The first table below looks at the demand for MCAD in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCAD 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD)
Rank 280 282 415
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +133
Permanent jobs citing MCAD 1003 1085 596
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.928% 0.899% 0.479%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.357% 3.238% 1.831%
Number of salaries quoted 988 1081 588
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £54,500 £57,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
29882 33504 32557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.65% 27.76% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24050 28534 27195
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%

MCAD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MCAD within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCAD Jobs Demand Trend

MCAD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCAD within the UK.

MCAD Salary Trend

MCAD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCAD over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

MCAD Salary Histogram

MCAD
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCAD within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -1 982 £40,000 -
London +40 317 £42,500 -2.29%
South East -40 255 £40,000 -
North West +61 133 £35,000 +7.69%
East of England -30 82 £40,000 -
Surrey -17 70 £40,000 -11.11%
Manchester +20 69 £40,000 +14.28%
East Midlands -14 62 £38,750 -3.12%
Berkshire -21 58 £40,000 +6.66%
West Midlands -8 47 £35,000 -
Nottingham +7 39 £37,500 +15.38%
Nottinghamshire +7 39 £37,500 +15.38%
South West +7 39 £42,500 +6.25%
Yorkshire 0 39 £30,000 -14.28%
Buckinghamshire -16 37 £40,000 +17.64%
West Yorkshire +9 33 £27,500 -26.66%
Milton Keynes -22 30 £50,000 +66.66%
Lancashire +26 29 £35,000 +7.69%
Guildford +4 27 £27,500 -21.42%
Kent -21 27 £40,000 +6.66%
Essex +11 25 £47,500 +11.76%
Cambridgeshire -3 25 £40,000 -
Cambridge -11 25 £40,000 -
Cheshire -3 21 £35,000 +11.11%
Hertfordshire -4 19 £35,000 -30.00%
Woking +16 18 £40,000 -11.11%
Brighton -5 18 £42,500 +6.25%
East Sussex -7 18 £42,500 +6.25%
Basildon - 17 £47,500 -
Gloucestershire +4 16 £40,000 -

MCAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing MCAD 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 MCAD.

1 2122 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2113 (99.58%) .NET
3 2101 (99.01%) MCSD
4 2051 (96.65%) MCP
5 2041 (96.18%) C#
6 2013 (94.86%) SQL Server
7 2004 (94.44%) MCTS
8 1940 (91.42%) TDD
9 1871 (88.17%) ASP.NET
10 1806 (85.11%) WCF
11 1775 (83.65%) MVC
12 1768 (83.32%) ASP.NET MVC
13 1710 (80.58%) Web Application Development
14 1503 (70.83%) ASP.NET MVC 4
15 1477 (69.60%) NUnit
16 1445 (68.10%) Rhino Mocks
17 1432 (67.48%) Scrum
18 1336 (62.96%) Razor View Engine
19 1108 (52.21%) WPF
20 1073 (50.57%) Kanban
21 1024 (48.26%) Castle Windsor
22 969 (45.66%) NHibernate
23 952 (44.86%) Moq
24 798 (37.61%) Dependency Injection
24 798 (37.61%) Ninject
25 722 (34.02%) BDD
26 707 (33.32%) Windows
27 678 (31.95%) WinForms
28 623 (29.36%) Microsoft
29 614 (28.93%) SQL Server 2008

MCAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing MCAD 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 MCAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2113 (99.58%) .NET
2 1871 (88.17%) ASP.NET
3 1806 (85.11%) WCF
4 1768 (83.32%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1503 (70.83%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 1336 (62.96%) Razor View Engine
7 1108 (52.21%) WPF
8 1024 (48.26%) Castle Windsor
9 969 (45.66%) NHibernate
10 798 (37.61%) Ninject
11 678 (31.95%) WinForms
12 540 (25.45%) LINQ
13 531 (25.02%) Spring.NET
13 531 (25.02%) Unity DI Container
14 401 (18.90%) MonoRail
15 349 (16.45%) Ajax
16 298 (14.04%) Silverlight
17 290 (13.67%) .NET Framework
18 275 (12.96%) Node.js
19 267 (12.58%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 149 (7.022%) SharePoint
2 113 (5.325%) BizTalk Server
3 63 (2.969%) SharePoint Server
4 55 (2.592%) SharePoint 2013
5 34 (1.602%) CMS
6 33 (1.555%) SharePoint 2010
7 31 (1.461%) Kentico
7 31 (1.461%) Sitefinity
7 31 (1.461%) Sitecore CMS
7 31 (1.461%) Umbraco
7 31 (1.461%) Immediacy CMS
7 31 (1.461%) DotNetNuke
8 17 (0.801%) Windows Azure
9 12 (0.566%) IIS
10 8 (0.377%) MS Exchange
10 8 (0.377%) Exchange Server 2003
10 8 (0.377%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 55 (2.592%) MS Excel
2 3 (0.141%) MS Office
3 1 (0.047%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 36 (1.697%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.047%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking
1 173 (8.153%) Internet
2 69 (3.252%) Broadband
3 4 (0.189%) SAN
3 4 (0.189%) HTTP
4 1 (0.047%) LAN
4 1 (0.047%) WAN
4 1 (0.047%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2013 (94.86%) SQL Server
2 614 (28.93%) SQL Server 2008
3 563 (26.53%) SQL Server 2012
4 18 (0.848%) SQL Server 2005
5 13 (0.613%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (0.424%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.377%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.330%) SQL Server 2000
9 1 (0.047%) MS Access
9 1 (0.047%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1477 (69.60%) NUnit
2 1445 (68.10%) Rhino Mocks
3 952 (44.86%) Moq
4 531 (25.02%) MSTest
5 326 (15.36%) Subversion
6 94 (4.430%) Selenium
7 92 (4.336%) Cucumber
8 73 (3.440%) Visual Studio
9 25 (1.178%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (0.707%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.471%) Git (software)
12 9 (0.424%) Visual Studio Team System
13 6 (0.283%) WiX
14 3 (0.141%) MSBuild
14 3 (0.141%) CruiseControl
15 2 (0.094%) Hudson
16 1 (0.047%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 432 (20.36%) Music
2 348 (16.40%) Finance
3 251 (11.83%) Games
4 174 (8.200%) Music Industry
5 142 (6.692%) Banking
6 116 (5.467%) Retail
7 77 (3.629%) Telecoms
8 54 (2.545%) Investment Banking
9 38 (1.791%) Advertising
10 7 (0.330%) Front Office
11 4 (0.189%) Automotive
11 4 (0.189%) Marketing
12 2 (0.094%) Publishing
13 1 (0.047%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.047%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2080 (98.02%) Developer
2 1799 (84.78%) .NET Developer
3 435 (20.50%) C# Developer
4 342 (16.12%) C# .NET Developer
5 182 (8.577%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 179 (8.435%) ASP.NET Developer
7 155 (7.304%) Junior
7 155 (7.304%) Junior Developer
7 155 (7.304%) Junior .NET Developer
8 150 (7.069%) Graduate
9 124 (5.844%) Graduate Developer
10 120 (5.655%) Graduate .NET Developer
11 53 (2.498%) Agile C# Developer
12 40 (1.885%) WinForms Developer
13 37 (1.744%) Senior Developer
14 29 (1.367%) SharePoint Developer
14 29 (1.367%) Team Leader
15 26 (1.225%) Agile .NET Developer
16 24 (1.131%) Software Developer
17 21 (0.990%) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 531 (25.02%) Inversion of Control
2 268 (12.63%) Tandem
3 179 (8.435%) Enterprise Software
4 135 (6.362%) Computer Science
5 85 (4.006%) Client/Server
6 80 (3.770%) Social Network
7 62 (2.922%) DTV
8 60 (2.828%) Streaming Music
9 54 (2.545%) iPhone
10 43 (2.026%) Mobile App
11 12 (0.566%) N-Tier
11 12 (0.566%) Online Games
12 8 (0.377%) Blackberry
13 7 (0.330%) Hedge funds
14 1 (0.047%) iPad
14 1 (0.047%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 707 (33.32%) Windows
2 42 (1.979%) Android
3 12 (0.566%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (0.566%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (0.377%) Windows XP
4 8 (0.377%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.047%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1940 (91.42%) TDD
2 1775 (83.65%) MVC
3 1710 (80.58%) Web Application Development
4 1432 (67.48%) Scrum
5 1073 (50.57%) Kanban
6 798 (37.61%) Dependency Injection
7 722 (34.02%) BDD
8 582 (27.43%) MVVM
9 555 (26.15%) Continuous Integration
10 478 (22.53%) OO
11 468 (22.05%) Domain-Driven Design
12 201 (9.472%) CQRS
13 189 (8.907%) Business Intelligence
14 165 (7.776%) Agile Software Development
15 92 (4.336%) Scrum-ban
16 66 (3.110%) OOA/OOD
17 59 (2.780%) OOD
18 51 (2.403%) OOP
19 48 (2.262%) E-Commerce
20 46 (2.168%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2041 (96.18%) C#
2 354 (16.68%) VB.NET
3 326 (15.36%) VB
4 222 (10.46%) JavaScript
5 107 (5.042%) SQL
6 92 (4.336%) T-SQL
7 54 (2.545%) C++
8 10 (0.471%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.377%) Ruby
10 6 (0.283%) Java
11 4 (0.189%) XPath
12 2 (0.094%) VBA
12 2 (0.094%) PHP
13 1 (0.047%) VB6
13 1 (0.047%) C
13 1 (0.047%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2122 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2101 (99.01%) MCSD
3 2051 (96.65%) MCP
4 2004 (94.44%) MCTS
5 124 (5.844%) Degree
6 16 (0.754%) MCPD
7 14 (0.660%) SC Cleared
7 14 (0.660%) DV Cleared
7 14 (0.660%) Security Cleared
8 9 (0.424%) MCSE
9 8 (0.377%) MCSA
9 8 (0.377%) MCITP
9 8 (0.377%) MCDST
10 1 (0.047%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (0.707%) QA
2 1 (0.047%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (0.377%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 623 (29.36%) Microsoft
2 41 (1.932%) Google
3 31 (1.461%) Ektron
3 31 (1.461%) Sitecore
3 31 (1.461%) EPiServer
3 31 (1.461%) Alterian
4 25 (1.178%) Sun
4 25 (1.178%) Oracle
5 8 (0.377%) HP
5 8 (0.377%) Dell
5 8 (0.377%) Cisco
5 8 (0.377%) Facebook
6 3 (0.141%) Citrix
6 3 (0.141%) SAP
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