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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 21 25 22
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 30 47 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 8.242% 8.969% 6.093%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.13% 26.70% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 30 45 17
Average salary £26,250 £31,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -21.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £21,500 £28,100
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £43,400 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Warrington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
103 176 77
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 28.30% 33.59% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 77 151 57
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £39,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -10.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,600 £21,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £51,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
Microsoft Certification
Cheshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend

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

Warrington Microsoft Certification Salary Trend

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Warrington region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Warrington Microsoft Certification Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington region 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.

1 62 (75.61%) C#
1 62 (75.61%) .NET
1 62 (75.61%) ASP.NET
2 61 (74.39%) MCTS
3 60 (73.17%) MCP
4 59 (71.95%) Windows
5 53 (64.63%) MVC
6 49 (59.76%) WCF
7 48 (58.54%) WPF
8 46 (56.10%) ASP.NET MVC
9 40 (48.78%) TDD
9 40 (48.78%) MCAD
9 40 (48.78%) MCSD
9 40 (48.78%) Web Application Development
9 40 (48.78%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 39 (47.56%) Ninject
10 39 (47.56%) WinForms
10 39 (47.56%) Dependency Injection
11 38 (46.34%) Inversion of Control
11 38 (46.34%) MSTest
11 38 (46.34%) MVVM
11 38 (46.34%) Rhino Mocks
11 38 (46.34%) Moq
11 38 (46.34%) Spring.NET
11 38 (46.34%) Continuous Integration
11 38 (46.34%) Kanban
11 38 (46.34%) Scrum
11 38 (46.34%) NUnit
11 38 (46.34%) Razor View Engine
11 38 (46.34%) Castle Windsor

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington region 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.

Application Development
1 62 (75.61%) .NET
1 62 (75.61%) ASP.NET
2 49 (59.76%) WCF
3 48 (58.54%) WPF
4 46 (56.10%) ASP.NET MVC
5 40 (48.78%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 39 (47.56%) Ninject
6 39 (47.56%) WinForms
7 38 (46.34%) Spring.NET
7 38 (46.34%) Razor View Engine
7 38 (46.34%) Castle Windsor
7 38 (46.34%) Unity DI Container
8 28 (34.15%) .NET Framework
9 18 (21.95%) XML
10 13 (15.85%) Ajax
10 13 (15.85%) CSS
10 13 (15.85%) HTML
11 9 (10.98%) REST
11 9 (10.98%) SOAP
11 9 (10.98%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 11 (13.41%) MS Exchange
2 6 (7.317%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (6.098%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (2.439%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.220%) Lync
5 1 (1.220%) Zimbra
5 1 (1.220%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (1.220%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 20 (24.39%) MS Excel
2 8 (9.756%) MS Office
3 1 (1.220%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.756%) TCP/IP
2 7 (8.537%) SAN
3 6 (7.317%) VPN
3 6 (7.317%) DNS
4 5 (6.098%) WAN
4 5 (6.098%) LAN
5 4 (4.878%) DHCP
5 4 (4.878%) NAS
6 3 (3.659%) Firewall
6 3 (3.659%) VoIP
7 1 (1.220%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (42.68%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.98%) SQL Server 2005
2 9 (10.98%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.220%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.220%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 38 (46.34%) MSTest
1 38 (46.34%) Rhino Mocks
1 38 (46.34%) Moq
1 38 (46.34%) NUnit
2 1 (1.220%) Git (software)
2 1 (1.220%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (29.27%) Finance
2 1 (1.220%) Music
2 1 (1.220%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 54 (65.85%) Developer
2 53 (64.63%) .NET Developer
3 18 (21.95%) Junior
3 18 (21.95%) Graduate
3 18 (21.95%) Junior Developer
3 18 (21.95%) Junior .NET Developer
3 18 (21.95%) Graduate Developer
3 18 (21.95%) Graduate .NET Developer
4 10 (12.20%) Software Developer
5 9 (10.98%) .NET Software Developer
5 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (9.756%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.317%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.317%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (7.317%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (4.878%) Technical Support
8 4 (4.878%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.878%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (3.659%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (2.439%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 38 (46.34%) Inversion of Control
2 26 (31.71%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (21.95%) Computer Science
4 9 (10.98%) N-Tier
4 9 (10.98%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.878%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.439%) Mathematics
6 2 (2.439%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.220%) Streaming Music
7 1 (1.220%) iPhone
7 1 (1.220%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.220%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.220%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 59 (71.95%) Windows
2 19 (23.17%) Windows Server 2003
3 15 (18.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (12.20%) Windows 7
5 8 (9.756%) Windows XP
5 8 (9.756%) Linux
6 4 (4.878%) Windows NT
7 1 (1.220%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.220%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.220%) CentOS
7 1 (1.220%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (64.63%) MVC
2 40 (48.78%) TDD
2 40 (48.78%) Web Application Development
3 39 (47.56%) Dependency Injection
4 38 (46.34%) MVVM
4 38 (46.34%) Continuous Integration
4 38 (46.34%) Kanban
4 38 (46.34%) Scrum
5 22 (26.83%) OO
6 14 (17.07%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (6.098%) ITIL
8 4 (4.878%) PRINCE2
8 4 (4.878%) SEO
8 4 (4.878%) Change Management
9 3 (3.659%) Time Management
10 2 (2.439%) OOD
10 2 (2.439%) OOP
11 1 (1.220%) Domain-Driven Design
11 1 (1.220%) Business Analysis
11 1 (1.220%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 62 (75.61%) C#
2 23 (28.05%) SQL
3 18 (21.95%) JavaScript
4 13 (15.85%) T-SQL
5 9 (10.98%) XPath
6 2 (2.439%) C
7 1 (1.220%) Ruby
7 1 (1.220%) VB
7 1 (1.220%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (74.39%) MCTS
2 60 (73.17%) MCP
3 40 (48.78%) MCAD
3 40 (48.78%) MCSD
4 11 (13.41%) MCSE
5 10 (12.20%) MCITP
6 9 (10.98%) MCPD
7 7 (8.537%) MCSA
8 5 (6.098%) CCNA
8 5 (6.098%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (4.878%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.439%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (1.220%) MCDST
11 1 (1.220%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.220%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 17 (20.73%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.098%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.439%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.439%) vSphere
Vendors
1 37 (45.12%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.41%) VMware
3 8 (9.756%) Citrix
4 7 (8.537%) Cisco
5 2 (2.439%) Sophos
5 2 (2.439%) SonicWALL
5 2 (2.439%) Draytek
6 1 (1.220%) Facebook
6 1 (1.220%) NetApp
6 1 (1.220%) Red Hat
Warrington, North West
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
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