The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT jobs advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 171 138 167
Rank change year-on-year
-33 +29
Permanent jobs citing MCTS 46 72 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.827% 1.363% 0.647%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.217% 5.737% 2.870%
Number of salaries quoted 43 70 31
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £52,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Qualifications
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1430 1255 1115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 25.71% 23.76% 22.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1066 1043 922
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,225 £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 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCTS
England

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire MCTS Salary Trend

MCTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCTS across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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 -1 39 £37,500 -9.09%
South Yorkshire -10 7 £37,500 +7.14%
East Yorkshire - 1 - -
MCTS
England

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 94 (83.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 88 (78.57%) MCP
3 79 (70.54%) SQL Server
4 71 (63.39%) .NET
5 64 (57.14%) C#
5 64 (57.14%) ASP.NET
6 63 (56.25%) MVC
6 63 (56.25%) TDD
6 63 (56.25%) MCAD
6 63 (56.25%) MCSD
6 63 (56.25%) WCF
6 63 (56.25%) ASP.NET MVC
6 63 (56.25%) Web Application Development
6 63 (56.25%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 62 (55.36%) Windows
8 56 (50.00%) Ninject
8 56 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
9 52 (46.43%) Microsoft
10 34 (30.36%) Domain-Driven Design
10 34 (30.36%) Node.js
10 34 (30.36%) KnockoutJS
11 33 (29.46%) WPF
12 29 (25.89%) Razor View Engine
12 29 (25.89%) Castle Windsor
12 29 (25.89%) Rhino Mocks
12 29 (25.89%) NUnit
12 29 (25.89%) Scrum
13 27 (24.11%) MS Excel
14 26 (23.21%) Active Directory
15 25 (22.32%) VMware

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 71 (63.39%) .NET
2 64 (57.14%) ASP.NET
3 63 (56.25%) WCF
3 63 (56.25%) ASP.NET MVC
3 63 (56.25%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 56 (50.00%) Ninject
5 34 (30.36%) Node.js
5 34 (30.36%) KnockoutJS
6 33 (29.46%) WPF
7 29 (25.89%) Razor View Engine
7 29 (25.89%) Castle Windsor
8 22 (19.64%) WinForms
8 22 (19.64%) Unity DI Container
8 22 (19.64%) Spring.NET
9 7 (6.250%) NHibernate
9 7 (6.250%) MonoRail
10 1 (0.893%) HTML
10 1 (0.893%) COM
10 1 (0.893%) CSS
10 1 (0.893%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 23 (20.54%) MS Exchange
2 17 (15.18%) Exchange Server 2010
3 13 (11.61%) Exchange Server 2007
4 11 (9.821%) Lync
4 11 (9.821%) Office Communications Server
5 10 (8.929%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.679%) IIS
6 3 (2.679%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (1.786%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.893%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.893%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 27 (24.11%) MS Excel
2 10 (8.929%) MS Office
3 3 (2.679%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (0.893%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.86%) SAN
2 11 (9.821%) Broadband
3 10 (8.929%) DHCP
3 10 (8.929%) DNS
3 10 (8.929%) Firewall
4 9 (8.036%) NAS
5 7 (6.250%) Network Security
5 7 (6.250%) iSCSI
6 5 (4.464%) Unified Communications
7 4 (3.571%) NetScaler
7 4 (3.571%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.786%) PBX
8 2 (1.786%) VoIP
8 2 (1.786%) Internet
8 2 (1.786%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.893%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (70.54%) SQL Server
2 19 (16.96%) SQL Server 2012
3 10 (8.929%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (8.036%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (1.786%) MySQL
6 1 (0.893%) OLTP
6 1 (0.893%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.893%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.893%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 29 (25.89%) Rhino Mocks
1 29 (25.89%) NUnit
2 22 (19.64%) Moq
2 22 (19.64%) MSTest
3 1 (0.893%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.893%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (19.64%) Music
2 17 (15.18%) Telecoms
3 12 (10.71%) Retail
4 8 (7.143%) Finance
5 1 (0.893%) Games
Job Titles
1 64 (57.14%) Developer
2 63 (56.25%) .NET Developer
3 12 (10.71%) Administrator
4 10 (8.929%) Consultant
5 8 (7.143%) Wintel Engineer
5 8 (7.143%) SharePoint Administrator
6 7 (6.250%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.357%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (5.357%) IT Support
8 4 (3.571%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (2.679%) Senior Consultant
9 3 (2.679%) Technical Consultant
9 3 (2.679%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 3 (2.679%) Citrix Consultant
9 3 (2.679%) Virtualisation Consultant
9 3 (2.679%) VMware Consultant
9 3 (2.679%) Messaging Engineer
10 2 (1.786%) SharePoint Consultant
10 2 (1.786%) Microsoft Consultant
10 2 (1.786%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.64%) Inversion of Control
2 18 (16.07%) Tandem
3 12 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (9.821%) Streaming Music
5 9 (8.036%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.786%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.786%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.893%) CLARiiON
7 1 (0.893%) Clustering
7 1 (0.893%) EqualLogic
7 1 (0.893%) Social Media
7 1 (0.893%) SaaS
7 1 (0.893%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.893%) Celerra
7 1 (0.893%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 62 (55.36%) Windows
2 19 (16.96%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (7.143%) Windows 7
4 6 (5.357%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.786%) Linux
6 1 (0.893%) UNIX
6 1 (0.893%) AIX
6 1 (0.893%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (56.25%) MVC
1 63 (56.25%) TDD
1 63 (56.25%) Web Application Development
2 56 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
3 34 (30.36%) Domain-Driven Design
4 29 (25.89%) Scrum
5 22 (19.64%) Continuous Integration
5 22 (19.64%) Kanban
5 22 (19.64%) MVVM
6 13 (11.61%) ITIL
7 11 (9.821%) Agile Software Development
8 10 (8.929%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (8.036%) Software Deployment
9 9 (8.036%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (6.250%) Network Load Balancing
11 4 (3.571%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (3.571%) Incident Management
12 2 (1.786%) Capacity Planning
12 2 (1.786%) TOGAF
12 2 (1.786%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (57.14%) C#
2 21 (18.75%) SQL
3 18 (16.07%) VB.NET
4 17 (15.18%) VB
5 2 (1.786%) C
6 1 (0.893%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.893%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 94 (83.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 88 (78.57%) MCP
3 63 (56.25%) MCAD
3 63 (56.25%) MCSD
4 25 (22.32%) MCITP
5 16 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 14 (12.50%) MCSE
7 12 (10.71%) Citrix Certification
8 11 (9.821%) Degree
8 11 (9.821%) CCA
8 11 (9.821%) MCSA
9 7 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (6.250%) CCNA
10 5 (4.464%) CCEE
10 5 (4.464%) CCIA
11 4 (3.571%) CCAA
11 4 (3.571%) CCEA
12 2 (1.786%) NCIE
12 2 (1.786%) CCNP
13 1 (0.893%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.036%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.571%) SLA
3 1 (0.893%) QA
System Software
1 26 (23.21%) Active Directory
2 17 (15.18%) XenApp
2 17 (15.18%) XenServer
2 17 (15.18%) XenDesktop
2 17 (15.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 11 (9.821%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (8.036%) vSphere
6 7 (6.250%) NFS
7 4 (3.571%) Forefront TMG
8 2 (1.786%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.893%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.893%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 13 (11.61%) WSUS
2 6 (5.357%) SCOM
3 5 (4.464%) SCCM
4 3 (2.679%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 52 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 25 (22.32%) VMware
3 20 (17.86%) Citrix
4 15 (13.39%) HP
5 10 (8.929%) EMC
6 8 (7.143%) CommVault
7 7 (6.250%) LANDesk
8 6 (5.357%) Cisco
9 4 (3.571%) Veeam
9 4 (3.571%) IBM
10 3 (2.679%) Dell
10 3 (2.679%) NetApp
11 2 (1.786%) Avaya
11 2 (1.786%) Remedy
12 1 (0.893%) Symantec
12 1 (0.893%) Omniture
12 1 (0.893%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.893%) 3PAR
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