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The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT jobs within the Abingdon region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkMicrosoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location
3 months to
5 Sep 2008
Same period last year
Rank5540
Rank change on same period last yearDown-15
Matching permanent IT job ads212
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.001 %0.005 %
As % of the category below1.408 %9.375 %
Salaries quoted29
Average minimum salary£38,500£22,000
Average salary£49,750£24,611
% change on same period last year+102.14 %
Average maximum salary£61,000£27,222
UK excluding London average salary£28,615£28,984
% change on same period last year-1.27 %
Abingdon IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
Abingdon
Matching permanent IT job ads142128
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.079 %0.054 %
Salaries quoted14294
Average minimum salary£32,139£32,591
Average salary£36,821£36,015
% change on same period last year+2.23 %
Average maximum salary£41,503£39,439
UK excluding London average salary£37,894£38,547
% change on same period last year-1.69 %
MCP OxfordshireMCP
Oxfordshire

MCP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCP across the Abingdon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Abingdon MCP Demand Trend

MCP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCP across the Abingdon region.

Abingdon MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Abingdon region citing MCP 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 MCP.

19 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
28 (88.89 %)Microsoft
36 (66.67 %)MCSE
36 (66.67 %)SQL Server
36 (66.67 %)Windows
36 (66.67 %)Windows Server 2003
45 (55.56 %)MCSA
45 (55.56 %)Active Directory
54 (44.44 %)MS Excel
63 (33.33 %).NET
63 (33.33 %)MCAD
63 (33.33 %)MCSD
63 (33.33 %)C#
63 (33.33 %)SQL
72 (22.22 %)Transact-SQL
72 (22.22 %)Linux
72 (22.22 %)CRM
72 (22.22 %)SharePoint
72 (22.22 %)Internet
72 (22.22 %)BizTalk Server
72 (22.22 %)Commerce Server
72 (22.22 %)Content Management Server
72 (22.22 %)Microsoft CRM
72 (22.22 %)Content Management
72 (22.22 %)MCTS
72 (22.22 %)Marketing
81 (11.11 %)Windows 2000 Server
81 (11.11 %)Red Hat Linux
81 (11.11 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
81 (11.11 %)Exchange Server 2003

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Abingdon region citing MCP 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 MCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Abingdon IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
13 (33.33 %).NET
21 (11.11 %)ASP
21 (11.11 %)ASP.NET
21 (11.11 %)DCOM
21 (11.11 %)XML
21 (11.11 %)XSLT
21 (11.11 %)HTML
Abingdon IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
12 (22.22 %)BizTalk Server
12 (22.22 %)Commerce Server
12 (22.22 %)Content Management Server
12 (22.22 %)SharePoint
21 (11.11 %)MS Exchange
21 (11.11 %)Exchange Server 2003
21 (11.11 %)IIS
21 (11.11 %)Lotus Domino
21 (11.11 %)Apache
21 (11.11 %)MTS
21 (11.11 %)Tomcat
Abingdon IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
14 (44.44 %)MS Excel
Abingdon IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
12 (22.22 %)Microsoft CRM
Abingdon IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
12 (22.22 %)Internet
21 (11.11 %)WAN
21 (11.11 %)SMTP
21 (11.11 %)Ethernet
21 (11.11 %)SNMP
21 (11.11 %)TCP/IP
21 (11.11 %)DNS
21 (11.11 %)Intranet
Abingdon IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (66.67 %)SQL Server
21 (11.11 %)MySQL
Abingdon IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12 (22.22 %)Marketing
21 (11.11 %)Education
Abingdon IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
15 (55.56 %)3rd Line Support
24 (44.44 %)Administrator
24 (44.44 %)Systems Administrator
24 (44.44 %)Systems Support
32 (22.22 %)Senior Consultant
32 (22.22 %)Consultant
32 (22.22 %)CRM Consultant
32 (22.22 %)Microsoft Consultant
32 (22.22 %)Senior Microsoft Consultant
41 (11.11 %)3rd Line Support Engineer
41 (11.11 %)Software Engineer
41 (11.11 %)Linux Engineer
41 (11.11 %)Senior Software Engineer
41 (11.11 %)Support Engineer
Abingdon IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (11.11 %)Client/Server
11 (11.11 %)CLARiiON
Abingdon IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
16 (66.67 %)Windows
16 (66.67 %)Windows Server 2003
22 (22.22 %)Linux
31 (11.11 %)Windows 2000
31 (11.11 %)NetWare
31 (11.11 %)Windows 2000 Server
31 (11.11 %)Red Hat Linux
31 (11.11 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Abingdon IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12 (22.22 %)CRM
12 (22.22 %)Content Management
21 (11.11 %)Business Analysis
21 (11.11 %)E-Commerce
21 (11.11 %)Project Management
Abingdon IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
13 (33.33 %)SQL
13 (33.33 %)C#
22 (22.22 %)Transact-SQL
31 (11.11 %)VB
31 (11.11 %)VB6
31 (11.11 %)PHP
Abingdon IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
19 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
26 (66.67 %)MCSE
35 (55.56 %)MCSA
43 (33.33 %)MCAD
43 (33.33 %)MCSD
52 (22.22 %)MCTS
61 (11.11 %)RHCE
61 (11.11 %)Linux+ Certification
61 (11.11 %)RHCT
Abingdon IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (11.11 %)SLA
Abingdon IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
15 (55.56 %)Active Directory
21 (11.11 %)ISA Server
Abingdon IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (11.11 %)MOM
11 (11.11 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 (11.11 %)Nagios
Abingdon IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
18 (88.89 %)Microsoft
21 (11.11 %)Sun
21 (11.11 %)EMC
21 (11.11 %)Intel
21 (11.11 %)Novell
21 (11.11 %)Lotus
21 (11.11 %)Cisco