The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Wigan region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 20 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 Wigan region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 24 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 7 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wigan 9.211% 0.800% -
As % of the Qualifications category 25.93% 2.326% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 0
Average salary £30,000 £22,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Wigan
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27 43 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wigan 35.53% 34.40% 34.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26 43 12
Average salary £33,000 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.35% +21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,250 £24,350 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,250 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
Manchester

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wigan 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 Wigan region.

Wigan MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wigan 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 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 12 (100.00%) MVC
2 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (75.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (41.67%) Node.js
3 5 (41.67%) Ninject
3 5 (41.67%) KnockoutJS
3 5 (41.67%) Web Application Development
3 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 5 (41.67%) Domain-Driven Design
3 5 (41.67%) Tandem
3 5 (41.67%) TDD
3 5 (41.67%) Retail
3 5 (41.67%) WCF
3 5 (41.67%) WPF
3 5 (41.67%) Dependency Injection
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (41.67%) MCP
3 5 (41.67%) MCAD
3 5 (41.67%) MCSD
4 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wigan 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (41.67%) Node.js
3 5 (41.67%) Ninject
3 5 (41.67%) KnockoutJS
3 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 5 (41.67%) WCF
3 5 (41.67%) WPF
4 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 3 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (25.00%) HTML
5 3 (25.00%) LINQ
5 3 (25.00%) jQuery
5 3 (25.00%) CSS
5 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) CMS
1 3 (25.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 5 (41.67%) Retail
2 3 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
1 12 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 7 (58.33%) C# Developer
2 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET Developer
2 7 (58.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 7 (58.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Mid-Level C# Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Mid-Level C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Tandem
2 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) MVC
2 5 (41.67%) TDD
2 5 (41.67%) Domain-Driven Design
2 5 (41.67%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (41.67%) Web Application Development
3 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) MCP
1 5 (41.67%) MCAD
1 5 (41.67%) MCSD
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (25.00%) MCPD
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft