The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 64 77 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 13 8 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 1.479% 0.798% -
As % of the Qualifications category 6.436% 2.299% -
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 0
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
202 348 296
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 22.98% 34.70% 27.16%
Number of salaries quoted 188 311 281
Average salary £40,500 £39,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.84% +18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £25,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCTS
South West

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire 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
Swindon +14 12 £47,500 -
MCTS
South West

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 34 (82.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (63.41%) C#
2 26 (63.41%) .NET
2 26 (63.41%) MCP
2 26 (63.41%) MCAD
2 26 (63.41%) MCSD
2 26 (63.41%) TDD
3 25 (60.98%) WCF
3 25 (60.98%) ASP.NET MVC
3 25 (60.98%) Razor View Engine
3 25 (60.98%) Web Application Development
3 25 (60.98%) ASP.NET
3 25 (60.98%) MVC
3 25 (60.98%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 22 (53.66%) SQL Server
5 19 (46.34%) Windows
5 19 (46.34%) Rhino Mocks
5 19 (46.34%) NUnit
6 14 (34.15%) BDD
7 13 (31.71%) Moq
7 13 (31.71%) NHibernate
7 13 (31.71%) Kanban
7 13 (31.71%) OO
7 13 (31.71%) Active Directory
7 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
7 13 (31.71%) Scrum
8 12 (29.27%) VMware
8 12 (29.27%) VMware Infrastructure
8 12 (29.27%) Castle Windsor
9 11 (26.83%) Windows Server 2008

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 26 (63.41%) .NET
2 25 (60.98%) WCF
2 25 (60.98%) ASP.NET MVC
2 25 (60.98%) Razor View Engine
2 25 (60.98%) ASP.NET
2 25 (60.98%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 13 (31.71%) NHibernate
4 12 (29.27%) Castle Windsor
5 7 (17.07%) LINQ
5 7 (17.07%) HTML5
6 6 (14.63%) Unity DI Container
6 6 (14.63%) WinForms
6 6 (14.63%) Spring.NET
6 6 (14.63%) Ninject
6 6 (14.63%) MonoRail
6 6 (14.63%) WPF
6 6 (14.63%) Ajax
7 5 (12.20%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.439%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 8 (19.51%) MS Exchange
1 8 (19.51%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (4.878%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (4.878%) Lync
2 2 (4.878%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (2.439%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.439%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (14.63%) MS Office
2 2 (4.878%) Office 365
2 2 (4.878%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Changepoint
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) Internet
2 5 (12.20%) LAN
2 5 (12.20%) WAN
2 5 (12.20%) DHCP
2 5 (12.20%) DNS
3 1 (2.439%) SAN
3 1 (2.439%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (53.66%) SQL Server
2 8 (19.51%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (17.07%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (2.439%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (46.34%) Rhino Mocks
1 19 (46.34%) NUnit
2 13 (31.71%) Moq
3 6 (14.63%) MSTest
3 6 (14.63%) Subversion
General
1 7 (17.07%) Games
2 6 (14.63%) Retail
3 5 (12.20%) Finance
Job Titles
1 26 (63.41%) Developer
1 26 (63.41%) .NET Developer
2 5 (12.20%) Graduate .NET Developer
2 5 (12.20%) Graduate
2 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Junior Developer
2 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Manager
2 5 (12.20%) Junior .NET Developer
2 5 (12.20%) Graduate Developer
2 5 (12.20%) Junior
3 3 (7.317%) Consultant
3 3 (7.317%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (7.317%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.878%) Senior Manager
4 2 (4.878%) Server Support
4 2 (4.878%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.439%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 1 (2.439%) SQL DBA
5 1 (2.439%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (2.439%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (14.63%) Inversion of Control
2 5 (12.20%) Computer Science
2 5 (12.20%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.439%) Clustering
3 1 (2.439%) Replication
3 1 (2.439%) EqualLogic
3 1 (2.439%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 19 (46.34%) Windows
2 11 (26.83%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (21.95%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (17.07%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (63.41%) TDD
2 25 (60.98%) Web Application Development
2 25 (60.98%) MVC
3 14 (34.15%) BDD
4 13 (31.71%) Kanban
4 13 (31.71%) OO
4 13 (31.71%) Scrum
5 8 (19.51%) ITIL
6 7 (17.07%) Domain-Driven Design
6 7 (17.07%) CQRS
7 6 (14.63%) Dependency Injection
7 6 (14.63%) MVVM
7 6 (14.63%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (4.878%) Identity Management
8 2 (4.878%) Migration
9 1 (2.439%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 26 (63.41%) C#
2 3 (7.317%) SQL
3 1 (2.439%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.439%) VB
3 1 (2.439%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (82.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (63.41%) MCP
2 26 (63.41%) MCAD
2 26 (63.41%) MCSD
3 8 (19.51%) MCITP
4 7 (17.07%) MCSA
5 6 (14.63%) MCSE
5 6 (14.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (12.20%) Degree
6 5 (12.20%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (12.20%) CCNA
7 1 (2.439%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (2.439%) CCEA
7 1 (2.439%) CCEE
7 1 (2.439%) CCAA
7 1 (2.439%) CCIA
7 1 (2.439%) NCDA
7 1 (2.439%) NCIE
7 1 (2.439%) VCAP
7 1 (2.439%) VCDX
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) Active Directory
2 12 (29.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.439%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.439%) VMware ESX
3 1 (2.439%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.439%) XenApp
3 1 (2.439%) XenServer
3 1 (2.439%) XenDesktop
3 1 (2.439%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (7.317%) SCOM
2 2 (4.878%) SCCM
3 1 (2.439%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (29.27%) VMware
3 11 (26.83%) Cisco
4 6 (14.63%) HP
5 5 (12.20%) IBM
6 1 (2.439%) NetApp
6 1 (2.439%) Dell
6 1 (2.439%) EMC
6 1 (2.439%) Citrix
6 1 (2.439%) Oracle
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