The first table below looks at the demand for MCITP in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCITP over the 3 months to 22 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
Rank 81 76 72
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -4
Permanent jobs citing MCITP 14 9 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.286% 0.926% 0.237%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.036% 3.010% 0.697%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 1
Average salary £36,834 £32,500 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -48.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +14.28%
All Qualifications
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
278 299 287
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 25.53% 30.76% 33.96%
Number of salaries quoted 233 265 277
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £51,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCITP
East of England

MCITP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire MCITP Jobs Demand Trend

MCITP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCITP across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire MCITP Salary Trend

MCITP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCITP across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bedfordshire MCITP Salary Histogram

MCITP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCITP within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Dunstable - 7 £36,834 -
Luton -3 4 £38,750 +10.71%
Bedford -5 2 £28,500 -36.66%
Shefford - 1 £37,500 -
MCITP
East of England

MCITP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing MCITP 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 MCITP.

1 44 (95.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 43 (93.48%) Windows
3 39 (84.78%) MCSE
3 39 (84.78%) Active Directory
4 37 (80.43%) Microsoft
5 36 (78.26%) MS Exchange
6 35 (76.09%) VMware
7 31 (67.39%) SQL Server
8 29 (63.04%) SAN
8 29 (63.04%) Windows Server 2008
9 25 (54.35%) Exchange Server 2010
10 23 (50.00%) NAS
11 22 (47.83%) Citrix
12 21 (45.65%) SQL Server 2008
13 20 (43.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (39.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 18 (39.13%) MCSA
15 17 (36.96%) MS Excel
15 17 (36.96%) VMware Infrastructure
15 17 (36.96%) Hyper-V
16 16 (34.78%) Windows 7
16 16 (34.78%) XenApp
16 16 (34.78%) HP
16 16 (34.78%) EMC
16 16 (34.78%) DNS
17 15 (32.61%) DHCP
17 15 (32.61%) ITIL
17 15 (32.61%) CCNA
17 15 (32.61%) Cisco Certification
17 15 (32.61%) SQL Server 2005

MCITP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing MCITP 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 MCITP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.348%) .NET
2 1 (2.174%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 36 (78.26%) MS Exchange
2 25 (54.35%) Exchange Server 2010
3 18 (39.13%) Exchange Server 2007
4 11 (23.91%) Lync
5 10 (21.74%) Office Communications Server
6 4 (8.696%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (6.522%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (36.96%) MS Excel
2 9 (19.57%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 29 (63.04%) SAN
2 23 (50.00%) NAS
3 16 (34.78%) DNS
4 15 (32.61%) DHCP
5 13 (28.26%) WAN
6 12 (26.09%) LAN
7 11 (23.91%) Firewall
7 11 (23.91%) Network Security
8 10 (21.74%) iSCSI
9 5 (10.87%) TCP/IP
9 5 (10.87%) VLAN
10 1 (2.174%) VPN
10 1 (2.174%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (67.39%) SQL Server
2 21 (45.65%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (32.61%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (4.348%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.174%) MySQL
General
1 13 (28.26%) Finance
2 5 (10.87%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Wintel Engineer
1 10 (21.74%) Analyst
2 7 (15.22%) Server Analyst
3 5 (10.87%) Support Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.696%) Administrator
5 3 (6.522%) Support Analyst
5 3 (6.522%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (6.522%) 1st Line Support Analyst
6 2 (4.348%) Teradata DBA
6 2 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.348%) Technology Manager
6 2 (4.348%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (4.348%) SQL DBA
6 2 (4.348%) Technical Leader
6 2 (4.348%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.348%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 2 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.348%) Service Analyst
6 2 (4.348%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.174%) Blackberry
1 1 (2.174%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 43 (93.48%) Windows
2 29 (63.04%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (34.78%) Windows 7
4 9 (19.57%) Linux
5 8 (17.39%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (4.348%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.174%) Windows Phone
7 1 (2.174%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) ITIL
2 10 (21.74%) Network Load Balancing
3 8 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (15.22%) Change Management
5 6 (13.04%) Migration
6 5 (10.87%) Workflow
6 5 (10.87%) Service Management
7 2 (4.348%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (2.174%) Configuration Management
8 1 (2.174%) Project Management
8 1 (2.174%) Service Delivery
8 1 (2.174%) CRM
8 1 (2.174%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.696%) SQL
2 2 (4.348%) T-SQL
2 2 (4.348%) VB.NET
2 2 (4.348%) C#
Qualifications
1 44 (95.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 39 (84.78%) MCSE
3 20 (43.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 18 (39.13%) MCSA
5 15 (32.61%) CCNA
5 15 (32.61%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (30.43%) MCP
7 13 (28.26%) MCTS
8 9 (19.57%) CCA
8 9 (19.57%) Citrix Certification
8 9 (19.57%) Degree
9 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
9 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
10 2 (4.348%) MCDBA
10 2 (4.348%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (4.348%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.74%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.174%) QA
System Software
1 39 (84.78%) Active Directory
2 17 (36.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (36.96%) Hyper-V
3 16 (34.78%) XenApp
4 14 (30.43%) XenServer
4 14 (30.43%) XenDesktop
5 10 (21.74%) Microsoft App-V
5 10 (21.74%) NFS
6 6 (13.04%) Terminal Server
7 5 (10.87%) VMware ESX
7 5 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (2.174%) Samba
8 1 (2.174%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) WSUS
2 1 (2.174%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 37 (80.43%) Microsoft
2 35 (76.09%) VMware
3 22 (47.83%) Citrix
4 16 (34.78%) HP
4 16 (34.78%) EMC
5 10 (21.74%) LANDesk
5 10 (21.74%) CommVault
6 9 (19.57%) Cisco
7 2 (4.348%) Red Gate
7 2 (4.348%) Oracle
8 1 (2.174%) Avaya
8 1 (2.174%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.174%) Symantec
8 1 (2.174%) Nortel
8 1 (2.174%) Mitel
8 1 (2.174%) Dialogic
8 1 (2.174%) VocaLink