The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Wakefield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS 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 Wakefield region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 0.699% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.961% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £37,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Wakefield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
51 48 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 35.66% 48.00% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 40 28 32
Average salary £43,750 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.37% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £25,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
West Yorkshire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wakefield MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCTS across the Wakefield region.

Wakefield MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) MCAD
2 1 (50.00%) MCSD
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) MCITP
2 1 (50.00%) Streaming Music
2 1 (50.00%) Music
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Ninject
1 1 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Music
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Support
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Streaming Music
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) MCITP
2 1 (50.00%) MCAD
2 1 (50.00%) MCSD
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
Wakefield, Yorkshire
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, KnockoutJS, T4 Template, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Node.js,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013