MCTS Jobs in England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MCTS qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) UK / England
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	732	726	668
Rank change year-on-year	-6	-58
Permanent jobs citing MCTS	123	181	294
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England	0.15%	0.20%	0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category	0.60%	0.73%	1.03%
Number of salaries quoted	105	156	259
Median salary	£35,000	£35,500	£35,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-1.40%	+1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than	£22,500	£22,500	£22,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£55,000	£62,500	£55,000
UK excluding London median salary	£36,500	£32,500	£34,000
% change year-on-year	+12.30%	-4.41%

MCTS is in the academic qualifications and professional certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all academic qualifications and professional certifications cited in permanent job vacancies advertised in England.

Academic & Professional Certification England
Permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	20554	24654	28457
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England	24.62%	26.61%	27.36%
Number of salaries quoted	16095	20173	22718
Median salary	£46,500	£47,500	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-2.10%	+5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than	£27,500	£27,500	£27,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£75,000	£70,000	£72,500
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£41,500
% change year-on-year	-	+2.40%

MCTS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing MCTS as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Qualifications category.

MCTS
Salary Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCTS in England.

MCTS
Salary Histogram in England

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing MCTS in England over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

MCTS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the England region over the 3 months to 22 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
South East	+26	43	£23,500	-21.66%	5
London	0	38	£47,500	+5.55%	1
East of England	+16	30	£47,500	+7.95%
South West	+9	7	£36,500	+28.07%	1
West Midlands	+6	3	£36,250	+0.69%	1
Yorkshire	-3	2	£26,500	-55.83%	2
MCTS UK

MCTS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT jobs citing MCTS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the England region with a requirement for MCTS.

1	215 (100.00%)	Microsoft Certification
2	161 (74.88%)	Microsoft
3	138 (64.19%)	Windows
4	114 (53.02%)	SQL Server
5	113 (52.56%)	Active Directory
6	96 (44.65%)	MCITP
7	92 (42.79%)	MCP
8	91 (42.33%)	Windows Server
9	80 (37.21%)	SQL
9	80 (37.21%)	Degree
10	72 (33.49%)	MS Exchange
11	70 (32.56%)	Windows Server 2008
12	65 (30.23%)	.NET
13	63 (29.30%)	C#
14	62 (28.84%)	Windows 7

15	60 (27.91%)	ITIL
16	52 (24.19%)	ASP.NET
17	51 (23.72%)	Cisco
17	51 (23.72%)	SQL Server 2014
18	50 (23.26%)	Windows Server 2012
19	48 (22.33%)	Agile Software Development
20	45 (20.93%)	VMware
21	43 (20.00%)	Cisco Certification
22	42 (19.53%)	Disaster Recovery
23	41 (19.07%)	CCNA
24	38 (17.67%)	MCSE
24	38 (17.67%)	Citrix
24	38 (17.67%)	A+ Certification
25	37 (17.21%)	MCSA
25	37 (17.21%)	SQL Server Reporting Services

MCTS
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	72 (33.49%)	MS Exchange
2	15 (6.98%)	Exchange Server 2013
3	14 (6.51%)	CMS
3	14 (6.51%)	Exchange Server 2010
3	14 (6.51%)	SharePoint
4	13 (6.05%)	IIS
5	11 (5.12%)	Skype for Business
6	7 (3.26%)	Kentico
7	5 (2.33%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
8	3 (1.40%)	Exchange Server 2003
8	3 (1.40%)	OpenStack
8	3 (1.40%)	SharePoint 2013
9	2 (0.93%)	Exchange Server 2007
9	2 (0.93%)	SharePoint 2010
10	1 (0.47%)	Apache
10	1 (0.47%)	lighttpd

Applications
1	26 (12.09%)	Microsoft Office
2	5 (2.33%)	Microsoft Excel
3	2 (0.93%)	InfoPath

Business Applications
1	7 (3.26%)	Dynamics CRM
2	1 (0.47%)	Dynamics AX
2	1 (0.47%)	Dynamics NAV

Cloud Services
1	20 (9.30%)	Office 365
2	10 (4.65%)	Microsoft Azure
3	2 (0.93%)	Amazon AWS
3	2 (0.93%)	Dynamics 365
4	1 (0.47%)	Catchpoint

Communications & Networking
1	34 (15.81%)	DNS
2	32 (14.88%)	LAN
2	32 (14.88%)	WAN
3	31 (14.42%)	DHCP
4	25 (11.63%)	Firewall
5	21 (9.77%)	VPN
6	20 (9.30%)	SAN
7	12 (5.58%)	TCP/IP
8	11 (5.12%)	Network Security
9	9 (4.19%)	NAS
9	9 (4.19%)	VoIP
10	8 (3.72%)	iSCSI
11	6 (2.79%)	Wireless
12	5 (2.33%)	Software-Defined Networking
13	4 (1.86%)	IP Telephony
14	3 (1.40%)	Intrusion Detection
15	2 (0.93%)	Internet
15	2 (0.93%)	PBX
15	2 (0.93%)	VLAN
16	1 (0.47%)	Intranet

Database & Business Intelligence
1	114 (53.02%)	SQL Server
2	51 (23.72%)	SQL Server 2014
3	37 (17.21%)	SQL Server 2008
3	37 (17.21%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
4	36 (16.74%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	29 (13.49%)	SQL Server 2012
6	28 (13.02%)	SQL Server 2005
7	18 (8.37%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
8	15 (6.98%)	MySQL
9	13 (6.05%)	Hadoop
9	13 (6.05%)	RDBMS
9	13 (6.05%)	Relational Database
9	13 (6.05%)	SQL Server 2000
10	12 (5.58%)	Data Warehouse
10	12 (5.58%)	NoSQL
11	8 (3.72%)	MongoDB
12	5 (2.33%)	Azure SQL Database
12	5 (2.33%)	DTS
13	3 (1.40%)	Data Mart
14	1 (0.47%)	Apache Cassandra

Development Applications
1	26 (12.09%)	Moq
1	26 (12.09%)	NUnit
1	26 (12.09%)	Rhino Mocks
2	24 (11.16%)	Visual Studio
3	7 (3.26%)	Git (software)
3	7 (3.26%)	Octopus Deploy
3	7 (3.26%)	Team Foundation Server
3	7 (3.26%)	TeamCity
4	2 (0.93%)	WiX
5	1 (0.47%)	JIRA

General
1	26 (12.09%)	Finance
1	26 (12.09%)	Games
2	4 (1.86%)	Retail
3	3 (1.40%)	Legal
4	2 (0.93%)	Telecoms
5	1 (0.47%)	Manufacturing

Job Titles
1	57 (26.51%)	Analyst
2	52 (24.19%)	Developer
3	34 (15.81%)	.NET Developer
4	30 (13.95%)	IT Support
5	28 (13.02%)	Support Analyst
6	26 (12.09%)	2nd Line Support
6	26 (12.09%)	DBA
6	26 (12.09%)	Games Developer
6	26 (12.09%)	Graduate
6	26 (12.09%)	Graduate .NET Developer
6	26 (12.09%)	Graduate Developer
6	26 (12.09%)	Graduate Games Developer
6	26 (12.09%)	Junior
6	26 (12.09%)	Junior .NET Developer
6	26 (12.09%)	Junior Developer
6	26 (12.09%)	Junior Games Developer
6	26 (12.09%)	SQL DBA
7	24 (11.16%)	Support Engineer
8	18 (8.37%)	IT Analyst
8	18 (8.37%)	IT Support Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	65 (30.23%)	.NET
2	52 (24.19%)	ASP.NET
3	27 (12.56%)	.NET Framework
4	26 (12.09%)	ASP.NET MVC
4	26 (12.09%)	ASP.NET MVC 5
4	26 (12.09%)	LINQ
4	26 (12.09%)	NHibernate
5	13 (6.05%)	CSS
5	13 (6.05%)	HTML
6	11 (5.12%)	jQuery
7	10 (4.65%)	HTML5
8	8 (3.72%)	CSS3
8	8 (3.72%)	Software Packaging
9	7 (3.26%)	Google Maps API
10	5 (2.33%)	XSLT
11	3 (1.40%)	Ajax
11	3 (1.40%)	LINQ to SQL
11	3 (1.40%)	Web Services
11	3 (1.40%)	WinForms
11	3 (1.40%)	XML

Miscellaneous
1	15 (6.98%)	Driving Licence
2	13 (6.05%)	Replication
3	12 (5.58%)	Data Protection Act
4	8 (3.72%)	Management Information System
5	7 (3.26%)	Computer Science
5	7 (3.26%)	Data Centre
6	6 (2.79%)	Hedge funds
7	4 (1.86%)	Client/Server
7	4 (1.86%)	Fintech
7	4 (1.86%)	User Experience
8	3 (1.40%)	Analytical Skills
8	3 (1.40%)	Clustering
8	3 (1.40%)	Podcast
9	2 (0.93%)	Enterprise Software
10	1 (0.47%)	EPoS
10	1 (0.47%)	iPhone
10	1 (0.47%)	Linux Command Line
10	1 (0.47%)	Mobile App
10	1 (0.47%)	NHS

Operating Systems
1	138 (64.19%)	Windows
2	91 (42.33%)	Windows Server
3	70 (32.56%)	Windows Server 2008
4	62 (28.84%)	Windows 7
5	50 (23.26%)	Windows Server 2012
6	20 (9.30%)	Windows XP
7	13 (6.05%)	Linux
8	9 (4.19%)	Windows Server 2003
9	6 (2.79%)	Windows 10
10	5 (2.33%)	VMS
11	4 (1.86%)	Mac OS X
12	3 (1.40%)	Android
12	3 (1.40%)	Apple iOS
13	2 (0.93%)	Unix
13	2 (0.93%)	Windows 8
13	2 (0.93%)	Windows Vista
14	1 (0.47%)	CentOS
14	1 (0.47%)	Solaris
14	1 (0.47%)	Windows Mobile
14	1 (0.47%)	Windows Phone

Processes & Methodologies
1	60 (27.91%)	ITIL
2	48 (22.33%)	Agile Software Development
3	42 (19.53%)	Disaster Recovery
4	37 (17.21%)	Performance Tuning
5	35 (16.28%)	MVC
5	35 (16.28%)	Scrum
6	33 (15.35%)	BDD
7	30 (13.95%)	High Availability
8	29 (13.49%)	TDD
8	29 (13.49%)	Web Application Development
9	26 (12.09%)	Kanban
10	22 (10.23%)	Business Intelligence
11	15 (6.98%)	Change Management
12	14 (6.51%)	CRM
13	12 (5.58%)	Data Protection
13	12 (5.58%)	DevOps
13	12 (5.58%)	ITIL V3
13	12 (5.58%)	Migration
13	12 (5.58%)	Mobile Device Management
13	12 (5.58%)	Problem Management

Programming Languages
1	80 (37.21%)	SQL
2	63 (29.30%)	C#
3	23 (10.70%)	PowerShell
4	11 (5.12%)	JavaScript
4	11 (5.12%)	T-SQL
5	9 (4.19%)	Perl
6	8 (3.72%)	VBScript
7	7 (3.26%)	VB.NET
8	6 (2.79%)	VB
9	2 (0.93%)	Bash Shell
9	2 (0.93%)	Python

Qualifications
1	215 (100.00%)	Microsoft Certification
2	96 (44.65%)	MCITP
3	92 (42.79%)	MCP
4	80 (37.21%)	Degree
5	43 (20.00%)	Cisco Certification
6	41 (19.07%)	CCNA
7	38 (17.67%)	A+ Certification
7	38 (17.67%)	MCSE
8	37 (17.21%)	MCSA
9	28 (13.02%)	MCAD
9	28 (13.02%)	MCSD
10	22 (10.23%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11	19 (8.84%)	Network+ Certification
12	17 (7.91%)	MCDST
12	17 (7.91%)	Security Cleared
13	16 (7.44%)	CCAA
13	16 (7.44%)	Citrix Certification
13	16 (7.44%)	SC Cleared
14	10 (4.65%)	Computer Science Degree
15	8 (3.72%)	CCA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	17 (7.91%)	PCI DSS
2	12 (5.58%)	GDPR
3	10 (4.65%)	COBIT
4	8 (3.72%)	QA
5	5 (2.33%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	5 (2.33%)	SLA

System Software
1	113 (52.56%)	Active Directory
2	35 (16.28%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	16 (7.44%)	Hyper-V
4	13 (6.05%)	vSphere
5	9 (4.19%)	XenApp
6	5 (2.33%)	VMware ESXi
7	2 (0.93%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
7	2 (0.93%)	Terminal Services
7	2 (0.93%)	Virtual Servers
8	1 (0.47%)	vCloud

Systems Management
1	16 (7.44%)	SCCM
2	8 (3.72%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2	8 (3.72%)	SCDPM
3	2 (0.93%)	Backup Exec
3	2 (0.93%)	Nagios
3	2 (0.93%)	SCOM
4	1 (0.47%)	Cisco CUCM
4	1 (0.47%)	OpenView
4	1 (0.47%)	vCenter Server

Vendors
1	161 (74.88%)	Microsoft
2	51 (23.72%)	Cisco
3	45 (20.93%)	VMware
4	38 (17.67%)	Citrix
5	22 (10.23%)	HP
6	18 (8.37%)	Oracle
7	14 (6.51%)	SonicWALL
8	10 (4.65%)	ServiceNow
9	8 (3.72%)	3PAR
9	8 (3.72%)	CommVault
9	8 (3.72%)	DataCore
10	7 (3.26%)	Google
11	6 (2.79%)	Dell
12	5 (2.33%)	EMC
12	5 (2.33%)	NetApp
12	5 (2.33%)	Tableau
13	4 (1.86%)	Juniper
13	4 (1.86%)	Meraki
14	3 (1.40%)	LANDesk
14	3 (1.40%)	RedGate