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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 101 78 108
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +30
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 16 27 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 1.067% 1.901% 0.276%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.347% 6.081% 1.072%
Number of salaries quoted 16 27 4
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
West Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
478 444 373
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 31.89% 31.27% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 365 366 337
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,450 £27,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,350 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
South East

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region.

West Sussex MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Sussex MCTS Salary Histogram

MCTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the West Sussex region 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
Horsham - 13 £42,500 -
Crawley -8 2 £40,000 -10.11%
Chichester - 1 £27,000 -
MCTS
South East

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex 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 28 (93.33%) Windows
2 27 (90.00%) SQL Server
3 26 (86.67%) C#
3 26 (86.67%) MCP
3 26 (86.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (83.33%) MVC
4 25 (83.33%) MCAD
4 25 (83.33%) MCSD
4 25 (83.33%) .NET
4 25 (83.33%) ASP.NET
4 25 (83.33%) TDD
4 25 (83.33%) WCF
4 25 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 25 (83.33%) Dependency Injection
4 25 (83.33%) Ninject
4 25 (83.33%) Web Application Development
4 25 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 24 (80.00%) Microsoft
6 23 (76.67%) Scrum
6 23 (76.67%) WPF
6 23 (76.67%) NUnit
6 23 (76.67%) Continuous Integration
6 23 (76.67%) Kanban
6 23 (76.67%) Spring.NET
6 23 (76.67%) Unity DI Container
6 23 (76.67%) Castle Windsor
6 23 (76.67%) WinForms
6 23 (76.67%) Razor View Engine
6 23 (76.67%) Inversion of Control
6 23 (76.67%) MSTest

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex 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 25 (83.33%) .NET
1 25 (83.33%) ASP.NET
1 25 (83.33%) WCF
1 25 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 25 (83.33%) Ninject
1 25 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 23 (76.67%) WPF
2 23 (76.67%) Spring.NET
2 23 (76.67%) Unity DI Container
2 23 (76.67%) Castle Windsor
2 23 (76.67%) WinForms
2 23 (76.67%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (6.667%) KnockoutJS
3 2 (6.667%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (6.667%) MS Exchange
1 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (3.333%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (3.333%) MS Office
1 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) VoIP
1 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.333%) Internet
1 1 (3.333%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (90.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 23 (76.67%) NUnit
1 23 (76.67%) MSTest
1 23 (76.67%) Rhino Mocks
1 23 (76.67%) Moq
General
1 2 (6.667%) Music
1 2 (6.667%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 25 (83.33%) Developer
1 25 (83.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (6.667%) DBA
2 2 (6.667%) Implementation Engineer
2 2 (6.667%) SQL DBA
2 2 (6.667%) Citrix Engineer
3 1 (3.333%) Analyst
3 1 (3.333%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (3.333%) Teradata DBA
3 1 (3.333%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (3.333%) Support Analyst
3 1 (3.333%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 23 (76.67%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (6.667%) Streaming Music
2 2 (6.667%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 28 (93.33%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.333%) Windows Vista
4 1 (3.333%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.333%) Windows 8
4 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (83.33%) MVC
1 25 (83.33%) TDD
1 25 (83.33%) Dependency Injection
1 25 (83.33%) Web Application Development
2 23 (76.67%) Scrum
2 23 (76.67%) Continuous Integration
2 23 (76.67%) Kanban
2 23 (76.67%) MVVM
3 2 (6.667%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 26 (86.67%) C#
2 2 (6.667%) SQL
3 1 (3.333%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (86.67%) MCP
1 26 (86.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (83.33%) MCAD
2 25 (83.33%) MCSD
3 2 (6.667%) CCEE
3 2 (6.667%) CCAA
3 2 (6.667%) CCIA
3 2 (6.667%) Citrix Certification
3 2 (6.667%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (6.667%) MCITP
4 1 (3.333%) MCSA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (10.00%) vSphere
2 2 (6.667%) XenApp
2 2 (6.667%) XenServer
2 2 (6.667%) XenDesktop
3 1 (3.333%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 24 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (6.667%) Citrix
4 1 (3.333%) SonicWALL
4 1 (3.333%) HP
4 1 (3.333%) Dell
4 1 (3.333%) Avaya
4 1 (3.333%) Apple
4 1 (3.333%) Sage
Crawley, West Sussex
.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,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Crawley, South East
.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 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Horsham, South East
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Horsham, West Sussex
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013