The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 101 102 146
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +44
Permanent jobs citing MCP 123 137 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.391% 2.234% 0.971%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.792% 6.986% 3.561%
Number of salaries quoted 110 129 45
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1811 1961 1404
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 35.20% 31.97% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1354 1693 1154
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
South East

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire MCP Salary Histogram

MCP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bracknell -4 39 £30,500 -19.73%
Reading -2 26 £40,000 +33.33%
Windsor +9 14 £45,000 +5.88%
Newbury -3 13 £25,000 -35.48%
Maidenhead +9 8 £40,000 -8.57%
Ascot - 7 £35,000 -
Slough -20 6 £21,500 -46.25%
Wokingham -8 4 £32,500 -7.14%
MCP
South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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.

1 256 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 157 (61.33%) Microsoft
3 149 (58.20%) SQL Server
4 142 (55.47%) MCTS
5 140 (54.69%) TDD
5 140 (54.69%) .NET
5 140 (54.69%) C#
5 140 (54.69%) MCAD
5 140 (54.69%) MCSD
6 133 (51.95%) Windows
7 123 (48.05%) Scrum
7 123 (48.05%) NUnit
7 123 (48.05%) Rhino Mocks
8 122 (47.66%) ASP.NET MVC
8 122 (47.66%) WCF
8 122 (47.66%) MVC
8 122 (47.66%) ASP.NET
8 122 (47.66%) Web Application Development
9 115 (44.92%) Castle Windsor
10 113 (44.14%) Razor View Engine
11 106 (41.41%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 88 (34.38%) MCSE
13 87 (33.98%) NHibernate
14 74 (28.91%) Kanban
15 69 (26.95%) LINQ
16 55 (21.48%) MS Excel
16 55 (21.48%) SQL Server 2008
17 54 (21.09%) BDD
18 49 (19.14%) MonoRail
18 49 (19.14%) Windows Server 2003

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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
1 140 (54.69%) .NET
2 122 (47.66%) ASP.NET
2 122 (47.66%) WCF
2 122 (47.66%) ASP.NET MVC
3 115 (44.92%) Castle Windsor
4 113 (44.14%) Razor View Engine
5 106 (41.41%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 87 (33.98%) NHibernate
7 69 (26.95%) LINQ
8 49 (19.14%) MonoRail
9 37 (14.45%) Ninject
10 36 (14.06%) Unity DI Container
10 36 (14.06%) Spring.NET
10 36 (14.06%) WPF
10 36 (14.06%) WinForms
11 31 (12.11%) Ajax
12 30 (11.72%) Lucene
13 29 (11.33%) Silverlight
13 29 (11.33%) HTML5
14 3 (1.172%) COM
Application Platforms
1 13 (5.078%) MS Exchange
2 10 (3.906%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (2.344%) Exchange Server 2000
4 5 (1.953%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.953%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (1.563%) Lync
6 2 (0.781%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.781%) IIS
6 2 (0.781%) Apache
6 2 (0.781%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.391%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (0.391%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 55 (21.48%) MS Excel
2 16 (6.250%) MS Office
3 3 (1.172%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.781%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.391%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.391%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 48 (18.75%) TCP/IP
2 42 (16.41%) Firewall
3 39 (15.23%) DNS
3 39 (15.23%) DHCP
4 17 (6.641%) Internet
5 11 (4.297%) LAN
6 10 (3.906%) WAN
7 7 (2.734%) VPN
8 3 (1.172%) MPLS
8 3 (1.172%) VoIP
8 3 (1.172%) SAN
9 2 (0.781%) SSL
9 2 (0.781%) PBX
9 2 (0.781%) LDAP
9 2 (0.781%) Wireless
9 2 (0.781%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.781%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.781%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.781%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.391%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (58.20%) SQL Server
2 55 (21.48%) SQL Server 2008
3 34 (13.28%) RDBMS
4 31 (12.11%) SQL Server 2012
5 6 (2.344%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (1.563%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (0.781%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (0.781%) Oracle 9i
8 1 (0.391%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 123 (48.05%) NUnit
1 123 (48.05%) Rhino Mocks
2 44 (17.19%) Moq
3 36 (14.06%) MSTest
4 31 (12.11%) Subversion
5 30 (11.72%) Selenium
5 30 (11.72%) Cucumber
General
1 33 (12.89%) French Language
2 31 (12.11%) Finance
3 27 (10.55%) Telecoms
4 24 (9.375%) Music
4 24 (9.375%) Retail
5 23 (8.984%) Music Industry
6 16 (6.250%) German Language
6 16 (6.250%) Italian Language
7 13 (5.078%) Games
8 10 (3.906%) Advertising
9 2 (0.781%) Publishing
9 2 (0.781%) Military
10 1 (0.391%) Billing
10 1 (0.391%) Law
10 1 (0.391%) Legal
10 1 (0.391%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 140 (54.69%) Developer
2 122 (47.66%) .NET Developer
3 65 (25.39%) Support Engineer
4 41 (16.02%) C# Developer
4 41 (16.02%) C# .NET Developer
5 35 (13.67%) Technical Engineer
6 34 (13.28%) Technical Support Engineer
6 34 (13.28%) Technical Support
7 31 (12.11%) Desktop Support
7 31 (12.11%) 2nd Line Support
8 30 (11.72%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 30 (11.72%) Desktop Engineer
8 30 (11.72%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 23 (8.984%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 23 (8.984%) ASP.NET Developer
10 11 (4.297%) Analyst
11 10 (3.906%) Support Analyst
12 7 (2.734%) Consultant
13 6 (2.344%) Field Service Engineer
13 6 (2.344%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.06%) Inversion of Control
2 20 (7.813%) Tandem
3 7 (2.734%) Replication
4 4 (1.563%) Computer Science
5 3 (1.172%) Blackberry
6 2 (0.781%) Social Network
6 2 (0.781%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.781%) Open Source
7 1 (0.391%) iPad
7 1 (0.391%) iPhone
7 1 (0.391%) PKI
7 1 (0.391%) DTV
7 1 (0.391%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 133 (51.95%) Windows
2 49 (19.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 46 (17.97%) Windows XP
4 41 (16.02%) Linux
5 36 (14.06%) UNIX
6 34 (13.28%) Solaris
7 22 (8.594%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (3.125%) Windows 2000
8 8 (3.125%) Windows Vista
9 7 (2.734%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.563%) Windows 8
10 4 (1.563%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.172%) Android
12 2 (0.781%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.781%) Windows 2000 Server
13 1 (0.391%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.391%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (54.69%) TDD
2 123 (48.05%) Scrum
3 122 (47.66%) MVC
3 122 (47.66%) Web Application Development
4 74 (28.91%) Kanban
5 54 (21.09%) BDD
6 37 (14.45%) Dependency Injection
6 37 (14.45%) OO
7 36 (14.06%) Security Management
7 36 (14.06%) MVVM
7 36 (14.06%) Continuous Integration
8 30 (11.72%) Scrum-ban
9 24 (9.375%) Software Deployment
9 24 (9.375%) Software Distribution
10 18 (7.031%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (6.641%) Domain-Driven Design
12 16 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
12 16 (6.250%) CQRS
13 15 (5.859%) ITIL
14 12 (4.688%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (54.69%) C#
2 7 (2.734%) SQL
3 2 (0.781%) Java
3 2 (0.781%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.391%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.391%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.391%) C
Qualifications
1 256 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 142 (55.47%) MCTS
3 140 (54.69%) MCAD
3 140 (54.69%) MCSD
4 88 (34.38%) MCSE
5 42 (16.41%) MCSA
6 39 (15.23%) CCNA
6 39 (15.23%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (13.28%) MCDBA
8 31 (12.11%) MCITP
9 29 (11.33%) Security Cleared
10 28 (10.94%) SC Cleared
11 7 (2.734%) MCDST
12 4 (1.563%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.563%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.172%) CCNP
14 2 (0.781%) Citrix Certification
14 2 (0.781%) CCEA
14 2 (0.781%) MOS
14 2 (0.781%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.344%) SLA
2 2 (0.781%) QA
3 1 (0.391%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (9.375%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.688%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.344%) ISA Server
4 4 (1.563%) VMware ESX
4 4 (1.563%) vSphere
5 3 (1.172%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.172%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.781%) XenApp
6 2 (0.781%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.781%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.391%) Shibboleth
7 1 (0.391%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.391%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.391%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 30 (11.72%) SCCM
2 27 (10.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 24 (9.375%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 1 (0.391%) MIIS
4 1 (0.391%) SCOM
4 1 (0.391%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 157 (61.33%) Microsoft
2 46 (17.97%) Cisco
3 34 (13.28%) Sun
4 27 (10.55%) HP
5 24 (9.375%) McAfee
5 24 (9.375%) Sophos
5 24 (9.375%) Fujitsu
6 15 (5.859%) VMware
7 5 (1.953%) Citrix
8 4 (1.563%) Symantec
9 2 (0.781%) Acronis
9 2 (0.781%) Apple
9 2 (0.781%) Oracle
10 1 (0.391%) Adobe
10 1 (0.391%) Dell
10 1 (0.391%) EMC
10 1 (0.391%) Sage
10 1 (0.391%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.391%) Juniper
10 1 (0.391%) NetApp
Reading, Thames Valley
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, SQL Server 2012, Agile / SCRUM, TDD, Castle...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, SQL Server 2012, Agile / SCRUM, TDD, Castle...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Wokingham, Berkshire
Our client can provide training into: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD, BDD, DDD, OSS, ALT.NET and CQRS... ) (.NET...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Wokingham, Thames Valley
Our client can provide training into: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD, BDD, DDD, OSS, ALT.NET and CQRS... (.NET...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Ascot, Thames Valley
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), HTML5, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
Our client can provide you with industry recognized training in: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, Castle Windsor, Lucene.net, TDD, BDD, NUnit, RhinoMocks, Cucumber, Selenium,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Maidenhead, Thames Valley
Our client can provide you with industry recognized training in: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, Castle Windsor, Lucene.net, TDD, BDD, NUnit, RhinoMocks, Cucumber, Selenium,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Windsor, Thames Valley
Our client can provide training into: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), AJAX, Agile, Scrum, test driven development (TTD), Castle Monorail, Castle Windsor, Subversion (SVN),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Windsor, Berkshire
Our client can provide training into: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), AJAX, Agile, Scrum, test driven development (TTD), Castle Monorail, Castle Windsor, Subversion (SVN),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
C# Developer, .NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, Server Side, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection, Ninject / Spring.net, , IoC, Unity / Castle Windsor,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
SC or DV Security Cleared Senior Service Desk Technical Remote Specialist III... Overview: This is a senior role within a Service Desk team; There will be a requirement...
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £0000 - £9999 per annum + Excellent benefits Package
Posted: 14 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Essentially, you will already be a very strong Microsoft Windows Server Engineer with the following skills Windows Server (2000/2003/2008), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Active Directory (NB.
Nationwide People Ltd
Salary: £40000 - 65000 Per Annum + 15 % bonus + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Key skills are Active Directory Authentication troubleshooting, AD replication, LDAP tools... Essentially, you will already be a very strong Microsoft Windows Server Engineer with the following skills Windows...
Nationwide People Ltd
Salary: £60000 - 64000 Per Annum + 10-20% bonus + bens
Posted: 14 May 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
Networking protocols (TCP/IP), networking infrastructure, DHCP, DNS, switching and routing. - Antivirus and firewall solutions. - Relational Database (RDBMS) technology - Operating System Deployment (OSD) and/or PC imaging - Unix,...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 28000 - 33000
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
Networking protocols (TCP/IP), networking infrastructure, DHCP, DNS, switching and routing. - Antivirus and firewall solutions. - Relational Database (RDBMS) technology - Operating System Deployment (OSD) and/or PC imaging - Unix,...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 28000 - 33000
Posted: 13 May 2013