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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 5 - 4
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1 0 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Towcester 14.29% - 75.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.00% - 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 12
Average salary £35,000 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Towcester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
4 21 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Towcester 57.14% 70.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 16
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
Northamptonshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Towcester 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 Towcester region.

Towcester Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Towcester 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) MCP
1 4 (100.00%) MCAD
1 4 (100.00%) MCSD
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) WinForms
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) NUnit
1 4 (100.00%) MCTS
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) Spring.NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 4 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 4 (100.00%) MSTest
1 4 (100.00%) MVVM
1 4 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 4 (100.00%) Moq
1 4 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 4 (100.00%) Ninject

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Towcester 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) WinForms
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
1 4 (100.00%) Spring.NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 4 (100.00%) Ninject
1 4 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 4 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) NUnit
1 4 (100.00%) MSTest
1 4 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 4 (100.00%) Moq
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 4 (100.00%) MVVM
1 4 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) MCP
1 4 (100.00%) MCAD
1 4 (100.00%) MCSD
1 4 (100.00%) MCTS