The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Abingdon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Abingdon region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 31 - 34
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MCP 7 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 4.605% - 0.645%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.42% - 2.500%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 1
Average salary £24,000 - £26,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Qualifications
Abingdon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
38 42 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 25.00% 41.58% 25.81%
Number of salaries quoted 21 39 37
Average salary £24,000 £44,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-45.45% +35.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £32,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £48,300 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCP
Oxfordshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Abingdon MCP Jobs Demand Trend

MCP
Salary Trend

This 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 18 June 2013, 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.

1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 5 (71.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (71.43%) MCITP
2 5 (71.43%) WatchGuard
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) SAN
2 5 (71.43%) Apple
2 5 (71.43%) Blackberry
2 5 (71.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) MCSE
2 5 (71.43%) MS Excel
2 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
2 5 (71.43%) MS Office
2 5 (71.43%) VoIP
2 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) CCNP
2 5 (71.43%) CCNA
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) Citrix
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) VBScript
3 2 (28.57%) VB

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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.

Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 5 (71.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) MS Office
1 5 (71.43%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) VoIP
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
1 5 (71.43%) SAN
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (71.43%) IT Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) IT Support
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) VBScript
2 2 (28.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (71.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (71.43%) MCITP
2 5 (71.43%) MCSE
2 5 (71.43%) CCNP
2 5 (71.43%) CCNA
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) Citrix
1 5 (71.43%) Apple
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
1 5 (71.43%) WatchGuard