The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 21 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 Basingstoke region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 55 63 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Permanent jobs citing MCP 23 8 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 3.221% 1.322% -
As % of the Qualifications category 8.273% 5.161% -
Number of salaries quoted 20 8 0
Average salary £27,500 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.25% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Qualifications
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
278 155 144
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 38.94% 25.62% 27.80%
Number of salaries quoted 201 115 93
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
Hampshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Basingstoke MCP Salary Histogram

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 61 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 51 (83.61%) Windows
3 32 (52.46%) Windows Server 2003
3 32 (52.46%) Windows Server 2008
4 31 (50.82%) MCSE
5 30 (49.18%) SQL
6 27 (44.26%) SQL Server
7 24 (39.34%) Linux
7 24 (39.34%) Cisco
7 24 (39.34%) CCNA
7 24 (39.34%) SAN
7 24 (39.34%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (39.34%) VMware
7 24 (39.34%) SaaS
8 22 (36.07%) Cloud Computing
8 22 (36.07%) Firewall
8 22 (36.07%) MySQL
9 20 (32.79%) Project Management
10 19 (31.15%) SLA
10 19 (31.15%) MVC
10 19 (31.15%) .NET
10 19 (31.15%) C#
10 19 (31.15%) ASP.NET
10 19 (31.15%) MCAD
10 19 (31.15%) MCSD
10 19 (31.15%) PowerShell
10 19 (31.15%) WCF
10 19 (31.15%) TDD
10 19 (31.15%) MCTS
10 19 (31.15%) ASP.NET MVC

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 19 (31.15%) .NET
1 19 (31.15%) ASP.NET
1 19 (31.15%) WCF
1 19 (31.15%) ASP.NET MVC
1 19 (31.15%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 17 (27.87%) Castle Windsor
2 17 (27.87%) Razor View Engine
3 14 (22.95%) WPF
3 14 (22.95%) WinForms
4 10 (16.39%) Ninject
5 9 (14.75%) NHibernate
6 8 (13.11%) Unity DI Container
6 8 (13.11%) Spring.NET
7 7 (11.48%) LAMP
7 7 (11.48%) LINQ
8 6 (9.836%) Lucene
9 5 (8.197%) HTML
9 5 (8.197%) XML
10 3 (4.918%) MonoRail
11 2 (3.279%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 10 (16.39%) IIS
2 8 (13.11%) Exchange Server 2010
2 8 (13.11%) Exchange Server 2003
2 8 (13.11%) Exchange Server 2007
2 8 (13.11%) MS Exchange
3 2 (3.279%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.639%) Lync
4 1 (1.639%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (9.836%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.918%) MS Office
3 1 (1.639%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (39.34%) SAN
2 22 (36.07%) Firewall
3 4 (6.557%) IP Telephony
4 2 (3.279%) Network Security
4 2 (3.279%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (3.279%) LAN
4 2 (3.279%) MPLS
4 2 (3.279%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (44.26%) SQL Server
2 22 (36.07%) MySQL
3 15 (24.59%) SQL Server 2008
4 8 (13.11%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (13.11%) SQL Server 2000
5 4 (6.557%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) NUnit
1 17 (27.87%) Rhino Mocks
2 8 (13.11%) MSTest
2 8 (13.11%) Moq
3 6 (9.836%) Cucumber
3 6 (9.836%) Selenium
4 1 (1.639%) Subversion
General
1 6 (9.836%) Finance
2 4 (6.557%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.279%) Military
3 2 (3.279%) Aerospace
3 2 (3.279%) Games
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Developer
1 19 (31.15%) .NET Developer
2 13 (21.31%) Systems Engineer
3 10 (16.39%) Operations Engineer
4 6 (9.836%) Windows Server Engineer
4 6 (9.836%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.836%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (9.836%) Server Engineer
4 6 (9.836%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.557%) Consultant
5 4 (6.557%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 3 (4.918%) Analyst
7 2 (3.279%) IT Support
7 2 (3.279%) Desktop Engineer
7 2 (3.279%) IT Support Technician
7 2 (3.279%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (3.279%) Security Analyst
7 2 (3.279%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.279%) Support Technician
7 2 (3.279%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 24 (39.34%) SaaS
2 22 (36.07%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (13.11%) Inversion of Control
4 6 (9.836%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.279%) CESG
5 2 (3.279%) Tandem
5 2 (3.279%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.279%) Blackberry
5 2 (3.279%) Firmware
5 2 (3.279%) PaaS
5 2 (3.279%) IaaS
6 1 (1.639%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 51 (83.61%) Windows
2 32 (52.46%) Windows Server 2003
2 32 (52.46%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (39.34%) Linux
4 17 (27.87%) Windows 7
5 8 (13.11%) Windows XP
6 2 (3.279%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) Project Management
2 19 (31.15%) MVC
2 19 (31.15%) TDD
2 19 (31.15%) Web Application Development
3 17 (27.87%) Scrum
4 14 (22.95%) Kanban
5 13 (21.31%) ITIL
6 10 (16.39%) Dependency Injection
7 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (13.11%) Capacity Management
8 8 (13.11%) MVVM
8 8 (13.11%) Problem Management
8 8 (13.11%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (13.11%) Performance Management
9 7 (11.48%) OO
10 6 (9.836%) BDD
10 6 (9.836%) Scrum-ban
10 6 (9.836%) Load Balancing
11 3 (4.918%) Incident Management
12 2 (3.279%) Communications Security
Programming Languages
1 30 (49.18%) SQL
2 19 (31.15%) C#
2 19 (31.15%) PowerShell
3 11 (18.03%) VBScript
4 7 (11.48%) Python
4 7 (11.48%) Perl
4 7 (11.48%) PHP
4 7 (11.48%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 61 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 31 (50.82%) MCSE
3 24 (39.34%) CCNA
3 24 (39.34%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (31.15%) MCAD
4 19 (31.15%) MCSD
4 19 (31.15%) MCTS
5 7 (11.48%) Degree
6 6 (9.836%) MCITP
7 3 (4.918%) MCSA
8 2 (3.279%) MCDST
8 2 (3.279%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.279%) Security Cleared
8 2 (3.279%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (3.279%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (3.279%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (31.15%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (22.95%) Active Directory
2 11 (18.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (14.75%) XenApp
4 5 (8.197%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 4 (6.557%) XenServer
6 2 (3.279%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.639%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (3.279%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (39.34%) Cisco
1 24 (39.34%) VMware
2 18 (29.51%) Microsoft
3 13 (21.31%) Citrix
4 2 (3.279%) LANDesk
4 2 (3.279%) Veeam
4 2 (3.279%) HP
5 1 (1.639%) Juniper
Basingstoke, South East
Knowledge of Citrix Xen Server, Xen App, Xen Desktop, or other related environments... Proven working knowledge of Incident Management tools Full Driving License Desired Experience/Skills: MCP/MCDST/...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Basingstoke, South East
Knowledge of Citrix Xen Server, Xen App, Xen Desktop, or other related environments... Proven working knowledge of Incident Management tools Desirable skills and experience MCP/MCDST/ITIL/Citrix...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Thorough knowledge of Word, Excel, Power Point, Active Directory, LANDesk, Exchange, IIS Web services and related web environment. Knowledge of Citrix Xen Server, Xen App, Xen Desktop, or...
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013