
1 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
1 1 (7.143%) Music
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Developer
1 10 (71.43%) .NET Developer
2 5 (35.71%) C# Developer
2 5 (35.71%) VB.NET Developer
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Developer
2 5 (35.71%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) MVC
1 5 (35.71%) Scrum
1 5 (35.71%) TDD
1 5 (35.71%) Kanban
2 4 (28.57%) Web Application Development
2 4 (28.57%) Scrum-ban
2 4 (28.57%) BDD
3 1 (7.143%) MVVM
3 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (7.143%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) VB.NET
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 6 (42.86%) C#
4 4 (28.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) MCP
1 5 (35.71%) MCAD
1 5 (35.71%) MCSD
1 5 (35.71%) MCTS
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) MCITP
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (28.57%) MCSE
3 3 (21.43%) CCNA
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.143%) VCP5
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.143%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.143%) XenApp
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) NetApp
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco
4 1 (7.143%) Citrix