The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications currently tracked.

Microsoft Certification
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank637065
Rank change year-on-year
Up+7Down-5
Matching permanent IT job ads453241033173
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.758 %3.346 %3.323 %
As % of the Qualifications category13.54 %12.77 %13.72 %
Number of salaries quoted418036892752
Average salary£38,000£35,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.04 %+1.42 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£23,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£55,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
334753214123123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK27.76 %26.21 %24.22 %
Number of salaries quoted284762683119147
Average salary£42,500£41,000£41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65 %-1.20 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,500£38,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89 %+1.31 %

Microsoft Certification
Demand Trend

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

Microsoft Certification Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the UK.

Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+74205£38,500+10.00 %
LondonUp+81577£40,000-
South EastUp+141214£37,500+7.14 %
SurreyDown-3363£41,500+18.57 %
East of EnglandDown-1330£40,000+14.28 %
City of LondonUp+21315£44,000+3.52 %
North WestUp+1309£32,500-7.14 %
BerkshireUp+26233£38,000+8.57 %
YorkshireUp+2224£32,500+1.56 %
HampshireUp+47199£40,000+23.07 %
East MidlandsDown-6180£40,000+31.14 %
West MidlandsDown-21170£35,000+7.69 %
BuckinghamshireUp+27154£32,500-4.41 %
South WestDown-19154£40,000+18.51 %
ScotlandUp+31146£35,000-12.50 %
ManchesterDown-12144£27,500-12.69 %
West YorkshireDown-11131£32,500+8.33 %
HertfordshireUp+12104£40,000+3.22 %
CheshireUp+899£32,500-7.14 %
LeedsDown-493£37,500+13.63 %
WalesUp+3787£35,000+16.66 %
BirminghamDown-984£37,500-
South WalesUp+3183£35,000+16.66 %
CambridgeshireDown-781£37,500+15.38 %
Milton KeynesUp+3079£32,500-7.14 %
SouthamptonUp+2978£40,000+33.33 %
KentUp+2272£35,000-5.40 %
South YorkshireUp+469£32,000-14.66 %
ReadingUp+1468£35,000-1.40 %
EssexDown-2962£40,000+14.28 %

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

15609 (61.99 %)Microsoft
25190 (57.36 %)Windows
34089 (45.19 %)SQL Server
43905 (43.16 %)MCSE
53900 (43.10 %)MCP
63254 (35.96 %).NET
72893 (31.97 %)Active Directory
82827 (31.24 %)C#
92617 (28.92 %)VMware
102534 (28.01 %)ASP.NET
112463 (27.22 %)SQL Server 2008
122420 (26.75 %)MCTS
132402 (26.55 %)MS Excel
142313 (25.56 %)Windows Server 2008
152229 (24.64 %)Windows Server 2003
162147 (23.73 %)MCSD
172085 (23.04 %)SQL
182040 (22.55 %)MS Exchange
192035 (22.49 %)MCAD
201995 (22.05 %)TDD
211875 (20.72 %)WCF
221856 (20.51 %)MVC
231812 (20.03 %)Citrix
241739 (19.22 %)ASP.NET MVC
251681 (18.58 %)MCITP
261654 (18.28 %)VMware Infrastructure
271636 (18.08 %)Scrum
281619 (17.89 %)Web Application Development
291615 (17.85 %)NUnit
301562 (17.26 %)Rhino Mocks

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13254 (35.96 %).NET
22534 (28.01 %)ASP.NET
31875 (20.72 %)WCF
41739 (19.22 %)ASP.NET MVC
51504 (16.62 %)NHibernate
61086 (12.00 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
71083 (11.97 %)Castle Windsor
81034 (11.43 %)Razor View Engine
91027 (11.35 %)WPF
10910 (10.06 %)LINQ
11626 (6.919 %)MonoRail
12618 (6.830 %)CSS
13617 (6.819 %)WinForms
14615 (6.797 %)HTML
15544 (6.012 %)Ajax
16455 (5.029 %)Silverlight
17448 (4.951 %).NET Framework
18418 (4.620 %)XML
19347 (3.835 %)Web Services
20337 (3.725 %)Lucene
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12040 (22.55 %)MS Exchange
21020 (11.27 %)SharePoint
3971 (10.73 %)Exchange Server 2007
4927 (10.25 %)Exchange Server 2010
5793 (8.764 %)Exchange Server 2003
6731 (8.079 %)IIS
7304 (3.360 %)SharePoint Server
8276 (3.050 %)SharePoint 2010
9227 (2.509 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
10144 (1.592 %)BizTalk Server
11135 (1.492 %)Lync
12133 (1.470 %)CMS
13122 (1.348 %)Lotus Notes
14101 (1.116 %)Office Communications Server
1594 (1.039 %)Apache
1672 (0.796 %)Umbraco
1762 (0.685 %)Exchange Server 2000
1858 (0.641 %)Sitecore CMS
1938 (0.420 %)Kentico
2034 (0.376 %)Sitefinity
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12402 (26.55 %)MS Excel
2942 (10.41 %)MS Office
3173 (1.912 %)MS Visio
484 (0.928 %)MS PowerPoint
543 (0.475 %)Office 365
642 (0.464 %)Google Apps
726 (0.287 %)MS Project
815 (0.166 %)InfoPath
913 (0.144 %)Spreadsheet
108 (0.088 %)Photoshop
116 (0.066 %)PowerPivot
124 (0.044 %)Acrobat
124 (0.044 %)Windchill
133 (0.033 %)MATLAB
133 (0.033 %)Final Cut Pro
142 (0.022 %)Fireworks
142 (0.022 %)SmartSuite
142 (0.022 %)SPSS
151 (0.011 %)AutoCAD
151 (0.011 %)3ds Max
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1115 (1.271 %)Dynamics CRM
234 (0.376 %)Dynamics AX
332 (0.354 %)Dynamics NAV
417 (0.188 %)Prophet
511 (0.122 %)Sage MMS
511 (0.122 %)Line 100
511 (0.122 %)Summit
69 (0.099 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
78 (0.088 %)Line 50
87 (0.077 %)TIBCO iProcess
87 (0.077 %)BusinessWorks
87 (0.077 %)assyst
96 (0.066 %)SoftGrid
96 (0.066 %)Line 500
105 (0.055 %)Exchequer
114 (0.044 %)Tridion
114 (0.044 %)Dynamics GP
114 (0.044 %)Remedy ITSM
123 (0.033 %)Oracle EBS R12
132 (0.022 %)Changepoint
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11156 (12.78 %)TCP/IP
21028 (11.36 %)Firewall
31000 (11.05 %)SAN
4911 (10.07 %)DNS
5717 (7.924 %)LAN
6689 (7.615 %)WAN
7665 (7.350 %)Internet
8631 (6.974 %)DHCP
9581 (6.421 %)VPN
10261 (2.885 %)VoIP
11202 (2.233 %)NAS
12161 (1.779 %)Network Security
13144 (1.592 %)VLAN
14141 (1.558 %)Wireless
15110 (1.216 %)HTTP
16105 (1.160 %)iSCSI
17104 (1.149 %)Broadband
18103 (1.138 %)Unified Communications
19101 (1.116 %)MPLS
2088 (0.973 %)NetScaler
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14089 (45.19 %)SQL Server
22463 (27.22 %)SQL Server 2008
3733 (8.101 %)SQL Server 2005
4425 (4.697 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
5382 (4.222 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6225 (2.487 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
7185 (2.045 %)Data Warehouse
8173 (1.912 %)SQL Server 2000
9153 (1.691 %)MySQL
10114 (1.260 %)ETL
1192 (1.017 %)RDBMS
1276 (0.840 %)Oracle 8/8i
1373 (0.807 %)Oracle 11g
1460 (0.663 %)Oracle 10g
1558 (0.641 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1651 (0.564 %)BusinessObjects Data Services
1747 (0.519 %)Crystal Reports
1843 (0.475 %)BODI
1940 (0.442 %)BusinessObjects
2038 (0.420 %)OLAP
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11615 (17.85 %)NUnit
21562 (17.26 %)Rhino Mocks
3583 (6.443 %)Moq
4515 (5.692 %)Subversion
5314 (3.470 %)Visual Studio
6232 (2.564 %)Selenium
7228 (2.520 %)Cucumber
8125 (1.382 %)Team Foundation Server
9113 (1.249 %)MSTest
1034 (0.376 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1034 (0.376 %)Oracle Forms
1121 (0.232 %)MSI
1217 (0.188 %)NCover
1310 (0.111 %)Visual Studio Team System
1310 (0.111 %)MSBuild
149 (0.099 %)Talend Open Studio
158 (0.088 %)JIRA
167 (0.077 %)Expression Blend
167 (0.077 %)TortoiseSVN
167 (0.077 %)InterDev
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11376 (15.21 %)Finance
2334 (3.691 %)Games
3331 (3.658 %)Banking
4296 (3.271 %)Retail
5288 (3.183 %)Music
6265 (2.929 %)Telecoms
7146 (1.614 %)Back Office
8126 (1.393 %)Legal
9119 (1.315 %)Advertising
10113 (1.249 %)Marketing
11110 (1.216 %)Law
1281 (0.895 %)Investment Banking
1378 (0.862 %)Music Industry
1475 (0.829 %)Manufacturing
1562 (0.685 %)German Language
1655 (0.608 %)Financial Institution
1751 (0.564 %)French Language
1829 (0.321 %)Publishing
1926 (0.287 %)Front Office
2017 (0.188 %)Italian Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12960 (32.71 %)Developer
22165 (23.93 %).NET Developer
31211 (13.38 %)Analyst
4902 (9.969 %)Support Engineer
5827 (9.140 %)Consultant
6803 (8.875 %)C# Developer
7728 (8.046 %)Support Analyst
8647 (7.151 %)C# .NET Developer
9556 (6.145 %)ASP.NET Developer
10449 (4.962 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
11421 (4.653 %)Administrator
12415 (4.587 %)Technical Support
13374 (4.134 %)2nd Line Support
14362 (4.001 %)3rd Line Support
15353 (3.901 %)IT Support
16352 (3.890 %)Infrastructure Engineer
17246 (2.719 %)Architect
18237 (2.619 %)Desktop Support
19235 (2.597 %)Technical Consultant
20233 (2.575 %)Infrastructure Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1489 (5.405 %)Blackberry
2444 (4.907 %)Clustering
3341 (3.769 %)Computer Science
4335 (3.702 %)Tandem
5158 (1.746 %)Client/Server
6145 (1.603 %)Replication
7122 (1.348 %)Inversion of Control
8111 (1.227 %)Management Information System
9104 (1.149 %)Cloud Computing
10103 (1.138 %)iPhone
1196 (1.061 %)Social Network
1290 (0.995 %)Mathematics
1375 (0.829 %)Video Conferencing
1458 (0.641 %)N-Tier
1556 (0.619 %)PDA
1556 (0.619 %)Hedge funds
1652 (0.575 %)EqualLogic
1749 (0.542 %)iPad
1844 (0.486 %)SaaS
1844 (0.486 %)Fat Client
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15190 (57.36 %)Windows
22313 (25.56 %)Windows Server 2008
32229 (24.64 %)Windows Server 2003
41042 (11.52 %)Windows XP
5706 (7.803 %)Windows 7
6659 (7.283 %)Linux
7434 (4.797 %)Windows Vista
8289 (3.194 %)UNIX
9229 (2.531 %)Windows 2000 Server
10212 (2.343 %)Windows 2000
1190 (0.995 %)Solaris
1190 (0.995 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1278 (0.862 %)Mac OS X
1356 (0.619 %)AIX
1448 (0.531 %)Mac OS
1543 (0.475 %)Windows NT
1625 (0.276 %)Debian
1719 (0.210 %)SUSE
1817 (0.188 %)Android
1914 (0.155 %)Windows Mobile
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11995 (22.05 %)TDD
21856 (20.51 %)MVC
31636 (18.08 %)Scrum
41619 (17.89 %)Web Application Development
51347 (14.89 %)ITIL
61088 (12.02 %)BDD
7945 (10.44 %)Kanban
8680 (7.515 %)OO
9492 (5.438 %)Business Intelligence
10385 (4.255 %)Agile Software Development
11384 (4.244 %)Project Management
12372 (4.111 %)Disaster Recovery
13344 (3.802 %)Scrum-ban
14310 (3.426 %)Service Delivery
15278 (3.073 %)Domain-Driven Design
16276 (3.050 %)CQRS
17239 (2.641 %)MVVM
18233 (2.575 %)E-Commerce
19211 (2.332 %)CRM
20203 (2.244 %)Incident Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12827 (31.24 %)C#
22085 (23.04 %)SQL
3683 (7.549 %)VB.NET
4635 (7.018 %)JavaScript
5594 (6.565 %)T-SQL
6569 (6.289 %)VB
7178 (1.967 %)C
8166 (1.835 %)VBScript
9146 (1.614 %)Java
10128 (1.415 %)PowerShell
11109 (1.205 %)C++
1257 (0.630 %)Perl
1344 (0.486 %)VB6
1441 (0.453 %)Python
1537 (0.409 %)VBA
1636 (0.398 %)PHP
1734 (0.376 %)Shell Script
1734 (0.376 %)XPath
1824 (0.265 %)PL/SQL
1922 (0.243 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13905 (43.16 %)MCSE
23900 (43.10 %)MCP
32420 (26.75 %)MCTS
42147 (23.73 %)MCSD
52035 (22.49 %)MCAD
61681 (18.58 %)MCITP
71293 (14.29 %)Degree
81208 (13.35 %)Cisco Certification
91116 (12.33 %)MCSA
101033 (11.42 %)CCNA
11677 (7.482 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12455 (5.029 %)Citrix Certification
13368 (4.067 %)CCA
14239 (2.641 %)Security Cleared
15237 (2.619 %)CCNP
15237 (2.619 %)MCDBA
16233 (2.575 %)MCDST
17190 (2.100 %)CCEA
18185 (2.045 %)SC Cleared
19144 (1.592 %)CISSP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1363 (4.012 %)SLA
282 (0.906 %)ISO/IEC 27001
372 (0.796 %)ISO 9001
465 (0.718 %)QA
550 (0.553 %)PCI DSS
628 (0.309 %)Data Quality
715 (0.166 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
811 (0.122 %)WAI
98 (0.088 %)TickIT
106 (0.066 %)ISO 9000
113 (0.033 %)BS7799
121 (0.011 %)BS25999
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12893 (31.97 %)Active Directory
21654 (18.28 %)VMware Infrastructure
3707 (7.814 %)Hyper-V
4558 (6.167 %)vSphere
5519 (5.736 %)XenApp
6465 (5.139 %)VMware ESX
7314 (3.470 %)XenDesktop
8268 (2.962 %)XenServer
9213 (2.354 %)Terminal Services
10170 (1.879 %)VMware ESXi
11115 (1.271 %)Xen
12105 (1.160 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1392 (1.017 %)ISA Server
1479 (0.873 %)MetaFrame
1558 (0.641 %)Terminal Server
1655 (0.608 %)VMware Server
1734 (0.376 %)vCloud
1823 (0.254 %)UAG
1919 (0.210 %)Sendmail
2018 (0.199 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1356 (3.935 %)SCCM
2304 (3.360 %)Backup Exec
3260 (2.874 %)SCOM
4118 (1.304 %)WSUS
5107 (1.183 %)NetBackup
681 (0.895 %)Norton AntiVirus
770 (0.774 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
853 (0.586 %)vCenter
952 (0.575 %)SCVMM
1039 (0.431 %)MOM
1132 (0.354 %)Tivoli
1228 (0.309 %)ARCserve
1324 (0.265 %)OpenView
1324 (0.265 %)McAfee ePO
1422 (0.243 %)Nagios
1519 (0.210 %)SolarWinds Orion
1519 (0.210 %)EMC NetWorker
1618 (0.199 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1717 (0.188 %)MIMEsweeper
1717 (0.188 %)HP SIM
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15609 (61.99 %)Microsoft
22617 (28.92 %)VMware
31812 (20.03 %)Citrix
41499 (16.57 %)Cisco
5714 (7.891 %)HP
6372 (4.111 %)Oracle
7370 (4.089 %)Symantec
8286 (3.161 %)NetApp
9269 (2.973 %)Dell
10236 (2.608 %)EMC
11204 (2.255 %)Juniper
12177 (1.956 %)IBM
13154 (1.702 %)Avaya
14148 (1.636 %)CheckPoint
15136 (1.503 %)Apple
16135 (1.492 %)Lotus
17132 (1.459 %)Red Hat
18124 (1.370 %)Altiris
19103 (1.138 %)AppSense
2088 (0.973 %)McAfee