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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST)
Rank 199 211 190
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -21
Permanent jobs citing MCDST 14 5 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.257% 0.096% 0.178%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.993% 0.401% 0.788%
Number of salaries quoted 14 5 9
Average salary £27,500 £21,500 £19,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.90% +13.15%
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £22,500 £23,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.17%
All Qualifications
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1410 1246 1142
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 25.85% 24.00% 22.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1049 1033 946
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCDST
England

MCDST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire MCDST Jobs Demand Trend

MCDST
Salary Trend

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

Yorkshire MCDST Salary Trend

MCDST
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCDST within the Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +2 9 £27,500 +27.90%
South Yorkshire - 5 £21,500 -
MCDST
England

MCDST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing MCDST 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 MCDST.

1 24 (96.00%) Windows
2 23 (92.00%) Microsoft
3 21 (84.00%) Windows 7
4 15 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 15 (60.00%) MCSA
5 14 (56.00%) MS Excel
6 13 (52.00%) MCSE
6 13 (52.00%) Windows XP
7 12 (48.00%) ITIL
8 11 (44.00%) Client/Server
8 11 (44.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 11 (44.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 11 (44.00%) Hyper-V
9 10 (40.00%) MCITP
10 9 (36.00%) Degree
10 9 (36.00%) MS Exchange
10 9 (36.00%) Exchange Server 2010
11 8 (32.00%) MCAD
11 8 (32.00%) MS Office
11 8 (32.00%) Cisco
11 8 (32.00%) N-Tier
11 8 (32.00%) HP
11 8 (32.00%) Dell
11 8 (32.00%) Exchange Server 2003
11 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
11 8 (32.00%) MOS
11 8 (32.00%) Telecoms
11 8 (32.00%) Blackberry
12 7 (28.00%) Legal

MCDST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing MCDST 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 MCDST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.000%) CSS
1 1 (4.000%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 9 (36.00%) MS Exchange
1 9 (36.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 8 (32.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 14 (56.00%) MS Excel
2 8 (32.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.000%) DHCP
2 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.000%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (32.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (28.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.000%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Analyst
2 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 8 (32.00%) Team Leader
2 8 (32.00%) Service Analyst
2 8 (32.00%) Technical Analyst
2 8 (32.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Technical Services Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) IT Support
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Support
5 3 (12.00%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (12.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Support Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Desktop Support
6 2 (8.000%) Help Desk Support
7 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Desktop Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Desktop Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Client/Server
2 8 (32.00%) N-Tier
2 8 (32.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.000%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (96.00%) Windows
2 21 (84.00%) Windows 7
3 13 (52.00%) Windows XP
4 11 (44.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (44.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (12.00%) Mac OS X
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) ITIL
2 3 (12.00%) Service Management
3 1 (4.000%) CRM
3 1 (4.000%) Incident Management
3 1 (4.000%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (60.00%) MCSA
2 13 (52.00%) MCSE
3 10 (40.00%) MCITP
4 9 (36.00%) Degree
5 8 (32.00%) MCAD
5 8 (32.00%) MOS
6 4 (16.00%) MCP
7 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (12.00%) CCNA
8 1 (4.000%) HND
System Software
1 15 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (44.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 23 (92.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) Cisco
2 8 (32.00%) HP
2 8 (32.00%) Dell
3 3 (12.00%) Symantec
3 3 (12.00%) Sophos
3 3 (12.00%) Apple
3 3 (12.00%) VMware
4 2 (8.000%) Remedy