The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT jobs advertised for the Tunbridge Wells region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 22 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 Tunbridge Wells region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 14 22 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Permanent jobs citing MCSD 7 10 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tunbridge Wells 10.61% 8.929% -
As % of the Qualifications category 21.21% 43.48% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 0
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Tunbridge Wells
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
33 23 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tunbridge Wells 50.00% 20.54% 46.15%
Number of salaries quoted 29 23 54
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,002 £27,500 £25,900
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCSD
Kent

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tunbridge Wells 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 Tunbridge Wells region.

Tunbridge Wells MCSD Salary Trend

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tunbridge Wells 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 12 (100.00%) MCP
1 12 (100.00%) MCAD
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (100.00%) MVC
1 12 (100.00%) Scrum
1 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) TDD
1 12 (100.00%) NUnit
1 12 (100.00%) MCTS
1 12 (100.00%) WCF
1 12 (100.00%) Kanban
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 12 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 12 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 12 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 9 (75.00%) Castle Windsor
2 9 (75.00%) VB
2 9 (75.00%) VB.NET
3 8 (66.67%) NHibernate
3 8 (66.67%) BDD
4 7 (58.33%) Moq
5 5 (41.67%) Cucumber
5 5 (41.67%) Selenium
5 5 (41.67%) HTML5
5 5 (41.67%) Scrum-ban
5 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tunbridge Wells 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 12 (100.00%) WCF
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 12 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 9 (75.00%) Castle Windsor
3 8 (66.67%) NHibernate
4 5 (41.67%) HTML5
4 5 (41.67%) LINQ
4 5 (41.67%) Lucene
5 4 (33.33%) Spring.NET
5 4 (33.33%) Ninject
5 4 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) NUnit
1 12 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 7 (58.33%) Moq
3 5 (41.67%) Cucumber
3 5 (41.67%) Selenium
4 4 (33.33%) MSTest
General
1 3 (25.00%) Music
1 3 (25.00%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
1 12 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) MVC
1 12 (100.00%) Scrum
1 12 (100.00%) TDD
1 12 (100.00%) Kanban
1 12 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 8 (66.67%) BDD
3 5 (41.67%) Scrum-ban
4 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (75.00%) VB
2 9 (75.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) MCP
1 12 (100.00%) MCAD
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (100.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft