The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 21 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 Warrington region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 32 39 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 16 30 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 4.457% 5.837% -
As % of the Qualifications category 15.69% 17.75% -
Number of salaries quoted 15 29 0
Average salary £25,000 £31,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.63% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Warrington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
102 169 77
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 28.41% 32.88% 27.21%
Number of salaries quoted 74 145 59
Average salary £34,000 £33,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.49% -16.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,400 £21,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
Cheshire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Warrington region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Warrington MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 65 (97.01%) Microsoft Certification
2 62 (92.54%) MCP
3 55 (82.09%) Windows
4 53 (79.10%) ASP.NET
4 53 (79.10%) C#
4 53 (79.10%) .NET
4 53 (79.10%) MVC
4 53 (79.10%) WCF
4 53 (79.10%) WPF
5 46 (68.66%) ASP.NET MVC
6 43 (64.18%) WinForms
6 43 (64.18%) MCAD
6 43 (64.18%) MCSD
6 43 (64.18%) Dependency Injection
6 43 (64.18%) Ninject
6 43 (64.18%) Web Application Development
6 43 (64.18%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 43 (64.18%) TDD
7 42 (62.69%) NUnit
7 42 (62.69%) Continuous Integration
7 42 (62.69%) Kanban
7 42 (62.69%) Unity DI Container
7 42 (62.69%) Castle Windsor
7 42 (62.69%) Razor View Engine
7 42 (62.69%) Inversion of Control
7 42 (62.69%) MSTest
7 42 (62.69%) MVVM
7 42 (62.69%) Rhino Mocks
7 42 (62.69%) Moq
7 42 (62.69%) Spring.NET

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 53 (79.10%) ASP.NET
1 53 (79.10%) .NET
1 53 (79.10%) WCF
1 53 (79.10%) WPF
2 46 (68.66%) ASP.NET MVC
3 43 (64.18%) WinForms
3 43 (64.18%) Ninject
3 43 (64.18%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 42 (62.69%) Unity DI Container
4 42 (62.69%) Castle Windsor
4 42 (62.69%) Razor View Engine
4 42 (62.69%) Spring.NET
5 29 (43.28%) .NET Framework
6 10 (14.93%) XML
6 10 (14.93%) XSLT
7 3 (4.478%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 1 (1.493%) Node.js
8 1 (1.493%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 7 (10.45%) MS Exchange
2 5 (7.463%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (2.985%) Lync
4 1 (1.493%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (1.493%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.493%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.493%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 8 (11.94%) MS Office
2 7 (10.45%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.493%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) SAN
2 6 (8.955%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.955%) VPN
3 4 (5.970%) NAS
4 3 (4.478%) Firewall
5 2 (2.985%) DNS
5 2 (2.985%) LAN
5 2 (2.985%) WAN
5 2 (2.985%) NetScaler
5 2 (2.985%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (50.75%) SQL Server
2 10 (14.93%) SQL Server 2008
2 10 (14.93%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 42 (62.69%) NUnit
1 42 (62.69%) MSTest
1 42 (62.69%) Rhino Mocks
1 42 (62.69%) Moq
2 1 (1.493%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (41.79%) Finance
2 1 (1.493%) Music
Job Titles
1 44 (65.67%) Developer
2 43 (64.18%) .NET Developer
3 19 (28.36%) Graduate
3 19 (28.36%) Junior
3 19 (28.36%) Junior .NET Developer
3 19 (28.36%) Graduate Developer
3 19 (28.36%) Junior Developer
3 19 (28.36%) Graduate .NET Developer
4 9 (13.43%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.955%) Support Engineer
5 6 (8.955%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (8.955%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (7.463%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.985%) Consultant
7 2 (2.985%) Technical Support
7 2 (2.985%) Technical Support Engineer
7 2 (2.985%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (2.985%) Virtualisation Consultant
8 1 (1.493%) Citrix Consultant
8 1 (1.493%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 42 (62.69%) Inversion of Control
2 29 (43.28%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (28.36%) Computer Science
4 10 (14.93%) Client/Server
4 10 (14.93%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.493%) iPhone
5 1 (1.493%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.493%) Celerra
5 1 (1.493%) Streaming Music
5 1 (1.493%) EqualLogic
5 1 (1.493%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 55 (82.09%) Windows
2 12 (17.91%) Windows Server 2008
2 12 (17.91%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (10.45%) Windows 7
4 6 (8.955%) Windows XP
5 5 (7.463%) Linux
6 4 (5.970%) Windows NT
7 1 (1.493%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.493%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (79.10%) MVC
2 43 (64.18%) Dependency Injection
2 43 (64.18%) Web Application Development
2 43 (64.18%) TDD
3 42 (62.69%) Continuous Integration
3 42 (62.69%) Kanban
3 42 (62.69%) MVVM
3 42 (62.69%) Scrum
4 26 (38.81%) OO
5 14 (20.90%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (7.463%) ITIL
7 4 (5.970%) Change Management
7 4 (5.970%) PRINCE2
8 2 (2.985%) OOD
8 2 (2.985%) OOP
9 1 (1.493%) Performance Management
9 1 (1.493%) Business Analysis
9 1 (1.493%) Domain-Driven Design
9 1 (1.493%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 53 (79.10%) C#
2 10 (14.93%) JavaScript
2 10 (14.93%) SQL
2 10 (14.93%) XPath
3 1 (1.493%) VB
3 1 (1.493%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 65 (97.01%) Microsoft Certification
2 62 (92.54%) MCP
3 43 (64.18%) MCAD
3 43 (64.18%) MCSD
4 10 (14.93%) MCPD
5 8 (11.94%) MCSE
5 8 (11.94%) MCITP
6 5 (7.463%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (7.463%) CCNA
7 4 (5.970%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (5.970%) MCSA
7 4 (5.970%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.985%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (2.985%) CCEA
8 2 (2.985%) CCEE
8 2 (2.985%) CCAA
8 2 (2.985%) CCIA
9 1 (1.493%) VCDX
9 1 (1.493%) VCAP
9 1 (1.493%) CCA
System Software
1 11 (16.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.463%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.970%) vSphere
4 2 (2.985%) XenApp
4 2 (2.985%) XenServer
4 2 (2.985%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.493%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.493%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.493%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 17 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.43%) VMware
3 7 (10.45%) Citrix
4 3 (4.478%) Cisco
5 2 (2.985%) HP
6 1 (1.493%) AppSense
6 1 (1.493%) Veeam
6 1 (1.493%) IBM
6 1 (1.493%) Dell
6 1 (1.493%) EMC
6 1 (1.493%) NetApp
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