Birmingham MCP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT jobs within the Birmingham region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the last 3 months to 21 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Heywood High Wycombe Highland Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Isleworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lewisham Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ongar Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Selby Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swanley Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thetford Tonbridge Trowbridge Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Waltham Cross Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	70
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	79	69
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	11.74 %	10.73 %
Salaries quoted	70	56
Average minimum salary	£22,979	£27,196
Average salary	£24,200	£28,201
% change on same period last year	-14.18 %
Average maximum salary	£25,421	£29,205
UK excluding London average salary	£28,557	£29,359
% change on same period last year	-2.73 %
Qualifications Birmingham
Matching permanent IT job ads	673	643
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.333 %	0.279 %
Salaries quoted	572	477
Average minimum salary	£32,821	£35,454
Average salary	£35,686	£37,604
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
Average maximum salary	£38,552	£39,755
UK excluding London average salary	£37,502	£38,366
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
MCP West Midlands

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing MCP across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing MCP across the Birmingham region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Birmingham region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing MCP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MCP.

1 125 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 87 (69.60 %) Windows 3 85 (68.00 %) Microsoft 4 74 (59.20 %) MCSE 5 59 (47.20 %) Active Directory 6 55 (44.00 %) MS Excel 7 41 (32.80 %) Windows XP 8 36 (28.80 %) MS Exchange 9 31 (24.80 %) SLA 10 30 (24.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 28 (22.40 %) MCSA 12 25 (20.00 %) MS Office 13 22 (17.60 %) SQL 13 22 (17.60 %) Citrix 14 21 (16.80 %) EPoS

15 17 (13.60 %) Windows Server 2003 16 16 (12.80 %) Remedy 16 16 (12.80 %) WAN 16 16 (12.80 %) TCP/IP 17 15 (12.00 %) Internet 18 14 (11.20 %) ITIL 18 14 (11.20 %) Windows 2000 18 14 (11.20 %) Exchange Server 2000 19 13 (10.40 %) LAN 20 12 (9.600 %) A+ Certification 20 12 (9.600 %) SQL Server 21 10 (8.000 %) HP 21 10 (8.000 %) Service Delivery 22 9 (7.200 %) CCNA 22 9 (7.200 %) Cisco Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing MCP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (0.800 %) HTML 1 1 (0.800 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 36 (28.80 %) MS Exchange 2 30 (24.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 14 (11.20 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 6 (4.800 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 5 (4.000 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 3 (2.400 %) SharePoint 7 1 (0.800 %) IIS 7 1 (0.800 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 55 (44.00 %) MS Excel 2 25 (20.00 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 16 (12.80 %) WAN 1 16 (12.80 %) TCP/IP 2 15 (12.00 %) Internet 3 13 (10.40 %) LAN 4 8 (6.400 %) Firewall 5 6 (4.800 %) SAN 6 5 (4.000 %) VPN 7 2 (1.600 %) MPLS 7 2 (1.600 %) SMTP 7 2 (1.600 %) Wi-Fi 8 1 (0.800 %) Wireless 8 1 (0.800 %) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (9.600 %) SQL Server 2 7 (5.600 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (3.200 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (0.800 %) MSI
General 1 3 (2.400 %) Education 1 3 (2.400 %) Health 1 3 (2.400 %) Pensions 2 1 (0.800 %) Banking 2 1 (0.800 %) Back Office 2 1 (0.800 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 45 (36.00 %) Analyst 2 28 (22.40 %) Support Analyst 3 25 (20.00 %) IT Support Analyst 4 17 (13.60 %) Field Engineer 4 17 (13.60 %) Support Engineer 5 13 (10.40 %) Service Analyst 5 13 (10.40 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 13 (10.40 %) Administrator 6 10 (8.000 %) Network Engineer 7 7 (5.600 %) Systems Administrator 7 7 (5.600 %) Field Support Engineer 8 6 (4.800 %) Break Fix Engineer 8 6 (4.800 %) 2nd Line Support 9 5 (4.000 %) Technical Specialist 9 5 (4.000 %) Hardware Engineer 9 5 (4.000 %) IT Administrator 10 4 (3.200 %) Network Support 10 4 (3.200 %) SQL DBA 10 4 (3.200 %) Network Support Engineer 10 4 (3.200 %) Technical Support
Miscellaneous 1 21 (16.80 %) EPoS 2 5 (4.000 %) Asset Management 3 1 (0.800 %) Fat Client 3 1 (0.800 %) Thin Client 3 1 (0.800 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 87 (69.60 %) Windows 2 41 (32.80 %) Windows XP 3 17 (13.60 %) Windows Server 2003 4 14 (11.20 %) Windows 2000 5 4 (3.200 %) Windows NT 5 4 (3.200 %) Unix 6 3 (2.400 %) Linux 7 2 (1.600 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (11.20 %) ITIL 2 10 (8.000 %) Service Delivery 3 7 (5.600 %) Problem Management 4 6 (4.800 %) Migration 5 2 (1.600 %) Security Management 5 2 (1.600 %) Risk Assessment 5 2 (1.600 %) Time Management 6 1 (0.800 %) QMS 6 1 (0.800 %) Logistics 6 1 (0.800 %) Load Balancing 6 1 (0.800 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (0.800 %) Validation 6 1 (0.800 %) Business Continuity 6 1 (0.800 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (0.800 %) Project Management 6 1 (0.800 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 22 (17.60 %) SQL 2 4 (3.200 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (0.800 %) VBScript 3 1 (0.800 %) VB
Qualifications 1 125 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 74 (59.20 %) MCSE 3 28 (22.40 %) MCSA 4 12 (9.600 %) A+ Certification 5 9 (7.200 %) CCNA 5 9 (7.200 %) Cisco Certification 6 8 (6.400 %) Network+ Certification 7 5 (4.000 %) Degree 7 5 (4.000 %) MCDBA 8 3 (2.400 %) MCDST 9 1 (0.800 %) CCSA 9 1 (0.800 %) CCSE 9 1 (0.800 %) MOS 9 1 (0.800 %) CCSP 9 1 (0.800 %) CCNP 9 1 (0.800 %) Security+ Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 31 (24.80 %) SLA 2 1 (0.800 %) BS7799 2 1 (0.800 %) QA 2 1 (0.800 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 59 (47.20 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.600 %) Terminal Services 2 2 (1.600 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 2 (1.600 %) MAILsweeper 2 1 (0.800 %) BMC Marimba 2 1 (0.800 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 85 (68.00 %) Microsoft 2 22 (17.60 %) Citrix 3 16 (12.80 %) Remedy 4 10 (8.000 %) HP 5 8 (6.400 %) Cisco 6 6 (4.800 %) Compaq 6 6 (4.800 %) Dell 7 4 (3.200 %) VMware 7 4 (3.200 %) SAP 8 3 (2.400 %) Sophos 9 2 (1.600 %) IBM 9 2 (1.600 %) CheckPoint 9 2 (1.600 %) NetApp 10 1 (0.800 %) Nokia 10 1 (0.800 %) VERITAS 10 1 (0.800 %) Lotus 10 1 (0.800 %) Symantec 10 1 (0.800 %) Blue Coat 10 1 (0.800 %) LANDesk 10 1 (0.800 %) WatchGuard