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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 23 21 18
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 8 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Telford 5.333% 2.198% 4.615%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.67% 8.000% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 3
Average salary £32,000 £28,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.30% -17.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,350 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £30,150 £37,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Telford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
48 25 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Telford 32.00% 27.47% 33.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18 10 20
Average salary £40,000 £30,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.14% -12.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £17,500 £26,000 £16,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
Shropshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Telford 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 Telford region.

Telford Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Telford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Telford Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Telford 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 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 7 (63.64%) MS Excel
3 6 (54.55%) C#
3 6 (54.55%) .NET
3 6 (54.55%) Windows
4 5 (45.45%) WPF
4 5 (45.45%) Silverlight
4 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
4 5 (45.45%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
5 4 (36.36%) SQL
5 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
5 4 (36.36%) Degree
5 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
6 3 (27.27%) Windows CE
6 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (27.27%) VMware
6 3 (27.27%) C
6 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
6 3 (27.27%) MS Exchange
6 3 (27.27%) Citrix
7 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
7 2 (18.18%) VPN
7 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (18.18%) MCSE
7 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
7 2 (18.18%) VMware ESX
7 2 (18.18%) Firewall
7 2 (18.18%) MCTS
7 2 (18.18%) MCITP

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Telford 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 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) WPF
2 5 (45.45%) Silverlight
3 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
4 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
5 1 (9.091%) Lucene
5 1 (9.091%) NHibernate
5 1 (9.091%) WCF
5 1 (9.091%) LINQ
5 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (9.091%) HTML5
5 1 (9.091%) Castle Windsor
5 1 (9.091%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
3 3 (27.27%) MS Exchange
3 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (9.091%) nginx
4 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (9.091%) IIS
4 1 (9.091%) Apache
4 1 (9.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (63.64%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SAN
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
2 1 (9.091%) DNS
2 1 (9.091%) VLAN
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (9.091%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) NUnit
1 1 (9.091%) Subversion
1 1 (9.091%) Selenium
1 1 (9.091%) TeamCity
1 1 (9.091%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows CE
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (9.091%) CentOS
4 1 (9.091%) Ubuntu
4 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (9.091%) Project Management
1 1 (9.091%) MVC
1 1 (9.091%) Scrum
1 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (9.091%) TDD
1 1 (9.091%) Load Balancing
1 1 (9.091%) Kanban
1 1 (9.091%) BDD
1 1 (9.091%) Scrum-ban
1 1 (9.091%) Change Control
1 1 (9.091%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) C
4 1 (9.091%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.091%) Bash shell
4 1 (9.091%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) MCSE
2 2 (18.18%) MCTS
2 2 (18.18%) MCITP
3 1 (9.091%) MCP
3 1 (9.091%) MCAD
3 1 (9.091%) MCSD
3 1 (9.091%) CCA
3 1 (9.091%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (9.091%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (9.091%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (9.091%) CCEE
3 1 (9.091%) CCAA
3 1 (9.091%) CCIA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware ESX
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.091%) XenApp
3 1 (9.091%) XenServer
3 1 (9.091%) XenDesktop
3 1 (9.091%) vSphere
3 1 (9.091%) Shibboleth
3 1 (9.091%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (9.091%) VMware Server
3 1 (9.091%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) ARCserve
1 1 (9.091%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Citrix
3 1 (9.091%) NetApp
3 1 (9.091%) Veritas
3 1 (9.091%) Symantec
3 1 (9.091%) McAfee
3 1 (9.091%) Altiris
3 1 (9.091%) Dell
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco