The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Basildon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 17 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 Basildon region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 19 26 42
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +16
Permanent jobs citing MCP 17 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 12.23% 1.053% 0.613%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.53% 5.263% 1.818%
Number of salaries quoted 17 1 1
Average salary £47,500 £21,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+120.93% -33.84%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Basildon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
43 19 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 30.94% 20.00% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28 15 46
Average salary £47,500 £35,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.71% -30.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £21,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £65,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
Essex

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon 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 Basildon region.

Basildon MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 30 (100.00%) C#
1 30 (100.00%) .NET
1 30 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 30 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 30 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 30 (100.00%) MCAD
1 30 (100.00%) MCSD
1 30 (100.00%) TDD
1 30 (100.00%) NUnit
1 30 (100.00%) MCTS
1 30 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 30 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
2 29 (96.67%) NHibernate
2 29 (96.67%) MonoRail
3 26 (86.67%) WPF
3 26 (86.67%) Scrum
4 25 (83.33%) Silverlight
4 25 (83.33%) Tandem
5 16 (53.33%) SQL Server 2008
6 9 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
7 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 5 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
7 5 (16.67%) Web Application Development
7 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (16.67%) WCF
7 5 (16.67%) MVC
7 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET
8 4 (13.33%) Retail
8 4 (13.33%) Subversion
8 4 (13.33%) Ajax

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 Development
1 30 (100.00%) .NET
1 30 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
2 29 (96.67%) NHibernate
2 29 (96.67%) MonoRail
3 26 (86.67%) WPF
4 25 (83.33%) Silverlight
5 5 (16.67%) WCF
5 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
5 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 4 (13.33%) Ajax
7 1 (3.333%) Ninject
7 1 (3.333%) Unity DI Container
7 1 (3.333%) WinForms
7 1 (3.333%) Spring.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 16 (53.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 30 (100.00%) NUnit
1 30 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (13.33%) Subversion
3 1 (3.333%) MSTest
3 1 (3.333%) Moq
General
1 4 (13.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (100.00%) Developer
1 30 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (83.33%) Tandem
2 1 (3.333%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) TDD
2 26 (86.67%) Scrum
3 5 (16.67%) Web Application Development
3 5 (16.67%) MVC
4 4 (13.33%) OO
5 1 (3.333%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (3.333%) Kanban
5 1 (3.333%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (3.333%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) MCAD
1 30 (100.00%) MCSD
1 30 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 30 (100.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) Microsoft